Bucks Finally Take the Win over the Nets
The Milwaukee Bucks and the Brooklyn Nets Faced off Each Other for Game 3 on Thursday Night. After Losing Both Game 1 and Game 2, the Milwaukee Bucks Finally...
The Milwaukee Bucks and the Brooklyn Nets faced off each other for Game 3 on Thursday night.
After losing both Game 1 and Game 2, the Milwaukee bucks finally defeated the Nets 86-83 in Game 3, cutting the Nets series lead to 2-1.
Khris Middleton and Giannis Antetokounmpo combined for 60 plus point to give the Bucks their much-needed win.
While the Nets played without James Harden and Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving combined for fifty-plus points in the losing effort.
The Bucks started strong, taking a double-digit lead over the Nets in the first quarter. But the Nets quickly made comeback in the second quarter.
Going head to head in the second half, the Bucks ultimately came up with a win in the end.
The Bucks controlled the first quarter.
Kevin Durant blocked Khris Middleton at the start of the first quarter. Middleton came up with the first bucket of the game, dropping a mid-range jumper.
Subsequently, Giannis Antetokounmpo drove straight to the rim and dropped a dunk.
He came up with another dunk, leading to a 9-0 run with 8:25 remaining in the first quarter.
Bruce Brown Jr finally came up with a bucket for the Nets on Kevin Durant’s pass.
They were 9-22 with 2:44 remaining in the quarter, as Antetokounmpo found Khris Middleton for a three-pointer, extending the lead to 16 points.
Middleton came up with another three-pointer and Antetokoumpo dropped a layup then the Nets dropped a bucket.
And the first quarter ended 30-11, with the Bucks taking the lead.
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The Nets cut the lead in the second quarter.
Down 19 points in the first quarter, the Nets needed to find their rhythm to hold the chance for the win in the game.
The Nets started the second quarter quickly with Kyrie Irving dropping a back-to-back bucket a few seconds into the quarter.
Slowly the Nets started to gain momentum from there as they made a 15-2 run with 7:43 remaining in the quarter behind brilliant shooting from Bruce, KD, and Kyrie.
They were 31-35 with only four points behind the Bucks with under four minutes remaining in the game.
Making the comeback in the game after falling by double-digits earlier.
The Nets continued to cut the lead. Irving knocked down a pull-up jumper and the lead cut to two-point.
The quarter ended 42-45 with the Bucks taking an only three-point lead into the third quarter.
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