After winning the G4 on the road and winning the series 3-1, the defending champion Bucks returned home to compete with the Bulls for the first round of the playoffs.
In terms of the Bucks, Grayson Allen is in hot form, and whether the Bucks can end the series at home has undoubtedly become a major attraction of this game.
On the other hand, on the Bulls side, LaVine triggered the absence of the league's health and safety agreement, and whether DeRozan + Vucevic can lead the team to win back a city, it is obvious that it will also usher in a backwater battle!
However, after four quarters of competition, with a wave of 22-6 scoring climax, the Bucks, who played at home, easily suppressed the Bulls in the first half and established an 18-point lead.
Coupled with the return of the second half, the third quarter of the alphabet brother + Portis successively powered, the Bucks took advantage of the chase, in one fell swoop to expand the point difference to 23 points, and this also made the final quarter lose suspense early.
In the end, the Bucks also beat the Bulls 116-100 at home, winning the G5 strongly, and also eliminated the Bulls 4-1 in the series to enter the second round!
In this game at home, the Bucks were all soldiers, the whole team played a 6-man scoring double, multi-point blossoming team offensive, comprehensively crushed the Bulls at both ends of the attack and defense, and won a 16-point victory.
In the case of holliday + Portis + Da Luo and other main players, each performing their duties, the team's star Alphabet Brother, and the top scorer Connaughton on the bench, the play is particularly critical!
The alphabet brother was very efficient in this game, starting 28 minutes, shooting more than 70% of the 11-in-15 shots, and bombing a game-high 33 points, plus 9 rebounds and 3 assists.
Among them, in the first quarter, his heroic performance of scoring 15 points on 5 shots and 5 shots not only helped the Bucks open the situation smoothly, but also laid a solid foundation for the team to win a big victory!
Of course, as a major scorer on the team bench, Connaughton's performance in this game also played a crucial role.
Connaughton was in full swing, playing 21 minutes off the bench, shooting more than 60% of the way from 7-of-11 shooting, hitting 6 three-pointers from the outside, and contributing 20 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.
And his strong firepower and containment on the offensive end also successfully affected the trend of the game, and made a great contribution to the Bucks to win G5 and eliminate the Bulls 4-1 in a big score!
More importantly, after officially eliminating the Bulls in the first round of the playoffs and advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals, the defending champion Bucks will meet the second-placed Eastern Conference in the second round and sweep the Nets' Green Army 4-0 in the playoffs.
Considering the performance of the two teams in the first round of the playoffs, it has to be said that the "Predator Youth Army" Green Army has also encountered a major opponent, and the two sides of the Eastern Conference semifinals battle is actually the hand of the deer, it may not be known!
On the other hand, the Bulls side, the team collapsed at both ends of the attack and defense in this game, and finally swallowed a 16-point rout, and the performance of the series 1-4 first round of elimination is obviously still to be examined.
After all, deRozan + Vucevic + Pave played well, scoring and scoring in double figures at the same time, the sluggish performance of Dosem + Javent Green in 19 shots was indeed a bit stretched!
In the case of the main players such as Lavine + Caruso + Ronzo Ball, and at the same time, in the face of the hot alphabet brother, as well as the huge gap in the strength and depth of the lineup, the Bulls who have worked hard for a whole game in the series seem to have no choice but to accept the reality of a 1-4 out of the big score.
Obviously, for the Bulls, although the team's playoff journey this season has come to an end, I believe that with the return of core players such as Lavine + Caruso + Ronzo Ball, this Bulls team next season is still a force to be reckoned with in the East!