Will We Win the Series?

[Donoghus]

Had a feeling awhile ago that this thing was destined to go 7.  Not going to change my mind now.

I'll ride or die with this team.

[Redz]

Had a feeling awhile ago that this thing was destined to go 7.  Not going to change my mind now.

I'll ride or die with this team.

Yup

Doesn't matter in the least how you get there. 

[jbpats]

I'll be honest and fully admit that up until this morning the sky was falling for me.. but I surprisingly woke up today fairly optimistic.

I think we win tonight, not sure about game 7, ask me sunday but I feel we win tonight.

[Big333223]

I picked Celtics in 6. But after blowing game 5, I have a bad feeling the Bucks are going to take this one.

If the Celtics can get their heads on straight and win tonight, I think they can close it out in Boston and win the series but I my bet is that the Bucks take it tonight. Sadly.

[JSD]

They win game 6 and then blow it again in game 7 at home. Bucks become the first team to win 3 road games to advance to the ECF

[dannyboy35]

No. I don’t think they win this series anymore. They’ve just been unwilling to attack the middle consistently and I can’t bring myself to believe Ime isnt saying it. I think they have to count on the Zanuck’s playing poorly down to our intelligence level .

[dannyboy35]

 Celtics don’t deserve this series.

[Phantom255x]

Still TBD, but where a lot of people (including myself) felt Tatum needed to prove himself and be the best player on the court, he absolutely delivered tonight. There will be a Game 7  (definitely need to stock up on more heart medications lol)

[tarheelsxxiii]

I hope so, but it's up to Tatum.

He doesn't need to be the best player in this series, but he needs to be able to get us buckets down the stretch.  And he has to want it.

Beyond this series, he'll have to be the best player for us to win a championship.  And he looked fully capable down the stretch.

He did it.

[Phantom255x]

It'd be nice if any of the Jays (ideally Tatum) could actually dominate a game from start to finish and actually look like "the best player on the court". We saw it from Jaylen in Game 2.

And no, having 1 good quarter isn't always going to be enough. We've seen Giannis do it a few times this series, yet we haven't seen Tatum do it. Tatum was fantastic late in Game 4 but the 7 quarters before that was terrible. Need more consistency from him.

It's not even just the stats/points, but also the decision-making. Jaylen and Tatum may have had great numbers last night, but they also made a lot of boneheaded decisions and Jaylen's ball-handling is atrocious. Some of those things contributed to the Bucks coming back each time from a double-digit deficit.

Margin for error is now very, very slim for the Jays. And I single them out here because those two guys are our bonafide stars. They need to play like it otherwise it's over Friday night.

Tatum delivered! A few questionable decisions with the shots, yes, but he went nuclear when they needed it in the 2nd half. Saved the season! Jaylen was also pretty good in the 2nd half

[pokeKingCurtis]

I'll be the first to admit I gave up. Wowzers.

[Phantom255x]

I'll be the first to admit I gave up. Wowzers.

Raises hand*

I did too lol. Game 5 felt demoralizing but they made up for it tonight. Thank god they held the lead. If they blew the lead entirely and lost again I think I might have cried myself to sleep (okay not really, but it would have been a brutally bad feeling either way)

[Redz]

I'm out.  Horrible loss.  See you in the fall, as we don't even have a 1st due to an over pay for White.

L8r.....

So, if they win the last two games you will take zero joy in it and definitely will not jump back on board?

That's just dumb

Will you be back???

[GreenlyGreeny]

I really think facing elimination is going to cause us to turn on the afterburners, so I think we are going to win. I think we’ll have a big victory in game 6, not giving the refs any chance to influence the outcome, and a tight fight to the death in game 7. We always knew defeating the champions would be tough, so being down 3-2 is not a surprise, but we can do this. We must do this. We will do this.

What do you think?

One down, one to go

[tarheelsxxiii]

I'll be the first to admit I gave up. Wowzers.

Raises hand*

I did too lol. Game 5 felt demoralizing but they made up for it tonight. Thank god they held the lead. If they blew the lead entirely and lost again I think I might have cried myself to sleep (okay not really, but it would have been a brutally bad feeling either way)

3 mins in the penalty box for both of you