ESPN reacts to Utah Jazz destroy Milwaukee 132-116 despite Giannis Antetokounmpo’s triple-double
Tell you what the Bucks are not smiling as they uh head back to their locker room that’s for sure welcome to the grber law offices one call that’s all sports that’s cishan and Steve Novak on board and uh boy the Bucks found themselves down by 33 points to this
Jazz team early in that third quarter they were down by 31 at halftime did make a really nice comeback but it’s again Giannis talked about it after Saturday’s venting you can’t dig these huge holes like this he had everyone’s attemp mention I think when he did like you said when he
Vented after the Houston game and said everybody’s got to be better from the equipment manager to the coaches he said to myself we’ve got to be better and you saw in the third quarter but Craig like you just said unfortunately the the Utah Jazz had already made 16 three-pointers
By the time the thing the third quarter came it was a pretty much historic first half the way Utah was shooting the ball so it wasn’t the response I think the Box Yannis everybody expected there to be after jannis did that let everybody know how he felt but you had to love
That Bobby was is and Kelly old Nick he was going at him he was getting buckets to crowd got back into it it was a big time quarter Bobby had six points but he really was the emotional guy that brought the one-on-one against all Nick got some big buckets it was really
Everybody across the board scoring the ball in that third quarter Milwaukee scoring over 40 points in that third quarter to try to make that push which you knew was going to have to happen if they were going to come back like you said from down 33 points in the first
Half they had a lot of work to do and you thought you saw that fire that it might be enough in the third quarter and hopefully in the fourth to make it happen but it definitely wasn’t enough and it really did seem like that first half that Utah had offensively and
Milwaukee not limiting their Shooters with seven different guys for the Utah Jazz making a three in that first half it was too much offense too early and they couldn’t dig themselves out of the hole the uh bucks were down 31 at halftime they had only scored 46 points
They scored 44 in that third quarter uh plus 21 to get back in this game they got it down to eight at one point early in the fourth quarter but uh Utah just uh got her all back together again and started hitting some more threes and answering the Bucks and making some
Stops and the Bucks eventually fall there now Utah does this we we talked about uh all the scoring that they had very balanced here in this one uh the Jazz now uh 11- four in their last 15 games and they’re getting efforts like this across the board uh they’re going
To win some more here starting their next game you know they are and this is a graphic I think that does show you there’s got to be someone that is taken away as far as what the defense needs to improve on there have been games where the Milwaukee Bucks have given up 45
Points to Jaylen Brunson with the New York Knicks but the Bucks won the game and then the game after that a month and a half ago against cam Thomas in the Brooklyn Nets cam Thomas had 45 points and the Bucks won that game because there were only four guys on those two
Teams the Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets that scored in double figures now you’re looking at January all the losses in January right now have had six or more guys in double figures tonight was no different against the Indiana PACE was against the Houston Rockets all six or
Seven guys in double figures and so there is no question it is better to allow one guy to go off and to decide you’re going to take something away in this case something being everybody else you allow the guy who handles the ball and the case of the Jaylen Brunson and
The cam Thomas example you allow the ball handler to get in the lane to shoot those tough two-point shots and if he gets going and if he has an 18 for 26 night God bless him you still win the game but obviously when there’s six or seven guys that are scoring in double
Figures and a lot of those 17 19 21 points the math just doesn’t work and it’s not enough and so I think Milwaukee they certainly do have to figure out what are they giving up what are they taking away because you have to give something up in this league the guys are
Too good but right now the Bucs are giving up too much on Saturday the jazz beat Philadelphia without Joel embiid tonight night know Dame Lillard they beat the Bucks both of those Road wins for the in this one a berard’s big money moment goes to janisan and Copo another
Triple double for him Limited in scoring early in this game Steve but he figured it out and uh didn’t get out of control doing a really nice job Distributing the basketball during this comeback you know he did and you also have to love the fire that he had in his eye at times
Like you said he was downhill going to run guys over do what he had to do and I think his teammates have to see that he’s going to just do whatever it takes at times to will this team to Victory and like you said there is no Dame
Willard out there tonight so the burden for jannis to score the ball certainly is greater but to have another triple double I think you’re seeing Giannis continue to play some historic basketball even as far as Giannis is concerned he really is in the month of January following up his incredible
Month of December where he was the best player in the Eastern Conference in the month of December he’s continuing to play really good basketball and the wins aren’t showing up right now it’s not been a great group effort in the month of January so far in these first five
Games but Giannis is continuing to set that tone and be the consistent force that I think as a leader he needs to be and then hopefully everybody can find their way in line behind him all right we’re going to take a break come back with more the three ball proved to be 16
Back at the guber law office is one call that’s all sports desk three-point shooting we talked about it our bucks line pregame what a key that would be not only offensively for Milwaukee they had only been shooting about 30% in the first four games of January well below
Their season average tonight a slow start they got it back going again but defensively as well Steve you mentioned it brought up the point they’ they’ve got to control that and tonight they weren’t able to do that 16 made threes by Utah in that first half yeah and
