Doc Rivers continues to play with his middle five
Already two weeks later lost a big lead against Sacramento and making sure they don’t want to make this mistake again Bucks he fell into the trap again against the Hawks, blowing a 23-point lead to finally win.
In addition to this scenario, one of the important elements these close wins in Atlantait’s a major change in milwaukee. Kyle Kuzma was again the starter, while Kevin Porter Jr. started on the bench, to follow Ryan Rollins, AJ Green, Giannis Antetokounmpo etc Miles Turner. Like in mid-November, for three matches.
Why change? If he has a bigger size, the coach justifies himself. “All our replacements are positive”then adds Doc Rivers to the +/- of his replacements, effectively all in green while the starters (except AJ Green) are in red. “It worked well.”
Does that mean this will be the Bucks’ top five in the coming weeks? “I don’t know”the coach answers, with the movement of both handswho are still looking for the right formula for a team that has been sliding since the beginning of the season and remains in eleventh place in the Eastern Conference.
“Can we do it four or five times in a row? In one night, yes, we can again. But we don’t have the regularity to say that something will be fixed in the long term. As long as it is, we will be like that. I would like to have something that I can keep until the end of the season. I’m a taker. »
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | That | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Ft | Pts |
| Giannis Antetokounmpo | 27 | 29:00 | 64.7 | 40.5 | 65.2 | 2.9 | 6.6 | 9.5 | 5.5 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 28.8 |
| Kevin Porter Jr. | 22 | 11:55 p.m | 44.4 | 35.8 | 83.7 | 0.8 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 17.1 |
| Ryan Rollins | 41 | 31:38 | 46.2 | 39.4 | 76.7 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 16.2 |
| Bobby Portis | 41 | 23:18 | 49.1 | 47.6 | 74.4 | 1.3 | 5.2 | 6.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 13.0 |
| Kyle Kuzma | 39 | 25:52 | 50.4 | 33.0 | 74.8 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 12.6 |
| Miles Turner | 40 | 28:20 | 41.9 | 38.3 | 75.7 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 12.2 |
| Hey Green | 38 | 29:09 | 44.1 | 43.4 | 79.3 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 10.2 |
| Gary Trent Jr. | 39 | 24:38 | 37.9 | 35.8 | 81.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 8.5 |
| Cole Anthony | 29 | 14:43 | 42.9 | 29.1 | 59.1 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 6.4 |
| Taurean Prince | 8 | 21:08 | 44.7 | 42.9 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 6.1 |
| Mark Sears | 7 | 3:43 | 46.2 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 3.1 |
| Jericho Sims | 30 | 14:22 | 83.7 | 0 | 61.5 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.0 |
| Gary Harris | 31 | 14:35 | 50.8 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 2.7 |
| Pete Nance | 11 | 4:16 | 55.6 | 45.5 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.3 |
| Amir Coffey | 24 | 7:50 | 43.2 | 23.5 | 92.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
| Andre Jackson Jr. | 17 | 6:53 | 32.1 | 23.5 | 90.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| Thanasis Antetokounmpo | 13 | 3:05 | 61.5 | 0 | 66.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.7 |
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