Though they seemed a little off at times, the Bucks ultimately took care of their divisional foes, knocking off the Cleveland Cavaliers, 129-112.
It’d be a bit of the same story that defined the second half vs. Miami to start this one out. It seemed that the Bucks would be sleepwalking at times, with not a whole lot of energy. All in all, there’d be seven lead changes and five ties to begin, and Cleveland advanced into the second quarter with a 31-30 lead.
You know the phrase death by a thousand paper cuts? The idea being that one cut won’t do noticeable damage but the cumulative effect of a thousand is too many to survive? Two games into this season, the Los Angeles Clippers already have an offensive system that can best be described as death by a thousand chainsaws.
As far as opening nights go, this one was wildly entertaining. And, to make it better, the Milwaukee Bucks came back to defeat the Houston Rockets 117 to 111.
I won’t lie, I had to re-write this thing 1,000,000 times in the fourth quarter. All for naught.
The debut of Chase Center did not go as planned. In fact, within a few minutes, it had gone about as poorly as the Golden State Warriors could ever have imagined.
Steve Kerr called a timeout less than three minutes into the game. It served two purposes: To stop the bleeding on what was an 11-0 Los Angeles Clippers lead, and to get an injured Draymond Green out of the game.
Early in the second quarter, Brandon Ingram received a pass from Kenrich Williams for an easy two-hand dunk. With the basket, it was clear that the Houston Rockets were in for a long night as Ingram recorded his 11th point of the game.
The old Stephen Curry is back. The rest of the NBA has been warned.
In his second preseason game for the rebuilt Golden State Warriors on Thursday night, Curry looked like a player poised to make a run at his third MVP. In only 25 minutes, Curry scored 40 points, shooting 14-for-19 from the field, making 6-of-8 three-point shots, and adding six assists and five rebounds. Timberwolves defenders looked helpless as Curry bolted around screens and hit shots that no one else in the league would have the audacity to even attempt.
