Since the Bucks won the championship in '21, the last two seasons have been a personal feeling of a breath of relief, last season they faced the Celtics in the playoffs 3-4 defeat and could not go further, the new season Bucks suffered a more serious injury problem.
Holloday and Alphabet Brother have been playing and stopping at the beginning of the season, and Middleton has been in a state of suspension after being seriously injured, but as the season progresses, Holloday and Alphabet Brother have fully recovered, and Middleton's condition has improved significantly after his return.
With the Big Three combined, coupled with the team's rotation that has been very strong, the Bucks began to explode in the second half of the season, and recently they have played a 14-game winning streak, and the record has directly rushed to the first place in the league. Facing the Nets today, the Bucks once again showed their strength and the resilience of a championship team.
As soon as the game started, the Nets took the lead, quickly established a double-digit advantage with a super high shooting percentage, and they have been firmly in control of the court since then, and enter the halftime with a 10-point advantage.
After the exchange of venues, the two sides went back and forth, but after each climax, the Nets still had a clear advantage, and the Bucks began to close the score by virtue of their rotation at the end of the quarter, even if the alphabet brother suffered a foul crisis, they directly reversed the score. In the last quarter, the Bucks hit while the iron was hot, and the alphabet brother came back and directly led the team to extend the advantage to double digits, with less than 5 minutes left in the game, the Bucks' advantage reached 15 points, Vaughn had no choice but to replace the bench and surrender, and finally the Bucks defeated the Nets 118-104, and the number of consecutive wins reached 15.
After yesterday's Celtics loss, the Bucks actually climbed to the top of the league, and today with a victory over the Nets, the Bucks consolidated their position. This game for the Bucks feels like a resilient and unhurried champion. Although it was a reversal game, the Bucks looked relatively relaxed. Even though they were behind for the first three quarters of the game, the team tightened up a little on the defensive end during the crucial period, and the situation turned around in an instant, which is also the scary thing for the Bucks this season.
In the case of a foul crisis today, the Bucks' bench stepped up, and the Bucks' bench scored a total of 46 points in the game, while the Nets all the bench scored only 14 points in garbage time. It can be seen that the current Bucks, not only have the three strong points of the Big Three, but also the overall lineup and thickness of the team are championship-level.
Middleton continued to come off the bench today, shooting 7 of 13, 3 of 7 three-pointers, and got 18 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists, Middleton played a good game today, both offensive and defensive ends, and a dry three-point shot in the fourth quarter can be said to be the last straw that crushed the Nets.
This season Middleton due to injury, the state has been up and down, and after the first failed comeback of the season, he did not lose heart, after another injury, he started from the bench this time, such a choice allows Middleton to step by step, avoid the opponent's stronger defenders, can better and faster to get back to form, and Middleton's performance is completely within the expectations of the Bucks, during the bench, Middleton averaged 14.7 points per game, shooting percentage is completely satisfactory, during the Bucks are undefeated.
In this game, Holloday shot 7 of 12 and got 14 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists, the data does not look very good, but when the Bucks need to score in the first three quarters, Holladay can always stand up to help the team stabilize the situation, and when the team takes the lead, Holloday began to retreat into the background, willing to be a green leaf, Holloday's performance today, like his style of play, low-key, pragmatic.
Alphabet Brother is still the team's MVP today, with 33 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists, and although he has experienced foul troubles in the game, as long as he is on the court, the Bucks have an almost dimensionality reduction strike. The Nets' forward talent pool is quite adequate in the league, but there is still nothing to do against players like Alphabet Brother.
The more terrifying thing about Alphabet Brother is that he can now play MVP-level performance every season, but he is still improving and constantly developing his own scoring methods, facing the Nets' forward group in today's game, Alphabet Brother's impact is unstoppable, and his Golden Rooster Independent Jumper has been cultivated perfectly, today he used this move many times in the game to finish, and the shooting percentage is very impressive.
In the recent streak, the Bucks are not only ranked first in the league in terms of record, but they also lead the league's recently announced team power list. At the beginning of the season, because of poor records and serious injuries, people seemed to forget about the championship ownership, and this season the league was divided, and now the Bucks, who are getting better at the end of the season, look to have become the biggest favorite for the championship.