Bucks keep rollin’ out of the All-Star Break | Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Charlotte Hornets, 111-99

Bucks keep rollin’ out of the All-Star Break | Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Charlotte Hornets, 111-99

What it do welcome to another new episode of lock on bucks on today’s show the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Charlotte Hornets again this time a 12-point margin of Victory and a 11199 win and the Bucks are now 4-0 coming out of All-Star break plus the bugs made some more history tonight so

We’ll dig into the latest record set by the Bucks and Brook Lopez plus take a look at Giannis dominance and the good play from Milwaukee’s back court and a little preview of the Bulls tomorrow all of that coming up on today’s episode of Locked on bucks you are locked on bucks your daily

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Started now Frank this was not the blowout that we saw on Tuesday or honestly any of the other matchups against the Hornets so far this season with the Bucs quote unquote only winning by 11 tonight but still a good win and the Bucks have just been utterly dominant against the Hornets this season

They have outscored the Hornets by 29.2 points over this four game season series that’s a franchise record for the bucks that is the largest average margin of victory in a season series for the bucks and I mean seeing the Hornets three times in your last eight games

Does wonders for you as well the Bucks have now held their opponents to under 100 points in five of their last eight games with three of those coming against the Hornets plus one against the nuggets and the 76ers I mean what the Bucks have been doing especially against the

Hornets has just been impressive yeah I mean I was listening to the low post uh over the weekend and I think on Friday uh they might have I think it was either Friday or or Monday um maybe it was Monday and I swear they they had

Like a whole like mini segment on the Charlotte Hornets and what they’ve been doing right this was you know like a day before the Bucks absolutely blew their doors off and uh you know it’s was kind of like oh okay you know like yeah things have been going relatively well

For them of late their defense had really picked up uh you know felt like the trades that they made at the deadline were you know kind of moves that were going to set them back but instead um obviously it gave them I think a little bit of a shakeup and um

You know a little shot bit of a shot in the arm so again uh not to say that beating the Hornets is some massively impressive thing uh but this has been a team that was playing well had won five of six before they ran into this bucks

Buzz saw uh the last uh three days and so you know anytime you go out and went on the road comfortably that’s a positive you do it by once again surrendering fewer than 100 points a very kind of clutch 99 uh allowed tonight again four times

In a row in one season that they’ve done that pulled that trick against the Hornets so um yeah hey you know nice to nice to have another team’s number and to uh to win this game you know final margin was only 12 points but we saw in

The second half in particular that lead swelled to to 20 plus at various points you didn’t need to have Giannis and Dame closing out the final minutes of this one um even if the again the final score looked a little bit closer and obviously that’s important going into a

Back-to-back knowing that you have to go into Chicago tomorrow and play a Bulls team that has beaten you in Chicago already once this season so um you know I thought was an interesting game in the sense that Charlotte played Super aggressive defense they were doubling Dame putting pressure on the ball

Forcing the Bucks to move the ball and it felt like this was one of the Buck’s most unselfish passing nights I don’t know how many kind of like hockey assist extra pass type plays the bucks made but the passing was contagious uh especially in the first half slowed down a bit in

The second half and defensively it’s kind of funny I don’t know that they were actually super impressive defensively I think they yeah they they kind of were like doing what I call sort of lazy switching more like they kind of were getting like used to like switching a little bit I’d say

The kind of point of ATT Tech defense wasn’t great today but I mean what a difference you know a month and whatever change makes the fact that here we are the Bucks surrendering just 99 points and we can look at what they did and say like yeah that wasn’t really wasn’t

Great defense for the Milwaukee Bucks right um so hey things have obviously turned for the better um and we obviously looked at these two games as games you wanted to bank uh with that more difficult schedule coming up and now we’ll say the same thing about tomorrow night’s game in Chicago as well

Yeah absolutely and gotta shout out Giannis he had another crazy efficient game tonight 10 to 15 from the field 66.7% from the field including two of two from three tonight including the one he walked into just too much space uh from Grant Williams he also had 10 rebounds five assists I mean jannis

Really led the way for the bucks and it continues to sell her play that we’ been seeing from him like looking at giannis’s shooting numbers over the season B showed this graphic during the game and I was just like wow and it was looking at his field goal percentage

