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When Giannis Antetokounmpo sits, who steps up for the Bucks?
When Giannis Antetokounmpo sits, who steps up for the Bucks?,Giannis Antetokounmpo has been inactive for three of the Bucks’ first 12 games. The Bucks are 2-1 in those games when Giannis sits on the bench the entire game.

When Giannis Antetokounmpo sits, who steps up for the Bucks?

Giannis Antetokounmpo has been inactive for three of the Bucks’ first 12 games. The Bucks are 2-1 in those games when Giannis sits on the bench the entire game.

When Giannis is not playing in a game, who picks up the scoring slack for the team? In the three games that Giannis has not played this season, Brook Lopez and Jevon Carter were the leading scorers for the Bucks (Lopez with 25 against OKC on November 5; Carter with 36 against OKC on November 9 and with 21 versus San Antonio on November 11).

Going back to the start of the 2020-21 NBA season through the first 12 games of this season, Giannis has not played in 29 games (29 of 176 regular season games, or about 16.5% of the Bucks games). There have been 10 different Bucks’ players who led the team in scoring in those games Giannis did not play. Topping that list is Jrue Holiday who led in the Bucks in scoring in nine of those 29 games since the start of the ‘20-21 campaign.

Holiday and Middleton lead the way when Giannis sits

Here are the 10 Bucks players who led the team in scoring in games Giannis did not play since the start of the 2020-21 season. (Each player was credited with a game when multiple players tied for scoring honors in a contest)

9-Jrue Holiday
8-Khris Middleton
4-Jordan Nwora
3-Brook Lopez
2-Pat Connaughton, Jevon Carter
1-Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Sandra Mamukelashvili, Bobby Portis, Donte DiVincenzo

Thirteen different Bucks players have scored 20 or more points in a game when Giannis did not play in those 29 games since 2020-21. Khris Middleton tops this list with 12 games with 20+ points in those games without Giannis. Jrue Holiday is a close second with 11 games.

Bucks players with 20+ points in last 29 games without Giannis

Here are the 13 players who tallied 20 or more points in one of the 29 most recent games that Giannis did not play.

12-Khris Middleton
11-Jrue Holiday
6-Jordan Nwora
4-Brook Lopez, Bobby Portis
3-Grayson Allen, Pat Connaughton
2-Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Donte DiVincenzo, Jevon Carter
1- Sandra Mamukelashvili, DeMarcus Cousins, Jeff Teague

Carter, Lopez scoring leaders in last three games without Giannis

Based on points scored in the last three games where Giannis did not play, Jevon Carter tops the Bucks with 75, an average of 25.0 per game. Brook Lopez tallied 68 points in those three games for an average of 22.7 per game in Giannis’ absence. Other Bucks points in those three games without Giannis: Bobby Portis (41), Grayson Allen (37), Marlon Beauchamp (29), Jordan Nwora (25), Serge Ibaka (23), George Hill (19), Jrue Holiday (10), Wesley Matthews (7), Sandra Mamukelashvili (3).