For the third time in five seasons, after 2019 and 2020, the Bucks will finish the regular season with the best record in the league. With their victory over the Bulls, the 2021 champions have indeed won their 58th success and Boston cannot catch up with them by Sunday. And no one in the West comes close, with “only” 52 wins for the conference-leading Nuggets.
Therefore, the Bucks can approach the last two games of the regular season with lightness and already look to Game 1 of their first round, in ten days.
“Now we can breathe”, announcement Mike Budenholzer. “I don’t know what we’re going to do on Friday and Sunday, but we can already breathe. The guys deserved it. We must pay tribute to what they have been doing since the All-Star Game to achieve this place. Having such a record counts and being there every night is difficult. »
Giannis Antetokounmpo was not dressed against Chicago and Khris Middleton was injured early in the game, hit in the knee. These days without challenge will do good to breathe and celebrate this advantage of the field.
“It’s a big asset against big teams in the playoffs and it’s something we can be proud of for this regular season,” reminds Brook Lopez for ESPN. “We made the effort night after night. No matter what group we had, we were ready. »
The last two matches will be against Memphis and Toronto. Two wins and it would be the sixth season in franchise history with 60 or more wins. The latest is from 2018/19.
“To have won 58 games and to be the leaders of the league, it shows the character of everyone in this locker room”, welcomes Wesley Matthews. “As well as the determination of this team to be the last at the end of the season. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Giannis Antetokounmpo | 63 | 32.1 | 55.3 | 27.5 | 64.5 | 2.2 | 9.6 | 11.8 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 31.1 |
| Jrue Holiday | 66 | 32.5 | 47.9 | 38.2 | 85.9 | 1.2 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 7.3 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 19.2 |
| Brook Lopez | 77 | 30.3 | 53.1 | 37.6 | 78.6 | 2.0 | 4.7 | 6.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 15.8 |
| Khris Middleton | 32 | 24.8 | 43.9 | 31.7 | 90.2 | 0.9 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 15.5 |
| Bobby Portis | 68 | 25.9 | 49.5 | 35.7 | 76.2 | 2.2 | 7.4 | 9.6 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 13.9 |
| Grayson Allen | 72 | 27.4 | 44.0 | 39.9 | 90.5 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 10.4 |
| Jevon Carter | 78 | 22.3 | 42.4 | 41.7 | 81.6 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 7.9 |
| Pat Connaughton | 61 | 23.7 | 39.2 | 33.9 | 65.9 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 7.6 |
| Joe Ingles | 44 | 22.7 | 43.7 | 41.2 | 85.7 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 7.0 |
| Jordan Nwora | 38 | 15.7 | 38.6 | 39.2 | 86.0 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 6.0 |
| Jae Crowder | 15 | 18.3 | 46.2 | 41.5 | 83.3 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 5.8 |
| george hill | 35 | 19.1 | 44.7 | 31.1 | 73.9 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 5.0 |
| Marjon Beauchamp | 49 | 12.8 | 40.3 | 32.6 | 69.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Aj Green | 33 | 9.7 | 44.0 | 43.3 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 4.5 |
| Serge Ibaka | 16 | 11.6 | 48.1 | 33.3 | 61.5 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 4.1 |
| Leonard Meyers | 6 | 8.5 | 57.1 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 4.0 |
| Wesley Matthews | 49 | 15.5 | 36.7 | 32.8 | 87.5 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 3.4 |
| Sandro Mamukelashvili | 24 | 9.1 | 32.8 | 21.9 | 66.7 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 2.4 |
| Goran Dragic | 5 | 7.3 | 23.1 | 42.9 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.2 |
| Lindell Wigginton | 5 | 3.6 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.6 |
| Thanasis Antetokounmpo | 34 | 4.1 | 37.0 | 0.0 | 41.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
