Nets at Bucks-March 9th-No Giannis

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Bucks up 37-20 after one. Nets went on an 11-0 run to go up 13-5 with 9:00 left in the quarter, followed by a 32-5 Bucks run.

Bucks go 9 for 15 from three with 7 different guys hitting 3s.

Portis on fire.

Bucks up 17 at the half.

Nets play a G league roster to start the second half and the Bucks respond by playing very sloppily and letting the lead get down to 14

Lead to 8

Bucks still up 8, but getting outworked and embarrassed by the Nets two-way players. WAY TOO close at this point

Middleton is 4 for 15 from the field.

Down to 6.

Complete embarrassment of a third quarter. The Nets were playing two way guys and completely outhustled and outplayed them. Bucks only up 7 going to the 4th. What should have been a Thanasis victory cigar game is now a close one.

Down to 3

Bucks get it to 9, Bucks shit the bed out of the timeout. Lead back to 3.

Middleton is 4 for 18 and he looks even worse than that.

Jevon Carter is 1 for 11.

The Bucks are getting run off the court right now by 2 two-way players, a 10 day contract guy, and Patty Mills,.

2 point game. Unfucking believable.

@MichiganPacker posted:

The Bucks are getting run off the court right now by 2 two-way players, a 10 day contract guy, and Patty Mills,.

About a to blow a 21 point second half team to a coach that sat all his starters.

2 point lead with 40 seconds left.

Middleton looked slow, shot terrible, and made a bad turnover inside the last minute. Lopez stepped up and played big. 9 blocks including a couple huge ones coming down the stretch.

Bucks hold on.

Lopez goes for 24 point, 10 rebounds, and 9 blocks. Portis had 28 and 13.

That offset Middleton going 5 for 19 and Carter going 2 for 12.

Imagine if Lopez had been playing like this last year in the playoffs?   He’s having a fantastic year.  

I am starting to get a little worried about Middleton.  In the 16 games he’s played going back to mid January he’s only had 5 games where he’s shoe the 3 pretty well.  Now, his midrange game has been solid but they need him to regain his mojo from 3.

@Tschmack posted:

Imagine if Lopez had been playing like this last year in the playoffs?   He’s having a fantastic year.  

I am starting to get a little worried about Middleton.  In the 16 games he’s played going back to mid January he’s only had 5 games where he’s shoe the 3 pretty well.  Now, his midrange game has been solid but they need him to regain his mojo from 3.

Just from the eyeball test, he seems to be a better playmaker than previous years. He is seeing the floor better and his assists per 36 minutes are easily at a career high. His 2 point shooting is right at his career average in terms of percentage.

Obviously, his three point shooting is way down (29% vs. 39% career). It's not a small sample size either. The bigger problem is that he's not close to where he was on the defensive end yet, and it's not clear he's going to get there. I think there's definitely some remaining weakness in his leg strength. Harden just abused him and Harden has lost about 2 steps from his peak. Middleton has to be able to offer some resistance against Tatum, Brown, Tobias Harris, and Harden to be playable in crunch time. And Middleton has to play on offense in crunch time against good teams.

Chalked up another victory eh?

Can someone show me where the Bucks rank in style points? In the association??

I'm guessing they won't make the playoffs due to poor style points

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