Bucks at Nuggets

Bucks down 19-17 early.

Bucks giving up a lot of open 3s early.

Bucks up 1 after one quarter, but they let Jamal Murray shoot wide open 3s all quarter. He's got 18 points in the first quarter.

Bucks up 3 at the half. Played the last minute poorly (up 10 at one point a few minutes earlier) and didn't get a good shot on the final possession.

Giannis with 24-4-3

Jokic with 17-2-5

Lopez has 3 fouls trying to play Jokic straight up.

Jokic gets a lot of calls.

Tie game midway into the 3rd.

Let's see if the Bucks have any energy on the back-to-back. So far, Holiday has not been good.

Now a 15-2 run by the Nuggets and this might be getting close to losing contact. Down 8. Giannis has missed two layups in the last few possessions and Portis has been bad.

Bucks went from up 5 to down 8 very fast and the Nuggets might be ready to put this out of reach since Giannis has yet to rest in the second half.

Bucks look mentally tired.

Home reffing. Jokic getting calls Giannis isn't

Lopez gets a T.

Down double digits. Bucks offense has gone stagnant.

Sloppy Bucks offense. Poor passing, even worse shooting.

@mrtundra posted:

Lopez gets a T.

Jokic has 10 FTs, Giannis has 3 despite Giannis getting pushed on almost every drive

Nuggets with 11 FTs so far in the last 4 minutes of the 3rd quarter.

Jeff Green with a dagger three at the end of the 3rd in Portis' face. Portis has been horrible tonight and last night. He's 4 for 17 and getting cooked on defense. They really need Crowder for these types of matchups. Ingles is unplayable against this type of team (-19 in 19 minutes).

Down 12.

Well, this one's over. Giannis just got posterized by Jeff Green.

Down 16.

The Bucks just didn't have enough in their legs on the back-to-back.

Holiday is 3 for 10. Portis is 2 for 9.

Bucks down 17 with 8 minutes left.

Bud just needs to get guys out and wave the white flag. The Nuggets are good, but this was a loss set up by the NBA scheduling back to back road games for the Bucks - and playing the Nuggets at home with rest.

Bucks give up with 6 minutes left.

Bucks with 3 technicals tonight, including Lopez and Giannis, who don't usually pick them up.

How does the NBA set up a situation where one team plays at home on 3 days rest while the other is on the back-to-back of two road games?

Bucks have actually been better than most on the BTB games, but I agree it’s stupid.  Clearly the Bucks did not look and play fresh for most of the game.

The thin Denver air probably didnt help matters either.

I think the Bucks record is 8-2 on 2nd night of back to back?

Still, 3 road games in 4 nights is ridiculous.   The Bucks hit the wall in the 3Q and never recovered.

@Tschmack posted:

I think the Bucks record is 8-2 on 2nd night of back to back?

Still, 3 road games in 4 nights is ridiculous.   The Bucks hit the wall in the 3Q and never recovered.

Holiday in particular clearly didn't have his normal lift on his shots.

That, plus the fact the Nuggets shot something like 12 FTs the final minutes of the third quarter, did them in. Portis and Lopez both got T'd during or right after that stretch.