@@tommurphy2746 ❤️ the 1980s boston celtics ❤️ the 1960s boston celtics : bill russell & the gang ; ❤️1980s l.a. laker; magic johnson / pat riley& gang
I miss the Seattle Super Sonics and having basketball team for my state.😥😥😥 I will never heal properly in my heart with such a lost to my state in losing our home team. Sea-town fans where some of the loudest crowds back after those days in history of the game.
absolutely !! 1 game decided by more than 10pts each team winning on the others court ( Bucks winning 2&5 in Seattle) games 4& 6 Supersonics in Milw Eddie Doucette's call on Milw. radio-afyer Johnson's dunk "The Buck$ @re going to win, the Buck$ @re going to win....D.J. Oh Noooo
One of Dennis Johnson's highlights with the Sonics. Thanks for putting this up I've been hoping to see it again for over 35 years! The year before, there was also a key shot he made from the baseline to send Game 2 of the West semifinals vs. the Lakers to overtime. That was one hell of a shot too.
Game 6 in Milwaukee was also a tape delayed game, one of the greatest wins in Supersonic history, an absolute grinder.......these 2 played some of the most exciting playoff basketball games you will ever see
It appeared as though they could have called traveling on the last Millwakee basket off the steal on the breakaway. The guy took the exact same steps as Gus did earlier and got called.
DJ extremely clutch, as usual. Gus was so quick! Most of the time, Dennis seemed to play "relaxed", considerably below his full capabilities during "meaningless" games... then turn it up during games that mattered most, or during crunch time down the line.
DUUUUDDDE!!! Where did you find THIS one!?!?!?!? I have been looking for this game and this game-winning play for 35 YEARS!!! You had to have gone DEEEEEEEP into the archives or your checkbook to get this!!! Noteworthy--The late '70s Seattle SuperSonics were the forerunners to the late '80s Detroit Pistons, and I say that with admiration and respect. The parallels are there: Both teams got most of their scoring from three talented guards (Point Gaurds: Gus Williams/Isiah Thomas; Shooting Guards-Defensive Specialists: Dennis Johnson/Joe Dumars; Off-the-Bench Gunners: "Downtown" Freddy Brown/Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson), started a football player at power forward (Lonnie Shelton/Rick Mahorn), featured an exceptional rebounding reserve (Paul Silas/Dennis Rodman), and had an outside shooting Caucasian center who was usually a top-5 rebounder (Jack Sikma/Bill Laimbeer--must be pointed out that Sikma was interpreted as "aggressive" whereas Laimbeer was labeled "dirty"). Without the Los Angeles Lakers amazing offseason talent acquisitions (Magic Johnson, Michael Cooper, Haywood, Chones, Landsberger) following the Sonics' title in '79 (and DJ's personality implosion), Seattle would have ruled the roost for a while.
Joseph Wright You make some great points. Primarily for the reasons you mention I was a fan of that Pistons team because they were so reminiscent of the '77-'80 Sonics. One other similarity was the fact that both teams played in a domed stadium and the attendance record of 42,000 in Game 5 of this series against the Bucks held until the Pistons broke it 8 or 9 years later. If I remember right, 27,000 tickets were sold within 24 hours of tipoff after announcing the game was being blacked out. That's still got to easily be the biggest 24 hour run on ticket sales for a single game in NBA history by a longshot.
+madcapper6 And the Sonics had always had some real tough guys on their team. From their 1967 beginning the Sonics roster had such bangers as Tom Meschery, John Brisker, Leonard Gray, and Shelton, and later there were Xavier McDaniel, Maurice Lucas, and Frank Brickowski.
+threeby8887 Just barely old enough to remember Leonard Gray. I was around 7 or 8 back when he played, along with Haywood, Slick Watts, Tom "Lumber Legs" Burleson and Rifle Rod Derline. You remember the Rifle I'll bet. Any idea what ever happened to him?
madcapper6 Actually I'm more of a Rocket fan, and I'm not familiar with Derline. I do remember the other mid-'70s Sonics you have mentioned, especially Slick, who played with the Rockets.
