{"id":475154,"date":"2024-01-07T02:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475154"},"modified":"2024-01-07T02:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:49:40","slug":"giannis-48-points-not-enough-as-bucks-fall-short-112-108-vs-rockets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-48-points-not-enough-as-bucks-fall-short-112-108-vs-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis 48 points not enough as Bucks fall short 112-108 vs Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, Alperen Sengun led the Houston Rockets to a 112-108 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a>&#8216;s impressive 48-point performance. Antetokounmpo secured his seventh consecutive double-double with 17 rebounds but couldn&#8217;t prevent the Bucks from losing their third game in four outings in 2024, following an impressive 11-2 record in December.<\/p>\n<p>Houston&#8217;s Jalen Green contributed 16 points, while Fred VanVleet had 14 points and seven assists, and Jabari Smith Jr. recorded a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Damian Lillard struggled with his shooting, managing 18 points and nine assists, but missing a season-high three free throws on 10 attempts and shooting 5 for 16 from the field, including 1 for 8 from beyond the arc. Khris Middleton added 10 points on 3-of-9 shooting for the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets&#8217; bench played a crucial role in the victory, with veteran reserve Jeff Green scoring a season-high 16 points, Cam Whitmore adding 12, and Aaron Holiday contributing 11. Despite missing Dillon Brooks, who remained sidelined for a sixth consecutive game due to a right abdominal oblique strain, the Rockets concluded a seven-game homestand with a 3-4 record, bringing their overall record to 18-16. They are now set for a six-game road stretch against Eastern Conference opponents.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6V5XSOGdAj4?si=oX7OqNNy3bQMbE0F\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, Alperen Sengun led the Houston Rockets to a 112-108 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, despite Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8216;s impressive 48-point performance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":475155,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,17044,16726],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17843,18346,17841],"acf":{"announce":"Alperen Sengun led the Houston Rockets to hand Milwaukee third loss in four games in 2024","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475157,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475154\/revisions\/475157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475154"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475154"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}