Since returning from the All-Star break, the Bucks have won nine of their last twelve games. Let that sink in for a second, especially in the face of loud discourse from the glass-half-empty portion of the fanbase who focuses on the three losses, particularly the ones in Northern California. Or even the relative difficulty Milwaukee had in taking down Embiid-less Philly. To be fair, those losses were bad and the Sixers win uninspiring, but none of that should take away from three impressive victories over Western Conference opponents, two of which came sans-Giannis.
The tendency of some fans to focus on negatives despite any positives of equal or greater weight (e.