The Milwaukee Bucks were able to soar to the championship last season, Holliday's joining played a crucial role, his tandem for the whole team's offense, as well as the improvement of defensive quality have made the team's court dominance have a qualitative improvement, after the start of the new season, Holliday's absence of several games, the Bucks performance did not meet expectations and proved his value! In this regular season, Budenholzer still in the case of Holliday can not appear, let the alphabet brother as the team's starting point guard, but this campaign alphabet brother did not play the last game against the Warriors when the dominance, the Raptors excellent interior defense, did not let the alphabet brother play an efficient personal offense, which is also the reason why the Raptors can be behind by 15 points at the beginning, reverse the score and maintain the lead for a long time, the fourth quarter of the war, the Raptors rely on Siakam's all-round play, In the end, he defeated the Bucks 103-96, ending a two-game losing streak!
After winning the championship that year, many of the Raptors' champions chose to leave the team, Siakam and VanVleet became the core of the team's internal and external lines, in this campaign, facing the defending champions, both of them proved their worth with excellent performances, Siakam showed his full personal ability in the game, although the Bucks have tried their best to limit his play on the court, but now Siakam has a significant improvement in passing awareness, when the Bucks wrap it up, He was able to pass the ball to a better-placed teammate in the first place, and Siakam contributed a triple-double of 30 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 steals throughout the game.
Van Vliet's performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends is equally outstanding, relying on excellent strength, not giving Brother Alphabet the opportunity to directly start to attack the inside line, and also carried the outside offensive banner on the offensive end, hit 3 three-pointers, got 17 points, 3 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals, under the tandem organization of the two of them, the Raptors have a total of five players on the team to score double digits, of which Anunoby scored 24 points, becoming the most powerful left arm of the two-core campaign.
The Raptors were able to win the championship that year, excellent defensive system is one of the most important reasons, this campaign they very well limited the Bucks' two core alphabet brothers and Middleton, alphabet brother in the game, although contributed 30 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, but the individual offensive efficiency is not very high, 17 shots only hit 6 goals, Middleton also played very badly, only 12 shots 3 performance got 16 points.
As we all know, the Bucks are a team that likes to play a fast-paced offensive and defensive transition in the game, but this time the Raptors obviously intend to drag the game into the position war on the court, and do not give the Bucks a chance to play fast, and the bucks' fast attack score is only 7 points in the whole game, which is one of the reasons why they can beat the strong opponent on the lower gram.
The only consolation for bucks fans in this game is that Alphabet Brother has performed well on the free throw line, hitting all 17 free throws, if he can maintain this level, after Holliday returns to the court, they will still be strong contenders for the championship, and the Raptors will become more and more determined to build a team with him as the core after seeing Siakam's performance!