He’s a superhero! – ESPN react to Giannis scores 32 Pts to lead Bucks to a 114-105 win over 76ers

He’s a superhero! – ESPN react to Giannis scores 32 Pts to lead Bucks to a 114-105 win over 76ers

105 the final here as we are inside five so for of the Gerber Law Offices one call that’s all Sports Des craan and Steve Novak who just got done calling the game with Lisa bton sticking around with us for bucks live post game it’s a good one good game here tonight it was

Close throughout and the Bucs had a nice second half surge know really did so many different guys they played so well it’s hard to watch I think defense obviously way that they were competing and also Tyres something happen to Steve’s mik we’re going to get that fixed here in just a

Second but until then uh we’re going to go down to the court here after this bucks victory over Philadelphia AJ Green 14 points off the bench for Milwaukee three big threes as well he’s standing by with Melanie Ricks AJ great game from you and your teammates let’s talk about your

Resiliency for a moment your teammates when you guys are in your huddles no matter what the score is there’s always that encouragement that’s happening talk to me about the value in that yeah just playing as a team sticking together and trusting it for 48 minutes and um we

Battled that second half kind of got a little bit tougher a little more discipline and it paid off well and including tonight five of your next six games are here at home at five Sur Forum also talk to me about the impact that this Arena this floor these fans have

For you guys especially in these next coming games man it makes the world of difference you know it makes it just a joy to play here um they really have our back um showing out every night so hopefully we can put a little streak together win some games thanks AJ thank

You all right that’s AJ Green to doing a nice job without Chris Middleton who misses 16th straight game and Malik Beasley also did not play in tonight’s game as well so doc goes to the young guy AJ Green and I tell you what every time uh he has answered the call for Doc

Rivers here over the last month or so 14 points three threes five rebounds and 28 really strong minutes for AJ Green here that’s our habit Hamish and roer numbers down and make it happen it was just beautiful to see and allaround performance that this team this Buck

Team was better than Philly was late in the game which you would expect with no Joel embiid but there’s no question coming off that West Coast Road Trip where they didn’t play their best basketball this was certainly a game to respond and the way that they closed

They absolutely did back at the gr grber law office is one call that’s all sports es here as we continue our buck live post game another another really interesting note that you and Lisa brought up uh towards the the end of the quarter on the broadcast that the doc

Decides to go with basically six players carrying the the significant load of the minutes and Giannis Lopez Dame Bobby came in and and Giannis and Bobby exchange minutes uh and then Pat hon AJ Green the rest of those guys pretty much played the entire quarter yeah and I

Think it really does it does give an idea of what coach Doc is thinking obviously it’s a partly feel in a game like this who’s playing well who do you trust what do the matchups look like but really right until the end until he put

Pat Bev in and took AJ out doing a little offensive defensive possessions with which I thought was obviously a very smart thing to do at that point he was rolling with the guys who are playing well and he was rolling with the guys that I think he’s got to start to

Stress test some of these lineups some of these rotations because playoffs are coming there’s only 15 games before the playoff start not only that this could be a team the way it’s sat today with Milwaukee in the three seat in the East and Philly at the six seed this could be

A possible playoff matchup now it could look very different with the Joel embiid and the Chris Middleton in the lineups for the respective teams but nonetheless we’re getting to that point so to your point it was very telling who he played late and how those guys performed yeah

We’re we’re uh hitting the beginning of stretch time or the stretch run to the playoffs for Milwaukee here in this one all right let’s focus back on janisan and Koopa a bit here uh big fourth quarter for him but in the game he ends up getting his 39th 30-point game of the

Season that ties a career high for him and again that big fourth quarter 13 of his 3 to kind of put the team on his back a little bit hit some free throws as well in that final quarter you know he did and really the the entire game

Was fun to watch but the fourth quarter when Giannis went to work was so impressive because you realize the defensive scheme throughout the entire game was to stop jannis tenmo to watch Giannis be Giannis because he continues to be better and better his assists have continued to climb because defenses like

This continue to think they can stop this team guys have stepped up guys like Bobby poris have made shots AJ Green Jay Crowder Michael Beasley Malik Beasley have knocked shots down and so there is no question having the support that jannis has I think gives him the

Confidence to know I can trust my teammates when I need to but there’s other times you guys got to trust me and I’ll bring you home he certainly did that tonight all right Brook Lopez Tonight some major threes he he likes the 30 foot layups I like to call but

They count for three thank goodness from distance it is something to watch him go 5 threes made for Lopez 19 points you know it was really fun like you joking to see him shoot that thing from so far away as if he’s supposed to be shooting

It from 30 35 ft but you can just imagine defensively look at the close out space that it makes Mo Baba go from running the pick and roll action to closing out and getting back to him and then he changes it up instead of hopping

He rolls and he goes to the rim and the defense is very confused and rightfully so and right here jannis just making the simple pass find the open man trust your teammates look how he’s locked and loaded from three full steps behind the three-point line it is the difference in

