There's one more game on the Bucks' schedule before this one. They host the Chicago Bulls on Friday, so whatever happens there, Milwaukee will be playing the 2nd night of a back-to-back and traveling to Philadelphia in between. Philadelphia has been off since Thursday's comeback and plays nobody in the meantime. The Sixers are also coming off their own 2-games-in-3-nights stretch, but they'll be the fresher team at the 7:30 PM ET tip.
The Sixers' injuries are all in the frontcourt. Ariel Hukporti tore his Achilles and is done for the season, Dominick Barlow is out at least 2 weeks with a lumbar stress response, and Dean Wade and Tacko Fall were both out against Cleveland. All of that makes Embiid's minutes matter even more than usual. It also makes Turner the most interesting matchup on the floor: a big who can space the floor, playing against a team with very few healthy bodies behind its starting center. If Milwaukee is going to win this game, it probably happens on the glass, and that's exactly where the Bucks lost the opener.
The bigger question is what the Bucks look like over 48 minutes. In Washington they played 3 good quarters and then fell apart in the 4th, which is what you'd expect from a team that just lost the player it ran everything through. Philadelphia has the opposite habit so far, starting slow and finishing strong. Herro has to show he can carry the offense when a game gets tight late, and the Sixers have to show they can play a full game without needing a rescue.