Antetokounmpo scores 28 points, Bucks beat Raptors 97-83

He did not practice Monday, is listed as day-to-day and is expected to play in Game 2.

DeMar DeRozan led the Raptors with 27 points, but made just 7 of 21 field goals. Coach Dwane Casey spoke on the team’s functioning, not having a good pace or rhythm, any movement.

If the Bucks get past Toronto, they will face the victor of the Cleveland/Indiana series. DeMarre Carroll is likely going to assume that role, but it may take more than Carroll to slow down the Greek Freak.

Ibaka was the only Raptors starter to make a 3-pointer. It was eventually reversed in the second half, but it was confusing to see during the first half. Eventually, they collectively allmost stopped going to the rim and started settling for long or contested jumpers and with little to no success.

Three years ago playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers he received the dirty tag for locking his legs around Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson in a playoff game, leading to Gibson losing his cool and being ejected. “That’s what happened tonight”. “I’m not going to get blindsided by seeing Milwaukee“.

The Raptors offensive woes as a whole in Game 1 were troubling, too. “I thought they outplayed us. Don’t really think (I could play)”, he said. “If they’re the aggressor, they’re going to win the game, we’ve got to be the aggressor, we’ve got to be aggressive, we’ve got to go out and make them work on the defensive end”. An Ibaka-Patrick Patterson frontcourt pairing showed promise in short minutes, but that lineup was hamstrung by not featuring the rest of the Raps’ best players.

Casey said it’s not just Lowry he needs to be more aggressive and forceful in everything he does in the game. “We will as long as we stick together, do what we do, our team habits, the things we worked on in training camp and just believe in ourselves”.

Other games on tap include the East’s top-seeded Celtics trying to bounce back from an emotional night for Isaiah Thomas in a loss to the eighth-seeded Bulls, and a Jazz teams looking to build on their Game 1 win over the Clippers despite Rudy Gobert’s left knee injury in the opening minute.

Lowry played just under 34 mintues and wound up with four points on 2-of-11 shooting and a team-worst minus-22 for the night.

Ibaka scored again to pull the Raptors to within 10, injecting some hope into a Raptors crowd that was awash in red and black – thanks to a pre-game T-shirt giveaway – and included actor Ethan Hawke and rapper Talib Kweli, who performed at halftime.

Rookie of the Year candidate Malcolm Brogdon played with the poise of a seasoned veteran in his first playoff game, tallying 16 points, two assists, and six rebounds. The Milwaukee Bucks star averaged 24.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 7.0 assists in four regular-season against the Raptors.

Also gone with this loss was the built-in excuse of those poor performances being at least partly attributed to those awful early starts.

But even when a screen is set, assuming it’s legal, it’ll be up to Kyle Lowry to be aggressive in turning the corner on the screen action. There was no 12:30 start to blame. Tucker figures to spend much of the series matching up against Giannis Antetokounmpo.

It’s hard to explain, let alone comprehend, this phenomenon, but what happened to Kyle Lowry?

“We’ve already talked about the atmosphere in Toronto“, Kidd said. We have been there before.