Month by month and in October of course a very small sample size but Giannis shot 55.4% from the field November that number was 61.1 saw a tiny increase in December up to 61.6 dropped a little in January 60.8 but the month of February coming into tonight Giannis was shooting

65.4% from the field and he finished the month of February shooting 42.9% from three of course un limited attempts 1.8 a game but Giannis has just been playing some outstanding basketball yeah and I mean his his usage is down a little bit I mean the the point scoring numbers have have not been

Popping as much of late you know we we saw it here in these two Hornets games he really didn’t need to go and and put up huge numbers tonight 19 points in the first half really set the tone I thought for this game and then second half kind

Of cruise control bucks didn’t need really anybody scoring a ton and Giannis really didn’t take many shots in the second half um but yeah he’s just been really in control I think the passing obviously continues to be impressive the one pass he had tonight which was I

Don’t know like a like 180 hook pass to the corner yeah it was it was a beauty um I I restarted my hash Cool Pass thread for Giannis just kind of cataloging some of his more fun passes and there have been a ton of them of late and we saw it

Again tonight he uh he’s this is I’d say the most confident he’s ever looked passing the ball um and you know five assists tonight not like a ton but only one turnover five assists and as you said you know that hit those two threes he’s

Now at 29% even um on the season from three-point range which is saying something considering how low he was you know in the like High Teens low 20s at one point um seemingly not that long ago so um you know again like is is this some bell weather of Giannis figuring

Out the three-point shot no I don’t think prob that I’m I’m too old to to fall for that trick again uh but hey it’s nice to see the the shots going in and uh you know again another little tidy scoring night again it feels like hitting two-thirds of his shots 67%

Tonight doesn’t even feel like a big you know it doesn’t feel like a big deal it’s like yeah you expect yeah right and you know he didn’t didn’t score on huge Volume tonight same with Dame but um they spread the ball around and and they got some help right which I think

Remarkable how much better the mocky Bucks look when other guys are also making an impact Malik Beasley was was shooting the lights out again tonight we’ve SE seen that obviously many times this season 19 points on 12 shots um and I’d say Bobby poris had another really solid scoring night Pat hton double

Digits I thought he was solid again um you know anytime you’re seeing the bench those two bench guys scoring in double figures looking comfortable and uh and getting positive plus minus ratings I’d say that’s uh generally a good sign the starting five was all plus 15 to plus 18

Um which is kind of what we expect from them given how effective they’ve been of late so um yeah I mean just keep it rolling no complaints and uh again especially with uh with that road trip coming up with clippers and then that road trip um just try to keep that

Momentum going yeah that’s nine straight games and double figures for Bobby Portis like you mentioned he has been playing well I love that you brought up Malik Beasley him and Dame are somebody who I want want to talk a little bit more about because damee from the field

Like he didn’t have an overall great night shooting he had a good night shooting from three but the overall field goal percentage was down but I thought Dame still had a really good game even though the percentage five from 14 from the field wasn’t excellent

But I felt he impacted the game in a few other ways I want to dive into plus just give Malik Beasley some love for what he’s been doing coming up after this break get your buckets with your first bet on FanDuel America’s number one sports book although the NFL season might be over

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Lockdown sports today now available on the free Fire TV channels app now ahead of that break we were talking a little bit about Milwaukee’s back court and I want to start with Dame really quick because like I mentioned not a super efficient night from the field enjoyed

Seeing him going three from six from three U but he was really active the defensively had two steals had a few other deflections tonight I think I counted like four deflections yeah tonight including like in the third quarter had this nice little poke away when he’s playing defense against miles

Bridges miles thought he got that size Advantage he’s going up with the layup and here comes Dane poking that away saving the easy to like it was just really really good to see Dame working on defense and it was mentioned in the broadcast as well that he made note of

The fact that hey in Portland I was a lot of the offense don’t have to be as much of that here in Milwaukee it is allowing me to play a little bit more defense but one thing that also stood out to me with Dames play and it’s just

Something I’m keeping an eye on now uh during the broadcast Marcus mentioned that Dell Curry said that Dame and Steph keep an eye on each other’s field goal percentage going back and forth because the two of them are the two leaders in the NBA and Dame started four or four

From free throw line and I was like okay it’s going to be a good game but it didn’t end that way he only had one more free throw um outside of that and I want to see Dame getting to the line a bit more because his attempts have continuously decreased uh since the

