adambr2

Right, and again...what about the pitching?

This team can really piss away a scoring opportunity in a big hurry.

Based on what, exactly? Do you have a Psych degree, or is that just your opinion? Guys come out of slumps, even deep ones, every single year. Shaw will hit at some point, and it will be this season. They're 1.5 back from the Cubs, despite again having played one of the toughest schedules in baseball so far. Making reactionary moves now is not what the Brewers do. If they identify value in a guy like Encarnacion or whoever, they WILL go out and improve the team, but it'll be on their terms and timeframe. Sorry, I should have been more specific, the gap between the cubbies and crew is TALENT. Specifically hitting. It’s not reactionary to know your weakness and then to fix that weakness. You know that our hitting has been above average and our pitching below average, right?

They're the 4th highest scoring offense in the NL. Ideally they just need Aguilar and Shaw to be better.

Not a super great quality for a starting pitcher either.

Drake guaranteed that the Raptors are going to the Finals. So I have a little more hope today.

The cruelest way this could end would be to somehow pull off Game 6 and come back home and lose Game 7.

The difference moving forward IMO will be us, namely Giannis. But even under your assumption, Kyrie and LeBron going to NYN is not the same as LeBron and Wade in Miami. Durant's going to be 30 years old. Those three(you're forgetting Bosh who was an All-NBA player before joining) made a deeper and better team. That's not to mention that's just complete conjecture that those two are going to both go to the same team, a franchise that has been absolute garbage and will have almost no depth. Nobody knows what Durant or Kyrie are going to do. I'd be more worried that Boston adds AD and thins out some of it's "assets" in order to create an actual roster, but even if that happens, it's not supposed to be easy to win an NBA championship. I guess it comes down to this, do you believe Giannis is going to be the best player in the NBA in the coming years or not. If you don't, I get being scared. If you believe he's going to improve as I do and you have confidence in Horst AND our coaches, I don't get why you'd be less confident in this teams future? I love Giannis. And he's fantastic. But no, in terms of being able to elevate his game to a different level this time of year and put a team on his back, he's no LeBron, or even a Curry. At least not yet. He's another superstar, a Westbrook, a George, a Lillard. Not THE superstar. I don't know what will happen with Kawhi, or AD, or whoever. But it's incredibly difficult to get back to this stage. Things happen, injuries happen, and we all know, there will be turnover. Middleton, Lopez, Hill, Mirotic, Brogdon...these guys are not all going to be back, and we simply wont be able to replace them in the draft or free agency. Last time we were at this stage it took 18 years to get back. You just never know. Part of it is I'm getting a little jaded. Between the Packers, Brewers and Bucks, if the Bucks don't come back we'll be 0 for our last 6 and 1 for our last 9 in conference championships. It's incredibly frustrating.

C'mon man, first of all, this series is NOT over. But I get why people are giving up on this year. What I don't get is the pessimism for the future. When you have a force like Giannis, you're going to be in contention year to year. When you surround him with players like Brogdon, Middleton, as well as other shooters, I don't see why they wouldn't be back. I get what happened the last time we made it this far, but we had a coach with the ego the size of Lake Michigan and we didn't have ONE star who could even tough Giannis and those guys weren't still ascending. Nothing about Giannis has changed. Nothing about Coach Bud and this system has changed. If Fred Van-friggin-Vleet doesn't hit 10 of 12 3's the last 2 games, after barely shooting 10 pct, we're going back to Toronto to close them out. That didn't happen, but this wasn't suppose to be THE year the Bucks really took off anyway. I don't know how they'll build their roster moving forward, I don't know if they'll find a way to sign Hill to a reasonable deal or if they'll try and pick up someone like Rondo to be that backup playoff tested PG, but I do trust our GM and more importantly, in a sport where having one historically great young player means everything, I trust Giannis. The difference moving forward isn't going to be us. It's going to be a super team from New York, or Boston, etc. that could end up rivaling the LeBron/Wade Heat or the LeBron Cavs and just make it more of a nightmare to get out of the East than it already is. This year was our shot.

I haven't smoked a cigarette in 375 days but came awfully close after the game tonight. Up 12 on your court in the 2nd half, you gotta be able to put your opponent away and they couldn't do it. I really thought when Lopez hit that 3 to tie it at 93 we were gonna do it. But then that was it. The overturned shot clock violation and overturned Brogdon turnover in the final minute were killers.

It's been an incredibly frustrating year for Milwaukee sports fans because we have great teams that just can't seem to break through and play for a championship. The Brewers were right there but could not get it done. It looks like the Bucks will follow suit. And as you alluded to you are never guaranteed these opportunities again. You might be back in the conference finals again next year or it might be 20 years. You can speak all you want about young talent but you just never know how long it will be. We could see a super team in New York or Boston. You have to seize the moments when they're right there in front of you. You can never count on getting back.

I don't think they were over-rated. When a team wins 60 games you aren't over-rated. This team right now does NOT look like the team we watched all season long. They came upon a team that is hitting their stride at the right time and got kicked in the teeth every time they made even a small mistake. Perhaps we peaked too soon? I will say this - I don't think either team in the East will beat GS anyway. Let's hope they learn from this and come back in October older and wiser. To me it was never about beating GS. Obviously I would be disappointed about losing to GS but I would be thrilled to see the Bucks in the Finals. And that would be such great experience for our guys and go a long ways toward keeping our core. Not believing we had much of a shot against the Warriors won't be any consolation for me. I'll be much more disappointed to not reach the Finals than to lose in the Finals.

I will say this: If you can find a way to win game 6, everything changes. Momentum, confidence, everything, excitement level it back up, you're back home and feeling good again. I just think we need a game where everything goes wrong for Toronto and that has just not been happening.

Man I am so disappointed. Sometimes it just feels like a cursed lifestyle being a Wisconsin sports fan. I had us mentally already up against Golden State when we were up 2-0. I think honestly 95% of us did. Makes you wonder how much of the team was mentally doing that as well.

Game 6 take: I don't expect this to be a particularly competitive game. I'm not saying Bulls Game 7 from a few years ago bad, but I think at some point, they'll get down double digits and start panicking. They'll hurry some bad shots and exhibit some frustration, and continue to miss FTs in hostile territory. This team has demonstrated a lot of immaturity this series, and it's hard for me to see them responding well to inevitably tough moments that are to come on Saturday. That said, I could be wrong. Maybe they finally get it together just in time to save their season. But winning 2 in a row never seemed as impossible as it seems right now.

I wouldn't say Lopez was a liability. I think this series is already over if it wasn't for him.

Cuz their bench has been lights out the last two games. Yeah, but that doesn't change Kawhi coming up huge late in games as well.

The thing is...the bench has pretty much been ignored the last few games. Guys like Connaughton and Ersan who have played big roles earlier in the playoffs haven't really been involved much anymore, and the more we've leaned on our starters, the more we've struggled.

One thing that turned out to be really overstated this series is how much Leonard's minutes and minutes from the Raptors' other starters would wear them down and take a toll late in games. You could maybe argue it was a factor in Game 1, other than that it was a total non-factor. If anything they got stronger late in games.

I'm not giving up on them just yet. I thought it'd be a 6 game series, it'll be a 7 game series. No way. They're not winning in Toronto with their entire season on the line if they couldn't even protect their homecourt. Doubt it is even a single digit game. It's over.

What a pathetic shot by Middleton.

We choked, boys. No nice way to put it, we choked away this series that was oh so not in any danger after 1 loss. Now we're going to have to see how it feels to see Drake celebrating our elimination in our faces.

Game.

That call is an absolute killer.

Did anyone actually think Bledsoe would hit that 3? Not a prayer.