{"id":924981,"date":"2026-10-12T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924981\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:54:11","slug":"bucks-vs-hornets-final-score-summary-porter-turner-struggle-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924981\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks vs. Hornets: Final Score & Summary: Porter, Turner struggle in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Milwaukee Bucks fell to the Charlotte Hornets. Tyler Herro led all Bucks scorers with 18 points in 23 minutes, followed by Ryan Rollins (12 in 23) and Kyle Kuzma (12 in 22). Brandon Miller\u2014marked as day-to-day before the game\u2014showed out, dropping 18 points in 23 minutes. Brayden Burries, Nate Ament, Ousmane Dieng, Kasparas Jakucionis, and new acquisition<\/a> Johni Broome were all inactive for the Bucks, among a few others.<\/p>\n

The Bucks began the game on the right foot, with Tyler Herro converting a midrange floater to open the scoring. Soon, led by triples from Ryan Rollins and Jaime Jaquez Jr., the Bucks jumped to a 10-2 lead. However, the up-tempo Hornets offense worked wonders, getting the home team back into it and tying the game at 13\u2014Bucks timeout. Royce O\u2019Neale took the lead with 4:17 remaining, but AJ Green answered with a 28-foot three-pointer to tie it. Triples from Tidjane Salaun (he can shoot now!) and Sion James, however, pushed Charlotte\u2019s lead to six shortly thereafter. Kevin Porter Jr. rose over Ryan Kalkbrenner to throw down a contact dunk, and Jericho Sims had a nice reverse layup to narrow the lead, but Charlotte held on to end the quarter, up 29-26.<\/p>\n

Although Kyle Kuzma connected early in the second quarter, the Hornets kept rolling over Milwaukee\u2014mostly in transition. A Brandon Miller three widened Charlotte\u2019s lead to six, forcing a Milwaukee timeout. From there, the Hornets clicked as the Bucks\u2019 offense stalled. Miller had 11 second-quarter points, while key scorers like Herro remained muted. The Bucks also struggled with ball handling, committing seven first-half turnovers. That said, Milwaukee ran a 10-3 stretch to cut Charlotte\u2019s lead to two with three minutes left in the half, but Charlotte answered with 13 unanswered points\u2014led by Naz Reid and Sion James\u2014to close out the half up 60-45.<\/p>\n

The Bucks struggled to find their footing from long range, while the Hornets kept dancing around Milwaukee\u2019s defense. Without Kel\u2019el Ware on the court, Milwaukee\u2019s bigs looked slow to switch on the perimeter. They also looked especially vulnerable on screens, where Charlotte could either find an open corner shooter when the defense collapsed or trap the Bucks big in a favourable two-on-one. Charlotte\u2019s advantage stayed steady, led by their small-ball pairing of Naz Reid and Moussa Diabat\u00e9. A thunderous Ryan Kalkbrenner lob put the home team up 20 with just over two minutes remaining. The Bucks\u2019 offense looked unresponsive to anything the Hornets\u2019 defense gave it; they didn\u2019t shoot well from three, and they weren\u2019t good at banging it out in the post. The Hornets had a big lead at the end of third quarter, up 87-67.<\/p>\n

The game was all but over as the final frame began. Charlotte put in a reserve lineup led by first-round draft pick Hannes Steinbach and two-way center PJ Hall, while Herro, Kuzma, and Porter tried to close the Hornets\u2019 20-point lead. The Hornets scrapped against the Bucks\u2019 starters, taking charges, grappling for offensive rebounds, and making extra passes to find open teammates on the perimeter. Eventually, he Bucks threw in the towel and trotted out Pete Nance, Kam Jones, and Jake Stephens, who made his preseason debut. Despite Stephens\u2019 late three-pointer to close out the game, it was too little, too late as the Hornets strolled out of Spectrum Center with the win.<\/p>\n

The Bucks shot 3\/17 from three during the second quarter. That shooting slump let the Hornets build a large lead and eventually run away with the game. It seemed like no one, including the Bucks\u2019 sharpshooters, could find the net.<\/p>\n

Will Kevin Porter Jr. struggle heavily this season? He hasn\u2019t scored double digits in the preseason, and his performance today\u2014six points on 1\/6 shooting\u2014was particularly underwhelming. With so much guard depth on the roster, KPJ could quickly fall out of Milwaukee\u2019s rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks fell to the Charlotte Hornets. Tyler Herro led all Bucks scorers with 18 points in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,384241,590,85],"class_list":["post-924981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bucks-scores","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}