After losing the first two home matches of the conference final with the Heat, the morale of Joe Mazzulla’s troops is very low. But it is always Jimmy Butler and his companions who get excited, who start fired as if the roles in this race 3 were reversed.
Ready go! and within six minutes of the game, Miami took control to never give up again, after a 9-1 break fueled by triples by Gabe Vincent and Max Strus, a missile in transition that blew up the Kaseya Center for the first time ( 21-16) until the end of the quarter (30-22).
Bam Adebayo and Duncan Robinson allow themselves to gradually widen the gap (51-33). The brief reaction of Derrick White and Grant Williams doesn’t weigh much, at the interval we arrive with a counterattack by Zeller on White and a 3-point “airball” by Jaylen Brown, a real symbol (61-46).
The third quarter instead of seeing the Celtics’ reaction starts with a 13-2 run concluded by a triple by Max Strus, a new alley-oop slammed by Bam Adebayo then a triple by Gabe Vincent in transition (74-51). Boston folds in two, suffering the gap at +33 with 4 minutes left in the third quarter.
The last quarter starts from 93-63: the pressure of the Heat has finally dropped in the last 12 minutes, allowing Boston to make its defeat less tragic in numbers, despite repeated shots by the Vincent-Robinson couple.
Miami – Boston 128-102 (3-0). Boxscore: 29 Vincent, 22 Robinson, 18 Martin, 16 Butler, 13 Adebayo, 10 Strus for the Heat; 14p+10r Tatum, 12 Brown, G. Williams and Pritchard, 11 Kornet for the Celtics. Race 4 in Miami on Tuesday-Wednesday night (2:30am).
2023-05-22 05:29:09
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