Brandon Jennings Playing Restricted Minutes as Shorthanded Bucks Struggle

Filed under: Bucks, Suns, NBA All-Star Game

PHOENIX -- If you thought the Bucks had any shot of beating the Suns on Wednesday night, then you clearly haven't been paying attention. There was a laundry list of things stacked against Milwaukee heading into this one, and the majority of them conspired against the Bucks in a 92-77 defeat that truthfully wasn't even that close.

Forget the fact that Milwaukee hadn't won in Phoenix since before Brandon Jennings was born (seriously -- Feb. 21, 1987), or the fact that the team was without productive bigs Andrew Bogut and Drew Gooden due to injury. Phoenix's defense has been much improved lately, and as recently as two games ago the Suns held the team that leads the league in field goal percentage -- the Boston Celtics -- to a dismal 34.2 percent shooting. The Bucks? They're just 29th in the league in that same category -- ahead of only the horrific Cavaliers, who by the way have now lost 22 straight.

Combine all of that with the fact that Jennings was on a minutes limitation in just his third game back since missing 19 games with a broken foot, and it's probably not a surprise that the team trailed by as many as 25 points in the third quarter, and finished the game shooting 31.1 percent from the field, after spending most of it shooting in the high 20s.

 

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