Milwaukee Bucks: 3 observations from second half of 2020-21 schedule

More back-to-backs in store for the Milwaukee Bucks over the second half.

As if the race towards the finish line for this unique regular season wasn’t enough, the Bucks will be put under greater demand physically over the second half of their campaign.

Milwaukee will have nine back-to-back sets over the second half, which is up from the five back-to-back sets they had over the first half of the year. Those 18 games essentially account for half of their schedule for the final two-plus months of the season.

The back-to-backs worth mentioning and could spell trouble for the Bucks are the rare home-and-away sets or vice versa.

For example, the Bucks will finish out their six-game road trip against West teams by taking on the Dallas Mavericks on April 8 only to come home the next night and host the Charlotte Hornets on April 9. Though it isn’t as drastic, the Bucks hosting the 76ers for a matinee special on April 24 to then kick off a four-game road trek starting in Atlanta the next night could pose a similar obstacle.

To their credit, the Bucks had generally handled back-to-backs well in the Mike Budenholzer era. Just last season, the Bucks were 7-2 on games held on the second night of a back-to-back. So far this year, the Bucks are 3-2 in such games.

Getting 36 games in within 67 days will certainly be a challenge both mentally and physically, but the Bucks won’t be alone in facing an absolute grind to end this regular season as safely and swiftly as possible.

Now we’ll just have to see how the Bucks play over the course of the second half of this season. And there’s still some work to do until we get to that point.