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GAME FLOW
BOSTON (AP) – For Ray Allen, a bad shooting night didn't make it
a bad night.
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Allen shot 1-for-10 from the floor Wednesday night, but the one
basket was a key 3-pointer in the fourth quarter to help lead
Milwaukee to a 101-94 victory over the Boston Celtics.
Asked about Allen's "off-night," Bucks coach George Karl
looked at the box score and read off the statistics: 14 points, six
assists, nine rebounds.
"I think it's a compliment to Ray, because he's helping us win
basketball games when he's not scoring," Karl said.
Antoine Walker had 36 points and 11 rebounds and Paul Pierce had
30 and 10, but Boston's three other starters were scoreless. The
Celtics lost for the seventh time in nine games and remained a game
behind Indiana, which lost 79-75 to the Knicks, in the race for
eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot.
"They've got two guys who can score well," said Allen, who
went 11-for-13 from the free-throw line, hitting five of six down
the stretch. "But who else can step up?"
Sam Cassell had 24 points and seven assists for Milwaukee. Glenn
Robinson had 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Tim Thomas came off the
bench to add 22 points and 10 rebounds.
"Tim Thomas is a Celtic killer," Boston coach Jim O'Brien
said. "He just always seems to have a good game against us."
The game was close most of the way until Thomas hit a 3-pointer,
a slam dunk and a free throw during a 10-1 run that upped a
three-point lead to 12. Allen capped it off with his 3-pointer that
made it 92-80 with 3:28 to play.
The Celtics cut it back to five points on a pair of 3-pointers
by Walker and a long 2-pointer by Pierce. But they turned the ball
over the next time down, then Walker missed a 3 off the front of
the rim and the Bucks hit enough free throws to ice it.
Walker went 7-for-14 from 3-point range, hitting two in the
first quarter to break the team record for 3-pointers in a season.
He now has 156, surpassing Dana Barros' total of 149 in 1995-96.
Milwaukee had five technical fouls in the game, including one
for illegal defense, and Boston had one -- a double technical on
Walker and Scott Williams in the second quarter. Williams fouled
Walker in the lane, then Walker came up and leaned on him until
Williams pushed Walker away, drawing the technical.
Walker was whistled moments later for no apparent reason while
he was walking toward the scorer's table.
Later in the second, Darvin Ham was called for a technical for
hanging on the rim, pulling himself up and slapping the backboard
with both hands.
Game notes
Vitaly Potapenko scored with a one-handed putback to beat
the buzzer at the end of the first half. Chris Carr's shot went off
the backboard and rim, and Potapenko tipped it in with one hand as
the 24-second buzzer, and then the halftime buzzer went off. The
officials conferred and decided he got the shot off in time; the
replay showed there was 0.1 seconds left when it left his hand. ...
At the half, Walker had 17 and Pierce had 12 of Boston's 44 points.
... Allen was named an athlete representative to USA Basketball's
executive committee.
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RECAPS
Milwaukee 101
Boston 94
New York 79
Indiana 75
Philadelphia 102
New Jersey 94
Houston 104
Atlanta 98
Washington 88
Cleveland 83
Dallas 93
Miami 86
Orlando 112
Detroit 102
Sacramento 100
Phoenix 89
Utah 86
Seattle 82
LA Lakers 97
Toronto 85
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