On April 29, 2024, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs ushered in the fourth game between the Bucks and the Pacers, after the Pacers led the Bucks 2-1 in the previous three games. This game is in favor of the Pacers, the Bucks Lillard and Antetokounmpo are absent, the Bucks starters are Beverley, Beasley, Middleton, Portis and Da Lopez, the Pacers starters are still Haliburton, Nesmith, Nembhard, Siakam and Turner.
Without Antetokounmpo and Lillard, Portis was also ejected
In the first quarter of the game, the Pacers didn't take the Bucks, who were missing Lillard and Antetokounmpo, seriously, but fell behind at the beginning and didn't give enough intensity to the defense. The Pacers opened up from the outside, and Haliburton, Turner and Nesmith hit back-to-back three-pointers to help the Pacers tie the score. Instead, the Bucks played clearly, with Portis, Beverley and Middleton all scoring inside after Beasley hit the first three-pointer.
Portis and Nembhard got involved in a physical entanglement on the court, Portis punched Nembhard, Portis was ejected for two technical fouls, and Nembhard had a technical foul!
Then the Bucks took the initiative instead, with Lopez scoring inside and Jackson hitting a three-pointer to overtake the score again. After the Pacers timeout, Shepard hit a three-pointer, Da Luo began to take on the offense, scored under the basket, Topin missed a backhand layup, AJ Green blocked and shot a three-pointer, McDermott returned a three-pointer, Topin also hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner, Connaughton scored a backhand layup, and the Pacers tied the score 33-33 at the end of the first quarter.
The Bucks showed tenacity, scoring on multiple points
In the second quarter of the game, McConnell took the lead in breaking through the toss to score, Gallinari scored on the court, Shepard scored three points, and Middleton carried Shepard to the basket to score. The Pacers have significantly accelerated this game and have been grabbing offense, and the effect is not bad. The Bucks lacked three core players, so they could only slow down the pace and attack the interior, and after Middleton broke through and scored two plus one, the Bucks overtook the score again.
Fortunately, Nesmith responded with a three-pointer, Gallinari hit a mid-range shot, and McConnell broke through to continue scoring. After the Pacers returned to the court as starters, Siakam and Turner scored four straight points to extend the Pacers' lead to five, and Rivers called a timeout. After the timeout, the Bucks switched back to Da Lo and scored under the basket on the court, and Turner responded with a three-pointer who hit the Pacers' 10th three-pointer. Then the Bucks relied on Jackson to add a three-pointer, and Beasley also made a mid-range shot, but instead stopped the Pacers. After the timeout, the Pacers increased their defensive intensity, but in fact it had little effect, but fortunately they were good on the offensive end, Haliburton scored on the board, Turner hit a three-pointer, and Beasley hit a three-pointer, and the Pacers led the Bucks by three points at halftime 67-64.
Middleton is injured!
In the second half of the game, Middleton was also injured at the beginning of the game, and limped back to the locker room directly, the state is unknown, but fortunately, before the timeout, he returned to the court, but it can be clearly seen that the power is still a problem! Haliburton was full of firepower and made three three-pointers in a row, helping the Pacers stretch the score to 10 points for the first time and directly stop the Bucks!
After the timeout, Da Luo hit a three-pointer, Haliburton hit a three-pointer, but Nembhard hit a three-pointer. Then the Pacers faced the Bucks' joint defense, played too chaotic, and were scored by Green on the counterattack and layup, and Da Luo made a long-range three-point shot, and the difference was chased to 5 points. After the timeout, Topping threw and scored, Turner dunked Da Luo against the sky, locked up the best dunk!, ignited the Pacers' home court, Turner also hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner, the Pacers played a wave of 7-0, and the difference returned to 12 points! In the end, the Bucks relied on Beverley to make a three-pointer, and Middleton scored on a single score, giving the Pacers a 5-0 run. Nembhard hit a bottom-corner three-pointer (the Pacers' 19th three-pointer of the game) to give the Pacers a 98-85 lead over the Bucks at the end of the third quarter.
The Bucks showed tenacity, and Turner hit three three-pointers to extinguish the Bucks' scoring momentum
In the final quarter of the game, Middleton scored a mid-range shot, Da Lo singled Turner hook and scored, and converted the offense to shoot a long-range three-pointer, and the Bucks stopped the Pacers 7-0 in less than a minute. After a timeout, Nesmith scored a free throw on a breakaway, Middleton scored on a single shot, and Turner scored two points from the top of the arc. Haliburton's three-point power outage, Connaughton's three-point shot was not emptied, Haliburton's breakthrough attracted the attention of the three, and the ball was shot into Turner at the top of the arc! Da Luo was gone for a long three-pointer, Nembhard distributed the ball to Turner on the outside, and his hand fell down, and the three-point shot continued to be thrown, and the difference returned to 14 points, and the Bucks chose to take a timeout.
After the timeout, Middleton forced the inside to cause a foul free throw, Nembhard broke through to complete a layup, Crowder missed a three-point shot, Nembhard broke through the inside line to complete a layup, Da Luo threw a basket to score, Nembhard continued to single Beasley to break through and score, Beasley responded with a three-pointer! Siakam returned with a two-and-one. Da Luo grabbed the rebound and was fouled, and continued to miss two free throws, Siakam scored from mid-range, Green missed a three-pointer, Siakam did not have a three-pointer, the Bucks converted to attack Beasley to complete a layup, Turner shot a three-pointer in the bottom corner, and the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds left the Pacers leading by 17 points. Turner has scored 29 points, tying his career playoff scoring record, and then the two sides changed their main lineups, and the Pacers eventually defeated the Bucks 126-113, and the Pacers led the Bucks 3-1 in the series.
Full-time player stats
Pacers: Turner shot 10-of-17 from the field and 7-of-9 from three-point range to finish with 29 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks, Siakam 13 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, Nembhard 15 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists, Nesmith 13 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, Toppin 13 points and 2 rebounds, McConnell 8 points and 4 rebounds, Shepard 8 points and 2 rebounds.
Bucks: Da Luo had 27 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist on 12-of-18 shooting and 3-of-5 three-pointers, Middleton had 25 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists on 9-of-22 shooting and 0-of-4 three-pointers, Beverley had 9 points, 1 rebound and 4 assists, Beasley had 17 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, Green had 8 points and 2 rebounds, Jackson had 6 points and 6 rebounds, and Gallinari had 6 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.
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