Milwaukee Bucks Game Preview: Jan. 13 vs Miami Heat
By Ti Windisch
The Milwaukee Bucks get to come home and take on a struggling Miami Heat team on Friday to kick off the weekend.
The Milwaukee Bucks got a huge win over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday, and after a few days of rest the Bucks get a chance to start the weekend off right. The Miami Heat are in town, and this isn’t exactly a powerhouse team this season.
After losing LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to free agency and Chris Bosh to injury, the Heatles are no more. Now Miami is dealing with an extensive injury report and a lack of able NBA players, and the result has been a 11-29 record this season.
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The Heat are bad. Miami might not mind too much, considering the loaded nature of the 2017 NBA Draft and the fact that the Heat will own their pick, but that doesn’t help put wins on the board right now.
Goran Dragic and Hassan Whiteside are the franchise’s best players right now, and they’re actually pretty good. There’s not much help here though, especially now that promising young players Josh Richardson and Justise Winslow are out for potentially the rest of the season.
The Bucks need to take this game seriously of course, but this should be one Milwaukee can win fairly easily. To see how either team could take the game, we’ll go through major keys for both of them and look at a member of the Heat to watch before making predictions.