In this season's NBA Eastern Conference playoffs, the defending champion Bucks encountered the recognized pseudo-strong team Bulls, which also made their promotion prospects unanimously optimistic, but what fans did not expect was that in Milwaukee's second playoff game, the defending champion not only lost to the Bulls, but also lost to the second-in-command Middleton, which once made the Bulls see the hope of the following grams! But after the series came to Chicago, the Bucks ended their dream with a big victory under the leadership of The Alphabet Brother, who played a very comprehensive personal performance in less than 30 minutes of appearance time, and Portis, who replaced Middleton in the starting lineup, performed equally eye-catchingly, and was ridiculed by many fans as wanting to get on the position, and finally the Bucks also defeated the Bulls 111-81 and regained the home advantage of the series!
The Bulls were able to win the last game, and the middle throw king DeRozan was indispensable, and it was thanks to the 41 points he scored in the whole game, as well as the key points that came forward many times in the final quarter, the Bulls overturned the defending championship on the road, but after returning to their home field, DeRozan was completely lost in the opponent's defensive system, and realized through the last game that as long as the ball was in DeRozan's hands, he could create a threat. In this game, the Bucks simply adopted the strategy of cutting off Azan's receiving line and not giving him a chance to shoot, so that it only got 9 shots in the 32.1 minutes of the game, contributed only 11 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in the whole game, and also had 3 personal turnovers, as the team's first point of attack, DeRozan's poor performance also directly led to the team, falling into the situation of falling behind early.
The other two core players of the team, Vucevic and Lavin, also did not perform well enough in this game, the two players only scored 34 points together, and what is more fatal is that the Bulls have not scored in double figures except for the three of them, and the stars have performed badly and have not played as a whole, and the fiasco has become a reasonable thing.
In the case of Middleton's inability to play, alphabet brother offensive and defensive ends of the responsibility, because the game early into the garbage time, the double MVP winner only appeared in the game for 29 minutes, 12 shots hit 7 goals, contributed 18 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 1 block of the super comprehensive personal performance, Holliday in the game, also showed his comprehensiveness, got 16 + 6 + 6 data.
And Portis, who replaced Middleton into the starting lineup, used his excellent personal performance to make fans forget the man, and Portis shot 4 of 8 three-pointers in the whole game, cutting down the double-double data of 18 points and 16 rebounds, and Aaron, who came on as a substitute, was even hot, cutting the team's highest 22 points, helping the team end the suspense of the game early.
After winning this game, the Bucks once again took a 2-1 lead in the series, and in the case of Middleton's inability to play, a 30-point victory also greatly hit the Bulls' self-confidence, I believe that under the leadership of Alphabet Brother, the defending champion can eliminate the opponent to advance to the second round with a single blow!