Bucks Head Coach Scott Skiles

Rebounding kind of told the story of the game?
That's 20 offensive, it was like they hit a switch. Fairly early in the game we were doing a decent job of getting stops and forcing them into shots, and it was almost like they said that they were not making shots tonight so we're just going to go to the boards, and they absolutely dominated us. We were very soft, nailed to the ground. We looked at a bunch of clips at halftime and we were just a really, really very poor effort game again.

Playing against Minnesota for the 3rd time
Look, they beat us three times now in a short period of time so you've got to give them credit. They've totally outplayed us pretty much every minute we've played against them in three games. We're not the type of team that can get outplayed and then come back and win. We were very sluggish out there. Offensively we're going to have some hiccups because we have new guys but our overall effort is nowhere where it needs to be.

Milwaukee just couldn't get momentum
It's hard to get a run going when a ball is shot and there are three or four Timberwolves jumping up and down for it and two or three Bucks players just standing around and looking at it. It was a theme all night and we went to the bench -- which you hate to have to take guys out in the second game of the season -- but we started getting some energy and playing hard. At that point we just couldn't get over the hump. We got off to a decent lead but from almost the first five minutes of the game on they owned us out there.

Bucks Forward Corey Maggette

On controlling Minnesota:
"A lot of second-chance points that they got us on. We should have done a better job. Not taking credit away from their team, because they played extremely well."

"The engine of the team is Ridnour, the way he plays, the way he distributes the ball. We had a tough time tonight."

"The biggest thing now is not to panic, I've been in situations with teams where we lost a lot of games, but you just can't panic right now. We've got 80 games left, so we just need to continue to stay positive. I have confidence in every individual on this team. We need to just get ready for Charlotte. We've got an opportunity; right now we were just a step slow. We're still getting guys coming back from injury and it's kind of tough that they don’t have the momentum that they need. This is not the team that we are. We can be better, so we're just going to continue to work at it and go from there."

Bucks Guard Brandon Jennings

"They played hard. That’s about it."

On going against former teammate Luke Ridnour:
"No battle at all. They were just trying to get a win and so were we, and unfortunately we came up short."

On losing the rebound battle:
"They killed us on the boards. It seemed like they just wanted it more than we did tonight. I think right now we are kind of like in cruise control. We'll need to change that fast."

"We had chances. We just couldn’t pull it through at the end."

Bucks Forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute

"We played pretty good defense all the way around. It seemed like every time we made a stop, somebody would come and tip the ball in or get the offensive rebound."

"They just wanted a win more than we did, I feel like they were just going after every ball on the offensive glass and defensive glass. They were the ones making the plays and we were the ones just out there standing. When we realized, it was too late."

• The Bucks opened the season in New Orleans on Wednesday, the 26th consecutive year they've opened the season on the road. Milwaukee's record is now 14-12 in those openers.
  
  
• With Keyon Dooling, Drew Gooden, Corey Maggette and Larry Sanders making their Bucks debuts on Wednesday night, the franchise has now had 318 players appear in a regular season game in the franchise's history.
  
  
• Carlos Delfino narrowly missed a couple career-highs on Wednesday. His five threes were one off his careerbest (six, accomplished three times), three steals were one off his career-best (four, five times).
  
  
• Last season, after compiling a 46-36 regular season record, the Bucks made it to the playoffs for the first time since the 2005-06 season. The Bucks stretched the series with Atlanta to the full seven games, but the Hawks were able to capitalize on their home court advantage and advance to the second round.