Even when the Bucks tied it up 2-2, the Suns were headed home for Game 5 and looked like they had a good chance to pull up 3-2 and still have a potential Game 7 at home. Now, by Game 2, Giannis was looking like his old self, but Phoenix still managed to put together a 2-0 lead. They came into the NBA Finals as heavy favorites because it looked like Giannis Antetokounmpo was going to be too injured to be anything close to 100%. I don’t know: maybe there is a Phoenix Suns curse. Is this a case of one player trying to do much ( there’s a real question of whether if his “taking over a game” is the best way for the Suns to play basketball) or is this just a case of the Bucks’ best player simply just having the better series (Giannis too has had back to back 40 point games this series, although it includes a Milwaukee loss in Game 2)? Well, how he plays today and whether the Suns manage to win or not will 100% determine how this is remembered. Instead, we’re looking at him as possibly being a problem with the Suns, despite the fact that he bounced back from a dismal Game 3 to have back-to-back nights where he scored 40 points and yet-like his fantastic near-dunk on Saturday-it won’t count if the Bucks complete their mission in today’s game. If the Suns were ahead of this series, and if a few more baskets had gone their way in Game 5 that’s what we would be looking at here, we’d be talking about Devin Booker as if he were a Finals MVP frontrunner.
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