Milwaukee Bucks Preview: Game 3 vs Toronto Raptors
By Ti Windisch
The Milwaukee Bucks are coming home with a win and a loss in the series before taking on the Toronto Raptors again on Thursday.
The Milwaukee Bucks will have a chance to take their second lead of the series on Thursday evening when the Toronto Raptors visit Milwaukee for Game 3. After taking a quick 1-0 lead in a fantastic Game 1, the Bucks messed around and lost Game 2.
To be fair, despite a pretty bad game from some key players, Milwaukee really made a go of it on Tuesday in Toronto. The Raptors prevented Giannis Antetokounmpo from looking like his usual world-killing self early in that game, and he went just nine-for-24 from the field overall.
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Still, the Bucks tied up the score with just a few minutes left in the game and ended up losing by six points when all was said and done. If, before the series, Bucks fans heard they would come back from Toronto eight points better than the Raps after two games, most everybody in Milwaukee would be elated.
That elation might intensify on Thursday. The Bucks will host a playoff game for the first time in two years, and for the first time in much longer than that Milwaukee is home to the best player in the series. The BMO Harris Bradley Center is going to be loud.
To see how Milwaukee could defend home court or how the Raptors could endanger it, we’ll look at a major key for both teams on Thursday, followed by a Rap to watch. After that it’s time for staff predictions on the scores.