Get ready for a clash of the titans when the Bucks and Celtics meet on Christmas Day
are a welcome breath of fresh air. Aside from the clubs being clear favorites to meet in the Eastern Conference finals after a hard-fought, seven-game series last postseason, there’s one other element of the star-studded Christmas matchup that helps it stand apart from the others: The otherworldly physicality from one play to the next.
In a contrast from the controversial 1980s Bad Boys Pistons or the 1990s Blood in the Garden-era Knicks, though, this matchup isn’t drawing blood due to defenses that occasionally cross the line with intimidating tactics.
“I never really [ice]. Unless I played like 42 minutes or something, I usually don’t really need it. With the type of player I am, and the body type I have, I feel like I normally recover pretty well,” says Williams, who, ironically helped win the series for Boston with a massiveshowing in the decisive Game 7. “For the first two or three games of that series, I was like, ‘OK, I’m good.’ But then after Game 5, I was like, ‘I might need to get in the cold tub once or twice.
For Antetokounmpo’s part, he’s sought to build himself into a player who can shake off contact. But he hears it often from coaches that he shouldn’t always make it look that way. “There are times they tell me, ‘You have to sell it more—this would be a Flagrant 2 if it happened to somebody else,’ ” Antetokounmpo says. “I don’t know how to sell it, though. I just try to play through contact, and [hope] it takes a toll on my opponent more than it does on me.
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