On May 2, Beijing time, the Celtics played at home against the Bucks, and the game ended with the Celtics losing to the Nets 89-101. The Celtics are still optimistic about defeating the Bucks in this series, after all, the first round of the playoffs Celtics showed a good state, and more importantly, the current Bucks lack Middleton, so many people are optimistic that the Celtics can beat the Bucks at this time. The Celtics did take the lead after the game began, but soon the Bucks found their form in the game, although the Celtics tried to chase points in the later game, but the Bucks maintained their form, and finally the Bucks defeated the Celtics without suspense.
In the first quarter, the Celtics played a wave of 6-2, and then Holliday helped the Bucks catch up with the score, and Smart scored after the free throw, and the alphabet brother also scored, and the two teams played a draw. After the timeout, Tatum, Williams and others helped the Celtics open the score, followed by the alphabet brother, Connaughton scored to stop the bleeding, Brown gave a response after Portis continued to help the Bucks chase points, the Celtics lead only 2 points. The Celtics performed badly in the final stage, with Carter and Matthews directly helping the Bucks complete the rebound, and the Bucks led by 3 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, Pu Richard and others once helped the Celtics complete the rebound, but Holliday and Portis responded to help the Bucks take the lead again, and then Tatum scored to stop the bleeding, and the Celtics trailed by 2 points. After the timeout, the Bucks played a wave of 6-0, fortunately Brown, Tatum, Horford hit a three-pointer to chase the score, but Allen broke out in three points, and Alphabet Brother also scored consecutive points to help the Bucks open the score, and the Celtics trailed by 10 points at the end of the half.
In the third quarter, Tatum led the team to a close score, but soon Holliday and Portis responded to maintain the lead, and smart scored after the Celtics trailed by eight points. After the timeout, Williams, White and others helped the Celtics chase points, holliday scored at key moments to help the Bucks occupy an eight-point lead, and at the end of the period, White helped the team bite the score, and the Bucks led by 8 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter of the game Alphabet Brother, Portis and others helped the Celtics lead to 12 points, and then the Celtics attacked the iron, the Bucks once led to 17 points, the key moment Brown scored to stop the bleeding, the next two teams attacked each to play, the Bucks still maintained a double-digit lead. In the following game, the Celtics still had no way to close the score, and in the end, the Celtics gave up the game to let the Bucks win.
The Celtics have encountered a lot of trouble in this game, the offensive end can not limit the Bucks not to say, more importantly, the double probe Tatum, Brown two are in the doldrums, in this case the Celtics have no way to win, after all, when the two are depressed, other role players do not perform too well, so the Celtics lost the game is really not unjust. At the end of the game, Tatum had 21 points, six rebounds and six assists on 6-of-18 shooting, and Brown had 12 points, nine rebounds and four assists on 4-of-13 shooting.
As for the alphabet brother in this game is really unstoppable, after all, although the Celtics once brought trouble to the alphabet brother on the offensive end, but through the passing alphabet brother is a good help to the team not to say, the later game alphabet brother is gradually opening their own offensive state, it can be said that in the face of such a letter brother Celtics is really no way, after all, when the alphabet brother himself can score and can also connect teammates, the Bucks' winning side is undoubtedly getting bigger, and finally the bucks really beat the Celtics, At the end of the game, Alphabet Brother had a triple-double of 24 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists.
And the Celtics played quite passively in this game, after all, the Celtics did not appear in this game, plus Tatum, Brown's dual core is very sluggish, Smart was also injured in the game, after such a thing happened, the veteran Horford became the team's fig leaf, after all, in this game, Horford is still very good to limit the attack of the alphabet brother, and if it is not Horford in the game to let the alphabet brother attack hard, then the Bucks' lead may be greater, At the end of the game, Horford had 12 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists.