Milwaukee Bucks Game Preview: Jan. 23 vs Houston Rockets

Finale

It’s funny how vastly different consecutive Bucks games can be based on the opponent. The Miami Heat rely on Hassan Whiteside to do stuff inside, and on Goran Dragic to just do stuff in general. The Heat are bad, but they have some funky lineups and a few good players.

The Houston Rockets are good, and stylistically different from just about every team in the NBA. Houston is going to shoot and shoot and shoot some more, and that style has worked really well for the Rockets this year.

The Bucks will need to stroke some threes to keep up, although Milwaukee should be wary of trying to exchange threes with the Rockets too often. The Bucks don’t have the shooters to keep up with the insane volume of threes the Rockets will likely take on Monday.

Predictions and Leaderboard:

Rohan Katti: Rockets by 9 — 26-17, 519 point differential

Lukas Harkins:  Bucks by 4 — 24-19, 496 point differential

Adam Coffman: Rockets by 14 — 24-19, 516 point differential

Tom Pheister: Rockets by 11 — 24-19, 558 point differential

Adam McGee: Rockets by 13 — 23-20, 574 point differential

Tim Wray: Rockets by 8 — 22-21, 524 point differential

Jordan Treske: Rockets by 17 — 22-21, 594 point differential

Ti Windisch: Bucks by 1 — 21-22, 539 point differential

Next: Bucks Player Power Rankings, Jan. 12 - Jan. 18

The game is on Monday night at 7:00 p.m. and will be televised on Fox Sports Wisconsin.