Suns 'embrace' 3-2 赤字 as Bucks go for 決勝戦 finish
MILWAUKEE -- 排除／予選 games are all about mentality, and the Milwaukee Bucks are acclimating to the 需要・要求するs of finishing while the 不死鳥／絶品 Suns 試みる／企てる to embrace the underdog 役割.
"You have to embrace it," Suns 今後 Jae Crowder said Monday after the team's tune-up practice for Game 6 on Tuesday night. "You have to embrace where you are in the series and from there you have to 焦点（を合わせる） and channel your emotions and energy に向かって the next game, and that's tomorrow night. We just know it's going to be a 空中戦／乱闘. ... It's 勝利，勝つ or go home. The words speak for (themselves)."
Where the Suns are 権利 now is one 勝利，勝つ from 存在 派遣（する）d from the NBA 決勝戦 after 主要な 2-0. Milwaukee （人命などを）奪う，主張するd three games in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動, with late-game heroics to 逮捕（する） Game 4 at home and Game 5 in 不死鳥／絶品 on Saturday night.
不死鳥／絶品 had the best 記録，記録的な／記録する in the NBA on the road -- 24-12 -- in the 正規の／正選手 season. But Milwaukee, with a 26-10 示す in the 正規の／正選手 season, tied for the fifth-best home 示す in the league with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Suns are 焦点（を合わせる）d on patching up a 弁護 that 許すd a pair of 40-point games to Giannis Antetokounmpo, another to Khris Middleton and a memorable Game 5 成果／努力 from Jrue Holiday.
"Our guys have always 手配中の，お尋ね者 it, but I think when you're in these moments like this, this is different," Suns 長，率いる coach Monty Williams said. "This is different than the first time against the Lakers, where it was just 2-1. This is it. I think we're just going to see more, like we have throughout the プレーオフs."
While the Bucks have 株d the 主要な 役割 to 勝利，勝つ three straight in the series, the Suns continue to lean ひどく on Devin Booker. He has 82 of the team's 222 points in the past two games in a pair of 40-point 成果／努力s in losses. Williams 許すd that Booker wants to "勝利，勝つ the moment" but the Suns need more of the team attack to 取り去る／解体する Milwaukee's 弁護.
"We have had a good balance of the 肉親，親類d of play t hat Devin brings, but we have also had the ball movement that can break you 負かす／撃墜する," Williams said. "We have talked about that. We saw it in the fourth ４半期/4分の1, where the ball was whipping around the gym. That's 基本的に how we 削減（する） (the 赤字). And so the balance of that, but at the same time I do not want to get in the way of the gift that our one-on-one players have, because that's why we are here. We wouldn't be in this position if Chris (Paul) and Devin couldn't create their own 発射s. That's a fact."
The Bucks continued to 支配する inside even without Antetokounmpo carrying the 得点する／非難する／２０ing 負担 and ran out for 21 急速な／放蕩な-break points in Game 5. Milwaukee 長，率いる coach マイク Budenholzer credits the open-床に打ち倒す 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making with 統一するing his group and 促進するing the level of unselfishness the Bucks have showcased the past two games.
決定／判定勝ち（する）s are not coming as easily or 自然に for Paul, the Suns point guard who is 普通の／平均（する）ing 3.6 turnovers per game in the series as the 焦点（を合わせる） of the Bucks' 十分な-法廷，裁判所 圧力. The idea, Holiday said, is to make Paul work on every dribble and hope that 支払う／賃金s off with 行方不明になるd 発射s or 急ぐd 決定／判定勝ち（する）s in the fourth ４半期/4分の1.
Paul said on Monday he's not 負かす／撃墜する. He's excited to know the Suns can flip the script in Game 6.
"It's definitely exciting," Paul said, 否定するing there was any 追加するd 圧力. "Something that coach and everybody has been 説: If you went to the beginning of the season and said we had a chance to be where we are 権利 now, would you take it? 絶対. 絶対. And we get a chance to 決定する the 結果. It's not like the game is going to be ふりをするd or somebody else got to play. We get a chance. We 支配（する）／統制する our own 運命."
For Milwaukee, winning at home Tuesday brings the Larry O'Brien トロフィー to the Bucks' organization for the first time since 1971. It helps soothe a 最近の history of プレーオフ 失敗, and might 緩和する the 批評 of Budenholzer, who 主張するs nothing in the past has been 言及／関連d to 動機づける his team to get to this point.
"Every team's 旅行 is a little bit different. Every player's 旅行 is a little bit different," Budenholzer said. "I think what we have been through the last few years and where we are today, it's all part of it. It goes into making us who we are, and I think hopefully better 用意が出来ている whether it's from a technical 見地, from a mental 見地, from a physical 見地. Your experiences, they go into making you who you are.
"At the end of the day it doesn't really 事柄. We got to go play a Game 6. We got to get ready to 遂行する／発効させる and play good basketball. But, yeah, those things have 与える／捧げるd to where we are today."
Antetokounmpo 調印するd a long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 取引，協定 to continue his marriage with Milwaukee and is eager to take the 法廷，裁判所 on Tuesday night with a chance to 調印（する） the series. He's also reminding himself that if the script doesn't follow his own 計画（する）, the Bucks have another chance in their 支援する pocket.
"We got to be in the 現在の as much as possible. I can't 焦点（を合わせる） on celebrating," he said. "I can't 焦点（を合わせる） on that 権利 now because I feel like you get too ahead of yourself. We got to 焦点（を合わせる）. I got to 焦点（を合わせる） 権利 now, and then when the game comes tomorrow, 焦点（を合わせる） on each 所有／入手 at a time, a 所有／入手 at a time. As I said, play good basketball, compete as hard as possible and put ourselves in a position to be able to 勝利，勝つ that game. That's all can you ask for. Hopefully we 勝利，勝つ. If we 勝利，勝つ, 広大な／多数の／重要な. If we don't, we have one more chance. But if we 勝利，勝つ, it would be nice to celebrate with the fans inside and outside and with our families, because this is something historical that is happening in the city 権利 now."
--By Jeff Reynolds, Field Level マスコミ
