2020 End of Season / Playoffs

[MixxAOR]

Hayward expected to be out for four weeks. Major news

damn

[Jclaw]

It won’t last but bucks already had to call a timeout being down to the Magic. And they haven’t seen Augustin yet!

[TrueTorontoFan]

path to the finals just got better and hayward will be out for our series.

[Kagemusha]

Mavs were up 5 when he left and were outscored by 13 rest of the way and their offense almost completely collapsed (3-19 from 3PT range). Absolutely the bad start hurt them but they were winning and then a huge in-game event occurred and they got run over.

Doncic gets all the credit and he is awesome but Porzingis is incredibly important for Dallas. Losing him at at that time mattered far more than any other statistic.

Agree.
Losing KP at that point in the game is massive.
It's a big loss for them on both ends.

[The Great One]

Here's a good one.

• Jalen says the Raptors won't beat the Bucks because they don't have a Superstar. Jacoby agrees.
• Jacoby says the Heat will beat the Bucks because they can shoot threes and have "superstar" Jimmy Butler. Jalen Rose does not disagree.

Superstar? lmao. It's hilarious how these people overrate Jimmy Butler. He's an all star just like Lowry and Siakam.

[golden]

Superstar? lmao. It's hilarious how these people overrate Jimmy Butler. He's an all star just like Lowry and Siakam.

Nah. Butler is way more efficient than Siakam. Way more. He has less usage (25.1 vs. 28.1), but all the advanced stats point to Butler playing at a superstar level this year. He's a 2-way player and a legit closer.

[planetmars]

Wonder when Bucks fans will start clenching their ass holes?

[Ebonhawke]

Wonder when Bucks fans will start clenching their ass holes?

Recall that Orlando won their first game of the playoffs last year as well - how'd that turn out for the team that was playing them?

[Demographic Shift]

Wonder when Bucks fans will start clenching their ass holes?

It is early.

But with a 3 and 5 seeding run and one of those wins a heroic comeback effort you just said ok.. nobody get hurt.
Now they are down at the half of the first game by double digits. Its not like the Magic are doing anything different than they usually do either. And the level of emotion from the Bucks is .. shall we say.. tepid.

Its still early.
Till its not.

[007]

Bucks sucking in Game 1 vs Orlando? Couldn’t be us

[The Great One]

Nah. Butler is way more efficient than Siakam. Way more. He has less usage (25.1 vs. 28.1), but all the advanced stats point to Butler playing at a superstar level this year. He's a 2-way player and a legit closer.

There are ONLY 5-6 superstars in this league. I don't care what the advanced stats say, are you telling me Butler is in the same level as Kawhi, LeBron, Durant, Giannis? There's levels to this. Butler's a good player but he's no superstar he's an all star.

[Kagemusha]

Wonder when Bucks fans will start clenching their ass holes?

A healthy KD is still 》 Giannis
... but I still want him to the Raps

[chris]

Recall that Orlando won their first game of the playoffs last year as well - how'd that turn out for the team that was playing them?

it's less the result of this specific game and more about the fact that they have looked like a completely different team in the re-start from the one that played earlier in the season.

and the implications a disappointing showing could have on their future with the most coveted free agent since lebron in 2010 potentially looming.

[DanH]

Nah. Butler is way more efficient than Siakam. Way more. He has less usage (25.1 vs. 28.1), but all the advanced stats point to Butler playing at a superstar level this year. He's a 2-way player and a legit closer.

Sure, but a lot of the advanced stats say the same about Siakam or Lowry. Like, PIPM has Butler 16th (+3.5) and Pascal 22nd (+3.2). Lowry is not far behind Butler in win shares (9 vs 7.5). Actually, a composite of the advanced impact stats (PIPM, RPM, BPM, RAPTOR) - even though I don't like smashing stuff together like that - ranks Butler 13th vs Lowry's 18th (Pascal is down at 36 in the second star region).

Butler is indeed incredibly efficient for his decent usage. Similar to Lowry. But he's not transcendental in terms of production or impact like the players you usually mean when you talk superstar.

[A.I]

Would be nice to see the Magic win and Bucks get closer and closer to falling apart.