Second triumph in overtime for Milwaukee’s half with record Carter and Battleship Lopez

Days after their first loss of the season, the Bucks traveled to Oklahoma City to take on the young and competitive Thunder, who lost five key players. Jrue Holiday, Pat Connaughton, Joe Ingles, Khris Middleton and Giannis Antetokounmpo (playing with discomfort against the Atlanta Hawks and rested) were out, but the Milwaukee team found solutions, won 136-132 in second overtime(!) and is now slowly waiting for the return of most of them.

The Stags went 10-1 (7-0 home and 3-1 a) as Jevon Carter worked wonders in execution and creation, along with career-high scoring (36 points, 12 assists); Brook Lopez sliced ​​everyone and everything on the racquet while scoring with impressive determination at critical points of the game and NBA Indian rookie Marjon Botchamp penned the best performance of his “young” pro career (19 points, 8 rebounds in 30 minutes) .

Very good for the thunder of Alexei Pokusevsky, who filled his stats and did a good job in execution, defense and creation, but he was also fatal in the regular-time final when he shot a three-pointer to win. At the front was Cy Gilgeous-Alexander while backup point guard Tre Mann was impressive and scored in spurts. The Oklahoma City team fell 4-7 (3-3 h, 1-4 a) who were also defeated in Milwaukee a few days ago, a match also missed by Antetokounmpo.

64-54 racquet points, 14-7 surprise points, 41-26 spare points, 18-22 opponent foul points, 17-12 second chance points (offensive rebounding), with Jordan Nuora -14 in +/- in 17:19 of participation and Alexei Pokusevsky -11.

Next game for the Bucks in the early hours of Saturday morning (03:00 Greek), in San Antonio against the Spurs.

The race

With 3 points from Carter (2) – Allen (2), the Bucks took an early game lead (12-4) while Pokuszewski did a great job in every part of the game. There made shots from the perimeter to keep Oklahoma close, but Carter had an unreal night, hitting four 3-pointers to keep Milwaukee ahead. By the end of the third (27-27), Carter-Allen had 22 points while the home side had four blocks and eight points away from their opponents’ errors.

Slowly but surely, the Thunder took control and built a five-point (36-31) lead early in the second half, with Carter on offense and Lopez on defense standing out for the Bucks. The 55-55 half-time score was largely due to the bench helping the hosts (25-14 points from the substitutes). pointer, 2/2 3-pointer, 1/2 shots, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 3 blocks).

Beauchamp started the second half more efficiently, Carter caught Gilgeous-Alexander’s fourth foul and the Bucks led 71-64 with just under four minutes to go. But again, the Thunder didn’t panic, turning the game around and with Gilgeous-Alexander taking over Tre Man, they led by four (83-79) late in the third period. Carter had reached 28, but he was desperately alone.

The one who took the lead early in the fourth game was Brook Lopez, who wrote 94-100 before Beauchamp made his fourth three for 94-103 and churned up the Bucks’ bench. Budenholzer let him in with five fouls, the rookie made a fifth three-pointer to make it 100-110 and somewhere there the scales tipped in the Bucks’ favour. Lopez and Carter made big baskets, with the shortstop cementing a career-high (32 points) for 111-119 before a 6-0 run by the home side ignited the game.

Pokuszewski missed an open 3-pointer when the score was 117-119, Dort did the same, the Thunder grabbed one offensive rebound after another, and Dort finally leveled the game at 54.5 ., the ball went to Lopez and Pokusevski cut him near the basket, with the Serb airballing a 3-pointer and Milwaukee having the final say. The ball went to Carter, who played the clock, missed a shot from middle range and… overtime.

The match played there was not good, 2-2 in three minutes said it all, Lopez did it… 4-4 and together 123-123 with 45″ before the final. Portis put the big basket for 123-125 on 8, 1″, with the ball nearly lost by Lopez before Gilgeous-Alexander took the three-pointer to make it 126-125, almost giving the Thunder the win.

By 0.6″ Lopez took the pass high and close to the basket, with Dort almost fouling him in dead time. The Bucks big man missed the first, made the second and the game went into the second overtime.

There, Lopez continued to clear phases with his size, writing 128-130 to follow a Gilgeous-Alexander miss and a Portis hit that gave the Bucks a two-possession lead. Allen had 2/2 shooting for 130-134 at 12.2″, only for Mascala to foul Allen and the Milwaukee guard to score the game-winning points.

THE DODECALPTA: 27-27, 55-55, 87-84, 119-119 (qa), 126-126 (1st paragraph), 132-136

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER (Marc Daigneault): There 12 (2 3s, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals), Pokuszewski 17 (2/4 2s, 4/7 3s, 1/2 shots, 9 rebounds, 2 assists). , 2 steals, 2 blocks, 2 fouls in 39:05), Robinson-Earl 5 (1), Guiddy 18 (9/15 2-pointers, 0/4 3-pointers, 0/2 shots, 15 rebounds, 6 assists ), Gilgeous-Alexander 39 (11/20 2-pointers, 2/5 3-pointers, 11/13 shots, 5 rebounds, 5 assists), Jaylen Williams 9 (1 3-pointers, 5 rebounds, 2 assists), man 21 (3/7 2-pointers, 5/9 3-pointers, 6 rebounds, 2 steals), Wiggins, Baisley, Joe 3 (1), Mascala 6 (2/6 3-pointers), Kenrich Williams 2

MILWAUKEE BUCKS (Mike Budenholzer): Beauchamp 19 (2/5 2-pointers, 5/8 3-pointers, 8 rebounds, 2 steals), Portis 13 (3/11 2-pointers, 1/1 3-pointers, 4/4 shots ). , 9 rebounds, 2 assists), Lopez 24 (10/17 2-pointers, 1/6 3-pointers, 1/2 shots, 13 rebounds, 5 blocks in 45:39), Allen 18 (2/3 3-pointers , 6/6 shots, 3 rebounds, 6 assists), Carter 36 (10/17 2-pointers, 5/10 3-pointers, 1/2 shots, 4 rebounds, 12 assists, 1 steal, 5 turnovers in 44:46 ), Hill 12 (1 3-pointers, 5 assists, 3 steals), Noora 5 (1/9 shots, 7 rebounds), Matthews 5 (1), Ibaka 4, Mamukelasvili

Oklahoma City Thunder team stats: 32/66 2-pointers, 18/45 3-pointers, 14/19 shots, 62 rebounds, 25 assists, 9 steals, 9 blocks, 13 turnovers, 26 fouls

Milwaukee Bucks team stats: 33/70 2-pointers, 17/36 3-pointers, 19/22 shots, 63 rebounds, 27 assists, 8 steals, 7 blocks, 16 turnovers, 23 fouls