Monday night featured our first Game 2’s of the 2015 NBA Playoffs. Neither team with home-court advantage lost, making home teams 9-1 through the first 10 games of the NBA Playoffs (the only home loss was Toronto on Saturday). But there was still plenty of excitement in the two wins, since neither underdog was going down without a fight.

We’ll start with the Bucks-Bulls bruise-fest that had younger NBA fans turning the game off early and older NBA fans making trite comments about how the new generation is soft. That’s because a brawl broke out, and we use the term brawl loosely.

Bulls and Bucks Scuffle, Zaza gets Ejected

After this little tiff, Chicago’s first-year Spanish-Montenegrin Nikola Mirotic and Milwaukee’s 12-year Georgian, Zaza Pachouli, got into it twice. The first featured Zaza elbowing Mitotic in the face on the rebound.

Whether intentional or not, he rightly got a technical.

But then Zaza purposefully knocks Niko down and the Bulls rookie retaliated.

Pachulia was ejected, since it was his second technical, and Mirotic is really banged up (we’ll see if he can go in Game 3, which would be a huge loss for Chicago if he can’t).

Jimmy Butler Puts Zaza Pachulia on a Poster

This just wasn’t fair. While it only accounted for two points, plus the free throw, momentum-wise it was a huge psychological advantage after everyone struggled so badly in a poorly played first half.

Butler finished by scoring 21 of his game-high 31 (10/19 shooting) on the night, and the second consecutive playoff career high for the young guard out of Marquette. As he said towards the press area about Khris Middleton, one of our pre-playoff individual matchups to watch, “He can’t guard me, he’s too little.”

Derrick Rose Step-Back to Ice the Game

With Chicago leading 89-82 with under a minute to play, it wasn’t the red-hot Butler who put the game on ice, though. That distinction goes to Derrick Rose, who rebounded from an 0-for-7 first half shooting the ball, the first half of his postseason career where he failed to score a point. He scored 15 in the second half, but none more important than this nifty step-back jumper to clinch the game.

He even had time to shake this kid’s hand after the game (note to kids out there, asking to shake a player’s hand is infinitely more cool than an autograph — ask Bill Russell).

Stephen Curry’s Dime To Bogut and Brow Fake Out

You might have already seen the above assist from Stephen Curry to Andrew Bogut, where it looked like Steph had lost control of the ball and was falling out-of-bounds, before finding Bogut in the lane for the smash. It’s a perfect example of Steph’s sorcery with the rock. But that wasn’t the first time he flummoxed the Pels.

No, Steph got defensive bulwark Anthony Davis to bite with this sick ball fake that’s right out of the Hakeem Olajuwon repertoire.

The second-best part of this play was the camera spotting a Dubs fan trying to mock Anthony Davis with his own unibrow:

Doesn’t he know unibrows are cool now?

Klay Thompson Erupts For 14 Fourth-Quarter Points to Seal The Dubs Win

Stephen Curry only scored six points in the second half last night, and while Leandro Barbosa, Shaun Livingston and Andre Iguodala helped the Dubs overcome a first-quarter brick fest, the Warriors would need the other Splash Brother to come through in the clutch. Klay Thompson did just that, going 6-of-8 from the field in the final 12 minutes to score 14 of his team-high 26 points as the Dubs hung on for the 97-87 home win and 2-0 series lead.