Eric Bledsoe claims he doesn’t know who Terry Rozier is despite getting crossed into oblivion by him

Eric Bledsoe has been forced to watch Celtics guard Terry Rozier crush his Bucks through the first two games of their first-round matchup. The Boston backup has shined in Kyrie Irving’s absence, exploding for 46 points and 11 assists while staring down Milwaukee’s prized trade deadline acquisition on the parquet.

But despite roasting the Bucks in 78 total minutes these playoffs, Bledsoe swears the name Terry Rozier doesn’t ring a bell.

“Who?” Bledsoe asked a reporter who’d inquired whether or not he took his matchup with Rozier personally. “I don’t even know who the f--- that is,”

The Bucks’ guard has been matched up with Rozier throughout the playoffs and has struggled to contain his point guard peer. Bledsoe has been outscored 46-21 through two games while shooting just 9-25 from the field with Rozier as his primary defender.

So Bledsoe definitely knows who Rozier is. His postgame dig is likely a less-than-subtle response after the Boston starter called him “Drew” — like the former Patriots’ quarterback — after the Celtics’ Game 1 win.

“Drew Bledsoe makes tough shots,” he told reporters after that game. “We just try to limit them to what they’re good at by just being long off the ball and showing our presence and I felt like we did a great job with that the majority of the game.”

Or Bledsoe’s lack of memory could just be his way of repressing the trauma he suffered in Game 1. As the clock wound down in the fourth quarter of that tie game between the Celtics and Bucks, Rozier dribbled along the perimeter, faked a drive into the paint, then stepped back and calmly drained a three-pointer that gave Boston a 99-96 lead with 0.5 seconds left in the game.

Bledsoe, juked out of his socks by Rozier’s crossover, could only watch from 10 feet away.

While the Bucks were able to send the game to overtime on Khris Middleton’s miracle heave, it wasn’t enough to hold off the second-seeded Celtics on the road. Tuesday night’s 120-106 victory sent the series to Milwaukee with the underdogs in an 0-2 hole.

Bledsoe may claim not to know who Rozier is, but the rest of the world is taking notice as the third-year point guard shines in the biggest opportunity of his career. The Louisville product had always been a steady backup in Boston, but Irving’s injury has given him the extra minutes needed to prove he’s a high-level starter. Roasting the Bucks through two games of the playoffs has been a loud way to announce his arrival — and turn his name into a household one for NBA fans.