Milwaukee Bucks: Takeaways From Loss To Miami Heat
The Milwaukee Bucks came away with their second straight loss in as many nights, losing to the Miami Heat 96-73 last night. What stood out the most for the Bucks in the loss?
On the second night of a back-to-back on the road, the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Miami Heat 96-73 on Thursday night in pretty miserable fashion.
Like their performance against the Atlanta Hawks from the night before, the Bucks started the game off hot, opening the game on a 20-6 run that lasted until around the midway point of the first quarter.
From there, though, the Bucks showed the same signs of slippage, again similar to how they wilted the previous night.
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Although the Heat were far from efficient in their own right (the Heat finished the night shooting 40 percent from the field and 7-of-30 from deep), the steady amount of opportunities that kept opening up for them were ultimately too many to squander as the game went on.
However, unlike their effort against the Hawks, there was no storming comeback from the Bucks this time around.
Once the Heat took control of the lead shortly after the start of the second half, the Bucks largely were going through the motions in hopes to get something going offensively to get back on track.
Despite the Bucks’ brief run that made it a two-point game around the nine-minute mark of the fourth quarter, a 17-4 run from the Heat soon followed, which lasted the bulk of the fourth quarter. That ultimately sealed the win for the Heat and left the Bucks with a dispiriting finish for their back-to-back road trip.
So with that, why don’t we take a look at what worked and mostly didn’t work in the loss for the Bucks.