It was a physical contest tonight for the Houston Rockets against the Milwaukee Bucks, and and Houston isn’t quite yet equipped for those types of battles. They didn’t fold — they kept playing hard — but they were simply no match for Milwaukee in a 126-106 defeat.
Milwaukee used a big second quarter to take a commanding lead, and they then pushed it up to 19 points in the third quarter, before a mini Rockets rally behind Christian Wood and Garrison Mathews closed the deficit to 72-61 with 6:30 left in quarter. The Rocket would get no closer, however, as Milwaukee got hot from three in the second half and Houston couldn’t keep up.