MILWAUKEE – After logging heavy minutes in Friday’s overtime loss at Memphis, Jrue Holiday’s playing time will be monitored Saturday in Milwaukee. To make that an easier proposition, Holiday will return to a reserve role against the Bucks, after he had been a starter recently. However, Alvin Gentry indicated this change is merely in response to Holiday’s workload 24 hours ago, when he also poured in 34 points against the Grizzlies. Luke Babbitt will start in the backcourt for New Orleans (24-40), joining Toney Douglas. Norris Cole (lower back) remains sidelined.
“We just have to be really with him,” Gentry said of Holiday.