Start of the season I had to take a look because in October 9.3 attempts again the small sample size in October only a couple of games but November nine free throw attempts a game December seven free throw attempts a game January 7.5 free throw attempts per game the month

Of February 4.4 attempts like Dame is just not getting to the line the way that he was but but again he has found ways to remain effective for this team with his defensive effort yeah I mean first off let’s knowledge right I mean like I think Drew holiday averaged you know under three

Free throws a game pretty much you know his entire tenure in Milwaukee like is great as as Drew was like he never drew fouls so we’re kind of spoiled now with Dame um and the rate at which he was drawing fouls early in his bucks tenure

Uh I think honestly I think there’s a close correlation probably between you know he had th that period of struggles early in the calendar year and you know I think refs honestly like if if they feel like you’re not shooting the ball well and you’re trying to really you

Know deliberately draw fouls and and we’ve seen it with Dame where he kind of burrows into the defender Rises up which you know I I don’t in general like that foul call where you just sort of Drive sort of diagonally at a guy feel a bit

Of contact just throw the ball up um it felt like he was getting a lot of those foul calls early in the season and it felt like as his shooting was tailing off and you know he kind of was using that to try to just manufacture something it seemed like officials were

Just like you know what we’re not GNA give that f as much um and you know I think there have been definitely times where you know the refs have let a lot go and and he’s you know had dealt with some physicality um especially run the

Basket that you know should be fouls and he’s just not getting calls so we’ll kind of see where that lands of next couple months for the rest of this regular season I think the foul drawing you know definitely is an interesting thing to watch especially when you think

About him from a playoff perspective you know one of the things that certainly early in the season that really gave him a ey floor from an efficiency standpoint was that you know he was getting to the line eight nine times a game hitting 90% of his free throws even when he didn’t

Have a really efficient shooting night the free throws and the fact that he doesn’t miss free throws was was a you know again kind of mitigated some of that that shooting in efficiency so obviously that’s going to be an important kind of barometer I think in the playoffs if he’s able to stay

Aggressive put the pressure on the defense and get to the line again I think that just changes the dynamic a bit um especially in crunch time you know if you can uh again put pressure on the defense get to the line and we know he’s going to make free throws that that

Obviously gives the Bucks just kind of another dimension offensively versus if you know he’s having to just shoot step back jump shots and you know not not be able to rely on that so um definitely something I think that bear is watching I think the three-point shot coming

Around even tonight with you know overall what he was like 514 he still made his threes at a good clip which is a nice Flip Flip of the script here the fact that he’s been shooting the three ball well since the All-Star break so I mean it was kind of destined to happen

You know he’s not going to be a low3s three-point shooter you know forever and again you just kind of hope it continues because we saw he had the good you know month of December and then kind of backslid um thereafter so hopefully he’s now again kind of finding a bit more of

That Rhythm bit more of that juice and you know I think tonight the statline being a bit more modest I think that largely just reflects the fact that the Hornets just said you know we’re just going to disrupt you being the offensive Creator and try to force the ball out of

Your hands kind of disappointing to me though bucks only had 21 assists felt like they had a more again I think this is one of those games where you look at the box score maybe a little bit of a head scratcher like ah Dame didn’t play that well Yannis didn’t really put up

Big numbers um but that kind of you know obscured the fact that the Hornets were really trying to pressure the ball especially when those guys had it and forced the team into rotation but um obviously they they did enough and defensively uh I’m glad you called out

Dame because I agree I mean there were long stretches in this game where I was like thinking Dames had as good a defense of night as anyone like from an engagement standpoint um you know again it felt like they were not great at the point of attack for long stretches but I

Thought Dame actually held up his end of the bargain as good as as well as anyone to be honest I thought Giannis was kind of probably a little less engaged defensively he didn’t have any blocks or steals I think for the second straight game so um but you know again Brook

Lopez protecting the rim a bit um hit that Milestone the 100 I think we’ll talk about that in a minute the 100 blocks 100 threes yet again and um and yeah I mean when Brooke is doing his thing and you’ve got the guards engaged and the wing defense you know at a

Better place than certainly it was previously yeah I mean we’re just sort of seeing the floor of this defense suddenly feels a lot higher and I you know I gotta say I I I found it annoying like in the first half of the Season like this idea that suddenly like Damen Lillard like

