Milwaukee Bucks dominate Boston Celtics in Game 1 of East semifinals

The Milwaukee Bucks stun, dominate Boston Celtics in Recreation 1. 

The Milwaukee Bucks dealt with enterprise on the street in Recreation 1 of the Japanese Convention semi-finals. A traditionally poor capturing night time for the Boston Celtics resulted in a loss on their homecourt.

Milwaukee actually seemed just like the defending champs Sunday afternoon. Jayson Tatum, Marcus Sensible, and Jaylen Brown is not going to go down with out a struggle, nevertheless.

Boston struggled to attain the ball all recreation lengthy, and Milwaukee was enjoying distinctive protection on high of that. As a workforce, the Celtics shot 33 p.c from the sector, and 36 p.c from the three-point line. They shot 50 three-pointers, solely making 18 of them.

The Celtics had been outscored in three of the 4 quarters in Recreation 1. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown had off nights capturing. Tatum went 6-18 from the sector, and Brown went 4-13. The pair additionally mixed for 7-18 from deep.

When your two finest scorers usually are not enjoying nicely, it’s exhausting to win video games. I don’t anticipate the Celtics to cope with this all collection lengthy. This was one traditionally unhealthy capturing night time that Boston will look to erase from their reminiscence. Boston solely scored 89 factors in Recreation 1, and that has occurred 5 different occasions this season. 

A nasty capturing night time might be fastened for the Celtics, however their defensive depth must be raised to a special stage. One participant who must have a much bigger impression in Recreation 2, is Marcus Sensible. He left the sport on Sunday with a proper shoulder damage/proper quad contusion.

Marcus Sensible gained Defensive Participant of the Yr (DPOY) for a motive. He makes an impression that can not be matched by another participant. Boston will search for him to go away his mark on Recreation 2, each defensively and offensively. Sensible solely scored 10 factors in Recreation 1, going 3-11 from the sector, and 1-6 from the three-point line.

Milwaukee had a dominant Recreation 1 vs. the Celtics. They did this all with out the assistance of three-time all-star, Khris Middleton. He’s anticipated to overlook all the semifinal video games vs. Boston. Even with Middleton out, the Bucks had been in a position to steal a street recreation.

Basketball is a workforce recreation, and all 5 gamers must be on the identical web page if you wish to have postseason success. One participant could make a big impact on a workforce, nevertheless. For Milwaukee, that’s six-time all-star, two-time NBA Most Invaluable Participant (MVP), and 2021 NBA Champion, Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Giannis recorded his second profession playoff triple-double in Recreation 1. He had 24 factors, 13 rebounds, and 12 assists. There’ll all the time be a debate about who’s the most effective participant on this planet, and Antetokounmpo will all the time be on the high of that checklist.

The Bucks have an assortment of complementary gamers that assist the workforce win large video games. With Middleton out, sure gamers should contribute extra scoring. Veteran Jure Vacation answered the decision in Recreation 1, with 25 factors, in comparison with his 18.3 common within the common season.

In my view, I believe Jrue Vacation is simply nearly as good, if not higher than Marcus Sensible. The 2 common very related numbers and fairly truthfully, they play the identical kind of basketball. Each are level guard hybrids who’re defensively oriented, whereas nonetheless contributing to the workforce’s offense in varied methods.

Anticipate seeing a a lot totally different recreation from the Boston Celtics in Recreation 2. It might take rather a lot for the Celtics to shoot a lot worse than they did in Recreation 1. Boston doesn’t need to lose their first two dwelling video games and go down 2-0 heading to Milwaukee.

Jayson Tatum and the Celtics will look to bounce again in Recreation 2, on Tuesday night time. You’ll be able to watch the sport on TNT, at 7:00 pm EST. Celtics look to even up the collection, whereas the Bucks look to have one other dominant recreation on a quest to get again to the NBA Finals.

Who do you assume will take Recreation 2?