The Bucks defeated the Thunder 97-81 to win the championship, and Brother Alphabet scored 26 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists and was elected cup MVP. Ham participated in two cup tournaments as a Lakers coach and Bucks assistant coach, with a proud 14-0 record. Even Bucks coach Doc Rivers joked after the game that "Ham is our secret weapon".

Playing memes is playing memes, and being able to defeat the Thunder, who ranked first in the West, in the finals, the Bucks did not rely on Hamm's "magic". Not only did they win the Cup, but the Bucks had a 12-3 record in their last 15 games (note: NBA Cup finals do not count towards the regular season record), sweeping away the 2-8 slump in the opening season. They were at the bottom of the East at their worst and have now risen back to fifth in the East.

The NBA has a total of 4 teams that have won 12 of their last 15 games, in addition to the Bucks, there are also the Celtics, Mavericks and Thunder. The Bucks proved themselves to be officially back on the ranks of the strong team with their records.

How fierce are the bucks after recovery?

In their last 15 games, the Bucks rank 10th in the league in offensive efficiency at 115.7 and 8th in the league in defensive efficiency at 110.0. In these 15 games, the only teams that can enter the top 10 in the league in offensive and defensive efficiency are the Thunder and Grizzlies in the West and the Bucks in the East.

Compared to the Bucks' own performance in the first 10 games, their improvement is obvious. In the first 10 games, the Bucks were only 2-8, with an offensive efficiency of 110.6, ranking 20th in the league and a defensive efficiency of 115.7, ranking 22nd in the league for the same period.

He won the NBA Cup MVP and once again became one of the favorites for regular season MVP, averaging 32.7 points (1st in the league, a career high), 11.5 rebounds (5th in the league) and 6.1 assists (2nd career) per game, shooting 61.4% from the field, also a career high. In the last 15 games, his average points and assists per game have reached 33.4 points and 6.7 assists, and no one can stop the letters that can attack and pass.

Why did the bucks go all the way to the north?

There are a number of reasons why the Bucks have been able to turn things around, but one important factor is the change in starters and rotations. After the Bucks got off to a sluggish start, Rivers removed Trent, who was out of shape, and decisively used the young and explosive Jackson as the starter. In the team's rotation, he also forwent the 32-year-old Connaughton and gave the 25-year-old AJ Green more time. Overall, the Bucks, the league's oldest average age (29.9), were made as young as possible, and Jackson and Green upgraded the team's perimeter defense.

Looking back at the Bucks' last 15 games, 10 of which have come to crunch time (the final 5 minutes of the game were within 5 points), the Bucks have won 8 of those 10 games, and they have played an important role in their defense in crunch time, allowing opponents to score just 88.4 points per 100 possessions. It was the suffocating defense in the decisive moments that allowed the Bucks to win some games by a narrow margin and accelerate the pace of moving up the Eastern Conference standings.

Middleton's comeback is a big boost to the Bucks. Although Middleton has only played 4 games and his form is far from being comparable to that of his peak, currently averaging only 7 points, 3 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, and shooting as low as 25.9%, he is the teammate who knows Brother Alphabet best and knows how to make it easier for Brother Alphabet to score. Despite the fact that Middleton has only played four games, he has already provided 15 assists for Antetokounmpo in 81 minutes, which is only less than Lillard (52 assists) on the team.

Lillard's breakout was important

After winning the NBA Cup, he said Lillard was one of the best players he'd ever worked with. When it comes to Lillard's offensive weapons, perhaps the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is his three-point shot, and the Bucks can usher in a resurgence because of a big change in Lillard, and his breakthrough is also very threatening.

The stats show that Lillard is the most efficient of the 52 players who have broken through at least 200 times this season, scoring 1.24 points per break, leading the 52ers, followed by Alexander, Booker, Morant and Thomas in 2nd-5th place.

It is precisely the threat of breakthrough that makes the opponent dare not stick to Lillard too tightly when defending, and objectively gives Lillard more space to shoot three-pointers. So far this season, Lillard is shooting 37.1 percent from three-point range, up from last season (35.4 percent). In the past 15 games, Lillard has improved his three-point shooting percentage to 38.9%, averaging 3.7 three-pointers per game.

What's even more terrifying is that in these 15 games, Lillard's 38.9% three-point shooting rate is only 11th in the Bucks. Ten of the Bucks' players shot more than 40 percent from three-point range, including Prince (49.1%), AJ Green (41.9%), Portis (42.9%), Jackson (40.7%), Lopez (40.5%) and Trent (46.8%).

In the first 10 games, the Bucks shot 35.6% from three-point range, ranking only 16th in the league, while in the past 15 games, the Bucks have shot 40.9% from three-point range, which is already tied with the Mavericks for the first place in the league in the same period.

Bucks coach Docs Rivers has revealed that after discussing with Ham about the Lakers' experience with the Lakers last season, the Bucks decided not to open champagne to celebrate, and they want to focus on the rest of the season. A cup title won't stop the Bucks, and they have bigger goals to achieve.