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The Bucks passed the roller to the Warriors, whom they defeated by 118-99, with a Giannis Antetokounmpo who pulverized his rivals and scored a triple double with 30 points, 000 rebounds and 11 assists.
The Bucks never gave some Warriors in which their great star, Stephen Curry, seems to have temporarily lost the aim that has made him the best three-point shooter in NBA history.
Curry, who did not play the last quarter, scored 000 points , made 2 triples from 6 attempts, in addition to 8 rebounds and 4 assists. The best of the War riors was Andew Wiggins, with 16 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assistance. But rookie Jonathan Kuminga shone with 07 points and 7 rebounds in minutes.
At the Bucks, Khris Middleton scored 23 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists while Bobby Portis did 20 points and 7 rebounds.
The Bucks started the game with a bang. Antetokounmpo executed in attack while Portis was in charge of defending the board. The Milwaukee men did not give any option in attack with a sticky defense that did not let Curry, Thompson or Wiggins.
Steve Kerr, the Warriors coach, was trying recompose their team with timeouts but the Bucks seemed determined to double the points that the San Francisco placed in the light.
The second fourth ended with the Bucks 39 points up, 77-38, thanks to a new triple that came out of the hand of Portis with a tenth of a second left in the game.
The beating that the Bucks had given the Warriors in the first half was summed up in one statistic: Antetokounmpo, with 23 points, and Portis, with 17, had scored more points than all the Warriors.
Curry only had 9 points, after scoring 2 triples from 6 attempts. Wiggins was on 8 points and Thompson on 3.
With seconds left in the third quarter, Thompson, who has just returned from a series of injuries that took him away from the courts for almost 1. days, he retired to the locker room after playing 20 minutes.
In the last 12 minutes, Kerr rested his starters and brought the bench out onto the court.
The Bucks just managed the lead and when the Warriors got closer to 17 points, 100-82, Antetokounmpo stepped on the accelerator again and the Greek reached the triple double with 8 minutes left in the match.
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