In Kyrie's defense (somewhat) the Bucks are gearing their entire defense to slowing him down. The way the Celtics have tried to build a wall against Giannis - the Bucks are doing the same to Kyrie.
He's getting guarded initially by Bledsoe (and Hill) and they're doing their best to stay in front of him and make it as difficult as possible from him to drive, but when he gets by the initial guard he's getting picked up the the 2nd layer - usually guys like Lopez or Giannis and they're succeeding in making it very difficult to get to the basket. If he drives they contest everything. If he kicks, the ball moves and they miss a 3. If someone else would get hot and make some shots, then Kyrie would be able do more.
But if no one else can make a shot, then it becomes a lot easier to guard him.
Except that (bolded) wasn't what happened tonight. Literally all the other 4 starters shot way better than Kyrie. The narrative that all the other 4 guys suck and if we just had someone else who could hit a shot wasn't true tonight. It hasn't been true all series. Kyrie hasn't hit shots, and he keeps taking a boat load of them, and keeps dribbling into the middle with no plan and turns the ball over, or forces a bad 3.
We may not have gotten the perfect effort from the other 4 guys, but at least (2) of them Morris and Brown were scoring well this game. Kyrie had more shots than both of them combined. Kyrie has to be smart enough to recognize that spazzing out and forcing drives and forcing bad shots isn't going to beat a good team. In this series he never figured that out.
I am done apologizing for Kyrie. He is the star, he needs to play like one, both in shooting, but intelligent ball handling, distribution and defense. We haven't gotten any of that from him in this series except game 1.
Honestly, we have to credit the bucks for executing their game plan. Their plan was to wall off Kyrie, not let him get where he wanted, and force him to distribute or take bad shots. The plan has worked really well.