Thank you for posting this! I've been an NBA, Bucks, fan for over 45 years. I've seen a lot of great playoff series during my time and this was the best, toughest, closest nail biter from tip-off of game 1 to the final moments of game 7. I would, without hesitation, buy a DVD of this series if one existed. Again, thank you for putting this up. I've been looking for clips of this series for a long time.
Sounds like Larry Steele on the color side of the mike. "Watch it go in." Now that's premium broadcasting. Also, the 3-point shot was so new that it was common that fans and broadcasters would forget that these bombs added an extra point to the score. Great video!
Talked to Sidney Moncrief a number of years ago and he felt this Bucks team had the best shot at an NBA title. Still remember my dad screaming at the tv at the end of game 7 when Dave Meyers missed an easy basket and they ended up losing.
For bucks fans this was a really tough loss. The bucks really lost this series when junior bridgeman went down in game 5 and missed games 6&7. Bucks couldn't make up that scoring off the bench. Sonics deserved to win this series. Gus Williams destroyed the bucks in this series. Just scored at will. Great NBA playoff series from 1980.
As a Sonics fan, I became a Bucks fan after this series and they became my 1B team into the '80s. I've sometimes wondered how the Bucks would've done against the Lakers in the WCF had it been them, especially in light of how bad Sikma struggled against Kareem in that series. I do remember toward the end of the regular season the Bucks notched a fairly decisive win over the Lakers in LA which indicates they'd have played the Lakers pretty tough too just like they did against the Sonics in this series. But yeah, I can imagine for Bucks fans, losing this series had to have been tough.
Except on Sundays. The NBA nationally televised gameson Sundays were always live broadcasts. It was usually on Friday nights that CBS would nationally cover those games, and on Friday nights CBS would tape delay the game until 11:30 pm.
I remember this series...one of the most underrated, nasty, physical series of all time. When the Sonics won this series(and game 1 against the Lakers in the WCF), they had nothing left. The Lakers simply overpowered the Sonics(with a little help from Magic).
It had to at least be possibly the most evenly matched series in NBA history. I think the scoring differential over the entire 7 games combined was like less than 5 points and I think the Bucks even had the higher point total. I agree completely on your assessment of the toll the series took on both teams and how that factored into the conference finals against the Lakers. Hard telling if the Sonics could have beaten the Lakers if not for having to play in this meatgrinder against the Bucks. The Sonics led throughout a good part of that Laker series but seemed to run out of gas in every game. Man, those Bucks were scary good in '80.
Beautiful follow-through from DJ on that incredible game-winner. I remember how the NBA wasn't so big (at least with the TV ratings) for a 3-5 year stretch from 1977-1981 or so, but they played some great basketball then. And the home crowds in such cities with strong teams such as Seattle, Washington DC, Portland, Milwaukee, Denver and Philadelphia would go wild cheering for their teams. You see it here. Boston and Los Angeles would follow.
Why did you have to pop up what a heartbreaker for a young teen I thought DJ banked that shot & I didn't realize how close Marcus came to making that alley- opp 1st time seeing this since the day it happened in 1980
Whatever DJ's shooting % was, it was 100% @ clutch time. Great series, but this loss hurts even more, now that I know Sikma fouled out. Lanier coulda owned a 2nd OT.
I'd like to find all seven games to this series. Weeknights were tape delayed, ending after 1 a.m; Games 4 & 7 on Sunday; family outings Bucks acquired Bob Lanier midseason, but their division was so weak, playing Seattle or LA only way to know if Bucks were legit. They were, just not quite good enough. I can still see Junior Bridgeman's ankle giving out game 5 & Bucks struggling to score without him.
Getting Lanier wasn't enough. They actually should have got Artis Gilmore instead and Norm Nixon from the Lakers! Than they would have won at least one championship!
After 1980, Bucks were a little thin on the front line. I didn't appreciated PF Dave Myers & all the dirty work he did until after he retired in 1980 & was no longer there doing it.
