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Starters
Casspi ( D ) -- made absolutely no case for himself as a starter, struggled with the ball and turned it over repeatedly up top, unable to consistently finish over the Milwaulkee length inside. Best that can be said is his size offered more resistance than many of our other guys who looked stumpy compared to the Bucks
Cousins ( D ) -- doubled constantly from the start of this game as sans Gay the Bucks respected nobody else. Was never inspired, but as the beatdown commenced moved from uninspired to largely just going through the motions with occasional flashes of disgust at all the mistakes. About time for him to show up on the glass this year.
Koufos ( C- ) -- in some ways fared as well as anyone out there just by playing his game. Spacing was terrible though as the Bucks just blatantly doubled Cuz without the ball and dared anybody else to beat them, and of course nobody could.
Afflalo ( F ) -- sorry, no Rudy, here was your chance to step up and provide the same style of offense. Failed badly. And while the Bucks length was a constant factor inside, for Afflalo half his misses were wide open outisde jumpers.
Featured Grade
Lawson ( D ) -- Hard to write about him as literally didn’t see him in first half amoung all those tall, young Bucks. First pass went direct to a Buck. Next drive/shot was blocked by 2 or 3 Bucks. Missed all his shots and never had a clean look. Drove too much into tall timber and somehow managed 6 ast but helped a Kings half court game which was not what was wanted. Scored only 1 pt all night and not much else. Guy can't shoot. No highlights, no contributions, seemed outmatched. --Cruz
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Bench
Barnes ( F ) -- and Matt has got to get himself back focused here. After a couple of big games for us, this road trip he has sucked. Tonight our defensive specialist's refusal to recognize Teletovic standing out there stationary at the 3pt line play after play was a huge factor in turning a sluggish start for us into a rout as he rained in 5 threes in a quarter.
Cauley-Stein ( C ) -- got subbed in a bit earlier in the game and didn't do much bad at least, but in the garbagetime was a little better and finally showed a little offensive aggression, swooping to the hoop, albeit against deep benchers.
McLemore ( D+ ) -- made a few passes, but offensively punchless, too small to guard Beasley, and made zero impact for us. 4-18 from our two "SGs" on a night without Rudy = doom.
Temple ( B+ ) -- I really can't give out an A in this game to anyone, but Temple at least hit a few shots while the real game was on, and had a veritable mini-explosion in the early minutes of the garbagetime...or should I say "Templetime". Think there's a dance that goes with that. What say you? Starting SG? I say "why not?"
Farmar ( B- ) -- look, wasn't perfect, missed shots he had to make, and had several bad turnovers as the Bucks jumped all over us and disrupted up top. But that said, looked more effective running the point than Ty, not only not as twerpy, but actually being able to shoot and create space matters. Be interesting to see what happens here rosterwise after DC gets back.
Labissierre ( B ) -- far from dominant and got pushed around on a few plays, but there it was, you could again see the high skill level he flashed in Summer League. For those concerned about young talent, there it is. A little jumper, a little post play, some bball IQ and comfort with the ball. Decent little garbagetime debut.
Papagiannis ( D- ) -- I am kindhearted of course. So no straight lines grade for poor George doing his best Ben Gillery imitation here. Was in the game for 2 seconds before Henson immediately squared him up and blew right around for the bucket. Showed no timing on the glass, added a bad pass near midcourt, racked up fouls...but he did get one play we're going to call "The George". Slip screen, roll to the hoop, catch and dunk. So he's in the NBA recordbooks now with a hoop.
Richardson ( INC ) -- uneventful first NBA stint in the final garbage minutes, but did pop his NBA cherry with a three. Unfortunately that was all he took, and he only hit the 1.
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