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Sure, but he still added 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals. He's averaging 6 and 6 throughout the playoffs. His scoring efficiency is way down, no doubt, but he's still contributing a lot, not to mention his profound defensive impact.He's unquestionably their second best player and to suggest otherwise, even if his scoring output isn't what you ideally want, is dramatic and silly
Can someone explain why George Hill guarded Tatum every time Hill was in the game?
But even he hasn't been remotely close to second-best-on-a-championship-team good. You can parse it however you like, but if you have someone stepping up to give 20-30 points of efficient scoring like Allen did for those games in Chicago, it eases things, but no one on this Bucks team without Middleton is doing that consistently. The comment wasn't so much about Greyson Allen or Jrue Holiday or anyone on the Bucks, just that after Giannis, this team isn't good enough without KM to repeat what they did last year.
If your "second best on a championship team" is someone routinely shooting 10/12, that's not a reasonable expectation.Jrue has been bad the last 3 games, full stop. But 26 on 10/21 (5/8 from 3) with 7 assists is just as valuable Allen's 27 pt 10/12 game where he did little else. Jrue scoring 25 on 8/20 (3/5) but also giving you 9 and 5 like he did in the Game 1 win is also huge.Its just weird singling out Allen who had 2 good games in Chicago and little else the rest of that series or the Boston series...when Jrue was a big reason they won Game 1 and a huge reason they won Game 3, despite not being efficient as he can be.Does he need to be better for them to win this series, and beyond? Absolutely. But he's still been the second best/most important player on this team with Middleton out. I honestly expect more and consistent productive from BP than I would from Allen.
The IRL conversation I had that inspired the comment, which I alluded to in the original post on the topic but didn't expound upon, was that I was talking about it shortly after Middleton went down. He went down in Game 2 against the Bulls. They lost. Then Allen stepped up in Games 3 & 4 in Chicago and they won. I was talking to someone at work and said "Greyson Allen has been great, but he can't be your second best player if you want to win a championship."In the immediate aftermath of Middleton going down, Allen was the guy that stepped up to secure those two road wins. That's the context I'm talking about. I apologize if I didn't elaborate in that post and hope this provides a little more clarity.
I’ve always liked Al Horford going way back to his college days with Noah. I always wished the Bucks had drafted or traded for him. But come on, this is ridiculous- the guy is shooting 50% from three point land- not even Bird could do that . Not even Brian Winters. Not even Downtown Freddie Brown- let’s get serious here.On a night when Klay Thompson goes 0-7. Bud should insist that he be given some sort of drug test.
Well, Curry had 5 full seasons in which he shot 44% or better from 3. And Ray Allen had 3 full postseasons in which he shot 47% or better (including 57% in one of them), so Horford having a few hot games isn’t exactly the stuff of miracles. Also, maybe the Bucks should, I don’t know, stop leaving him wide open?
That’s not what Bud is going to do. They’ll continue to focus all their energy on protecting the paint and limiting Tatum and Brown and force Horford, Williams, White, Smart and Pritchard to beat them.Will it work? Probably not. But that’s the way they’ll die.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
I assume Friday's game time hinges on if Memphis can extend their series? Do we know what the different options are though?
Feels like the Bucks are letting the Celtics get into the paint too easily. Nice to be up though.
This is really hard to watch. Giannis is doing absolutely everything he can to carry the Bucks. Just not enough there.