The Celtics couldn’t make anything in the second half, and the Giannis Antetokounmpo-less Bucks couldn’t miss as the Celtics’ five-game win streak ended in a 116-101 defeat.

Here are the takeaways.

Bobby Portis and Kyle Kuzma went off

Quite honestly, we did not expect to lead with Bobby Portis and Kyle Kuzma here, but the NBA’s regular season isn’t known for its predictability.

Kuzma — and again, we can’t stress enough how little we expected to write this sentence — put together a dominant performance, scoring 31 points on 13-for-17 shooting. Neemias Queta was his primary victim, struggling enormously to stay with Kuzma in the pick-and-roll, but the Celtics also couldn’t do much about him with their small-ball lineups or in transition.

Portis, meanwhile, scored the bulk of his offense

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