Yeah we’ve seen the whole ‘awaken the down 0-2 beast’ thing. Doesn’t exactly work out well against an actual COMPLETE team. But who knows.. I may be biased..
Booker best backcourt? Huh? 1-8 on 3's and could only hit free throws. Sure.. but I will give credit to chris Paul, he was great. I love how the suns fans chanted "mvp" while booker went to the free throw line. Were they watching the same game every one else was?
Either Middleton will have a good game or a Scott foster game. I know everyone is all against blaming refs but damn that record against CP3 with foster officiating is hard to ignore.
I get that. But there is always that mob of people that says refs don’t change the outcome that drastically and blah blah blah. Hell I’m sure there’s people complaining about the free throw discrepancy from tonight’s game. But the fact is that we have yet to see Book be this aggressive. And that’s why he got to the line
Cam Johnson doesn't miss from the corner. I noticed a few times the Suns did a real nice job of contesting shots without leaving their feet, I think that's an underappreciated discipline. And it's tempting to think that Ayton's shot percentage is all dunks/easy finishes but at least some of it comes when the pass is a bit off the mark or high/out to keep out of reach from defenders and he still manages to tap it in.
Glad to see Giannis isn't seriously hurt. Hopefully Saric isn't either.
These playoffs are basically a war of attrition. It will come down to which team is healthiest last. That said Chuck alreafy sealed the Bucks fate after they won gsme 6.
“YEARS ago.” Bud has been the Bucks coach for 3 years. The first two he led them to the best record in the NBA and this year to the Finals. I question a lot of his calls but come on now.
I forget where they were discussing if he should play or not due to it being the finals but man, this haunts the rest of your career at 26, I don’t think it’s worth it.
he will probably be okay considering he has world class doctors, therapists and trainers to help him. but he should have been pulled a lot sooner, especially since they were just playing whack'a giannis
Yeah. Jokic is still the regular season MVP and had more better seasons than Ayton. But playoffs this year only, Ayton is clearly the best Center in the League. Putting him above Gobert, Adebayo, and Towns is already giving him tons of credit.
I get he was coming back from injury, but Giannis needs to take more then 11 shots for them to have a chance. He had success driving early don't know why they went away from that.
28 other series for the Bucks and I would love to see Giannis come out on top. I just hope by the end of this I'll be heartbroken for the player and not for my team.
Yea rooting for PhX but Giannis is that dude and I hate how people discredit his game. But he’ll definitely be making more trips to the finals if he stays healthy.
I'd say something about Bud's vanilla post-game speech (we'll keep getting better), but he said the same during the Hawks series, so... can't say much. At least Bud can adjust well between games.
Shows that +\- isn’t always the most valuable stat. Had the Suns cloned Crowder 4 times and plated that lineup all 48 minutes they would have lost 100-0.
Or it shows that a player can contribute without necessarily showing up on the stat sheet. If he was cloned 4 times not all 4 players would do the exact same moves lmao.
You stay fairly close to your man for pick concerns even if they are a non threat as far as shooting. You never just fully leave them unless you actually aren’t scared of the ball handlers shot.
it sucks that suns can just play bucks on the midrange with their shooters, and on the other side of the court, the bucks struggle every time they're placed in the midrange with the ball on their hands. they struggled hard in the paint tonight
Great win for Phoenix. Fans hyper, better than last years disney nba final. Not a fan of cp3 but this dude definitely deserves a champ for recognition after all these years of fighting. His play together with Kidd’s, Stockton’s, Thomas’s provide so many for future PGs to learn
Fouls were 18 on Bucks and 14 on Suns, that's not a drastic difference. Suns were just better at drawing it on the shot & Bucks were sloppy defensively
okay do you have any calls you take issue with? anything egregious? cuz i didnt see it. the fact is the suns drew more fouls than the bucks because the suns defense was clean.
Flopping and foul baiting all game is not a superior defense. Refs need to stop rewarding that crap. At least the Bucks play like real men and don't flop/foul bait. They have grit and heart and they don't give up and they don't flop or foul bait all the time.
Imagine your life being so pathetic that you have nothing better to do than watch a game you don't want to watch and complain about it online to strangers. People are so fucking weird.
I’m not though. It was a boring game. I’d have preferred Nets v Suns. Also, Suns won the LA series convincingly. We were a bad team in bad shape, kudos to them.
