The core problem of Giannis being an insufficient late-game creator still exists.īut Middleton's continued improvement along with Holiday's presence as a secondary creator gives Milwaukee enough alternatives to credibly find points. Two of them, for instance, came off of Durant assuming a ball was going out of bounds rather than actively rebounding. But in the last five minutes of this game? They scored 13 points. They were 11th last season and eighth the year before that, and in both cases, they collapsed in the postseason when Giannis couldn't create shots. Entering tonight, the Bucks were ranked 12th in clutch scoring per 100 possessions. Milwaukee should be encouraged on a few fronts, but none more so than their clutch offense. The Bucks finally found some clutch offense But given his size and sturdiness, he's practically a human wall, and that made life very difficult for Giannis and the Bucks in this game.Ģ. Certain big men, like Anthony Davis, will eat him alive. Well, Jordan has very limited mobility at this point in his career. The common strategy against Giannis is to build a wall of defenders at the rim.
More to the point, he proved to be a real deterrent for Giannis as a driver, forcing him to take six 3-pointers and several mid-range jumpers. Brooklyn won those minutes by five points, and he tied Antetokounmpo for the game lead with 12 rebounds. Jordan, who has struggled for most of the season, gave the Nets 38 great minutes on Monday. Their shooting and shot-creation are too good for them to lose when they're winning inside as well. If that carries over into the postseason, it's over. They scored more points in the paint as well, 52 to 50. Yet the Nets outrebounded the Bucks, 49 to 41. Milwaukee could've punted it away with proper interior dominance. Brooklyn is going to win the battle behind the arc most nights. They allowed the fewest shot attempts in the restricted area and produced a repeat MVP-winner that was shooting over 82 percent from within three feet of the basket so far this season. Milwaukee was the NBA's best-rebounding team by a mile last season. That gave the Bucks a fairly simple blueprint to beating the Nets: kill them inside. DeAndre Jordan has been a negative-value player so far this season and even got himself benched prior to Jarrett Allen's exit in the Harden deal, but he's the only legitimate NBA center on the roster. Jeff Green is making the minimum, but he started at power forward tonight. The Nets might have the most perimeter talent of any team in NBA history, but the price for securing it was depth everywhere else. Milwaukee couldn't exploit Brooklyn's weaknesses Here are four things you should take away from tonight's thriller ahead of that possible playoff matchup. Aside from a couple more regular-season dates on the schedule, these two are the heavy favorites to reach the Eastern Conference finals and duke it out for a shot at the championship. This was the first time we've seen these two juggernauts go head to head, but it won't be the last. Beating the Nets when they get 34 points out of Joe Harris and Jeff Green is almost impossible, and sure enough, the Bucks came up just short. In the end, the role players were the difference. Brooklyn's Kevin Durant-James Harden tandem gave the Nets 64 points, 18 assists and 15 rebounds, while Milwaukee's three-headed monster of Middleton, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue Holiday gave the Bucks 81 points of their own. Kyrie Irving may have missed the festivities, but the stars that were available put on a show. The Brooklyn Nets hosted the Milwaukee Bucks in a heavyweight showdown on Monday, and in a game that was close throughout, the Nets walked away with a thrilling 125-123 win after Khris Middleton missed a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer. We're less than a month into the season, yet with a rare degree of certainty, we can say that we've already seen the game of the year.
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