I understand why they can't play him at 5 full time due to the injury to divenzo and a serious lack of guards/wings.
It has been in Harden hands but he is hurt. Apparently they are leaning on KD for offense. KD likes to put it on the floor. Harden defers to KD and it probably the only player. Also it is hard to stop a running 7 footer.
all the ball does is move side to side and the offense gets flat. Harden can not get to the rim. Most his FT attempts are on step back 3’s. Joe harris is a no show. Shamet is trash. Harden is playing as best as he can, but they have no guards.
Yeah, they are not really built for it. But this series IMO they should be running him at 5 and Brook being his backup if they feel they have to play Brook. It reminds me of when the Lakers played AD at 5 against us last season and it was like a night and day difference for the Lakers when it came to defense.
Tuck wagon a game high +30 this game. Giannis 30 points and 17 boards on 13-20 fg. 6-10 ft Middleton finally with a great game with 38 and 10 bon 11-16 fg!!!
Harris' production plummeting after game 2 really ****ed with the Nets especially with Kyrie and Harden's injuries.
He's fine as a F, he just needs a superstar perimeter teammate for the team to succeed. They're as good as they are with Giannis because Middleton is a nice player. If you upgrade Middleton with like Lillard for example, then the Bucks become dominant in the playoffs.
He's gotten a ton of wide open looks that he just plain missed the past 4 games. Granted more open looks in 3 and 5. He shot great in the regular season and 1st round. But those games had zero pressure. The first round Celtics were injured and overmatched and we're basically games with zero intensity, suspense or pressure. Harris hasn't proven that he can perform under the bright lights, like a Cassell or Kerr or Terry etc.
Middleton will never have another game like that. There is no way Middleton scores anywhere close to 25 points next game. Giannis won’t have enough to carry them in game 7. Holiday isn’t a big scorer so I doubt he’ll hit big shots. Their role players are not big scorers. KD had a really inefficient night. Only scoring 32 points from 30 shots isn’t great. Harris is pretty much useless. I said he couldn’t have 3 or 4 bad shooting nights in a row, but he has. He’s literally losing them the series. Green had a bad shooting night, but you can let him off because of game 5. Harden let KD iso too much in that 2nd half. But I guess he’s playing through an injury so you can’t expect Harden to be that aggressive. I’m sure the Nets can win game 7, but their role players have to step up big time. The Nets have to come out aggressively in game 7. They’ve started quite a few of these games against the Bucks slowly. The Nets are due a big scoring night… haven’t had one since game 2. Nash and Joe Harris will be the reason why the Nets won’t win this series or the championship. regardless, the Bucks are not winning the championship. They’ve really struggled against the Nets reverse team a lot. They honesty should be winning this series in 5. Not to mention, Nash is not a good coach at all.
So after a 7 game series where the first 6 were won by the road team, and game 7 by the home team, will we get the exact reverse in this series?
Game 7 will come down to will Harris finally show up or be the scapegoat who may be moved in the off season versus will Jru Holliday actually play like a max contract player for even 1 game.
The others definitely have to show up. Harris and jeff green. I wonder what kyries status is they haven't said exactly what the diagnosis is.
