MILWAUKEE — Rob Williams caught a Bobby Portis elbow off the top of his head during a third quarter rebound battle, hit the floor and had to be helped to the locker room.
He returned, and the pace hadn’t improved at all, to the Celtics’ misfortune. Matched against an opponent as physical and shut down-oriented as themselves, the Celtics dropped Game 3 103-101 when one Al Horford putback attempt rolled off the rim, and a second successful one was ruled to have come just after the buzzer.
Thus wasted was a back-loaded 27-point performance by Jaylen Brown, to go along with another 22 from Horford. Jayson Tatum got off to a slow start and was unable to break free of the bruising conditions, finishing with 10 points on 4-for-19 shooting..
