Since suffering a knee injury in the first round of the playoff series, the Bucks' second-in-command Middleton has not yet made a comeback. However, the Bucks can still continue to show their championship team on the playoff stage. In the first round against the Chicago Bulls, although the opponent accidentally won a game, but in the end, it was a big score of 4-1 to kick the Bulls out of the game. Alphabet Brother is still as unreasonable as ever, and even through the overtime training, this season's free throw shooting rate has improved significantly.
In the second round against the Greenshirts who kicked the Nets out, the Bucks were not timid at all, and can even maintain the initiative with a big score of 2-1. Alphabet Brother broke the Green Shirts' defense of him, and also broke the opponent's defensive line, effectively hitting the self-confidence of the double probe flower. And this time continue to play at home with the Bucks, and the Green shirts in the key G4 battle, the letter brother who maintains a high state, has almost no reason to lose. However, the two sides still played a good fight in the first half.
Alphabet Brother's shooting feel is not good, only 6 of 2 in the first quarter of the inefficient shooting rate, but can also send 6 points and 5 rebounds, as well as 5 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal Holliday. With the two of them going on in quick succession, the Bucks began with a 25-18 score. Entering the second quarter of the game time pinch, although the state of the alphabet brother has picked up, 4 of 11 shots in a single quarter, sending 9 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, but still let the green shirts who played all the soldiers chase back the 6 points behind in the first quarter. Before moving into the second half, the difference between the two sides was only 1 point.
Entering the second half of the competition, the Bucks' home star Alphabet Brother ushered in an outbreak, shooting 8 of 5 in a single quarter, 3 of 6 from the free throw line, sending a comprehensive data of 13 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist, leading the team to play a 32-26 score, and expanding the point difference between the two sides to 7 points. The situation is still relatively optimistic for the Bucks, as long as they can continue to stabilize the situation, winning the game is not a problem. But who would have thought that in the final quarter of the decisive game, the starting center of the Green Shirts, Horford, played the style of the king of the final quarter, with a 100% shooting percentage, delivering a key 16 points.
It was with Horford's style as the king of the final quarter that the Green Shirts not only quickly recovered the backward score, but also quickly achieved a rebound in the score. At the end of the regular quarter, they even played a 43-28 score, as well as an overall score of 116-108, completing a 15-point reversal. The Green shirts once again played their unwilling to be mediocre, drawing the series to a 2-2 draw. One of the players to be most thankful for is the starting center Horford.
In the 41.5 minutes of the game, he shot 5-of-7 from three-point range and 11-of-14 from the field, delivering a crucial 30 points, as well as 8 rebounds and 3 assists, and playing the technical level of an All-Star. At the same time, as the team's star, Tatum, after the first half of the pantomime, can also complete self-redemption, the whole game also handed over 30 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists of the comprehensive data, effectively alleviating the team's overall scoring pressure, in the process of the team to achieve the final quarter reversal, also made a lot of contributions.
On the other hand, the Bucks, who played at home, scored double digits for the 6 players of the whole team, of which the alphabet brother also sent the highest score of 34 points and 18 rebounds and 5 assists in the 41 minutes of playing. But unfortunately, they failed to stabilize the situation in the crucial final quarter of the competition, allowing Horford, who sent explosive data, to lead the team to complete the reversal.