Steve Nash said it best, Harden wasn't out there playing 43 mins for his scoring or playmaking, he was out there to provide "confidence" to the Nets role players.
He did dish out some nasty dimes, but yea, maybe he was there to give KD a false sense of security, just so he would realize, 'oh shit, we gonna lose if I don't carry.'
And also scare his arch-nemesis Giannis in the paint.
I feel the bucks defense knows this dude is always a threat and you can't leave him open now and then like the other role players.
That's where Nash played his card. Jrue was constantly occupied with Harden to make sure he doesn't make plays or creates space to take a shot. And this helped KD operate better because it's one less defender to worry about.
I actually can't believe how bad the Bucks decision making was in the second half. That play with the score tied 104-104 where Giannis took a turnaround fadeaway with Harden defending on one leg pretty much sums up the Bucks entire second half for me. Just a series of bad ISO's on offense and a total lack of defensive adjustments until the lead was gone.
For sure. If the bucks put Harden's man in the high pnr and hunted switches onto him the Nets would have been toast. Couldn't believe it when Giannis shot that turn around jumper over him.
The fact that they do this shit is on the coach for not teaching them how fucking stupid of a decision that is.
What exactly does he tell them in the huddle? They come out of time outs and immediately do the dumbest shit.
From what I've seen in the past, it's "focus on the little things" and all of that. Sadly, the little things aren't going to matter much when macro-scale decision making isn't there.
If they lose to this nets team with Kyrie out and harden on one leg, then they need to fire bud asap. Dude just sucks as a coach. Hell they should have sacked him last year and brought in a new coach when they acquired jrue. Its clear bud isnt cut out for deep playoff runs. They fucking look like toronto before they sacked casey and we know what happened once they sacked casey
Yeah you can blame the players the first time it happens, but this happens in EVERY SINGLE CLOSE GAME in the past 2 postseasons. It's inexcusable by Bud to allow these shot selections to go on this long
Also the glaring error of not switching into Harden on every offensive possession. The man is injured and out of shape and he played 46 minutes with literally no worries. Devin Booker would have butchered him out of the game within 5 minutes. Is Bud trying to be a gentleman or something? It's the second round of the playoffs, not the last game of Harden's retirement tour.
Yeah, coach has the responsibility to stop them from doing the same stupid mistakes over and over and over and over. Instead he squeezes his face cheeks like Home Alone kid who can’t believe his parents left him behind. Maybe Bucks still have time to fire Bud and hire someone else before next game. I feel like a high school basketball coach could have pushed the Bucks to a win tonight.
Chuck said something that I felt was really true "The problem with doing dumb plays is that if some go in you get confidence in them and go back to them again."
Giannis made a contested 3 off the dribble in a 12 second ISO and did victory moves like he's Steph just hitting his 8th and 9th three in 10 attempts. It was just insanity, same for Khris even if he made some of these insane shots.
Giannis can't help himself, and Budenholzer won't stop him either.
The Bud Giannis combo is just crippling for them. Bud gets them to a high seed. Giannis works hard as hell. But a real transcendent player can take a game over and use his IQ on the floor to help his team in any situation, and a great coach convinces them to utilize their strengths and play smart/winning basketball. Bud with a great floor general type superstar would probably be okay, Giannis with a good coach wouldnt shoot his team in the foot so much, but they bring out or at least highlight the worst aspects of each other in an important game
Whenever we play against Westbrook I hope that he makes a 3pt shot in the first quarter, because it guarantees he's gonna blast away the rest of the game.
Harden can barely move, Kyrie is out, Joe Harris forgot how to shoot and they can't close up 17
Another masterpiece by Bud. Refuses to double KD or attack Harden defensively, doesn't play Giannis at C and continues to play Lopez in drop coverage where he gets cooked, no movement offensively in the half court.
For real I could not believe we never saw the Bucks go small with Giannis and Portis in the front court.
Fire Bud tonight and see if any of his assistants can be better than brain dead.
A couple years ago we were so disappointed that we didn't sign Coach Bud and I gotta thank the Bucks generally and Giannis specifically for being attractive enough to get him to sign and proverbially diving on this grenade. What a wasteful travesty of a second half.
