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The Atlanta Hawks are facing a Milwaukee Bucks team without their two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo in the fifth game of the Eastern Conference Finals per Shams of the Athletic. This is not good news for the Bucks as they rely heavily on their star to produce winning basketball.
However, as seen by Game 4, when a team loses a star player, the opposition may relax their efforts slightly, meaning they are on the back foot. Even before Antetokounmpo went down in the second half of the fourth game, the Hawks were on top due to the efforts of the rest of the players.