ORACLE ARENA, OAKLAND, CA — This is a continuation of the halftime recap of the Milwaukee Bucks at the Golden State Warriors.
The game was tied, 53-53, heading into the third quarter.
3RD QUARTER: Iguodala And Livingston Spark Momentum
The Warriors started the second half with an offensive drought of nearly three-and-a-half minutes, as Harrison Barnes missed a trey, Klay Thompson missed a jumper, Barnes and Stephen Curry both turned the ball over, Curry nearly airballed a missed triple from the left elbow, Draymond Green missed a three-pointer, got the offensive rebound, fed Curry, but Steph missed again from beyond the arc.
After Jared Dudley made a wide open flat-footed jumper from the short right baseline as two Warriors collapsed on the attacking Zaza Pachulia, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr called timeout as the Bucks took a 60-53 lead with 8:38 remaining in the third.
Milwaukee then went nearly two minutes without a bucket as Andrew Bogut and Thompson buoyed Golden State with free throws. An and-one by Michael Carter-Williams, attacking Klay, finally ended the Bucks’ drought and they led, 63-60, with 6:24 to go in the quarter.
Green then blocked a Pachulia putback, then Bogut deflected his subsequent pass, but got called for the grab, which Pachulia needlessly flopped on. The boos rained when #Roaracle saw the flop on the jumbotron replay.
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It was Andre Iguodala who finally gave the Warriors some separation from the Bucks, receiving a pass on the left elbow from Green, then swishing a trey as he got fouled by Tyler Ennis. Iguodala converted the free throw and it was 66-66 with 3:33 left in the third.
Livingston then made two straight jumpers, the Bucks called timeout, then Livingston hit this from the left baseline to make it 72-69 with 1:02 to go.
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After a Giannis Antetokounmpo layup, the Warriors had a 72-71 lead heading into the final frame.
4TH QUARTER: Chef Curry!
Curry started the fourth quarter stirring his pot with two three-pointers, after a trey by Green and pick-and-roll action with Green, to make it 82-75 with 9:46 remaining in the game.
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Steph then added another as the Bucks inexplicably retreated with Livingston directing traffic. Bucks head coach Jason Kidd called timeout and it was 85-75 with 9:12 to play.
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Green then made a clean steal on Antetokounmpo, who was trying to setup up Draymond for a dribble drive. Green ended the sequence with a run-out dunk.
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After an Iguodala one-handed steal of an entry pass by Carter-Williams, Livingston went with a left-handed drive to the baseline and bounced a pass to Andre for the interior dunk.
Livingston would then sky down the lane for another thunderous Warriors dunk, to pull ahead 91-79, with 6:25 left.
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Carter-Williams got a pull-up to drop and Antetokounmpo converted over Livingston after retrieving Iguodala’s block of Khris Middleton, and Kerr called timeout with 3:10 remaining, with the Bucks getting as close as 95-85.
After another dunk by Livingston assisted by Green and a Thompson touchdown pass to Green, who dished it to Curry cross-court for a three-pointer wide-open on the left elbow, the Oracle crowd started to file out and it was Golden State with a commanding lead, 100-87, with 1:56 left.
Livingston added yet another dunk in mini-garbage time, fed off a Klay drive and, although Thompson missed his last wide-open trey to end just 5-for-16 field, 3-for-8 downtown, the Warriors easily won, 102-93.
Birthday boy Green led all scorers with 23 points on 9-for-14 field, 4-for-9 downtown, and 12 rebounds, 5 assists, while Curry tallied 19 points and 11 assists on 6-for-13 beyond the arc. Klay had a quiet 17 points and Livingston had an emphatic 16 points on 7-for-10 field off the bench, to go along with 6 assists.
The Bucks were led by 16 from both Carter-Williams and Antetokounmpo, while Pachulia notched 13-and-11. Ilyasova had 13 points, 10 rebounds off the bench.
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