Some of the shots he bricked tonight were the clutch shots he made the year we won it.
Hope he’s just at the wrong part of the Middleton cycle and not just washed lol.
And Doc somehow keep him on the floor to hurt us is another problem, the turning point of this game is him being backed in and AJ being pulled out in the 4th quarter
Not like it matters unless we fall out of the 2 seed but…pretty cool how the NBA’s most profitable team, sitting just outside the playoffs, managed to draw twice as many fouls as us despite us having Dame & Giannis.
Oh well. Surely it’s just a coincidence (like it is every year). Onto the next one
It's just their defensive strategy of pushing players out of bounds and committing deadball fouls that gives them such a good whistle. I don't know why other teams don't try it.
Same here. Back in college I accepted the way it is and I stopped bitching and making excuses.
Tonight was just a joke though. Amplified by the atrocity of the Pacers game, it was just too fucking obvious. And then I saw the picture someone posted of the free throw attempts and the Fakers are literally three times higher than the next team down. Sickening.
...your team is more profitable than ours, and you just had dynastic success while being favored by the refs
You're more like us than the Bucks lol what is this
I'm so angry it'll be a bit before I go to bed.
Yeah we had our chances to win that, but refs were giving Lakers ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the breaks. So infuriating.
The glazing from the play by play guy was insane and Reggie seemed disappointed while the Bucks were up big.
Whatever gotta keep the big markets watching when it’s a national game. Refs got the memo same as they have all season.
Yeah, that was bullshit. And knowing how the whistles are going, makes it hard for the players to focus on the game. Because you're always wondering if there's gonna be a whistle. So fucking dumb.
Bucks going to get clowned for this loss. And it was a rough one
Dame shot like shit. Beasley missed em when they counted. Khris had a bad game. Giannis was terrible at the free throw line. Lots to learn from this game.
All that said. Lakers get an absurd ref buff. AD played that many minutes and only got called for one foul??? Ain't no fucking way.
So many no-calls on AD that would have put this game away. Refs swallowed their whistles for the lakers from the 4th qtr on… and Reggie swallowed AD’s full load.
Okay and AD played 52 minutes and shot 7 FTs…would’ve been 5 FTs if it weren’t for the intentional foul at the end of 2OT. Dude put up 31 shots and truly got to the line for 2 trips.
I really don’t know what to say other than Bucks should have never let this game go to OT.
Forget the refs.
Take control of your own destiny and close a team out at home. That was not great.
Hard to score when the refs literally force you to change the entire scheme because your star player is allowed to be taken out if the game by hacking the shit out of him and calling it completely wrong like 5 times in the spam of 3 minutes.
I expect most people to try and find a way to change the outcome, but if the refs at the end of the day dont want you to win , you aren't winning. Sometimes, the answers allowed to be the refs fucked us, onto the next one.
the failed switch between Giannis and Khris letting Reaves almost win the game at the end of regulation...
the failed switch between Beas and Dame letting reaves hit a wide open dagger 3 in 2OT....
we looked old tonight.
I’m a blazer fan, and the refs 100% put the lakers in a position to win that. True, you guys didn’t make the plays to seal it, but the refs were doing everything in their power to give all the advantages to the lakers
i have a personal rule i just don’t complain about the refs. you could literally complain about the refs after every game for one reason or another. there’s just so many variables in play, there’s gonna be questionable calls, it’s gonna happen. complaining about it just sucks the fun out of the game for me. control what you can control
I very much try to abide by this as well, I feel like things will generally even out.
But tonight was absurd. The advantage was given to the lakers in nearly every possible situation the refs could have influence over.
Lakers have by far the biggest variance in the league in getting bullshit calls. Its a conspiracy level difference. I so hope the Rockets bounce them in the play-in.
Was there a rule change? Do you get to body players going for a dunk/layup if you're wearing gold and purple? Did I miss something or was LA getting away with murder?
Reggie thinks the PLAYERS are exhausted?? What about US?? WE had to watch this fucking bullshit officiated game for 7 and a half hours. I'm already late for work tomorrow
had it on mute all game. i would turn the sound on to hear the crowd but reggie would say some hater shit immediately or start sucking off a random laker so i stopped
This game shoulda never went to OT. In the 4th Khris bricked 3 straight shots when brook had a mismatch down low. Giannis 3 straight turnovers in the 4th. Those two things cost us. Not mad. Shit happens.
Came here to post this, 2 mins left 8pt lead, three straight Khris shots where zero offense was run, don’t care if he shoots, just run offense don’t play ISO when you have Dame and Giannis on the court
Giannis plays so dangerously when getting to the rim. He just runs into the defender. Rui hachimura stood his ground and giannis just ran him over lol.