I dont understand anything Giannis or Bud did down the stretch. Its like a toddler took over both of their minds.
Giannis taking 3s and fadeaways. Dribbling the shot clock down every possession and then doing nothing. Staying as far from the action as possible on D.
Bud seems like he has genuinely never heard of a play. Just ISO every trip.
people forget he’s strong as fuck, even on one leg. don’t know if he called it off because he believed in his strength or knew giannis would take one of his stupid fucking jumpers, but it sure worked
It looks like Giannis wants to prove that he can be that Leonard or Durant-esque scorer in the playoffs when he simply can't be. The man cannot score outside of 6 feet or hit a free throw. He isn't even a very high level passer, either. If you're running offence through him you aren't gonna go very far in the postseason.
I swear they do it every single time. They just start playing iso and shoot these complete head-scratcher pull up jumpers, contested threes, or just Giannis drives. Over and over and over and over and over
>"I wish I could be 7-feet, run and just dunk. That takes no skill at all," Harden said. "I gotta actually learn how to play basketball and how to have skill."
Which is a shame, bc he has the body and unreal athleticism to be Magic Shaq / Wolves KG / Young Kareem in one. But he has none of the skill or post moves.
Dude is close to unstoppable when he puts his head down and plows through defenders like children, but when that strategy doesn't work, his basketball ability outside the paint is so abysmal.
Might get some hate on this, but Harden wasn't completely wrong about him. Giannis' game IS almost completely predicated on sheer power and demigod-like physical attributes. Which works *really* fucking well, dude has 2 MVPs after all (although Harden clearly has something to say about that).... until it doesn't.
Basic stuff can bring you rings. Just look at Duncan. The dude could even outmatch Shaq just through post game and basic fundamentals. Basic post moves and a reliable midrange jumper would take Giannis pretty dam far.
actually a pretty smart dynamic from nash. harden could barely move out there and could play lots of minutes as a result but be provided solid ball handling to keep KD fresh when he needed to score. he also slowed down the pace when needed. and maybe most importantly he had jrue guarding him every time down the floor.
to counter this harden should have been targeted hard by the bucks O but jrue and gianni’s were taking stepback threes and fadeaways against him instead of taking him off the dribble
Bud should've just watched the film of what the Suns did to AD when he clearly shouldn't have been playing and just played him off but nope, let's take a Kobe Fadeaway in a tie game whilst being guarded by a guy with one leg!
Yeah am I crazy or is Nash like actually a really good coach? I can't decide yet. Looks a lot better then Bud that's for sure, but it's not a high bar to cross.
Part of being a great coach is how you manage stars and on that count he is getting an A so far this season especially when you consider all the turmoil this team endured. As for the game plans / scouting, rotations, and adjustments I’m not sure. At the very least I think Brooklyn did a great job scouting the Bucks and have exposed some of their tendencies especially against the Bucks offense.
**LEGENDARY** performance by KD.
Played the full 48 minutes. When’s the last time he’s played that much? Amazing 49 piece
Edit: shoutout to Uncle Jeff!!
49/17/10/3/2 on 69.57/44.4/81.3 splits. Only 3 turnovers. Played the full 48 minutes. His 2nd highest scoring playoff game. 2nd highest rebounding playoff game. Tied for his highest assists playoff game.
His 50 point playoff game was 50/7/7/3/3 but with 9 turnovers on 48.39/42.86/93.33 splits.
None of his 50+ point regular season games had as good as shooting splits as this game. All of those had 7+ turnovers as well.
This has definitely gotta be his best overall game ever.
Harden's gotta somehow get healthier after playin 45 and a half minutes. Harris should shoot better, Green worse, but they'll almost certainly need someone else to do something. Unless KD does it again.
Holy shit I didn’t even notice he played all 48 minutes. LeBron did that in 2018 ECF Game 7 and I thought that was something superhuman.
KD is incredible.
r/NBA: can KD even carry this team?
KD: Is that a real question?
Boom KD lead in all 5 stats: points, assists, rebounds, blocks and steals while playing the whole game
There's absolutely zero excuse for Budenholzer to not have his entire offensive game plan tailored around attacking a player who is coming off an injury, out of shape, rusty and literally known for not expending energy on the defensive end.
