Nets are looking more and more like NBA champions
NY Post
For those of us old enough to remember, watching the 2021 Brooklyn Nets’ offense can be like watching the 1985 Chicago Bears’ defense. You are often left wondering how a unit that dominant could ever lose a game.
The Nets have reduced the Milwaukee Bucks to an amateur-hour operation, with the reigning two-time league MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo, shrinking by the possession. Struggling superstars can sometimes find a sanctuary on the free-throw line. For Antetokounmpo, with Nets fans counting off the clock as his excruciatingly painful routine blows past the legal 10-second limit, the line seems more like a torture chamber. Milwaukee swept the Miami Heat in the first round despite the fact that Miami was a finalist last year with a well-established culture of development and accountability designed to prevent things like playoff sweeps. “This aint the bubble,” the Bucks’ official Twitter account posted after the punctuating Game 4, a cute dig at Miami’s breathless bubble run in 2020.
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