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The Milwaukee Bucks absolutely destroyed the Atlanta Hawks in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, but Giannis Antetokounmpo doesn't want his teammates to be complacent and overconfident.
With the Bucks now visiting Atlanta for Games and 4, he issued a challenge to the rest of the Bucks to step up even more than they did in Game 2. After all, playing on the road against a motivated Trae Young and Hawks is a whole different adversity they have to overcome.
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“At the end of the day, you know, there’s got to be some urgency, but you still have to enjoy the fact that we’re here, you know, because we worked extremely hard to be in the last four teams standing,” Antetokounmpo said, per Associated Press (via La Crosse Tribune).
“But you know, now going on the road obviously there is going to be some urgency.”
Indeed, if there is something the Bucks should have learned by now about the Hawks, it's that they are not a team easily demoralized by a huge blowout. The 34-point defeat on Friday might have put down any other team, but Young and Co. have proven time and time again they have the mental resilience to endure such losses and bounce back from it.
It should be remembered that the Hawks lost back-to-back 16-point games to the Philadelphia 76ers in their second-round series, and everyone knows what happened after that.
Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks should be brimming with confidence right now after their huge victory, but they shouldn't make the same mistake the Sixers did and instead play as hard as they can from here on out. The series is tied at 1-1 and every game matters.