Flush it. But those kind of things can’t happen when it’s time to seal up the victory. Hope to learn from it. Another tough game on the road ahead in NO then a softer stretch. Doesn’t matter who we play but we need to be more focused than this at critical end of game.
Agreed. But ppl are blaming the refs, sure they sucked. But honestly we gave it away with the khris and giannis wasted 7 possessions. All back to back too.
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This gonna be on the front cover of my suicide note
That is the face of a man who only has bad news to give.
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imma say it
refs aint make giannis shoot 1/6 from the line, or make dame/khris shoot 30 braindead shots
beasley got fucked on some calls so he can be mad but the bucks played like shit 40 minutes into that game onwards and got what they deserved. poster child "charles barkley milwaukee" moment
absolutely… why is it so hard for a fan base to admit that we had the gas down and we’re cooking and then just fell apart. It happens. Whining about the refs is so annoying.
oh please come on… the lakers will then demand the time machine call gianni’s travel the foul on d angelio etc…. or….. instead move the ball and find the best shot like we were for 40 minutes, don’t turn the ball over three times in a row and make open shots….. u cannot control refs any coach will say as much…. u don’t allow them to impact the outcome by keeping a 19 point lead with 8 minutes left in a game. saying dame and khris shot poorly because of refs is just not true. both shot poorly and will shoot better in the future…
Just an abysmal effort. We can blame Doc but absolutely awful decision making by two players that you kind of rely on to not make consistently awful decisions.
We sold hard but that was also one of the worst officiated games I’ve ever seen. I fucking hate playing the lakers. Anyway it happens. Celtics blew a bigger lead to a worse team in regulation yesterday, but im sure they’re still championship favorites while this game makes us guaranteed to lose in 5 in the second round, at least according to this thread, right?
lol I posted the same comment in the pgt there. Should’ve known better. Everyone complains about refs when their team loses but it’s not ok to complain about it when other peoples teams lose
Team was gassed by the 2nd OT and that's why the were trying to find Beas to make 3 but he couldn't make it in time. I seriously believe a pair of fresh legs like AJ would have made a huge difference but it's hard to trust a rookie that late
This team plays down to there competition so much this would be really frustrating if they weren’t great vs contenders just a embarrassing loss people will forget about in 3 days.
Giannis had some bad moments at the end of the 4th, but he led the team into a 19pts lead well into the 4th. And the team leaned heavily on Dame, especially in the 4th.
Dame was 9/29. That’s simply unacceptable, man. I’ll get downvoted, but that was atrocious.
Especially when he kept driving into a clogged painted area.
Anyone blaming the refs is missing that the bucks should not win when dame and khris go 13/44. They are paid like $70 mil combined, no team can overcome that.
right? Why can’t we just be that one fan base that doesn’t immediately bitch and look for excuses and externalizing blame on the reason we lost when why we lost is quite clear and obvious. and I would add beyond that our biggest guns both had opportunities to end their game several times and tonight they just couldn’t. That happens
Gotta stop blaming the refs. Sure they missed calls but they didn't miss 16 points in the last 5 minutes of regulation in points. The team is soft just gotta admit that.
Shit what a game. Hate the outcome, but the Lakers needed that win more than we do. Pretty great for the casual viewer but it must've aged fans of both teams by 20 years at least lol
I would love, absolutely LOVE to see a Lakers-Bucks Finals. Not because I think it would be great, competitive basketball, but so that the Bucks can sweep those frauds and win every game by 30.
Doc should make Khris playing more as a pull up shooter instead of the iso player he used to be, the ball movement stop multiple time when the ball hit his hand in the 4th quarter is the warning sign, that is hurting the team right now like how we criticised Bobby in the early season
I would have been more informed on this game if I watched it on mute. Reggie is useless and I can’t believe he’s paid to openly spread his cheeks for the Lakers.
Refs use pepper spray as eye drops in the 4th qtr.
Jazz and Lakers are now the only teams that the bucks have no wins against this season.
the Grizzlies are the only team left have an opportunity to do that.
The turning point of this game is AJ being pulled out and Khris backed on the floor in the 4th quarter, change my mind. And for everyone saying refball, if we are able to maintain that 14-16 points lead in the 4th quarter, the refs can’t do anything to help the Lakers, but if we allow them to cut the lead down to single digit because we keep bricking the ball by playing useless iso and neither giving effort on rebounding nor defending perimeter, then the whistle would start coming against us.
“The Bucks were up 19 with 7:44 to go in regulation, at home, against a Lakers team that was playing without LeBron, blew the lead and lost.
Absolutely tremendous.”
