With Giannis Antetokounmpo an afternoon scratch, one couldn’t expect the Milwaukee Bucks to definitively deliver a victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves, but you would’ve hoped for a slightly better fight than the 119-138 game we got Saturday afternoon. But alas, the Wolves worked the Bucks to take the season series 2-0.
A lengthy first quarter finally came to an end after a lengthy video review of a donnybrook started by Patrick Beverley, but the Bucks were behind 28-34. In an exact scoring replica of the first quarter, the Bucks allowed scoring both at the rim and from the perimeter from the Timberwolves, as they took a sizable 68-56 lead into the locker rooms at half.