Milwaukee Bucks: 5 stats that stand out from their seeding games

5 stats that stand out from the Milwaukee Bucks’ seeding games – 24 clutch time minutes

Through the Bucks’ eight seeding games in Orlando, they played 24 clutch time minutes across five of those contests, per NBA.com/stats.

In just two weeks, the Bucks nearly played half as many of the 50 clutch minutes they played during the regular season before it was suspended in mid-March. Of course, the 74 total clutch time minutes the Bucks have played on the year is by far the fewest a team has played this season.

Despite logging such limited clutch time minutes, the Bucks recorded the fourth-highest net rating and had the best defensive rating in such situations this 2019-20 season.

But what their games in the bubble showed was the same execution problems and concerns that many have in terms of their poise and experience trying to clinch close late game scenarios. In other words, these are the same concerns that stem from their Conference Finals collapse to the Toronto Raptors last year.

That certainly played a part in the late collapses we saw in their losses to the Houston Rockets as well as Brooklyn Nets, even as whole slew of circumstances could have attributed to that latter defeat. And it certainly feeds into some of the skepticism that Bucks fans have about how the team will be able to handle clutch situations going into playoff games.