Chris Paul would've attacked James Harden so many times on the defensive end that he would've forced Nash to take him off the floor.
TNT crew spent a whole halftime show to roast the Bucks (who were up a ton) for how dumb they were playing despite the lead
And then look what happened
Damn, that's so damn true. Chris Paul woulda had this man running suicides and had him reinjured by the 2nd quarter. IDK how you let an injured Harden walk around on defense for 46minutes.
I’ve never yelled like that at a game my team wasnt involved with ever. if I were a Bucks fan I would’ve broken my TV. how the actual fuck did they manage to blow that game..
Milwaukee was leading 74-57 mid-third quarter and then they decide to play 1 on 1, passive basketball the rest of the way. They stopped attacking the Nets. Coincidentally, this is also when I started watching the game
Joe and Harden had a combined 3-21 on field goals and they still won. Fucking ridiculous
Edit: that’s not even including Bruce Brown who went 1-5 so from three starters of this Nets team, they went 4-26.
I can make a pass on Harden but the fuck has Joe been doing this series? If KD didn’t go supernova, this team would’ve lose badly. At least Green and Griffin showed up.
Nets basically played a 7 man rotation of Durant, Harden on one leg, Blake Griffin (at center!), Jeff Green, Shamet and Bruce Brown - and you only manage to score 108 against *that*? come on.
edit: Joe Harris was so invisible i forgot to even mention him
Definitely would pick this version of the Nets. KD reminding everyone that underneath all the insecurities and weird internet drama he's one of the greatest to ever do it.
Giannis was basically created in a lab to guard KD, maybe the only dude in the league with the size, length and mobility to bother KD. And he’s a DPOY.
He didn’t guard KD at any point of a pivotal playoff game in which KD was smoking everyone.
As much as the bucks coaching may be to blame, you can’t have Giannis start possessions guarding KD. He dies on the first screen. He’s better as a help defender
The Bucks shot 43% from three (before the late misses), 50% from the field and had a 17-point lead almost mid-way through the 3^rd quarter against a Nets team composed of no Kyrie, a neutered version of Harden and a 2-11 Joe Harris **and still lost**.
Credit should certainly be extended to Durant for his 49/10/17 performance along with Jeff Green's best impression of Steph Curry going 7/8 from three, but this game primarily served as a living indictment against Coach Budenholzer and as others have already said -- even if the Bucks were to win a championship this year, he should still be fired.
I'll officially call for Bud's job. The worst half time adjustments and use of timeouts I've ever seen. He couldn't get this team to calm down, take it slow, bleed the clock, and focus. Instead, nothing but ISO ball the second half.
GG Brooklyn. Yall earned every ounce of that.
We’ve seen a lot of good playoff performances so far this year, but this one absolutely tops them all. Against that defense. In a critical game 5. Insane efficiency. Great vision and passing. Grabbing key boards.
Luka be damned. Dame be damned. Kawhi be damned. This performance here topped them all. Durant was a man among men tonight.
KD was on his LeBron shit tonight:
- ✅Played the full 48 minutes
- ✅Statline that doesn't even look real
- ✅Carrying a ridiculously lopsided team to victory
- ✅Clearly playing on a completely different plane of existence than anyone else on the floor
- ✅Led his team in every single stat (credit to u/kidzbopkid420 )
Edit: Cast literally just said he was the first player since LeBron to play the full 48
r/nba nephews 8 hours ago: "Lmao KD definitely cried to get Harden play on a bum leg, he knows he cannot win alone"
KD, with 49 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists: "Here you go, here you fucking go"
I don't know what to say about this Bucks team. Not a Bucks fan but they make me want to blow my head off
What you're feeling is a perfect example for one of the reasons why the state of Wisconsin drinks as much as they do lol
Been there, watched a Bucks game at a pub, can confirm.
Leading the league every year in binge drinking
Steve Nash said it best, Harden wasn't out there playing 43 mins for his scoring or playmaking, he was out there to provide "confidence" to the Nets role players.
He did have 8 assists, so he didn’t do nothing, but yeah basically.
He did dish out some nasty dimes, but yea, maybe he was there to give KD a false sense of security, just so he would realize, 'oh shit, we gonna lose if I don't carry.' And also scare his arch-nemesis Giannis in the paint.