Jason Richards Yeah, that was probably the main reason they couldn't win a title in the '80s. They were always right there with the Celtics and Lakers but with guys like Paul Mokeski and Randy Brewer they just couldn't handle the likes of Robert Parish, Moses Malone and Kareem. Then ironically enough they finally tried to address it with the Sikma trade but he never seemed to pan out for them. Alton Lister could have been the solution if he could have learned to stay out of foul trouble. Always been a hard core Sonics fan but as the 80s wore on and the Sonics faded further and further from contention I started following the Bucks, partly stemming from the fond memories they provided in that series in '80. There was a lot to like about the Bucks back then but that lack of a 5 to scrap with the big boys did them in every time.
So that wasn't a "buzzer beater"? Why did the clock instantly stop after the made basket, is it even possible for someone to call a time out and the ref to acknowledge it that quickly? And on another note Usain Bolt has nothing on Gus Williams, my God is he fast.
Yes. CBS had exclusive rights to NBA broadcasts. Because KIRO 7 was a CBS affiliate, ALL televised Sonics games were televised on that station, whether they were nationally televised games or not.
threeby8887. I remember hearing about that. If you wanted to see the game live. You had go to the arena or you had to wait Sunday Afternoon. NBA did televised live games on Sunday Afternoons.
The Sonics games were live games during local broadcasts, and this game with Wayne Cody was locally broadcast and wasn't tape delayed. I do remember a few Friday night playoff games were broadcast nationally and those Friday night games were tape delayed. Sunday nationally televised games were also live.
@@madcapper6 ok, someone refresh my memory, I watched this game at home , but forgot why this game was at The Seattle Center Coliseum instead of the Kingdome, was there a Mariners game that night?
@@d820m Good question. I'm not exactly sure what was going on but yeah, there were all sorts of conflicts going on at that time. This game was played on April 8th while the M's opener was on the 9th. Since Game 2 of the series was also on the 9th, they might have just opted to play both games at the Coliseum to simplify the process. And the fact that they had to play Games 1 and 2 on back to back nights indicates that there were possible scheduling conflicts with the Coliseum as well, if they'd have scheduled them normally with an off day in between. This vid was recently posted on the FB page 'History of the Seattle Supersonics' run by Matt McCullough. He probably knows more so I'll post the question on there and he'll probably know exactly what was going on. I'll get back to you if he posts a response.
@@madcapper6 The Mariners were at home that weekend so the Kingdome was unavailable. They ran into an even bigger problem in the next round because the Kingdome and the Coliseum were unavailable. They ended up playing their home games at Hec Edmondson Pavillion at the University of Washington.
@@SeahawkKrakenguy I remember those games at Hec Ed. Don't know if I've ever been so sad and disappointed as I was after those two games, especially Game 4 after they had that big lead. Still, even after that I believed they would somehow find a way. Back in those days as a kid I thought the Sonics were gonna be on top for a hundred years and didn't expect anyone would cut their run short 99 years early lol.
One of the most exciting endings in an NBA play-off basketball game that I've ever seen until (LA Laker) Derek Fischer made that amazing shot with only 4/10th of a second left in game #5 of the 2004 western conference semi-final against the San Antonio Spurs in Texas! (hyperlink): th-cam.com/video/NSnAvhvfniw/w-d-xo.html
Could you imagine if Marques had been able to pull down that alley-oop at the end of the game and been able to stuff it in the basket? Too close for comfort on that one. I'm wondering though, since nobody had touched the ball inbounds and Marques was in the air when he got the pass, if he'd have been able to make the shot, would it have counted? Not sure exactly what the rule is on that.
Yes they where in the West when they won their only championship. Bucks, Bulls, and Pistons moved the East and Rockets and Spurs moved to the West the next year when the Mavericks came into the league.
No. It was Wayne Cody. The game was not shown on CBS nationally but was televised by KIRO TV locally. Kevin Calabro did not become the voice of the Sonics until 1988.
Yes the Bucks and Bulls were in the West back then and the Rockets and Spurs were in the East. The four teams swapped conferences I think in '81 or '82.
