The Milwaukee Bucks were left searching for answers with their uninspiring performance against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. With that, we take a look at what went wrong in the loss.
The Milwaukee Bucks gave the equivalent of handing out pennies to trick-or-treaters as they put in a largely miserable performance against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, losing 110-91.
Knowing they would be facing the newly formed “OK3”, the Bucks looked ready for the challenge in the opening minutes of the contest. However, things quickly spiraled for the Bucks midway through the first quarter as the Thunder sprung into action and threw so many problems the Milwaukee’s way, without them dishing a similar set of problems in return.
From there, the Bucks were tasked with an uphill battle to just make it a competitive game, which was only made worse when Giannis Antetokounmpo got into foul trouble at the start of the second quarter.
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Without Antetokounmpo on the floor, the Bucks looked lifeless as they scratched and clawed for nine points during that seven minute stretch without him in the period.
In the second half, Antetokounmpo gave his best effort in trying to make things somewhat respectable on the Bucks’ end, but the Thunder gave little to no wiggle room when it looked like things had the potential to get interesting.
Having built up the lead to unreachable lengths, the majority of the fourth quarter was spent with both teams running out reserve-laden lineups to put on the finishing touches for the game.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the lone bright spot for the Bucks as well as what didn’t go their way against the Thunder on Tuesday night.