Well, well, well, how about that?

What a surprise it was when the Milwaukee Bucks upset the Chicago Bulls Monday night.

Everyone was talking about the upcoming matchup between the Bulls and the LeBron James/Kyrie Irving Cleveland Cavaliers in the next round of the playoffs. It was a done deal. Signed, sealed and delivered.

Only thing was that they forgot to tell Jason Kidd’s babies that their moment in the sun was over and it was time to think about next year.

Well, despite Kidd’s calm response, or maybe because of it, the Bucks will play the Bulls at home Thursday night with a chance to tie the series.

Everybody seemed surprised and perplexed about how the youngest team in the playoffs could beat such a stunning veteran team on their home court.

It may have been left to David Haugh, the outstanding veteran columnist for the Chicago Tribune to explain what had happened.

"Now they (the Bulls) can say hello to a full-fledged crisis after an unacceptable 94-88 loss to the Bucks that confirmed how little Chicago can count on them. The Bulls had more to gain but got Milwaukee's best from a hungrier opponent that simply played harder."

Watching this Bucks team is a precise lesson in the value of hard work, cooperation and listening to your teacher. If it sounds like school, it is.

Nobody thought the Bucks were going to put up this kind of fight. Even Kidd talked publicly about how this was a chance for his kids to "get experience and learn the process of playing in the playoffs."

You have to wonder if in the privacy of the locker room, though, Kidd send a different message to his team.

"If you play hard for 48 minutes and do what I tell you to do, we can beat these guys."

There are so many thing that are as plain as the nose on your face for the reasons the Bucks won this game.

They play some of the best defense I’ve ever seen. And not just for a moment or two. They play the entire game. The Bulls hardly have a single open shot or an open pass because there are one or two or even three players slapping at the ball.

Every player does it. Watching the old man of the team, Zaza Pachulia, the Georgian (the country, not the state) put on a clinic of playing hard, can choke you up. When he sits, the lithe and active John Henson roams the lane like a hunter in search of prey.

It seems like every five minutes or so somebody else does something spectacular that keep the Bucks in the game.

Talk about contrasts – one of these teams looks slow and overconfident, the other one looks hungry and energetic.

I can’t imagine how Wes Edens and Marc Lasry must feel. They bought a basketball team and committed to building for the future. They even had a slogan about tomorrow, "Own the Future."

Well, how about "Own Today"?

At one point during a break, Charles Barkley, the commentator on TNT, said something that would prove prophetic.

"You should never count young guys out," he said. "They don’t know any better. They don’t know they aren’t supposed to win."

The Bucks were eight point underdogs going into the game. All of the smart money was on the Bulls.

And while the Bulls are clearly a very good basketball team they aren’t the only good basketball team on the floor. I wouldn’t be surprising – not anymore – to see the Bucks become the first team in NBA history to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.

And then the Bucks, not the Bulls, would face Cleveland.

One of the things that everyone noticed Monday night was how passive the United Center was. Oh, there were lots of people wearing red, but the sound, the energy was missing. That energy seemed to be contagious and effect the team on the floor.

Milwaukee has a chance Thursday night, to show how full-throated we can be and how exciting this whole thing is.

As the man said: "Put on your seat belts, folks. We are in for quite a ride."

Quite a ride, indeed.