Dudley a perfect 10, Bucks blast Hawks

DPA/Los Angeles Jared Dudley was perfect and the Atlanta Hawks couldn’t find the basket. Dudley knocked down all 10 shots, including four triples en route to a season-high 24 points Friday, and the visiting Milwaukee Bucks cooled off the red-hot Hawks 107-77. “I had a lot of wide-open good looks, I made them, and my teammates kept looking for me.” Dudley said. “I don’t know if I’ll ever shoot that again but it was good to be able to say I did it.” “I can’t say it was a perfect game because as a coach you want more out of your players,” Bucks leader Jason Kidd said. “But it was as close to a no-hitter as you can get.” The high-flying Hawks had won five in a row and 14 of their previous 15 contests. But they played their worst game of the season and were blasted off the court by the Bucks whose 15th victory matched their entire win total of last season. “Defensively, we got after it,” Dudley said. Brandon Knight chipped in with 16 points and Zaza Paculia added all 14 of his in the second half in Milwaukee’s (15-15) beat-down. Paul Millsap collected 22 points and 11 rebounds for Atlanta (21-8) which shot a frosty 41 per cent and committed 23 turnovers leading to 30 Milwaukee points. “You’ve got to give Milwaukee a lot of credit tonight. They shot the ball really well, and did a lot of different things,” Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “We have to do things better defensively and we obviously didn’t have a good night offensively.”