Zach LaVine wasn’t going to predict how the playoff series with Milwaukee would end, but he knows how it needs to begin.
Throw the first punch, and keep punching.
If not?
“I feel like they’ve been a championship-caliber team for a couple years now,’’ LaVine said of the Round 1 showdown. “They’re experienced. We have to come in and try and shake it up a little bit. We have to bring the fight to them, because if we’re back on our heels it’s not going to be good.’’
Or it will simply be like it has all season long when taking on the defending NBA Champions.