The Bucks are an excellent team. If they win the series, I see them being the favorites to repeat, especially if Middleton returns.They do this against other teams and still win. You can't do that shit against a good team like the Bucks and expect a W. Yes, they lost the game because the Bucks are a good basketball team. Is it that hard to give opposing teams credit?
Not every Celtics loss is the Celtics beating themselves or on the refs.
The Bucks being good and the Celtics being sloppy aren't mutually exclusive things. Are the Bucks not a good basketball team? How'd they win the title last year?
But it's extremely frustrating to see Celtics players failing to get back on D in order to bark at the refs. It's an unnecessary and ineffective activity, and the fact that the Bucks are an excellent team means the Celtics need to have the discipline to stop doing that. Had they gotten back on D on 1 or 2 of those 4 drives in the 4th quarter, the Celtics would have been lauded for gutting out a tough game after withstanding a furious comeback by the Bucks. The path not taken....