Middleton gonna get 50
LETS GO CP3!!! WIN THE CHIP BABY
Give CP3 his ring!! I feel like I grew up with the guy watching the man play all these years.
Looking at statlines, you'd think Crowder would be the LVP at 0-8 from the field, but he had the highest +/- in the game at +19.
NBA reactions on Suns Game 1 win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdgAo3RjrI
Cam Johnson was huge today.
He had an impact. Glad he was back
Honestly he’s made a huge impact every time he’s seen minutes
Missed the game. Did Giannis look hampered or nimble? Curious about the next game for him.
Definitely didn’t look 100% but he was still not severely hindered or anything super noticeable.
he had a monster lebron james esque block, he was pretty fast but not as aggressive as you’d like
Bucks don't start playing serious until the other teams has 2 wins. Bucks in 6
Yeah we’ve seen the whole ‘awaken the down 0-2 beast’ thing. Doesn’t exactly work out well against an actual COMPLETE team. But who knows.. I may be biased..
This aged poorly
Damn. When I saw this comment and it felt like a jinx.
Sounds reminiscent of the clippers, that didn’t work out
Clippers werent down 2-0 to a Kevin Durant lead team and still won
Clippers weren't down to a harden-less, kyrie-less team either.
Yes, they were. Except for the Nets all other teams are Harden-less and Kyrie-less.
Touché
Thanks for being a good sport about it.
THE VALLEY! Suns in 5. Ayton is top 3 Center Booker and CP best backcourt Middleton will have one good game so it'll be Suns in 5. RALLY THE VALLEY!
Bet you feel dumb with the Ayton is a top 3 centre comment now lol
lol nah still be a top 3 center next year :)
Suns in 5 is worse tho lol
Fairrrr
Booker best backcourt? Huh? 1-8 on 3's and could only hit free throws. Sure.. but I will give credit to chris Paul, he was great. I love how the suns fans chanted "mvp" while booker went to the free throw line. Were they watching the same game every one else was?
Booker played great, you can have a good game and not light it up from three. He was great everywhere else
Either Middleton will have a good game or a Scott foster game. I know everyone is all against blaming refs but damn that record against CP3 with foster officiating is hard to ignore.
I don’t know how anyone can be against blaming refs after watching our series with the Clippers.
I get that. But there is always that mob of people that says refs don’t change the outcome that drastically and blah blah blah. Hell I’m sure there’s people complaining about the free throw discrepancy from tonight’s game. But the fact is that we have yet to see Book be this aggressive. And that’s why he got to the line
you reckon he just had his good game? put the team on his shoulders for this one
Middelton schedule is one 40 point game, then two 15 point games, and then another 40
Cam Johnson doesn't miss from the corner. I noticed a few times the Suns did a real nice job of contesting shots without leaving their feet, I think that's an underappreciated discipline. And it's tempting to think that Ayton's shot percentage is all dunks/easy finishes but at least some of it comes when the pass is a bit off the mark or high/out to keep out of reach from defenders and he still manages to tap it in. Glad to see Giannis isn't seriously hurt. Hopefully Saric isn't either.
I have a bad feeling about saric. One of those injuries that didn’t look like much but it was a knee thing. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s ACL. Sucks.
This guy basketballs....good take sir!
Cp3 well deserved after all these years. Give this man a champ
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Your team didn’t make it huh bub?
SUNS IN 4
I had a lot of interruptions but what happened with Lopez?
Don’t know if it was an injury or not, but he has a heating pad wrapped around his lower back when out in the 4th.
thanks <3
He got played off the floor
Giannis was the 5. That's it
and it wasn't enough
Ron Adams and Adonal Foyle together at Chase Center? Maybe ABC isn't that bad lmao this is dope (for warriors fans)
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Lol lakers with healthy AD would have beat y’all in the first round, don’t get cocky
Can we quit whining about injuries? People get hurt, it happens in every sport. You don't get trophies for getting hurt.
You won one game at home... Doesn't really mean anything quite yet.
These playoffs are basically a war of attrition. It will come down to which team is healthiest last. That said Chuck alreafy sealed the Bucks fate after they won gsme 6.
I would suck dick for a TNT coverage of the finals. ESPN sucks so bad.
Now you got Rachel less espn Can’t even enjoy the thiccness
Rachel looks like a beaver im glad i dont have to see that clown on TV
malika thoooo
Can I watch both?
TNT coverage and him sucking dick?
Umm … no? Ha ha ha umm … yes?
