Milwaukee Bucks Game Preview: March 21 at Portland Trail Blazers
By Ti Windisch
The Milwaukee Bucks can bounce back from their last loss with a win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night.
The Milwaukee Bucks got thrashed by the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night. As good as the Bucks have looked lately, it can be easy for fans to become upset when the team gets knocked around like that.
It probably shouldn’t. Even without Kevin Durant, the Warriors have the two-time unanimous MVP, in addition to one of the best knock-down shooters in the league and the most versatile defender the NBA has to offer. They’re pretty good.
Sometimes Golden State just kills teams. That happened on Saturday. Now it’s time to move on from that, and focus on Milwaukee’s next opponent: the Portland Trail Blazers. The Blazers had a horrible start to the season, and they’re still just ninth in the Western Conference.
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For all the money that Portland spent last summer, the franchise certainly hoped to have a playoff spot locked up by now. Massive deals to Evan Turner, Allen Crabbe and Maurice Harkless have not gone as planned, as none of those players are really living up to their big salary figures.
The Blazers lucked into Jusuf Nurkic at the NBA trade deadline, and the Bosnian Beast has lived up to his nickname in Weird City thus far. The Bucks will have to contain him, and Portland’s fearsome backcourt, in order to win.
To see other ways both teams could win, we’ll go through major keys for both of them, as well as highlighting a Trail Blazer to keep an eye on. After all that. it’s time for score predictions.