Un Giannis Antetokounmpo sidereal unbalanced the most even series of these Playoffs by leading the Milwaukee Bucks103-101, to victory against the Boston Celtics in a clash marked by the defense and, above all, with an ending in which everything was resolved at the last second.
The Greek pvot signed 42 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists, but the Bucks they missed Khris Middleton because with the best version of Anteto and with some Celtics in which Jayson Tatum signed one of their worst performances of the season, they did not achieve victory until the last play of the match.
With four seconds to go and with 103-100, Marcus Smart he made his first free throw but brazenly missed the second. What followed was insanity with three rebounds and three shots from the Celtics trying to tie in regular time. The last shot of Al Hortford It was the one that entered but the referees ruled that it was out of time after reviewing it.
Before that, Antetokounmpo had managed to erase the first advantage in the match of the Celtics101-100, y Jrue Holiday made it 103-100 before Smart’s last play.
In the Bucksin addition to the Greek, Holiday I ended up with 25 Lopez with 13 and Connaughton with 11. The champions signed a 9 of 34 in triples.
In Boston, Tatum had a disastrous day with 10 points and 4 of 19, and shone Jaylen Brown with 27 and 12 rebounds, and Hortfordwith 22 and 16 rejections.
The game was very balanced until the break. In the third quarter, the Bucks disarmed in attack Celtics to achieve a maximum of 13 points, 80-67, at the end of the period.
But everything changed in the last quarter. The Celtics began to defend and recover balls, forcing the Bucks to bad shots, and between Brown y Hortford they were scratching the advantage of the premises until culminating the comeback with 99-100. Then came the points of the Bucks and failures in the last seconds of the Celtics to place the 2-1 in favor of the champions. The feeling is that the series still has a lot of life left.
