Bucks up 2 towards the end of the first quarter.
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Bucks up 1 after one as Giannis air balls a wide open three at the buzzer. He's 3 for 9 from the field.
Giannis misses another 10 footer. 3 for 10 and nothing outside of three dunks has looked close.
Bucks up 63-62 despite horrifically bad 3 point defense. They allow the Bulls to shoot 12 for 23 from three - many of them wide open.
Bulls pull ahead out of the half. DeRozan with 5 points and Giannis splits a pair at the line. Bucks down 5.
Now Giannis picks up 2 fouls in about 20 seconds and has to sit with 4 in the middle of the third.
Bucks down 6 and the game is getting away from them.
Bud leaves a Lopez, Hill, COnnaughton, Hill, and Portis lineup in and the Bucks can't even get off a shot in multiple trips down with that group.
12-4 after Giannis had to sit.
DeRozan with 28 and on his way to a 40+ night.
Giannis gets going and then puts up an air ball from 18 feet.
Giannis air balls a FT. He's not bad tonight, 6 for 9. But those air balls are weird.
Bucks go back ahead and then have two consecutive turnovers to fall back behind.
Brook Lopez misses 2 FTs in a row after Holiday misses the back end of the previous FTs. Bucks 4 for 9 from the line in the 4th and Giannis isn't the problem.
Come White hits two wide open 3s in a row and the Bulls are up 3 with 40 seconds left. The Bucks 3 point defense was poor all night and it came back to bite them.
Game over. Jrue Holiday throws the ball of out bounds and the Bulls get the ball.
Not a good game defensively and turned the ball over a bunch. Chicago was making their 3s.
Bulls hit their 3s. Bucks offensive execution the last 3 minutes was terrible. Lopez misses two FTs. Lopez air ball. Giannis charge. Holiday lobs the ball out of bounds after a timeout. About as bad as it gets.
Probably their worst loss of the season so far. A lot of sloppy play and poor execution toward the end of the game (turnovers, missed FTs, shot selection) and I think Chicago made their last 4 bombs to close it out.
It’s a bit surprising because the Bucks had 13 more boards than Chicago, but were also -5 in the turnover ratio. Still, A couple more made 3s by the Bucks (or made free throws) and the Bucks probably win this one.
The margin of error for a team like Chicago is much less because they don’t play good defense and they don’t rebound well. Basically, for them to beat Milwaukee they need to hit a bunch of 3s which they did last night but over a 7 game series? Not likely.