If You Need An NBA Team To Root For This Playoff Season...

[The Rick]

...feel free to jump on the Milwaukee Bucks' bandwagon.

After last night's thrilling win in Atlanta, we're up 3-2 in the series and looking to finish off the Hawks tomorrow night here in Milwaukee. The Bradley Center is going to be nuts tomorrow night. Heck, the entire city is feeling it already.

There's a lot to like about this team. No one gave them a chance, especially when their best player (Andrew Bogut) went down for the season two weeks before the start of the playoffs.

They clearly aren't as talented as Atlanta, but they're winning because they're out-hustling Atlanta, out-coaching Atlanta, and simply playing with more heart. They play hard, and they don't back down. I don't think there's a team in the playoffs this year that could out-hustle and out-work the Bucks. They're smaller and less athletic than Atlanta, but they get every loose ball, out-defend, and out-rebound the Hawks.

They're fun to watch. Scott Skiles is coaching circles around Atlanta's coach. Brandon Jennings, the wise beyond his years 20-year-old rookie, has put the team on his back and would have been named rookie of the year if they voted after the playoffs.

If you're a basketball fan and none of that appeals to you, and you don't like rooting for scrappy underdogs, then maybe the fact that our mascot can do this will help:

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FEAR THE DEER!

[blaise]

I can't post it now, but the commercial with Bango running around hitting people in Hawks jerseys is pretty funny too.

[The Rick]

I can't post it now, but the commercial with Bango running around hitting people in Hawks jerseys is pretty funny too.

Oh yeah!

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[Hydrae]

Nope, I am going to keep praying the Blazers can come back against the Suns. Not counting on it but with the injuries this year and making it into the playoffs is great for the future of my hometown team.

[Jewish Rabbi]

No team controls this board like the Milwaukee Bucks.

[CHENZ A!]

Jennings has been balling out. No way I thought hed be this successful as a rookie. I wish he wouldve played 1 year at Arizona instead of over seas.
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[L.A. Chieffan]

im cool

[BWillie]

Jennings has been balling out. No way I thought hed be this successful as a rookie. I wish he wouldve played 1 year at Arizona instead of over seas.
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He's been playing better in the playoffs, but after the first 25 games of the season, he played like complete ass. The guy shot 37% from the field and focus on getting his team more involved. So far it looks like he's done that, and has came ready to play.

Go Thunder though.

[RealSNR]

I hope they beat the crap out of the Magic next round. If there's a poorly coached team to exploit with good team basketball, it's them.

[Dante84]

Sorry, I'm on LeBron's nuts.

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['Hamas' Jenkins]

I hate the Bucks because whenever the first NBA Jam came out in the arcade, fucking Brad Lohaus was a god. I never seemed to be able to get past those cocksuckers.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Well, I don't watch or follow the NBA but I see the headlines. I'm rooting for Luke Ridnour's team. So I'm on board. :thumb:

[BWillie]

I hate the Bucks because whenever the first NBA Jam came out in the arcade, ****ing Brad Lohaus was a god. I never seemed to be able to get past those one who sucks the peniss.

Rony Seikaly. NBA JAM. Guy was a legend on that game, for whatever reason.

[TEX]

The NBA BLOWS.

[Reerun_KC]

No team controls this board like the Milwaukee Bucks.

Repost.

[Fritz88]

Oh yeah!

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funny.

[Reerun_KC]

The NBA BLOWS.

This!

Until they let the players start bringing their guns from their cars and lockers onto the court of play... I could careless...

I want to see David Stern prompt some thuggery and let someone shoot another player...

Its just a matter of time....

[CHENZ A!]

He's been playing better in the playoffs, but after the first 25 games of the season, he played like complete ass. The guy shot 37% from the field and focus on getting his team more involved. So far it looks like he's done that, and has came ready to play.

Go Thunder though.

No not the Thunder! They should've come to KC so I hold a grudge against that franchise.

[CHENZ A!]

As far as NBA Jam goes, the David robinson, Sean Elliott, Worm team was the best!

[Mr. Flopnuts]

This!

Until they let the players start bringing their guns from their cars and lockers onto the court of play... I could careless...

I want to see David Stern prompt some thuggery and let someone shoot another player...

Its just a matter of time....

I get the impression you don't like black people. First our black head coach, now an entire sport. How do you feel about the President?

[CHENZ A!]

I get the impression you don't like black people. First our black head coach, now an entire sport. How do you feel about the President?

Might not even be black people. He might just think every person that has tattoos is a thug. I hear people say that bullshit about the NBA all the time. I'm like why do you think he's a thug? Have you seen an interview with him? Has he been convicted of any crimes that you know of? The answer is usually just "look at him" or "he's got a neck tattoo" or "he looks so angry all the time". :shake: