The Milwaukee Bucks took the court against the Indiana Pacers needing a win in the worst way. Losers of their last three, the Bucks had fallen to seventh place in the East. The fifth-placed Pacers had also dropped their previous two, so something had to give in this matchup of struggling squads.
With starting guard Tony Snell in street clothes for the evening, Bucks’ Coach Joe Prunty looked to veteran shooting guard Jason Terry for a spark, in his first start of the season. Terry went scoreless in his first quarter minutes, but came up with a big block on a Thaddeus Young layup attempt as the Bucks and Pacers got off to a pretty even, somewhat sloppy start.