Inside The NBA | Shaq on Bucks dominate Thunder 118-93; Giannis 30 Pts; Middleton triple-double

Inside The NBA | Shaq on Bucks dominate Thunder 118-93; Giannis 30 Pts; Middleton triple-double

Happy for him and we talked about it earlier in the night that over the the summer they were wondering how do they pay this young man I think they got him for a bargain so to have him and Cat goes down you don’t really miss a beat

Yes Anthony Edwards deserved a lot of the credit to his being the lead lead rooll get if you will but coming down these stretch these last 10 to 12 games n re is going to be very important for these guys to stay at the one and two

Spots yeah they swept the season series against the Golden State Warriors which is pretty impressive Zeke when you think about it it it’s very impressive but they they’ve been a Defensive Juggernaut you know from start to finish yeah and they’ve stayed true to their identity and now they’re putting a three ball on

Top of it they’re down by as many as 12 points in the first half ended up coming back winning it and earning the season sweep Golden State Warriors now dropped the first game of a five game Road Trip let’s send you out to mil e e e e

Congratulations on the win first we got to talk about this triple double your second in your career the first one since 2018 how did it feel that was cool I’m just glad I got one more possession and get one more chance at it uh thankfully I knocked down shot but you

Know um it’s my teammates you know they finished a lot of tough shots for me um The Bigs were great down low um sealing their guy getting in once and just being big dominant down there well and speaking of what a dominant game from you and your teammates that ball was

Really moving on a string tonight what did this win say about your team moving forward just just a good win against a good team um you know they’re trying to play their best basketball we’re trying to do the same um so this is a great win

We just got to keep building on this for the rest of the season Giannis on Topo the Milwaukee Bucks defensively were extremely sound tonight but Giannis did what Giannis always does yes and what it is guys that he’s coming downhill if you don’t Build That Wall fast enough he’s going to get

To the paint when I look at the stat sheet reason I’m so excited no three-point shot attempts so now to your point Z they play good defense you get out and run come on big fella sto the ball you Deni that’s a easy dunk I heard

A tweet L to the free throw line good contest there by Brook Lopez now Jann gets the ball you keep your head up you’re probing the secondary break throw the ball ahead but good thing about it is these two guys since the trade are slowly but surely figuring it out I

Don’t stand by the three-point line I continue to go down the paint and get easy one same thing here little car with the ball OKC we’re going to take full advantage of it good hustle play throw the ball Advance it’s impossible Williams to get that wall built right

There now get jiannis to the free throw line again now little half court set Bobby’s been playing lights out basketball defense is thinking about him you don’t box out extra play fight for the ball that’s right the bench one two three four five six people looking at an

L but this is what makes Jan so good take your time fight through the contact and just lay the ball wow a lot of mini I would say mouse in the house but I mean M in the house in the house four guys out so many there it’s unbelievable

That’s the physicality he brought tonight and I say it again y’all know how much I love three-point ball and the rest of the NBA shooting threes zero three-point attempts tonight in the paint that’s why they won the ball game Giannis getting it done getting his feet

Dirty in the paint he’s shoots 13 of 18 from the field all from the inside now this brings me to my next point because when you see a team like Milwaukee playing physical like this that’s what you see in the post season right that’s what you see in the playoffs does the

Oklahoma City Thunder have to worry about that at all like I know they’re playing so well offensively the third best team defensively the fifth best team but when it comes to just like thickness how do you say like just bigness I guess I should say like do

They have to worry about that yeah I I from my from my experience championship basketball at at any level right rebound equals Rings if you can rebound the basketball defens offensively and offensively you got a chance to win basketball games but if you’re not a good rebounding team and this is where

Physicality comes in yeah this is where you know the length and the size comes in around the basket if you can’t rebound the basketball and you can’t protect the paint then you’re not going to win championship style play you may win a couple of games in the playoffs

But if you don’t rebound the basketball you don’t get no rings in the NBA yeah this is the 11th time on the other side with the Milwaukee Bucks the 11th time since Doc Rivers took over this team that they’ve held a team to under 110 points 3D do you think their defense is

The real deal now the way that they’re playing right now yeah I think they’re buying into it guys to your point zek they out rebound 57 to 38 tonight but in that third quarter OKC only had 17 points yeah where all the other quarter

You look at 25 205 and 29 so it took Doc Rivers or maybe a few extra games or week if you will for guys to buy into the new schemes and things and and where I’m supposed to be but I’m not going to question will doc give them the right

Information will you buy into it when the playoffs get here I think they will yeah what do you think about the Milwaukee Bucks defensive play over the last I guess I should say two months month and a half they have size yep they have physicality they have toughness they

Have veteran experience they have Championship experience they have noow they keep building they’re going to be a tough out and again whether you playing in the East or whether you playing in the west you need tall physical people who can rebound the basketball and if they’re not physical if they can rebound

That helps because if you look at the top four teams in each division East and West they are big teams length and size that rebound the basketball we talk about three-point shooting but at the end of the day in the playoffs it’s going to come down to defending and

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Inside The NBA | Shaq on Bucks dominate Thunder 118-93; Giannis 30 Pts; Middleton triple-double