{"id":17629,"date":"2021-11-13T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=166241"},"modified":"2021-11-13T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:50:21","slug":"giannis-less-bucks-suffer-another-defeat-against-the-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/giannis-less-bucks-suffer-another-defeat-against-the-boston-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis-less Bucks suffer another defeat against the Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On paper, the Boston Celtics\u2019 opening matchup of the season against the Milwaukee Bucks should have been a cakewalk, given the Bucks were missing three of its greatest players in Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, and Brook Lopez.<br \/>\nWith a right ankle strain, Antetokounmpo, the reigning NBA Finals MVP, was scratched just 90 minutes before the game.<br \/>\nPat Connaughton took his position in the starting lineup and scored 15 points as the Bucks dropped their sixth game in a row. Despite the Bucks\u2019 absence of key players, the Celtics did not have an easy night.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks maintained their pressure throughout the game to force Boston into its fourth overtime game of the season, but Dennis Schr\u00f6der led the Celtics to victory with a season-high 38 points, eight of which came in overtime. Jayson Tatum and Marcus Smart provided good assistance, combining 46 points and 11 rebounds, with Tatum leading the way with 27 points and 11 rebounds.<br \/>\nFor the defending NBA champions, Jrue Holiday had 17 points and 13 assists, while Bobby Portis scored 22 points. Grayson Allen scored 21 points in regulation, including a pair of 3-pointers in the final 73 seconds to send the game to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening 30 minutes of the game, there were 22 lead changes \u2013 and eight ties \u2013 before Boston embarked on a 13-2 run to turn a one-point deficit into a double-digit lead.<br \/>\nWhen Allen sank a 3-pointer with 73 seconds left in regulation, Tatum turned the ball over, and George Hill put back Holiday\u2019s missed 3 to narrow the margin to one point. With 14 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Allen made a step-back 3-pointer after Schr\u00f6der sunk a floater to tie the game at 108. Schroder took the game home by scoring 8 points in the overtime on 3 of 4 shooting to improve their record to 6-6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dennis Schroder was on another level tonight \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the best plays from our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gatorade?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gatorade<\/a> Player of the Game <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CcktBdYyha\">pic.twitter.com\/CcktBdYyha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1459366660314263558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks who was without Giannis due to an ankle sprain suffered a loss in overtime against the Celtics, Schroeder scored 38 points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":38373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2871,2009,2480,2388,2235,2011,826],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-khris-middleton","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}