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Apparently not at least in Middleton’s case. He’s algae a couple of amazing quarters but MIA much of the time.
It's not like Milwaukee isn't going to get some good ol' fashion NBA home cookin and win the next two, everything's fine.
Felt like they got road cooking tonight.
I would have loved to see a healthy Suns team against a healthy Hawks team. Trae vs CP3, Booker against Reddish/deandre hunter, Capella vs Ayton, Collins vs crowder or bridges, and you’d still have guys like bogdanovic, Lou Williams, Cameron Payne and others. I think Milwaukee will win a game or 2 so they aren’t dead yet.
The Bucks did get some major road cooking tonight. The free throw disparity was huge until the end of the game when the Bucks were purposely taking fouls. There was a period where Giannis was getting gifted the benefit of some very questionable foul calls.
The lack of effort is what kills me. I can handle a bad shooting night. It happens. But giving them all those second-chance points because you were too lazy to box out and/or chase down a loose ball? Man…hard for me to understand given what’s on the line.
I didn’t see much of anything that was questionable tonight. Every time Giannis got the ball in the paint they were basically bear-hugging the guy.
Within a 5 minute span—he stepped on Bridges foot—and somehow Bridges got called for a foul, and he ran into a stationary Ayton and got the benefit of a block call versus a charge. The only reason the Suns didn’t challenge is because neither guy was in foul trouble and Giannis isn’t a great free throw shooter.
2 more wins and I buy a ChamPayne jersey. 
Let's be fair to everyone else. Modogg hit the quota for complaining about refs by himself... In week 2... Of the preseason.
I caught that to. I feel about as bad for an opposing team as I can. I don't know much about the Bucks but they seem to have a major issue with coaching. I am not sure how they made it this far. I am guessing they never would have gotten past a healthy Brooklyn team.
Part of the agreement with the nba and the networks. Coaches know they are there and that kind if access is very much paid for.
Sounds about right. Dude should be fired regardless of who wins this series. He's a dunce.
Maybe if they get swept and have a couple of embarrassing losses at home, but highly unlikely.
They've only showed the last few seconds from the locker room talks. He's not going to say anything important or meaningful when the cameras are live.
I thought that was a perfect answer. The in-game on-court interviews are a charade, and any self-respecting coach should treat them with total, open disdain. In the end, the Suns were 20-40 on 3s and the Bucks were 9-31, a 33 point disparity, so he kind of hit the nail on the head. The only better response would have been if he'd added, "... and we start making some shots."
He was a senior when I was a freshman at Seton Hall - had a pretty decent and log career in the NBA as a bench player.
Yeah, pretty sure every coach in the league has given the same canned answer in the quarter break. A lot of whining about Bud and the refs. The Bucks are just getting exposed as a poorly built team.
The suns have definitely played better.
In Budenholzer's three seasons, they finished 1st, 1st, 3rd in the conference and are now playing in an NBA finals. I don't pretend to understand NBA coaching, so I can only judge based on results. I see a ton of media people and online professional basketball coaching experts explaining how dumb coach Bud is, but I'm not sure how much more they can expect. I don't think any of his Bucks teams were so dominant they should have won the NBA but for poor coaching. Losing to Toronto in the ECF his first season was disappointing, but they went on to beat the Warriors in the finals in 6 games and Bud won the NBA Coach of the year award. Last season was tough losing to the Heat in the bubble, but they also beat the Celtics and played in the finals that year. This season the Bucks have had a bit of luck in the playoffs with injuries to their opponents, but they've won some impressive series and I would say the coach has gotten about everything out of this team that they have in them.
Yup, just like women in Yoga Pants. Many try, most fail to properly pull it off. Even threads about it don't work.
How does one explain this other than 1) lack of practice/preparation or 2) it's mental?
I think it's mostly mental. He was a pretty average FT shooter a few years ago and then he had some bad misses in the 2019 conference finals as Milwaukee lost a 2-0 lead. His FT% dropped 10 points the following season.
