ORLANDO - Giannis Antetokounmpo was visibly frustrated as he urged his Milwaukee Bucks teammates to help one another out and "stop feeling sorry for ourselves" in their loss to the Orlando Magic on Saturday night.
Paolo Banchero scored 26 points, Franz Wagner added 24 and the Magic weathered a 35-point, 10-rebound effort from Antetokounmpo to clinch a 112-97 National Basketball Association (NBA) home victory.
The result broke Milwaukee's 14game win streak against Orlando and also marked the Bucks' first defeat in Orlando since March 14, 2018.
Crucially, the Magic's 35 freethrow attempts did not go down well with Antetokounmpo.
"Sometimes you have to put your body on the line, take that hit, to make it easier for our defence. The last two games we haven't done it," he said, as quoted by ESPN.
"Right now, I feel like we're just being stagnant. We're going back on defence and not showing a lot of help. We're not protecting one another as much as we should and sometimes when we turn the ball over, we sit and kind of complain.
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