The Bucks mercilessly for the Heat: the 2020 finalist is already out the door

And 1, and 2, and 3, and 4. This time, Milwaukee did not leave any hope for the Heat, which had ejected them from the Orlando bubble during the 2020 playoffs. Milwaukee is the first team to be qualify for the semifinals of conferences in the East, after his fourth consecutive victory at the expense of Miami (120-103), Saturday. It’s a scathing revenge that the Bucks took on the Heat.

Last year, Giannis Antetokounmpo played on one leg and the players had their minds elsewhere after their historic boycott of a match in the name of the fight against racial injustice. This time, everyone except Donte Di Vicenzo, injured in the left ankle and forfeited for the rest of the season, is 100% and well focused on the supreme goal of a second title, 50 years after the first gleaned. by the legendary Lew Alcindor – the future Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – and Oscar Robertson.

If Antetokounmpo has multiplied, achieving a convincing triple-double (20 pts, 15 assists, 12 rebounds), he was not the best scorer of his team, the pivot Brook Lopez scoring 25 points (8 rebounds). In total, six Bucks players finished with 10 or more pawns, including replacement shooter Bryn Forbes (22, 7/14 three-point) and Khris Middleton (20 pts, 11 rebounds). In this series, the Heat will have deluded only in the first game, lost after extra time (109-107), and during the first period of this meeting where he was back to the wall, leading by seven points at the break.

Jimmy Butler also managed a triple-double (12 pts, 10 assists, 10 rebounds) and Bam Adebayo (20 pts, 14 rebounds) also fought well, but the gap between the two teams, both physically that of the game produced, and over the matches on the mental level, was too heavy to fill. The play-offs continue during the day with the 4th game between Portland and Denver, the Nuggets leading 2 to 1. In the evening, Washington will receive Philadelphia which leads 2-0, and Utah will move to Memphis (1-1).