Game starts at 7 P.M. CT, does not appear to be on national TV? Giannis and Dame likely to be out, but are supposedly game time decisions. There has been an illness circulating through the Bucks roster impacting who can play.
FWIW ESPN Gamecast gives the Bucks a 65.2 chance of winning.
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Let me be the first to comment…the refs will suck
Giannis and Dame both out again.
It would really suck to be a parent whose kids wanted to watch Giannis (or Dame) and you buy tickets for the day after Christmas to have them both sit with back spasms/illness.
Since Giannis and Dame are out tonight, ESPN Gamecast now favors the Nets to win at something like 53%. Game currently tied 13-13 midway through the 1st
Nets up 15-13 as the Bucks have 4 turnovers in the first 6 minutes.
Bucks trail by 2 after one. Nets get an offensive rebound putback to end the quarter.
Brook Lopez goes Steph Curry and hits 3 logo threes. Bucks up 11.
Bucks blow the last 10 seconds and give up 5 points in the last 30 seconds. Of course, there were two phantom fouls, but a 13 point lead became only 8.
Bucks up 59- 51 at the half
Lead down to 7 as the Bucks play some terrible defense to start the second half.
Lead down to 5. Bucks have 15 turnovers. Falling asleep on defense too.
Bucks only lead by 6 going to the 4th.
Bucks have 17 turnovers.
I wonder if Dame is really ill, or if they just let him take a few days off and stay in Portland for Xmas?
They should ship Delon Wright off for a bag of potato chips after this game. Why is he playing in front of Connaughton? I get playing Green and Jackson Jr. instead, but Wright sucks.
Shake Milton has scored 14 points in a row in the 4th. The main guy guarding him has been Delon Wright.
Middleton about to pick a flagrant 1 that will cut the lead to 3.
Bucks trail by 2.
Just a pathetic 4th quarter.
Dame's "illness" might cost them a game. I think he's in Portland.
Bucks have 20 turnovers tonight.
Loss incoming after the Nets bank in a 3 and Rollins turns it over.
Hard to overstate how pathetic this is. Nets are trying to tank and the Bucks trail by 4 with 90 seconds left because:
1. Dame is out with an "illness"
2. Delon Wright was absolutely pathetic as the backup PG
3. Middleton was a turnover machine
4. Shake Milton got hot (against Wright) and went off for 14 points in 4 minutes
Shot clock violation with 90 seconds, Just awful
Nets with a 17-5 run down the stretch. Ryan Rollins is not NBA ready either.
They just pissed away a game they should win 100 times out of 100.
Just a pathetic overall performance.
It's a late December game without Dame and Giannis, but it doesn't help put things into perspective at the back end of the rotation.
1. Some guys just aren't very good without Giannis' (or Dame's) gravity to make the game easier for them. Taurean Prince, Delon Wright, and Ryan Rollins all fit into this category. Those three guys also half-assed it several times last night to allow Nets players to outhustle them for rebounds or 50/50 balls. If you are the 9th-11th guys on a roster, getting outhustled by other NBA scrubs is a cardinal sin.
2. AJ Green and AJax still look decent. Why Delon Wright was left in for as long as he was in the 4th (which is when the Nets made the run - mostly Shake Milton being guarded by Wright) without subbing in AJax was puzzling. Wright couldn't even hit open layups and couldn't play PG.
3. Khris Middleton is good. He's especially good when he doesn't have to play point guard. He had a lot of turnovers, but some of those were on passes that Giannis catches in his sleep and others were because Rollins couldn't bring the ball up against tough defense and Middleton had to do it against Ben Simmons.
