Milwaukee Bucks: Key Takeaways From Loss To Detroit Pistons – October 17

Moose’s Second Unit Domination

For better or worse, with Michael Carter-Williams gone, Greg Monroe is going to have a lot of freedom in Milwaukee’s second unit this year.

There are certainly positives in having a proven, low-post scorer to turn to as the team’s alpha scorer on the bench, but what Milwaukee got a closer look at on Monday night is how the strategy of leaning on Monroe can also go wrong.

With the motivation of matching up against his former team, Monroe appeared to have something of a green light to go and get his when he was on the floor in the Palace of Auburn Hills on Monday. In 22 minutes of play, Moose attempted 19 field goals but only found the bottom of the net on six of those shots.

Although the box score officially shows Monroe as having had no turnovers in the game, some of his mishandled passes and haphazard shots effectively gave the ball back to the Pistons equalling an empty trip for the Bucks.

As Pistons legend Rick Mahorn noted in commentary, for as effective as Monroe can be when given the time to back his man down, he’s always going to go to his left in order to get his shot off. There are going to be nights when Moose’s interior force is going to win games for the Bucks in the second unit, but Bucks fans also have to be prepared for the games they’ll lose due to the one-dimensional nature of his offensive repertoire.