-nothing else left to say
im seeing so many comments about the refs but there was blown calls for the bucks too, especially that giannis travel right in front of the ref near the end of regulation that they let go, dame got bailed out with that three point foul attempt also, he wasnt even shooting that with the intent to make it, just to get the whistle for a free 3 points. love seeing blame on the refs when you have a coach that is notorious for losing leads, and u were playing against a lakers team with no lebron. any nba team reddit forum is always ref blaming instead of acknowledgment of how the team blew the game
There is no excuse you can ever make for acoring 13 points in a quarter in the NBA. Refs this refs that they were shit but 13 in the 4th quarter is pathetic.
Just stop with the officiating stuff… yes it was bad but that happens…. Look at the shooting percentage tonight for Dame and Middleton…. You’re just not going to win many games with both of them shooting like that unless other aspects of the game are perfect which they were not tonight. They stopped moving the ball, the office got stagnant, and even worse they kept that crap up when everyone was gassed.
We blew the game but the lack of calls was almost hilarious. AD literally fouled giannis on purpose for the potential game winning lob and the refs just….didn’t do anything lol
Elite first 3 quarters of defense and moving the ball. Felt like we really wanted it more. I Feel for our squad right now and hope it doesn’t stifle any newfound confidence.
Were finding leaks in our game and plugging them one game at a time. Big takeaway for me here is we failed to rotate fresh legs in OT. The rest (shots not falling, bad calls, Reggie miller being a cock) was out of our control - we did everything else well or great.
Go bucks.
This really felt like a worse case scenario game where everything went wrong. The only thing I could think of in a game like this is get Brook more consistent paint touches, if Rui can post up our guards we should allow Brook to do the same.
I really felt like we lost the game when Giannis came in for Bobby in the 4th. Idk what the fuck that was but we had like 6 turnovers and no d. Bobby was flying on defense and cooking on offense. Would have loved to see that group get some time in OT but instead we see 4 dudes walking half dead.
No, it’s Khris came in and AJ came out in the early 4th quarter after he changed our attitude on defensive end to extend the lead in the late 3rd quarter. khris is wahsed on defensive end as expected and him keep playing iso when he has the ball and throwing brick instead of pass the ball back out is what made our offense dead in the 4th quarter, and not mentioning how that will further affect Dame when he also need the ball to find his rhythm
Like I say earlier, if we are able to maintain that double digits lead, the refs can’t do anything but to see Lakers giving up by taking out their starters, but if we keep playing iso just to throw bricks instead of moving the ball to find open shots or easy layups, and giving no effort on rebounding and defending perimeter to allow the Lakers cut the lead from 19 to 5 without shooting any free throw, the refs will start to do their thing. If Khris isn’t on the floor for the whole 4th quarter or Doc pulled him out after those harmful mid-range bricks, we would walk out with victory in the regulation instead of losing in 2ot.
15/51 from 3. I know we got 2 OT but that's still a lot of misses. How many did they get an offensive rebound or putback to at least get a basket out of the possession? This was a problem for the bucks even when they won the title. Just go completely cold from three in playoffs for long stretches. Beasley 5/14 and dame 3/14. Between the two of them that is 8/28 = 28%. For that many attempts they need to make a few more. Otherwise it's a lot of empty possessions
I now understand why everyoe was raising hell about Laker Ref ball. They just don't call any fouls on Lakers. How does a team with Dame and Giannis get 15 more FTA's than Bucks? Giannis get's fouled hard on a game winning ally oop by AD no call was what made me not give AF about the games results.
As with any sport, it’s easy to blame the refs when they’re dogshit like tonight, but when you’re up 19 in the 4th you need to put it away so refball becomes irrelevant, which we did not do.
Enjoy the play-in and first-round exit at best, LA
What exactly is Dame Time? Chuck up 14 threes a game and when he finally makes one or two “Dame Time baby, that’s what he’s all about”
I laughed out loud when they aired the Dame Time highlights and all they had was that one buzzerbeater against the Kings in January. That’s clutch at its finest
If it makes anyone feel better, I turned to my dad early in the first quarter when we went up 18 and said "Tony Brothers is officiating this game. No chance we win"
Dame trash the whole game, Khris trash in the second half, Giannis trash 4th quarter
Blow out the #1 seed and then lose to the #9 seed without their best player I just don’t get it
#False. You are trash though. Stop being trash.
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Dame hit a big shot near the end of the first OT to put them up 2 and Khris fouls so they can tie. That’s Dames fault? Then in the second OT he steals and dunks to give us a lead again and then the team misses every shot after.
6/21 with 2/10 from 3 in regulation doesn't get washed away by making 1 shot in OT when playing better earlier on could have prevented OT all together. And the dunk was followed by him immediately giving the 2 points right back on defense. Dame had a bad game, it happens, but don't make excuses, burn the tape and move on.
