Milwaukee Bucks: Player grades from 136-132 loss to Dallas Mavericks
By Adam McGee
The Milwaukee Bucks fell to an overtime loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday as Luka Doncic put in a truly astonishing performance.
The Milwaukee Bucks may not have had too many close games for the majority of the regular season, but they’re trading almost exclusively in them since they arrived in Orlando.
The Bucks and Mavericks ended up in overtime to wrap up a highly entertaining game on Saturday night, with Milwaukee left to rue their third loss since the restart by the end of the action.
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Milwaukee really should have had the win wrapped up in regulation given they had a seven-point lead with just over 2:30 remaining, but missed shots proved costly in allowing the Mavericks to come back into it.
Still, this wasn’t a dramatic collapse and failure in execution like the defeats to the Rockets and Nets were, but instead a case of good looks being created but missed by those in Bucks’ jerseys.
On the other side of the floor, the Bucks also came up against a truly dazzling performance from Luka Doncic, the likes of which very few players have managed to run up on the Bucks over the past two seasons.
With all of that in mind, let’s take a closer look at the individual efforts from Milwaukee’s Saturday night loss to Dallas.