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|[](/MIL) **116 – 119** [](/BOS)|
|**Box Scores: [NBA](http://www.nba.com/game/mil-vs-bos-0022300228/box-score#box-score) & [Yahoo](http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/milwaukee-bucks-boston-celtics-2023112302)**|
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|**GAME SUMMARY**|
|**Location:** TD Garden(19156)|
|**Officials:** Marc Davis, Matt Boland and Brent Barnaky|
|**Team**|**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Total**|
|:—|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Milwaukee Bucks|17|36|26|37|116|
|Boston Celtics|29|38|27|25|119|
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|**TEAM STATS**|
|**Team**|**PTS**|**FG**|**FG%**|**3P**|**3P%**|**FT**|**FT%**|**OREB**|**TREB**|**AST**|**PF**|**STL**|**TO**|**BLK**|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Milwaukee Bucks|116|45-101|44.6%|13-34|38.2%|13-17|76.5%|13|56|23|19|9|9|2|
|Boston Celtics|119|44-84|52.4%|17-42|40.5%|14-17|82.4%|4|47|27|15|3|15|5|
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|**PLAYER STATS**|
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**[](/MIL) Milwaukee Bucks**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**+/-**|
|Khris Middleton^SF|28:35|12|4-14|2-5|2-2|2|3|5|7|1|0|0|4|-6|
|Giannis Antetokounmpo^PF|36:30|21|7-20|0-3|7-10|3|10|13|5|2|0|3|4|+6|
|Brook Lopez^C|33:30|28|12-18|2-5|2-3|5|2|7|1|1|1|0|3|+7|
|Malik Beasley^SG|22:34|6|2-3|2-3|0-0|0|3|3|3|2|0|1|1|+3|
|Damian Lillard^PG|37:41|27|11-24|3-10|2-2|0|5|5|5|2|0|3|2|+9|
|MarJon Beauchamp|21:57|5|2-5|1-2|0-0|1|2|3|0|1|0|0|1|-7|
|Pat Connaughton|20:23|3|1-2|1-2|0-0|0|3|3|0|0|1|1|0|-9|
|Bobby Portis|20:48|4|2-6|0-0|0-0|1|6|7|0|0|0|0|2|-4|
|Cameron Payne|10:19|3|1-5|1-3|0-0|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|0|-12|
|Andre Jackson Jr.|07:43|7|3-4|1-1|0-0|1|0|1|0|0|0|1|2|-2|
|Thanasis Antetokounmpo|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|AJ Green|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Chris Livingston|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Robin Lopez|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Marques Bolden|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jae Crowder|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|TyTy Washington Jr.|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Lindell Wigginton|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**[](/BOS) Boston Celtics**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**+/-**|
|Jaylen Brown^SF|35:13|26|10-16|3-5|3-3|0|2|2|8|1|0|1|1|-3|
|Jayson Tatum^PF|36:01|23|7-17|2-9|7-9|0|11|11|4|0|1|2|2|-2|
|Kristaps Porzingis^C|26:44|21|9-15|2-7|1-2|1|5|6|1|0|0|1|5|+3|
|Derrick White^SG|35:22|13|5-9|3-6|0-0|0|4|4|5|1|1|6|1|-3|
|Jrue Holiday^PG|34:58|5|1-8|1-5|2-2|1|7|8|1|1|1|2|3|-1|
|Sam Hauser|19:42|10|4-5|2-3|0-0|1|1|2|1|0|1|1|2|+10|
|Al Horford|30:37|11|4-7|2-3|1-1|1|7|8|6|0|1|0|1|+5|
|Payton Pritchard|21:23|10|4-7|2-4|0-0|0|2|2|1|0|0|2|0|+6|
|Dalano Banton|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Oshae Brissett|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Luke Kornet|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Svi Mykhailiuk|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Lamar Stevens|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|JD Davison|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Nathan Knight|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Neemias Queta|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jordan Walsh|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
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by Short_Bus_
43 Comments
Even though we lost I’m still feeling pretty good. Celtics are not scary at all. We’ll take the next game easily with our layups dropping.
