NBA Finals roundtable: The case for Bucks optimism, potential adjustments, Suns appreciation

Jack Maloney, James Herbert and Colin Ward-Henninger set up Game 3 of the NBA Finals

The Milwaukee Bucks are down 2-0 in the NBA Finals, but they've been in this sort of situation before. One month ago, they responded to 125-86 loss in Brooklyn with an 86-83 point victory at home, narrowly avoiding a 3-0 deficit.  "We got smacked, embarrassed," the Bucks' Khris Middleton said Sunday. "A lot of people thought our season was done. We still believed in ourselves. We came back and had an ugly, grind-it-out game that we found a way to win. Sometimes it's not going to be pretty. Sometimes it's going to be ugly. We just got to find a way to win one game at a time from here on out." The Phoenix Suns, meanwhile, are trying to approach this as if they're the ones coming off a loss, desperate to survive. They know as well as anybody that a playoff series can change in an instant, and they've already lost at least one player to injury in this series. Backup big Dario Saric tore his ACL in Game 1, and reserve forward Torrey Craig injured his knee in Game 2.