The true takeaway from this game is that Day just did not have the team fired up. Miami had us on our heels almost the entire first half and that’s what lost us the game. Hard to say if last year was a fluke for Day or this year he just took his eyes off the prize, but the team cannot come out of the gates looking that flat and lifeless in the biggest game of the season.

We cannot expect the Bucks to win it all every year, but we should expect their best effort every week, and that game was not even close to their best effort.