MILWAUKEE \u2014 A lot of new faces were scattered across the court and the bench on Monday as the Milwaukee Bucks played their preseason opener against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Fiserv Forum.<\/p>\n
The T-Wolves emerged with a 116-97 victory after having strong first and fourth quarter performances. Minnesota ended up out-scoring Milwaukee 66-41 across those two quarters alone en route to the victory.<\/p>\n
While most starters were on limited minutes for the preseason opener, Monday did mark several Buck debuts including Wisconsin native Tyler Herro, who got the start for Milwaukee at shooting guard. Herro ended his night with 11 points.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee\u2019s two first-round picks this year, Brayden Burries and Nate Ament, also came off the bench in the preseason contest. Burries finished with seven points as well as team-highs in assists (5) and steals (2) while Ament tossed in eight points and two rebounds.<\/p>\n
Ultimately Ryan Rollins ended the night as Milwaukee\u2019s leading scorer, dropping 15 points on a 6-for-12 shooting clip. Kel\u2019el Ware was right behind Rollins, as he finished with a 14-point, 12-rebound double-double off the bench for the squad.<\/p>\n
The preseason rolls on for the Bucks as they now hit the road to play the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, October 7 at 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 A lot of new faces were scattered across the court and the bench on Monday as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,70,6,66],"class_list":["post-852618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-national","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117396701382122943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852618","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=852618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}