No Giannis Antetokounmpo, no victory for the Milwaukee Bucks as they dropped a 119-122 road game against Eastern Conference rivals, the Boston Celtics.
Game Summary
A slow start for the Bucks offensively was exactly what the team would’ve hoped to avoid without Giannis Antetokounmpo to anchor production and force Boston to bend to his gravity. It was, discouragingly, an uneven beginning in large part due to mediocre interplay between Khris Middleton and Damian Lillard. With Boston’s perimeter defense dialed in on denying passing lanes between the two, it took the insertion of both teams’ substitutes for the trouble to tolerably smooth over.