NBA GameTime| Suns are back in the play-in! – Isiah Thomas on Dame & Portis lead Bucks destroying KD

NBA GameTime| Suns are back in the play-in! – Isiah Thomas on Dame & Portis lead Bucks destroying KD

Second quarter still close at this point dein Booker attacks he had 23 on the afternoon game tied at 34 at that point and then Bobby ptis I don’t I don’t know how hard it is I know how pretty it looks it look good it’s beautiful 16 assist tied his career

High bucks are now 9 and three since the All-Star break after hitting the Suns with the most points they’ve given up this season although it’s nothing new for Milwaukee they’ve scored 140 more nine times in one each and every one of those huge offensive day for the bucks

Even without Giannis on the floor and this this stat just is hard to understand or even believe but Damen lard put together the first 30o 15 assist game in Bucks franchise history today yeah and and huie was on the sideline calling the game and he wanted to acknowledge Oscar Robertson yes you

Know and I heard him say Well Oscar had 30 and 10 right for three or four seasons but what we saw today was special with d and huie was on Larry Costello’s staff with the bucks with Oscar Robertson back in the early 197 they were great they that that was a

Great and and my my favorite player on on that team believe it or not is John mclocklin but he he conation on the screening roll here and then Dame sees just a wide open this is like the layup line I take two dribbles drive it you

Know and I make the layup takes the easy layup I thought Milwaukee had Phoenix defensively discombobulated the whole night I mean they were they were scrambling Milwaukee was spacing the floor they were hitting shots uh it was just a poor defensive effort for the Suns tonight and Milwaukee took

Advantage and Middleton made a big difference out on the floor but it was Dame time today what of the Bucks figured out since the All-Star break well it didn’t show today but they really turned the corner defensively and and it just also seems like Dame and Giannis have gotten more comfortable

Playing with one another and and sometimes that can be a challenging because For the First Time In Dame’s career he’s playing with somebody that he probably sees as better than him and and the reality is for Jan is as great as his teammates have been he’s won a

Championship he’s playing with a player who’s probably the best player he’s ever played with so sometimes you almost have too much respect for one another that it doesn’t allow you to go be you and I think finally for Dame he’s starting to have that in some respects I feel like

When Giannis misses games it allows for Dame to feel more comfortable because he knows he’s going to have X amount of opportunities it’s going to flow through him and I think him getting that Rhythm has been huge tonight they made 24 threes 24 I know I mean I don’t care who

You are that’s going to be hard to overcome when the team’s going to knock down 24 threes and and Dame was great but big picture to me Chris Middleton the way he played how good he looked today was I think going to be important for them because he’s the X Factor as I

Said earlier I think he if he gets back to the the level we saw when they want it then I feel like that this is a Bucks team that has a chance to do it again and I would say for the for the Phoenix team you know two out of the last three

Games right you give up 25 threes to Boston and then you give up 24 tonight you know so two out of three games you you know so they got to tighten up that three-point defense a little bit they finish up trip at two and two okay a lot

Bucks did everything right but choose blue uniforms on St Patrick’s Day what are you thinking your primary color is green it’s so easy it’s right there for you come on all right another Thriller the nuggets and the Mavericks the outstanding player of the final four finished that game with 23 five assists

Four steals as well that’s right we uh we played good that game actually this was the closest game in a tournament we we had that year we won by 13 but everybody else who was being by 20 we we never we never had a a single digigit win in the tournament that’s impressive

It’s a pretty good run yeah we were good defensively we had a for Bobby Knight we we didn’t have a choice we we didn’t have a choice it was you know you had two choices win and win and 43 years later what stands out most about that night or that tournament the

The the whole tournament uh because we we started out in Dayton playing against Mar and and and they had um Albert King uh Joey Graham and and I remember we beat them 99- 54 and they were supposed to be really good and the next game was supposed to be against theal but the

Paul got upset by St Joe’s we end up beating St Joe’s and then we um you know we we go to the tournament play uh LSU beat LSU and you know we we were rolling I mean we were playing really really good basketball at that time Landon

Turner Ray tobert we were just fast breaking the whole time and Whitman and kitchen was knocking down shots 9 years later the UNLV Running Rebels the Harvard of the desert it was that long ago uh yeah n years later ran rough shot over Duke with a 30-point blowout G you

Had 13 six assists and you had five steals in that title game in what was not close not competitive against Duke no it it was it’s a good feeling to not have to sweat in the championship mhm it’s a unique feeling too cuz you go in

With the mindset that it’s going to be tough and it was a grind and that game was one of those nights they we weren’t 30 points better but we were that night that’s really what it brought down we were we played at a really high level um

And they we just everything that went our way that night it was it was a wonderful experience cuz we had come off a really tough game against Kenny Anderson and Dennis Scott in the semi-finals we were down eight at halftime and then we we kind of got it going in

The second half to pull away but that was yeah it was a it was a fun experience man so we we both can appreciate what all these young people are going through uh with an opportunity to cut down those Nets and national championships are a big deal regardless

But you want a national championship for your essentially Hometown pro team because there was no NBA team in Las Vegas they were the show back then oh it was I I’d never forget my fourth grade teacher Mr Bergen Edward told my mom one day you know if he does well in school

He could play for UNLV that was like being a pro cuz we didn’t have any pro sports and that changed my life I never forget coach Tark sitting in our living room telling my mom he wanted me to come play there and he was a legend he was a

GU in in in Los Vegas and so then to be a part of the team that was able to win him a championship as well was a really simal moment in my life and for the city of Las Vegas I remember watching them play and and they were so aggressive defensive

And they were so good but I always wanted to ask this question the first time you saw tar like sucking on the tow like what what what did y’all think like that was that was his thing like he wouldn’t drink water no he would put

Water on the tow and so that was coach was real superstitious and so he was a high school coach and you know in a high school gym got how they got the water F faet on either end you got to walk down to get water and he would get cotton

Mouth during the game get real nervous and then finally one of the managers like well let me just wet this towel here you just you just bite on that and they won and that was it once they won he he never went away from that was our

Goal we always wanted to play and not have him go to the towel that means that we were playing well if he wasn’t chewing on that tow you to for good toy spe for that’s a good toy Jo a good to for get some foreign spee spee speech speech for so my victory

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NBA GameTime | Suns are back in the play-in! – Isiah Thomas on Dame & Portis lead Bucks destroying KD