The Milwaukee Bucks have no one to blame but themselves as they are in an early hole to begin the Eastern Conference Finals.
Losing their first home game in these playoffs, the Bucks looked discombobulated for a massive portion of this opening contest and devastatingly lost 116-113. This unit did not look like the Milwaukee team that had played their heart and soul out in the last round to triumphantly defeat the Brooklyn Nets in seven games as they lacked urgency on both ends throughout this game.
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Already losing their homecourt advantage at Fiserv Forum, there is not one individual to solely point the finger at for the loss for the Bucks, but several key contributors that will take on more share of the blame than others. Deservingly so as this game had some great showings, but also some downright dreadful ones to go along with it.
With that out of the way, it is time to hand out grades from last night’s loss to the Hawks in Game 1 of the ECF.