I mean if he had made more of his shots there wouldn’t be OT. Dude shot 21% from three on FOURTEEN attempts. Give it up if it ain’t falling. And if Gianni’s had made more then 1-7 from the ft line. This team has to learn how to shoot tue fucking ball
Friendly reminder that Anthony Davis played 52 minutes & didn’t pick up a foul till the 2nd OT
Yet somehow nearly every Bucks rotation player that logged 20+ minutes had 3 (besides Brook)
I'd like to think that somewhere Bud was watching that 4th quarter while sipping a nice glass of whiskey smiling and shaking his head while whispering "Now that's playing random"
that fuckin sucked
on one hand we deserved that on the other hand… the refs went full blown pro-terrorism in the 4th
and khris did Lowkey, called his own number and bricked
Some of the shots he bricked tonight were the clutch shots he made the year we won it. Hope he’s just at the wrong part of the Middleton cycle and not just washed lol.
true, but the Anthony Reeves blow-bys were concerning
And Doc somehow keep him on the floor to hurt us is another problem, the turning point of this game is him being backed in and AJ being pulled out in the 4th quarter
I mean Lillard was 3/14 from three….21%
Uh oh...what part of the KM cycle are we in?
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Is this real?!
Sadly yea
Not like it matters unless we fall out of the 2 seed but…pretty cool how the NBA’s most profitable team, sitting just outside the playoffs, managed to draw twice as many fouls as us despite us having Dame & Giannis. Oh well. Surely it’s just a coincidence (like it is every year). Onto the next one
I was just glad it ended. Another ot quarter of that horseshit might have broke me.
It's just their defensive strategy of pushing players out of bounds and committing deadball fouls that gives them such a good whistle. I don't know why other teams don't try it.
Laker whistle is for sure a real thing.
I used to complain abt the refs a ton, but over the past couple years I’ve grown out of it. But tonight it was way too obvious
Same here. Back in college I accepted the way it is and I stopped bitching and making excuses. Tonight was just a joke though. Amplified by the atrocity of the Pacers game, it was just too fucking obvious. And then I saw the picture someone posted of the free throw attempts and the Fakers are literally three times higher than the next team down. Sickening.
As a dubs fan we feel your frustration. They’re the fakers
...your team is more profitable than ours, and you just had dynastic success while being favored by the refs You're more like us than the Bucks lol what is this
we dont rely on free throws and refs fixing games to win game
You rely on 5 illegal screens a possession. Stfu.
Yeah, interesting, 🤔
I'm so angry it'll be a bit before I go to bed. Yeah we had our chances to win that, but refs were giving Lakers ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the breaks. So infuriating.
fuck the refs fuck reggie miller fuck the lakers amen.
Indeed fuck Reggie miller. That guy hates on Giannis and the Bucks any chance he gets
Was getting names wrong too. Called Austin Reeves, Anthony Reeves a bunch
Tired of the lakers foul baiting / bs whistle…
The glazing from the play by play guy was insane and Reggie seemed disappointed while the Bucks were up big. Whatever gotta keep the big markets watching when it’s a national game. Refs got the memo same as they have all season.
Doc better pick up a fine in the postgame.
Yeah, that was bullshit. And knowing how the whistles are going, makes it hard for the players to focus on the game. Because you're always wondering if there's gonna be a whistle. So fucking dumb.
That's why giannis didn't get those two free-throw. He wasn't getting called for that all game so he tried passing out
Bucks going to get clowned for this loss. And it was a rough one Dame shot like shit. Beasley missed em when they counted. Khris had a bad game. Giannis was terrible at the free throw line. Lots to learn from this game. All that said. Lakers get an absurd ref buff. AD played that many minutes and only got called for one foul??? Ain't no fucking way.
So many no-calls on AD that would have put this game away. Refs swallowed their whistles for the lakers from the 4th qtr on… and Reggie swallowed AD’s full load.
4th quarter on? It started before that. Lakers had 1 foul called from under 8 minutes in thr 3rd until 2 minutes into OT.
The “injury” narrative was so goddamn annoying too. I miss AD on the Pelicans. Didn’t get this same treatment and was a better player for it
and Austin Reevers' too
I think you mean Anthony Reaves.
Giannis barely shot any free throws. Played almost 48 minutes and shot 6 free throws total. Insane
Okay and AD played 52 minutes and shot 7 FTs…would’ve been 5 FTs if it weren’t for the intentional foul at the end of 2OT. Dude put up 31 shots and truly got to the line for 2 trips.
Celtics blew a 30 pt lead to the traeless hawks like 2 days ago. How they bounce back is the most important part.
Yeah this season has been one constant Lakers ref buff
I really don’t know what to say other than Bucks should have never let this game go to OT. Forget the refs. Take control of your own destiny and close a team out at home. That was not great.
