{"id":20145,"date":"2024-12-24T08:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20145"},"modified":"2024-12-24T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:52:58","slug":"sad-news-bulls-fall-to-bucks-lose-second-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20145","title":{"rendered":"SAD NEWS: Bulls fall to Bucks, lose second in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"article-0\" data-index=\"0\" data-path=\"\/chicago\/news\/bulls-fall-bucks-lose-second-in-row\/\">\n<figure data-ads=\"{&quot;extraWordCount&quot;:50}\"><\/figure>\n<section><strong>CHICAGO (AP) <\/strong>\u2014 Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez each scored 21 points, Bobby Portis added 19 points and 13 rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Chicago Bulls 112-91 on Monday without Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton set a season high for the second game in a row after scoring 18 in Saturday&#8217;s win over Washington. The three-time All-Star missed the first 21 games following surgery on both ankles.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton and Lopez each made three of Milwaukee&#8217;s 18 3-pointers. Gary Trent Jr. nailed four from beyond the arc and finished with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo missed his second consecutive game because of back spasms and his fourth overall this season. Lillard missed his third game in a row \u2014 this time because of a non-COVID illness. The eight-time All-Star sat out the previous two with a strained right calf.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Vucevic had 17 points and 12 rebounds for Chicago. The Bulls made just 10 of 48 3-pointers in losing their second in a row.<\/p>\n<h2>Takeaways<\/h2>\n<p>Bucks: The Bucks continued to look more like the team they expected than the one that struggled at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Bulls: The Bulls were a bit thin in the backcourt, with Lonzo Ball out with an illness and Josh Giddey missing his third straight game because of a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Moment<\/h2>\n<p>Milwaukee led by 23 in the second quarter and withstood a push by Chicago in the third. The Bulls cut it to 76-68 when Dalen Terry stole a pass and broke for a layup to cap a 10-0 run. But the Bucks answered with 11 straight points, including back-to-back 3s by Trent and a floater by Delon Wright that bumped the lead to 87-68 with just over two minutes remaining in the third.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Stat<\/h2>\n<p>The Bucks made 11 of 24 3-pointers in the first half, while the Bulls were 6 for 28.<\/p>\n<h2>Up Next<\/h2>\n<p>The Bucks host Brooklyn on Thursday, while the Bulls visit Atlanta that night.<\/p>\n<ul>In:<\/p>\n<li>Chicago Bulls<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee Bucks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Vucevic had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Bulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,328],"class_list":["post-20145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-milwaukee-bucks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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