Now THIS is the Bucks I want to see. Take out all the good players, and what do you have? A fun group of guys who are HUNGRY and want to WIN but CAN’T because they SUCK. The amount of role-playerness contained with in Milwaukee’s starting lineup is too much to be typed out here; if you haven’t seen it yet, go look it up. When I saw it, I closed my eyes and sighed happily, because I knew that the Bucks were going to lose while giving way too many minutes to marginal players, just the way it had been for years before Giannis came in and ruined everything with his MVPs and accolades and general competency. This is the REAL Bucks.
If you don’t love that, you don’t love Bucks basketball.
Kyle Korver didn’t get to start, probably because he was considered by Budenholzer to be too good, but he did come off the bench to drop a season-high 23 points while Nikola Jokic (who apparently is too good for my channel, couldn’t tell that at all this game) moped around and looked uninterested. Korver was doing the opposite of moping around; his game is based on running around as fast as he can (which is surprisingly fast for a guy who is almost 40) and trying to get open so he can quickly shoot a jumper.
At times, it seemed like the Bucks only had one play: hand the ball off to Korver while he flies toward you at a hundred miles per hour, screen his guy, and hope he can make some sort of shot. It’s the kind of play that doesn’t need a lot of help from the other guys to work, maybe a pre-screen to mess up his defender even more, but dudes like Frank Mason who have no idea what’s going on can just chill out and wait for Korver to deliver buckets.