The Bucks' 126-106 victory over the Rockets at home would not come as a surprise, as the difference in strength between the two teams is visible to the naked eye. In this game, the Bucks continue a law of unbeaten, winning all 19 games in the regular season so far this season, demonstrating the dominance of the defending champion.
Bucks Gui as the defending champion, this season still showed a strong strength, and the rebuilding Rockets even in the case of seven consecutive wins so far this season with a record of 10 wins and 22 losses in the Western Conference, the strength gap between the two teams is obvious, even in the absence of alphabet brothers, the two teams of the two teams ended in a big victory is a normal result, the Rockets in this season by the Bucks will not be surprising.
In this game in which Alphabet Brother was absent, the Bucks only shot 43.7% from the field, rebounded less than the Rockets, and won 10 fewer free throw opportunities than the Rockets, and the reason why the Bucks were able to win easily was that they made the Rockets' offensive efficiency lower, and the Rockets only shot 41.9% of the shooting rate and the three-point shooting rate was as low as 28.9%.
It's the Bucks' 19th regular season game so far this season to shoot higher percentages than their opponents, which is no surprise to the defending champions, but the Bucks' all-win wins in those 19 games may come as a surprise to some. You know, even the Suns and Warriors, two teams in the league's top two so far this season, have lost games with higher shooting percentages than their opponents.
Although the Bucks' current record of 20 wins and 13 losses can only rank third in the East, only 0.5 wins ahead of the rebuilding team Cavaliers, and a much lower win rate than the third-place Jazz in the West, the Bucks have shown great dominance despite injury problems, and maintaining all the wins in 19 regular season games with higher shooting percentages than their opponents also proves the stability of the defending champions this season.
There is also a statistic that can prove the stability of the Bucks, that is, the Bucks have also maintained a full victory in the 17 regular season games that have maintained their lead at the end of the third quarter so far, and have never been overturned by their opponents in the fourth quarter. It is worth mentioning that even the Warriors have had 3 games so far this season that have been overturned by opponents in the leading game at the end of the third quarter.
Although the Suns and Warriors are currently the only two teams in the league to have a winning percentage of more than 70.0%, and both teams have a winning percentage of more than 80.0%, we can't ignore the defending champion Bucks when discussing the ownership of this season's NBA championships!