Bucks coach Scott Skiles was happy to escape a close game against the Nuggets on Sunday, but believes his team needs to play with more energy.

"It does happen during the season," Skiles said when asked about an energy shortage. "We're just trying to impress on the guys that we can't afford that. We've shown that when we have energy and we know what we're doing out there, we're a pretty good club."

Milwaukee has been a good rebounding team this season, but was dominated on the glass against Denver.

"That's one of our signs (of low energy)," said Skiles. "Because we've been, statistically, a pretty good rebounding team. In a game like (Sunday), we were giving up both. We're giving up a great shooting percentage by our opponent and then when they're missing, they're getting the ball back. That's very hard to overcome, but fortunately for us we did overcome it."