The Milwaukee Bucks had a bad shooting night against a poor 20-win team, the Brooklyn Nets, losing 96-90. AJ Green led the Bucks with 20 points on 6\/12 from three, while E.J. Liddell scored a career-high 21 in as many minutes (as he didn\u2019t play in the fourth quarter because\u2026 you know why).<\/p>\n
The game started back and forth, and no side truly earned an advantage early in the first quarter. However, through three quick triples from AJ Green, Milwaukee established an advantage over Brooklyn as the game wore on. Milwaukee continued its characteristic defensive lapses as Brooklyn exploited opportunistic double-teams for easy points in the paint and open threes. That, coupled with an inability to find good looks on offense and frequent turnovers, allowed Brooklyn to storm to a 10-0 run, giving them a 30-29 lead at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee looked shocked by Brooklyn\u2019s resolve during the second quarter. They had to fight for every shot, dealing with an uncharacteristically tough Nets defense. Even when they found open shots, they didn\u2019t land. Milwaukee shot 1\/12 from long range throughout the quarter, opening the door for a 10-4 run by the Nets. They ran circles around the Milwaukee offense, using a mixture of pick-and-rolls and handoffs to find open shots. Both teams began to falter offensively towards the end, settling for contested shots. Despite finding some important stops towards the end of the half, Milwaukee continued to trail Brooklyn 49-43.<\/p>\n
The Bucks struggled to chip away at the Nets\u2019 increasingly imposing lead. They struggled on defense, frequently giving up physical paint buckets to Liddell and rookie Drake Powell. On offense, the three-ball didn\u2019t fall, and they continued to make clumsy turnovers in transition. As Liddell reached a career high in points, Milwaukee fell behind by as many as 16 points. Although Milwaukee\u2019s shooting from range gradually warmed up, the game\u2019s stop-and-go nature continued to frustrate the Bucks\u2019 offense. They ended the quarter down 70-62.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee continued to get in its own way in the final frame; careless turnovers, a general softness in the paint, and woeful shooting stopped any momentum. Cormac Ryan\u2019s open three-pointer three minutes deep into the fourth was their first three in around six minutes of game time, and, although the team followed it up with a Green triple, they subsequently turned the ball over twice inside a minute. However, Green\u2019s scoring came in clutch during crunch time, pouring in 11 of his 20 points in the final quarter. Taurean Prince\u2019s corner three trimmed Brooklyn\u2019s lead to just one with 2:30 left. However, a pair of missed threes, along with two clutch Brooklyn layups, put the Nets up five with little under a minute to go. Although Green\u2019s 30-foot heat-check gave Milwaukee life late, Ben Saraf drew a tricky foul on Ousmane Dieng and put the Nets up by four. Dieng\u2019s late contested three-pointer from range missed the mark, effectively icing the game for the Nets.<\/p>\n
The Bucks only hit 5\/8 from the free throw line, their third-lowest total of the season. By comparison, the Nets hit 21\/23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks had a bad shooting night against a poor 20-win team, the Brooklyn Nets, losing 96-90.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,75866,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-189131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-bucks-scores","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}