The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Atlanta Hawks, 120-109, but more importantly, Giannis Antetokounmpo is BACK, AND BOYS FEEL GOOD TO SEE THE MAN PLAY BASKETBALL.
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The match opened with a bucket from Giannis on the tip of the pitch, and he made a point of attacking the skin regularly in the opening stanzas (in the first five minutes 3/3). Atlanta still held service in the first quarter, fueled by a handy score from one-time Buck (?) Bogdan Bogdanovic, who had ten in the first quarter, which ended in a 33-29 lead for Milwaukee. Milwaukee helped their advantage over the course of the second quarter, but a tremendous 13-0 run late in the period – which includes a dunk from Jeff Teague! put the Bucks ahead 64-52 at halftime.
Whatever the locker room speech Nate McMillan delivered to his team must have worked, as Atlanta jumped to a 10-1 run almost immediately in the third quarter, evaporating Milwaukee’s once-prospective lead. Trae Young tied the game about halfway through the third quarter (which was also his first bucket of the game), and a Bogdanovic try gave Atlanta a lead. The Milwaukee Bank again intervened to stabilize the Bucks’ efforts, rebuild a double-digit lead, and begin the fourth quarter, just where they started the third, before 94-82. Atlanta held on in the fourth quarter and fought back from a 19-point hole to make it a single-digit game within the two-minute mark, but Milwaukee was able to score enough points to build a lead that gave the Hawks could not make. t overcome.
Stat that stood out
You know the Bucks manage Giannis’ minutes carefully if they take a deliberate offense in less than 6 minutes in the third quarter, just to get him off the field.
– Frank Madden (@fmaddenNBA) 16 April 2021
The productivity of the Bucks’ non-starting lineup deserves attention, but the story for the Bucks begins and ends with Giannis, who played less than 25 minutes (24, 52, to be exact). Giannis seems to be moving normally and attacking the edge with his reckless abandonment, and no restrictions have been placed on him. It does not mean there was not one, only the one was not reported. Maybe his playing time was more limited because it was his first game in almost two weeks, and with eighteen games left, there was enough time for him to make him work in a playoff game. Still, Bucks fans will rest easier because they know Giannis is all the way back, not just technically.
An honorable mention is to Khris Middleton, who overtook Michael Redd for second place on the Bucks franchise position for made tries. He now only follows Ray Allen for the best spot on the team, which he will probably only claim early in the next regular season due to the fact that there are few games left on this year’s game.
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