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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1031956" data-attributes="member: 13032">Agreed.  Reminds me of game 5 in the championship series against Phoenix.  It was very late in the game, the Bucks were up by 1, and Phoenix had a fast break.  Booker had the ball and was just turning to his left to take a mid-range shot for the lead.  Holiday positioned himself perfectly in Booker's blind spot and as soon as Booker turned to start his shooting motion, Holiday literally grabbed the ball away from him and broke the other way.  Giannis saw it coming and was leading on the other side of the floor in transition, really a fast break.  It was too easy.  Holiday lobbed an alley oop and Giannis jammed it.  3 point lead.  Game over.  The subsequent finals win in Milwaukee was anticlimactic.Now I see Boston has given Holiday a 4 year contract extension worth $135m.  Good for him.  And yeah, Horst screwed the pooch by trading for Lillard.  And nothing against Lillard, a brilliant offensive force and HOF shoo in.  But the Bucks didn't need two great scorers to share one ball, while taking away their best defensive player.  Just a disaster.  I can forgive Horst firing Bud, well sort of - can't lose in 5 games to an 8th seed, just can't.  But Holiday?  Yeah, it would be hard to watch the Celtics finish the Bucks' season.  I doubt it will get that far though.</blockquote>

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