The Milwaukee Bucks have been missing the services of Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is ruled out until the NBA All-Star break due to a nagging left calf injury. Since he was out of the lineup, the team had mixed results.
Milwaukee suffered a 125-111 loss against Golden State last night for their third loss in the five games without their superstar.
Damian Lillard tried to keep them afloat with 38 points, six rebounds, four assists, and six three-pointers on 12-for-24 shooting from the field. Kyle Kuzma had 21 points and six rebounds on 6-for-9 shooting from the field, and Taurean Prince added 19 points, eight rebounds, two assists, and five three-pointers, but their efforts weren’t enough to topple the Golden State Warriors.
The Milwaukee Bucks will try to regroup when they visit the Minnesota Timberwolves for the first time this season on Wednesday.
AJ Green explains why Milwaukee Bucks badly miss Giannis Antetokounmpo
The Milwaukee Bucks are hoisting up more three-point attempts to compensate for Giannis Antetokounmpo’s absence. However, their approach didn’t work last night, as they only went 10-for-33 from beyond the arc against the Golden State Warriors.
“I think with him out you have another you have another three-point shooter – whoever it is, everybody on our team can really shoot. He draws so much attention that gets us threes and if he’s not playing then there’s more side-to-side actions, there are more drive-kick, drive-kick that also leads to open threes as well,” Green said about Antetokounmpo’s impact via Jim Owczarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“Often times, too, with Dame, I think the past two games he’s been getting blitzed more, or trapped and so two are automatically on him and we can play through the short roll, two-on-ones. We want to shoot threes. We have great shooters, so just keep doing it,” he added.
