Led by four points (74-78) six minutes to go, Boston is desperate for a 3-point shot. Sam Hauser inherits a good shot at the end of possession: it is missed. On the next action, Payton Pritchard (0/5 on the match) wants to play the hero by sending nine yards. Failed attempt also.
Next possession, the most significant. Jaylen Brown finds himself alone in the corner, still not. Offensive rebound for Al Horford (0/7) who, after a screen, is wide open at the head of the racket to send… an airball. New offensive rebound, from Grant Williams, which emerges towards a Josh Richardson (0/5) alone in the world: another failure!
We could continue for a long time the description of the nightmare night of the Celtics behind the line at 7m25, during the reception of the Clippers. That night, the C’s only converted 4 of their 42 long attempts. ESPN reports that this is the second worst performance in the field for a team shooting at least 40 times from three points.
Boston thus signed an incredible 1/18 in the last quarter, missing its last 15 attempts of the meeting. These 17 missed in the same quarter are a record in at least the last 25 years.
20 more shots than the Clippers
Ime Udoka’s squad scored just 82 points despite 101 attempted shots in total, their smallest point total in a game with at least 100 attempts. ” We got 20 more shots (as the Clippers) and held our opponents to 91 points… It’s a match that we should have won », Deplores the technician.
« We missed a lot of shots but I thought we had a lot of open shots. We spun the ball. I know they defended in the zone but we had a lot of good shots. Very open shots and they didn’t come in », Regrets Jaylen Brown, 30 points last night with a terrible 1/13 distance (13/36 in total).
The winger believes that the statistics do not allow to show the quality of the shots obtained by the Celtics, who, according to him, did not force their shots.
« I think it’s not the ideal timing because we wanted to react after the last match (lost to Wolves). Most of these guys showed up ready to fight and we fell short. We were too fucking short. »
| Tirs | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Jayson Tatum | 33 | 36.7 | 41.7 | 32.9 | 82.3 | 1.1 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 25.6 |
| Jaylen Brown | 20 | 33.4 | 45.2 | 37.7 | 76.9 | 0.8 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 22.8 |
| Dennis Schroder | 29 | 32.3 | 42.5 | 32.8 | 89.0 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 16.3 |
| Al Horford | 25 | 29.8 | 45.7 | 31.0 | 85.7 | 1.6 | 6.3 | 7.9 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 12.4 |
| Marcus Smart | 32 | 34.3 | 38.9 | 28.5 | 76.2 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 5.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 10.9 |
| Josh Richardson | 22 | 25.2 | 47.5 | 40.5 | 81.4 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 10.7 |
| Robert Williams | 26 | 28.2 | 73.2 | 0.0 | 62.5 | 3.6 | 5.0 | 8.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 9.8 |
| Grant Williams | 29 | 22.3 | 51.4 | 46.0 | 88.2 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 7.7 |
| Romeo Langford | 27 | 19.5 | 40.5 | 33.3 | 65.0 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 4.9 |
| Payton Pritchard | 28 | 12.9 | 35.8 | 36.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 4.8 |
| Jabari Parker | 11 | 9.6 | 48.6 | 53.3 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 4.8 |
| One’s Edges | 21 | 13.1 | 51.9 | 25.0 | 80.0 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 5.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 4.7 |
| Aaron Nesmith | 27 | 10.9 | 35.2 | 23.8 | 77.8 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 3.2 |
| Joe Johnson | 1 | 1.9 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Justin Jackson | 1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Sam Hauser | 4 | 4.4 | 28.6 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.5 |
| Juancho Hernangomez | 17 | 5.5 | 19.2 | 16.7 | 66.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| Bruno Fernando | 10 | 2.7 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| C.j. Miles | 1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| Brodric Thomas | 4 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
