2021 NBA Finals: Phoenix Suns vs Milwaukee Bucks

Oh man I am loving this footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9Pm8fjzdg

xp how many of the 8 that lost were up an away game?

I can't see the Suns getting too spooked but they're definitely in a bad spot. Game 5 they shot 55%, including 68% from 3, and lost. Game 4 they shot 51% to the Bucks 40% (!!) and still found a way to lose. Booker, as great as he is, is not likely to make so many circus shots for the remainder of the series. Jrue is running CP3 around the court so much that he's totally gassed in the 4th. The Bucks seem to be peaking right now, Giannis will likely play all game if he has to, and the Bucks have had pretty dramatic home/road splits. The Suns path to victory basically involves Middleton and Holiday combining for 12/40 or something like that, which definitely can happen but idk, they seem so locked in right now. Narratives change so quickly though, I mean outside of idiots like me no one thought Bucks in 6 could actually happen after Game 2

yes, quite often in fact

wow thank you for that! I have zero memory of that bucks-hawks series, but some of lebron's biggest moments are on that list

everyone is going to bring their 'A' game

glad to hear it

now did any team who's up 3-2 in these circumstances win game 7 after blowing game 6? all the wins in that bbref are 6-game series

Oh man I am loving this footage

pivotal turnover in one of those games looked just like CP's in Game 4. At 4:03

xp how many of the 8 that lost were up an away game?

I think all of them were!

Fort Wayne allegedly threw the series (according to charley rosen anyway): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_NBA_Finals

poor late game management in any case

Sort of stunning that teams up 3-2 are only 9-8 to win the series

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, July 19, 2021 2:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is specifically in series that are 2-2-1-1-1 format in which the lower seed has lost the first two and won the next three. overall, teams up 3-2 in a playoff series are 193-36

also worth mentioning that none of the teams that lost in that situation are anywhere near as good as the Bucks are - this situation actually hasn't happened in the finals yet

anyway counterpoint to my above post is that the Suns were basically 2 plays away from winning it all on their home court, and Game 3 with Ayton's foul trouble and Booker's rare off night can be looked upon as an anomaly. it'll probably be another nailbiter.

i think it will stay close but as long as mil keeps playing like the bigger and stronger team that they are, they've got this.

There has been a Scott Foster sighting in downtown Milwaukee. No announcement about officials for Game 6 has been made.

— Kent Somers (@kentsomers) July 19, 2021

Bucks in 6

been a very even series but id give the bucks the edge since theyre up a game

got to go seven

its been so evenly matched that it's dumb to predict anything, all I know is if Milwaukee loses it'll be in extremely excruciating fashion

but losing in excruciating fashion is the suns' whole thing!

well Wisconsin sports as a whole have been utterly cursed for a decade, they've lost playoff games in almost every heartbreaking scenario you can imagine. but these Bucks decidedly do not have that sort of loser energy, in fact they are a blessed team right now, almost like they're scripted in a Disney movie. Get revenge on the team that embarrassed you last year! Hit your lowest point, get your heart broken by Durant, then come back to win in one of the tightest Game 7s of all time! Lose your good-natured superstar to a horrific injury, but wait it's okay! The rest of the team rallies without him and he's back for the Finals! Fall in an 0-2 hole and then win consecutive games on some of the sickest plays ever!! The only thing left is for "Bucks in 6" to happen......again!!!

I mean there were people smugly saying "put a fork in em" in just about every round. I wish I had clipped and saved all the Tweets.

that was mostly just me a bunch of times

can't believe this actually might happen tonight

The thing that makes the Bucks so unique is that they are a downhill team, they can look bad for so long and then they start creating turnovers and just run you over

my friend was despairing when they went down 16 in the first quarter and I told him to relax, that an early 16-point lead isn't the same as one in the third or fourth. and the Bucks just went to town in that second quarter battling back.

for me it wasn't so much the lead but rather the fact that Phoenix was diagnosing every single play the Bucks were running on offense, generating a bunch of turnovers and forcing a lot of bad shots. it felt like they could've easily been down even more. then they just seemed to catch them off guard on everything in the 2nd and 3rd quarters...idk what exactly Bud did but it worked

Alright. I’m fucking ready.

good luck bucks

i'm gonna scoot down to my local bar and watch this with people around, haven't sat in a place and watched sports with strangers since... the 2019 playoffs maybe?

yeah, love to watch the game at the bar. it's been a long time.

Both teams seem a little jittery

That’s the kind of basketball I play: lots of turnovers, lots of missed shots.

cp3 just turned down two open shots from midrange or better

7 turnovers for Milwaukee already. These teams are super shook

Xp he missed 2 ones that he normally makes badly

Giannes hitting free throws is v v good

Ok minus the turnovers this is exactly what I wanted

Brutal

weird mirror image of the last game

Please just shoot normally from 3 Milwaukee

'Dr Fauci must be cringing'... so am I.

Are the Bucks gonna score 6 this quarter

This is reminding me so much of the Raptors series where the offense would just go scoreless for 7 minutes

Cp3 gotta have a torn ligament or something right??

partially torn ones in his hand i read

Got a feeling the bucks will snap out of it after halftime and blow them out

What the fuck

middleton 3/8

holiday 1/11

This is everything I feared, fucking hate when this version of the Bucks show up

ridiculous

Chris Paul doing what he does 😤pic.twitter.com/qjnXK4glzw

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) July 21, 2021

yet another 1st half shooting less than 20% from 3