Fact: This is the Milwaukee Bucks' final Western Conference playoffs appearance before moving to Eastern Conference next season.
The late Wayne Cody, "the Round Mound of Sound"
DJ was the best, my childhood NBA idle, great post of a great game! RIP Dennis, RIP!!
Robert Astrop Agreed. I loved DJ.
Is dennis johnson in basketball hall of fame
@@lloydkline1518 Yep, Dennis Johnson was inducted into the Hall-of-Fame.
@@tommurphy2746 ❤️ the 1980s boston celtics ❤️ the 1960s boston celtics : bill russell & the gang ; ❤️1980s l.a. laker; magic johnson / pat riley& gang
Dennis Johnson was one of the greatest clutch shooters in NBA history........
Except in Game 7 of the NBA Finals where he went 0-for-14 from the floor.
@@metv2363 I’m fully aware of that fact I really meant he had a peculiar penchant for hitting shots at the buzzer.
What a shot from the late great Dennis Johnson!
I miss the Seattle Super Sonics and having basketball team for my state.😥😥😥 I will never heal properly in my heart with such a lost to my state in losing our home team. Sea-town fans where some of the loudest crowds back after those days in history of the game.
Don’t worry man, despite that I’m a Laker fan, I hope that someday that the Sonics are back in the NBA.
God bless I wished we never lost the home team of Seatown
The GOAT goes to The Wizard, Mt.Vernon's Finest
Thank you Arnold,your words are so true, Gus is not doing well , so keep him in your prayers🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🤎
this was one of the great NBA playoff series of all-time. broke my heart, too
absolutely !!
1 game decided by more than 10pts
each team winning on the others court ( Bucks winning 2&5 in Seattle) games 4& 6 Supersonics in Milw
Eddie Doucette's call on Milw. radio-afyer Johnson's dunk "The Buck$ @re going to win, the Buck$ @re going to win....D.J. Oh Noooo
One of Dennis Johnson's highlights with the Sonics. Thanks for putting this up I've been hoping to see it again for over 35 years!
The year before, there was also a key shot he made from the baseline to send Game 2 of the West semifinals vs. the Lakers to overtime. That was one hell of a shot too.
Game 6 in Milwaukee was also a tape delayed game, one of the greatest wins in Supersonic history, an absolute grinder.......these 2 played some of the most exciting playoff basketball games you will ever see
NBA travelling has never been as harsh as that call. Damn.
It appeared as though they could have called traveling on the last Millwakee basket off the steal on the breakaway. The guy took the exact same steps as Gus did earlier and got called.
LOL!! The crowd and the announcers were oblivious to the fact the 3pt line was in effect. The ABA lives on.
DJ extremely clutch, as usual. Gus was so quick!
Most of the time, Dennis seemed to play "relaxed", considerably below his full capabilities during "meaningless" games... then turn it up during games that mattered most, or during crunch time down the line.
Dennis Johnson = from CAMPTIN!!!1 (Compton). Straight outta CAAHMP-TIN!
DUUUUDDDE!!! Where did you find THIS one!?!?!?!? I have been looking for this game and this game-winning play for 35 YEARS!!! You had to have gone DEEEEEEEP into the archives or your checkbook to get this!!!
Noteworthy--The late '70s Seattle SuperSonics were the forerunners to the late '80s Detroit Pistons, and I say that with admiration and respect. The parallels are there: Both teams got most of their scoring from three talented guards (Point Gaurds: Gus Williams/Isiah Thomas; Shooting Guards-Defensive Specialists: Dennis Johnson/Joe Dumars; Off-the-Bench Gunners: "Downtown" Freddy Brown/Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson), started a football player at power forward (Lonnie Shelton/Rick Mahorn), featured an exceptional rebounding reserve (Paul Silas/Dennis Rodman), and had an outside shooting Caucasian center who was usually a top-5 rebounder (Jack Sikma/Bill Laimbeer--must be pointed out that Sikma was interpreted as "aggressive" whereas Laimbeer was labeled "dirty").
