FIRST TAKE | Stephen A. reacts to Bucks falling to NBA-best Celtics without Giannis, Tatum 31 Pts

FIRST TAKE | Stephen A. reacts to Bucks falling to NBA-best Celtics without Giannis, Tatum 31 Pts

Stephen A let’s touch to the association for a quick take the bucks came upshore against the Celtics 12219 Milwaukee they were without Giannis and Tatum led the way for the Seas dropping 31 points ESS should this be a moral victory for the bucks for keeping it close without

Yannis I think so I think so I think when you consider the greatness of the Boston Celtics this year and what the expectations the championship expectations are when it comes to them the fact that you’re on the court without Giannis and you’re battling down to the wire against these Boston cel

Team I do see I do believe that says a lot about the Milwaukee Bucks and their belief in themselves and what they’re going to be capable of doing once they get Yannis back danal chion Gil what were some of your takeaways from this game um it it seems like bucks is so

Comfortable like Dame seems so comfortable without which is bad which is which is bad because that’s his whole career has been playing without you know that type of player so to go to the playoffs in the last month they need to finally get their um chemistry together because

Right now they don’t have chemistry right they’re gonna when the games they won they’ve won off of they’re just a good team Boston the biggest flaw is they stand around a lot playing ISO basket right when one has the ball the other star just sits there in the Deep Corner

Uh you know waiting for the ball to come around to his his uh area so then he can play one-on-one that’s how they lost to Miami and they would not beat Denver playing that type of basketball when you look at it Boston shot 29 free throws

The Buck Shot 14 and it was and and it and there one point where I think the the Celtics ran up to score 17 18 maybe even 19 points but they were never able to put the Bucks away the Bucks come back and will it down and I agree with

What you said about Giannis and I think the thing is with Dame Dame is so used and so comfortable without playing with a super super mega superstar that he’s like okay I’m just back in Portland and this this ain’t nothing to me I’m used to having a Supporting Cast and I get to

Do my things I’mma run guys out pick I’m put guys in the pick and roll they’re going to get me the ball and I can do my thing the concern that I have is that look we understand what Yannis says it goes without saying in playoff the game’s going to

Come down to clutch time the last five minutes the game within five points who should have the ball in their hands versus who will have the ball in their hands Gil those are two those are totally two different questions with two different arguments yeah yeah

Um at this point in time I mean I I hope everyone’s smart enough to know that Dame needs the ball uh at the end of the game um he needs to be making all the plays making all the decisions it’s no different than Kobe and Shaq yeah Shaq we know you’re

Dominant just not at this point because we don’t need you to get fouled unless you are making free throws uh at a high rate during that game other than that we don’t want you shooting free throws that benefits the other team that you’re going to free throw line but what you’re

Going to need and you you seen it today you’re going to need free throw attempt so what ends up happening is you’re gonna need Giannis into the offense uh at the beginning of the fourth quarter so he de into the penal yeah he has to do his everyone has

To do their part understanding their roles and until they get that they’re gonna you know it’s going to be one of those you know win a game lose a game win two games lose two games um I don’t see them I don’t see them getting out of the East um just because

I don’t see that their chemistry is not going to be there Middleton just coming back Giannis is not there when they all three get together they got to find that Rhythm I thought Chris Middleton looked really really good tonight they didn’t get much out of Jay Crowder play 15

Minutes they didn’t get much out of Malik Beasley play 26 minutes between those guy oh between those guys and Brook Lopez you only got what 21 points you need you need more than that from your starters especially with Dame doing what he did Chris midleton played really well only 33 minutes tonight Bobby

Porter is Bobby Porter Off the Bench gave you a double double 24 and 10 but you need more you to if Yannis is gonna be out let’s just and I don’t know how long he’s GNA be out but you’re gonna probably need 35 points between those three guys

Now how you want to div it up because dam is Gonna Give You Dame numbers if Chris midleton’s gonna give you Bobb Bobby Porter is going to give you what he gives you off the bench I can’t have three guys playing those kind of minutes giving me 21 points G I

Can’t now now now we seen we see what the Three Amigos look like see the Three Amigos for damee is him Bobby and Middleton the ones that suffer is Lopez Beasley Crowder when Giannis is play to stop Giannis you need Brook Lopez man to be

In the lane you need Crowder’s man to be in the lane and that’s how they get their open shots right so it’s it’s it’s one of those both teams got to set the three they’re The Three Amigos so you got to figure out how all of those guys

Can play well together I I just think look it is what it is um I look at it like when we play whether I win or lose I was trying to gather as much information as I possibly can just in case I had to see this team down the

Road because I so I wanted to see in certain situations down in distance how they played me because I realized they’re going to play me different than they play any other tight end so I’m trying to gather as much information five catches for 50 yards 10 catches for

120 yards it didn’t matter I’m trying to gather as much information I can win or lose I think the Bucks looking at this is look guys look how they shot the three and they got a bunch of them up and we know they’re going to get a bunch of Threes

Up but we were right there now yanis book y Yan is gonna get 30 and 10 I don’t give a damn what you do Boston you can’t stop that he getting 30 and 10 the question is can Dame give me 27 to 30 officially for the SE for the the the

Whole series yes he’s gonna have to be that nah now well you know how you say you collect information yes well that’s that’s Doc’s weakness oh Lord have Mery there you go because no because exactly what you said you said they’re looking at this game and

