Beginning with a 30-point beating on New Year’s Day in Chicago at the Fiserv Forum, the Milwaukee Bucks were at home for five games and nine days against rivals from the Central Division and a Conference contender. West in Utah.
It’s the longest home leg of the first part of the season, but it’s a microcosm of this year’s new schedule: They will be held in front of no fans, they will face Detroit twice in 3 days, and they will have to sail their way back. . . back.
“We don’t want to pack up and travel, go to a hotel, from city to city (but) we will miss our enthusiasts very much until it is and everyone accepts their right. To have them back at the Fiserv Forum,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said Sunday: “It’s hard to say how much we miss the fans and how vital they are to us.
“But having a handful of games here the rest of the week at home, I hope it’s an opportunity to play well, get familiar with the routines for when we’re here in Milwaukee and improve. “
The Bucks are also now on a streak where they play each other six times over the next two weeks.
“You get into a bit of a rhythm when you play the one and the other day, so that will be for us this week and in the future,” Budenholzer said.
Opening the homestay with a win to go up to 3-3 would possibly give the Bucks a chance to identify some of Budenholzer’s consistency and players have said they have been slow to form with a rushed start to the season. For example, the team received paintings on individual skills on Saturday, then trained in the middle of Sunday, which Budenholzer said included a scrum game.
Pregame sessions for the Bucks are optional, but the fact that the team doesn’t have to navigate the various check windows and the time constraints to schedule them on the road can also provide opportunities this week.
“Every time we are at home it is a credit to us,” said goalkeeper Donte DiVincenzo. “Whenever we can practice it is smart. And we can sleep in our own beds, it’s a merit. So I think yes, you can have a smart career.
“I think you can start to expand that chemistry a little bit more by practicing more, being closer to each other. I think it’s a smart opportunity for us to achieve victories, but also just for ourselves in a convenient way.
“We have a wonderful opportunity on this stage to practice a lot and expand this chemistry even more. “
And it’s a first chance to repair cash merit at the Fiserv Forum, where the Bucks are 43-11 since the start, adding a 2-0 mark this year. Combining their first winning streak of the season at home would be an early anomaly in the NBA, as as Sunday’s league schedule approached, the Eastern Conference groups were combined 22-23 at home with just the Bucks and Philadelphia (3 – 0) are undefeated so far.
“I wouldn’t say it would be an unbiased site, but it wouldn’t go as far as it was last year before closing,” DiVincenzo admitted. “I think there is merit because you are in your general routine. You are at home, you do your same old routine, you do your general business, you don’t go back to the hotel and you find yourself with the same equipment that you are paying for.
“You’re with your family, you’re with those guys at the facility. So there’s an advantage, but I wouldn’t say as much as last year or year before. “
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