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"That was as bad a collapse as I've ever seen."
That was the quintessential quote from Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles summing up the Houston Rockets' second half desecration of the BMO Harris Bradley Center that led to a 115-101 win for Houston.
In order to spare you from a comprehensive re-visit of last night's harrowing events, we've decided to take a Quentin Tarentino approach: giving you the ending in the first few minutes and looping back to the beginning to tell the story through a series of tweets.
Of course, this is a blog, so I can't exactly give you a "life cycle" of this catastrophe via a movie format. OK, maybe I can, but who has time to watch a 2:30 recap of something so ugly it's beautiful?
Anyways, enjoy. Also, if you have any tweets you think are worthy of inclusion, please @reply/DM/email them to me.
Brew Hoop Presents: It Was The Best Of Halves, It Was The Blurst Of Halves
Skiles also talked a lot about the Rockets running a similar Pick-n-Roll and Pick-n-Kick game to the Spurs. Not encouraging. #HOUvMIL
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
Bucks' last fast break involved very little actual movement.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Front-facing, not so much RT @alexboeder: Monta Ellis does backward layups right. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
I think I'm legally obligated to say: "Delfino checks in to a nice hand from the crowd."
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Chandler Parsons probably has dandruff.
— Ian Segovia (@Ian_Segovia) January 5, 2013
Bucks currently shooting 37.5% vs. Rockets' 47.6%, yet only down 2 thanks to free throws (HOU is 2-6). Both teams w/16 PiP #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
I'm enjoying John Henson's lefty shot. And the fact that this game is just wind sprints up and down the court. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
#Bucks open second quarter on a 10-2 run, including 6 in transition w/an and 1 thrown in #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
Rockets have taken 8 threes in 15 minutes. Leaving a lot of them short. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
It appears the Rockets are terrible on defense without Asik on the court.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
So many And-1s for the Bucks tonight. Have to be threatening their season high already.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Bucks just came down and ran a set for Ers! I can't remember the last time I saw that. He traveled.
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
A possession in which Larry Sanders was posted up on James Harden ended with a contested 20-footer from Jennings.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Delfino has hit three straight threes. But it's still 52-39 Bucks. Losing him a little bit defensively, not aggressive enough stepping out.
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Bucks hold Harden to 13 points on 12 shots in the first half, which is actually a pretty substantial accomplishment.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Bucks also held Jeremy Lin scoreless and forced him into 4 turnovers.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Bucks go into halftime up 58-47. Shot 62% in 2Q, w/every player (9 total) scoring at least once. 22 of 37 2Q points in paint, 14-4 reb. adv.
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
Bucks' 1st half stats: 117 ORtg, 95 DRtg, 86.4 DRR, 40.9 ORR, 12.1 TOR
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Bucks have crammed a whole lot of suck into the first 90 seconds of the 2nd half.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
I don't think I've ever seen a team incorporate so many crosscourt passes into their offense. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
I HATE THIS QUARTER
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Everybody's falling down in the third quarter
— Steven von Horn (@StevevonHorn) January 5, 2013
Ekpe and Larry as starters, and now Henson again off the bench have me channeling my inner teen girl. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
— K L Chouinard (@AnaheimAmigos) January 5, 2013
Harden heads to the line with the chance to tie. This might be the worst stretch of basketball Milwaukee has played all season.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Monta just did the worst job running the break. Threw a bounce pass to a standing still Jennings instead of of a lob to a running one.
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Bucks have used half a quarter to make 0 field goals.
— K L Chouinard (@AnaheimAmigos) January 5, 2013
Oh my god the Rockets are so good at leaking out. A 15 point swing in the first 5:30 of the second half. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
Bucks' 3rd quarter so far: 15.5 ORtg, 132.1 DRtg.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
The Bucks are almost right back in this game they had complete control of heading into halftime, if that makes any sense
— Steven von Horn (@StevevonHorn) January 5, 2013
If I understand these Bucks, they should close this out on a 40-11 run.
— Eric Buenning (@ericbuenning) January 5, 2013
The Bucks just committed a turnover on a handoff in the backcourt.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Bucks' shooting percentage back down to 40.8%. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
The Bucks minus Jennings and Ellis are shooting 50%
— Ian Segovia (@Ian_Segovia) January 5, 2013
CARLOOOOOOS. He's sneaky athletic.
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Houston's 3-man bench (Douglas/Patterson/Delinfo) is doing it: 18-27 from the field with 45 points. #MILvHOU
— Alex Boeder (@alexboeder) January 5, 2013
If the Bucks win this game, it will go against everything that is good and holy and logical
— Ian Segovia (@Ian_Segovia) January 5, 2013
At this point we're guaranteed that every recap of this game will parse out the first half and secnod half stats explicitly
— Steven von Horn (@StevevonHorn) January 5, 2013
The only thing worse than the Bucks not playing drive-and-kick basketball is getting killed by teams that do. Lin is not that big a threat.
— K L Chouinard (@AnaheimAmigos) January 5, 2013
Rockets 8-16 on corner threes. 3-14 on all other threes.
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
The Rockets have shot 32 three pointers.
— Jon Hartzell (@jhartzell2) January 5, 2013
James Harden is so awesome. What a player. Insane. More adjectives!
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Bucks with more second quarter points (37) than second half points (33) so far. #MILvHOU
— Alex Boeder (@alexboeder) January 5, 2013
May god have mercy on us all. #MILvHOU
— Jake McCormick (@Jake_BrewHoop) January 5, 2013
Houston has 28 points off 24 Bucks turnovers. 18 turnovers in the second half. Houstonwith a 36 point swing from when it was down 48-30
— Andrew Gruman (@AndrewGruman) January 5, 2013
Bucks in serious jeopardy of starting this week 16-12 and finishing it 16-16. The Heat win feels about a century ago.
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Lol, let's take it easy. Just not a very good team. RT @dofox83: @bucksketball Has Skiles lost his team?
— Jeremy Schmidt (@Bucksketball) January 5, 2013
Henson gets top shelf. Everyone else - beer in a can.
— Ian Segovia (@Ian_Segovia) January 5, 2013
Bucks' 2nd half stats: 81.6 ORtg, 129 DRtg. Turned it over on 36% of their possessions.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
The thing about that game is thaTWEET INTERCEPTED BY HOUSTON ROCKETS DELFINO FOR THREE IT'S GOOD
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
5 of Jennings' 7 assists came in the second quarter, which was the crazy-fast quarter.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013
Problem is, every time MIL was like "Ok hang on I'ma shoot this transition three" Houston was already dunking on a runout the other way.
— Dan Sinclair (@dan_sinclair) January 5, 2013