Without the Los Angeles Lakers amazing offseason talent acquisitions (Magic Johnson, Michael Cooper, Haywood, Chones, Landsberger) following the Sonics' title in '79 (and DJ's personality implosion), Seattle would have ruled the roost for a while.
Joseph Wright You make some great points. Primarily for the reasons you mention I was a fan of that Pistons team because they were so reminiscent of the '77-'80 Sonics. One other similarity was the fact that both teams played in a domed stadium and the attendance record of 42,000 in Game 5 of this series against the Bucks held until the Pistons broke it 8 or 9 years later. If I remember right, 27,000 tickets were sold within 24 hours of tipoff after announcing the game was being blacked out. That's still got to easily be the biggest 24 hour run on ticket sales for a single game in NBA history by a longshot.
+madcapper6 And the Sonics had always had some real tough guys on their team. From their 1967 beginning the Sonics roster had such bangers as Tom Meschery, John Brisker, Leonard Gray, and Shelton, and later there were Xavier McDaniel, Maurice Lucas, and Frank Brickowski.
+threeby8887 Just barely old enough to remember Leonard Gray. I was around 7 or 8 back when he played, along with Haywood, Slick Watts, Tom "Lumber Legs" Burleson and Rifle Rod Derline. You remember the Rifle I'll bet. Any idea what ever happened to him?
madcapper6 Actually I'm more of a Rocket fan, and I'm not familiar with Derline. I do remember the other mid-'70s Sonics you have mentioned, especially Slick, who played with the Rockets.
+threeby8887 Rod Derline was a local kid. He led Elma, WA to a state championship. He spent a few years with the Sonics in the mid 70's.
Thank you for posting this! I've been an NBA, Bucks, fan for over 45 years. I've seen a lot of great playoff series during my time and this was the best, toughest, closest nail biter from tip-off of game 1 to the final moments of game 7. I would, without hesitation, buy a DVD of this series if one existed. Again, thank you for putting this up. I've been looking for clips of this series for a long time.
Sounds like Larry Steele on the color side of the mike. "Watch it go in." Now that's premium broadcasting. Also, the 3-point shot was so new that it was common that fans and broadcasters would forget that these bombs added an extra point to the score. Great video!
Yes it was Wayne Cody and Larry Steele calling that game for KIRO 7 in Seattle...
Talked to Sidney Moncrief a number of years ago and he felt this Bucks team had the best shot at an NBA title. Still remember my dad screaming at the tv at the end of game 7 when Dave Meyers missed an easy basket and they ended up losing.
No they weren't gonna beat the Lakers that year
He was hacked on the play. Refs aren’t going to call it at the end of a game.
D J was one of my favorite players with the sonics in those days I remember he broke up a 3 on 1 fastbreak Rip D.J
❤ 1970s NBA basketball
For bucks fans this was a really tough loss. The bucks really lost this series when junior bridgeman went down in game 5 and missed games 6&7. Bucks couldn't make up that scoring off the bench. Sonics deserved to win this series. Gus Williams destroyed the bucks in this series. Just scored at will. Great NBA playoff series from 1980.
As a Sonics fan, I became a Bucks fan after this series and they became my 1B team into the '80s. I've sometimes wondered how the Bucks would've done against the Lakers in the WCF had it been them, especially in light of how bad Sikma struggled against Kareem in that series. I do remember toward the end of the regular season the Bucks notched a fairly decisive win over the Lakers in LA which indicates they'd have played the Lakers pretty tough too just like they did against the Sonics in this series.
But yeah, I can imagine for Bucks fans, losing this series had to have been tough.
God I wish we could get the entre game and games like this love NBA ball in the late 70's and early 80's
Barry Serpa the entire series minus game 5 are out in trading circles
People forget that the Nba Play offs were Not Shown Live on Tv in 1980 , the Games were Tape Delayed starting at 11: 30 pm at Night During the Week
This one was a local broadcast on KIRO TV in Seattle and it was shown live.
