BOSTON — Giannis Antetokounmpo was obtaining his most effective taking pictures night time of the playoffs. Milwaukee dominated on the boards. And nonetheless the Bucks trailed Boston by 14 factors in a video game that could send the defending NBA champions to the brink of elimination.
That is when Jrue Holiday confirmed the Defensive Participant of the Calendar year a factor or two about protection.
Bobby Portis place back again Antetokounmpo’s skipped free of charge toss with 15 seconds left, and Vacation snuffed Marcus Sensible on Boston’s closing two belongings Wednesday evening as Milwaukee erased a 14-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Celtics 110-107 and consider a 3-2 collection guide.
“Obviously, in Boston you’re down 14 in the fourth quarter, men and women would say everything’s versus us. But we come with each other,” claimed Vacation, who also strike the tying 3-pointer with 43 seconds still left. “We dwell and die like that.”
Antetokounmpo had 40 factors and 11 rebounds, earning 16 of 27 photographs — such as a lengthy 3-pointer to make it 105-102 with 1:40 to perform. Getaway concluded with 24 details, eight rebounds and eight assists and Portis additional 14 points and 15 rebounds. The Bucks can progress to the Eastern Convention finals with a victory in Video game 6 at home Friday evening.
Jayson Tatum scored 34 factors and Jaylen Brown had 26 for the Celtics, who want a gain in Milwaukee to power a decisive seventh recreation back again in Boston on Sunday.
The Celtics led 93-79 early in the fourth before the Bucks closed the hole, tying it at 105 with 43 seconds to play on back-to-back again 3-ideas from Antetokounmpo and Vacation. Tatum hit a pair of totally free throws to give Boston back the guide.
Antetokounmpo went to the the line with a probability to tie it and manufactured the first, then Portis grabbed the rebound of the next and put it in off the backboard to give Milwaukee its initial lead considering that early in the next quarter.
Wise drove to the basket but Getaway blocked him and arrived absent with the ball, throwing it off the Celtics guard even though slipping out of bounds.
“Just a terrific instinctive participate in by Jrue,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. ”He’s a winner. Jrue Holiday’s a winner. You question any player in this league or any mentor in this league. He’s a winner.”
Pat Connaughton manufactured a pair of absolutely free throws with six seconds remaining, then Vacation stole the ball from Intelligent on his desperation dash for a potential game-tying 3-pointer. The Celtics committed 8 of their 10 turnovers in the next fifty percent and gave up a 49-36 rebounding edge in all.
“If we box out we gain that game,” Smart said. “They’re the defending champs. They created some championship performs. And now we have obtained to bounce back again.”
Milwaukee experienced 17 offensive rebounds to Boston’s five, with Portis grabbing 7.
“Growing up as a child, I definitely was not incredibly experienced or really experienced just one detail I truly did well. I was often like a jack of all trades, did all the things very good but very little fantastic,” Portis reported. “My mom usually instructed me as a child just to be a rubbish man. Currently being a garbage guy is if you want scoring possibilities and you’re not obtaining the ball handed to you, you go get the ball on the offensive glass. Which is one particular factor my mother normally taught me. Shoutout to my mother on that.”
Jaylen Brown scored 16 factors in the third — and 12 of all those in the past four minutes of the quarter, when Boston turned a 71-68 edge into a 12-level direct. It was 93-79 with 10:19 to play — Boston’s largest blown guide in the playoffs in a lot more than 25 yrs.
“Of system, we’re gonna be down. Fellas are heading to be (upset) about the end result. We outplayed them for 3½ quarters,” Celtics coach Ime Udoka claimed. “We talked about displaying our take care of, and we designed it tougher on ourselves now. It’ll make it sweeter when we bounce again. But we gave up a golden chance tonight.”
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