Milwaukee Bucks won the season series and has a larger season experience, but Indiana Pacers has the advantage of home field advantage when it offers the best playoff series from an Eastern Conference on Saturday afternoon in its competitors Indianapolis.
Pacers finished 7-1 in the normal season to keep Milwaukee, who won the last eight matches, and finished two games in front of Bucks and won the seed number 4 in the East.
Indiana will take its second trip after the season in the last five years. In the first round last year, Pacers eliminated Bucks, who kidnapped the star Giannis Anthetokounmpo, and the game won an important way in the game 2 before serving with home victories at 3, 4 and 6.
Bucks, led by Anthetokounmpo, turned the tables this season, won the New Year’s Arafesi in Indiana, and won both home games for a 3-1 series.
Antetokounmpo, 65 percent of shooting, 30.0 points, 12.3 rebounds and 7.5 assists, the Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton’un better. In November, he doubled at the first meeting of the teams in Milwaukee and scored 30 or more in three wins.
Meanwhile, Haliburton was held in four heads of 18 or less in three heads. In December, he only shot 3 to 13 and won 12 points in the loss of home.
Both stars enter a beautiful roll after the season. Antetokounmpo increased to average three times during the six April trip and followed only Nikola Jokic (33.2) and Cade Cunningham (33.0) with a average score average. Haliburton made an average pair of farms in five games and attracted 51 percent of the field.
Antetokounmpo, which ended a seven -year -old playoff appearance last April, will begin to search for a second NBA championship without Damian Lillard, which stands out with deep vein thrombosis in the right calf.
The veteran was cleaned to return to the court training and is expected to return during the series, but Bucks announced that Lillard would not play in the opener.
“There is no limitation … There is no limitation … except for the lungs and the timing and everything else,” Bucks Coach Doch Rivers said. “You don’t miss all of this and just go in. It’s not like he’s been injured and exercised. He was injured without exercise;
Unlike Bucks, Haliburton’s common star-Pascal Siakam-All cylinders enters the season. It received an average of 17.8 points in the four April competition, with a total of 50 percent and 3 percent of 46 percent.
While enjoying the general success in the scorebord, Bucks was forced to deal with Siakam in the normal season. He received 20 to 26 points in four games and attracted 55 percent.
Siakam became the unofficial MVP of the Playoff series last year and directed Pacers with 22.3 points per game and attracted 55 percent and received 8.8 rebounds at a team height.
In the second year, Pacer wants to bring the first championship of franchise in 1973 since an ABA crown.
“The city, the state … They deserve a win,” he said. “This is what I think: not only for myself and my family, but for the organization, for my teammates.”
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