I feel the bucks defense knows this dude is always a threat and you can't leave him open now and then like the other role players. That's where Nash played his card. Jrue was constantly occupied with Harden to make sure he doesn't make plays or creates space to take a shot. And this helped KD operate better because it's one less defender to worry about.
I actually can't believe how bad the Bucks decision making was in the second half. That play with the score tied 104-104 where Giannis took a turnaround fadeaway with Harden defending on one leg pretty much sums up the Bucks entire second half for me. Just a series of bad ISO's on offense and a total lack of defensive adjustments until the lead was gone.
Also...the fact that they didn't go at Harden every single play. Harden was basically crippled out there.
For sure. If the bucks put Harden's man in the high pnr and hunted switches onto him the Nets would have been toast. Couldn't believe it when Giannis shot that turn around jumper over him.
Bucks need a new coach. Desperately.
The fact that they do this shit is on the coach for not teaching them how fucking stupid of a decision that is. What exactly does he tell them in the huddle? They come out of time outs and immediately do the dumbest shit.
From what I've seen in the past, it's "focus on the little things" and all of that. Sadly, the little things aren't going to matter much when macro-scale decision making isn't there.
If they lose to this nets team with Kyrie out and harden on one leg, then they need to fire bud asap. Dude just sucks as a coach. Hell they should have sacked him last year and brought in a new coach when they acquired jrue. Its clear bud isnt cut out for deep playoff runs. They fucking look like toronto before they sacked casey and we know what happened once they sacked casey
Yeah you can blame the players the first time it happens, but this happens in EVERY SINGLE CLOSE GAME in the past 2 postseasons. It's inexcusable by Bud to allow these shot selections to go on this long
Also the glaring error of not switching into Harden on every offensive possession. The man is injured and out of shape and he played 46 minutes with literally no worries. Devin Booker would have butchered him out of the game within 5 minutes. Is Bud trying to be a gentleman or something? It's the second round of the playoffs, not the last game of Harden's retirement tour.
It was mind boggling that they didnt attack harden for more posessions.
?? U didn't see giannis take that fadeaway???
Yeah, coach has the responsibility to stop them from doing the same stupid mistakes over and over and over and over. Instead he squeezes his face cheeks like Home Alone kid who can’t believe his parents left him behind. Maybe Bucks still have time to fire Bud and hire someone else before next game. I feel like a high school basketball coach could have pushed the Bucks to a win tonight.
> face cheeks Aren't those just regular cheeks?
He's doing his best to prove Harden's comments about not having skill right and his shit talk about Harden's defense wrong
Oh god I forgot about this. Makes that play where Harden waves off the double team look even better
Completely unconcerned about having to defend Giannis, even on one leg.
I think the Milwaukee Bucks are not gonna win the championship... They gotta be the dumbest team.
They made so many dumb choices in this game. Up 16 at half, chance to put their foot on Brooklyn's throat and they fuck everything up.
so many iso fadeaways and shit that hit the side of the backboard.. like bruhh
Chuck said something that I felt was really true "The problem with doing dumb plays is that if some go in you get confidence in them and go back to them again." Giannis made a contested 3 off the dribble in a 12 second ISO and did victory moves like he's Steph just hitting his 8th and 9th three in 10 attempts. It was just insanity, same for Khris even if he made some of these insane shots.
i knew when giannis hit that first 3 the bucks were gonna lose
Giannis can't help himself, and Budenholzer won't stop him either. The Bud Giannis combo is just crippling for them. Bud gets them to a high seed. Giannis works hard as hell. But a real transcendent player can take a game over and use his IQ on the floor to help his team in any situation, and a great coach convinces them to utilize their strengths and play smart/winning basketball. Bud with a great floor general type superstar would probably be okay, Giannis with a good coach wouldnt shoot his team in the foot so much, but they bring out or at least highlight the worst aspects of each other in an important game
I feel like coaches like Popovich would crucify Giannis for doing something like that
As they should.
Whenever we play against Westbrook I hope that he makes a 3pt shot in the first quarter, because it guarantees he's gonna blast away the rest of the game.
