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Monday, Jan. 10 8:00pm ET
Hornets end 6-game road trip without a win

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Charlotte Hornets hit rock-bottom. The Milwaukee Bucks hit just about everything they shot.

That collision resulted in the worst loss in Hornets franchise history.

Ray Allen scored 26 points to lead the Bucks' fearsome offensive attack as Milwaukee trounced Charlotte 137-87 Monday night.

The 50-point blowout was 10 points larger than Charlotte's previous franchise-worst loss. The Hornets were listless and sloppy in losing their sixth straight game, concluding a six-game road trip without a win for the first time in franchise history.

"It can't get much worse for us right now," Anthony Mason said. "We need a whole lot of something different right now, and I have no idea what the problem is. We're not used to this as a team."

The Hornets were almost immediately overwhelmed by the Bucks. Milwaukee's perimeter offensive passing game was clicking, and the Bucks took dozens of wide-open shots.

"I personally think we should score like that all the time, but it was good to see everything working for us," said Glenn Robinson, who celebrated his 27th birthday with 13 points and a short night of work. "All we had to do was hit wide-open shots."

Milwaukee won its sixth straight home game for the club's longest home winning streak since February 1992. The Bucks, who won a double-overtime thriller against the Wizards two nights ago, got an easy warmup for Wednesday's showdown with the Los Angeles Lakers.

A sampling of the carnage:

Milwaukee's 55 field goals and 46 assists were both the highest totals in the NBA this season.

The Bucks set a franchise record with 13 3-pointers while shooting 64 percent from the floor, including 57 percent on 3-pointers.

All 10 Bucks who played scored at least eight points, and seven finished in double figures. Six Bucks had at least four assists.

Milwaukee never trailed. The Bucks led by 22 at halftime, 34 after three quarters and 56 late in the fourth quarter.

The Bucks shot 60 percent in the first half, and their reserves made 74 percent (17-of-23) of their shots in the fourth quarter.

Milwaukee outrebounded Charlotte 43-30, outassisted them 46-24 and forced 17 Hornets turnovers while blocking seven shots, four by Scott Williams.

Allen, who is expected to be among the three players who will be named Tuesday to the U.S. Olympic team, was 10-for-16 from the field and had eight assists. He helped the Bucks get a 69-47 lead at halftime which they expanded to 100-66 after three.

The Bucks' barrage of outside shooting included a season-high 21 points from Tim Thomas, who hit six 3-pointers. Sam Cassell added 18 points and 12 assists, while Ervin Johnson added eight points and 13 rebounds.

"Feel sorry for them?" Cassell asked. "Hell, no. They'd do it to us if they had the chance. It's nothing personal."

Charlotte hasn't won since beating Milwaukee on Dec. 29. Derrick Coleman, who was slowed by the flu, and Mason had six points apiece and didn't seem interested in the guarding the Bucks' outside shooters, while Eddie Jones missed his 10th straight game with a knee injury.

"This was just an old-fashioned butt-kicking," Hornets coach Paul Silas said. "It was the last road game, and they were ready for us. They made every shot, it seemed."

The onslaught continued after halftime, as the Bucks scored 19 points in the first six minutes of the third quarter to take an 88-58 lead. Only the shooting of David Wesley, who had 23 points for Charlotte, kept the game from getting ridiculous.

But in the fourth quarter, with Wesley on the bench, the Hornets collapsed. Milwaukee went on a 24-2 run to open the quarter asRobert Traylor and Haywoode Workman combined for 19 points.

Game notes
When Allen hit a 3-pointer with 2:07 left in the first half to give Milwaukee a 62-42 lead, Charlotte coach Paul Silas signaled for a timeout and both benches got up. But the officials didn't see Silas, and Wesley hit a 3-pointer for the Hornets. ... The biggest win in Bucks history was a 59-point beating of the Pistons in 1978 (143-84). ... As the Bucks' lead grew, Milwaukee fans began yelling for J.R. Reid, banished to the Bucks' bench by George Karl. Reid and Dale Ellis didn't play.

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