« Reply #662 on: December 10, 2018, 10:50:03 PM »
Craptors lost...Bucks gained though.
Does anyone else feel that we are atleast a notch above both teams?...
atleast the way the cs are playing now I suppose.
The Bucks announcers have a different view. They are always (not just last night) speculating about the upcoming Conference Finals between the two best teams in the East: Toronto and Milwaukee.
They really believe that the winner of the East is going to be decided in the match-up Leonard-Antetokounmpo. They don't even mention Boston as a possibility, which I think is disrespectful.
Especially given that we beat them last year without our two best players, who are now back and finally now rounding into shape.
To be fair, Milwaukee has also attained more talent since then, but any objective analysis clearly favors the Celtics in terms of talent attained from when the two teams met in the playoffs.
And all that is not even mentioning the fact that the Bucks’ hot start to the season and the Celtics’ mediocre start to the season has only put them two games ahead of us in the loss column, which is pretty telling given how poor we’ve started the season.
They see the Bucks as a totally different team now Budenholzer is running it. Yesterday they called their upcoming reign with Antetokounmpo something as: ,,Fans, get ready for the ride the next 7 years and it ain't going to be bumpy.''
They also named Antetokounmpo the most dominating player in the paint ever.
I wonder what he would've looked like in the 90's. With old defense rules, he'd have to be played straight-up more or double teamed and he's an excellent passer. He could've destroyed teams.
On the other hand, there would've been more, bigger players hanging around the rim to give him trouble.
Giannis would have been absolutely hammered whenever he went into the paint and would never have gotten so many ticky tack fouls called his way. Also, his traveling antics would be called.
Maybe he would still be a freak and absolutely great. But he would need to get a lot tougher, that's for sure.
I mean could you imagine the old style players actually trying to guard him. I mean seriously who the heck could have guarded him in the 80's. I mean that seriously. He is too big and strong for a normal 80's SF, and he is way too fast and athletic for a normal 90's PF. I suppose Rodman would have made him work, but there really aren't many players in that era that would have had any real shot at guarding him. So sure, he wasn't strong enough to play down low, but it wouldn't have mattered as no one could guard him.
McHale.
Not sure he really had the speed, even before the foot problems, but he certainly would have been better than most.
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