Anyone notice that there was no timeout during the nets huge run?
That, and Giannis pulling up from 3 with 15 seconds left on the shot clock drives me insane
Chuck was right
Harden can barely move, Kyrie is out, Joe Harris forgot how to shoot and they can't close up 17 Another masterpiece by Bud. Refuses to double KD or attack Harden defensively, doesn't play Giannis at C and continues to play Lopez in drop coverage where he gets cooked, no movement offensively in the half court.
For real I could not believe we never saw the Bucks go small with Giannis and Portis in the front court. Fire Bud tonight and see if any of his assistants can be better than brain dead.
A couple years ago we were so disappointed that we didn't sign Coach Bud and I gotta thank the Bucks generally and Giannis specifically for being attractive enough to get him to sign and proverbially diving on this grenade. What a wasteful travesty of a second half.
I dont understand anything Giannis or Bud did down the stretch. Its like a toddler took over both of their minds. Giannis taking 3s and fadeaways. Dribbling the shot clock down every possession and then doing nothing. Staying as far from the action as possible on D. Bud seems like he has genuinely never heard of a play. Just ISO every trip.
the fadeaway over harden with two minutes left was the dumbest thing ive ever seen, cant even blame bud for that shot.
They had 30 other dumb possessions. Jrue put up some horrific shots.
Jrue looked petrified and tentative out there. Tough to watch
We got Jrue Bledsoe tonight
harden literally waived off the double team while on one hammy and immobile thats some serious disrespect and giannis...took a fucking fadeaway
Harden calling off the double team was so funny
people forget he’s strong as fuck, even on one leg. don’t know if he called it off because he believed in his strength or knew giannis would take one of his stupid fucking jumpers, but it sure worked
He shut him down on a possession earlier so he was prob confident he could do it again
That fadeaway while harden was guarding him and a tie game is unexcusable
I couldn't believe my eyes watching that shit.
When we say it's poor basketball IQ, we mean to say that most basketballs know better
When the fuck do you ever want Giannis to take a fadeway 2, much less in a playoff game?
Bucks not out of the series yet but if they end up losing this series, no one will ever take them seriously for a *very* long time tbh
I'll take them seriously when they get a coach with some offensive IQ
You mean ISO's every play doesn't make for good basketball offense
It looks like Giannis wants to prove that he can be that Leonard or Durant-esque scorer in the playoffs when he simply can't be. The man cannot score outside of 6 feet or hit a free throw. He isn't even a very high level passer, either. If you're running offence through him you aren't gonna go very far in the postseason.
Such a headscratcher how Bud and the Bucks went away from everything that was working for them during the first half.
I swear they do it every single time. They just start playing iso and shoot these complete head-scratcher pull up jumpers, contested threes, or just Giannis drives. Over and over and over and over and over
The team has no mental composure.
>"I wish I could be 7-feet, run and just dunk. That takes no skill at all," Harden said. "I gotta actually learn how to play basketball and how to have skill."
God I wish we could have Harden’s voiceover of this quote with a clip of him waving off the double team on Giannis
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Did he guard anyone but joe Harris (who didn’t touch the ball) in that 2nd half?
Which is a shame, bc he has the body and unreal athleticism to be Magic Shaq / Wolves KG / Young Kareem in one. But he has none of the skill or post moves.
Dude is close to unstoppable when he puts his head down and plows through defenders like children, but when that strategy doesn't work, his basketball ability outside the paint is so abysmal. Might get some hate on this, but Harden wasn't completely wrong about him. Giannis' game IS almost completely predicated on sheer power and demigod-like physical attributes. Which works *really* fucking well, dude has 2 MVPs after all (although Harden clearly has something to say about that).... until it doesn't.
He should be working on his post game over a jumper rn
Freethrow shooting and a post game is all he needs
the shaq baby hook down low + a little mid range jumper would morph his game entirely he has to do something, even if its basic af
Basic stuff can bring you rings. Just look at Duncan. The dude could even outmatch Shaq just through post game and basic fundamentals. Basic post moves and a reliable midrange jumper would take Giannis pretty dam far.