Single-handedly you know is making your defense bad or something like that that’s just not yeah that’s just not how you know NBA def the reality of NBA defense you know Dame’s not even you know with Beasley out there you know they’re not even hunting Dame that much

To be honest night in and night out so again I thought that was more of a reflection of the team and kind of the overall lack of you know uh organization and and cohesiveness in particular under Griff versus like just some uniquely Damen Lillard problem so I’m glad that

Things are kind of coming together and all of a sudden you know all right you know you guys going announce give Damen Lillard some credit probably not but we will Camille we’ll give Dame some credit for his defense and what do you know winning making some shots offensively feeling more engaged offensively now

Paying off I think a little bit more on the defensive end as well yeah and the defensive end also stands off from Elite Beasley I know we talked about his effort after Tuesday night’s game against the Hornets but I also just want to highlight that he’s shooting well

From three coming out an All-Star break we even saw him tonight hit the catch High shoot high in the corner looking like he been working with Pat conon a little bit on that one but I mean I mentioned it uh over the All-Star break because from the start of the Season up

Until January 18th which was a day before bees really launched his like three-point shooting campaign gear he was shooting 47.5% from three on 6.2 attempts from January 19th until the All-Star break he was shooting 37.6% from three on 7 point uh three attempts per game and I think a lot

About what damee was saying like watching bees prepare for the three point contest where he’s like man you’re trying too hard and we made a joke like maybe that’s him to throw your opponent off this game but he mentioned the fact of how hard bees was trying and he kept

Trying to tell bees hey man just shoot just go out and shoot and over the All-Star break I was saying maybe now with the Three-Point Contest behind him just time to really focus on what’s coming up be more in you know the dayto day just hoop uh that the three-point

Shot will come back a little bit higher than what we were seeing before now I wasn’t expecting him to continue to shoot 47.5% from three I was just saying hey if we can get bees in the low 40s that’ll be good but coming out of Allstar break in these four games he has

Been shooting 54.8% from three so I just wanted to shout out bees for the hot shooting in addition to the defense that he’s been playing as well for this team yeah I mean look what was some of what was the theme of the Bucks losing some of those games disappointingly

Before the All-Star break the other team shot well from three and they didn’t shoot W from three you know and bees had um bees was definitely a part of that right had some struggles especially for most of that um that Memphis game he hit those two threes late but for the most

Part really struggled and you know I think he ends up being again a bit of a bellweather for that offense you know just that especially that starting group when he’s kind of you know serving as that safety release valve floor spreader and hitting threes and punishing teams

For showing that extra attention to Dame and Giannis like like he was doing tonight um that offense is just really hard to stop and again credit him you know I I certainly have been questioning all season long you know like you really want Malik Beasley as a third starter

Not a knock against Malik but just from a fit standpoint does that make sense um but he’s just kind of continued to do what he’s been doing and I mean you can’t at the volume that he shoots you can’t fake you know mid-40s three-point shooting and that is really hard to do I

Mean he he’s never shot like this from a percentage standpoint he’s been a really high volume guy he’s been a good three-point shooter but he’s been in just kind of another level of of Zone and again like can he keep doing this you know can he keep giving the

Defensive effort that he deserves credit for um along with this level of shooting I mean if he can uh obviously it it gives the Bucks you know I think fewer questions defensively but I don’t know that’s also still one of those kind of questions you know like even if the

Defense continues to play well throughout the rest of the regular season it’s like do you still look at the starting five and say like oh yeah like I’m I’m good with that group no problem we match up well enough against you know the Celtics or whoever a difficult first round opponent might be

I still have some concerns there but credit to them I mean they’re they’re playing at a high level and I think they’re doing what we hope they would do coming into this season yeah absolutely so before we go into the next segment I do want to mention Brook Lopez you

Dropped the hint right there but just shout out to Brook Lopez uh he moved up in Bucks history on Tuesday against the Hornets and again tonight against the Hornets now he made NBA history he is the first NBA player to have five seasons with at least 100 blocks and 100

Threes uh just just Brook Lopez has been just outstanding for the Milwaukee Bucks seeing him get to five seasons of 100 blocks 100 threes has been quite impressive so we talking about defense got a shout out Brook Lopez he also had three blocks tonight so just want to