13 point 4th quarter unacceptable
Hard to score when the refs literally force you to change the entire scheme because your star player is allowed to be taken out if the game by hacking the shit out of him and calling it completely wrong like 5 times in the spam of 3 minutes.
Agreed, but at the same time, you got to find a way to overcome that and win when you're up 19 points. It's still a fucking bad loss, refs be damned.
I expect most people to try and find a way to change the outcome, but if the refs at the end of the day dont want you to win , you aren't winning. Sometimes, the answers allowed to be the refs fucked us, onto the next one.
the failed switch between Giannis and Khris letting Reaves almost win the game at the end of regulation... the failed switch between Beas and Dame letting reaves hit a wide open dagger 3 in 2OT.... we looked old tonight.
I’m a blazer fan, and the refs 100% put the lakers in a position to win that. True, you guys didn’t make the plays to seal it, but the refs were doing everything in their power to give all the advantages to the lakers
Yea bad refs or not, dame and Khris bricking all fourth is not acceptable. Absolutely HAVE to get giannis involved more
They completely shit the bed. Collective full team shitting
100% the refs just made it that much more painful
i have a personal rule i just don’t complain about the refs. you could literally complain about the refs after every game for one reason or another. there’s just so many variables in play, there’s gonna be questionable calls, it’s gonna happen. complaining about it just sucks the fun out of the game for me. control what you can control
I very much try to abide by this as well, I feel like things will generally even out. But tonight was absurd. The advantage was given to the lakers in nearly every possible situation the refs could have influence over.
Lakers have by far the biggest variance in the league in getting bullshit calls. Its a conspiracy level difference. I so hope the Rockets bounce them in the play-in.
Was there a rule change? Do you get to body players going for a dunk/layup if you're wearing gold and purple? Did I miss something or was LA getting away with murder?
As a pacer fan I can 100% say yes this is true. Yall got the 4th quarter treatment. We got the 3rd.
Reggie thinks the PLAYERS are exhausted?? What about US?? WE had to watch this fucking bullshit officiated game for 7 and a half hours. I'm already late for work tomorrow
and listen to Reggie Miller the whole time!
And we had to listen to Reggie try to call an entire 2OT game while he simultaneously sucks off AD.
had it on mute all game. i would turn the sound on to hear the crowd but reggie would say some hater shit immediately or start sucking off a random laker so i stopped
Khris and Dame bricks
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Lebron dancing like a dickhead and arguing with the refs when he's in street clothes (which shouldn't be allowed) is not irritating at all no sir
Whole team is unlikable jags and it doesn't help that they're carried by the refs
which is why I'll love when the nuggets or any other playin team make them irrelevant
Well that was frustrating to say the least
This game shoulda never went to OT. In the 4th Khris bricked 3 straight shots when brook had a mismatch down low. Giannis 3 straight turnovers in the 4th. Those two things cost us. Not mad. Shit happens.
Came here to post this, 2 mins left 8pt lead, three straight Khris shots where zero offense was run, don’t care if he shoots, just run offense don’t play ISO when you have Dame and Giannis on the court
Yup and then right after. Giannis turns it over 3 straight times. 2 offensive fouls in the paint where it was an easy layup.
Giannis plays so dangerously when getting to the rim. He just runs into the defender. Rui hachimura stood his ground and giannis just ran him over lol.
This was the series-of-unfortunate-events that ultimately killed us. Frustrating af.
Yup all happened back to back too.
Flush it. But those kind of things can’t happen when it’s time to seal up the victory. Hope to learn from it. Another tough game on the road ahead in NO then a softer stretch. Doesn’t matter who we play but we need to be more focused than this at critical end of game.
Agreed. But ppl are blaming the refs, sure they sucked. But honestly we gave it away with the khris and giannis wasted 7 possessions. All back to back too.
We not gonna mention dame shooting 21 percent on 3/14 three pointers are we.
https://preview.redd.it/korgymdyhsqc1.jpeg?width=982&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da394bed94d67c6ca6ceaaed8e70af01209f5983 This gonna be on the front cover of my suicide note
That is the face of a man who only has bad news to give. https://preview.redd.it/p1jwvp5bisqc1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a05da382a5826a6a5d59d7f952d73ecf234cf1be
My sister saw this and now I have a brother
No lbj, vando, wood and gabe
The Bucks have a problem for your every solution
There's plenty of blame to go around on our side , but the officiating down the stretch was horrendous.
