2021 NBA Finals: Milwaukee Bucks vs Phoenix Suns BUCKS WIN THE TITLE!!!!

[DuWayne Steurer]

PJ has to make that putback.

[adambr2]

They've got to get some of these shots to fall.

[adambr2]

You just can't shoot this poorly and expect to be competitive in an NBA Final. Just not going to get the job done. Phoenix is making them, we aren't, not much more to break down at the moment.

[owbc]

They are just exhausted from trying to play defense

[DuWayne Steurer]

Not working hard enough to get the ball inside after that initial surge in the first quarter.

[bani1717]

And when we do get it inside, we are really struggling to score. This quarter feels like game 1.

[adambr2]

Jrue is another playoff pumpkin. He's better than Bledsoe but for 40M a year plus draft picks there's not nearly enough return on investment here.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Beginning to look like there's a reason we are going on 0-4 against Phoenix this year.

[lcbj68c]

What an embarrassing sequence, Bucks just running like chickens with their heads cut off.

[GAME05]

What the heck is this?

[PinaMadness]

Down 11 at the half, but if there's adjustments to be made you can count on Bud to not do it.

[owbc]

Easy to see why the Suns have cruised to the finals. I get that the Bucks are missing shots but even if they played perfect it would be tied at best.

[MrTPlush]

1.5 games in and Bucks still don’t look like a team hungry and on a mission for a championship.

 

The Suns on the other hand look like a prepared well oiled machine.

[lcbj68c]

Not working hard enough to get the ball inside after that initial surge in the first quarter.

 

Agreed. Atleast not with the right assets. Everything feels like Holiday or PJ Tucker at the rim instead of Lopez, Giannis.

[owbc]

1.5 games in and Bucks still don’t look like a team hungry and on a mission for a championship.

 

The Suns on the other hand look like a prepared well oiled machine.

 

I don’t know how you could watch this game and have that take about the Bucks. They are being outplayed, but lack of hunger???

[KeithStone53151]

Easy to see why the Suns have cruised to the finals. I get that the Bucks are missing shots but even if they played perfect it would be tied at best.

 

If the bucks played better and the suns shot closer to a reasonable 40 percent from 3 point range we're tied

[adambr2]

There's not much you can conclude from the first 6 quarters other than that the Suns are just better than us and it's not that close. I did say the series isn't over if we go down 2-0 but if I had to put money on a 7 game series or a gentleman's sweep at this point I would bet heavily on the latter.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

1.5 games in and Bucks still don’t look like a team hungry and on a mission for a championship.

 

I think we can put the hunger stuff to bed. This team came back from down 0-2 and 3-2 to KD and won 2 games without Giannis in the ECF.

 

Usually the "will to win" isn't enough. Sometimes the other team is better.

[KeithStone53151]

The bucks looked so good on both ends of the floor in the first quarter. Second quarter was a different story

[MrTPlush]

1.5 games in and Bucks still don’t look like a team hungry and on a mission for a championship.

 

The Suns on the other hand look like a prepared well oiled machine.

 

I don’t know how you could watch this game and have that take about the Bucks. They are being outplayed, but lack of hunger???

 

Missing easy layups, missing put backs, not even bothering to run to the other side of the court to help each other.

 

Not saying they look like a dead animal out there, but they sure don’t have the energy the Suns have.

[owbc]

1.5 games in and Bucks still don’t look like a team hungry and on a mission for a championship.

 

The Suns on the other hand look like a prepared well oiled machine.

 

I don’t know how you could watch this game and have that take about the Bucks. They are being outplayed, but lack of hunger???

 

Missing easy layups, missing put backs, not even bothering to run to the other side of the court to help each other.

 

Not saying they look like a dead animal out there, but they sure don’t have the energy the Suns have.

 

I think the Bucks have more energy but the Suns’ offensive style is wearing them out.

[DuWayne Steurer]

It's always about the Hungar and the Will To Win and Desire. Talent has very little to do with it.

[KeithStone53151]

I really don't see the suns as a far superior team by any stretch. Bucks also shooting 25 percent on 3s of which a majority are not super contested.

[DuWayne Steurer]

1.5 games in and Bucks still don’t look like a team hungry and on a mission for a championship.

 

I think we can put the hunger stuff to bed. This team came back from down 0-2 and 3-2 to KD and won 2 games without Giannis in the ECF.

 

Usually the "will to win" isn't enough. Sometimes the other team is better.

 

So when I go bowling this weekend, I can't just bowl a 300 game simply because I want to?

[lcbj68c]

I think over each 12 minutes, the Suns are just better. Could the tide turn at Milwaukee. Sure. But I dont see a scheme deployed other than that first quarter that seems to work consistently enough to win a quarter, let alone a game. Bucks failed to shoot anything with a decent percentage. The Suns shoot too well to dig an 11-point hole. No game is over. The series isn't over. I'm just struggling to think of an answer besides, "hope we make more and they miss more".