Except on Sundays. The NBA nationally televised gameson Sundays were always live broadcasts. It was usually on Friday nights that CBS would nationally cover those games, and on Friday nights CBS would tape delay the game until 11:30 pm.
I watched it live in Milwaukee
@@jrm2383in Madison it was picked up after the 10 pm news.
I remember this series...one of the most underrated, nasty, physical series of all time. When the Sonics won this series(and game 1 against the Lakers in the WCF), they had nothing left. The Lakers simply overpowered the Sonics(with a little help from Magic).
It had to at least be possibly the most evenly matched series in NBA history. I think the scoring differential over the entire 7 games combined was like less than 5 points and I think the Bucks even had the higher point total.
I agree completely on your assessment of the toll the series took on both teams and how that factored into the conference finals against the Lakers. Hard telling if the Sonics could have beaten the Lakers if not for having to play in this meatgrinder against the Bucks. The Sonics led throughout a good part of that Laker series but seemed to run out of gas in every game.
Man, those Bucks were scary good in '80.
And a lot of help from Kareem...
Beautiful follow-through from DJ on that incredible game-winner. I remember how the NBA wasn't so big (at least with the TV ratings) for a 3-5 year stretch from 1977-1981 or so, but they played some great basketball then. And the home crowds in such cities with strong teams such as Seattle, Washington DC, Portland, Milwaukee, Denver and Philadelphia would go wild cheering for their teams. You see it here. Boston and Los Angeles would follow.
This series should have won best drama of the year.
Why did you have to pop up what a heartbreaker for a young teen I thought DJ banked that shot & I didn't realize how close Marcus came to making that alley- opp 1st time seeing this since the day it happened in 1980
Whatever DJ's shooting % was, it was 100% @ clutch time.
Great series, but this loss hurts even more, now that I know Sikma fouled out.
Lanier coulda owned a 2nd OT.
Actually, it was Sikma fouling out is what helped Seattle win the series because of James Bailey shot-blocking extraordinare on Lanier.
I'd like to find all seven games to this series. Weeknights were tape delayed, ending after 1 a.m; Games 4 & 7 on Sunday; family outings Bucks acquired Bob Lanier midseason, but their division was so weak, playing Seattle or LA only way to know if Bucks were legit.
They were, just not quite good enough. I can still see Junior Bridgeman's ankle giving out game 5 & Bucks struggling to score without him.
Getting Lanier wasn't enough. They actually should have got Artis Gilmore instead and Norm Nixon from the Lakers! Than they would have won at least one championship!
After 1980, Bucks were a little thin on the front line. I didn't appreciated PF Dave Myers & all the dirty work he did until after he retired in 1980 & was no longer there doing it.
Jason Richards Yeah, that was probably the main reason they couldn't win a title in the '80s. They were always right there with the Celtics and Lakers but with guys like Paul Mokeski and Randy Brewer they just couldn't handle the likes of Robert Parish, Moses Malone and Kareem. Then ironically enough they finally tried to address it with the Sikma trade but he never seemed to pan out for them. Alton Lister could have been the solution if he could have learned to stay out of foul trouble.
Always been a hard core Sonics fan but as the 80s wore on and the Sonics faded further and further from contention I started following the Bucks, partly stemming from the fond memories they provided in that series in '80. There was a lot to like about the Bucks back then but that lack of a 5 to scrap with the big boys did them in every time.
1980 NBA Playoffs: Western Conference Semifinals.
So that wasn't a "buzzer beater"? Why did the clock instantly stop after the made basket, is it even possible for someone to call a time out and the ref to acknowledge it that quickly? And on another note Usain Bolt has nothing on Gus Williams, my God is he fast.
DICK TRICKLE clock stops after each basket made in the last 2 minutes of a game.
Clock stops after a made basket
Great game. 2 great teams. True basketball being played
Back when CBS televised NBA games on late-night tape delay, because the league had low TV ratings at the time.
You're right, it wasn't CBS per se but it was KIRO 7, a Seattle-based station that was a CBS affiliate.
