We are at the 10-game mark of the season and the Eastern Conference standings are slowly taking shape. The Milwaukee Bucks are exactly where we expected them to be, at the bottom of the East with just 1 win to show for so far. They’ve dropped 6 in a row and are still without a win on the road. That’s unlikely to change on Tuesday night as they visit the defending champs at MSG, but can Milwaukee at least keep things somewhat close? The line has been set at 15.5 points, of the 9 losses so far they’ve lost by 16 or more points only three times.
Backing a team to blow out an opponent is always tricky, even if the talent discrepancy is massive, which is the case in this game. New York’s start to the year has been somewhat slow, but the current 3-game win streak they are on has eased the pressure a bit. Of their 5 wins only one of them was by more than 15.5 points and that was against the lowly Chicago Bulls. Jalen Brunson is on a heater right now, he’s dropped 30+ points in back-to-back games. Milwaukee is one of his favorite opponents – the last 4 meetings have seen the Finals MVP average 36 ppg on an impressive 59.6% shooting from the field.
This match-up has been a lopsided one with New York winning 4 of 5 meetings and scoring at least 116 pts in all four wins. But at 3-2 SU at MSG can we trust them to blow out the Bucks here? I believe we can. The three-point defense has worked almost to perfection over the past 3 games, allowing just 29.5% of shots to go in from deep. On top of that the Bucks defense has been abysmal – they allow 121.6 ppg which ranks them 27th in the NBA. I’ll back the Knicks to get some points up in this one.
Milwaukee Bucks vs New York Knicks Predictions: Knicks Over 117.5 Team Points is available at -110 at time of publishing.
