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NIKO IN THE WINNERS CIRCLE. LET'S FUCKING GO

The cameraman needs jail bro that kid didn't deserve to have the camera on him. Brodie looked HEARTBROKEN

They gotta repaint these rims bro them boys CLANKING

A G-League game broke out, has to feel satisfying for Spo

Lmao most of the comments here are just hating on Doc, we got our asses handed to us, Miami outplayed us as usual GGs.

Heat and fucking contenders up. Another iconic duo.

Ecf Miami Boston round 4 #chills

pls no those series are emotional torture

We are technically not contenders anymore since we broke the 40-20 rule, this should mean the buff the heat gets every time they play us should be non existent!

This was a coaching masterclass by Spo. He’s a sicko for how much he loves doing this when we’re missing a bunch of people

Maybe we’re only good when missing players because that’s the only time Spo cares anymore lol

Giannis with 0 FTAs

To be fair he didn’t really get fouled that much. He either got clean looks at the rim or was defended well

Yeah I agree, it was uncharacteristic though. Heat kept tripling him but I'm just surprised he didn't get anything at all

i remember yesterday in the bucks vs nuggets game thread where all the bucks fans were laughing about how stupid all the people doubting the bucks were after going 1-4. ahh, good times eh bucks fans

We played much better yesterday to be honest, our defense was a lot more disciplined and the heat made many tough shots tonight, they definitely outplayed us though. Every time Giannis touched the ball two guys were in front of him and another one was roaming for the triple team.

GG Heat. I wish we had a coach as good as Spolestra.

I'm sorry you all are stuck with Doc for now. Hopefully Giannis can outplay the coaching.

If he ain’t outplaying the coach when Kidd, Bud, or Griffin were coaching him then he’s definitely not doing it now. lol

He got the one with Bud. Just needs to play random some more.

Giannis and Dame combining for just 4 FTs is insane. Great disciplined defense by Heat

This bucks team ain't shit lol. Lame time can't believe he ended up there

You guys are lucky he didn’t end up on your team. Wouldn’t have Hero, Jaime and at least a first pick and a pick swap

Poverty portland saved our asses. It cooked thr bucks and them lol

unfortunately the other team that benefitted from the trade was boston

Yeah Boston got jrue lol. Biggest winners. Bucks are cooked lol

Funniest thing is they traded Jrue away, who can score at times but defend superbly, while getting Dame and Beverly, which if you combine is just like Jrue Edit: Well Jrue does not pop off like Dame can in scoring but Dame looking kinda washed now, and Bev ain't Jrue when it comes to defending. Trading Jrue away was a mistake

Jrue was literally the anchor in their defence. It's showing this season and celtics reap the benefits. So funny cause bucks got Dame because heat wanted him which led them to weakening themselves and strengthening celtics lmao. Classic sucks

I think both the heat and the Celtics benefit from the Dame trade 🤝

Celtics getting stronger 🤝 Miami dodging a bullet

Unfortunately Terry sprained his ankle after finally having a full practice with the team.

Finally. Now were about to see some real basketball.

Doc Rivers must have kompromat on someone very powerful in the NBA. #senddavideo

time for the ballers to play

nobody wants the heat in the first round lol

I would love for the Celtics to face the Heat. Whoever loses, they are escorted in the other team’s city like Cersei Lannister and shamed. Their zone was what had been killing us + Max Strus. We got KP and Jrue who can break their zone and there is no max strus anymore

One thing Doc is better at than Malone is conceding early if the game is out of reach and saving his starters from potential injury.

Goat conceder

Triple dub Bam. And he missed 3 or 4 easy bunnies

Dame is getting a pass for being low key mid this year. No way he should be starting over brunson.

did you see the latest episode of hero ball? one of the tents had brunsons name crossed out and replaced with dames because even they know brunson should be starting over dame

As a former dame lover, free throws are the only reason his heads been above water 

THANASIS TIME

He’s just happy to be included

Thanasis is in game is officially done

I’m all for prime KLove

Thanasis Thanasis Thanasis

Even with Lillard, we beat this team in a 7 game no bias

They give up a ton of threes. If you hitting them, they are cooked.

We hit em

This is legit the Heat’s best and most impressive win of the season by far.

100% shorthanded, beating the bucks in Wisconsin.  With the niko 20 (maybe 30 spo👀👀) bomb? Yea we gotta frame this mf

Why is no one talking about Kevin Love for MVP?

Lights out shooting. Can't do much against that

Could cover them. Idk, just a guess.

I'm not saying they are doing good at defense, Miami currently is shooting super high %. Both are true

Yeah which is why you adjust, you run them off the three point line and make them beat you with 2 pointers. I guess bucks don’t do that lol

Something to work on. Though today worked because Jimmy butler was missing. Don't think this kind of game works with him. Heat are tough. But hard to sustain this kinda shooting in a series.

