Chicago Bulls vs Milwaukee Bucks Prediction, Odds and Picks for Wednesday, 11/20/24

Playing the fastest pace in the NBA has kept the Bulls somewhat competitive in certain games, but in others they get absolutely destroyed because of their lack of presence on the defensive end. After back-to-back losses by 26 and 18 points, they’ve bounced back with a 10 point win over the Pistons. On Wednesday they have a game against a familiar foe – they’ve beaten the Bucks 133-122 in the opening game of the season for both teams. It’s hard to really tell which Bulls team will show up here, but one thing is for certain they will play fast. Their road games have produced 6 overs and just 3 unders this season, in those games they have the 19th worst defensive rating and are 6th best on offense.

Milwaukee is finally showing sings of improvement, but it remains to be seen whether or not that is due to a softer schedule or the team actually playing better. They’ve won 3 of 4 games, but the teams they beat were Houston, Detroit and Toronto. Playing at home should be a confidence booster here, the Bucks are 4-3 at Fiserv Forum. But, for a team that’s only 5-9 on the season, the spread does seem a bit too big here. Milwaukee is still without Khris Middleton and until he comes back they won’t be beating many teams by 9+ points. Against the Bulls they’ve covered only once in 5 meetings and just one time in the last 5 at Fiserv Forum.

Normally when you have two teams struggling on defense play each other, the outcome will be close as neither of them can get a stop when needed. This should be the case here and after seeing the Bulls win the first meeting by 11 points, I think they have enough to keep this a close game. Back the road team and the spread.

Bulls vs Bucks prediction: Bulls +8.5 (-110) available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.

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