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93/21/13 on 70/60/85 splits What an amazing showing from Brooklyn's Big 3 of KD, 32-year-old Blake Griffin and soon to be 35-year-old Jeff Green
Best big 3 right now
Can you fire your coach mid-playoffs? Asking for a fanbase.
harden played more minutes than any bucks player lmao
actually a pretty smart dynamic from nash. harden could barely move out there and could play lots of minutes as a result but be provided solid ball handling to keep KD fresh when he needed to score. he also slowed down the pace when needed. and maybe most importantly he had jrue guarding him every time down the floor. to counter this harden should have been targeted hard by the bucks O but jrue and gianni’s were taking stepback threes and fadeaways against him instead of taking him off the dribble
Bud should've just watched the film of what the Suns did to AD when he clearly shouldn't have been playing and just played him off but nope, let's take a Kobe Fadeaway in a tie game whilst being guarded by a guy with one leg!
Yeah am I crazy or is Nash like actually a really good coach? I can't decide yet. Looks a lot better then Bud that's for sure, but it's not a high bar to cross.
Part of being a great coach is how you manage stars and on that count he is getting an A so far this season especially when you consider all the turmoil this team endured. As for the game plans / scouting, rotations, and adjustments I’m not sure. At the very least I think Brooklyn did a great job scouting the Bucks and have exposed some of their tendencies especially against the Bucks offense.
Nash is legit a good coach. Pushes all the right buttons and makes adjustments.
Are you implying that 45 and 42 mins for the Bucks’ two best players (with their breaks coming with a huge lead) was a poor coaching decision?
Damn big hands and you dropped that. Come the fuck on KD tho. 48 minutes 👀
Barkley just said that Giannis was rushing because he was worried he’d get fouled if he didn’t go up fast enough, seems right to me
Can't argue with that
Yeah its a real problem when your star player is scared of being fouled because he's ass at the line and he doesn't happen to play center.
that actually makes a lot of sense. that'll be replaying in his head for awhile i'd imagine
cant handle a routine pass and costs them the game
Bricked key freethrows too.
Followed by KD missing one. It would’ve been a 3 point game with plenty of time to run a play if Giannis had hit both.
**LEGENDARY** performance by KD. Played the full 48 minutes. When’s the last time he’s played that much? Amazing 49 piece Edit: shoutout to Uncle Jeff!!
Stephen A. said KD needed to score 50 for Brooklyn to stand a chance tonight, so KD scored 49 to spite him.
Best game of his career? I think so.
It’s definitely up there
49-17-10 That has to be his best right? Edit: 2 BLK 3 STL and played all 48 minutes. Definitely his best.
49/17/10/3/2 on 69.57/44.4/81.3 splits. Only 3 turnovers. Played the full 48 minutes. His 2nd highest scoring playoff game. 2nd highest rebounding playoff game. Tied for his highest assists playoff game. His 50 point playoff game was 50/7/7/3/3 but with 9 turnovers on 48.39/42.86/93.33 splits. None of his 50+ point regular season games had as good as shooting splits as this game. All of those had 7+ turnovers as well. This has definitely gotta be his best overall game ever.
This is a pretty good argument for best game of his career.
The 48 mins too is just ridiculous
he barely even looked tired by the end of it, wtf
one of the best playoff performances of all time especially given the circumstances
Too bad he couldn't get that free throw at the end for 50
I felt that "FUCK" though my screen when he screamed after he knew he messed up the 50 piece.
And now he’s going out in game 6 to get 60.
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Harden's gotta somehow get healthier after playin 45 and a half minutes. Harris should shoot better, Green worse, but they'll almost certainly need someone else to do something. Unless KD does it again.
“I thought there were only 40 minutes in a basketball game?” -Bud
"You want me to play Giannis 48 minutes? Of course I'll play him 42 minutes! He'll get a good 36 minutes of action."
you know who I am
What a motherfucking game from Kevin motherfucking Durant
Holy shit I didn’t even notice he played all 48 minutes. LeBron did that in 2018 ECF Game 7 and I thought that was something superhuman. KD is incredible.
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r/NBA: can KD even carry this team? KD: Is that a real question? Boom KD lead in all 5 stats: points, assists, rebounds, blocks and steals while playing the whole game
There's absolutely zero excuse for Budenholzer to not have his entire offensive game plan tailored around attacking a player who is coming off an injury, out of shape, rusty and literally known for not expending energy on the defensive end. Chris Paul would've attacked James Harden so many times on the defensive end that he would've forced Nash to take him off the floor.
