Bucks 2021-2022 season thread

[Joseph Zarr]

For those of you wanting to see the lay of the land, here's the entire Playoff Bracket as is with the regular season finishing today:

[Joseph Zarr]

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

I'm not too worried about the Bulls in the 1st round.

I don't love forfeiting homecourt to the Celtics in the 2nd round, who are a very good team. 

I tell you what I do like, letting the Celtics and Nets beat up on each other in a 7 game series. This obviously isn't a certainty, but with Ben Simmons also rumored to be returning for Round 1 those 2 can have at it before we face either opponent. Boston and Toronto are both tough outs for us as they play Giannis quite well. With Boston, it will really all depend on the health of Robert Williams as they get into post-season play. He makes their defense elite.

[Joseph Zarr]

(I'm putting this here as we don't have a general NBA thread)

Oh my my my...

That is a significant injury and, I wonder, does this fall under the category of 'Ball don't Lie'? This is really not good for a hopeful Mavs team.

[nate82]

Nets beat the Cav's and will be playing the Celtics.  Yeah I am fine with not being the 2 seed.

[Outlander]

Either way the Bucks are going to have a tough second round opponent. Similar to last year the second round will likely be tougher than the Eastern Conference Finals. My money is  certainly on the Bucks/Nets/Celtics coming out of the East.

[nate82]

59 minutes ago, Outlander said:

Either way the Bucks are going to have a tough second round opponent. Similar to last year the second round will likely be tougher than the Eastern Conference Finals. My money is  certainly on the Bucks/Nets/Celtics coming out of the East.

Right which is why I think avoiding the Nets in the 1st round is good.  Playing two straight tough series makes it less likely the Bucks advance to the ECF.  

I like the odds of winning one tough series versus winning two.

[HarryDoyle]

Two Bulls assistants to miss game 1 with covid. Not that it matters much because this series should be a sweep.

[nate82]

The Celtics Nets series is going to be intense no way that series doesn’t go 7.  

[CheezWizHed]

New Bucks/Bulls Playoff thread is here!  Go BUCKS!

[lcbj68c]

Anybody got a pre-sale code to ECF Semis?  Looking to make the trip from Salt Lake for Game 4 (May 9th).

[Underachiever]

On 4/28/2022 at 1:46 AM, lcbj68c said:

Anybody got a pre-sale code to ECF Semis?  Looking to make the trip from Salt Lake for Game 4 (May 9th).

Would love to see that as well.

[sveumrules]

Between the Bucks struggles in afternoon games & Game 1’s of series, this looks like a pretty clear loss out of the gate.

Win all the games at Fiserv & worst case scenario is a Game 7 with the season on the line.

Steal one in Boston before then & well, that’s Bucks in 6.

[NBBrewFan]

I really like the Bucks chances in game 1.