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Persistence pays off for Bucks as C’s squander Game Five

One out of every five Milwaukee Buck Field Goal Attempts (19 out of 92) in their 110-107 come-from-behind victory over our Men in Green Wednesday night was a “Second-Chance” Opportunity, coming on the heels of an Offensive Rebound – for the second consecutive game, Coach Bud’s boys secured possession of not one but TWO of their own Missed Free Throws, the latter producing Bobby Portis’s winning bucket.

The Celtics, while accurate (6-for-7) on extra opportunities, were out-rebounded by a three-to-one ratio (21-7, including “significant” Team Rebounds) on the Offensive Glass.

As Pat Riley once put it to his Showtime Lakers, “No Rebounds, No Rings”!