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On Tuesday night, the Brooklyn Nets beat the Milwaukee Bucks 114-108 to go up 3-2 in their series. Milwaukee was supposed to win this game. Kyrie Irving is in crutches. James Harden is limping around with a sore hamstring. But they didn’t account for the gawd, Jeff Green.
JEFF GREEN HAS 24 POINTS ON 6-6 3 PT 🔥 pic.twitter.com/pvU9SFbWQM
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 16, 2021
Jeff Green ended up coming off the bench to drop 27 points and hit 7 of his 8 3-point attempts as well as a key block and drew a big charge in the 4th quarter. Green was the difference maker that no one expected.
The 34-year old Jeff Green was selected 5th overall in the same draft as Kevin Durant and the two of them were supposed to lead the Seattle Supersonics/Oklahoma City Thunder to the promised land and he never quite reached that peak.
Although he has always been a solid bench piece that can get you 10+ points a night, Green is still a punchline. He was the original prototype for the modern 3 and D guy except he wasn’t that great of a shooter and his defense was eh.
If you’re the Milwaukee Bucks, you don’t want to let Jeff Green embarrass you yet here we are with Milwaukee down 3-2 after Green wet 7 consecutive 3’s on their heads.
Kevin Durant was going to Kevin Durant. He scored 49 points to go along with 17 rebounds and 10 assists. One of the greatest playoff performances ever. It sucks if you’re the Bucks but you deal with it because it’s KD.
But you let Jeff Green go off too? You got Jeff Green’d??
James Harden was 1-for-10 with 4 turnovers. He could barely accelerate and Milwaukee did nothing to take advantage.
It’s sad how Giannis can never score on Harden in the clutch
Harden really called off a double-team too, the disrespect 😭 pic.twitter.com/sUuhng2N9c
— arian (@arxanii) June 16, 2021
I mean, what is the Bucks offense? Giannis is one of the worst jump shooters in the league and took a turn around jumper against a man playing on one leg. Brick.
It’s funny how much people demand Ben Simmons take shots outside of the paint while they watch Giannis do it and miss every single time. If you’re 7-feet tall and can tramble people in transition to finish with a dunk then why would you ever pull-up from 3 and bail the defense out?
Milwaukee also has this strange obsession with PJ Tucker. Yes, the same PJ Tucker who scored exactly zero (0) points in Game 5.
You can’t use the excuse that he’s out there to stop Durant when Durant scores fortyfuckingnine points on him.
Tucker existed exclusively to let James Harden take a break on defense and stand in the corner pretending to defend him.
I’m saying all of this to say that head coach, Mike Budenholzer, should be unemployed and the Bucks would be better off just coaching themselves in Game 6.
The Bucks got Jeff Green’d. Laugh out loud. Nets in 6.
