Antocompo starred with 42 and 12, Milwaukee beat Boston and went up 1-2

Yannis' performance swept the Bucks to a hard and tight 101: 103, the Celtics surrendered after a disappointing evening of Taitum and a controversial decision by the referees in the closing seconds

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08/05/2022

Sunday, 08 May 2022, 01:27 Updated: 01:31

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Milwaukee managed to climb tonight (Saturday through Sunday) to a 1-2 lead over Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals, after beating the Celtics 101: 103 at the end of a close and tough game.

Yannis Antocompo starred with a dominant evening that included 42 points (16 from 30 from the field), 12 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and swept the champion to a hard-fought victory on an evening of digs on both sides.

Jero Holliday added 25 points (11 of 30 from the field) as all of Milwaukee's other players took 39 shots together.

Brock Lopez scored 10 and picked up 13 rebounds for the champion.

Milwaukee won the first game quite impressively and stole the home advantage, but in the second game was defeated.

Today Boston was again close to victory and taking over the momentum in the series, but gave up, also because of a disappointing evening by Jason Taitum who settled for 10 points on 4 of 19 from the field (0 of 6 from three, only one rebound and 3 assists in -41 minutes).

Jaylen Brown scored 27 for Boston.

Al Horford was excellent with 22 points (4 of 7 from three), 16 rebounds and 5 assists, but the Celtics finished the game with 37.2 percent from the field.

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Another show.

Yannis (Photo: Reuters)

Was close.

Smart (Photo: Reuters)

After a close first half, which ended in a 46:50 lead for Boston, with ten lead changes, Milwaukee went up hot to the third quarter, where they won 17:34 and climbed to a 14-point lead, 66:80.

But the Celtics did not shy away, and came back excellent at the beginning of the fourth quarter, managed to gnaw at the difference, and 1:49 minutes to the end of the turnaround was completed: Brown scored two from the line and set 99: 100 for the visitors.

Milwaukee, who looked stuck on offense and scored just 2 points in 4 minutes, regained the advantage with an intruder from Antocompo that set up 100: 101 with 44 seconds to go.

Jaylen Brown missed from the other side, and Jero Holliday managed to beat Taitum and scored a fluater that set a 100: 103 with 11.2 seconds left.

was missing.

Taitum (Photo: Reuters)

The ball went to Boston for a final offense when she needed a three.

Smart tried to throw over the arc to equalize and was fouled by Holiday, but luckily for the Milwaukees the referees ruled for some reason that there was no shot attempt and Smart only got two shots, 4.6 seconds to go.

Smart scored the first, deliberately missed the second, in the fight for the rebound Horford had already pushed in, but it was after the buzzer.

Milwaukee went up 1-2.

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