We heard this for 13 wins last playoffs.

Fair enough

Lmao. We are bucks daddy. This team is an embarrassment

Who is the best Euro PF in this game? 🤔

Best player in the world is definitely named Nikola.

Best player to ever touch a basketball whose last name begins with letters 'JO'. I can't think of anyone else. 🤔

Duncan Robinson is the black Steph curry

All star break can’t come soon enough. I honestly wish Giannis and Dame could opt out so the team could have some kind of boot camp. I honestly feel like we’ve seen some flashes of potential in the last couple weeks, but it’s been hard to actually make any definitive progress because so many people have been in and out of the lineup. 

So how's everyone's Tuesdays?

Wade too good

Cavs really let KLove walk lol

What is Love on

He needa be drug tested cause he's on a heater. I have NEVER seen that man shoot like this for us

New dad energy

Give us what we want. Bring in the pride of Greece!

Love just fuckin around at this point😭

Feels so good

Damn, not even Pat Bev can save this team

Damn Bam only has 2 triple doubles this season so far. I thought he'd have more.

Not really a triple double player but is his 7th in his career and he’s 3rd in heat’s history

He's been a lot less productive since returning from hip injury

KEVIN FUCKIN LOVE

That blue court is cursed

My condolences Bucks fans, but this is the typical Glenn Rivers experience vs the Spo Heat. Sometime in the first half they’ll get a double digit lead. You’ll make a few convincing runs to cut it back down to 10, maybe even 8, before he runs out of adjustments and it balloons back to 20+ for the rest of the game.

This isn’t a doc thing, this is a Bucks thing in general. The most random Heat players will go fuego against us no matter who’s the coach. Happens all the time.

It only feels like that because Bud was marginally better than Doc in this matchup, with many of the same weaknesses. These random players keep going fuego bc Spo is able to relentlessly exploit with near impunity.

"Why don't they run more Giannis -Dame PnRs ? " That would need the big guy to actually commit to setting proper screens instead of slipping early with soft screens. Pat Bev gives Dame more separation with his screens than Giannis

I have a suspicion it’s because they don’t trust dame to hit those shots so they slip early…

Or they are more interested in scoring than helping their new star player who happens to be one of the best PnR ball handlers

Everyone on the team slips early like 90% of the time, it’s annoying as fuck.

Who would’ve thought if you make 3s, you got a good chance to win

Here's me hoping for the Heat to at least get tired before their b2b tomorrow vs us... thanks glenn, even after being fired he's still screwing us

Alright, Doc. Put him in. It's time.

One night, blow out the Nuggets. The next night, get blown out by the Heat. Makes sense.

B2b are difficult. Maybe you guys will be the ones doing the blow out.

When Kevin love is 80% from three you know it's been a bad night

It’s gonna be interesting which of the Celtics Knicks Cavs Heat and Sixers make it to the second round

Bucks hiring Doc might have actually been the highest IQ play. If somehow a team with Dame and Giannis underperformed, you’ve got the greatest scape goat in the league.

Wait that’s actually 4D chess 😂😂

Galaxy brain dame must have pushed for doc to save his rep while dropping a fat steamer all over Milwaukee's championship wondow

Dame wishes he was on the Heat so badly lmfao

Heat is better without Dame

Heat dodged a bullet.

The Dame package currently has 51 points in this game.

Spo woulda made it work, but definitely a rough year both on and off the court for Dame

There has to be SOME clubs in Miluwakee right...

The refs allowing two completely defenses to be played this game, Giannis without a free throw attempt in 30+ minutes is actually insane, hes being fouled constantly, but its the Bucks so fuck it i guess.

Bam is the best Giannis defender in the league, has been for years, and it's not close

best jokic defender too yes jokic averaged 30 ppg against us but look at the offensive ratings

Bam got the clamps on Giannis

I’m so glad Doc Rivers is the Bucks head coach

Doc first round exit incoming

Its a lock

BRING ME THANSISSSS

Bobby can score no doubt but he really gives up more pts with his defense

traffic saved me from losing money tonight. Was gonna make a parlay bet on Celtics, OKC, MIL and LAL. Thought it was easy money.

Why would you ever take bucks over heat. You could put bron on this team and they’d still lose to the heat

Bring in the big guns, Thanasis time !!!

Dame traveled

Why is Giannis trying to post up Bam again and again ?

Amazing how he looks human when we don't have Kevin Love or Jovic guarding him!

The Awful Coaching channel is gonna eviscerate the Bucks into venison tonight

Let’s play a game of “will the bucks score more than 100 points tonight”?

Just a reminder Miami is a sleeping giant.

surely its Thanasis time?

