On April 24, Beijing time, the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Indiana Pacers 108-125 at home, and the score was tied 1-1. The Pacers became the first team to win an away game this season, and the Pacers won even more in this game, leading all the way in the first quarter, and the difference between the two teams once stretched to 23 points, and the Bucks were pitted by head coach Rivers.
Before the break, the Bucks officially announced that Giannis will continue to be absent, and Rivers said in the interview that Antetokounmpo has done shooting practice and is close to returning. Lillard is averaging 30.4 points and 7.1 assists per game this season while shooting 49 percent from the field, 41.6 percent from three-point range and 93 percent from the free throw line without his brother.
In the first game, Lillard scored 35 points in the first half to help the Bucks draw up a win, and the game opened to watch him perform, the Pacers attacked fiercely, Siakam continued to attack the Bucks' interior, the Pacers suppressed the Bucks, and the Bucks once fell into a scoring drought, and Lillard's appearance after Rivers pause was a difficult three-point game, 4 of 6 in a single quarter, 3 of 5 three-pointers, and scored 15 points and 1 rebound to continue the explosive feeling of the first quarter of the last game.
In the first half, Sika was 9-of-15 from the field and 3-of-4 from three-point range to finish with 23 points and eight rebounds, and he became the first contributor to the Pacers' lead. Lillard was not far behind, 7-of-12 in the first half, 6-of-11 from three-point range, and got 26 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists and 1 steal, that is, in the first two games of the series, Lillard had scored a total of 61 points in the first half, and Middle's was not in good shape because of an ankle twist.
This time Lillard was not affected by the Pacers' bag, the last game caused him to score in the entire second half, but at this time Lillard was 3 of 6 in a single quarter, scoring 8 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, and when the three points were limited, he began to break through, and Lillard had scored 34 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists after the third quarter, and he helped the Bucks bite the difference.
Lillard was on the off court at the end of the quarter. Middle's team played a 5-0 offensive to narrow the gap to 4 points, but it was immediately beaten to a wave of 6-0 and was stretched to 10 points, Rivers did not return Lillard, the Pacers continued to pull away to 12 points, and Rivers was beaten 8-0 Rivers finally called a timeout.
Rivers' timeout was slow, Lillard was slow to play, after the timeout, the Pacers extended their advantage to 23-9, and the difference between the two teams stretched to 20+, so that in the last 5 minutes, Lillard could not go against the sky even if he said that God was down, Rivers was really incapable, how did he beat Adrian Griffin to become the coach of the Bucks? With 3 minutes and 44 seconds left, the Pacers called a timeout, and Rivers gave up the game to replace the main team.
Lillard played 39 minutes, 10-of-21, 6-of-13 three-pointers, 8-of-9 free throws, 34 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds and 1 steal, shooting 47.6% from the field, and a plus/minus of -24 was a bit embarrassing. He was still pitted by Doug Rivers.
Text/Yan Xiaobai's basketball dream