It would be very easy to fall into the temptation of panicking right about now for the Milwaukee Bucks. For one, some fans appear to be on this same ship already after just four games in the regular season.
Can you really blame them, though?
Milwaukee Bucks Star Khris Middleton Calls for Calm
According to Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton is the type of player who holds the team together in times of trouble. Middleton just has a way about him wherein he is able to remain calm, cool, and collected regardless of how rocky the ship might be, so to speak.
Middleton himself was asked to comment on this poise that he has as well as how important it is amid Milwaukee’s troubling start to the season.
“I try to,” Middleton said after Wednesday’s blowout loss to the Toronto Raptors. “I mean, especially playing a good team like them in a hostile environment, it’s just being poised. Being calm, cool, collected. Thinking the game through and not letting emotions run high.”
By his own admission, though, Middleton agrees that it’s not easy to remain poised at times when you’re team is being completely dominated by the opposition. Case in point was Wednesday’s 19-point shellacking at the hands of the Raptors.
Middleton shed some light on how he approaches these types of undesirable situations:
“Just thinking the game,” he continued. “I mean that’s all it is for me. It’s not thinking about emotions, not thinking about ups and downs. Just thinking how to win each possession. It’s a game of chess. Each possession on both sides of the ball, you just have to think it through. You’re gonna make some shots, you’re gonna miss some shots. But (you) want to just give yourself a chance, that’s all.”
The Bucks can definitely learn a thing or two from Middleton, especially at this point in the season.
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