Author’s note: I'm writing this on the afternoon of Sunday, July 11th, 2021. The Bucks are down 0-2 and may or may not be down 0-3 or only down 1-2 by the time this airs.
(Update: They mostly played better in game three! Woo!)
I think the thing that is most frustrating about this, our first trip to the Finals in almost half a century, is the sense that we haven’t seen the team “leave it all out there”. That’s an unfair criticism as I don’t necessarily think seeing players throw their bodies to the floor for loose balls or getting tangled in piles for rebounds are always good indicators of effort.