BOSTON-In the decreasing seconds of extensions, the New York Knicks Mikles wings snatched a potential attempt of 3 points of play by Boston Celtics Jaylen Brown, and the Outsidergs left TD Garden with a magnificent victory of match 1 in their semi-final East, 108-105.
The Knicks returned to a 20-point deficit in the second half to make a tight match of what seemed to be heading for an eruption. Jayson Tatum from Boston (23 points, 16 rebounds, 6 assists) and Jalen Brunson from New York (29 points, 5 assists) both missed opportunities to break an equal to 100-100 in seconds of decline-Tatum a 3-point stall, Brunson a Layup. But Og Anunoby (29 points) and the Knicks outstripped the Celtics 8-5 in overtime to fly the land at home.
Og Anunoby of the Knicks Dunks against Jayson Tatum of the Celtics in match 1 of the East semi-finals of TD Garden on Monday in Boston. (Photo by Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)
(Maddie Meyer via Getty Images)
Targeting the cities of Karl-Anthony
From the jump, Tatum attacked Karl-Anthony Towns in the Pic-And-Roll, calling him several times in the action. He led to him, drew a fault. He drained a 3 -point pointer when the cities slept on a switch. So scared with another, the cities jumped on a faux pump, and Tatum drew a second fault. All in the first five minutes.
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Josh Hart also took his second fault in the first five minutes, defending Tatum. Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was forced to go early on his bench, when Tatum does? Rather, he chose Mitchell Robinson. At the end of the first quarter, Tatum had 13 of the 26 points of the Celtics. Easily.
Towns returned to the second quarter, only to work by Brown in the pick-And-Roll, adding a third fault. And when the cities were seated for a second time, Payton Pritchard did work on Robinson. It was a casting of rotary characters, demanding the lowest defender of New York, creating a range of quality plans.
Not that all these shots found the bottom of the basket, because the Celtics pulled 35.1% in the field.
Knicks do not leave
The Celtics pushed their advance to 72-52 halfway in the third quarter. He looked.
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SO those Knicks – Those who never leave – presented themselves. Anunoby drained the 3 consecutive points to reduce Boston's advance to 75-61. Brunson finally found some light, marking eight of his 29 points in just over two minutes at the end of the third quarter. And the Knicks closed the frame on a 23-12 race, taking a more manageable deficit of nine points in the last quarter.
Boston frozen for a spell, abandoning its match plan and contenting itself with 3 points, pulling 15 out of 60 in the long term, becoming the first team in the history of the eliminatory series to take 60 3s and to establish a record of eliminatory series with 45 breaches.
Another 8-0 flows from the Knicks at the beginning of the fourth quarter, punctuated by another triple of Anunoby, cut Boston's advance at 84-83 with 8:58. A few moments later, Anunoby chose the pocket of Tatum-while Tatum attacked the cities in the pick-and-roll, no less-and dipped the tie, 86-86.
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It was Brunson, whose heroism ended the New York series against Detroit, who gave the Knicks their first advance since the start of the second quarter, draining a 3-point corner to take equality 91-91. He emptied another on New York's next possession, having his advantage at 97-91. The clutch player of the year has arrived.
The Celtics responded with a 7-0 race, crowned by a Derrick White 3, to resume advance with 2:18 on the left. However, Anunoby connected to his sixth and last 3 points of the night, restoring an advantage of 100-98 in New York.
A sick kristaps porziņģis
Kristaps Porziņģis tried, playing through an uncomfortable disease at the start of the match, but he missed his four shots and had only four rebounds to show during his 13 minutes. The Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla begged him with 7:34 to play in the second quarter, and he never returned.
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Al Horford began the third quarter in place of Porziņģis.
Porziņģis played a total of 73 minutes against the Knicks in the regular season, and the Celtics outstripped New York by 11 points per 100 possessions during this period. Assuming that he returns to this series, Boston has another wrinkle to defend the Knicks – a unicorn of 7 feet 2 inches of rim and ground spacing.
On the good side of Boston, the Celtics returned Jrue Holiday of a tension to the hamstrings who cost him the last three games of their opening series against the Orlando Magic. He played Stout Defense against Brunson, delivered one of the biggest assists in the game – to find a Derrick White open in the area for an advance of 98-97 – and made one of the biggest shots in the game, a play -up with playing with 53 ticks to do in regulation.
But it was not enough because the knicks refused to go.
