railbird
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The best Eastern Conference 3-seed ever
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railbird
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interesting names on this team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980–81_San_Diego_Clippers_season
FairWarning
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The Bucks were built a lot like the 70’s Bulls, good enough to tease.
FairWarning
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That is an interesting roster. Tony Price led Penn to the Final Four the previous season. Brian Taylor is a good follow on FB, pretty active with ABA players still.
By virtue of winning the Central Division in the Eastern Conference, the 1980-81 Bucks earned the #2 seed and thus a first-round bye.
Unfortunately for Milwaukee, the third-seeded Sixers were accorded home-court advantage over the Bucks because of a better regular-season record.
The Sixers eliminated the Pacers in the opening round (two games-to-none) serving as a perfect set-up before their dramatic Best-of-7 series victory over Milwaukee.
Unfortunately for Milwaukee, the third-seeded Sixers were accorded home-court advantage over the Bucks because of a better regular-season record.
The Sixers eliminated the Pacers in the opening round (two games-to-none) serving as a perfect set-up before their dramatic Best-of-7 series victory over Milwaukee.
Marques Johnson was the most productive player on the 1980-81 Milwaukee Bucks while Sidney Moncrief was the team's emerging talent.
common guy
EOG Senior Member
Amazing names. Mostly California guys plus agar and Jellybean. If Bill was healthy they could have gone places.
railbird
EOG Master
they picked up terry cummings the next yr
FairWarning
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railbird
EOG Master
disagree, they were best team in basketball maybe, no team won more games between the 1976-1983
FairWarning
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They were good enough to win a lot of regular season games, but no real difference-maker in a playoff series. With rare exceptions, you can't win in the NBA that way. The last team was won this way was probably the Pistons over the Lakers.
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
If you don't have the best player in a series, you're not likely to win. The deeper the playoffs, the more this comes into play.
Amazing they beat the Lakers in 5 games that year. The Celtics wanted to clinch at home and toyed with them. 3 of the 4 wins were blowouts.
kane
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LMAO
common guy
EOG Senior Member
Bird correct. Jr. best career 6 th man. Name a better one.....? Interestingly Jr Bridgeman probably one of the smartest and most successful post career nba guy ever. He is on boards for Naismith HOF, LouisvilleU, Churchill Downs etc etc. Made many millions in food and beverage.
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
Havlichek and Bobby Jones. Bridgeman was a heck of a player though.
kane
EOG master
I can name a lot more than one, but since you asked for one, how about John Havlicek
i only remember hondo as a sixth man ... don't remember McHale as a 6th. My memory is in fade position.
FairWarning
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He was a 6th man for the first half of his career, even though he played starters minutes.
kane
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You're completely wrong, McHale was Boston's sixth man at the start of his career, he won the Sixth Man of the Year Award 2 times, in 1983-84 and 1984-85, and Bridgeman isn't close to the player McHale was
kane
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McHale was coming off the bench at the start of his career in the early eighties, he played behind Cornbread Maxwell, once Maxwell got traded, McHale became the starter
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