{"id":697907,"date":"2026-04-04T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:03:17","slug":"player-grades-for-taurean-prince-pete-nance-in-bucks-loss-vs-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697907\/","title":{"rendered":"Player Grades for Taurean Prince, Pete Nance in Bucks\u2019 loss vs. Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Milwaukee Bucks got routed by the Boston Celtics 133-101 in a contest that was never really a contest at all. The Celtics got off to a hot start in the paint and from three and never looked back, clinching the season series 3-1. Read our full summary of the game here<\/a> and catch a six-minute audio recap on the Bucks+ podcast, Bucks In Six Minutes<\/a>, below.<\/p>\n

30 minutes, 15 points, 1 rebound, 5 assists, 3 turnovers, 5\/9 FG, 5\/9 3P, -23<\/p>\n

Dairy Bird hit some shots that breathed some life into an otherwise dead game. He also kept the ball moving, racking up five assists off mostly extra swing passes. Three turnovers are never ideal for his role, though.<\/p>\n

24 minutes, 14 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 6\/14 FG, 2\/5 3P, -31<\/p>\n

Kuz was one of Milwaukee\u2019s more aggressive and effective scorers. Going 2\/5 from deep isn\u2019t bad for a guy who\u2019s been slumping from out there lately. Still, he wasn\u2019t efficient and ultimately didn\u2019t make much of a difference.<\/p>\n

33 minutes, 14 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist, 5\/11 FG, 4\/9 3P, -19<\/p>\n

Doc talked pregame about how he\u2019s continuing to emphasize crashing the glass with Nance. Last night, the big man grabbed a career-high 10 boards. Love that he got up nine threes too. Why not let it fly?<\/p>\n

18 minutes, 4 points, 1 rebound, 2 blocks, 1\/4 FG, 1\/3 3P, -32<\/p>\n

Ugh. To be fair to Myles, you can\u2019t expect much from a play finisher like him in a game where there are zero on-ball playmakers in the lineup. But he somehow sank well below the tempered expectations offensively. To make matters worse, Boston ran through the Bucks in the paint, and Mr. Turner is supposed to be a rim protector.<\/p>\n

24 minutes, 9 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 4\/15 FG, 1\/4 3P, -32<\/p>\n

Ous gets a bit of a pass here because he went down with an injury in the third quarter, but before that, he was on track for a disaster game. Slow processing and questionable decision-making were the story of his night. The on-ball stuff is very much still a work in progress for Dieng.<\/p>\n

32 minutes, 11 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists, 1 block, 2\/7 FG, 2\/4 3P, 5\/5 FT, -19<\/p>\n

The rookie competed as hard as anybody, even earning himself some stitches after shouldering a hard foul from Jaylen Brown that sent him flying into the first row. He also looked solid on defense and hit his jumpers.<\/p>\n

16 minutes, 3 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 0\/0 FG, 3\/4 FT, +3<\/p>\n

Sims is never going to do much scoring in a game with no playmakers (similar to Turner). That said, he still found ways to contribute, running the offense from the top of the key on his way to posting a career-high six assists and the only positive plus\/minus on the team.<\/p>\n

24 minutes, 18 points, 2 assist, 1 steal, 1 block, 7\/8 FG, 4\/5 3P, +\/- 0<\/p>\n

Prince got hot in relatively few minutes. Nice night for him, easily one of the few bright spots from a dreary game.<\/p>\n

14 minutes, 5 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists, 1 steal, 2\/4 FG, 1\/2 3P, -2<\/p>\n

Harris very quietly returned from injury and made little fanfare on the floor.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough to imagine any coach doing much more with what Doc has to work with right now, especially against the Celtics. Like, anyone expecting a win here or even a close loss was kidding themselves, so all you can look at is the process, which was fine last night. Getting an offense going with zero creators is so tough at the NBA level, but the Bucks overall had a passable night on that end, hitting 21 threes. It was the defense that really killed the team and tanked Doc\u2019s grade.<\/p>\n

Limited Minutes: Andre Jackson Jr., Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Alex Antetokounmpo<\/p>\n

Inactive: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Porter Jr., Bobby Portis, Ryan Rollins, Gary Trent Jr.<\/p>\n

Doc Rivers on unexpected wrinkles\/skills we may see from players down the stretch:\u201cI mean, Rylo (Ryan Rollins), we just wanna try to keep healthy, for the most part. But anytime he makes a play without the shot is big for us, that\u2019s great. Pete (Nance), rebounding, still being confident shooting. We had to remind him in the Cleveland game to shoot the ball again and then to start shooting it and making it. So, a lot of the guys, the other guys, we\u2019re just learning, we\u2019re still trying to figure out.\u201dDoc on the biggest joys of what\u2019s been an overall tough season:\u201cThis has not been a fun year for anybody. But watching some of our young guys develop, it has been fun. Watching Ryan and watching AJ, Jericho Sims, I mean, you think about guys, when you look at our roster, we\u2019re playing a lot of guys with minimum contracts and trying to win games. And that\u2019s hard to do. It really is. There\u2019s two sayings, with our young guys, they\u2019re minimum, not for a reason, they\u2019re minimum because no one knows \u2018em, we\u2019ve developed them, and I\u2019m proud of that.\u201dThanasis *almost* (okay, not really almost) completed an alley-oop to Alex in the fourth quarter. How sick would that have been?AJ Green named 27 types of fish in 30 seconds to beat a fan in a giveaway game run during a timeout.Here\u2019s<\/a> the address of the Giannis-sized elephant in the room.<\/p>\n

The Bucks will take on the (skeleton crew) Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday at home in an epic tank-off. Catch that one at 2:30 p.m. CDT on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin. Be warned, though: unless you\u2019re a genuine sicko, you will probably recognize zero players on Memphis\u2019 roster. Some teaser names: Lucas Williamson, Adama Bal, and Toby Okani. Insert the Snoop Dogg \u201cwho?\u201d GIF here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks got routed by the Boston Celtics 133-101 in a contest that was never really a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,56844,1565,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-697907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-bucks-postgame-takeaways-player-grades","11":"tag-bucks-analysis","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-milwaukeebucks","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116347050594084049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}