Summer League Recap: Suns 95, Bucks 88

With some key guys out, the Milwaukee Bucks undoubtedly played their best game thus far in Vegas but lost 95-88 to the Phoenix Suns. Yet again, Brayden Burries starred for the Bucks with 23 points, eight rebounds, six assists, and four steals, while Khaman Maluach led the Suns with 21 points, 10 rebounds, and four blocks.

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I expected a bunch of guys in street clothes for this one, given it was a back-to-back—and there were some in Cormac Ryan and Kasparas Jakucionis—but luckily, Brayden Burries and Nate Ament suited up; Kam Jones also got his first minutes in Vegas. The first quarter was low-scoring and even throughout. Koa Peat was throwing his big body around for the Suns, while Burries and Pete Nance were doing most of the work early for the Bucks. Milwaukee went on a 5-2 run to close the quarter via a Burries three and a majestic layup by my fellow countryman Luke Travers to grab a 22-19 lead after one.

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The Suns had a great start to the second quarter, with the 7’2″ second-year man Khaman Maluach asserting his dominance on the interior; before long, Phoenix had grabbed a 30-26 edge. The Bucks tried to make Ament more of a primary ball-handler, and it wasn’t pretty, as he turned it over a few times after getting outmuscled. Koby Brea—who had been struggling mightily through Summer League—nailed his second three to extend the Suns’ lead to nine, 35-26, about halfway through the second, but that was immediately matched by a transition bomb from Ament to open his account. The Bucks made a few charges to reduce the deficit to ~six points, but the Suns’ Darius Brown made two timely threes to stretch it back out each time. Finally, the run stuck, with Markovic and Burries leading an end-of-quarter sprint to have the Bucks down just one, 45-44, at the half.

Both teams were trading blows early in the second half, with Burries nailing a step-back three over his college teammate Koa Peat to open the third—joking with Peat after he made it—followed by another Darius Brown triple. Then, the floodgates finally opened for Bogi, who nailed his third and fourth triples of…

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