Playoffs NBA 2021 | Bucks vs Heat Milwaukee is one win away from sentencing the series
Reuters
Khris Middleton anot 22 puntos, Jrue Holiday added 19 points and 12 assists and the Milwaukee Bucks posted a win from one spot in the semifinals. of the Eastern Conference; after beating the Miami Heat 113-84 on Thursday night.
Giannis Antetokounmpo finished with 17 points and 17 rebounds for the Bucks. They lead the first round series 3-0 and will attempt to sweep the reigning champions of the East on Saturday.
The The Bucks won Game 2 by 34 points and made Game 3 equally decisive, leading to 32. Brook Lopez scored 13 points, while Bryn Forbes and Bobby Portis each had 11 for Milwaukee.
Jimmy Butler scored 19 points and Bam Adebayo 17 for Miami. Nemanja Bjelica, little used by Miami this season, Then called up Thursday out of desperation for any kind of outside shot, she scored 14 points.
And that’s after the Bucks beat Miami, 47, in Miami, in December.
The biggest crowd of the season by far The Heat expected 17,000 in a building that in normal times considered 19,600 full, he showed up, most of them in their seats on notice, hoping to see the start of a turnaround.
Instead, in the biggest game of the season, they saw Miami’s slower start to the season.
The Heat had just eight points in the first nine minutes of the game, the fewest they had in an opening span. games since last August and the fewest to open a game on his home floor since November 14, 2018.
It was 26-14 Milwaukee after a quarter, then the advantage increased to 19, 44-25 at the end of the second before reaching 49-36 at the half. That equals the fewest points allowed by the Bucks in a first half in more than three years.
And in the third, every time Miami looked like it could get closer, Milwaukee had a rebuttal.
Butler scored to put Miami to 14; Forbes followed up with a triple. Adebayo had a three-point play to put the 14 back; Antetokounmpo responded with a jump shot. Tyler Herro hit a 3-pointer to put Miami to 14 for the third time; the Bucks scored the next five points.
The margin increased to 27 in the third quarter. More than a few of those 17,000 fans didn’t stay much longer.
Milwaukee out-rebounded Miami 56-41, kept the Heat at 38% shooting and became the first team to beat Miami by at least 29 points twice in the same playoff series.
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