Is it a fruitless exercise to grade a Finals win? I’ll accept that, but one outgoing thought I have after the Bucks’ first championship in 50 years is that in spite of how well they played—obviously well enough to win it all—they could have played significantly better. Overall the team was outstanding in this series after steadily improving during the postseason run, though I believe that if certain individual performances were better, Milwaukee could have steamrolled any opponent in their way of a title regardless of either team’s health situation. It almost felt like they never truly peaked: I believe their ceiling was even higher given the consistently poor perimeter shooting.
Bucks Progress Report: NBA Finals
