The Denver Nuggets started the game in a hole by giving a quick bucket to Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton from three points before Jamal Murray hit a driver. Giannis Antetokounmpo was injured when the game became more physical, and he had to leave the field. After a last miss from Denver, Monte Morris blocked Middleton’s shot out of bounds. He immediately took revenge with a make along the baseline.
Another miss from Denver became a transition opportunity for Giannis, and Porter had to knock down Giannis on the block, giving him two through the first 110 seconds of the game. Giannis missed a few before Morris got the score going again. Giannis threw down a big dunk in front of a triple by Will Barton, but Giannis was trading buckets with the Nuggets before Nikola Jokic got his point inside the paint with a small hook shot through an error made in a 3 point has changed. play.
Murray was buried after a miss by Milwaukee. From the incoming game, he threw a shot backwards over his head when the shot clock expired. After a miss by Barton, Porter and Jokic went to the boards where Jokic got the point to take a 16-13 lead and enforce a timeout from the Bucks. Outside the timeout, Giannis missed a 3-point shot, but the Nuggets turned it right for an easy dunk by the two-time MVP.
Barton goes straight to the ring for an easy setup. After a miss by Patt Connaughton, Jokic was asked for a trip. The two parties traded in empty possessions before Jokic became his own mistress. From an incoming pass, Bryn Forbes shot a 3-point before Barton dropped another jumper. A miss by Giannis turned out to be no points due to a turnover by Morris.
The two parties missed trades before Connaughton got a triple fall to bring the Bucks within one. Morris hits a layup under the cup. Denver stole, but former Nuggets Torrey Craig ended the quick break from PJ Dozier with a big block on the edge that led to a timeout in Denver. Outside of the timeout, Morris hit a line-up of a Jokic feed to extend the lead to five.
Jokic, who misses Craig, hit a driver in the paint. The two parties traded missed before PJ Dozier made a mistake through a foul before converting the three-point game on the line. Donte DiVincenzo turned the ball over which eventually landed as a layup by Zeke Nnaji before Middleton ended a long run in Denver with a mid-range jumper. Dozier returned to him with a jumper of his own. A miss by Milwaukee gave Denver the quarter-final possession, earning Murray a 20-foot jumper to give them a 14-point lead to finish first.
From the quarter-break, Middleton struck a triple after a miss in Denver before Murray struck a three-point shot of his own. Giannis was committed by Isaiah Hartenstein driving to the edge. He hit 1-of-2 free kicks before Vlatko Čančar missed a bad 3-point shot. Empty possessions and turnover were plentiful before Nnaji tipped a miss by Murray, leading to a 15: 9 timeout from Milwaukee in the second quarter.
The two parties traded empty possessions out of time before Murray got a chance to fall through a contact from Connaughton, who sent him to the line where he converted the three-point game. After some offensive rebounds, Brook Lopez got an easy setup, but Barton quickly linked it to a baseline start. Empty possessions were plentiful before Porter finally got a triple fall that put Denver ahead 50-29 with 5:41 left in the quarter.
Due to a Bucks timeout, Jrue Holiday got his first points of the evening with an elbow jumper. Somehow Jokic was not polluted, despite being bumped, and Giannis got an easy dunk on the other side after a bad setback by Denver. Milwaukee passed out of the timeout after a miss in Denver before Morris got a driver to fall. Connaughton knocked down a triple from the corner, and the Nuggets’ lead diminished to 14 before Murray struck a left-wing start. Giannis drops an easy dunk before blatantly pushing Jokic.
Denver recorded the incoming pass. After a miss by Milwaukee, Murray tried a big dunk on Brook Lopez, but he crashed on the ride before hitting both free throws. Lopez put down a dunk, and after a Denver miss, DJ Augustin crashed while making a 3-point shot that turned into a 4-point game on the line. With just 12, Jokic hit a shot from the right wing to increase their lead again.
Giannis hit some free throws. With a miss from Morris, Giannis made an easy setup to bring them inside 10. Vlatko hit an offensive rebound while failing, and in the process he knocked down both free throws. After a miss by Lopez, Barton found Jokic for a bucket with another 4.6, and the Nuggets started 64-50 on the road at halftime.
Denver struck a triple shot from halftime before the Bucks got a two-point make. After a miss by Porter, Middleton was tainted when he went to make a shot from an offensive rebound, and he made a 1-out-2 throw. Jokic got a bucket before Denver made an offensive offense from Milwaukee. Jokic followed that up with a big three-point shot before being asked for a foul on DiVincenzo. Donte struck off both free throws before the two parties had turnover.
