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Giannis Antetokounmpo And Khris Middleton Are Back And So Are The Milwaukee Bucks
The Bucks have gained three straight video games since Khris Middleton (left) and Giannis Antetokounmpo … [+]
It was solely matter of time, actually, earlier than the Milwaukee Bucks lastly confirmed flashes of dominance most observers anticipated of them heading into and thru first few weeks of the 2022-23 Nationwide Basketball Affiliation season.
A 141-131 victory Friday evening at Indiana prolonged the Bucks’ successful streak to 3 video games, their longest since taking 4 in a row to open December, and saved Milwaukee 2 1/2 video games again of Boston for the highest seed within the Japanese Convention.
The key to the Bucks’ current success is simple to determine. For the primary time all season, head coach Mike Budenholzer has almost a whole roster at his disposal now that Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton have returned from knee injures.
That’s to not say the Bucks are heading into cuise management mode for the ultimate 33 video games of the common season.
In actual fact, their full-strength standing didn’t even final one full sport earlier than actuality as soon as once more reared its ugly head by sending heart Bobby Portis to the locker room within the fourth quarter towards Detroit with a sprained ankle and MCL that can depart him sidelined for not less than the following two weeks.
Dropping Portis, whose underdog angle and all-gas-no-break fashion has made him a fan favourite in Milwaukee, is a large blow for the Bucks. The 6-foot-11 large man had appeared in every of Milwaukee’s first 47 video games and was averaging career-highs with 14.4 factors and 10.1 rebounds per sport.
His manufacturing helped the Bucks keep afloat whereas navigating the absences of Antetokounmpo, Ingles and Middleton and with that group wholesome, Portis was anticipated to supply helpful depth on a roster that doesn’t have a lot when it comes to dimension
Up to now, reserve guard Pat Connaughton has picked up a few of Portis’ minutes. Extra importantly to the Bucks, he’s additionally picked up a big chunk of Portis’ rebounding with 20 in his final two video games.
Via his first 31 video games this season, the 6-foot-5 Connaughton was averaging simply 4.4 boards per sport. He pulled down a season-high 12 towards Denver then eight extra Friday evening towards Indiana.
“I’ve nonetheless discovered methods to play larger than who I’m and I believe Coach Bud does an excellent job using me in several areas,” Connaughton stated earlier this week. “Enjoying the 4 is one thing that isn’t new to me, and if you do display and also you do roll, Jrue (Vacation) and I, Giannis and I, all of us have some continuity with me screening now, it’s not nearly attending to the rim and ending, it’s about being a playmaker within the roll and I believe that’s the place I may be most harmful. You bought guys chopping, you bought shooters round me.”
Budenholzer has different choices to switch Portis in Sandro Mamukelashvili or Jordan Nowra and the group might attempt to entice Serge Ibaka to return to the group after not too long ago agreeing to commerce the veteran heart to a group the place he’d be a greater match. Ought to Portis’ absence run longer than anticipated. right here’s additionally the possibility that Milwaukee addresses the scenario forward of the commerce deadline or on the buyout market, although such strikes can be difficult because of the Bucks’ present roster and wage cap conditions.
No matter how they deal with it, the Bucks are assured that they will deal with it and that this newest impediment is nothing greater than a problem that can assist them be prepared come playoff time.
“It is a part of the NBA,” Connaughton stated. “Sadly accidents are part of it.
“I believe, for us, we have at all times had the next-man-up mentality. So, it doesn’t matter what finally ends up occurring with Bobby’s prognosis, I believe for us it is about ensuring whoever’s prepared and whoever’s dressed that evening, we exit and we play Bucks basketball and we do this to the most effective of our potential.”
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Sal Frelick homered for the first time this season, Joe Ross and three relievers combined on a three-hitter, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Tuesday night.
Pittsburgh’s Nick Gonzales hit his first homer of the year, and Connor Joe also went deep for the Pirates.
Gonzales’ last homer was July 2 against the Brewers. Frelick hadn’t homered since Aug. 7 of last season, against the Pirates.
Frelick also made two diving catches in center field. He caught a sinking liner from Jared Triolo to end the second and made a play on the warning track to rob Andrew McCutchen of an extra-base hit in the eighth.
Joe homered with two outs in the ninth off Trevor Megill to cut Milwaukee’s lead to 4-3, but Megill struck out Jack Suwinski to earn his fifth save.
Ross (2-4) struck out six while allowing two hits, two runs and one walk in five innings. Bryan Hudson pitched two innings and Elvis Peguero worked the eighth without allowing anyone to reach base.
Brewers pitchers had retired 15 straight Pirates before Joe’s homer.
After each team left runners on the corners in the first inning, the Brewers took the lead for good in the second.
The Brewers collected five straight hits against Quinn Priester (0-4) during one stretch in that inning. Joey Ortiz got things started with a one-out double before Frelick lofted an 0-1 slider over the right field wall.
Oliver Dunn, Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang then delivered three consecutive singles, with Turang’s hit driving in Dunn. Christian Yelich’s two-out single brought home Chourio to make it 4-0.
Gonzales cut Milwaukee’s lead in half with his two-run shot in the fourth.
Priester lasted six innings and gave up four runs and nine hits. He struck out five and walked two.
GERMAN MAKES SEASON DEBUT
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: Domingo Germán allowed a run over four innings for Single-A Bradenton in the former New York Yankees pitcher’s first appearance since signing a minor league deal with the Pirates in March. Germán threw the 24th perfect game in major league history in New York’s 11-0 victory at Oakland last June 28, but he was placed on the restricted list and entered treatment for alcohol abuse later that summer.
Brewers: 1B Rhys Hoskins went on the 10-day injured list with a strained right hamstring. The Brewers promoted utilityman Owen Miller from Triple-A Nashville to fill Hoskins’ spot on the roster. … Brewers LHP DL Hall (left knee) threw 35 pitches in a simulated game Tuesday.
UP NEXT
LHP Martín Pérez (1-2, 3.60) starts for the Pirates and LHP Robert Gasser (1-0, 0.00) pitches for the Brewers as this three-game series concludes Wednesday afternoon.
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MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Police are requesting the public’s assistance in identifying and locating the suspects wanted in connection to an armed robbery.
It happened Sunday May 12th, at approximately 12:38 a.m., near 19th and National Avenue.
Suspect #1 is described as a African American male with a dark complextion. He was wearing a black balaclava, a black long sleeve shirt, gray jeans, and black and red shoes. He was armed with two handguns.
Suspect #2 is described as a African American male with a light complexion, a thin mustache, short twisties or dreads, and has a large gap between his upper front teeth, He was wearing a black sweatshirt, blue ripped jeans, black and gray shoes.
The suspects took currency at gunpoint and fled on foot.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee Police at (414) 935-7360.
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Honoring a tradition unique to Green Bay within the NFL, a football symbolizing the transfer of the NFL Draft from Detroit to Green Bay will be delivered to Lambeau Field via bicycle relay from Milwaukee.
The first hand-off will be at Milwaukee’s Lake Express Ferry Terminal as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will hand the ball over to a team of bicyclists representing the Packers, Travel Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Bike Federation and others in a relay to its final destination. Stops highlighting Wisconsin’s beauty and “bikeability” will be made along the way, and with Sheboygan County squarely in the middle of the journey, it’s likely the football will be seen locally. Once in Green Bay, kids on bikes in Packers regalia will echo the tradition of players riding the kids’ bikes across the street to Lambeau Field.
No schedules have yet been released, but the progress can be followed on Packers social media and packers.com using the hashtag #PedalToTheDraft.
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