Obviously trying to counter what Utah did I think was as much a problem as anything because Milwaukee actually making one for the reason doing a pretty good job on that end but like you said if they make your opponent makes 16 in the first half they’re off and running
Everybody’s involved they’re touching it the ball is moving and obviously if you make 20 in the game that’s a lot but it was the first half it was every single guy it seemed like for the Utah Jazz spreading the floor getting good looks and getting in Rhythm and it is
Contagious I think they were the perfect example in that first half they decided they’re just going to step outside that three-point line every time the ball gets into the paint you saw Milwaukee doing a great job collapsing taking that away however the rotations were a little
Too slow on the perimeter and you saw multiple guys with 3 four 53 pointers with the Utah Jazz and obviously making a lot helps but if you’re giving up that many it’s just not enough 16 made threes in that first half tie and NBA season
High for a first half so uh the Bucks don’t want to fall into that category defensively but have to absorb that here and that led to the 31-point deficit for Milwaukee then the comeback by the Bucks and before it’s all said and done the Bucks that did their share hitting
Threes in this one as well during that comeback the Bucs end up at 17 for 36 from the field and really that’s a lot of the reason they got back in this we you know it was in the third quarter was a great response when you’re scoring 44
Points in the third quarter a lot of them were three-pointers they really did make it a game going from down by 33 points to just down by eight they did show some fight Bobby Portis got going the three-point shooters were making shots then you look at the stat sheet at
The end of the night and you see 20 made threes for Utah 17 for Milwaukee very similar percentages Milwaukee actually shot the three 2% better than the Utah Jazz did but when you get that hot and you get down by that much I think it has a psychological advantage for the Utah
Jazz and it carried through for him just weren’t enough makes for Milwaukee in that second half yeah Ben scoring as well 633 how we turn the calendar the Bucks were doing so well an 11 and two December for them and they already have four losses now in the month of January
So they’ve lost four five out of the gates Thursday next Up’s going to be the Boston Celtics obviously top team in the e East here right now in Bucks battling for much of the Season against Jason tatman company they lost a big game tonight at home against the Pacers one
That we saw Tyrese halberton fall early in this game due to an injury yeah halberton went out obviously that’s not our next opponent but because he’s an ashkash guy hoping he heals up quick but this guy Jason Tatum he was out tonight in that loss to the Indiana Pacers but
His guy Jaylen Brown he did go off for 40 let’s not forget this is this guy is probably going to be back out their averaging is 272 points one of the best young players in this league he’s continued to prove himself over and over as you see Boston with that 28 and8
Record this season sit right up on top of the league the good news for Milwaukee is it is their next game against the Boston Celtics but the Boston Celtics have to play Minnesota a night before and they’re going to come in on a back toback against the buck so
Hopefully that helps the Milwaukee Bucks they can kind of continue to get things together we’ll see if Dame if Cam if those guys are back obviously when those guys are out it does make a difference with having them back and hopefully they will be the Bucs can play better guys
Like Jay Crowder are hopefully also getting close to being back out there this could look like a very different team very quickly and I think obviously that’s what Giannis has certainly been pleading for and games like tonight you really want to see him turn the corner
All right we’re going to hear from H coach Griffin on the way it’ll be an interesting postgame press conf big winter storm on the way bucks fall to Jazz they were down by 31 at halftime here is coach Griff on his team tonight just three guys go down 33 in
The first half just how disappointing was that first half effort well I think it’s just more the way that they were getting their uh points a lot of it was just uncontested threes we’re not into the body uh we were not physical enough with with their screening with our
Switches and um you know but at halftime I showed probably more clips than I usually show and and you know just areas where we can you know respond you know sometimes a coach you can come in and you know you can go uh Bonkers and but I
Also believe you got to you know show them the areas that we got to improve on and they responded I thought we had a really good second half again we we dug ourselves you know it’s two games in a row where we dug oursel in the hole but
I’d like you know we put some guys out there and in the second half and especially some of our young guys and I thought we competed and we gave oursel a chance to get back in the game but you know we got to make our Corrections um
It’s a long season you know we’ll get back in the drawing uh in the lab tomorrow and you know find ways that we can get better uh is there a trend line you see in these last two first halfs at all like the fact that you’ve come out
To slow starts defensively or or low energy or whatever you want to say uh no I think you know every game is different um again I thought tonight was just uh you know we just came back out and as far as Personnel driven uh we you know the
First play we gave Markin a a three we got a press up on them and you know it kind of went downhill from there so um but again I thought we made our Corrections in in the second half and uh I think rebounding in the first half was
A issue you know the uh we couldn’t rebound for whatever reason you know long rebounds long threes we got to get to the elbows can’t leave leak out we also have to find a body you know we got to crack somebody and and then go pursue
But I think the second half we only gave up um I may be wrong I I have to look go back and look at it but I think we only gave up one or two offensive rebounds in the in the second half so again you know uh fore spee spee spee foreign spee
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ESPN reacts to Utah Jazz destroy Milwaukee 132-116 despite Giannis Antetokounmpo’s triple-double