Porter hammered a big dunk at him after Barton was buried, but Lopez was scrapped by Porter under the basket, giving him four at night with another 21:09 minutes left in the game. Lopez hit both free kicks before Jokic missed a 3-point shot. A scramble for a loose ball lands in the hands of Lopez for an easy imposition. Due to a timeout in Denver, Morris missed a 3-point shot before Giannis hit a midfield shot that brought Milwaukee within 13 before Barton struck a triple shot to give them more breathing space.
Conversely, Giannis puts down a dunk. Donte saved the Nuggets after a bad turnover with a wide foul before Jokic had a disputed set-up. Vlatko defiled DiVincenzo in a fraudulent manner, and he fired both shots at the charity line. Murray hit Lopez with a hesitant dribble that gave him an easy run before Antetokounmpo got one of his own on the other side. Vlatko hit an offensive rebound that he gave away for an easy two points.
Denver missed a shot with a long setback, and it turned into a long 3-pointer from Augustin. After fouls, Jokic earned a triple return with 3:57 left to extend the lead to 17. Bobby Portis bowled outside the timeout over Vlatko to pull the offense and get to the line. He nailed both, and Dozier immediately hit a triangle to get the points back and then some. Holiday turned the ball around which resulted in a Barton assist for Dozier which was obscured on the layout but he was unable to convert the three-point game.
Vlatko gets a steal from the next possession, but Denver could not convert it into points. Middleton hit some free throws. Despite Jokic making a foul, Denver turned the ball over and Forbes exchanged a 3-point shot on the other side. Murray hit a mid-range jumper before stealing Nnaji. Jokic was tainted by Holiday late in the lap clock, and he went to the line where he was a perfect 2-of-2.
Middleton, on the other hand, scored a triple point with just under 1:00 left. With 38.7 left, Jokic dropped a big dunk, but Middleton was committed almost immediately, leading to two free points on the line. Jokic tipped an offensive setback from his own mission, and it took a bait when Nnaji got a late hint to go on with the buzzer to give Denver a 99-80 lead in the fourth quarter .
Giannis hurriedly started the fourth quarter with a ride to the free throw where he hit both shots. A miss from Murray went the other way for a quick make from Pat, and the Bucks were on their way. The two parties traded misses before Murray was forced to miss late in the clock. After this miss, Dozier was asked for goal kick, which led to a timeout from Denver with just 13.
Outside of the timeout, Murray struck a hard shot over Giannis’ outstretched hand before Dozier was asked for a foul while guarding Middleton. Middleton went 1-of-2 on the line before Nnaji was called up for a trip while lifting his pivot. With Milwaukee within 14, Porter hit a rainbow of a triplets, but he was quickly asked for a foul on the other side that gave him five at night.
Milwaukee were rescued due to a lack of calls, but they were unable to score points despite extra possessions. Jokic was fouled by Giannis while bringing up the ball. From the inside, he hits a spin shot at the free-throw line before kicking off a steal side to extend the lead to 21 and force the Bucks to call a timeout. Portis hit a jumper outside the timeout. Murray was asked for a foul on Lopez when he became too aggressive with a rebound effort that left the Bucks with 7:08 left.
Lopez hit both shots, but Jokic immediately got it back with a shot of his own. Porter shot a controversial 3-pointer that missed, but he secured himself with a block on Portis that ended up in Murray’s hands. Murray beat Dozier under the cup, and Denver led 21 with 5:39 left. Failures on both sides were followed by a foul on dozers before the Bucks emptied their bench to officially relinquish the white flag.
Holiday missed some free throws before Jokic was committed under the cup. Jokic hit some free throws and had to be forced to become aggressive after a deception by Porter when he hit a rebound. Jokic grabs a rebound to give him the ninth triple-double of the night, and the two sides just run out the clock when Jokic throws another dunk to give him 37. A triple from Forbes brings the Bucks inside 19, but Denver was preparing to empty their bench when Morris hit another layout. With 2:16 left, it was official with all reserves on the floor.
Dozier dropped a few jumpers in the junk season to hopefully build on now that he is healthy. Bol Bol hit a triple from the wing to give him some points. A further three-point series from Dozier stretched the final score to 128-97, giving the Bucks’ biggest home loss ever, while Denver gave a big confidence boost with just one game left before the All. -Star Break.
State leaders
Marks: Nikola Jokic – 37
Assists: Jokic – 11
Rebounds: Jokic – 10
Player of the game: Nikola Jokic – 37 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds, 2 steals, 15-of-23 field goal, 2-of-3 3-point, 5-of-5 free throw