Down the line that will hurt us later in the season. We’ve been up plenty of times and now we needed to make sure we made a push in the third quarter and really put teams away,” Jordan Nwora said. “We actually talked about that in the locker room during halftime.

Their 77-36 lead set a franchise record for largest margin at a half. The Bucks also forced the Magic into 13 turnovers and scored 21 points off those. What helped the scoring effort was the Bucks’ proficiency on the defensive glass, as they pulled down 21 defensive rebounds to prevent the Magic from scoring any second-chance points. They led by as many as 44.Īll nine players who played for the Bucks in the opening half scored as the team shot at a blistering 59.2% clip and went 11 for 25 from behind the three-point line (44%). On Monday the Bucks scored a season-high 77 points in the first half and a season-high 41 points in the second quarter. It’s good to play a team again and have that look and feel and our guys played well tonight, executed on both ends including coming out the third quarter.

“We watched some film, the guys have been locked in, the leaders are ready to go. “It was good,” coach Mike Budenholzer said of the team’s energy. The Bucks had not had a blowout victory since beating Detroit by 28 points on Nov.

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