Go Suns!

Well that sucked...bucks are hard to catch when they sport the lead

Book can't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle

That’s the game as Book is playing horrible, CP3 not playing much better.

If you’d tell me Crowder would be 5 of 6 from the three and Ayton starting the game like he did, I’d have said we would win. Tonight is not the Suns night.

Bottom line, the Bucks role players played better than the Suns role players.

The 2 best players from Game 2 were awful in Game 3 - Booker/Bridges.   I said after LAST game that Monty needs to call the NBA office and figure out why one big man is allowed to run into Suns players, push off with left arm, grab jerseys and throw Suns players off balance while Ayton is not allowed to breathe on Bucks' players without a foul being called.

I replayed everyone of Ayton's 5 fouls and three of them were outright bogus (in fact if Giannis was called for anything resembling these 3 fouls, he would foul out in 1st qtr), one was a legit call and the other was questionable (should have been a play on).   What was happening last night is both Giannis & Middleton anytime DA is near them including when they stepped on his foot, they are falling to the ground.   No matter how much contact (including obvious charging calls against Giannis) is happening DA & Crowder are not going to the ground while Buck players look like bowling pins falling when barely touched.

Proof of how egregious this tactic is being employed, is there was a play with about 2:15 left in 1st half where Milwaukee did a pick-n-roll play and Giannis rolled to the basket but the ball flew over his head out of bounds before he even saw it.   AFTER the ball is already out of bounds, Giannis plants his right foot (didn't even step on top of DA's shoe) but merely slides into DA's sneaker, Giannis proceeded to fall to the ground as if shot by a 45-caliber bullet.   A timeout was called but Giannis complained to the officials as he was walking off the court begging for a call after a ball has already a second earlier sailed out of bounds.

- MONTY FINALLY said after the game he wants to talk with the NBA offices to get "clarity on legal guarding positions."   If the refs don't let DA play at least a little bit more aggressively in the coming games, it'll remind Suns fans why Suns players nicknamed Bruce Bowen "Edward Scissorhands" on his defense of Steve Nash during that era.   Monty is well respected in the league offices and doesn't complain about refs until it crosses the line more than one game ... we've gotten to that point making Wed's game most interesting.

I just heard on 98.7 that Ayton only played 4 minutes and 42 seconds for the ENTIRE 2nd half.!!!   Giannis also set a record with scoring all of his points at the free throw line OR inside the restricted area at the basket... no one in basketball history scored that many points basically from FT's or within 3' of basket.   

Hope the next game with a different crew than the Scott Foster led crew which clearly let Giannis do whatever he wanted IMO -- when Giannis "trucked" Crowder for an obvious charging call right in front of Scott Foster, it didn't make a difference as I posted even before the game ... "the fix" was in.

P.S. Booker looked out of it from the start ... hope their wasn't trouble over the weekend in the land of the Kardashians.