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NBA playoffs: Tyrese Haliburton's OT game winner ends the Bucks, while Pacers progresses

NBA playoffs: Tyrese Haliburton's OT game winner ends the Bucks, while Pacers progresses

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It wasn't nice, but it was enough. The Indiana Pacers overcame a seven-point deficit with 40 seconds in the extension on Tuesday to defeat the Milwaukee Bucks with 119: 118. He won the series 4-1 and climbed into the second round of the NBA playoffs.

The victory was of course delivered by Tyrese Haliburton, who put the Pacers in the lead with 1.3 seconds on the clock.

It took an epic comeback and an epic breakdown to get there. The Pacers were up to 20 points in the regulation before their unlikely rally with 40 seconds in extra time when everything apparently went to the right. Andrew Nembhard made a 3 pointer, and Gary Trent Jr., who had shot the goats for this advantage, began sales.

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This gave Haliburton the opportunity to be the hero.

Before sales, Trent looked like the man of the moment. He missed seven 3-point counters in a row to start the game, and then made eight of his last nine, including four in extra time, to silence a Pacers audience, which in the end had a little more noise in it.

The Bucks played without Damian Lillard after the all-NBA wachmann in game 4 tore his Achilles. Trent helped close the gap with 33 points, while Giannis Antetokounmpo was even greater with his responsibility, a triple double with 30 points, 20 rebounds and 13 assists.

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Haliburton had 26 points in the 10-von-22 shooting with nine templates and five rebounds.

Large fluctuations for both teams shot in the fourth quarter. The Pacers had a head start, then two points of Trent and AJ Green as well as an antetocounmpo and-1 presented the Bucks four with less than one minute.

Haliburton took over from there, pulled a foul and made two free throws, then landed the game with the game with a 10.8 second lead. Antetokounmpo then missed a potential game winner because the time in the regulation has expired.

The Pacers will advanced the Cleveland Cavaliers, who swept the Miami heat overwhelming on Monday.

Pacers and Bucks go into it after the game

After the game, there seemed to be some hard feelings when Antetkounmpo was forehead with Haliburton's father's forehead and was then involved in a wider scrum on the square.

So the goats probably didn't imagine the last moments of their season.

Bucks opened the game in a huge run and then lost it

When the goats had a hangover from the Lillard News, they didn't show him at the beginning of the game. Milwaukee played in front of an enemy Indiana crowed, opened the game with a 13-0 run and ended the first quarter with 30: 13.

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Haliburton was goalless, while Antetocounmpo had seven points, two rebounds and two assists in eight minutes.

However, it is difficult to keep a team with an offensive like the Pacers. A lead, which reached its peak at 20 points, went back to six at half -time and was completely deleted at the beginning of the third quarter. Milwaukee can at least boast that it was not the most harmful 20-point lead of these playoffs after the loss of a Star Point Guard.

The dollars played for 2 days after Damian Lillard's franchise-modified Achilles tears

It really cannot be emphasized enough how bad it is looking for the goats after he has lost Lillard.

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The entire long -term plan of the team to win both antetocounmpo and keep them happy is based on the combination of Lillard with the Greek freak. The duo has never delivered the potential to combine two all-NBA talents, but this is a completely different franchise if it cannot address that Lillard can play next year.

At 34 – 35, when the next season begins – Lillard is not guaranteed again. However, what remains on site is his $ 54.1 million-cap hit for the next season and a player option of $ 58.1 million for 2026-27, which he will probably take.

It is commendable that the Bucks played a competition game after taking this blow and dropped 3: 1, but they now have an unpleasant low season ahead of them, while trying to fight a path back to the east, with the possibility that everything falls apart should decide that he wants it.

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