After a largely flat performance in their season opener, the Milwaukee Bucks bounced back with a buzzer beating victory over the Brooklyn Nets. What stood out the most, both and good and bad, for the Bucks?
It was a little sloppy and a little too close for comfort at the end, but the Milwaukee Bucks came away with their first victory of the season on Saturday night, beating the Brooklyn Nets 110-108.
Following their opening loss to the Charlotte Hornets, the Bucks were looking to rebound by coming out on top of the sneaky Nets. There were certainly a few factors in the Bucks’ favor, with the biggest being the fact that the Nets were on the second game of a back-to-back (the Nets had a come from behind victory the previous night over the Indiana Pacers in Brooklyn).
However, the Nets didn’t play like a team who were fresh off of a tough battle and while the Bucks were mostly in control for most of the game, they could never fully shake the Nets.
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Things came to a head very late in the fourth quarter when defensive mistakes from the Bucks piled up, which led to the Nets tying the game on a key three-pointer from Bojan Bogdanovic with about 11 seconds left in the game.
Although Jabari Parker was tasked with creating a score on the game’s final possession, the game winner came courtesy of a tip-in from John Henson that slowly went through the cylinder as time expired.
Overall, it ended up being the first win of the season for the Bucks and there were many positives to take away from it. But it wouldn’t be a true Bucks nail biting victory if a few glaring negatives didn’t stand out as well.
So with that, let’s dig in to see what worked and what didn’t work in the Bucks’ victory over the Brooklyn Nets.