Bucks Stock Market: Back below 0.500, yet again

In what is becoming an alarming trend, the Bucks lost their fourth consecutive home game on Friday.

The Bucks Stock Market is a fictitious market run by the GSPN crew that tracks player stock “movement” following the conclusion of every game. Here’s the spreadsheet logging the game-by-game results.

My goodness, that was a tough game to stomach. Still without Brook Lopez, Khris Middleton, and Donte DiVincenzo until ¯ \_(ツ)_/¯ , this Bucks team just did not have the necessary firepower to hold the Knicks at bay. After amassing a lead as high as 21 points in the first half, the Milwaukee Bucks let go of the rope and got decimated the rest of the way. However, there were a few bright spots in this game. First of all, Jrue Holiday returned! After missing the last five games with an ankle injury, Holiday came off the bench in his third game of the season as the Bucks try to ease him back into game shape. For the second bright spot, let’s get into the movements!

Grayson Allen📈

Grayson was one of exactly *two* Bucks to show up on Friday, and he showed up in a big way. Allen had 22 points, five rebounds, two assists, plus a steal and a block on a nice 6 of 9 from deep and 2 of 3 on twos. The most exciting part is that he didn’t need to press in order to have such a high output, he just needed to play within the general Bucks offense and let the ball find him.

Pat Connaughton 📉

UGH. After stringing together multiple high-level performances in a row, Planet Pat fell back down to earth and had a ROUGH showing on both the offensive and defensive end.

Semi Ojeleye 📉

Do SOMETHING. Literally anything. Please.

The Milwaukee Bucks kick off a five-game road trip on Sunday against the scorching-hot Washington Wizards.