EFE Chicago 03/04/2024 at 00:52 CET
The Boston Celtics (48-12) avenged their loss in the 2022 Finals against the Golden State Warriors (32-28) with a landslide 140-88 victory and a historic first quarter by Jaylen Brown and another extraordinary second quarter from Jayson Tatum.
The locals scored their 11th straight victory, while the Warriors had won 3 in a row and the previous time they faced Boston this season. Brown added 29 points (19 of them in the first quarter), 3 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. Tatum celebrated his 26th birthday with 27 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, a steal and a block. Payton Pritchard, coming off the bench, contributed 19 points, Derrick White 14, and Sam Hauser 12.
Dominican Al Horford reached 14,000 points in his career adding 7 points. For the Warriors, the top scorer was New York rookie of Dominican origin Lester Quiñones coming off the bench with 17 scores and 5 rebounds. Apart from Quiñones, only Moses Moody, with 11, reached double figures. Steph Curry, who averages 27.5 points per game, only contributed 4 points. The Celtics played without decisive Latvian center Kristaps Porzingis due to injury.
A record first half
Brown reached double figures, and White reached his 8 points in just over 4 minutes of play, and then Curry served his third assist so that Quiñones debuted in the match with a triple (21-19). In less than a minute, Brown hit 3 triples, adding 19 in 7 minutes of play, shaking the foundations of the TD Garden like an earthquake with the celebration (30-21).
Tatum, on his 26th birthday, didn’t score his first until 10 minutes had been played. The first quarter concluded with a 23 to 1 for the Celtics and the green stadium roaring a layup and another 3 by the little great Pritchard and another raid by Holiday (44-22).
In the first minutes of the second quarter, Boston’s team scored 32 to 3 and shortly after, with the birthday boy, in his best version, he reached his 13 points (57-28). The faces on the Warriors bench reflected concern and Curry had only scored 4 points with 4.24 minutes remaining (64-32).
Three of 3 triples from White and another 3 of 3 from Tatum (who had 20 points in the second quarter and 2 in the first) They made history by achieving the largest advantage, 44 points, achieved by the Celtics in the first half (82-38).
More than 50 points advantage
Boston did not forgive in defense and Everything came out in attack, with fantasy passes, his stars showing offand with the Dominican Al Horford giving the Celtics a lead of 51 points (99-48) with more than a quarter and a half left in the game.
The legendary coach of the Warriors, Steve Kerr, asked for time without getting his pupils to react while the Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla began using the bench and Pritchard left the score at 115-62 at the end of the third segment.
The Warriors’ top scorer so far was Moses Moody with 11 points, the only one in his squad in double figures. Pritchard hit his second of 2 triples at the start of the final quarter, increasing the home lead to 56. It was the 22nd triple for the Celtics, who were averaging 16.2 triples per game before the beating of the Warriors.
With the Warriors also playing with the bench in the last minutesthe Celtics avenged their loss in the 2022 finals with a crushing victory (140-88).
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