As defending champions, the Milwaukee Bucks did not have a particularly good record in the first half of the season due to injuries. But as the season progressed, injured players returned and management upgraded the lineup, and the Bucks gained momentum in the second half. Against the Detroit Pistons, who swooped in and sent in a large number of substitutes, the Bucks were not polite, and they won 131-101 away to the Detroit Pistons.
Basketball is a team sport, and the Bucks were able to succeed last season, including to still be highly competitive, because they have a lot of strong players in the squad. This game against the Pistons, With Harden's nemesis, Zhu Holliday also has a rather heroic performance, he has 10 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists, although Holliday's outside feel is average, 4 shots outside the three-point line are all lost, but his assists plus +28 plus plus minus are the highest in the team. The Milwaukee Bucks, who are all soldiers, returned to the second place in the East after winning this game, and now the initiative is completely in the hands of the Bucks, after all, as long as they win the last game, regardless of the win or loss of other teams, they can lock in the ranking.
The 2009 draft produced a number of future star players, in addition to the well-known Stephen Curry, James Harden, Blake Griffin and Demar DeRozan and others, Ju Holliday also entered the league that year, and early in his career when he played for the Philadelphia 76ers, Ju Holliday was selected as an All-Star. And in this league, brotherly competition is a very rare thing, but the Holliday family is different, three brothers are playing in the NBA at the same time, and Zhu Holliday is the second brother in the family, and he is also the one who has achieved the highest achievements in the league.
Despite having a good time playing for the 76ers, it's obviously very difficult to end up on a team. On the night of the 2013 draft, the 76ers sent Ju Holliday to the Pelicans for the no. 6 pick in the first round and selected Narens Noel. After joining the new owner, Juro Holliday also performed well, helping the Pelicans into the playoffs twice. Especially in the 17-18 season, the Pelicans swept the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round with star center DeMarcus Cousins and tendon tears, breaking a big upset, of which Juil Holliday was quite successful in defending Lillard and CJ McCollum, and on the offensive end, his height and weight advantages were also quite obvious, which was a natural enemy of the backcourt double gun, and Holliday was also selected to the league's best defensive team at the end of the season.
However, in the summer, the Pelicans did not make any moves, and even let point guard Rondo go, which made Anthony Davis, who was the star of the family, extremely dissatisfied, and after entering the league, the Pelicans never saw the hope of winning the championship, so Anthony Davis came to mind, and he basically sat on the bench in the second half of the season. As another core of the Pelicans, Zhu Holliday was quite professional, especially in the away game against the Houston Rockets, the Pelicans lacked as many as 5 major rotations, but Zhu Holliday cut 19 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and a staggering 6 blocks, and blocked the opposing star James Harden in one fell swoop, leading the Pelicans to defeat the Rockets. After this game, because Judy Holliday also performed well in defending Harden many times, the outside world naturally looked at him and regarded him as one of the most typical Harden nemesis in the active duty.
But with Anthony Davis finally sent to the Lakers in the summer of 2019, the Pelicans naturally began to rebuild, although Ju Holliday stayed with the team for another year, but before the start of the 19-20 season, the Bucks opened Eric Bledsoe, George Hill and multiple draft picks as chips, the offer was so sincere, plus at that time Ju Holliday was about to enter the contract year, the Pelicans were obviously not ready to keep him, the team naturally had no reason not to let go, so Ju Holliday came to Milwaukee.
The Bucks are clearly bullish on him, because when Juddy Holliday first joined, the management extended his contract four years in advance, believing that Ju Holliday would be an important role in the future. He also did not disappoint the Bucks and fans, last season Ju Holliday quickly integrated into the system, especially the playoff "alphabet brother" Giannis Antetokounmpo was once absent due to injury, but Ju Holliday and Chris Middleton took on the heavy responsibility, let the Bucks from the East to fight, and finally defeated the Phoenix Suns in the Finals to win the second championship trophy in team history.
So far, Ju Holliday has averaged 18.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game this season, and the shooting rate has reached nearly 50%, and the three-point shooting rate has exceeded 40%. In addition to the big picture and organizational ability is sometimes a little less hot, Ju Holliday's projection, breakthrough, back-throwing and defensive ability is quite good, he may be one of the best three players in the league, no wonder the Bucks value Jua Holliday so much.