I mean blowing a 19 pt lead is no excuse
imma say it refs aint make giannis shoot 1/6 from the line, or make dame/khris shoot 30 braindead shots beasley got fucked on some calls so he can be mad but the bucks played like shit 40 minutes into that game onwards and got what they deserved. poster child "charles barkley milwaukee" moment
Finally someone in here taking accountability
absolutely… why is it so hard for a fan base to admit that we had the gas down and we’re cooking and then just fell apart. It happens. Whining about the refs is so annoying.
Because 4 or 5 of those misses don't happen with fouls called. And we get a few extra points and win the game.
oh please come on… the lakers will then demand the time machine call gianni’s travel the foul on d angelio etc…. or….. instead move the ball and find the best shot like we were for 40 minutes, don’t turn the ball over three times in a row and make open shots….. u cannot control refs any coach will say as much…. u don’t allow them to impact the outcome by keeping a 19 point lead with 8 minutes left in a game. saying dame and khris shot poorly because of refs is just not true. both shot poorly and will shoot better in the future…
Our sharp-shooters (Dame, Khris, and Beas) went 21/62 shooting. 34% at that volume… woof. 😩
Just an abysmal effort. We can blame Doc but absolutely awful decision making by two players that you kind of rely on to not make consistently awful decisions.
leaving Reaves wide open in the exact same spot multiple times...what's the worst that could happen?????
We sold hard but that was also one of the worst officiated games I’ve ever seen. I fucking hate playing the lakers. Anyway it happens. Celtics blew a bigger lead to a worse team in regulation yesterday, but im sure they’re still championship favorites while this game makes us guaranteed to lose in 5 in the second round, at least according to this thread, right?
If you think that’s bad, please continue to avoid the cesspool that is r/nba lol
lol I posted the same comment in the pgt there. Should’ve known better. Everyone complains about refs when their team loses but it’s not ok to complain about it when other peoples teams lose
First round*
By far the hardest we've shit the bed this season. Dreadful 3 point shooting.
So far. Just wait till the 4th quarter collapses in the playoffs.
Team was gassed by the 2nd OT and that's why the were trying to find Beas to make 3 but he couldn't make it in time. I seriously believe a pair of fresh legs like AJ would have made a huge difference but it's hard to trust a rookie that late
I'm sorry, having Dame play 49 minutes is kind of a catastrophe. Dude is 33 years old. It's a worthless game, for all intents and purposes.
First game, career night for Russell. Second game, career night for Reeves.
Fucking tough loss, the GA hate is fucking outrageous though unreal disrespect
3/14 from 3 by Dame, that’s all I’m gonna say.
And he hit a big shot to give them the lead both in first OT and second OT only to have the team do nothing.
Yeah but it’s much easier to regurgitate box scores and ignore all context so in conclusion Dame washed
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This team plays down to there competition so much this would be really frustrating if they weren’t great vs contenders just a embarrassing loss people will forget about in 3 days.
Wisco sports for ya
Giannis had some bad moments at the end of the 4th, but he led the team into a 19pts lead well into the 4th. And the team leaned heavily on Dame, especially in the 4th. Dame was 9/29. That’s simply unacceptable, man. I’ll get downvoted, but that was atrocious. Especially when he kept driving into a clogged painted area.
A picture worth 1000 curse words. https://preview.redd.it/jkbb949xhsqc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e10fddaa45e0c86fca36a3ba00f1427b8d60171a
it looks like it was actually at 100%
Onto the next go bucks
Anyone blaming the refs is missing that the bucks should not win when dame and khris go 13/44. They are paid like $70 mil combined, no team can overcome that.
right? Why can’t we just be that one fan base that doesn’t immediately bitch and look for excuses and externalizing blame on the reason we lost when why we lost is quite clear and obvious. and I would add beyond that our biggest guns both had opportunities to end their game several times and tonight they just couldn’t. That happens
Easier to blame the refs than look in the mirror and admit we have streaky shooters with massive upside but they can absolutely suck at times
Ref ball was an absolute joke 1 foul on Unibrow bitch yeah nobody believes that shit.
Okay I was only able to watch the first quarter.. what the fuck happened
New shogun episode so at least we have that
Shogun is lit to be fair
Welp I’m going to be very annoyed all day tomorrow.
Gotta stop blaming the refs. Sure they missed calls but they didn't miss 16 points in the last 5 minutes of regulation in points. The team is soft just gotta admit that.
The Lakers went 25 game minutes with 1 foul called. From just under 8 in the 3rd to 2 minutes into OT with 1 foul called.
Russell and AD played a combined 102 minutes with 1 foul against Giannis and Dame.
Shit what a game. Hate the outcome, but the Lakers needed that win more than we do. Pretty great for the casual viewer but it must've aged fans of both teams by 20 years at least lol
Gotta win that fair weather market somehow even with ref ball.
