Milwaukee Bucks vs Sacramento Kings Match Player Stats On Nov 28, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Nov 29, 2017

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 19 of his game-high 32 points in the third quarter, and the Milwaukee Bucks also got big moments from Khris Middleton and Eric Bledsoe in a 112-87 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday at the Golden 1 Center.

Bledsoe contributed 21 points and five assists, and Middleton had 12 points and four rebounds for the Bucks, who continued their recent domination of the Kings. Milwaukee (10-9) has won three straight against Sacramento by an average of 21 points per game.

Bledsoe did most of his damage in the second quarter, scoring 13 points during a 24-7 run that turned a 37-30 contest into a 61-37 rout at halftime. Middleton scored seven points in that run, which spanned the final 8:29 of the quarter.

Antetokounmpo, who scored the only other two points in that deciding blitz, lit up the nets in the next 12 minutes. He canned 6 of 8 shots in the quarter, including 13 in a row, as Milwaukee stretched its lead to as many as 36 points.

The Greek Freak is the NBA's second-leading scorer at 29.7 points per game.

The Kings (6-15), coming off a season-best 55 percent shooting in a 110-106 road win over the Golden State Warriors on Monday, endured some horrific home-court shooting for the second straight time. Sacramento made only 5 of 20 shots in the second quarter and only 7 of 24 in the third while being outscored 60-33 over the middle two quarters.

Garrett Temple scored 18 points and made all three of his 3-point attempts for the Kings, but the rest of his teammates were a combined 2-for-14 from outside the arc. Sacramento was shooting 38.5 percent from 3-point range entering the game, the fourth-best mark in the NBA.

Willie Cauley-Stein contributed 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Kings.

NOTES: Bucks F Giannis Antetokounmpo totaled 534 in Milwaukee's 18 games, the fourth-fastest scoring start in team history. Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had 599 points after 18 games during the second of his six MVP seasons in 1971-72. ... The Kings rate near the bottom of the NBA (29th) in points per game (94.7), but until Tuesday's meltdown, they were showing steady signs of more consistency. In five games prior to Tuesday, the Kings were averaging 25.3 points per quarter, topped 30 points in a quarter five times and had been held below 20 in a 12-minute frame only once. In the five previous games, those figures were 22.9, two, and seven respectively. ... Milwaukee allowed 12 fast-break points, up from their NBA-best mark of 6.7 per contest entering the game.