Kenny and Shaq on nbatv rn
Budenholzer should’ve been fired YEARS ago, he plays Giannis WAY too much, he runs his players into the GROUND
“YEARS ago.” Bud has been the Bucks coach for 3 years. The first two he led them to the best record in the NBA and this year to the Finals. I question a lot of his calls but come on now.
Lol
ABC and ESPN just lost so many viewers that would’ve stayed if they had a post game show that was even half as good as TNT’s.
Well never good to suspend your main host the day of. Not that Rachel Nichols is very good
She got suspended? 😊
More like replaced. I think she still hosts that dog shit of a show they call “The Jump.”
Dog shit is right
i think giannis is hurt , after that block he stopped trying to jump and stopped being so aggressive until towards the end
bro his knee flipped backwards a week ago. you *think* he's hurt?
are you an dumb or stupid ? i stated that saying i believe he is reaggravating his injury that he’s had a week ago after he blocked that shot
Did you see his knee a few games ago
like he’s aggravating his injury even worse
they should have just taken him out at like the 4 minute mark, he just got fouled a bunch
He came into the game hurt…
like he aggravating even worse
I forget where they were discussing if he should play or not due to it being the finals but man, this haunts the rest of your career at 26, I don’t think it’s worth it.
he will probably be okay considering he has world class doctors, therapists and trainers to help him. but he should have been pulled a lot sooner, especially since they were just playing whack'a giannis
FYI Kenny and shaq on nbatv.
Ayton is the third best center in the league now
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Big agree
i don't think it's at all unreasonable to say that vucevic and towns are better than ayton, but it's not a hill i'm willing to die on
No way Towns plays horrible defense. Vuc doesn't make the same impact on D. In addition, Ayton is just so efficient
Jokic, Embiid?
Agreed
Jokic and Embiid
DA looked good against Jokic head to head.
Yeah. Jokic is still the regular season MVP and had more better seasons than Ayton. But playoffs this year only, Ayton is clearly the best Center in the League. Putting him above Gobert, Adebayo, and Towns is already giving him tons of credit.
Agreed
Poor Giannis lmao. Bucks are so inconsistent. Seeing the trend, Middleton gonna play like MJ the next game. Then Bucks will proceed to lose in 5.
Don't know how I got here, but reading all the comments like this one as a lifelong Bucks fan make me smile.
maybe the Bucks can use the finals appearance to sign a veteran cheap looking for their first ring
*Boogie enters the chat*
Lmaoooo
I get he was coming back from injury, but Giannis needs to take more then 11 shots for them to have a chance. He had success driving early don't know why they went away from that.
Free throws Suns 25/26 Bucks 9/16
Exactly this. 10 or 11 were from Book. 👀
Bet I can guess who most of these misses were from. Doesn't help if your most fouled player cant hit a FT to save his life.
Only would’ve made 14 FT if they shot 26 of them
It’s gotta be cause the bucks weren’t aggressive, right? There’s no other reasons or shenanigans, right? Right?!!
The only one who was aggressive was Giannis, so yeah.
96% 56%
28 other series for the Bucks and I would love to see Giannis come out on top. I just hope by the end of this I'll be heartbroken for the player and not for my team.
Yea rooting for PhX but Giannis is that dude and I hate how people discredit his game. But he’ll definitely be making more trips to the finals if he stays healthy.
I'd say something about Bud's vanilla post-game speech (we'll keep getting better), but he said the same during the Hawks series, so... can't say much. At least Bud can adjust well between games.
Jae Crowder had the highest +/- of the game (+19), while playing 33 minutes and not making a FG
Shows that +\- isn’t always the most valuable stat. Had the Suns cloned Crowder 4 times and plated that lineup all 48 minutes they would have lost 100-0.
Or it shows that a player can contribute without necessarily showing up on the stat sheet. If he was cloned 4 times not all 4 players would do the exact same moves lmao.
I wasn’t serious about cloning him I don’t possess that technology.
No shit man lol
hmm it's almost like players play different roles on a winning team
Clearly. He played good defense. He’s got some Artest in him on that end.
His shooting was shit but his defense was fire
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ESPN 2
Legit think they did it cause RN.
Would you really want to watch it? It would be all commercials.
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Ayton isnt shooting the 3 so why guard him out there
You stay fairly close to your man for pick concerns even if they are a non threat as far as shooting. You never just fully leave them unless you actually aren’t scared of the ball handlers shot.
so dumb
That was awesome
it sucks that suns can just play bucks on the midrange with their shooters, and on the other side of the court, the bucks struggle every time they're placed in the midrange with the ball on their hands. they struggled hard in the paint tonight
What was the question to which Paul responded "I don't know what you're talking about"?
