Get home, figure this s- out, play better, win some games and this will all be water under the bridge.” Beauty of the NBA is a short memory and we got another hungry team ready and waiting on us in Milwaukee. We gotta come out with a win, but we didn’t. Gotta be better offensively, defensively, execution-wise, top-to-bottom.
It’s a good team, but we gotta be better. For the most part, we were in control of the game, just let it slip away. “Everything about it,” Wesley Matthews said, when asked about what frustrated him most about Wednesday’s loss. I can’t remember the last time (they lost four consecutive games). Take what we can, just keep working, trying to get better. A lot of clichés you could throw out there, right,” Bucks center Brook Lopez (14 points, six rebounds, four blocks) said after Wednesday’s loss. Their current four-game losing streak is the second-longest losing streak of the Mike Budenholzer Era, the longest since the Bucks dropped five consecutive games in February of the 2020-21 season. But things are going poorly for the Bucks right now.
Postgame news conferences typically feature players talking about all of the things that went right following a comeback win or the few mistakes made in a double-digit victory that can be fixed to become even better going forward. Just a collection of a bunch of plays.”įor so much of the last five seasons in Milwaukee, nearly the opposite has been true. They made some shots, got downhill, went to the free-throw line and (we) wasn’t able to make shots on the other end. It’s not just one play it’s a collection of plays. “I think we were up, what, nine points - 11? - with 2:18? Yeah. “It’s a collection of multiple things,” Antetokounmpo said after putting up 45 points, 22 rebounds and seven assists in the Bucks’ losing effort. It was one of the myriad miscues that led to the Bucks’ 11-point lead evaporating in the final three minutes of regulation and then, the Bucks ultimately losing 119-113 to the Bulls in overtime for the team’s fourth consecutive loss. The sequence with Allen with just over a minute left in the fourth quarter, though, was far from the only thing that went wrong as the Bucks tried to close out the Bulls. Those obviously don’t feel well, but the other ones were dead-on and I didn’t know they were going to be a miss until they hit the rim, so just keep putting them up as long as it keeps feeling good.” Like 12 of them are straight, and I think two of them miss left-right.
“I think I shot like 14 of them, 15 of them. “Shoot it,” Allen said of how he tries to get through shooting struggles in a game. The two misses in crunchtime contributed to what ended up being a 3-of-14 night from behind the 3-point line for Allen, a continuation of his recent struggles from 3, and a 9-of-44 3-point shooting performance for the Bucks overall. The NBA changed the rules for cheering players on the bench after last season, but as Allen let go of the 3-point attempt that could have iced the game, only Jevon Carter and Sandro Mamukelashvili rose to their feet to celebrate the open look. As Allen teed up that 3-pointer, the entirety of the Bucks’ bench was up on their feet, putting three fingers in the air as Allen let it go and booing Allen as the shot went through the net, their form of encouragement for Allen in the series.Įight months later, things looked quite a bit different as Allen teed up the wide-open 3-pointer with 75 seconds remaining. His sixth and final 3-pointer of the game came just before the third-quarter buzzer as the Bulls doubled off Antetokounmpo and Allen hit a wide-open catch-and-shoot 3 from 27 feet away on the left wing. On that Sunday afternoon, Allen hit six 3-pointers on his way to a career playoff-high 27 points.
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Just over eight months ago, in Game 4 of the Bucks’ first-round playoff series against the Bulls on April 24, Allen tore out the hearts of Bulls fans from that exact spot on the United Center floor. Entering Wednesday’s game in Chicago, Allen was hitting 40.2 percent from 3 on the season. As a member of the Bucks, Allen has made 40.2 percent of his 3-point shots. For his career, Allen is a 39.2 percent 3-point shooter.
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