Bucks’ comeback: How Bobby Portis inspired the most remarkable victory of the season

Milwaukee after Donte Divincenzo on Tuesday his fifth 3 pointer of the night with 10 minutes, 9 seconds, the Minnesota Timberwolves had a 24-point lead over the Milwaukee Bucks.

Although they had won four games in a row in which they scored an average of 122.8 points per game, the Bucks had only scored 71 points in the first 38 minutes of the game and seemed to be determined that their winning streak had hit the Timberwolves with a ugly defeat.

But so Bobby Portis wanted to go back his first game after a 25 game suspension, and he informed his teammates that they would continue to fight.

“There was new energy out there,” said Bucks Guard Kevin Porter Jr. when he was asked why the Bucks didn’t stop when they were 24. “We got our husband back. Bobby, man. He gave us life.

“He saw the game ran and his dynamic came out. He crouched all of us and said: ‘How do we want to go out?’ He said it was a long game and this victory will be a bit of the playoffs as it feels.

That was a slight understatement from Porter. The goats reacted remarkably in the next eight minutes and 22 seconds. With a 34-3 run, the Bucks (45-34) turned the game and achieved an incredible victory 110-103 to bring their winning streak to five.

The Bucks now have a lead of two games compared to the Detroit Pistons for fifth place in the Eastern Conference classification. On Thursday, the Bucks organize the New Orleans Pelicans, while Detroit has a home game against the New York Knicks before the Bucks and Pistons end the season against each other in Detroit and on Sunday in Milwaukee. If the Bucks win and lose the pistons on Thursday, Milwaukee would win fifth place before traveling to Detroit.

Giannis Antetokounmpo was again spectacular with 23 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, his third triple double in a row. Porter Jr. added 21 points, four rebounds, four assists and five steals, and Portis had a double double with 18 points and 10 rebounds in his first game since winning the goat against the Timberwolves in Minnesota. While all three individual appearances were remarkable, on Tuesday it was about the team performance of the comeback to close the game.

With 10:31 and after a short break, Antetokounmpo entered the game to play in addition to four players – Portis, AJ Green, Gary Trent Jr. In order to start the fourth quarter, the Bucks switched to zone defense to slow down the game and force Minnesota to beat them with the 3-point shot. It worked on the ground with Antetocounmpo and the banking unit.

“Zone is an astonishing thing,” said Rivers. “If you get a few stops, then the third and the fourth, it will be a little mentally (with the opponent). We looked at the numbers and the feeling that this is a team that we can decorate a little with some of the lineups on the floor.

“And listen, you missed some recordings, but we created a lot of sales. We recovered the ball. And what is even more important what it created were stops so that we can run out and run. Because we did not play all of this because they scored goal every time.

Immediately according to Divincenzos 3, the Bucks reacted quickly by scoring their next three possessions and putting together an 8-0 run, which lowered Minnesotas to 16, as Timberwolves coach Chris Finch with 9:06 an appointment with 9:06.

Antetocounmpo got the first possession of the goose from this break, but no team achieved 90 seconds until Antetocounmpo put down a 3 to shoot the lead of the wolves to 11.

After the 3 of Antetocounmpos 3, the Bucks forced sales – one of eight of the Timberwolves in the fourth – and led the court, but the Timberwolves were back in defense. Despite all the five dollars that ran on them, Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle were able to cut Porter when he reached half a dish where they forced porters.

Unfortunately, Porter recorded his dribble because he wanted to turn it 3 of 32 feet to green.

“I love it,” said Rivers when he was asked what he thought was as Green for this 3.

Green’s bold transition inspired Finch to call another time with 6:42 when the Bucks lowered the leadership of the Timberwolves for the first time since the middle of the third quarter.

But Timeouts would not stop the course of the bucks.

“If you are there, you don’t understand because you think, like ‘Ok, we have four stops, you will score a goal in the fifth possession,” said Antetocounmpo. “And then you get the fifth station. And then you get the sixth stop. And then you get this seventh stop. And you are like ‘uh, when will they score?’

“Then you can see it in their eyes. They somehow try to force things, and then you know that you make a difference. You have them.”

When the Timberwolves became more and more fleeing, Porter and trent got the pressure on the top of the zone. She pushed Minnesota away from the basket and drove even harder into the middle of the zone. After all, the only shots that the Timberwolves could produce were 3 points attempts, and the goats used it for fuel for their crime.

It took a little more than six minutes, but finally Randle ended the drought of the Timberwolves with two free throws with 4:56. These free throws ended a 23-0 run, but the goats were not finished. Three possessions after Randle’s free throws, the Bucks forced further sales, and Antetocounmpo found green for a corner 3 in the transition to bind the game with 3:35.

“Everyone in the world knows what AJ can do and what they do,” said Porter. “And this is a light protector and defend. Every shot, I think, goes in when he shoots it, especially if it is quick and decisive.”

At the next defensive possession, Porter tried to fight a screen via a screen of Minnesota Center Rudy Gobert, and the two players got involved. When Gobert tried to lose Porter, he fell to the ground and Porter let the great man of the Timberwolves hear about it. When Porter did that, Gobert picked up his leg and stood from the ground to face Porter to face.

Porter and Gobert pushed each other, and the players of both teams came together to support their teammates, but they also separated them quickly. Antetokounmpo sprinted the campaign and immediately pulled Porter from Gobert Weg. After the officers separated both teams (with the support of the coaching and security staff of each team), they checked the piece and evaluated a double foul on Porter and Gobert, a double technical technology on Porter and Gobert and a technical foul on Trent.

A post-play dispute can sometimes serve as a wake-up call for a team that has to come back into play. It can also be the moment when things are dissolved for the team that had fought back into play. After the game, however, Rivers said reporters that he had the feeling that he knew that his team could keep their comeback because the player who told him had to contain Porter’s emotions.

“It was so funny,” said Rivers. “When Rudy and Scoot’s thing (go), Bobby came to me and said:” Trainer, we have to races. “When I heard that, I knew that we were in a good place.”

Back in his first game after serving a 25-game suspension instead of escalating the situation, calming Portis, Porter and concentrating the team on winning the game. And that is exactly what the bucks did.

After Edwards had put down the technical free throw, Trent and Portis exchanged distractions to create theft that led to a Breakaway dark for Porter. At the next possession of Timberwolves, Porter searched a pass and ran it in the other direction for a dark. Another strong defensive possession forced a 3-point mislay for the late shot by Naz Reid. Antetocounmpo grabbed the rebound and accused him of porter, the attack and a foul pulled to hit two more free throws.

Then, after six straight points, Porter decided to share the assets after further theft and to set up Antetocounmpo for the exclamation mark for one of the most ridiculous comeback in the NBA this season:

“I’m a person at the end of the day,” said Porter. “I had the feeling that the game was made was not a basketball game. We were physical, but that is the nature of the game at the end of the day. But say these boys:” Hey, let us win this game. We need you. “

“Guys who were, like” yes, we would probably have reacted right away, but it is greater than that and let’s get this game. We need you. “That brought me up again. I was able to transfer this energy.

With the experienced leadership that focuses on the right things, Porter’s talent in Milwaukee seems to be one of the greatest positive aspects for the goats last month of the season. His energy helped the Bucks defensively to turn the game around and get a victory, even though it was 24 points in the fourth quarter.

Now the Bucks can win fifth place in fifth place on Thursday, which seemed unimaginable at the beginning of the fourth quarter on Tuesday evening.

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