The Milwaukee Bucks didn’t have a warm-up act, no time to build confidence against a lower-seeded piñata, walking right into the fire against the team that exposed them last summer.
And instead of cowering or falling to old habits, the Bucks made the Miami Heat go “poof” in quick fashion, perhaps the first step in changing the narrative — or at the very least, returning the favor in exposing Miami’s roster flaws, creating questions for the future.
The first team to sweep its opponent in this year’s playoffs gets to sit for a week and if it chooses to, bask in the resounding questions that were answered resoundingly before taking on either Brooklyn or Boston.