The eaves of the Boston Celtics Jayson Tatum He returned home field advantage to his team this Saturday by beating Cleveland 93-106 Cavaliers and make the tie 2-1.
Tatum He contributed a double-double with 33 points and 13 rebounds.
Los Celtics They had won the first game 120-95, but Cleveland responded with a 94-118 in the second, also in Bostonand took home-court advantage against the best team in the regular season of the NBA.
Tatum He also distributed 6 assists, had a steal and a block, while Jaylen Brown He added 28 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. Jrue Holiday had 18 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists and Derrick White 12.
For the locals, Donovan Mitchell added 33 points, including 7 triples, Evan Mobley 17, while Darius Garland and Caris Supplies They scored 15 points each.
Dean Wade returned today to the line of the Cavaliers after a decline that began in March. And Jarrett Allen He missed his sixth consecutive play-off game with an injured rib.
In the CelticsKristaps Porzingis He missed his fourth consecutive game with a calf injury.
The Celtics recover sensations
Mitchell He opened the scoring with a triple and in less than a minute he scored the second to give one of the few advantages of the game to the Cavaliers.
Tatum responded with another two out of three and an internship. The coach of ClevelandJB Bickerstaff, called his pupils to chapter.
After an exchange of mates between Brown, Wade y Sam Hauser, Tatum He reached 10 points with a raid between defenses that he finished by hanging from the rim with two hands.
Tatum scored again before concluding an initial quarter that closed Mitchellwith 11 points in the quarter (28-30).
Both teams, very focused on closing their defenses, found problems opening spaces when Mitchell He made his fourth triple of six attempts, and less than a minute later, he hit his fifth (38-41).
Holiday He reached his 15 points with his second triple before reaching the halfway point of the quarter and shortly after Brown achieved the maximum visitor advantage so far (38-47).
A mate of Mobley and then Mitchellwith their sixth triple of eight attempts before the break to reach 23 points, prevented the Celtics from going to the locker room with an advantage of more than 10 points (48-57).
Partial 0-14
However, at the beginning of the second half a devastating 0-14 partial with two triples from White, another from Holiday and points from Brown y Tatumput those of Boston with a lead of 23 points (48-71).
Three consecutive baskets by the locals to close the gap made the visiting coach, Joe Mazullacalled time out.
Boston he did not score in about 4 minutes of play in which Cleveland reduced the large visitor advantage, but not even Mitchell’s seventh triple of ten attempts, reaching his 30 points, prevented the Celtics They will conclude the quarter 15 points up (69-84).
Los Cavaliers They cut the lead by another 6 points Boston in the first minute and a half of the final quarter and Mazulla He regrouped his players again and Tatum, Brown, Pritchard and White reacted correctly.
Mazulla used up his timeouts calling for the last one with 3:33 left in the game with the Celtics 11 points up (89-100).
Tatum He reached his 33 points, closing the score one minute before the end of the game that those of Boston (93-106).
The fourth game will be played this Monday in Cleveland. Then the series will return to Bostonat least for a fifth duel.
2024-05-12 06:21:31
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