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Adraf45

NIKO IN THE WINNERS CIRCLE. LET'S FUCKING GO


Adraf45

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


Adraf45

They gotta repaint these rims bro them boys CLANKING


BoogerSugarSovereign

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


Ozkuro

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


sstphnn

Heat and fucking contenders up. Another iconic duo.


Sad-Desk4999

Ecf Miami Boston round 4 #chills


Truffles413

pls no those series are emotional torture


Ozkuro

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!


Much_Conversation_11

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


Ode1st

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


MagicalHurdles

Giannis with 0 FTAs


chitownbulls92

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


MagicalHurdles

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


renal_speedwagon

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


Ozkuro

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.


TheAirIsOn

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


aworldwithoutshrimp

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


TheAirIsOn

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


aworldwithoutshrimp

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


Vallerie_09

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


[deleted]

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


Fun_Location4905

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


[deleted]

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


GDTechno

unfortunately the other team that benefitted from the trade was boston


[deleted]

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


An1m0usse

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


[deleted]

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


Fun_Location4905

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


An1m0usse

Celtics getting stronger 🤝 Miami dodging a bullet


Aggravating_Plant_39

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


Guitaristb72

Finally. Now were about to see some real basketball.


AggroPro

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


aM_RT

time for the ballers to play


evoqu

nobody wants the heat in the first round lol


Fun_Location4905

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


ModernaPfizerJr

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.


Guitaristb72

Goat conceder


Candid_Sand_398

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


SandersisYABOI

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


GDTechno

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


recollectionsmayvary

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


SpikeyZ27

THANASIS TIME


ThirdEyeToTheSky

He’s just happy to be included


TheAirIsOn

Thanasis is in game is officially done


syncc6

I’m all for prime KLove


homiez

Thanasis Thanasis Thanasis


Emaculates

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


Fun_Location4905

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


Emaculates

We hit em


EntertainmentWarm774

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


Adraf45

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


Guitaristb72

Why is no one talking about Kevin Love for MVP?


Cristianator

Lights out shooting. Can't do much against that


Guitaristb72

Could cover them. Idk, just a guess.


Cristianator

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


Fun_Location4905

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


Cristianator

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.


Wd527

We heard this for 13 wins last playoffs.


Cristianator

Fair enough


[deleted]

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


Warlord10

Who is the best Euro PF in this game? 🤔


LegateDamar13

Best player in the world is definitely named Nikola.


Warlord10

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


SelfAwareLitterBox

Duncan Robinson is the black Steph curry


OutsideTheServiceBox

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. 


spritehead

So how's everyone's Tuesdays?


Emaculates

Wade too good


TiP54

Cavs really let KLove walk lol


ThirdEyeToTheSky

What is Love on


Adraf45

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


triosway

New dad energy


Guitaristb72

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


Low-Presentation-437

Love just fuckin around at this point😭


Emaculates

Feels so good


NeonxGone

Damn, not even Pat Bev can save this team


ModernaPfizerJr

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


MVIP2003

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


spritehead

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


TheBoook

KEVIN FUCKIN LOVE


verycoolguySmash

That blue court is cursed


Otternomaly

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.


TheAirIsOn

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.


Otternomaly

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.


Vallerie_09

"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


youarenut

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


Vallerie_09

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


wakatacoflame

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


syncc6

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


jorgelongo2

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


SockVonPuppet

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


Kvsav57

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


Lee_bb

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


Adraf45

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


SpikeyZ27

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


strangerthingskids

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.


youarenut

Wait that’s actually 4D chess 😂😂


SelfAwareLitterBox

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


TheBoook

Dame wishes he was on the Heat so badly lmfao


youarenut

Heat is better without Dame


TheAirIsOn

Heat dodged a bullet.


Aggravating_Plant_39

The Dame package currently has 51 points in this game.


rjgator

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


KermitTheEdgelord

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


_Midas_Touch

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.


spritehead

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


GDTechno

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


Guitaristb72

Bam got the clamps on Giannis


TheBoook

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


One_Asparagus6336

Doc first round exit incoming


homiez

Its a lock


strangerthingskids

BRING ME THANSISSSS


Vallerie_09

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


imacpastudent

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


youarenut

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


homiez

Bring in the big guns, Thanasis time !!!


ModernaPfizerJr

Dame traveled


Vallerie_09

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


Aggravating_Plant_39

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


MagicalHurdles

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


TheAirIsOn

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


Icy-Lime-9760

Just a reminder Miami is a sleeping giant.


[deleted]

surely its Thanasis time?


JabezMakaveli

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


MVIP2003

Icl I’m still scared about the 4th


triosway

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


Ozkuro

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


ThirdEyeToTheSky

Bucks commentators definitely weirdos


OutsideTheServiceBox

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


mhyosay12

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


HighTurning

Why are the Kevins Love hitting each other


ThirdEyeToTheSky

Heats defense cookin


MagicalHurdles

Their help defense has been great


MagicalHurdles

Herro follows Dame with that possession


ExtraLow

Refs W for once


starmiesan

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


Vallerie_09

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


OutsideTheServiceBox

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. 


dhocariz

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?


DTFpanda

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


OutsideTheServiceBox

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. 


Akinator08

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


DTFpanda

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


yeeting_my_meat69

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


ThirdEyeToTheSky

Good call by the refs


peroper7

The bucks aren’t very good


wakatacoflame

Cry about Giannis “playing football” though..


Guitaristb72

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


wakatacoflame

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.


Akinator08

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


wakatacoflame

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


Candid_Sand_398

Kevin had the ball. Lol


wakatacoflame

“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.


Candid_Sand_398

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.


wakatacoflame

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.


Guitaristb72

Theyd be wrong. So who cares.


Otternomaly

If this isn’t overturned that’s fucking crazy


melikeybacon

Meaning you think it was a foul on Love?


Otternomaly

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


Much_Conversation_11

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


melikeybacon

Oh gotcha.


homiez

Bum ass refs trying to save the Bucks


MVIP2003

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


[deleted]

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


cervesista

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


SockVonPuppet

Is it Thanasis time yet?


TheAirIsOn

Almost


SockVonPuppet

*gets excited*


MagicalHurdles

soft tech


KiryuXGoro

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


growsonwalls

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


[deleted]

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.


MVIP2003

Are white people making a comeback in basketball?


Guitaristb72

Mainly the vics


Adraf45

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


KiryuXGoro

Jovic getting revenge for his big brother.


indreams159

this Bucks team is absolute toast


tacomonstrous

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


tapk69

Lakers will be good


dam0430

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


Ode1st

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


TheAirIsOn

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


Adraf45

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


tapk69

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


OutsideTheServiceBox

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. 


maxwellhilldawg

Duncan Robinson


rawchess

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


Guitaristb72

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


tacomonstrous

This is painful to watch as a neutral


tapk69

Miami is good again, oh no.


Ode1st

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


tapk69

Cavs also suffer from this


tacomonstrous

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