Milwaukee Bucks: 3 takeaways from 132-98 Game 2 win over Miami Heat
The Milwaukee Bucks delivered quite the statement in their 132-98 Game 2 victory over the Miami Heat Monday night at Fiserv Forum.
Backed by one of their biggest offensive performances on the season, the Bucks shot the lights out to roll past the Heat and go up 2-0 in the series following the first pair of games in Milwaukee. The Bucks finished with a franchise-record 22 threes and it’s safe to say the Heat felt every one of those triples in quite the role reversal from Game 1.
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Of course, a lights out shooting display wasn’t the only thing that catapulted the Bucks to success Monday night as we’ll get into shortly. Nevertheless, Milwaukee have proven to the Heat they aren’t the same advantageous matchup they were during last year’s playoffs so far this series.
So without further ado, let’s break down what all stood out in the Bucks’ overwhelming victory in Game 2 of their first round series against the Miami Heat.
Milwaukee Bucks shut down Heat’s stars in Game 2 blowout win
Another night, another game where the Bucks neutralized Miami’s top players, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo.
That was helped by the incredibly fast start the Bucks got off to not long after the opening tip, but anyone expecting the Heat to be carried by their star players to another hard fought battle was sorely mistaken.
Butler did his part in trying to inject some life into the proceedings, but the Bucks’ defense and length continued to smother the All-Star wing as he finished with 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting, four assists and two steals in nearly 32 minutes of run.
Adebayo, meanwhile, continued his unwillingness to shoot with the plenty of space given to him by the Bucks’ big men, but tried to rely on his energy and ball skills to spark Miami’s lackluster offense. The fourth-year big man finished with 16 points on 5-for-11 shooting (6-for-9 from the foul line), four assists as well as four turnovers in over 28-and-a-half minutes.
With Dewayne Dedmon standing as the Heat’s scorer with 19 points, that pretty much said all one needed to know why the Bucks came away with such a lopsided victory.