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• Bucks score series#

Then it grew again, getting as high as 33 points in garbage time. It just wasn’t the Pistons night and the Bucks eventually decided to stop messing around and put the game away. The Bucks lead eventually grew to 26 midway through the fourth after a Grayson Allen dunk and a Holiday floater. The trio also only got to the line one time - on a Bojan made 3-pointer. Together, they combined to shoot 13-of-36 for 31 points. Meanwhile, the Pistons had no answers.Ĭade made a little run in the third, but collectively, Cunningham, Jaden Ivey and Bojan Bogdanovic might have all had their worst games of the season. The Pistons were led by Saddiq Bey with 20.Įventually, the 3s the Bucks were missing in the first half started dropping in the third quarter, and the Bucks were able to push the lead to 23 early in the fourth. The team was too short and too slow and the game was pretty well lost inside the paint.Įven when players like Isaiah Stewart was able to play solid defense against Giannis Antetokounmpo, the former MVP brought so much attention that the Bucks got offensive boards on five first-half Giannis misses and turned them into 10 second-chance points.Īntetokounmpo led the Bucks with 32 points. Cade couldn’t get anything going from midrange or elsewhere. It meant that a game that could have been a 25-point laugher early if Milwaukee was having even a decent shooting night was as close as six before an end-of-half three from Jrue Holiday.Īll of the Pistons’ major flaws were exposed in this one. But they also shot just 2-of-18 from deep in the first half. The Bucks were dominating inside the paint and on the offensive boards. The Bucks defense keyed in on Cade Cunningham early and he struggled mightily in the first half. In the end, the Pistons faded and they lost 116-91. Assistant coach Maurice Cheeks was back after missing Game 3 with a non-COVID-19 illness.The Milwaukee Bucks were determined to dominate the Detroit Pistons, and also determined to let the Pistons stay in the game much longer than they deserved.

Bucks score series#

Chicago dropped that series in six games. Chicago has lost six straight home playoff games since beating Cleveland in Game 3 of the 2015 Eastern Conference semifinals. Milwaukee's Jevon Carter inadvertently hit Caruso in the face as Caruso tried to get around a pick by Antetokounmpo. The 26-year-old Argentinean played eight minutes in Game 3 in his NBA debut, after signing with the Bucks on April 6.īulls: Caruso was being evaluated for a concussion after exiting the game late in the first half with a bleeding nose. G Luca Vildoza was unavailable because of a non-COVID illness. G George Hill (abdominal strain) missed his fifth game in a row. Portis suffered an abrasion in Game 2 when he was hit by Chicago’s Tristan Thompson as they went for a rebound. Portis wore goggles again to protect his right eye. And you could kind of sense that a little bit.”īucks: Portis and LaVine had to be separated in the closing minutes after they got tangled and had a heated exchange near the Bulls' basketball. "I think there were times we moved the ball and generated pretty good looks for each other and the ball didn't go in the basket. “There were times where we gave really, really good effort and they still scored," Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. Zach LaVine led Chicago with 24 points and 13 assists, DeMar DeRozan scored 23 and Patrick Williams finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Holiday made five 3s.īobby Portis added 14 points and 10 rebounds in his second straight start with Middleton out, and the Bucks beat the Bulls for the 19th time in 21 games. It's always there, but maybe it's a little heightened when we're here.”Īntetokounmpo had seven assists. I think it's just the competitor in him, the fight in him. “I think some of it's his best basketball. “He's played well here in Chicago,” coach Mike Budenholzer said. With Khris Middleton expected to miss the remainder of the series after spraining his left knee in Game 2, the Bucks needed it. Allen is 18 of 24 from the field and 11 for 14 on 3-pointers over the past two games.