NBA Playoffs: Boston Celtics Dominates in New York Knicks to Get Your First Series Win
The Defense of the NBA Champions Boston overcame New York 115-93, dominated the finish after moving 20 points to lose two previous playoff games on Knicks.
Payton Pritchard2025 NBA Sixth Man in the Year As Top Reserve, LED Boston blowing with 23 points while Jayson Tatum Added 22 points, nine jumps and seven assists, Jaylen Brown had 19 points, and Derrick White scored 17.
No team has ever gathered from 0-3 obtained to conquer a series, the fact that Celtics knew too well.
“We realized the size of this game,“Tatum said.”We needed this. I didn’t like the way we felt after the last game, so just go out here with the right opinion, just trying to contain everything together.“
Guest Celtics retreated within 2-1 in their NBA to another Column Series and can equalize the best of the seven Eastern Conference Matches to the winning game four on Monday in the Garden Madison.
“We understand a great atmosphere on Monday, a big game. It will be fun“Tatum said.
“I just go out with the right thinking, understanding we played better, but we can play much better based on many things we really wanted tonight. So just building it. “
Going out with two heavy matches with three counts, Celtics made 20-40 of 40 out of the game in the game three, Pritchard the sinking shots of 5 storage, Tatum of 5 and Al Horford stroke 3-4-4.
“We made some shots“He told Tatum.”It’s Sometimes Make or Miss League. “
Boston Total made 40-83 recordings (48.2%) while Knicks Only 32 or 80 total (40.0%) and 5-from 25 (20.0%) from three points were made.
‘Understand’
Boston withdrew into large leading roles in the first two matches at home, but faded late with a bad shooting in three points and lost their worst three points in three points of campaigns.
“You can’t ride emotional playoff rollers“He told Tatum.”You cannot too high or too low after winning or loss. Our basic group, we were together a long team, we were in so many different circumstances, so we just thought to stay together and figure out. “
Celtics seized another great early role in the game three, but this time he had a touch outside the onions and defensively while Knicks never led.
Boston jumped on the lead for 36-20 after the first quarter, shooting 6-7-7 from the range in three points and almost 58% of the floor.
The Celts stretched at the Half of the edge at 71-46, the largest debilitation deficit in the history of Knicks and LED 96-70 entry into the fourth quarter before dominated the final buzz – finally.
Boston Shot 12-of-19 (63.2%) from the range in three points in the first half, while New York was a terrible 2-for a total of 12 and 17-43 (39.5%).
Jalen Brunson led in New York with 27 points, while the cities of Karl Anthonya had 21 points and 15 jumps for Knicks, who did not reach the finals of the 2000 conference. Years.
“We have to play with more feelings of urgency,“Brunson said.”I don’t think we didn’t come with the thinking we need. We have to talk a lot and understand. “
Store Knicks Tom Thibodeau said that his team was missing the intensity needed to challenge Boston.
“They got the lead early. We missed a few shots that influenced us and received confidence early in the game,“Thibodeau said.”We entered the hole early. It took a little energy from us. We will make corrections and prepare for the next … We have to bounce.“
Saturday The only other NBA gameoff game will find Minnesota in the Gold State with the Western Conference Series NIVE 1-1.