Milwaukee Bucks: Takeaways From Win Over San Antonio Spurs
The Milwaukee Bucks took home a nailbiting victory on the road over the San Antonio Spurs last night. With that, we break down what stood out the most in the game.
Under less than ideal circumstances, the Milwaukee Bucks came out on top over the San Antonio Spurs in surprising fashion last night, winning 109-107.
With both teams having key players either out entirely or battling through illness, like in Giannis Antetokounmpo’s case, an interesting stage was set before the game tipped off. For the Bucks, though, they were forced to play in catch up mode not long after the opening jump.
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Drawing the lead within reach only to have it only spike back up again, the Bucks were without many constants throughout the majority of the first half.
That was reflected into head coach Jason Kidd‘s rotation as we saw scarcely used players like Miles Plumlee and Thon Maker (!) for stretches, in hopes to get something going.
Trailing by only 6 entering the second half, the Bucks started to find some offensive consistency by getting some much needed contributions from multiple players. As such, any run from the Spurs would become more few and far between as the Bucks would regularly answer back with a counter of their own.
While keeping that offensive attack going in the fourth quarter, the Bucks tightened up their defense, forcing the Spurs to work for every shot. That eventually resulted in the Bucks taking control of the lead at the 2:56 mark of the fourth and despite a few late scares, they wouldn’t let go of it to ensure the huge, come from behind win.
In 48 minutes, the Bucks held the lead for 3 minutes and 41 seconds tonight.
— Jordan Treske (@JordanTreske) January 11, 2017
So without further ado, let’s take a deeper look at who and what stood out the most in the win for the Bucks.