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Nuotr .: AFP-Scanpix
Nuotr. AFP-Scanpix
The performance of the National Basketball Association (NBA) regular season leader, Milwaukee Bucks, in the championship is over.
Man of the match
Bucks playing without the injured Giannis Antetokounmp 94: 103 (28:19, 18:33, 21:19, 30:29) landed in the Miami Heat and lost the semifinals 1-4 of the Eastern Conference.
The Bucks started the game ambitiously and gained a double-digit lead (28:15), but the Heat soon took the lead and rushed 30: 9-45:37.
With 3 minutes left in the game, the Heat’s lead after Khris Middleton’s five consecutive points dropped to 4 points (85:89), but then Jimmy Butler, who had never made it that far in the playoffs in his career. , gave his opinion.
Butler took 6 free throws in a row, Goran Dragičius added two points and the Miami club escaped unscathed – 97:88.
“It just came to our attention then. We want to win the championship and we are focused on that. We know that the rest of the priorities will be more difficult than they have been so far, but we are prepared for that. We want people to keep ruling us out.” said Butler, who had 17 points and 10 balls, after the game.
The Heat have been the lowest-ranked team in the regular season (fifth place), reaching the Eastern Conference Finals since 1999. The New York Knicks then reached the Eastern Conference Finals from eighth place.
The last time he played in the Heat final was in 2014, when the team was led to the NBA Finals for the fourth time in a row by the big three: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Antetokounmpo, who suffered an ankle injury in the third and fourth games of the series, wanted to play in this game, but 45 minutes before the start of the duel, the Bucks decided not to risk Greek health.
“I wanted to play and the coach knew I wanted to play, but in the end the organization kept my health above this match and that is important,” Antetokounmpo said after the match.
The Heat Eastern Conference finals will see a reunion with the winner of the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors. The Celtics lead 3-2 in a series of up to four wins.
Heat: Jimmy Butler (8/8 penalty, 10 re.) And Goran Dragičius after 17, Jae Crowder 16 (4/9 trit.), Tyler Herro 14 (8 re.), Bamas Adebayo 13, Kelly Olynykas 12.
Bucks: Chris Middleton 23 (8/25, 6 pm), Donte DiVincenzo 17, Brook Lopez 15 (14th), Marvin Williams (8th) and Wesley Matthews 11.
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