Bucks pick up road win over Pacers
INDIANAPOLIS -- Malcolm Brogdon came off the bench to score 17 points, including two fourth-quarter 3-pointers, and the Milwaukee Bucks pulled away from the Indiana Pacers 116-100 on Saturday night in Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Back-to-back 3-pointers from Brogdon gave the Bucks (23-30) a commanding 106-88 lead with 2:34 remaining. Milwaukee made a season-high 17 3-pointers.
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a team-leading 20 points for Milwaukee, Mirza Teletovic added 19, Greg Monroe had 17 and Tony Snell added 13.
CJ Miles scored 23 points to lead Indiana (29-25), which lost its third straight. Myles Turner and Monta Ellis each added 18. Paul George was held to 13.
The Bucks led 88-74 at the end of the third quarter when a George layup at the buzzer was waved off after review. Milwaukee led 93-81 with 8:23 to play.
The Pacers scored the first six points of the third quarter to slice the deficit to 62-58 with 9:56 left, prompting a Bucks timeout. An Antetokounmpo dunk with 6:30 left in the quarter pushed the Milwaukee lead to 71-62.
Led by Teletovic (13) and Monroe (11), the Bucks got 32 first-half points from their non-starters and led 62-52 through 24 minutes.
Milwaukee made 8 of 15 3-pointers in the first half and 16 of 21 free throws, and turned the ball over only three times. In all, the Bucks made 19 of 38 shots from the field.
The Pacers got 12 points from Miles and 11 from Turner in the opening half.
Indiana was 19 of 39 from the field, including 6 of 13 from beyond the arc. The Bucks led by as many as 14 points in the first half.
NOTES: Milwaukee was without G Khris Middleton, who was being rested. ... Indiana was without starting F Thaddeus Young, who missed a fifth consecutive game with a sprained left wrist suffered Feb. 3 at Brooklyn. Lavoy Allen started in Young's place. ... Milwaukee will be without F Jabari Parker for the remainder of the season. Parker, the team's No. 2 scorer, suffered a torn left ACL in the third quarter of a Feb. 8 game against Miami. ... The Bucks rank third in NBA field goal percentage (47.8) and are fourth in assists per game (24.5). ... The Pacers are second in free-throw percentage (81.3), second in steals per game (8.6) and second in opponents' turnovers per game (15.5). ... Milwaukee won the only other meeting this season, 125-107 on Nov. 3 in Wisconsin. ... After winning a season-best seven in a row, Indiana lost Wednesday night to Cleveland and Friday night at Washington.