{"id":507528,"date":"2023-01-13T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=507528"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:23:57","slug":"adebayo-adds-to-all-star-resume-by-besting-bucks-lopez-now-showdown-with-giannis-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/adebayo-adds-to-all-star-resume-by-besting-bucks-lopez-now-showdown-with-giannis-looms","title":{"rendered":"Adebayo adds to All-Star resume by besting Bucks&#8217; Lopez. Now, showdown with Giannis looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the very first possession of the Miami Heat&#8217;s 108-102 win against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday, Bam Adebayo went right at the Bucks&#8217; towering 7-foot-1 defensive anchor. Brook Lopez &#8212; usually paired with Giannis Antetokounmpo, also 7-foot, as Milwaukee&#8217;s post tandem &#8212; is one of the biggest reasons the Bucks have, by some measures, the best defense in the Eastern Conference. When Lopez and Antetokounmpo are on the court together, it&#8217;s almost impossible to get into the paint and score at the rim. Even when one is out there without the other, the Bucks protect the basket as well as just about any team in the league. Adebayo, though, was not fazed. The 6-9 center started off his game by attacking from the baseline, dribbling twice toward the middle of the floor and then freezing a few feet in front of the free-throw line to square up for a fadeaway jumper beyond Lopez&#8217;s reach. The shot fell through for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This has been part of the development for two straight years. &#8230; Find a way to continue to be aggressive, assertive regardless of what the coverage is.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}