98 – 117
Box Scores: NBA – Yahoo
 
GAME SUMMARY
East First Round – Game 1 – Series tied 0-0
Location: Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Officials: Curtis Blair, Brent Barnaky, Josh Tiven, and Tre Maddox
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Milwaukee Bucks 25 18 33 22 98
Indiana Pacers 33 34 26 24 117
 
TEAM STATS
Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
Milwaukee Bucks 98 35-84 41.7% 9-37 24.3% 19-28 67.9% 8 55 15 20 4 10 3
Indiana Pacers 117 42-81 51.9% 13-34 38.2% 20-26 76.9% 5 48 28 22 6 5 6
 
PLAYER STATS
Milwaukee Bucks MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Kyle KuzmaSF 21:34 0 0-5 0-2 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 -24
Giannis AntetokounmpoPF 38:02 36 14-23 0-2 8-15 3 9 12 1 1 2 5 2 -18
Brook LopezC 20:37 9 3-6 0-2 3-3 1 3 4 0 0 0 1 2 -18
Taurean PrinceSG 19:37 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 0 -15
Ryan RollinsPG 18:37 5 2-8 1-4 0-0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 2 -13
Kevin Porter Jr. 29:22 12 2-7 0-2 8-8 1 4 5 5 1 0 0 2 -6
Bobby Portis 25:25 4 2-8 0-4 0-0 2 6 8 0 0 0 1 1 3
Gary Trent Jr. 26:55 14 6-11 2-7 0-0 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 -4
AJ Green 26:52 15 5-13 5-11 0-0 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 5 -5
Jericho Sims 09:35 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 2 3
Pat Connaughton 01:22 3 1-1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 -2
Chris Livingston 00:59 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Andre Jackson Jr. 00:59 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Damian Lillard 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tyler Smith 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indiana Pacers MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Aaron NesmithSF 27:22 7 3-7 1-3 0-0 3 3 6 0 1 0 0 3 8
Pascal SiakamPF 32:54 25 10-15 3-5 2-2 0 7 7 2 1 1 1 4 28
Myles TurnerC 31:03 19 7-12 4-6 1-2 0 5 5 2 1 4 0 2 24
Andrew NembhardSG 28:36 17 8-13 1-3 0-0 0 4 4 5 2 0 1 2 23
Tyrese HaliburtonPG 34:19 10 3-13 0-7 4-6 0 7 7 12 0 0 1 2 27
Obi Toppin 14:46 6 2-3 1-1 1-2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 -16
Bennedict Mathurin 25:16 13 2-7 1-6 8-8 1 4 5 1 0 0 1 2 9
T.J. McConnell 15:26 11 5-7 0-0 1-2 0 2 2 5 0 0 1 2 -3
Jarace Walker 17:24 3 1-2 1-1 0-0 0 5 5 0 1 1 0 2 4
Thomas Bryant 12:10 6 1-2 1-2 3-4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -6
Johnny Furphy 00:39 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3
Tony Bradley 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
James Johnson 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ben Sheppard 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Isaiah Jackson 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

41 comments

  1. Terrible first half and not that great of a 3rd quarter. Pacers shot extremely well and we shot incredibly poorly. Doc needs to see that brook is way too slow for the pacers and Kuz is a terrorist bro 💔. Overall though I have a good feeling about this series especially with dame coming back. It’s not bucks in 6 if we win all of them

    Also Tyrese Halliburton is a clown

  2. Thank god we traded a franchise legend for Kyle “0 points in 21 minutes” Kuzma!

    Under no circumstances can he be allowed to touch the court the rest of this series — we can literally get the same production for Andre Jackson Jr with ten times the defensive impact.

  3. Everytime you think we have finally got it together we put in a dog shit performance and come crashing back to earth.

    A serious team should not be getting blown out by a 4th seed Pacers team. This would have been a 40 point loss to the Celtics.

  4. What a hilarious performance to put up in the first game of the playoffs. What non Giannis player showed up in this game? Anyone? How do you justify keeping Doc? He hasn’t figured out our bench unit with Giannis is our best lineup? The questions to ask are bad here. I’m just embarrassed. Just a no show from the entire organization

    I’d rather have the corpse of Khris than Kuzma. I don’t give a fuck. He’s terrible and I don’t want him on my team anymore. But apparently because he can play more that means he’s more valuable. When you have the opportunity to trade for a guy that can simply play minutes, even if they’re not valuable minutes, you can’t take up the opportunity to trade for him, right?

  5. The starting lineup has been pure shit for about a month straight and Doc decided to still run with it to start the playoffs. Horrendous coach.

    “At least Kuzma plays” Yeah, plays like shit.

  6. I like to play a mental game with myself where I assume game 1 is just our coaching staff trying wild things to see how the Pacers respond, so we can turn on the jets for the rest of the series. Full-on delusion.

  7. That was 100% on Doc Rivers and that game was a perfect example of the fear when he was hired. I can’t even guess what the game-plan was supposed to be. Just did absolutely nothing to help Giannis.

    He’s consistently playing Prince, Kuzma, and Lopez together for massive minutes after weeks of evidence the lineup is terrible. Kuzma and Prince are the main reason things breakdown on defense and Lopez is far too slow to recover. Those two have honestly been killing the team in multiple ways. The coach is making active decisions that hurt the team and there’s weeks of evidence to back it up.

    Rick Carlisle is probably thrilled. Why is the offense strictly iso and dribble hand off? Pacers offense is constant movement whereas the Bucks stand around for 90% of the shot clock. ball watching It’s only game 1….but horrendous start from Doc and his 20 assistant coaches.