Said we didn’t have Giannis yes that is his gon that’s his speech in that locker room as we speak hey you know guys we kept fighting back we played hard uh you know we didn’t have Giannis today look what we did we put him on the bricks

They made this we did that and then play them exactly the same a damn way the very next game he doesn’t adjust well because he makes up an excuse for why they lost so he’s okay with we fought hard instead of going in there and said

We didn’t do this well we need to clean this up we need to clean this up and then go into the next game with a different game plan he’s gonna go into the same the the the next game with the same exact game plan and wonder why he can’t win

Around well how about this even if Dame doesn’t well because if Dame look I need to get somewhere between 55 and 65 points between Dame and jiannis because I can’t because I can’t count on the other three starters to give me 25 to 30

So I need at least I need at least that because if Dame gives you less than 20 can I expect Beasley to have a game where he goes for 25 can I expect Crow to have a game where he goes for 25 now uh uh uh

Lopez Lopez he hit a Miss I mean there have been games he goes 12 of 14 makes four eight from the three so he can give you 20 The X Factor is GNA be Chris Middleton because you know come playoff time Gil them games happen every other

Day ain’t no two days rest ain’t no the biggest rest you’ll get is between games two and three yep gotta travel you get a couple extra days and then boom you back at it yeah so if if if if y and Dame do what they

Do and Middleton can give me 20 I like their chances CU Bobby poris is gonna give me some gonna give me 15 to 20 Off the Bench yeah you you will hope yeah when when it comes to uh playoffs it’s a little different because you get that Playbook

Up you get that Playbook and know exactly what everyone does we it’s we know exactly what you do we know when Giannis goes left his passing percentage is 10% so we’re going to push him left knowing that he don’t pass the ball going left he’s going to take that shot

Right so all of that is g to be put into it so you do need a Bobby poris we just need one game of you being good right Lopez we just need one game of you being good and that’s should have the playoffs do so you’ll take your three guys right

And you say all right we have Giannis Middleton and uh Dame between the three of you this is how it’s we need at least 60 points from the three of you everybody else chip in we’re expecting out of the other five players one of you guys have 15 to 25

One game just be great for one game and that’s how the series goes you just got to be great for one game during the season now if you want to have three or four games and help us get out of the series perfect right but for the most

Part you’re not expecting your bench to be dominant like that because it’s a four game series so people are getting cut off and it’s basically Stars being Stars right well I’m gonna need listen I’m gonna need the bucks big three Middleton Giannis and and and D they got

To give me at least 70 because I know jiannis is gonna give me 30 so if Dame Dame Dame’s gonna give me 25 so can can Middleton give me somewhere between 15 and 20 on a nightly basis G playing 30 playing 30 to 30 five minutes I think he

Can give you 15 um it all depends on what team you guys are playing first um if you’re playing Miami right uh it needs to be switched around Giannis needs to be at about 20 to 25 jannis gonna give 20 25 you losing if L if jannis scores 20 25 points you

Losing unless Dame goes hay why gives you 40 to 45 J can’t give you he has to give you his average Gil oh no if he gives you if he gives you 30 if he gives you 30 35 that means he’s playing into Miami’s defense be

Selfish we that’s why he can’t beat them because that defense is designed to cut off everybody else and just let you score so he is gonna have to become a passer just for that series he’s gonna have to let everybody eat and he be the decoy some of these playoff game it’s

Just like a receiver right right sometimes you got to be a DE Coy run your route hard to make everybody look oh and then we’re going we’re going we’re going to beat up on this side a little bit right he’s never learn he thinks he can just I’m gonna get it this

Year I’m gonna get it this year they you know they’ve been playing me great I’m Gonna Keep that’s not how it is they have your they have your number and the number they have is you trying to score 3035 and if you score 30 35 your team

Loses if you score 1525 your team wins pick it he’s never picked the 15 to 25 well they do a good job they got bam and Bam does a good job uh obviously they’re going to help some but bam does a good job of defending him but I think now you

Can’t load up on him because they’ve never had to defend somebody like B that was running riding shotgun with it so them loading up trying to Build That Wall okay yeah look we know he’s gonna get one or two charges a game cuz he gets in his mind like I’m putting my

Head I’m going to the rim damn y’all yeah yeah yeah but he’s never had a guy like damee as great as holiday was he ain’t damee on the offensive end and so I think that’s that’s where they could uh uh uh the Bucks has an advantage this

Time around if they were to meet because the Celtics are 11 clear of Milwaukee they’re 55 and 14 Milwaukee is 44 and 25 uh there’s only a six gate there’s only six games separating two through eight in the East Miami is in the eighth seed in the eighth slot 38 and 3

And milwauke is in the two two spot 44 and 25 yeah and you know and the the team that’s in the seventh and the eighth they had trouble with both of them because it look Indi ain’t looking to play no defense make miss out of bound foul they looking to push well I

Mean in the playoffs that plays like that plays to the Bucks you know everyone’s going to look at oh man Indiana did hey it’s the playoffs right and and the play the game naturally just slows down it becomes a little tougher you know those those refs really let you play whistle you know

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FIRST TAKE | Stephen A. reacts to Bucks falling to NBA-best Celtics without Giannis, Tatum 31 Pts