Bucks Blow Out Raptors In Game Three

The first ball tip-off of the Game 3 is scheduled on 03:00 pm ET.

Recently, the Milwaukee Bucks stunned the basketball world, and specifically the Toronto Raptors.

For the first time in the series, the Raptors were able to really keep a lid on Antetokounmpo and it really helped to keep the Bucks quiet given their lack of depth.

The massacre stretched into the second, and when Middleton scored on a free throw late in the first half it put the Bucks up by a whopping 32 points.

Valanciunas scored 12 points and Monroe had 14. "He's playing at a high level defensively". Neither team could get into a flow offensively, with an unhealthy amount of each team's shots coming at the tail end of the shot clock - if they didn't get their passes picked off first. He helped bother his man, Khris Middleton, to 4-of-13 shooting for 10 points, on the heels of two 20-point performances.

The Bucks shot a sizzling 67 per cent in the first quarter and when Michael Beasley drained a three with 37 seconds left, it gave Milwaukee a 20-point lead.

Powell, who made a similar series-changing appearance in Game 5 against in past year, delivered with 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting and a huge charge he drew on a driving Maker late in the game when the Bucks still had designs on a comeback. We have understood that and been through some bad games and he is always that guy who stays on that same level and you appreciate that.”.

Jabari Parker (Knee) is expected to be out until at least February 1, 2018. For the fourth game of a first-round Eastern Conference playoff series that has seen the Bucks be the aggressor and the Raptors the reactor, and which is now tied at 2 games apiece heading back to Canada, head coach Dwayne Casey went small and slowed down the pace.

And just like that, the Milwaukee Bucks find themselves facing expectations, something this young Bucks team has not had to deal with.

We already saw a little bit of this with their dud in Game 2 after a fairly convincing win in the series opener.

Kyle Lowry scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half, while Jonas Valanciunas and Norman Powell each had 12 points for the Raptors, who bounced back from the shocking 104-77 defeat in Milwaukee in Game 3. Thon Maker had 11 points, while Malcolm Brogdon added four points, nine assists and seven rebounds.

Milwaukee's defense flummoxed Toronto, which shot 33.8 percent from the floor and made only 6 of 22 3-point attempts.

Antetokounmpo finished with 19 points, eight rebounds and four rebounds, fairly pedestrian numbers for him. "I still think we can win the series", Lowry said after Game 3. The Bucks hit 52.7 percent of their shots from the floor and knocked down 12 of 23 3-point attempts, finishing one 3-pointer shy of the franchise's playoff record. Valanciunas contributes with 10.5 points and 7.8 rebounds per contest.

Milwaukee's offense was in rhythm all night.

Head to head, the Bucks are 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings, the favorite is 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings and the under is 5-2 in the last seven meetings in Toronto.

Following the victory in Wisconsin, the team's official Twitter account posted a GIF of Bambi with a simple tweet that said, "Ball game". They avoided a 3-1 deficit, which, recent notable history or no, would have spelled doom for the 3-seed. They had an atrocious 16 in Game 4.

It would be easy to write the game off as a learning experience if the stakes weren't so high.

During the regular season, the Milwaukee Bucks did not win 53 games like the Boston Celtics, who clinched the Eastern Conference.

Teams are pretty equal when it comes to the statistical parameters but low scoring trend is obvious.

The Bucks moved the ball well, hit open shots and had a double-digit edge on points in the paint for much of the night. For the game, he was 6-for-19 with seven turnovers.