What an ugly loss, but what a winnable game too. This should be a lesson to everyone on the team. Even with them opening on a 10-0 run, even with them shooting 12-20 from 3 in the 1st half, we came so so close to closing the deficit. We could win this game if Giannis didn’t play scared on offense the whole time, if we didn’t have that one sequence of like 7 turnovers in a row in the 3rd, or if dame gets the ball earlier in the 4th. Like seriously, he did not touch the rock at all in the second half until about 3 minutes left, and still almost willed us to a win. All in all, we come out of this game feeling way better than it seemed like we would.
Literally played our absolute worst and finished with a 3pt loss
Tired of Celtics fouling the fuck out of Giannis and it never found called, same with Dame now apparently. Fuck these refs and fuck the Celtics.
Also tired of Giannis playing like absolute shit whenever we play these guys.
This better be the only win these motherfuckers get against us this season and post season.
Brook always the only one showing up. Help this dude out.
Damn imagine if the refs gave us calls the first 3 quarters
Shout out to Brook for showing up
I mean we didn’t play well and it still came down to the wire. Hopefully next matchup goes better. Lots of complaints but the way they played at the end made me feel better if anything.
In before the doomera and decels
don’t think I’d be that excited about a 3pt home win (given context) if I was a celtics fan tbh
would be unrealistic to hope the bucks play much worse than that
Our biggest issue is not letting Damian Lillard run the offense every time that he is on the court.
Thanks Malik, now we can say they only beat us by one possession
The amount of easy shots they completely fucked up at the rim was way too many.
Gotta. Make. Layups.
There are no moral victories when you’re a title favorite, but it was nice to see the team fight back and make it interesting after that disaster to start.
It’s still early enough in the season where this result is very promising
Last second shot to mess up the gamblers.
Lose by 3 after down by 21. I’m mad but would’ve been madder with a blowout. We played poorly, missed damn-near a dozen bunnies, and our stars were overall sloppy. Bucks in 6 as always.
Only 2 FTs for Dame. Rightttttttt.
goddammit
That one is on the players. Missed some bunnies that could have won it. Won the second half, especially 4th quarter pretty handedly. Stayed within 10/15 the entire time which was encouraging. Going forward I’m not worried.
Bucks beat the odds. Celtics were favored by 6.
15-16 shots missed within 5-6 feet of the basket. Make half and you win. This is gonna sound like a homer but… Milwaukee is a better team. They (looking at you Giannis) gotta learn to play primarily through Dame.
We had chances but didn’t capitalize on it. I feel good if we play them in the playoffs where we should be much better with Dame and Giannis chemistry getting better.
I would have actually liked to see Beasley play a little more, or at least get one or two more shots. Dude was open on the break a couple times and calling for it but never got found.
Gotta be happy with AJJ as well, played quality minutes. If he shoots league average 3 point percentages he should take Pat’s spot no doubt.
Not the result you want obviously, but battling back from down 20 is more than we’d do under Bud so that’s a little confidence boost
Felt like most recent Celtics matchups – very winnable, but we just didn’t play well enough.
I mean… Tons of missed layups, Celtics insane from three and Giannis really not playing well.
I’m far more encouraged by this loss than any of the times we were annihilated last year. I think it’s a very easy matchup and we have the best closer in the game now.
Giannis has to be better. Also, for Christ’s sake, can we run this offense through Dame?
Eh. Was winnable and losable at the same time. We could have played a whole lot better, but that’s it. No point of dooming this game. Just your ol’ regular game. We move on.
Something not mentioned is how well Damian played on defense today. He is proving the “bad defensive player” label wrong every time I see him 👏.
If anyone still has a problem with Adrian griffin after that game I’m not sure what to say. He made clear defensive adjustments which frustrated the Celtics. Something we haven’t seen in 2 years. He sat down giannis and called him on his bullshit, something we haven’t seen ever. And the team never gave up and rallied in that game. Griffin also used lopez more to expose our size advantage. Griffin has my full respect after that game.
