026: Boston Celtics vs Milwaukee Bucks: Full Length Player/Coach Interviews
Garden Report | Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
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Written by Jared Weiss
BOSTON – Steal would be a generous word. It was more like handoff.
As Evan Turner ran away with the ball that Michael Carter-Williams was kind enough to toss to him at the top of the key, the Bucks watched another chance to close the gap run away.
MCW fumbled it again a couple minutes later, with a red hot Isaiah Thomas eventually getting the ball and draining a dagger from three over Khris Middleton.
The Celtics beat the Bucks 112-107 despite key players surviving foul trouble and starting the game 2/18 from three.
Credit Jabari Parker for making it a contest, as he took advantage of Jae Crowder’s five fouls and took over the paint in the late fourth quarter. Parker scored eight points at the rim in a row to bring the Bucks within five with five minutes left. But Isaiah Thomas responded with seven points to help bring the Celtics’ lead back to 11 points.
The Bucks forced a pair of turnovers and came roaring back, cutting down the deficit to four points and forcing a Brad Stevens timeout with 1:12 left.
The Celtics looked like they were going to throw up a prayer coming out of the timeout and that’s exactly what happened. But BAE Crowder answered that prayer.
Isaiah Thomas threw a slew of crossovers, drove left and was met with too many bodies to handle. So naturally, he threw a blind behind-the-head pass to Crowder in the opposite corner. The pass was somehow on the money and Crowder somehow drilled the corner three.
“I seen him before I threw it.” Thomas claimed. “But when I threw it, I couldn’t see him no more, so I’m glad he stayed in that corner and made me look good. It’s just something, I made an adjustment, like I said before I picked the ball up, I had seen he was in the corner. So I knew that was going to be my bail-out pass. Then luckily he stayed in the corner and it got there.”The
Bucks had one final chance to get back in, but Marcus Smart skied for the rebound over Greg Monroe to seal...READ FULL REPORT
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Written by Jared Weiss
BOSTON – Steal would be a generous word. It was more like handoff.
As Evan Turner ran away with the ball that Michael Carter-Williams was kind enough to toss to him at the top of the key, the Bucks watched another chance to close the gap run away.
MCW fumbled it again a couple minutes later, with a red hot Isaiah Thomas eventually getting the ball and draining a dagger from three over Khris Middleton.
The Celtics beat the Bucks 112-107 despite key players surviving foul trouble and starting the game 2/18 from three.
Credit Jabari Parker for making it a contest, as he took advantage of Jae Crowder’s five fouls and took over the paint in the late fourth quarter. Parker scored eight points at the rim in a row to bring the Bucks within five with five minutes left. But Isaiah Thomas responded with seven points to help bring the Celtics’ lead back to 11 points.
The Bucks forced a pair of turnovers and came roaring back, cutting down the deficit to four points and forcing a Brad Stevens timeout with 1:12 left.
The Celtics looked like they were going to throw up a prayer coming out of the timeout and that’s exactly what happened. But BAE Crowder answered that prayer.
Isaiah Thomas threw a slew of crossovers, drove left and was met with too many bodies to handle. So naturally, he threw a blind behind-the-head pass to Crowder in the opposite corner. The pass was somehow on the money and Crowder somehow drilled the corner three.
“I seen him before I threw it.” Thomas claimed. “But when I threw it, I couldn’t see him no more, so I’m glad he stayed in that corner and made me look good. It’s just something, I made an adjustment, like I said before I picked the ball up, I had seen he was in the corner. So I knew that was going to be my bail-out pass. Then luckily he stayed in the corner and it got there.”The
Bucks had one final chance to get back in, but Marcus Smart skied for the rebound over Greg Monroe to seal...READ FULL REPORT
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