Okay, KIRO did this game, but CBS did national NBA telecasts during that period.
Yes. CBS had exclusive rights to NBA broadcasts. Because KIRO 7 was a CBS affiliate, ALL televised Sonics games were televised on that station, whether they were nationally televised games or not.
threeby8887. I remember hearing about that. If you wanted to see the game live. You had go to the arena or you had to wait Sunday Afternoon. NBA did televised live games on Sunday Afternoons.
The Sonics games were live games during local broadcasts, and this game with Wayne Cody was locally broadcast and wasn't tape delayed. I do remember a few Friday night playoff games were broadcast nationally and those Friday night games were tape delayed. Sunday nationally televised games were also live.
Is that Wayne Cody doing the play by play?
It is indeed Wayne Cody. Hard to believe back then a 2nd round playoff game only garnered a local TV broadcast on KIRO.
Good call :)
@@madcapper6 ok, someone refresh my memory, I watched this game at home , but forgot why this game was at The Seattle Center Coliseum instead of the Kingdome, was there a Mariners game that night?
@@d820m Good question. I'm not exactly sure what was going on but yeah, there were all sorts of conflicts going on at that time. This game was played on April 8th while the M's opener was on the 9th. Since Game 2 of the series was also on the 9th, they might have just opted to play both games at the Coliseum to simplify the process. And the fact that they had to play Games 1 and 2 on back to back nights indicates that there were possible scheduling conflicts with the Coliseum as well, if they'd have scheduled them normally with an off day in between.
This vid was recently posted on the FB page 'History of the Seattle Supersonics' run by Matt McCullough. He probably knows more so I'll post the question on there and he'll probably know exactly what was going on. I'll get back to you if he posts a response.
@@madcapper6 The Mariners were at home that weekend so the Kingdome was unavailable. They ran into an even bigger problem in the next round because the Kingdome and the Coliseum were unavailable. They ended up playing their home games at Hec Edmondson Pavillion at the University of Washington.
@@SeahawkKrakenguy I remember those games at Hec Ed. Don't know if I've ever been so sad and disappointed as I was after those two games, especially Game 4 after they had that big lead. Still, even after that I believed they would somehow find a way. Back in those days as a kid I thought the Sonics were gonna be on top for a hundred years and didn't expect anyone would cut their run short 99 years early lol.
What building is this game in?
Seattle Kingdom
It didn’t quite work for the Bucks, but a great play call at the end.
Love Wayne Cody, but he blew this call in the worst way.
One of the most exciting endings in an NBA play-off basketball game that I've ever seen until (LA Laker) Derek Fischer made that amazing shot with only 4/10th of a second left in game #5 of the 2004 western conference semi-final against the San Antonio Spurs in Texas!
(hyperlink): th-cam.com/video/NSnAvhvfniw/w-d-xo.html
Could you imagine if Marques had been able to pull down that alley-oop at the end of the game and been able to stuff it in the basket? Too close for comfort on that one. I'm wondering though, since nobody had touched the ball inbounds and Marques was in the air when he got the pass, if he'd have been able to make the shot, would it have counted? Not sure exactly what the rule is on that.
madcapper6 yes, the ball was out of his hands. Look at the ref giving the signal.
Damn, I don't remember this! I obviously watched it on TV too!
The NBA needs to bring back pep bands.
Joshua Dorin and real organists.
This still makes me sick!
Milwaukee Bucks were in the Western Conference?
Yes they where in the West when they won their only championship. Bucks, Bulls, and Pistons moved the East and Rockets and Spurs moved to the West the next year when the Mavericks came into the league.
Is that Kevin Calabro with the call?
No. It was Wayne Cody. The game was not shown on CBS nationally but was televised by KIRO TV locally. Kevin Calabro did not become the voice of the Sonics until 1988.
I dont understand the bucks play in the west in 1980????
Yes the Bucks and Bulls were in the West back then and the Rockets and Spurs were in the East. The four teams swapped conferences I think in '81 or '82.
When Dallas became a franchise.