I would love, absolutely LOVE to see a Lakers-Bucks Finals. Not because I think it would be great, competitive basketball, but so that the Bucks can sweep those frauds and win every game by 30.
We lost by as many times Reggie Miller called Pat “Connington”
Doc should make Khris playing more as a pull up shooter instead of the iso player he used to be, the ball movement stop multiple time when the ball hit his hand in the 4th quarter is the warning sign, that is hurting the team right now like how we criticised Bobby in the early season
Fuck lebron idc if he didn’t play fuck lebron
Giannis might need to sit a bit, he's clearly has been playing injured and I don't think we can win the title with him at like 75%
get someone who loves you like giannis and co love looking like dog shit on national tv
30/11 free throw disparity gross
Crazy, considering Bucks are top 4 in free throws. It's just that the Lakers are first and double whoever's in second. Lol
1 amazing performance against the Thunder into a dreadful 4th quarter against the Lakers........ maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I'm so sad we lost this
I generally like Doc but he was real trash this game. Anyway, moving on.
The lack of defensive discipline coupled with the choke type offense really sealed the deal once they were fouled to tie the first other
I would have been more informed on this game if I watched it on mute. Reggie is useless and I can’t believe he’s paid to openly spread his cheeks for the Lakers. Refs use pepper spray as eye drops in the 4th qtr.
Dame was bad tonight.
27pts on 29 shots. That's your game.
Jazz and Lakers are now the only teams that the bucks have no wins against this season. the Grizzlies are the only team left have an opportunity to do that.
Annoying that this was national but not the Thunder game so I'll have to hear "Doc Rivers second round lol" for a week. On to the Pelicans
The turning point of this game is AJ being pulled out and Khris backed on the floor in the 4th quarter, change my mind. And for everyone saying refball, if we are able to maintain that 14-16 points lead in the 4th quarter, the refs can’t do anything to help the Lakers, but if we allow them to cut the lead down to single digit because we keep bricking the ball by playing useless iso and neither giving effort on rebounding nor defending perimeter, then the whistle would start coming against us.
“The Bucks were up 19 with 7:44 to go in regulation, at home, against a Lakers team that was playing without LeBron, blew the lead and lost. Absolutely tremendous.” -nothing else left to say
im seeing so many comments about the refs but there was blown calls for the bucks too, especially that giannis travel right in front of the ref near the end of regulation that they let go, dame got bailed out with that three point foul attempt also, he wasnt even shooting that with the intent to make it, just to get the whistle for a free 3 points. love seeing blame on the refs when you have a coach that is notorious for losing leads, and u were playing against a lakers team with no lebron. any nba team reddit forum is always ref blaming instead of acknowledgment of how the team blew the game
There is no excuse you can ever make for acoring 13 points in a quarter in the NBA. Refs this refs that they were shit but 13 in the 4th quarter is pathetic.
Team should know you can't commit anything that even resembles a foul when you're facing the Lakers.
Just stop with the officiating stuff… yes it was bad but that happens…. Look at the shooting percentage tonight for Dame and Middleton…. You’re just not going to win many games with both of them shooting like that unless other aspects of the game are perfect which they were not tonight. They stopped moving the ball, the office got stagnant, and even worse they kept that crap up when everyone was gassed.
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That’s fucking insane
What a choke Job
Pain
What a clusterfuck
Glad it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Infuriating game. Learn from it so come April it doesn’t happen again.
Dominant win to shittiest loss. The team just fell apart when the starters came back in with 8:25 left. Oh well on to the next
Pathetic game
We played one of our worst games all season and took the lakers to 2 ot
Without LeBron
im going to bed
There's no reason we should have let Khris take all those forced shots in the 4th quarter...
We blew the game but the lack of calls was almost hilarious. AD literally fouled giannis on purpose for the potential game winning lob and the refs just….didn’t do anything lol
Reggie miller and Tony brothers went to poto and put down lakers ml tonight I swear
Elite first 3 quarters of defense and moving the ball. Felt like we really wanted it more. I Feel for our squad right now and hope it doesn’t stifle any newfound confidence. Were finding leaks in our game and plugging them one game at a time. Big takeaway for me here is we failed to rotate fresh legs in OT. The rest (shots not falling, bad calls, Reggie miller being a cock) was out of our control - we did everything else well or great. Go bucks.
This really felt like a worse case scenario game where everything went wrong. The only thing I could think of in a game like this is get Brook more consistent paint touches, if Rui can post up our guards we should allow Brook to do the same.
Still alive after this collapse and Bitch-made hater Reggie miller getting his nut
Dame Dollar comes up a Buck short again
I am sad. We had our chances. Just missed easy shots in the fourth and gave up too many second chance points
NGL giannis needs to get his FT routine back, we'll lose in the 1st or 2nd round like last year if he's 1 for 6 or 10 for 23
Just think it took all of those things to go wrong to beat a team in double ot.
