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The important thing is despite the FT troubles, he can't get tentative driving inside and drawing contact. That's still our best bet to score and stay in this thing.

Feed Lopez inside.

Just keep it hopefully within 10 - 12 by half and reset.

Oh my goodness.

Come on.... Just. Wow.

You'd think at some point a 280 pound guy would be embarrassed to flop around and pretend to be hurt by someone's fingertip barely grazing him.

outjumped by a gimp on one leg

That's your WIsconsin talking. It's a 3 point game.

"they've got a few more free throws". Very diplomatic bud.

I think Jrue has been alright. He just needs to stop taking so many 3's.

Ok, it's game 7. Holliday needs to stop chucking up 3's.

I don't know how this game is tied. The Bucks are getting called for fouls when they're not even making contact. This is complete horse puckey.

Man this is gonna be TOUGH if this is how this is gonna be called.

Also, I thought the NBA was fining guys for egregious flops?

How can someone be a world class athlete, and be uncoordinated as he pretends to be?

Put Thanassis in and clothesline Harden and take him out. Dude doesn't even play basketball. Just a flopper.

So we're doing this again with the little league batting order. Sigh.

I think if Giannis eventually leaves Milwaukee without a title, then his legacy is that he couldn't win the big one. I don't think this year is make it or break it. It sucks that the financials of the team are what they are and there's no real way to change that in the near future. The #1 defense doesn't need to get better. They need to get better at in game adjustments and playoff game management. All that said, I want them to win it, this year. The only teams left if they get past the Nets are a decent, but very beatable Atlanta, a brutally gassed Philly, a very good, inexperienced Phoenix, and Clippers playing without, or with a less than 100% Kawhi. Go out and get it right now. I still can't believe the Jazz blew it last night. Tells you how volatile the playoffs have been, and continue to be this year. For all the teeth gnashing about us blowing the 17 pt lead the other night, Philly just blew (at home) a 26 pt lead to Atlanta, and I went to bed last night with Utah up 25 on LA, only to find that LA sealed the series victory by outscoring the Jazz 75-40 the rest of the way.

League average batting average was .256 for position players in 1910, so the White Sox position players ended up with an 85 AVG+. League average batting average for position players is down to .242 so far this year, so the Brewers position players currently have an AVG+ of 89. Over the last twenty full seasons (2000-2019) only three out of 600 teams seasons have come in with an AVG+ of 90. None have been lower. In the sixty game 2020 schedule there were four teams between an 86-89 AVG+, this year there are two so far at an 89. There are multiple factors at work here. One is it's literally never been harder to get a hit, another is we're comparing results over a 68 game sample with results from 154/162 game samples & the third would be the team batting average is currently dragged down by players like Hiura/Shaw/McKinney (67 for 378, .177 combined) who figure to get considerably fewer opportunities moving forward. Assuming health for our primary starters, there are numerous indicators the team batting average should improve over the course of the next 94 games. For whatever it is or isn't worth, ZiPS projects the seven players likely to get the majority of the remaining plate appearances for averages of .271 (Yelich), .270 (Wong), .261 (Avi & Omar), .243 (Urias), .242 (Adames) & .234 (Vogelbach). I'm on your side here, but when you say " the average is dragged down by xyz" that's why it's an average. There are a lot of teams with some dudes with brutal batting averages this year. I'm not accusing you of cherry picking, per se, but the average is what it is. I hope Robertson and Peterson and jbj get fewer at bats, but every time we think they will, someone else gets hurt or slumps or whatever. Offense is obviously just not about BA ( or even very much) but taken in it's own window, the team BA is brutal.

Really? Other's have pointed out his age and an apt comparison to LeBron's first title, but does all of this come down to Giannis? I'm firmly in the "Get Budzinski the hell out of town" camp no matter what the outcome from Game 7. Unfortunately, if they win and move on to the conference finals, I think that almost guarantees Bud will still be around no matter what happens down the road this playoffs. Bud just isn't the solution to any problem and as we have seen for several years is clearly is THE problem. Win/win If we win, we're in the conf finals. If we lose, bud gets fired. If we win, but lose the conf finals, bud prob still gets fired.

Game 7s usually are.

I never said Durant isn't a top 15 player. I didn't mention Durant. Durant is easily top 5. Maybe of all time. Maybe. Joe Harris is literally just a guy. He does one thing well and absolutely doesn't do anything else. Meh. Oldschool already explained it. He's a good shooter who gets space because he plays with (three) absolute super stars. Again. Joe Harris.... meh. If he drops 25 tonight and the Bucks lose by 4, so be it. He's just not a needle mover that on any given night someone needs to game plan for.

The first three games they had a healthy Durant and Irving and two of the three were on the road. I don't see how you expect to win at least two of them. And why do people not acknowledge that they also have the top three point shooter in the league (and it's not Durant). Well, Harris doesn't rebound, doesn't do much on offense aside from shoot 3's, he doesn't play great defense. He's a good shooter. So was Tony Snell, for all that. Harris is a great 3P shooter, but he's not a volume scorer. In almost any circumstance, he's not a game changer. He's averaging 9.5 ppg for the series. He's a 3P threat, but not someone you need to gameplan around.

I mean, Lebron's first title was his age 27 season.

Exactly. The Nets are missing Irving, who is one of the top 10 - 15 players in the NBA, and half of James Harden, who is still probably one of the top 20 - 30 players when healthy.