When you are the reigning champions, like the Milwaukee Bucks are, you have the right to behave with certain confidence when you are on the court.
As the most recent owners of the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, the Bucks can always default to that as their default response. However, they can act even more self-assured in any single game when they are also dominating their opponent.
That is exactly what happened against the Bulls on Tuesday evening, but the Bucks needed to remind Chicago big man Tristan Thompson.
