Milwaukee Bucks: Takeaways From Loss To Cleveland Cavaliers

Duking It Out

Not far behind Giannis’ footsteps last night was the team’s other cornerstone, Jabari Parker.

The 21-year old came out firing to start the contest and was the team’s main source of offense for the first quarter (Parker’s 11 first quarter points made up half of the Bucks’ 22 points in the period).

Following his seven minute rest on the bench, Parker picked up right where he left off upon returning the game to build his point total to 19 by halftime. Once play picked back up after halftime, Parker’s offense, specifically back-to-back three-point makes were key to drawing the lead down as low as the Bucks did midway through the third.

Unfortunately, that’s where Parker’s scoring would finish for the night, despite playing additional minutes until Kidd ushered in the garbage time players (name idea for an acting troupe). But scoring 27 points on 20 shots and going 4-of-5 from downtown certainly goes down as one of his better scoring nights of the season so far.

With Parker’s scoring consistently hitting well over double digits at this point, hopefully it’ll be a matter of time until his high scoring nights come with other high marks in support as well.