Give him some love as well before we head into the next segment where I have a weird lineup question uh this might be real basketball sickish uh in the next segment that I just want to get your opinion on plus some news about Chris Middleton’s uh hopeful quick return to

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It’s that easy all right Frank now Doc Rivers mentioned ahead of the game uh he was asked if Chris Middleton was going to be joining the team in Milwaukee and he said that Chris may meet us in Chicago but I don’t think he’ll play versus the Bulls and

Based on everything that we’ve heard Doc Rivers mentioning about Chris’s injury it sounds like he’s getting really close uh bull seems unlikely for the return for him but Monday is still on the table and it me wonder what type of line step are we going to see because out of

Allstar break doc has really rolled with his bets so we’ve seen the starting five with Jay in for Chris and Off the Bench we’ve been seeing Pat Beverly Pat conon Danilo galinari H Bobby poris makes sense okay so when Chris comes back I wonder if we’re going to see this jumbo

Jumbo lineup because doc has mentioned his interest in seeing the Danilo galinari uh Bobby poris Giannis lineups and we’ve seen it in four games now alongside of those three it’s been Pat conon and Pat Bev and that lineup hasn’t been good so in 16 minutes of play which is a small

Sample size but of course Danilo galinari just got here uh but in 16 minutes of play they have a 11 12.9 offensive rating and a 150 defensive rating for a negative 37.1 net rating and Doc seems to have some interest in this jumbo line line up and I’ve been

Thinking with Chris on the horizon I’m not sure how much playing time galinari is going to get but do you think we might see like a jumbo jumbo lineup where it’s actually Chris Middleton galinari Bobby poris and Giannis with some other guard on the court with

Them well let me say this my my general interest in that jumbo lineup is minimal to say the least um I will say shout out to galinari they they ran a couple of actions where like he was like kind of like by the elbow almost like kind of

Posting up and Giannis actually came around on like a curl kind of set a screen and then Dove to the rim and denillo actually threw him in alyo which was kind of like okay that was that was a little unique play you know action that they put in specifically for Gallow

Um but look I mean this is to me all about putting yourself in the best position you can for the playoffs you know does Gallow with how he’s moving um you know he looks pretty Rusty offensively still here even though he obviously he’s been playing before he

Came Milwaukee as well does Gallow look like a guy that is going to you know make a difference in the playoffs I’m going to go ahead and say no um it’s not to say he couldn’t have a heater at some point do some stuff offensively sure

It’s possible but I think you know Doc’s probably looking at you know a nine guy rotation at most in the playoffs and I think we know the nine right I mean knock on wood you stay healthy and you’re going to have Chris slot back into the starting five and then your

Bench guys are are obviously going to be Bobby Pat Jay and then I think Pat Bev you know at this point is is a pretty safe bet you know at this point obviously to to be the the ninth guy and again you know what kind of minutes is

Pat Bev get in a playoff situation where Dame is getting high 30s 40 minutes I don’t know that he’s going to get a ton I think it’s been interesting seeing Pat play a bit with Dame of late which I think is an obvious thing to to try

Given that Pat plays bigger than he is so um you know I think that’s that’s the nine um you know is when healthy like is is Doc really going to be able to manufacture minutes in the playoffs for denola galinari I just don’t really see it um you know if there’s some situation

Where Bobby’s like just in a complete Funk and not doing anything offensively and you know you give theil the Gallow a look look like you know maybe I guess but um but yeah I think that’s kind of the the the group that you’d look at and

You know Jay even though Jay’s been kind of doing pretty much nothing offensively um you know I think that’s one of the reasons why Dame uh has been able to boost his usage pretty significantly especially early in games um it’s because you know they’ve got Jay

Basically not taking shots uh as as the he’s now basically the fifth starter in L of Chris um and you know obviously I think Jay’s kind of struggled a bit offensively but that starting group The the kind of new starting group has uh has actually been really effective I

Mean they have over a plus 20 net rating so it’s this weird situation where Jay with that starting group that starting group has been great especially since they’ve been on this nice run here over the past couple weeks but overall his his kind of onoff numbers with the

Season are still really bad so Jay Crowder with bench units bad Jay Crowder with the starting five good um and again like I’m not going to entertain like any oh well maybe maybe Chris should come off the bench to like juice the whatever it’s like no play your five best