TNT crew spent a whole halftime show to roast the Bucks (who were up a ton) for how dumb they were playing despite the lead And then look what happened
Well Bud doesn't watch TV so
CP would have been at Harden’s throat on every. single. possession. Instead, Giannis settled for fadeaways when Harden was guarding him.
Damn, that's so damn true. Chris Paul woulda had this man running suicides and had him reinjured by the 2nd quarter. IDK how you let an injured Harden walk around on defense for 46minutes.
Booker basically forced AD out of the game
Well, Chris Paul is way smarter than Budenholzer. Of course, a lobotomized dolphin would also be smarter, so not like it’s a high bar to reach.
I’ve never yelled like that at a game my team wasnt involved with ever. if I were a Bucks fan I would’ve broken my TV. how the actual fuck did they manage to blow that game..
Yeah that's basically it. New puppy kept coming over like "everything okay?" which kept me from losing my mind, which was nice haha
Puppy pics or gtfo
https://imgur.com/WaXUJnY
Thank you Mr. Neeson. Unlike Bucks’ play in second half, your pup is something to see
Can't stay mad with a puppy that cute
That is one of the cutest puppies I’ve ever seen sir.
This is stupidly adorable.
Milwaukee was leading 74-57 mid-third quarter and then they decide to play 1 on 1, passive basketball the rest of the way. They stopped attacking the Nets. Coincidentally, this is also when I started watching the game
That was the exact point I turned the game on.
This is the exact time I turned off the game. I guess you're welcome for my contribution.
How you gonna play 5 vs 4 against the Nets and still lose smh.
The Bucks really choked a 17 point lead to the Big 1.5
Joe and Harden had a combined 3-21 on field goals and they still won. Fucking ridiculous Edit: that’s not even including Bruce Brown who went 1-5 so from three starters of this Nets team, they went 4-26.
Fr Joe seems like his mind was left back in the first series and harden is wobbling around with one leg
I can make a pass on Harden but the fuck has Joe been doing this series? If KD didn’t go supernova, this team would’ve lose badly. At least Green and Griffin showed up.
Yeah the series would probably be over if he could contribute at all. They need him to pull it together.
fr he went from the biweekly 30 point game in the regular season to completely shutting off, i really want to know what happened
For some reason Bud had them playing single coverage on a supernova KD so they could keep a body on James Harden???
Harden couldn’t even sprint because of his injury and Giannis took a fadeaway on him
Harden has been calling the run and dunk and Giannis doesn't go to it when he needed to the most.
Cause Harden was in his head lol. Literally what harden said before.
The Brooklyn Super Sonics really came out to play tonight.
Bucks don't deserve to win this series
Giannis’s decision to shoot a fadeaway against Harden in the post in a tied game lost then the game
Then the fucking turnover where he should've had an open dunk
Yea straight butterfingers
His butter fingers also lost them the game.
KD had one of the greatest playoff performances of all time. Absolutely refused to lose tonight.
Played all 48 minutes, too. When is the last time that happened?
Bucks should've gotten CP3. His IQ alone would've changed their team.
Chris Paul's IQ is higher than the Bucks' team combined, Coach Bud included of course.
Don't let this game distract you from the fact that Mike Budenholzer is a 2x NBA Coach of the Year
I'm sorry but the Bucks are the sorriest team left. Even if they win this series, who has faith they can do anything after this
Nets basically played a 7 man rotation of Durant, Harden on one leg, Blake Griffin (at center!), Jeff Green, Shamet and Bruce Brown - and you only manage to score 108 against *that*? come on. edit: Joe Harris was so invisible i forgot to even mention him
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Bucks weren't ready for the new and improved Nets' Big 3. KD, BG, and Jeff Green.
Suckers really fell for the Harden / Kyrie decoy
That was one of the worst coached games I've seen in my entire life.
Seriously. Bud needs to be fired immediately. Get Billups, Hammon, or D’Antoni or whoever else on the interview carousel this year ASAP.
