Head Coach Scott Skiles
On the team's struggles…
"We're not close to really understanding how hard we need to play and how hard we have to compete and
pay attention to detail. A whole bunch of things like that. We're trying to get to the bottom of it."
On tonight's game…
"They just ran right by us. We had several clips at half time, you guys all saw it, where we just stood there
and kind of let them right by us. That was point number one in the game plan and obviously we failed."
On changing lineups…
"We were just looking for any lineup to junk the game up a little bit; see if we can't get some fresh bodies in
there. We got something going for ourselves, we made a little bit of a run but when we got it close, that's
when you have to play perfectly and we didn't."
Forward Jon Leuer
On tonight's game…
"You can't pick out just one thing. Obviously they got some easy buckets in transition in the second quarter
and that's what separated the game. They got those easy buckets and we didn't do a good job at getting
back at all. That's on us to put the effort in to get back and that's something we have to get better at."
On the second half…
"It was good to see everyone stepped up and didn't quit and kept fighting. I think that tells a lot about the
guys on this team that we aren't just going to roll over and die. In the end we just dug ourselves too big a
hole."
Guard Beno Udrih
On tonight's game…
"In the scouting report it did say that they run the floor and when they get a rebound they kick it ahead.
Basically that's what they did in the first half. In the second half we were just trying to pressure them but
the lead was too big."
On fighting back in the second half …
"That's how this game is, you have to be playing the right way from the beginning, not from the second half.
That's what we did today and once a team like that gets hot and in a rhythm it's tough."
- Tonight marks the Bucks first home loss of the season (1-5). Milwaukee falls to 0-5 when trailing at the half.
- Ersan Ilyasova had a season-high 11 rebounds (previously 9).
- Tobias Harris finished with 14 points tonight - his third game out of six played this season in which he scored in double
figures.
- Brandon Jennings made 13 field goals (59.1%), the most by a Bucks player in a game this season.
- Corey Brewer finished with a season-high 22 points, including 12 points in the second quarter.
- Denver went on a 19-4 run midway through the second quarter to open up a 19 point lead. The Nuggets had six fastbreak
points during the run and 17 in the half.
- The Nuggets came into tonight's game first in the league in field goal percentage. Denver shot 32-75 tonight (42.7%).
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