Bucks close the first road trip with a Sunday night game versus OKC. Sluggish first half but a huge run in the 3rd erases a 9 points deficit. Middleton to the Locker room...
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Middleton with a thigh bruise... chance to see the deep tweener G rotation.
Might be time to start thinking about Matthews on the second unit. Need more energy from that position, and Matthews should be able to give the Bucks more scoring with Giannis on the bench.
Giannis destroys the rim on a five and go on a break from Hill...
These offensive fouls on Giannis are getting the fuck out of hand
Bledsoe cold blooded. George Hill with the big o-board of the Giannis 3 brick.
And the inexplicable Bledsoe turnover happens again...
Up 11 with 2 minutes.
Bledsoe dribbling the ball off his knee was classic. Giannis not calling timeout was almost as bad.
Just get the feeling they'll figure out a way to lose this.
MichiganPacker2 posted:Just get the feeling they'll figure out a way to lose this.
And then Lopez bails them out of an absolutely out of control possession.
Well, fumbling the game away, Lopez saves their ass...
Recovered, but it was much more precarious than it had to be.
Other than dribbling it off his foot with under a minute left, Bledsoe was outstanding.
Giannis with a ho-hum, 35 points, 16 rebounds, and 3 assists.
Bucks overcome 22 turnovers.
Lopez with the clutch 3. BIG! Nice road trip so far!
7-3 on the young season. Good start! Especially with every team playing them like they're the 90's Bulls
Whew...pretty nice game from Bledsoe.
Giannis is rolling. Unreal !!
Wonder how much time Middleton will miss
Packdog posted:Wonder how much time Middleton will miss
Addition by subtraction? J/K seriously, only joking. At a minimum the Bucks need his FT shooting in crunch time
Boris posted:Packdog posted:Wonder how much time Middleton will miss
Addition by subtraction?
J/K seriously, only joking. At a minimum the Bucks need his FT shooting in crunch time
Sterling Brown can replace some of those minutes well. Sterling Brown isn't anywhere near as good as Middleton, but he's at least 1/30th as good (the difference in their contracts).
Bucks have a tricky start to the year with something like 10 of their first 14 games on the road. 7-3 is a decent record through 10 considering they haven’t exactly played their best at times.
Middleton expected to miss 3-4 weeks with quad injury
Time for others to step up
Sterling Brown, Korver & Matthews are the 3 I'm looking at. Hill & Ilyasova....keep doing what you're doing.
Just keep healthy. Big key!
For some reason, Connaughton has been generally ineffective the last couple weeks. Divincenzo and Brown have demonstrated they should get more PT- but they do have to take advantage of it. The early WC road trip immediately followed by 3 of 4 more road games locally (Indy, Chicago, and Atlanta). Then they get 13 of 17 at home leading up to Christmas Day in Philly.
Tschmack posted:Middleton expected to miss 3-4 weeks with quad injury
Time for others to step up
Seems a bit long for a thigh bruise.
Is PC battling a shoulder injury? I seem to recall the announcers mentioning something last week about this. He doesn’t seem as quick and explosive.