NBA Cup 2024 Semifinals Preview: Bucks vs Hawks Showdown

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00:00tonight in the association around the NBA. There are eight

00:07games on this Friday. We'll take a look at a few perhaps in

00:11just a moment, but tomorrow night in Sin City, it is the

00:15second annual in season competition reaching its final

00:19four. The NBA Cup semifinals in 2024 for a spot in the

00:24championship game to battle for the cup on Tuesday evening.

00:29Also in Las Vegas. Here are the two games and where it stacks

00:34up on semifinals Saturday night in Viva Las Vegas. I said

00:39Saturday night, but that includes Saturday afternoon 430

00:42PM Eastern time early start out there in the desert. Not a

00:47great draw for teams. Maybe trying to hang around and enjoy

00:51all the script might have to offer the Bucks take on the

00:54Hawks Milwaukee three and a half point favorite Joe against

00:57Atlanta total stands at 229 and a hook from the Eastern

01:02Conference semifinal who will play for the cup on Tuesday

01:05night. Yeah, and I think this is a interesting game, but we

01:10also have been we've been trying to tell everyone about

01:14Atlanta for the last couple of weeks here, Ben and we even

01:17looked at their future price to win this cup all together and

01:21we kept saying all the value at 21 to one like you've gotta be

01:25kidding me here. Most people still associate this Atlanta

01:29Hawks team with I don't play any defense. They're no good.

01:33They can't well. Yeah. No they have won eight of their last

01:36nine and you know why they've won eight of those last nine

01:39games because of defense. They are finally healthy and they've

01:43been one of the best defensive teams in the NBA going into

01:48this game here. Plus they already beat the Bucks what

01:51week and a half ago. They are when I tell you a very

01:55dangerous team who plays defense and with Trey Young

02:00playing facilitator and not hero ball. The Hawks to me are

02:04very very dangerous. The only problem is Ben. We heard from

02:07Giannis the other night after they squeaked by Orlando who

02:11had nobody he is really wants. He sounds like he really wants

02:16to win this game and he wants to win the cup and he's not

02:19happy about the way it ended last year against Indiana in

02:22the NBA Cup. Yep. So we're talking about a very motivated

02:25Bucks team, which makes this a big big time heavyweight fight.

02:30I think going into it and we shall see Joe just exactly how

02:35motivated they are in these spots right. The atmosphere

02:38feels like it should be big for the NBA Cup the incentivizing

02:43that the NBA has done for these games. The semifinal games by

02:47the way still count to your regular season record. The NBA

02:50Cup title game on Tuesday is the only one that will not

02:54reflect in your regular season mark, but Joe because the NBA

02:58Cup is involved in the regular season. You can look at the

03:02moment the Cup started for both of these teams in turning

03:06around their slates. Atlanta entered the start of the NBA

03:09Cup four and seven. They have now won ten of their last 13

03:15when you look at where the this Milwaukee Bucks team was

03:19entering the NBA Cup. They were two and eight. They have won

03:24eleven of their last fourteen. These two teams have used this

03:28to turn their season around and that is a huge huge thing for

03:33both teams entering this matchup. So again that 229 and

03:38a half should also be interesting to see as if these

03:43are going to have that playoff type atmosphere. Maybe these

03:46games stay under as we saw in our double header on Wednesday

03:50night in NBA Cup action, the night cap in Las Vegas, the

03:55Western Conference, semi Oklahoma City and Houston.

03:59Could this be a potential playoff matchup that we see

04:01later in the year in the Western Conference? The

04:04Thunder Joe the favorites to win the NBA Cup right now best

04:08team out West five and a half point favorite against the

04:10Rockets. What do you see in the second of our two semifinal

04:13games tomorrow night? I see an interesting defensive battle

04:18here, but there's not what do you say about Oklahoma City

04:21here, Ben? I mean the money's rolling in on him and I get it

04:25because I think there's sixteen and two straight up when either

04:28Holmgren or Hartenstein are on the floor. Obviously Holmgren's

04:32been out now, but Hartenstein back and and playing at such a

04:35ridiculously high level makes this a tough game for the

04:40Rockets, but am I the only one of the things 213? I don't

04:44think we're getting there, Ben. I think this is not going to be

04:47a shooting fest, but this is going to be maybe the most

04:50physical game of the two that we see. Yeah and Joe when you

04:54look at Houston who want that game in controversial fashion,

04:58perhaps on Tuesday night against Golden State or

05:01Wednesday night Tuesday night against Golden State. Excuse me

05:04when you look at that game for Houston, they won 91 to 90 as

05:09low scoring as you will find. Could we see the same for OKC

05:13who stayed under in their NBA Cup quarterfinal game against

05:18Dallas?

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