On May 10, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, a focus battle in the East Bucks at home to meet the Celtics, the Bucks took a 7-point lead in the first quarter, and the Celtics once overtook the score in the second quarter, but the Bucks still led by 1 point in the half.
The Bucks and Celtics showdowns are full of highlights, with multiple All-Stars on both teams, and their regular season records are exactly the same, and their strengths are very close. In the first three games, the Bucks led 2-1, but in the last game they were a two-point win, and Horford's layup was ruled to overtime, and the game was thrilling.
Lowe was absent from the game, and the Celtics adjusted their starting lineup: Smart, Brown, Tatum, Grant Williams, Horford. The Bucks started: Holliday, Allen, Matthews, Alphabet Brother, Lopez. At the beginning of the first quarter, Allen broke through to score first, Da Luo dunked, Alphabet Brother made two free throws, the Bucks started 6-0, Horford scored first for the Green Army, Tatum clipped DaLo domineering, Portis threw a score, and the Bucks led 10-6.
Connaughton and Holliday hit back-to-back three-pointers after a timeout, Brown also responded with three-pointers to stabilize the situation, Matthews also hit a three-pointer, Allen flew to the basket to score, and the Bucks took a 21-11 lead to stop the Green Army again. Tatum scored from a mid-range shot after a timeout, Horford also hit a three-pointer, the Green Army stabilized the situation, the alphabet brother scored in the middle of the shot, and then slipped the bottom line to dunk, the Bucks led 25-18 in the first quarter.
White scored first in the second quarter, Brown scored 4 consecutive points, Gwey hit another three-pointer, the Celtics chased 27-29, the performance of the alphabet brother is still strong, but the Celtics offense is better, Tatum hit a three-point shot, the score came to 31 draws, the alphabet brother dunked to stop the bleeding, Horford also hit a three-pointer, the Green Army for the first time in the game to stop the Bucks.
The timeout returned, the Bucks quickly rebounded, the two teams scored alternately up, Tatum hit both free throws, and the Green Army took a 43-40 lead. Connaughton scored five straight points to tie the two teams at 45. At halftime, the Bucks led 48-47. Alphabet had 15 points and 11 rebounds on 6-of-17 shooting in the half, Holliday had 7 points and 4 assists and Connaughton had 8 points. On the Celtic side, Horford had 11 points and 4 rebounds, Tatum had 9 points and 7 rebounds, Brown had 11 points, the three Tanhuas combined to score 31 points, and Smart had 7 points and 4 assists.