Bucks Stock Market: The Bucks win a hideous slog against the Bulls at "home"

Home is in quotes because Chicago fans invaded Fiserv Forum, which sucks.

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.

Around the time the Milwaukee Bucks and Chicago Bulls combined for like 20 points most of the way through the first quarter, it was clear their nationally televised Friday night game was going to go one of two ways: either the floodgates burst and both teams start pouring in points, or this thing was going to be ugly all night. It was very much the latter, as DeMar DeRozan’s free throws were 25% of Chicago’s first 40 points (he finished with 18 attempts and made 17 of them) and the Bucks eventually closed out Chicago despite a slew of seemingly one-sided calls. Milwaukee won 94-90 and honestly nobody on the Bucks looked all that spectacular. On the flip side, for most of the night the Bucks process was good. They generated quality shots consistently, and just somehow missed nearly all of them. Something was up with the rims in Fiserv Forum — the Bucks and Bulls combined to miss 56 of their 69 attempted threes. So, we’ve got no movements! Milwaukee toughing out the rock fight win and the good looks means we aren’t docking any share prices, but nobody was good enough to get an upstock.

The Bucks are back in action in less than 24 hours, when the Sacramento Kings visit Fiserv on what is obviously the second night of a back-to-back for Milwaukee.