With their win over the Blazers tonight, the Bucks stay in touch with the Celtics at the top of the Eastern Conference. Their good start to the season (12 wins for 4 losses) would almost make us forget the absence of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s lieutenant, Khris Middleton.
This one, like Wesley Matthews (hamstring), was just sent to the G-League with Bucks affiliate team Wisconsin Herd for practice. This decision is a new step towards the return of the rear, operated on the wrist during the summer, who has not played since the first round of the last playoffs against the Bulls.
His return is getting closer even if his coach, Mike Budenholzer, who spoke on Sundayremain cautious: He is making progress, presumably steadily and slowly. Today was another good day. We will continue to see how he feels tomorrow. With a little luck, he will be able to do a little more each day. »
For the technician, it is not only a question of healing this wrist injury, but of being ” completely healthy », with the good physical condition that this implies.
If his absence has no impact in terms of results, it does, however, in the game of the Bucks, especially at the offensive level. Third best offense in the league last year (115 points on 100 possessions), Milwaukee fell to 23rd place this season with just under 110 points scored on 100 possessions. Bobby Portis, Brook Lopez and the amazing Jevon Carter all had to increase their performance on offense to compensate.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Giannis Antetokounmpo | 12 | 32.6 | 50.6 | 22.5 | 58.7 | 1.7 | 10.3 | 12.0 | 5.3 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 29.5 |
| Jrue Holiday | 11 | 32.2 | 43.9 | 33.8 | 85.7 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 5.5 | 7.5 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 18.7 |
| Brook Lopez | 15 | 31.6 | 49.7 | 38.9 | 81.3 | 1.9 | 4.1 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 16.3 |
| Bobby Portis | 15 | 27.1 | 46.4 | 32.8 | 80.0 | 2.7 | 8.3 | 10.9 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 13.7 |
| Grayson Allen | 13 | 25.5 | 41.8 | 42.1 | 93.3 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 9.8 |
| Jevon Carter | 15 | 27.5 | 42.1 | 38.1 | 83.3 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 9.3 |
| Jordan Nwora | 15 | 19.3 | 34.3 | 36.4 | 90.5 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 7.3 |
| Marjon Beauchamp | 12 | 18.5 | 38.2 | 29.3 | 70.0 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 6.4 |
| george hill | 15 | 22.0 | 38.5 | 26.5 | 71.9 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 5.5 |
| Serge Ibaka | 13 | 11.9 | 54.8 | 42.9 | 63.6 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 4.5 |
| Wesley Matthews | 13 | 16.3 | 29.2 | 29.7 | 83.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 3.4 |
| Sandro Mamukelashvili | 6 | 5.4 | 30.8 | 14.3 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
| Aj Green | 2 | 8.7 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| Thanasis Antetokounmpo | 8 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
