BOSTON — The Milwaukee Bucks opened the third quarter on Sunday afternoon by putting the ball in the enormous hands of Giannis Antetokounmpo — and that tends to be the most sensible decision.
Antetokounmpo can do things on a basketball court that no one else can do, and for six and a half games of his team’s Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Celtics, Antetokounmpo had done many of them: scoring, passing, rebounding, soaring. The Bucks had leaned on him to supply his usual brand of genius against an opponent with more depth, more options and lots to prove.