MILWAUKEE _ An energized Milwaukee Bucks team took control early and coasted to a 104-77 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
The Bucks took a 2-1 advantage in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series, with Game 4 scheduled for 2 p.m. Central on Saturday.
Khris Middleton led the Bucks with 20 points and Giannis Antetokounmpo added 19 points, eight rebounds and four assists.
Greg Monroe added 16 points and seven rebounds off the bench and Michael Beasley had 13 points. Substitutes for both teams played in the final 4 to 5 minutes.
Kyle Lowry paced Toronto's starters with 13 points and DeMar DeRozan went 0 for 8 from the field and finished with eight points.
The last time DeRozan did not hit a field goal was in a January 2015 game against the Bucks in Milwaukee.
An enthused crowd went crazy as the Bucks sprinted to a 26-10 lead, helped by a hot start from Middleton. He had nine of the team's first 13 points and scored 11 on 5-of-6 shooting in the quarter.
When Antetokounmpo and Michael Beasley ended the first quarter with back-to-back 3-pointers, Milwaukee had a 32-12 lead.
Monroe scored all 12 of his first-half points in the second quarter as the Bucks led by as many as 32 points. A 3-pointer by Delon Wright cut the Raptors' deficit to 57-30 at halftime.
The Bucks did not let up in the third quarter, opening with a shot in the lane from Middleton and a 3-pointer by Maker that extended their lead to 62-33.
The only real struggle the Bucks had in the quarter came with Antetokounmpo at the free-throw line, where he went 1 of 6 and was frustrated by his misses.
But it hardly mattered with the Bucks leading by 30 points.
Milwaukee led by 34 points late in the third quarter.
The Bucks opened the fourth quarter with Monroe, Beasley, Middleton, Jason Terry and Matthew Dellavedova in the lineup.
Monroe fouled out on a charging call with 8:07 remaining when he ran over Lowry, and the crowd chanted "Moose" as he went to the bench.
A three-point play by Jonas Valanciunas cut Toronto's deficit to 84-61.
Kidd inserted Tony Snell and Antetokounmpo at that point and Snell scored a layup before Dellavedova drilled a 3-pointer, giving Milwaukee an 89-61 advantage.