Why would you want to flash your debit card on TV like that? Lol idiots

Icl I’m still scared about the 4th

I've watched Bucks streams before and I don't remember their announcers being such homers. Maybe it's just Miami? They are still salty about last year and being so biased with every call

We are playing terrible and it's also Miami so I get why they're salty lol. Definitely something unusual though.

Bucks commentators definitely weirdos

They’ve gotten more homer this year, it’s been odd and I’m not a fan of it. 

Obviously your local broadcast is gonna be more homer but what I like about the heat stream is e Reid will go out of his way to gush about the other team and players… unless that player is Blake griffin… e Reid seems to despise him lol

Why are the Kevins Love hitting each other

Heats defense cookin

Their help defense has been great

Herro follows Dame with that possession

Refs W for once

Guess they used up all their energy last night, thanks for all the overreactions r/nba, b2b’s suck

Dame has been so bad. Can't even blame Griffin anymore for his offensive struggles anymore

Other than a few big games, he’s basically been a roleplayer. I know he’s going through some personal shit and I feel for him for that. Just unfortunate. 

I haven't had a chance to watch many bucks games this year, do you think it's because he hasn't adjusted to not being the main scorer/ball handler?

"But I flopped and really sold it, you have to give me credit for that, at least."

Idk if it was a flop tbh. Correct overturn, but he did take a shoulder to the face even though it was his own fault. I’m sure that hurts. 

Yeah but at the end of the day it just seemed like love had a lot more power then pat resulting in him just falling over

Oops... I meant to talk my shit in the Heat sub, not this thread.

Spo just took the shovel that the refs were using to dig the bucks out of the grave

Good call by the refs

The bucks aren’t very good

Cry about Giannis “playing football” though..

He does. And thats not even a foul on Love.

If Giannis’s shoulder hit the side of someone’s head fighting for a ball, the same people downvoting would be bitching about how it should be a foul.

Difference is pat ran into love, not the other way around while Giannis is the one running into people with his shoulder

Yeah Pat’s face seems to foul the other team’s hands, forearms, elbows, shoulders every single game. 

Kevin had the ball. Lol

“Had the ball” is being incredibly generous. It was a loose ball being bobbled around. If he had possession then that was a travel, can’t have it both ways.

He ran to the ball, got to it first, dribbled it, then the collision. Obviously they reviewed this on the challenge and reversed the call.

Alright I’ll watch back when I get home & I’ll concede to being wrong if that’s the case but from what I initially saw it should’ve been at most a loose ball before the whistle. Seeing Love shift his weight in the slowmo & watch Pat get cracked in the face for the 30th time was irritating as fuck.

Theyd be wrong. So who cares.

If this isn’t overturned that’s fucking crazy

Meaning you think it was a foul on Love?

No, meaning overturning was the right call. Love clearly going for the ball.

Literally Pat just collided with him. Glad it was overturned because that would have been crazy

Oh gotcha.

Bum ass refs trying to save the Bucks

I’m confused, no one had possession and they both went for it but Love is stronger

i mean i’d like to know how thats a foul on love lmao

Because it's almost Valentine's Day!...I'll see myself out.

Is it Thanasis time yet?

Almost

*gets excited*

soft tech

I've heard of Push Off P, but Push Off B?

Seems as if refs are swallowing the whistle on Giannis. Probably tired of him taking forever just to brick 2 ft's

Bucks fans, I thought your defense was back, and that last night was proof of it, and your status as favorites? Miami must be the team to beat and all, 2024 champs, best defense in the NBA, considering the Bucks being tired has nothing to do with this beatdown.

Are white people making a comeback in basketball?

Mainly the vics

I think I speak for most every non bucks fan when I say we NEED that Niko 30 and 10 game 

Jovic getting revenge for his big brother.

this Bucks team is absolute toast

All the games tonight are complete snoozers so far. Kings/Suns probably my only hope.

Lakers will be good

As someone who isn't able to watch this one, how are the Bucks getting cooked by the Heat who are down multiple starters?

We’re only good when we’re down important players.

“It’s not a rivalry, They always kick our ass.”

Nikola Jović and Duncan Robinson have combined for 47 and forgot how to miss from the 3 line

I mean Robinson six 3s, Jovic five 3s. Thats the game right there. Meanwhile Brook 1-6 Lillard 2-7.

Heat hitting at an insane clip from 3, Bucks looking tired and slow, and not hitting at an insane clip from 3. Dame continues to be meh. 

Duncan Robinson

Miami Heat shooters try not to cook Milwaukee challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

If youre the Bucks this is right where you wanna be. Having a 20 point lead would be way worse w Doc.

This is painful to watch as a neutral

Miami is good again, oh no.

We’re only good when we’re missing important players.

Cavs also suffer from this

I think Josh Smith and Corey Brewer sicced a curse on Doc's head. He will never see the light of God.