Milwaukee Bucks: Takeaways From Loss To Washington Wizards

The Under Delly

With another curious performance under his belt last night, our last Buck we’ll focus on is Matthew Dellavedova.

On one hand, the Australian was instrumental to the team’s offense with his playmaking, regularly hitting fellow Bucks on the break to capitalize on the Wizards’ mistakes. Delly’s playmaking would also extend into the half court as well with him benefiting from Snell’s hot shooting in particular.

In total, Delly finishing with 11 assists and just one turnover falls in line with what’s been the biggest strength of his play for the season. The downside of Delly’s performance, however, also happens to fall in line with his biggest struggle of the year so far: his three-point shooting.

Going 1-of-9 from the field and 0-for-5 from deep, Delly’s ineffectiveness shooting the ball has been an underlying problem that’s slowly becoming hard to ignore. Thankfully, Delly’s trips to the free-throw line helped him have something to fall back on scoring wise for the night as he finished with eight points, six of those points coming from the line.

But with another night sinking his shooting percentages even further, it might not be long until we wonder whether the role Delly currently has now may be getting in the way of where we thought he’d have the biggest impact on the Bucks.

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We’ll have to wait until Wednesday night to see how the Bucks respond when they take on divisional rival, the Detroit Pistons.