Jaylen Brown Erupts as Celtics Swing Back vs. Bucks
BOSTON - There was a second during the Celtics' series-opening misfortune to the Bucks when maybe Jaylen Brown could never make a shot.
From the get-go in Game 2, it seemed like he probably won't miss.
Brown scored 25 of his 30 places in the principal half, and Boston beat Milwaukee 109-86 on Tuesday night to even the Eastern Conference elimination rounds at one game each.
"It's the end of the season games. That is all there is to it," Brown said. "We can't let one game sort of direct the way that this series goes. We needed to be forceful from the entryway."
Earthy colored shook off a terrible shooting night in Game 1, going 9 for 10 in the principal half, including 5 for 5 from the 3-point line. Jayson Tatum added 19 focuses and eight helps. Award Williams got done with 21 focuses. Al Horford had 14 focuses and 11 bounce back.
"We needed to come and play like our season was on the line and we carmelized," said.
The series doesn't continue until Game 3 on Saturday in Milwaukee.
Boston completed 20 of 43 from past the bend and scored 24 focuses off 16 Milwaukee turnovers.
"We needed to match their genuineness and punch back this evening," Celtics mentor Ime Udoka said. "A major message was show them what our identity is."
That's what they did.
The Celtics played without Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart after he was precluded before the game with a swollen right thigh he supported in Game 1. Derrick White had his spot in the beginning arrangement, making his initial beginning in a season finisher game starting around 2019 when he was with San Antonio.
"The boat must continue onward. Everyone got to do somewhat more," Tatum said.
Indeed, even without Smart, the Celtics braced down on Giannis Antetokounmpo after his triple-twofold in the series opener, restricting him to 28 places — for the most part in the second from last quarter — nine bounce back and seven helps. Jrue Holiday added 19 focuses and seven helps. Bobby Portis contributed 13 focuses and eight bounce back.
Antetokounmpo said the Celtics are doing a ton to make it extreme for him inside.
"Solid bodies, being dynamic, being physical — - that is basically it," he said. "Observing your teammates is gotten harder."
With Smart watching in road garments from the seat, the Celtics scored the game's initial seven focuses while heading to taking a 18-3 lead and driving a fast break by the Bucks.
Boston scored from a wide range of spots on the court during the run - going after both at the edge and inside the paint. It likewise included 12 focuses from the 3-point line, where the Celtics battled for the greater part of Game 1.
"It's not Wilt Chamberlain down there (in the paint)," Udoka said. "We can get downhill and assault."
Antetokounmpo missed his initial six shots before at last getting on the scoreboard through a dunk with under brief left in the initial period.
It didn't prevent Boston from banking a 32-21 lead heading into the subsequent quarter, supported by 17 from Brown - a lifelong season finisher high for a quarter.
The Celtics proceeded to share and kept Milwaukee's guard in pursue mode, in the end taking a 65-40 edge into the half.
The Bucks cut into what had been a 26-point Celtics lead in the second from last quarter. Antetokounmpo keyed the accuse of 18 places in the period. A 10-0 Milwaukee run, supported by an over five-minute Celtics scoring dry spell, managed Boston's lead to 72-56 late in the second from last quarter.
Milwaukee continued to snack away and got it down it to 94-82 on a couple of free tosses by Antetokounmpo. Yet, Tatum made a 3-pointer and Boston pulled away once more.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Unsuccessfully tested a free ball foul on Antetokounmpo in the final quarter. … Portis was required a blatant 1 foul on Horford in the second from last quarter. … Antetokounmpo was 2 for 12 from the field in the main half. … Milwaukee had nine turnovers in the primary half.
Celtics: Tatum was whistled for a specialized for contending a bring in the final quarter. … Finished 13 of 20 from 3 in the main half... Were ineffective in testing obstructing foul approached White in the subsequent quarter, his third foul. … Boston scored 15 focuses off Milwaukee's turnovers in the initial 24 minutes.
Simply A WRAP
Tatum had his left wrist enclosed by dark tape a short time later. However, he said it was basically an "over the top" tape work by a Celtics coach.
"I recently fell, so to hold the expanding down," Tatum said.
SMART'S STATUS
Udoka said Smart encountered a few expanding, torment and limited development throughout recent days. However, the assumption is for him to be prepared in time for Game 3.
"With three days off we're it be OK to expect he'll."
