Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue Holiday returned to the lineup for the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum, and the set raised the Bucks to a 123-113 success over the Washington Wizards. The Bucks enhanced to 24-13 in snapping the Wizards’ (17-22) five-game winning streak.
Here are some takeaways from the videogame:
Giannis sets profession high with 55 points
The Bucks’ superstar didn’t make history Tuesday night in that his streak of 40-point, 20-rebound, 5-help videogames ended at 2 (only Elgin Baylor ever had more than that) so in that context, a career-high 55-point effort to go with 10 rebounds and 7 helps was simply… naturally dominant.
He opened 2023 much the verysame method he closed 2022, which saw him average 33.1 points, 12.3 rebounds and 4.7 helps in December. Antetokounmpo was aggressive early and throughout versus the Wizards, who had absolutelynothing for him defensively.
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Washington head coach Wes Unseld Jr. called Antetokounmpo a handful to offer with on the defensive end, however the Bucks star showed to be more than that. He satisfied really littlebit resistance to the rim when in the open court…or setting up in the half court…or after developing position in the post.
Antetokounmpo gotin the videogame as the league’s third-leading scorer at 32.1 points per videogame – far and away a career-high – however even he’s made even that number looked pedestrian. For circumstances, he had 36 by the end of the 3rd quarter.
When he reached the 40-point limit on a basket with 8: 53 to go in guideline, he set a career-best and connected a franchise mark (Flynn Robinson in 1969 and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972) by doing it for the 3rd straight videogame.
Antetokounmpo likewise hit that number 5 times in his last 7 videogames.
He reached 50 points with a three-point play with 3 minutes, 27 seconds to go in guideline to put the Bucks up 116-104, a lead they were able to preserve to close out the tough Wizards. He almost brought the roofing down with a dunk effort at 2: 32, however the ball went down with such force it popped back out.
He kept the attack up and then connected his career-high of 52 (set March 17, 2019 versus Philadelphia) and exceeded it with a totallyfree toss. The achievement was revealed throughout a timeout, which drew a smile from the Bucks’ star.
Antetokounmpo ended the night with a dance following a strip-steal of Kristaps Porziņģis and layup with 1: 23 to go for 55 points. It was his 4th profession 50-point videogame in the routine season, the last coming versus Indiana on Feb. 15, 2022.
Antetokounmpo is averaging 39.7 points per videogame over his last 7.
Jrue Holiday returns for Bucks after healthproblem
It hadactually been a difficult month for the Bucks as a group and for point guard Jrue Holiday, who missedouton 6 of his group’s 16 videogames from Dec. 2-Jan. 1, consistingof 5 with an disease. He returned from a three-game lack on Tuesday, playing 19 minutes off the bench.
But the point guard hasactually been dealing with healthproblems because the season started, actually, appearing on the injury report on Nov. 2 and Nov. 25 with the classification priorto lastly being held