Milwaukee Bucks Seem To Have Upset The Golden State Warriors

The Milwaukee Bucks know exactly what they are, yet for some reason they’ve gotten under the skin of the Golden State Warriors. All they did was win.

It’s a terrible feeling having to watch an opposing team celebrate their victory over you, and one the Milwaukee Bucks have had more than their fair share of this season. It seems like the Golden State Warriors have forgotten what that feeling is like.

Less than a week on from Milwaukee ending the Warriors 27 game win streak in the Bradley Center, the two teams will meet again on Friday for the second and final game of their season series at Oracle Arena.

For the Bucks it will be the third game of what has been a disastrous west coast road trip, and another game where they’ll simply try to figure things out. On the other hand for the Golden State Warriors, this is a game that seems to be taking on an absurd level of importance.

The Bucks have been painfully bad throughout the first 30 percent of this season, but there can be little disputing that they put in an outstanding performance in adding the first blemish to Golden State’s previously 24-0 start.

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Much was made about the Warriors coming into that matchup off the back of a double overtime game on the first night of a back to back in Boston, yet somehow the Celtics managed to recover from that game to win on the road against a formidable Charlotte team.

The Warriors arrived into Milwaukee at 3 am on the morning of the game, but with the Bucks only getting home following their loss in Toronto at 1 am, neither side had ideal preparations.

When the game itself came around, Milwaukee shot better than Golden State from the field, behind the arc and the free throw line. They pounded them in the paint, swung the ball around for 31 assists, and as inconceivable as it would have seemed before the game, Milwaukee were simply the better team.

Draymond Green begrudgingly acknowledged that the Bucks had been effective, but he was the only one of his teammates to take that tone, both immediately after, and in the days since.

Klay Thompson, who for some reason seems to have a clear and long-running bad feeling towards the Bucks, has spent the week talking.

Stephen Curry, a player who was so quick to clarify that he and Draymod Green weren’t laughing at the Utah Jazz after narrowly defeating them a couple of weeks back, made no secret of how he was amused by the experience on Saturday night in Milwaukee.

Then there was Green, who after being gracious immediately after the game found some things to say as the week went on. As reported by Diamond Leung based on an interview the player did with KNBR, Green took particular grievance with Michael Carter-Williams‘ reaction following a late dunk.

"Like dude, you lost your (starting) spot. So it’s not quite common that you should be looking towards someone’s bench yelling when you’ve got some ground to make up. But I love the intensity.There’s a couple things that took place that didn’t sit too well with me. Now I’m not saying that that’s our whole team…It ain’t no hard feelings. It ain’t like we’re disappointed about something they did. Like at the end of the day, it’s basketball. You know, I love to talk junk anyway."

It seems to me like a player who was having his best game of the season, against the defending champions, has every reason to celebrate. Perhaps even more so considering how turbulent the year has been for MCW.

Coming from one of the league’s most brash and bombastic teams when it comes to celebrations, how could the Warriors not like the taste of their own medicine?

So, it’s okay to celebrate if you win often, but if they’re harder to come by the team should just move on and go about their business?

That’s a bit rich coming from a team with this history.

The Golden State Warriors have been playing historically good basketball, and the way in which they do so is a thing of beauty. As such, unlike many of history’s great teams, they’re widely liked within their own era.

The Warriors don’t want to believe that though. For some reason, they seem to be obsessed with creating an “us against the world” mentality, that really doesn’t exist. If anybody should have acted with a little more grace coming out of the Bucks victory, it was the Warriors.

The defending champions should be honored that teams celebrate beating them in the fashion that the Bucks did. That’s about the highest compliment an NBA team can be paid.

In other words, if they’re content with being everybody’s favorite winners, they’ll need to show a little bit more humility when they lose.

As a team, Golden State had nothing to gain from their words over the last few days. Beating the 10-17 Milwaukee Bucks shouldn’t be a big deal for the world champions.On the other hand, if somehow the impossible was to repeat itself and the Bucks were to get the better of Golden State again, the only ones left with egg on their faces will be the arrogant Warriors.