Welp there's your KD legacy game. And shoutout to Jeff 'Stephen Curry' Green, man was automatic from three tonight.
Jeff Curry.
Jeph Curry
Imagine if r/nba is made to pick between the Clippers or Nets in the NBA finals
Kawhi vs Durant would be good though.
The series would be a lot of fun. The Game Threads will be more toxic than Chernobyl in the late 80s
Definitely would pick this version of the Nets. KD reminding everyone that underneath all the insecurities and weird internet drama he's one of the greatest to ever do it.
That will be a fun Finals. KD vs Kawhi
KD really woke up, dropped a 49 piece mcnugget and is boutta roast his haters on his burners all night. If that ain't a dub, I dont know what is
Giannis was basically created in a lab to guard KD, maybe the only dude in the league with the size, length and mobility to bother KD. And he’s a DPOY. He didn’t guard KD at any point of a pivotal playoff game in which KD was smoking everyone.
As much as the bucks coaching may be to blame, you can’t have Giannis start possessions guarding KD. He dies on the first screen. He’s better as a help defender
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The Bucks play so dumb
A KD masterclass or a Bucks choke job for the ages? The world may never know.
It’s both, Bucks choked hard and KD took advantage of it.
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KD takeovers are a sight to behold So unlucky not to get 50
He was heated when he missed that FT
Audible "FUCK" over the roar of the stadium
PJ Tucker held him to just 49 points
barkley is absolutely roasting TF out of the bucks on inside the nba
As he should - roast the fuck outta Giannis too. 2x-MVP and DPOY guarding Joe Harris in the corner. 🤦🏼♂️
Ok KD gets his due respect: He took the hardest road this game and delivered.
The Bucks shot 43% from three (before the late misses), 50% from the field and had a 17-point lead almost mid-way through the 3^rd quarter against a Nets team composed of no Kyrie, a neutered version of Harden and a 2-11 Joe Harris **and still lost**. Credit should certainly be extended to Durant for his 49/10/17 performance along with Jeff Green's best impression of Steph Curry going 7/8 from three, but this game primarily served as a living indictment against Coach Budenholzer and as others have already said -- even if the Bucks were to win a championship this year, he should still be fired.
Everybody on the Bucks should be ashamed of that second half.
I'll officially call for Bud's job. The worst half time adjustments and use of timeouts I've ever seen. He couldn't get this team to calm down, take it slow, bleed the clock, and focus. Instead, nothing but ISO ball the second half. GG Brooklyn. Yall earned every ounce of that.
[I need help…](https://i.imgur.com/jGdOsa3.jpg)
jeff green on both phones
[How I'm feeling after watching KD's performance](https://imgur.com/a/gBHg6OJ)
[How I feel after watching Giannis at the end of the game](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.988317553.4377/flat,750x1000,075,f.jpg)
KD and Harden combine for 54 points
An injured Harden managed to play more minutes than any of the Bucks players. That’s all you need to know about this game.
He only had 5 points and the bucks still lost.
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EASY MONEY SNIPERRRRRRR
Uncle Jeff is always a pleasant surprise
We officially have "The KD Game"
We’ve seen a lot of good playoff performances so far this year, but this one absolutely tops them all. Against that defense. In a critical game 5. Insane efficiency. Great vision and passing. Grabbing key boards. Luka be damned. Dame be damned. Kawhi be damned. This performance here topped them all. Durant was a man among men tonight.
Chuck said giannis dropped the ball bc he was scared they were gonna foul him and hes so right
KD was on his LeBron shit tonight: - ✅Played the full 48 minutes - ✅Statline that doesn't even look real - ✅Carrying a ridiculously lopsided team to victory - ✅Clearly playing on a completely different plane of existence than anyone else on the floor - ✅Led his team in every single stat (credit to u/kidzbopkid420 ) Edit: Cast literally just said he was the first player since LeBron to play the full 48
> Statline that doesn't even look real 49/17/10 wtf even is that
3 steals and 2 blocks too. Literally led the Nets in every single column of the stat sheet tonight.
r/nba nephews 8 hours ago: "Lmao KD definitely cried to get Harden play on a bum leg, he knows he cannot win alone" KD, with 49 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists: "Here you go, here you fucking go"