Tatum added Giannis and the Bucks to his developing rundown of vanquished enemies with Boston’s persuading prevail upon Milwaukee on Sunday.
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Three considerations on Boston’s 139-118 Christmas Day drubbing of Milwaukee …
As Christmas Presents Go, This Was a Chunk of Coal
On paper, this was the most convincing game on the NBA schedule: a 1-2 matchup, a potential (likely?) meeting finals see with a couple of MVP competitors in Jayson Tatum and Giannis Antetokounmpo clashing. In any case, a serious game in the principal half immediately transformed into a laugher, with Boston outscoring the Bucks 38-25 in the second from last quarter and Mike Budenholzer waving the white banner with four minutes to play in the fourth.
Boston flexed its assets in this one. The NBA’s No. 1 offense is associated with 58.8% of its shots. The association’s 6th best three-point shooting crew shot 48.7% from profound. Tatum and Jaylen Brown, who have set up additional absolute focuses this season than any in the NBA, joined for 70. The safeguard, all set since the arrival of Robert Williams, restricted Antetokounmpo to 27 focuses on 9-of-22 shootings.
The NBA was without a doubt expecting some occasion show — fun truth, the graciousness of Celtics radio voice Sean Grande: The Celtics didn’t play a home Christmas game until 2017 because late group president Red Auerbach needed group and field staff to have the free day — yet this one immediately turned uneven.
Is Jayson Tatum the MVP Leader?
There will be a lot of disagreement in Denver, where double-cross MVP Nikola Jokic is setting up the sort of numbers (in the sort of group) that will pressure electors into giving him the third prize. Be that as it may, with a major stage, Tatum put on an act. He scored 41 focuses. He pulled down seven bounce back. He distributed five bits of help. He wanted only 22 shots to get his focus, thanks to some degree to 10 excursions to the free-toss line.
Tatum has developed into a mercilessly productive scorer. His shooting rate (47.1%) is a vocation best. He drives the NBA in genuine in addition to/less, per ESPN. His per-game in addition to/less (7.5) followed just Jokic among players who play something like 30 minutes for each game, per NBA.com. He is tied for the most 40 or more point games by any player this season. In December, he outdueled Jokic, Kevin Durant, and Devin Booker in skirmishes of MVP applicants. After Sunday, he can add Giannis to the rundown.
The NBA season has quite far to go however assuming that the Celtics continue to roll, Tatum will be hard to beat.
Will Khris Middleton Address the Bucks’ Problems?
We actually can’t project a Bucks-Celtics season finisher conflict because the injury-perplexed Middleton hasn’t figured in that frame of mind for quite a while. After missing last season all are meeting elimination rounds with a knee injury, Middleton was in road garments again on Sunday, actually recuperating from another lower leg injury.
Milwaukee’s offense has faltered without Middleton, tumbling from third in productivity last season to seventeenth in this one. Budenholzer has taught tolerance with Middleton, yet the realities are that Middleton, an NBA ironman as of late, has missed more games this season (26) than he has since the 2016-17 season, and his wounds (knee, wrist, lower leg) are all over the place. The Bucks don’t have to rush Middleton however assuming they were helped to remember anything on Christmas, it’s that to beat Boston, they will require him.