Games Brook has had four out of his last five games have been single digigit scoring performances so to see him go off for 19 points to knock down five three-pointers and to do it I think at home where Milwaukee has been 25 and six before tonight now 26 and six at fiser

Forum Milwaukee does not have a great road record they’re 17 and 18 on the road so it’s very telling that come playoff time the home court advantage and the credit that I think a lot of the fans here really deserve because everyone was on their feet to start this

Game everybody was here and it was a loud environment and it was important for Milwaukee to get this win and so a big credit to the fans of the Milwaukee Bucks for bringing that environment because it’s been that way all year Difference Maker and obviously the

Record kind of speaks for that uh with this club buying for another championship all right more to come here on bucks live post game we here from Doc Rivers on the way this was a you know I was probably more proud of uh Bobby uh

Cuz I thought they sped Bobby up in the first half got under his skin uh a little bit and you know Bobby and I thought he caught himself uh there in the second half and really helped us uh then AJ was just terrific you know space

In the floor um you know once on the switch we trapped and his job was after that to deny uh Maxi and he did a great job of doing that um speaking of Tyrese I mean he scores 29 through three quarters and it’s kind of getting those

Buckets to kind maybe stay of off momentum um but you forp tough ones too the three by Tobias and you know it’s just one of was nice I um I thought in the first half we turned the ball over a 100 times and then we had three in the

Second and then I thought trapping Maxi just getting the ball out of his hands too fast too good uh when you mentioned the turnover I mean first half in general I think you know 10 turnovers with that just any particular reason as to maybe why I thought they were more

Physical in the first half I thought uh they were the instigator the entire first three quarters uh they instigated all the actions um they denied us they uh they fought us they trapped us they pushed us uh I thought we were on the floor more than them you know bottom

Line and I thought in the fourth quarter it flipped I mean that’s what I was just going to ask about it was a really physical game tonight um do you feel like that’s a game that you guys can excel at I feel like it’s a a game we

Should excel at um well I didn’t I don’t think we did tonight until the fourth quarter but with our size it to me I if if I’m going to get in that mud wrestling or track meat with this team I want the mud you know I don’t want to

Get in the track meat you know so uh it kind of fit what we should be uh I just didn’t think we handm it well tonight um you mentioned just how quick Tyrese is and and trying to get the ball out of his hands um that’s a thing you guys

Have had to kind of do during your time here how you how do you feel like the guys have reacted to the traps and and kind ofr I mean tonight Brook we had Brooke up trapping uh the fact that uh like Brooke in the second half was absolutely unbelievable defensively uh

Trapped got back into coverage um you know we’re laughing so now we know you know we haven’t done it with him we’re laughing he said no I can’t do that you know CU that’s that’s tough for Brooke honestly but with maxi you just had to be up otherwise he’d come downhill at at

Brook or whoever they are and you’re in trouble um on top of that Brooke hits five threes he has that big one late again just what have you seen from him as a shooter lately to hit you know he’s he’s a great shooter we just haven’t

Done a good job of giving them the ball honestly and um you know we ran that two-man game again and we put Brooke right there and we kept saying that said every play at some point they’re going to leave you be ready to shoot that’s why he was turn around was pointing cuz

That was the one that was a big one for us hey Doc your your bench was very vocal and they have been with you since you got here and congrats on your 21st game uh Jesus that many already wow yeah um can you talk about the value in

Having a team where even if you’re down a certain number of points they’re still there becking each other up yeah we have a great bench you know um our guys are very active um we have two guys to me in particular uh Pat Beverly when he’s on

The bench and asses they are amazing on the bench and they’re not just yelling stuff they’re actually watching the game uh they’re helping guys out uh I mean thees I’ve bet four or five times have come to me then one time he said hey make sure you tell a good job but and

Things like he’s literally in the game um probably one of the best benches I’ve had as far as that with energy and it’s been fun to coach all those guys uh doc back here um I I know you weren’t aware I guess you’re already 21 games in but

But with a month left in the season what kind of things do you see from this game as you’re trying to build things towards the the playoffs that you think you want to carry over for the next well I don’t know what I saw from this game um cuz

This was a game that probably they wanted to get home we wanted more rest if if you know what I mean this is one of those trap games uh first game back um guys are banged up uh I was very concerned about this game tonight with

That but I thought we kind of hung in there um I did like our end of the game execution uh we had the one play where we didn’t get into anything we I think we turned it over got a bad shot and I yelled out Dame get us organized every

Time down the floor and he did that and that’s why it helps because you know where everybody’s at and so that’s something we’re going to have to do and get better and better at and we did it well tonight always prepare for the worst so thirsty Dragon Ander have appeared pause

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He’s a superhero! – ESPN react to Giannis scores 32 Pts to lead Bucks to a 114-105 win over 76ers