The gross thing is all we're going to hear about is how we just got by the bucks without run and dunk
I think we've seen enough wins without stars this year across the league that it should be well-known that you're not always necessarily worse in the short-term when missing a star for a game or two. A star missing allows for others to step up, as well as presenting differing dynamics for players. Dame gets to play more freely without Giannis and got hot in the second half, and the jury is still out on the fit between those two. Let's also not forget that we were missing two of our top shooters, as well.
So I think it's hard to take much away from these kinds of games with stars/rotation players missing. Remember, this game unfolded almost the exact same way that the last one did against Milwaukee in Boston when everyone was fully healthy, so that being said there's two different examples with Giannis both available and unavailable with virtually the same result.