Bucks Report Card: East Semis

Here we are folks, the weekly/roundly last report card of the year before final grades. After a few days of rumination, my conclusions about the Boston series are pretty unchanged. Both Bucks fans and national voices are debating the finer points of rotations and strategy but missing the forest for the trees: without one of their three best players, the Bucks cannot and should not be expected to perform at their peak. They could have beaten Boston but not with personnel tweaks or broader schematic changes, especially when their problems were not defensive.

Individually speaking, looking at my previous writeup before this round it’s clear that Giannis met the goals I set out, while Jrue…