Rockets at Bucks, November 18th

Rockets go up 16-3.

Bucks close it to 28-27 at the quarter despite a terrible quarter from Giannis, 1-2 from the floor, 0 for 2 from the line, and 3 turnovers.

Bucks up 33-30 with10:27 left, in the 2nd Quarter

Now Bucks up 38-30. AJ Green with lock down defense. Never thought I'd type those words, but he looks like Caruso out there.

Trent, Jr. With 9 points, so far.

Rockets back within 2. Bucks have given up 9 offensive rebounds already. It's like they never learned how to box out.

Giannis has been just awful. The missed game winner last game seems to be in his head.

Love to see Brook looking young again with 4 threes! Trent Jr. now has 12!

Up 11, this would be our best win of the season!  Fingers crossed....

Bucks up 8 with Giannis and Dame both playing poorly.

Van Vliet kills them in the third. Only a 3 point lead going to the 4th.

Giannis going 2 for 7 from the line hasn't helped either.

Bucks falling apart.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

Bucks falling apart.

8-0 run to start the 4th. Rockets trash talking the BUcks and lead by 5.

Dame has been just awful. Embarrassing defense and airballing 3s.

4-10 record incoming.

8-0 run to start the fourth quarter for the Rockets. Blocked Bobby Portis hook shot. Airballed 3 by Damian Lillard. Lillard and Lopez can't connect on a pocket pass. Rockets up, 88-83, with 10:38 left.

17-2 Rockets run after Giannis sat down.

Dame is pathetic on box outs. It's like it's beneath him

This is slipping away. Just no offensive flow for the BUcks.

Lillard lays it in for the lead with 3.9 left.

Bucks win it 101-100.

Bucks completely blow the defense (two guys run out to the corner leaving the basket uncontested) on the final Rockets possession, but Sengun fails to catch a pass for an uncontested layup and the Bucks win by 1.

Sengun with a major push off to get open

Quality win for the Bucks against a red hot 10-4 Rocket team that was on a five game win streak.  Make that 10-5!

I love that Doc let them go the last 15 seconds and didn't use a TO. Defense was in scramble mode for Houston and Dame went right to the cup.

Best win of the season.  

5-9 but a lot of encouraging things happening.

@Mark Ellison posted:

Quality win for the Bucks against a red hot 10-4 Rocket team that was on a five game win streak.  Make that 10-5!

I love that Doc let them go the last 15 seconds and didn't use a TO. Defense was in scramble mode for Houston and Dame went right to the cup.

Best win of the season.  

5-9 but a lot of encouraging things happening.

Encouraging things

1. AJ Green (other than the failed switch on the out of bounds play where he and Trent chased the same guy) plays really good defense. He's definitely playable in crunch time.

2. Lopez has regained his deep shooting touch the last few games. That opens up things for Giannis and Dame.

3. Trent Jr. being healthy again is a huge difference.

4. This current team (w/o Middleton) is probably a 5 or 6 seed that could scare a title contender in a 7 game series, but that is probably the ceiling. If Middleton comes back healthy and is even 80% of prime Middleton, this team can beat anyone. The problem is that I'm skeptical he'll ever truly be healthy again.

No matter what else happens (obviously not an injury to Giannis or Dame), Middleton's availablity and mobility is more important than anything else.

Giannis, Dame, Middleton, Green, Lopez, Portis, Trent Jr., and Prince is a very good crunch time rotation where you have Giannis surrounded by shooters everywhere. But the whole thing really hinges on Middleton.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

Bucks completely blow the defense (two guys run out to the corner leaving the basket uncontested) on the final Rockets possession, but Sengun fails to catch a pass for an uncontested layup and the Bucks win by 1.