Giannis was awful. I don’t want to hear anyone sugar coat it. He was embarassing tonight. He deserves all the slander he’s gonna get. We all said “CELTICS HAVE NO ONE TO GUARD GIANNIS”….. welp they had no problem tonight. He was clearly frustrated all game, he let the Celtics get in his head and porzingus’ length bothered him. He lost us that game. The good news is he’s giannis and we know he will rebound.
I watched every second and overall im Surprisingly encouraged by that game.
I think it says something that Boston played a stellar game, we played a TERRIBLE game…And only lost by 3. Next time!
Do we get the moral victory like the media gave Philly for losing to us by 1 opening night?
Anyone who actually watched the game will understand that a 3 point loss basically feels like a victory.
We played like shit for most of the game and only lost by three. I feel good about us. This is as good as the Celtics will get while we still have a lot of room for improvement.
Kendrick Perkins is ungodly annoying
Giannis played bad so now he’s going to grind the wizards into a fine fibrous dust. RIP Gafford you will be missed
We played bad and we lost by 3. I’ll take it. Hopefully we figure out the defense and play better next time.
Giannis needs to stop taking the ball up the court. Many of those possessions Dame does not touch the ball. Dame needs to take it up literally 90 % of the time.
Honestly, I am ok with this loss the way it happened.
Giannis wasn’t good for his standards, Khris was very bad, especially on defense and whenever Giannis and Brook were out the game, the Celtics would score at will. Dame was bad to begin the game but very good in the end.
We can learn a ton from this game:
1) Dame and Giannis pnRs always lead to sth good on offense, both times they happened lol. DO THAT MORE OFTEN WTF !
2) Our players are slow defenders and are getting confused on switches. The Celtics are not even a super athletic team, why do you keep on overhelping ? Makes no sense. This is how we conceded a lot of points. On a positive note, rebounding was fine.
3) Marjon is really bad on his 1-1 matchups. He constantly loses his player and this leads to overhelping and messing up the whole rotation. When this happens, you either have to get him to guard slower players or have him sway towards the opponent’s strong hand.
4) Bobby was bad all game, both sides. There was no point in keeping him in there for that long. AG really shit the bed with what he did there in the 4th. He not only increased the Celtics lead for no reason, but also cut down on the time our best 5 had to turn things around and as we all saw that really mattered in the end.
5) Some games require special handling, you could instantly tell that the team required Giannis and Brook at all times on defense. I kept saying that throughout the game. When both would leave the floor the Celtics lead would increase every time.
I honestly had a lot of thoughts about the way we are playing throughout the game, but these are the most obvious ones. We can REALLY learn a lot from this one indeed.
I saw a lot of hot takes during the game thread, it was a nice comeback at the end. There’s a lot that can be improved on and hopefully next time we can play better. Definitely think we benefited a bit from Tatum being sick on this one but we also missed a lot of shots (Giannis especially) which we typically make.
I think our offense is still too much of Dame and Giannis (your turn my turn) which if they can develop good chemistry should be sorted out by end of season.
Overall I would say this game was good to measure our current level and us being able to point at so many things that could be better should be really helpful. Unto the next, GGs.
Played absolutely horribly but still almost pulled off a W im not mad. Giannis not bricking a million layups would’ve helped
Other things aside, I thought AG pulling Giannis out and scolding him after he took that terrible three was awesome.
I swear to god we better blow the Wizards by at least 50 next game.
Both teams had 3 players score 20+ points. Brook Lopez outplayed KP that I didn’t expect. If Giannis played up to his standards we win this game by 10+ points. I love our chances in playoffs. I feel like we have a cheat code at end of every close game with Dame.
Make no mistake Jrue was a great player for us but Dame is top 3 closer in the NBA. I put Dame, Steph and Fox at the same elite level. In recent years in close games I’d be clenching my butt because I didn’t know where we’d find a bucket. With Dame I know he’ll either get himself a Bucket or find someone wide tf open.
Love the fight. They could gave gave up at half time