Man, this box Celtic series is just continuing to evolve into ever more of a classic just so much talent, so much physicality, so much effort on the floor of the box.

Pull it out, it looked like they were dead, they're gonna be down 3-2, down 14 in the fourth quarter, and somehow they pulled it out, and I didn't even think that Boston played that terribly down the end either.

Just Milwaukee hit every shot, and they outhustled a team that wasn't even like not hustling, I would say, most of the way.

It was just another great game, and now we head to Milwaukee with a chance for them to close it out, in six against all odds with Chris Middleton, unavailable for the whole series, where are your biggest takeaways?

I am fascinated to know it'll take a long time to find this out, how this game fits into the mosaic for these two franchises and these two cores moving forward, because this gave Milwaukee a lifeline a significant one towards winning a second consecutive championship.

They instead of having to win two games in a row, one of which would have been a game seven on the road, now they have to win one out of two, which is much more doable, and knowing what we know right now, I think I would pick the winner of this series against either of the other opponents, and then for the Celtics, I agree with you that this was more things going really well for the box mostly of their own making than the Celtics just failing, or you know, one of those catastrophic ones, but it is still an e-mail doka after the game,

and then from what I've heard his stuff characterizes, it's like this is a missed opportunity, and so that is a part of it. We also saw the Bucks are having to rely so much with Chris Middleton out on their two remaining best players, and for most of the game, that was Yannis being phenomenal, and I mean this was an amazing Yannis performance overall, not a perfect one, but a very good one.

Through holiday, you know, through three quarters was not having that kind of a game, and I want to talk about some of the Drew only minutes at one point during this, but then the best guard defender in the NBA made two gargantuan plays, and hit a number three in the fourth quarter, and that helped them clinch this win.

I think this is not a perfect performance, I don't think it's possible to have a perfect performance against the Celtics defense, but to score 40 points in 40 minutes, 16 to 27 from the field, 6 to 10 from the foul line, only had three assists like they are really trying to take that part of his game away, but they still have the best guys you could think of to guard him, one on one.

Did have seven turnovers, couple of offensive files, didn't have I think the same level of defensive impact that we've seen him have in the past, but he kept them in that so many times to even be in the same gym by the time the fourth quarter started.

I thought to me the biggest stretch of the game that will probably just not be thought about is Boston goes up 51 38, they're going to that small lineup that killed the box at the end of game for and Yannis just beat Alhorfer three times in a row for easy laps or dunks.

I'll had a couple stops on the fourth, but largely honest did pretty well against Alhorfer tonight and that just kept Milwaukee in contact and they're actually only down by seven and a half time when it seemed like okay, they lost game four, their chances gone and the Celtics are going crazy like they didn't really seem to have anything strategically, although that would change finally in the fourth quarter.

So Yannis just went nothing else was going right he kept the box in the game time after time and then hit the two threes late as well last possession of the game.

Yes, he did miss one out of two free throws before the poorest offensive rebound, but they're down to they give it to him. He draws the first file and grant Williams in the last two minutes and then he drove and got the second one I grant Williams, which I thought was a foul.

Yeah, Grant Williams went ahead his arm forward might and there was contact there. So I mean, it was just like he is the best player in the NBA.

I think that's that's something that has become pretty clear. I had KD ahead of him. I think you had I had you on this year. I think you're you're looking pretty right here.

Yannis was going to have a more difficult series than this and he has at times in the fact that Robert Williams hasn't been as available a lot of the time. I think has helped him and also just the fact that Boston kind of went to the strategy of taking away some of the three

players and letting him eat a little bit more than what they did early on, but nonetheless, like even to do that against this. That like Boston just let him score here and I mean, you compare the series that he's had to what KD did offensively and then also the defensive impact that he's had through large swath of this series. It's really been remarkable.

And I think even no matter what happens in this series going forward like he's proved now that not only in the regular season, but in the playoffs that he is the best player in the

NBA and along those lines, something else that was really striking to me about game five was you could see how valuable Yannis was in absentia and part of that is the bucks not having those complimentary players creators available right now.

Well, that was a lot on Drew holiday shoulders, but I thought in the second and third quarters in particular, the non Yannis minutes were huge problems Memphis got a couple or

sorry, Memphis Milwaukee got a couple of couple of shots to follow, but generally speaking, the offense was really stagnant during those minutes. They couldn't really create many advantages and the bucks have shooters, but they don't have a ton of creators and Yannis isn't the traditional initiator, but the attention that he draws makes life so much easier on his teammates and you could think about, you know,

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