In this season's NBA league, the Milwaukee Bucks are undoubtedly one of the teams that fans pay the most attention to, in order to be able to regain their former glory, they gave up the championship guard Holiday who made great achievements for the team to win the championship, and introduced Lillard with stronger scoring ability from the Trail Blazers, after coming to Milwaukee, Lillard was not able to make the team reach a new height, but the Bucks' performance still maintained a relatively high level, the first 30 regular season games, achieved a 22-8 record, ranked second in the East, and in the annual Christmas war, the Bucks also got the opportunity to debut, went to the away game to challenge the New York Knicks, after the game started, the Knicks played momentum at home, and established a double-digit lead early, although the Bucks under the leadership of the Big Three, gradually chased the difference to within 10 points, but New York new king Brunson did not give them a chance to reverse, relying on the stable play on the offensive end, led the Knicks to defeat the Bucks 129-122!
The Big Three scored 88 points, and Lillard's all-win streak ended
Like those teams in NBA history that have formed a big lineup, the Bucks want to have a greater probability of winning in the game, and they need core players to take on greater responsibilities at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends as much as possible, and this game challenged the Knicks away, the Bucks Big Three Lillard, Brother Alphabet and Middleton all played a good scoring performance, although Brother Alphabet was taken care of by Randle, but still played a comprehensive individual performance of 32 + 13 + 6 + 1 + 2.
Middleton, who has averaged 13.8 points per game this season, also contributed 24 points and 6 assists in the game, and after joining the Bucks, Lillard only needs to score more than 30 points, and the team has achieved a proud record of 10 wins, but his winning record came to an abrupt end after this Christmas game, and the Sharp Coach hit 4 three-pointers in this game, cutting down 32 points as high as Brother Alphabet, but the role players did not perform as well as their opponents, allowing the Big Three to score 88 points, but they could not taste the taste of victory.
A new king of New York is born, and Brunson leads the team to slaughter the bucks
As Doncic's right-hand man, Brunson came to the Knicks, relying on his performance, has gradually become the new king of New York in the minds of many fans, this season in the face of the Suns cut 50 points, impressive fans, the last regular season challenge Bucks scored 36 points, but powerless to prevent the team from losing to the opponent, a day after the Bucks, Brunson sounded the horn of revenge, hit 15 of the 28 shots in the game, and scored 38 points alone, The statistics of 4 rebounds and 6 assists became the biggest contributor to the team's victory.
In addition to Brunson, several of the Knicks' main scorers have also made great contributions to the revenge Bucks, Barrett, Randle and Quickley, who came off the bench, all three scored 20+, becoming the most effective helper of the new king of New York.
The Bucks' failure to win despite the Big Three's high scores once again exposed the problem of Lillard's decline in defensive dominance after joining the team, and if they can't fundamentally solve this fatal weakness, it will be difficult to go far in the playoffs, which is more defense-oriented!