Los Milwaukee Bucks They crushed the Chicago Bulls this Friday at home at the United Center (81-111) and regained the advantage (2-1) in the first round series of the NBA ‘playoffs’, with a basketball exhibition despite the out due to injury to Khris Middleton.
The Bucks pulled gallons from the NBA champions and walked around the United Center without disheveled, with a Greek Giannis Antetokounmpo who scored 18 points, collected seven rebounds and distributed nine assists in 29 minutes on the track, before resting in the fourth period, with the match already sentenced.
The best of the Bucks was Grayson Allenthe number 1 enemy of Bulls fans for causing a serious injury to Caruso in February, who put 22 points, with a five of seven in triples.
Without Middleton, who will miss the remainder of this series with a knee injury, Bobby Portis shined from the three-point line with four connected shots. He finished with 18 points and 16 rebounds.
Ibaka was also the protagonist
The Spanish Serge Ibakawhich had lost prominence in recent weeks, scored five points and collected six rebounds in eight minutes on the track, after going out to compete in the last period.
The resounding defeat of the Bulls is reflected in the dismal numbers of their stars, in particular DeMar DeRozan, who only scored eleven points, and Zach LaVine, who had fifteen.
montenegrin Nikola Vucevic was the best of Chicago, with 19 points, but he suffered a lot on the rebounds and barely captured six. Three days ago, he had collected thirteen and DeRozan had been the killer with 41 points.
$100 to see a historic defeat
The United Center lived a ‘playoffs’ night again five years after the last timewhen the Bulls lost in six games against the Boston Celtics, but the game for the fans was anything but fun.
The cheapest ticket to watch the game was $100 and it did not include a seat, but only the possibility of seeing the match standing from the third ring of the stadium.
Many fans, in order to be present tonight, bought those tickets in a packed United Center, but despite being loyal to the team, they did not hesitate to express their discomfort with the performance with loud whistles and most of the spectators have already left the installation at the beginning of the last period.
Colorless from the start
On the track, the Bucks bit from the first moment. Aggressive, forceful in the paint and from the three-point line, they took control of a 16-point lead in the first quarter, buoyed by three consecutive 3-pointers by Grayson Allen that stripped the Bulls.
Vucevic, who scored the Bulls’ first six points from 3-point range, couldn’t stop the Bucks from escaping. Chicago shot 33 percent (7-for-21), to the Bucks’ more than 50 percent (12-for-23), and the margin widened even further in the second quarter.
DeRozan, key to Milwaukee’s victory, had little success, fending off several wide-open 3-pointers to try to get closer, but couldn’t finish.
And it is that Milwaukee defended aggressively and forced the Bulls to look for three-point shots, without success. Dominant in all areas of the field, Bobby Portis climbed the luminous 44-22 that doubled Chicagoin which the only one to show the way was Caruso.
The margin touched 24 points and was set at 19 at halftime, after Giannis, who had barely scored two points in the first quarter, contributed eight in the second.
And the Bucks did not stop stepping on the accelerator in the third period, in which Giannis led the way with a powerful dunk for 70-44 and in which Matthews, Graysol Allen and Connaughton, tremendous in the triples, extended the margin until a very tough 87-54.