A missed opportunity: 10 Takeaways from Celtics-Bucks Game 3

Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images1. All is not lost. Yes, the Boston Celtics missed a chance to take back control of the series against the Milwaukee Bucks, but all is not lost. Game 4 is a must-win, but Boston is perfectly capable of doing it.

Milwaukee played really well for two stretches of the game: The third quarter (which will cover in detail in the next takeaway) and in the final minute of the game. Other than that, Boston outplayed Milwaukee.

Now, none of that really matters, because the Bucks won. But just like Game 1, the Celtics shouldn’t be discouraged. They almost stole one where their best player played terribly (more on that later) and there were a lot of…