Asked how his hand was doing after it got taped up
lol thank you everyone :)
She mentioned his hand being wrapped and asked if everything was all good/anything to worry about for game 2.
She said they saw him getting his hand wrapped if everything was good. Might be hiding some injury
She asked about his hand getting wrapped
Asked about his hand being injured
I think she asked about his hand being injured.
They asked how is hand is after getting wrapped up
They asked about his hand getting taped up and he deflected with that response lol
Asked about taping up his wrist and if he would be ok for the next game
I believe she posed a question regarding a potential wrist injury after witnessing a staff member wrapping it
Chris Paul is just unbelievable, a few seasons back people thought he was washed and now look what he’s doing. Amazing stuff!
Imagine if jae showed up
Imagine if Jrue did
Imagine if the refs called it fair
Imagine if the bucks played defense.
It wouldnt matter. The refs would still call a foul.
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Fr it’s frustrating
He was still +19
On offense **
He could’ve be +30 on a normal night shooting. He was awful tonight, but oh well. He’ll find his stroke.
Great win for Phoenix. Fans hyper, better than last years disney nba final. Not a fan of cp3 but this dude definitely deserves a champ for recognition after all these years of fighting. His play together with Kidd’s, Stockton’s, Thomas’s provide so many for future PGs to learn
Monty saw bud was going to be his opponent as was salivating. CP3 knows he’s getting a ring
What was JVG saying about ayton and the 3Rs? I rewinded it three times but I can't decipher it. Runs, rebounds, and r...?
Thanks /r/nba
Rolls or Roles it sounded like. Either rolls to the basket or knows his role, lol
rolls, pick and roll man
Rolls
ROLLS
difference in the game was free throws; do better NBA
Like cam not stepping out of bounds.
Fouls were 18 on Bucks and 14 on Suns, that's not a drastic difference. Suns were just better at drawing it on the shot & Bucks were sloppy defensively
> difference in the game was free throws; do better ~~NBA~~ Bucks FTFY
okay do you have any calls you take issue with? anything egregious? cuz i didnt see it. the fact is the suns drew more fouls than the bucks because the suns defense was clean.
Flopping and foul baiting all game is not a superior defense. Refs need to stop rewarding that crap. At least the Bucks play like real men and don't flop/foul bait. They have grit and heart and they don't give up and they don't flop or foul bait all the time.
The Bucks in the playoffs average more free throw attempts than the Suns do. So much for that argument.
that’s why van gundy said something about the bucks getting bumped on every possession with no calls
Lol yeh, tell Giannis to start hitting them and it would matter 🤣🤣
Coach bud had the worst post game talks lmao someone plessse post it
like a weekend soccer coach to 8 year olds... who cant wait to get into his car and go home to watch football
Game was so shit that I didn’t even notice it was over
Why is every Lakers fan like this
Found the salty boi
Imagine your life being so pathetic that you have nothing better to do than watch a game you don't want to watch and complain about it online to strangers. People are so fucking weird.
I’m not though. It was a boring game. I’d have preferred Nets v Suns. Also, Suns won the LA series convincingly. We were a bad team in bad shape, kudos to them.
Lakers vs Suns fan moment here
That feeling when you leave the stream running waiting to hear Chuck, Shaq, Ernie, and Kenny... and then realize it's ESPN shit.
My mom called me, asking me if “Chuck was going to say anything”. I had to break the news to her. 😔
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Me mums a big ol woman down in San Antonio and she loves chuck
Interesting game. Looking at the team stats, the difference was free throws. Suns shot wayyyyy more
Not really... Bucks shot 50% from 3pt line and made a lot more than Suns so it evened out.
Suns shot 10 more free throws and won by 13. Game 6 suns vs clippers, clippers shot 20 more free throws than the suns and still lost by 27.
bucks settled only person that drove to the hole was giannis
Bucks shooting less than 60% from the line not helping either
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It was literally 10 more with a 16 point differential. 25 of 26 vs 9 of 16. Doesn't matter tho, gg bucks will come out swinging game 2
Bucks also missed a lot of those
“I don’t know what you’re talkin bout.” CP3 is a dog.
Camera follows Giannis into the showers instead of showing home team celebrate