Toronto Raptors Roundtable: Biggest questions before the Milwaukee Bucks series

What did you learn from the four games earlier this season?

Jordan Skuse:

Frankly, just how good Milwaukee is — to me, they, not the Warriors, are the best team in the league. Beating the Bucks 4-of-7 times is not going to be an easy task, especially if they shoot the way they did in those four prior contests. To beat them in a seven-game-series, Toronto is going to have to play near-perfect basketball.

Mike Bossetti:

That Toronto will need to hit shots if they want to win this series. Milwaukee plays a very conservative defense which focusses on shutting down the rim at all costs. If the Raptors want to exploit them, they’ll need to start hitting shots from the perimeter. Not a great sign for Toronto at the moment, considering what happened in the prior series.

Go Paolo:

Two things: the Bucks are big and the Bucks will kill you from the perimeter. It’s not so much Giannis that is the issue but the three-point shooting and length of Milwaukee. Toronto has to find ways to clamp down on at least two of them or the series will be short.

Vimal Sivakumar:

In Milwaukee’s three regular season wins against the Raptors, Giannis led the team in points two times, scoring just 19 points on each occasion. This is not an indictment on Giannis as much as it is an appraisal of Milwaukee’s depth throughout the season. Milwaukee is much more than just Giannis and “depth pieces”, which will require a significant amount of game planning from this Raptors team during the ECF.