The Bucks sure know how to make things stressful, eh? It was never going to be as simple as “show up and blow your opponents off the court”, but I’m not sure anyone saw the grinding morass that was almost the entirety of yesterday’s Game 1 against the Boston Celtics coming.
As frustrating as coming far short of expectations in that way was, there were still moments of positivity to glean from the muck. Khris Middleton had himself some moments, Eric Bledsoe wasn’t a complete disaster, and the likes of George Hill and Nikola Mirotic showed up in crucial bench minutes.