As the Las Vegas Summer League reached it’s tournament rounds, the Milwaukee Bucks stepped their game up to heights that we hadn’t seen in their previous three outings.
With an early 3pm Central (1pm local) start, perhaps the Bucks could have been forgiven for starting a little slow faced off with the Houston Rockets. That couldn’t have been further from the case though.
Milwaukee had 27 first quarter points, which was no mean feat considering quarters at Summer League are only ten minutes long. They kept knocking down shots from then on too.
The Bucks made 54.5 percent of their field goal attempts, while even more strikingly they also made 60 percent of their three-point attempts.
Turnovers remain the biggest problem for this young group and although they’re almost expected due to lack of familiarity between players and the general sloppiness of play, 25 of them, like Milwaukee had in this one, just still feels like far too many.
The Bucks had a great share of scoring with three of their players passing the 20 point mark. Sean Kilpatrick was as reliable as ever with 26 points, Kevin Jones had a big time 20 points to go with his nine rebounds, while first round pick Rashad Vaughn had his best showing yet with 23 points.
The Bucks will be action again today at 3pm Central in Cox Pavilion as they look to get past the Phoenix Suns in order to reach the quarter finals.
In the meantime, let’s take a look at the player grades from this win over the Rockets.
Grades
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