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Celtics beat Bucks 109-102 as Derrick White scores 24 and Boston closes the game on a 12-3 run after a 22-point lead vanished
Derrick White scored 24 and Paul George 25 as Boston held off Milwaukee 109-102 after the Bucks erased a 22-point deficit and led 96-95 with 5:08 left.
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Derrick White scored 24 points with nine made free throws and Paul George had 25, and the Boston Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks 109-102 at TD Garden on Wednesday, November 4, after blowing most of a 22-point lead. Milwaukee erased the whole deficit and went ahead 96-95 on a Brayden Burries floater with 5:08 left, but Boston closed the game on a 12-3 run. The Celtics are 6-2 and 5-0 at home. The Bucks are 1-7.
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A 21-3 run in the first quarter
Boston led 6-5 after a Jaime Jaquez Jr. layup, then outscored Milwaukee 21-3 to make it 27-8 with 2:36 left in the quarter. Paul George made a 15-foot pull-up, two threes and two free throws in the run, Payton Pritchard scored on two fadeaways, Neemias Queta added a fadeaway of his own, and Luka Garza hit a three. Sam Hauser had opened the game with two threes. The Celtics led 28-14 after one, with the Bucks scoring just 14 points in the quarter.
Boston pushed the lead to 22 in the second quarter and led 62-40 at the half. Pritchard and Derrick White each scored on floaters, Queta added a tip-in, and Garza and White hit threes, while Myles Turner hit two threes and Tyler Herro and Kasparas Jakucionis one each for Milwaukee. Baylor Scheierman’s 24-foot three with 4.9 seconds left was Boston’s last basket of the half.
Herro’s third quarter
Milwaukee outscored Boston 38-25 in the third quarter. Tyler Herro scored 17 of his 25 points in the period, including a technical free throw after Hugo Gonzalez was called for a flopping technical with 10:28 left. Jaquez made two threes in the quarter, Kyle Kuzma added a three, and Turner and Herro each hit another from deep. Boston still led 87-79 going into the fourth behind threes from George, Scheierman and Hauser and a Queta tip-in.
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The comeback and the finish
Rollins opened the fourth with a 24-foot three, Nate Ament hit a 28-footer, and Ament’s running layup with 7:51 left tied it at 91. Ament’s free throw put Milwaukee up 92-91, the Bucks’ first lead of the game. Boston went back ahead, and Milwaukee led 96-95 on Burries’ 14-foot floater off an AJ Green pass.
That was Milwaukee’s last field goal for nearly four minutes. George made two free throws to put Boston back up 97-96, Kuzma tied it at 97 from the line with 4:04 left, and Queta’s layup off a George pass kept a 12-3 Boston run going that had begun with George’s free throws. White scored on a layup plus a free throw and a floater, George hit a 26-foot step-back three with 1:23 left for a 107-99 lead, and Rollins’ three at 1:14 cut it to 107-102. White made both free throws with 19.8 seconds left to seal it.
The numbers
Boston shot 37 of 91 (41%), made 16 of 39 threes and 19 of 25 free throws, and had 54 rebounds, 19 of them offensive, to Milwaukee’s 45 and 11. The Celtics committed 12 turnovers to the Bucks’ 15. Milwaukee shot 35 of 85 (41%) and made 19 of 47 threes (40%) with 28 assists, but only 13 of 19 free throws. Boston outscored the Bucks 34-30 in the paint, and Milwaukee had a 13-9 edge in fast-break points. There were four lead changes, and Milwaukee’s largest lead was one point.
George shot 8 of 18 with five threes and had 5 assists, but also 6 turnovers and 4 steals. White shot 7 of 18, including 1 of 7 from three, and added 7 assists and 2 blocks. Queta had 9 points and 12 rebounds with 2 blocks, Scheierman had 9 points and 11 rebounds, and Mitchell Robinson scored 3 points with 10 rebounds, 6 of them offensive. Garza and Hauser scored 11 each and Pritchard had 10 points and 5 assists. Jayson Tatum sat out for rest.
Milwaukee’s side
Herro shot 8 of 17 with 4 threes and was 5 of 5 at the line. Jaquez scored 18 on 7-of-16 shooting, and Rollins had 13 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists off the bench, but also 4 turnovers. Turner scored 12 with four threes, 9 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks, Ament had 9 points, Burries scored 9 with 5 rebounds and 3 assists, and Kuzma had 6 points, 4 assists and 3 turnovers. Kel’el Ware was 1 of 6 for 2 points in 16 minutes.
What’s next
The Celtics visit the Charlotte Hornets on Friday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. ET (2:00 a.m. Saturday Cairo time). The Bucks host the Toronto Raptors the same night at 8:00 p.m. ET (3:00 a.m. Saturday Cairo time).
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