Wednesday morning, we may remember that it was this game that rocked the NBA final.
Led 37-21 at the end of the first quarter, the Milwaukee Bucks overturned everything to have a comfortable +14 to 9 minutes, before seeing their lead melt like snow in the sun.
But in the last moments, Jrue Holiday, imperial all evening (27 points, 13 assists), turned into a savior to intercept a match point from Devin Booker.
Thirty seconds later, the buzzer confirmed Milwaukee's victory away from home, their third in a row in this final placed under the seal of the reversal of the situation.
Jrue rips it.
Giannis runs the floor.
Jrue lobs it up .. Giannis hammer! @Bucks up 4 with 9.8 left in Game 5. # NBAFinals on ABC pic.twitter.com/xKhjNrgdbf
- NBA (@NBA) July 18, 2021
"At -16, we kept our calm", welcomed, after the match, the strong winger of Milwaukee Giannis Antetokounmpo, at the microphone of the ABC channel.
On the contrary, the Bucks scored 43 points in the second quarter to switch to the lead at the break (64-61), where the Suns lost the thread with Booker on the bench.
Fatalistic, he confided after the match: “We did what we had planned to do by starting strong.
And then we let it all slip away.
They have remained resilient.
Despite his 40 points scored, the Phoenix rear was a little too lonely, with Chris Paul, to lead the Arizona attack.
Quite the opposite of the Bucks where Holiday, Antetokounmpo and Middleton have rarely been so complementary in this series.
In case of victory on his floor on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Milwaukee will be NBA champion.
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