this boston celtsA tremendous team led by Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, and Marcus Smart raised their voices at home at TD Garden and beat the Golden State Warriors 116-100 on Wednesday To take a 2-1 lead in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Ime Udoka’s team limited their numbers to 12 after a heavy loss in Game 2 on Garden night, where Al Horford and Robert Williams dominated the paint and helped the Celtics get 58 rebounds. their rivals.
Brown added 27 points, including 17 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists in the first quarter, Jayson Tatum added 26 points with 6 rebounds and 9 assists, while Smart added 24 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. The three stars stood out for their big numbers, but Horford’s character contribution weighed in on this victory, with Robert Williams’ contribution as 11 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 10 rebounds and ‘cleaning’ only partially revealed. ‘ Picture with 4 pops.
Steph Curry’s 31 points with 6 threes weren’t enough for the Warriors, nor was Klay Thompson’s 25 and 5 threes for Steve Kerr’s team, who significantly increased their shooting percentage without receiving awards. Andrew Wiggins had 18 points and 7 rebounds on the night Draymond Green could not be decisive and finished the game with just 2 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists and finished the game with six fouls with four minutes remaining.
Brown had 17 points in the first quarter.
Jaylen Brown had warned that his priority was to jump onto the field without paying attention to rival pressures or provocations, and his start couldn’t have been better. He started with two threes in a row and led the Celtics with 17 points and 3 out of 4 in the first period. In an all-green Garden and after a twelve-year wait to see their team back in the Finals, victory-hungry Brown and Horford dominated the opening stages. The first NBA finalist in his country, Dominik has emerged with a great defensive job and a strong mate for the team. 26-11.
Powerful on both sides of the court, dominating the field and strong on the ball, the Celtics escaped by 18 points. 54-36He’s led by a Tatum who has scored 12 points or assisted for his team.
Sparks fly with Green
Steve Kerr took a break to reassemble his team’s ideas. And despite obvious early struggles, the Warriors have shown their streak in a franchise that has appeared in six of the last eight Finals and won three out of the previous five. It didn’t take long for the first spark to fly Draymond Green scolded by Garden fans all night. Grant Williams’ erratic contact escalated the tension, and it took a few seconds for the Warriors to signal their opponents to the beat of Wiggins, Klay Thompson and Curry. Curry himself trailed his team by 7 points, and it was to the credit of Horford and Brown’s competitiveness if the Celtics were able to stop that backlash and enter halftime with 12 valuable points for the loan (68-56).
The power in the painted paint rewarded Udoka’s players, who hit 60% of the shots in the middle of the match and reached 68 points at halftime after scoring 88 points throughout the game, including 24 rebounds 14 and 8-4 offense. Second game in Chase Center. But when that scoring rhythm stalled, the Warriors jumped at the chance to reopen the game with a 12-0 run led by Curry and a four-point game that Horford gave the Californians the first advantage. 83-82.
Celtics stop comeback
The Celtics failed to score in almost three minutes and had four minutes to play for more than nine minutes in the third period and against a Warriors, where Curry continued to pout his opponents’ wounds with pleasure, without letting his foul issues be affected. Marcus Smart and Grant Williams got that pressure under control and kept their team ahead (93-89) until the fourth term. Considered 8 in partial 32, this was a victory for Udoka’s men. It gave them confidence and encouraged them to face the decisive episode in which the competitive spirit of the locals emerged.
Starting the last quarter with Smart’s three-pointers and tremendous commitment in the paint, 9-2 filled the Garden with enthusiasm once again and put the Warriors in double digits. The Celtics have never stopped fighting for split balls, and in one of them, Horford caused Green’s sixth foul, the game ending 4.07. Garden celebrated his exit from court as much as he did when Al Horford offered Robert Williams the oop from the 112-98 alley seconds later.