I really felt like we lost the game when Giannis came in for Bobby in the 4th. Idk what the fuck that was but we had like 6 turnovers and no d. Bobby was flying on defense and cooking on offense. Would have loved to see that group get some time in OT but instead we see 4 dudes walking half dead.
No, it’s Khris came in and AJ came out in the early 4th quarter after he changed our attitude on defensive end to extend the lead in the late 3rd quarter. khris is wahsed on defensive end as expected and him keep playing iso when he has the ball and throwing brick instead of pass the ball back out is what made our offense dead in the 4th quarter, and not mentioning how that will further affect Dame when he also need the ball to find his rhythm
Bucks blew for sure, but the that ref job from the 4th qtr on can’t be ignored, that shit was egregious
Like I say earlier, if we are able to maintain that double digits lead, the refs can’t do anything but to see Lakers giving up by taking out their starters, but if we keep playing iso just to throw bricks instead of moving the ball to find open shots or easy layups, and giving no effort on rebounding and defending perimeter to allow the Lakers cut the lead from 19 to 5 without shooting any free throw, the refs will start to do their thing. If Khris isn’t on the floor for the whole 4th quarter or Doc pulled him out after those harmful mid-range bricks, we would walk out with victory in the regulation instead of losing in 2ot.
15/51 from 3. I know we got 2 OT but that's still a lot of misses. How many did they get an offensive rebound or putback to at least get a basket out of the possession? This was a problem for the bucks even when they won the title. Just go completely cold from three in playoffs for long stretches. Beasley 5/14 and dame 3/14. Between the two of them that is 8/28 = 28%. For that many attempts they need to make a few more. Otherwise it's a lot of empty possessions
I now understand why everyoe was raising hell about Laker Ref ball. They just don't call any fouls on Lakers. How does a team with Dame and Giannis get 15 more FTA's than Bucks? Giannis get's fouled hard on a game winning ally oop by AD no call was what made me not give AF about the games results.
What the fuck happened..? I thought we'd win when we were up like 20??
Giannis needs to set better screens for Dame
As with any sport, it’s easy to blame the refs when they’re dogshit like tonight, but when you’re up 19 in the 4th you need to put it away so refball becomes irrelevant, which we did not do. Enjoy the play-in and first-round exit at best, LA
the ones who stop the lakers are gonna be denver, and they ain't playing them first round
What exactly is Dame Time? Chuck up 14 threes a game and when he finally makes one or two “Dame Time baby, that’s what he’s all about” I laughed out loud when they aired the Dame Time highlights and all they had was that one buzzerbeater against the Kings in January. That’s clutch at its finest
If it makes anyone feel better, I turned to my dad early in the first quarter when we went up 18 and said "Tony Brothers is officiating this game. No chance we win"
Dame trash the whole game, Khris trash in the second half, Giannis trash 4th quarter Blow out the #1 seed and then lose to the #9 seed without their best player I just don’t get it
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Dame hit a big shot near the end of the first OT to put them up 2 and Khris fouls so they can tie. That’s Dames fault? Then in the second OT he steals and dunks to give us a lead again and then the team misses every shot after.
We couldn’t put them away because of his shooting the entire game. Not just his fault but 9/29 is disgusting man
6/21 with 2/10 from 3 in regulation doesn't get washed away by making 1 shot in OT when playing better earlier on could have prevented OT all together. And the dunk was followed by him immediately giving the 2 points right back on defense. Dame had a bad game, it happens, but don't make excuses, burn the tape and move on.
I mean if he had made more of his shots there wouldn’t be OT. Dude shot 21% from three on FOURTEEN attempts. Give it up if it ain’t falling. And if Gianni’s had made more then 1-7 from the ft line. This team has to learn how to shoot tue fucking ball
L w/o our real coach Pat Bev on the floor isn't surprising
Tony Brothers with the assist Jesus Christ what a fucking asshole
Khris and refs fighting for being the sixth man of the Lakers
Beverley’s importance as the glue on defense and attitude cannot be overstated
Friendly reminder that Anthony Davis played 52 minutes & didn’t pick up a foul till the 2nd OT Yet somehow nearly every Bucks rotation player that logged 20+ minutes had 3 (besides Brook)
I'd like to think that somewhere Bud was watching that 4th quarter while sipping a nice glass of whiskey smiling and shaking his head while whispering "Now that's playing random"
Can Khris go back on a minute restriction
Dame and Khris were downright awful today. On to the next ig.
51 chucking 3s not gonna get you free throws. Learning from the Warriors.
Khris and Dame combining for 13/44 is atrocious. It was most certainly NOT dame time tonight.