The 32-6 Milwaukee Bucks travel to the Bay, and some more pleasant weather, to take on the 9-29 Golden State Warriors for the second stint of Wednesday’s primetime doubleheader at 10:00 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Obviously, the stars are on the shelf for the nine-win Warriors, so the punch isn’t all that packed for this Wednesday night game. Otherwise, it would have been a marquee source of entertainment considering we’d see a four-quarter battle between Eastern and Western powerhouses in the efforts to supplant a possible finals preview with, y’know, the Splash Brothers going toe-to-toe with the current league MVP and self-dubbed “Greek Freak” Giannis Antetokounmpo, but karma had other plans.
Instead, we’ll witness a team that’s shifted their starting five so many times with certain pieces that’s two-way contracts almost up have to face the most fear-mongering offensive and defensive juggernaut in perhaps all of the league as the Bucks still possess the top spot among all leaderboards in total wins so far this year.
But it won’t be all that bad for Steve Kerr and his Warriors, right? I mean it was only nights ago that the Bucks got embarrassed by the Spurs on the road in a crushing 126-104 loss which only saw Antetokounmpo score an uncharacteristic 24 points off 41 percent shooting. Khris Middleton and Eric Bledsoe also vastly and surprisingly underperformed this past Monday night, and to make matters a little harder, George Hill is under the weather with an illness, keeping him out of Wednesday’s showdown.
But then again, things haven’t gone that much better for a team that’s still holding onto the third-worst record in the NBA. They got trounced by the Kings via a 111-98 score, which also showed Kerr getting ejected after verbally disagreeing with an official on a missed call. The 26th ranked defense in the NBA is gonna have a bunch on their plate, and maybe a couple of seconds as well in dealing with the most efficient offense in the NBA per their leading mark in scoring and winning differential across the stratosphere of the league.
Other than Eric Paschall, who sits at third in the overall field goal percentage by shooting an average of 49 percent a game, there isn’t much to hang their hats on when it comes to being perceived as that threatening team they once were just a couple of months prior to the beginning of this season. Kevon Looney and D’Angelo Russell with both be out of this matchup, so a win by the Bucks that will come handily isn’t far out of possibility at all. Still, we’ve seen this Warriors team surprise the lot of NBA fans with some upset wins, so the bucks earning win No. 33 certainly isn’t a confirmation, yet.
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