  8. kyle kuzma retweeting more JD Vance tweets than points, rebounds and assists combined today

  10. Honestly if it was the Cavs it would be fine. Its the Pacers. their fans are so insufferable.

  11. What did we learn? Nothing. Anyone with a brain knew Brook l was gonna be abused, Kuzma was gonna do fuck all, and that TP was gonna be invisible. 

  13. Shout out to Chris Livingston for having a larger impact in 59 seconds than Kuz did in over 21…

  16. I wanna give an anti-shoutout to Bobby Portis. We should be used to it by now, but he just routinely disappoints in playoffs post-2021.

  17. Completely outplayed and outcoached. But at least we know who deserves playing time…

  19. Basically very low quality. A god tier Giannis and the rest I wouldn’t hire for G League. Simple as that.

  21. We fucking sucked but still had a chance. Down 12 and got 5 straight stops but missed 5 straight. Even if we go 3/5 it’s a two possession game. We better switch the starting lineup.

  22. Team not ready to play at the outset.

    They better not roll out the same starting lineup again. Dumb ass Glenn Rivers.

  23. It would have been really nice to win that one but it was probably the least likely win all series

  24. TP, Kuzma, Rollins, even Porter were dogshit today. Feels like GTJ should have got more minutes. I just can’t believe we shot 9/37 from 3, man. A lot of those were open shots when they were doubling or tripling Giannis.

  25. Guys, we may of lost this one, at the end of the day at least we aren’t Indiana sports fans 😂😂 keep ya head up lmao Bucks in 6

  26. The starters didn’t play great but Doc leaving them in for Pacers to get a 27 point lead, call a time out, then play the same line up again is insanity. Bench needs more playtime or starters need to step up for bucks to have any shot at winning

  28. Can’t win anything when Kuzma and Bobby are putting up 4 points in total, despite playing for over 20 minutes.

    Speaking of which, Kuz needs to have his minutes cut… significantly.

  30. Sims, Porter Jr., and Green on the floor together always has energy and defense happening. They’re fun to watch.

    Kuzma and Prince looked COMPLETELY LOST the whole damn game. No movement off ball, no drive.

    Let’s see what adjustments Doc makes. It’s obvious we could use Dame’s offense, but I worry about the defense.

  32. I hate Halliburton but I might hate us more for starting the same stupid starting lineup for the past 20 games that has been awful

  33. If Doc has any of Kuzma, Prince, Brook or Rollins in the starting lineup next game Horst needs to walk down to the court and fire him on the spot like that college AD did to the football coach a couple years back. Staring lineup for game #2 should be Giannis, Dame, GTJ, AJ Green and Bobby/Sims… KPJ should lead the second unit with Rollins, Kuzma, Bobby/Sims and Brook.

  34. We started Ryan Rollins, prince, kuzma, and Lopez with Giannis. Just think about that. 

  35. Bud would’ve benched Bobby like he did the nets series. Instead, he has ZERO accountability from doc and just keeps chucking braindead bricks, while also putting in zero effort defensively. 

    He’s literally missing *wide open* 3s, he isn’t capable of staying in front of his assignment (no matter who it is) something isn’t right, but doc just keeps throwing him out there to almost single handedly lose games for us. 

    doc is the worst possible coach we could have atm.

  36. Given Doc Rivers’ history of horrible adjustments and overcommitment to bad line ups over the course of his coaching career (i was a blazer fan during doc’s clippers era and stotts constantly exposed doc’s bad coaching)… i sadly don’t think he and the bucks move towards any significantly different line ups for game 2

    doc is gonna say “our shooters had a bad night” and then say “kuzma needs to get going if we’re gonna have a chance” and then he’s gonna say “TP is essential to our starting squad” and “yknow we really need to get brook more involved”

    lol

  37. Doc does not have a game plan. This team does not have a playbook, they just take turns making ISO plays. This would work if this was the big three Nets but sorry, Rollins, KPJr and the rest are not Harden or Kyrie. Giannis can get his own points but role players need a game plan to be able to contribute to the team. Defensively I don’t understand why Doc insisted playing 2-3 zone when the Pacers were shooting lights out. Long shots are a known weakness of 2-3 zone. Anyways, just some of the points I wanted to mention.

  38. I still feel really confident about this series. It might be delusional but I think doc has to know after this game that the bench lineup is our best one and should be getting the bulk of the minutes. This is clearly not a Brook series and having Taurean and Kuz on the court at the same time is p ludicrous

    When we had the bench group in to close the third and open the fourth we were consistently getting better looks than them and keeping them out of transition. They have nothing in the half court. We just missed some wide open 3s when there was a chance to get it to single digits, and I’m completely willing to bet on AJ and GTJ hitting open shots to win games

    Rotation needs to be 8 guys, Giannis needs to play the 5 most of this series and we’re gonna win (maybe in 5 👀)

  39. Doc told reporters yesterday he was glad they couldn’t interview him tomorrow. I can see why.

  40. Im not down yet, Dame is coming back and adjustments will be made. But my feelings on this series 100% will be based on adjustments to personnel and minutes.

    Taurean doesn’t need to see anymore minutes at all if he straight up will not shoot. Also having someone in the 2 guard spot to fight around screens to help Lopez if he plays is a must (which is not Taurean.

    Kuz is kuz and offers nothing of substance so I have nothing substantial to say, honestly I’d give his minutes to Pat who can at least rebound and space the floor.

    I’d have a starting lineup of dame, rollins, aj green, Giannis and brook/jericho

  41. throwback to that guy who told me I don’t understand basketball because I wasn’t sure that Kuzma is the 3rd best player on this team lmaao

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