Dudes turning five has been good all season with Chris let’s not overthink it and you know is Jay better defensively than Chris at this point I mean especially in the regular season I would say yeah just because I think Jay’s gonna work harder and he’s stronger than than Chris is but

Um you know the offensive difference is is just massive both from a shooting and playmaking perspective so I I’m very excited to see Chris Middleton back um again you know are they going to be as good defensively with Chris back versus when he’s been out I don’t think it’s

Going to make a big difference I don’t think they’re going to suddenly like struggle defensively because of Chris Middleton like again like I don’t really buy that um but I think offensively he’s going to really help I mean they’re 17th in offensive rating since uh post Adrien

Griffin their third in defense and I think that 17th in offense obviously you look at and say there’s a lot of head room to get better and for me you know that’s where Chris makes all the difference yeah absolutely the bugs don’t want to get too cute like don’t

Overthink that but in the regular season if we see this jumbo jumbo lineup I’m going to just I’m going to laugh a little bit from my couch just to see the absurdity of seeing this many uh 68 plus guys on the court but second I have a

Back toback coming up for the bucks Friday night the Bucks will kick off the month of March with their final regular season game against the Chicago Bulls so far in the first three games of this season series the Bucks are up 21 in those games but games two and three went

To overtime the Bulls won the one in Chicago which went to overtime and then uh game three against these two teams the Bucks won which also went to overtime the Bulls are five and five over their last 10 but that last win on Wednesday at home against the C double

Overtime really appreciate that one Chicago and with that Cavs loss and the Bucks win tonight the Bucks and the Cavs are really in a dead heat for the two seat both teams are eight games out of first place right now um again don’t think first place is an OP isn’t really

An option for the Bucs at this point but uh them gaining ground on the Cavs is a good thing and I hope they can take care of business tomorrow against a Chicago team that has shown to be really Scrappy like you cannot take Chicago uh for

Granted and what they can bring uh on the court on the night in and night out bases yeah they’re capable of going two for 29 from three and being like complete garbage they’re complete they’re also capable of you know beating good teams as as they’ve done at various

Points this year um you know they’ve had a number of guys uh on relative hot streaks I know IO dunu has been shooting it really well Kobe white uh certainly you know over the past couple months you know has had a lot of bigger games um

And you know developing into one of the the better value contracts in the league and of course you know Alex cruso we all know what he can do now that we’ve can move past uh hoping that the Bucs can trade for him this year at least Le

Season yeah at least this season so um so yeah I mean it’s it’s going to be a test especially second night of the back toback you never know exactly what you’re going to get from this Bulls team you hope that you get the you know bad Bulls um but we’ve already seen the

Bucks kind of under uh I mean I don’t know that the Bucks have had a single impressive game against the Bulls this year they won the first game by about 10 and wasn’t really particularly impressive they had the loss in overtime which obviously was really underwhelming they blew blew a

Game that that game that they should have won with that last second caruso3 in over in regulation that sent it to overtime and then they kind of WW their way through the overtime and and then the last game obviously they really shouldn’t have needed overtime to beat

The Bulls but um you know that was during the playing with their food era bucks so have we evolved beyond the playing with their food era bucks Camille I I we G see we’ll see you know I mean they’re not going to go undefeated the rest of the regular

Season but um again just beat the Bulls like come on let’s let’s get some keep the Good Vibes going here into the weekend and uh especially with with that tougher schedule forthcoming um would be nice to to go into I guess that Clippers game next week with with some nice

Momentum yeah absolutely agree with that but Friday night it’s a late game 900m it’s on ESPN as well as wmlw here in Milwaukee uh bucks and Bulls hopefully the Bucks can continue this win streak out of the allstar break against Chicago Bulls but we’re going to have to tune in

And see that’ll wrap up locked on bucks for this week but we’ll be back at it on Monday uh talking all than for walkie buck so for Frank and myself we’ll catch you guys later

The Milwaukee Bucks took care of business with a 111-99 victory over the Charlotte Hornets, led by Giannis Antetokounmpo (24 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists). With this win, the Bucks completed the season series sweep and outscored the Hornets by an average margin of 29.2 points — the largest margin of victory in a season series EVER by the Bucks.

During today’s show Camille and Frank take a look at the Bucks dominance against the Hornets, highlight the play of some key Bucks players, and discuss what lineup combinations the Bucks might roll out once they’re fully healthy.

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