After an embarrassing defeat in Game 1, Mike Budenholzer and his Milwaukee Bucks team made an adjustment that may ultimately prove to be one of the most important moments of this year’s playoffs.
It would have been understandable to give a scheme that had propelled the Bucks to the league’s best defense in the regular season even one more game, but Milwaukee at least temporarily pushed their dropping defense to the side in favor of constant switching.
With three consecutive wins in the time since, it’s safe to say the results have been spectacular.
But there are also important byproducts that have come from that adjustment that are worthy of further exploration.