Pacers routing the Bucks early in the 4th early in the 4th. Oladipo with a really nice step back to beat the buzzer at the end of the 3rd.
Are the Bucks as good as we thought earlier in the year?
It depends how good you thought the Bucks were. They’re a better version of last year’s team due to more experience, and they can beat anyone. But they are also inconsistent and put up some real duds from time to time. Their last several games have been:
Beat Wolves at home
Beat Thunder on road
Lost at Toronto in OT
Crushed Indiana at home
Blown out by Toronto at home
Beat Wizards on road
Now getting blown out by Indiana on road
That’s a tough stretch vs likely playoff teams. They’ll come out 4-3. Of course, the two games immediately preceding this were losses to Charlotte and Chicago. And they beat Cleveland right before those bad losses.
So yeah, Milwaukee could be a dangerous team in the playoffs. But they could also get bounced in the 1st round as a 4-seed, and are unlikely to earn any better seeding than that. Similar to Washington in that regard.