Bucks vs. Cavaliers Player Grades: Rookies unafraid, veterans spooked in Halloween shellacking

The Milwaukee Bucks lost badly, 136-11, to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Halloween. For three of four quarters, the Bucks played decently, but losing the second by [checks notes] 27 points cooked their goose. Milwaukee just couldn’t get shots to fall, and although Cleveland’s defence was solid, I thought the Bucks got decent looks. Still, there were certainly positives to take out of the game, as I’ll get to. Read our full summary of the game here and catch a six-minute audio recap on the Bucks+ podcast, Bucks In Six Minutes, below.

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Player Grades

Ryan Rollins

25 minutes, 9 points, 3 rebounds, 7 assists, 0 turnovers, 4/11 FG, 1/5 3P, +4

Rollins’ game looks worse on the stat sheet than it truly was. Yeah, he’s still struggling to find his own offence, but he did a solid job of distributing the ball without turning it over. It’s also not as if Rollins was shot-chucking. As I alluded to in Kasparas Jakucionis’ section, the Cavs can be really tough to figure out in terms of scoring when you’re being funnelled into two velociraptors inside. In short: it certainly wasn’t a good game by Rollins, but it also wasn’t as bad as some others he’s played this season.

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Grade: C-

Tyler Herro

27 minutes, 15 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 5/18 FG, 4/11 3P, -19

Herro’s first stinker of the season. I thought he got some solid looks in the first half and just missed them, but in the second half, it felt like Cleveland was much more in control of his shot quality. It got to the point where Herro was trying to foul-bait to get something going. I also wasn’t in love with his body language.

Grade: D

Jaime Jaquez Jr.

23 minutes, 8 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3/8 FG, 1/2 3P , -15

Weird game for Jaquez. I thought he was solid as a defender on Harden and did his best when he had to match up with Mobley, but like a few others, he struggled to find ways to score because of Cleveland’s size.

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Grade: C

Kyle Kuzma

23 minutes, 14 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 6/12 FG, 2/7 3P, -16

Kuzme was excellent in the third quarter, scoring 12 of his 14 points and keeping the Cavs’ lead from getting too large….


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