Milwaukee Bucks: Takeaways From Loss To New York Knicks
By Ti Windisch
What can fans take away from the Milwaukee Bucks ugly loss to the New York Knicks in Milwaukee on Friday night?
We’re not going to talk about Mirza Teletovic‘s shot much here, because it was not Mirza Teletovic’s fault that the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the New York Knicks on Friday night.
Teletovic was three-for-four on threes before that shot, and although he shouldn’t have taken that off-balance look right there the inbounds pass wasn’t doing him any favors. I am almost never in favor of blaming a loss on one play down the stretch–so much more than that goes into these games.
The Bucks have a lot of players that share some responsibility in the loss to the Knicks. With that said, this should not be a cause for shaming and hating on players about a loss to a decent team in the early portion of January.
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Milwaukee is without Khris Middleton, Matthew Dellavedova, Rashad Vaughn and apparently Miles Plumlee, all players who figured to have played at least some rotational role for the Bucks before the season began.
Still, it’s obvious the Bucks should have won on Friday night. This is what happens with young teams though. They take lumps, win games they’re supposed to lose and lose games they’re supposed to win.
There are lots of things to be taken away from this particular loss to the Knicks. Not many of them have to do with role players. Let’s get to the actually important stuff instead of worrying about what could’ve been different if Michael Beasley played a little less.