Kyle Kuzma scored 31 and grabbed 10 boards to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a dominant 131-115 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night.
Ryan Rollins added 21 along with 10 assists for Milwaukee, which snapped a five-game losing skid. AJ Green added 17 while Myles Turner, Pete Nance and Gary Trent Jr. each scored 15.
Matas Buzelis scored a team-high 22 points for Chicago, who fell for the fifth time in its last six games. Coby White recorded 21 points and 10 rebounds. Ayo Dosunmu and Patrick Williams each added 17 points.
Chicago was without many key pieces due to a flurry of trade activity. The Bulls reportedly parted ways on Tuesday with Nikola Vucevic, Kevin Huerter and the newly acquired Dario Saric. Josh Giddey (hamstring) also missed the game.
The Bucks came out firing as they shot 64% from both the floor and from beyond the arc (7-for-11). Kuzma scored 11 points in the opening frame.
Milwaukee didn’t slow down in the second as it continued to shoot over 60% from the floor. The Bucks also dominated points in the paint (26-14) as they took a 77-52 lead into halftime.
It was a season high for points in a single half for Milwaukee as Kuzma had 18 to lead all players while Turner and Rollins each had 13.
The third quarter was be a much different story. The Bulls came out of the halftime break motivated as they shrunk a 26-point deficit down to six.
Milwaukee punched back, responding with an 18-4 run at the end of the third into the start of the fourth to go back up by 17. The Bucks rode the momentum from there and did not relinquish a double-digit edge.
Milwaukee knocked down a season-high 23 3-pointers in making 60.5% from beyond the arc. Green, Rollins and Trent each had five shots from deep individually.
