Friday’s Boston Celtics win over the Milwaukee Bucks may have been the least suspenseful game of the season. Jaylen Brown (26 points, four rebounds, and three assists), Jayson Tatum (23 points, 11 rebounds, and nine assists) led the way for the Cs as they steamrolled this corpse of a basketball team.
Here’s what stood out in Boston’s 133-101 victory in Milwaukee:
Neemias Queta was the best center on the floor
Imagine trying to tell someone in April of 2025 that Neemias Queta is a better, more effective player than Myles Turner. At the time, Queta was the fourth string center on the Celtics, while Turner was the starter on an eventual NBA Finals team.
What a difference a year can make.
Friday night served as a great reminder of the progress Queta has made in such a short period of time (if one was even needed). He set the tone early with a dominant first quarter. The Portuguese big man’s fingerprints were all over this one, as he poured in a quick 13 points and ripped down five boards in the opening frame alone.
By the end of his shift, he’d logged his second-straight double-double with 19 points, 10 rebounds, and four blocks.
Meanwhile, Turner, who Milwaukee signed to a four-year $109 million contract last summer, was firmly in “what does he even do?” territory. He tallied just four points and a single rebound in 18 minutes and had a plus-minus of -32 on the evening.
Yikes.
Jayson Tatum continues to look more like himself
I wrote about the strides Jayson Tatum has taken on a week-by-week basis on Friday afternoon. The win over the Bucks was just another example of how he continues to trend in the right direction with the playoffs approaching.
He dominated at Fiserv Forum.
Tatum nearly logged his second-straight triple-double falling short by just one assist. Even so, he manipulated Milwaukee’s defense quite well and made things so much easier for his teammates (see Neemias Queta).
Not to mention that he gave Boston an efficient 23 points on 8-16 from the field and 4-8 from deep. Of course, Tatum’s presence on the glass remained superb with 11 boards.
Shoutout to ‘em.
The Bucks are sad and pathetic
Make no mistake, the Celtics came out and won this game. They got great performances across the board and should be satisfied with their effort as a unit. But, man, are the Bucks the saddest team in the league.
Sure, there are bad teams, record-wise, but even the league’s bottom feeders have some sort of future to look forward to.
Milwaukee doesn’t have any exciting young prospects. Giannis Antetokounmpo wants to request a trade but is too afraid of whatever backlash he’ll face in doing so. Now, he’s publicly complaining that the team is holding him out of the lineup to either ensure his health for a potential trade, or give themselves a better chance at a high draft pick to actually add young talent.
What we all witnessed at Fiserv on Friday was just sad. Like, there isn’t one single player on this team that the fans in Milwaukee want to see, besides the other Antetokounmpos, Thanasis and Alex.
Poor Doc Rivers, man.
