In today's NBA regular season, the Bucks host the Celtics. In this game, the Celtics were not very excited, after all, they were already the first in the regular season. And the Bucks desperately need a win to retain their second spot in the East. In the end, the Bucks defeated the Celtics 104-91, although the game was won, but the Bucks were not happy, because the star of the house, Brother Alphabet, was injured in today's game.
In the third quarter of today's game, Brother Alphabet suddenly fell to the ground without confrontation and touched his left calf, and the Bucks checked his injury. Subsequently, according to the official news of the Bucks, Brother Alphabet's injury was a left calf strain, and he did not return to this game. Antetokounmpo suffered a soleus muscle strain in his left calf and will undergo an MRI, Bucks officials said. The soleus muscle is part of the calf muscle group. The mean downtime for soleus muscle injuries is about 17 days. I'm afraid it's a second-degree calf strain, if that's the case, Brother Alphabet won't even want to play this season.
If his injury affects his appearance in the first round of the playoffs, the Bucks may not make it past the first round this season. Because their opponent is likely to be the 76ers. Don't look at the 76ers now ranked 7th, that's because of the decline in performance after Embiid's injury, and before Embiid's injury, the 76ers were the top three teams in the East. Now Embiid is back strong, leading the 76ers to a wave of six consecutive wins, and the Bucks without Brother Alphabet basically can't beat.
Lillard only had 12 points and 5 assists today, and since coming to the Bucks, he has rarely seen him wear a watch. Lillard is averaging 24.4 points and seven assists per game this season, shooting just 41 percent from the field and boasting only 35 percent from three-point range. Coupled with Lillard's air-like defense, if he really faces the 76ers, it is estimated that he will be burst into a sieve by Maxey.
Of course, there is another reason not to be optimistic about the Bucks, and that is that their head coach is Rivers, the king of the reversal in the playoffs. Rivers was eliminated by his opponent in the playoffs many times with a big score of 3:1. You don't see any tactical set-up from Rivers on the court, he calls a timeout and just shouts at the players: Go! go! Go!
I hope that Brother Alphabet's final result is only a minor injury, otherwise without Brother Alphabet, the Bucks' offense and defense will drop by two notches, and they will not even have the strength of the playoff team. After all, Lillard has lost his watch, Middleton is no longer the man that the Celtics fear, and the guard who once integrated offense and defense is already in the opponent Celtics.