(WNFL) – The Milwaukee Bucks are in Atlanta tonight to face the Hawks in Game Three of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals.
The series is even 1-1 after the Hawks won the first game and the Bucks on the strength of a 43-17 eruption in the second quarter of the second game rolled to an easy win.
The pre-game starts at 7 p.m. tonight with tip-off slated for 7:30 p.m. on 1440 and 101.9 WNFL.
Bucks shots:
Tied at 1-1, the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks move to Atlanta for Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday and Tuesday. The Bucks evened the series with a wireto-wire 125-91 win in Game 2 on Friday.
• Milwaukee’s 34-point win in Game 2 was tied for its fourth-largest win in franchise playoff history and was just the sixth playoff win by 30+ points. The Bucks also had a 34-point win earlier this postseason in Game 2 of the First Round against the Heat (132-98).
• After leading the league with 33 games of 50% or better shooting during the regular season, the Bucks shot over the 50% mark as a team for the first time this postseason in Game 2 on Friday (.521, 50-96). Milwaukee was 26-7 this season when it shot 50% or better overall.
• Sitting out the entire fourth quarter in Game 2, Giannis Antetokounmpo saw his 30-point/10-rebound streak come to an end at six games after putting up 25 points, nine rebounds, six assists and two steals on Friday. The streak ended as the longest in Bucks playoff history and was tied for the fourth-longest in NBA playoff history. Antetokounmpo is currently 10th in playoff scoring (28.9 ppg) and 1st in rebounding (13.2 rpg) this postseason.
• Jrue Holiday posted his second consecutive and fourth game of the playoffs with 20+ points as he scored 22 points and dished out seven assists in Game 2 on Friday. This postseason, Holiday is averaging 17.1 points and a playoff-career-high 7.7 assists per game (10th among playoff participants).
Hawk talk
The Hawks enter tonight’s contest with a record of 22-4 in their last 26 home games, a stretch that dates back to 2/21/21 … During the time span,
Atlanta’s 22 home wins are tied for the second-most in the Eastern Conference (Brooklyn, 23; Milwaukee, 22) and the .846 home winning
percentage trails only Brooklyn’s .852 mark for the top spot in the East.
• Atlanta is 36-16 (.692) since March 1, the most wins and highest winning percentage in the Eastern Conference, and the second-best mark in
each category in the NBA (Phoenix, 39 wins and .750 winning percentage).
• John Collins totaled 11 points (5-9 FGs) and eight rebounds in Game 2 at Milwaukee … Collins has recorded double-digit point totals or doubledigit rebounds in 13 of Atlanta’s 14 postseason games … He’s scored 10-or-more points in six of the last seven games and pulled down at least
11 boards in five of the last six contests.
• In Game 2 at Milwaukee, Cam Reddish saw his first game action since 2/21/21 vs. Denver (a 55-game absence) … Reddish made his postseason
debut and scored 11 points in 17 minutes.
