Last night, the Milwaukee Bucks became the third No. 1 seed in NBA history to lose in the first round of the playoffs to the No. 8 seed. It was a disaster of a series for Milwaukee, a presumptive title favorite, on multiple fronts. They got unlucky with injuries and the Miami Heat's shooting. Jimmy Butler was insane even for Playoff Jimmy. But Mike Budenholzer deserves most of the blame due to his failure to adjust (a familiar story) and especially for the way he handled the final seconds of regulation and overtime in Game 5.

Here's a quick rundown of the coach's mistakes that cost the Bucks their season. First, with Milwaukee up two and just over two seconds to go in regulation, Budenholzer decided to take Brook Lopez out of the game. If the Bucks were up three this would've been smart. But they were up two and their coach voluntarily took their best rim protector out of the game in exchange for Pat Connaughton. This directly led to the Heat inbouding the ball on a lob to Butler. He needed to make an incredible shot and got away with a push-off but none of it would've happened if Lopez were in! Then, with 0.5 seconds to go in a tie game after that shot, Budenholzer did not call a timeout– a truly baffling decision because it's not like he could've carried the timeout into overtime.

That particular issue would seal the Bucks' fate in overtime. Down 128-126 with time winding down, Budenholzer just stood by with two timeouts in his pocket as his team dribbled frantically around before Grayson Allen, of all people, ended up with the ball as time was expiring. Fittingly he did not realize time was expiring and attempted to eurostep as the buzzer sounded. The Bucks were eliminated in five games on their home court as the No. 1 overall seed in the entire playoffs and failed to even get a shot off at the buzzer because Budenholzer, for some absolutely inexplicable reason, did not see fit to call a timeout.