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Welcome to locked on NBA. West Goldberg here with David Rimmel and we have a great show for you today.

We're going to break down the most important keys and match-ups for these finals and then discuss

what comes next for the Hawks.

But let's jump right into it with the biggest question which is clearly

whether or not Janus is going to play. Bucks coach Mike Boonholzer said that Janus is day-to-day

with a knee injury he's going to be be a game time decision for game one on Tuesday with Janus. Obviously Milwaukee has a chance to win and maybe they're even the favorites in this series against the sons. But David, do you think that the bucks have a shot even if Janus can't play for maybe the beginning portion of the series or maybe for the entire series?

Yeah, absolutely. I think it speaks to the fact that I was just thinking about this yesterday, you know, these two teams aren't viewed as like world beaters, right? No clear dominant team even though both of them, you know, with fantastic

regular season records and strong post season play and everything else, but

maybe lacking the quote unquote superstar talent that most people equate

with a finals contestant.

But either way, even without Yana is clearly the best superstar of these two teams

or the one with the most superstar level talent of these two teams currently anyway.

Yeah. I think that Milwaukee's depth is enough and look I think that's a huge factor for Milwaukee is

one thing you know something we saw over the last two games in the Hawk series is that they can change their style of play.

They're going to rely more on Chris Middleton.

They can incorporate Brooke Lopez differently.

They can use them more, you know, to space the floor or attack the rim more frequently because it won't be clogged as Janus is getting to the room now.

So I think they can do things differently. Bouden-holes are showed the capacity to make the kind of adjustments necessary and given all that given the fact that they can have other players step up offensively and that defensively they can be cohesive enough as a group, maybe not with the same individual greatness as

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