It came to the point where the Raptors blew their 25-point lead, and it looked like all hope was lost.
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The crowd on the road was rowdy. The win in Milwaukee will certainly be a nice confidence booster going into the game 5.
What began looking like a close-out game that would finally settle this Raptors' Game 6 hex once and for all, eventually got there, but it was anything but easy.
Finally getting past the first round last season, they fell to the eventual National Basketball Association champion Cleveland Cavaliers 4-2 in the conference finals. Prior to Thursday, the Raptors were 0-3 in Game 6 since Dwane Casey took over as coach in 2011. Again we found a way to (hold on). "That's what good teams do".
The Raptors were intent on capturing Game 6 to avoid stretching out the opening round another couple of days.
The Bucks simply need to rebuild their confidence and remember how they dominated Toronto in two of the first three games of the series. A DeMar DeRozan dunk and two Joseph free throws put the Raptors comfortably ahead 89-92 with 33 ticks to go. But the Bucks kept firm hold of the momentum, while the Raptors coughed up one ball after another, and when Kris Middleton drilled a three and drew a foul with 4:06 to play, it pulled the Bucks to within a point.
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"When we saw them it was like we hit a brick wall", Carroll said of the Cavs, who disposed of the Raptors in six games. Down 90-87 with 14 seconds left, Milwaukee took longer than it probably wanted to move its offense, and Antetokounmpo wound up guarded by Lowry, who's almost a full foot shorter than him, beyond the arc with just a few seconds left. He repeatedly tore through the Toronto defense to get to the lane, finishing with 34 points. But he drained nearly all of that time before driving to the rim, leaving the Bucks still down by one and the clock nearing zero. He made his mark - scoring in the paint, drawing fouls, patrolling the boards and generally aggravating Greg Monroe. We knew they would make it hard and we just had to sustain. "We don't need to overanalyze it". "We've got some fighters and scrappers". Bucks center Thon Maker aggressively hedged on the second screen while Tony Snell recovered. Entering Thursday, Toronto was 0-4 all-time in Game 6s on the road, and 0-3 in Casey's six-year tenure with the team. Since the Raptors made a decision to go small, maybe the Bucks could move Matthew Dellavedova to the starting lineup, remove Thon Maker from the starting lineup, and shift Antetokounmpo to center. The home team has won each of the first nine games between these division rivals through the regular season and the first five playoff games. The Bucks missed 9 free throws in the final period.
Kyle Lowry has been the face of Toronto Raptors playoff failure these last few years, with his superb regular seasons inexplicably crumbling into no-shows, awful shooting nights and early postseason exits every time. The Bucks are as inexperienced as they are young, and they're pretty young. Even Antetokounmpo, a renowned gym rat, looked exhausted with his hands on hips as he caught his breath during fourth-quarter breaks.
"Just to stay away from that would be great because we could go out there and play until exhaustion for 48 minutes".
"If you haven't (been) through that, you don't know it until you face it", Terry said.
"I think it's strong", Brogdon said of Milwaukee's nucleus.
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