It couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start for the Milwaukee Bucks in their Eastern Conference Semi-Finals series against the Boston Celtics.
While they had built their state of the art arena, Fiserv Forum, into a fortress throughout the regular season and in their first round sweep of the Detroit Pistons, the Bucks came out flat-footed and were left stunned by a 22-point defeat the Celtics handed them on that cool, breezy Sunday afternoon in Milwaukee a week-and-a-half ago.
While nearly every player and every facet of their performance that day didn’t resemble the 60-win team that had bowled through their opponents in the regular season, it was the performance of Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo that was the most atypical on the day.