After their victory this Friday against Miami, Boston is relaunched in the Eastern Conference final of the NBA play-offs and can still hope to reverse the situation. Boston is now only 3-2 led by the Heat.
Boston, carried by its essential duo Jayson Tatum / Jaylen Brown, beat Miami (121-108) to reduce the gap to 3 to 2 in their Eastern Conference final of the NBA play-offs on Friday at Disney World.
Tatum as a leader
The Celtics remain back to the wall, still required to win twice in a row if they want to return to the championship final, which would be their first in ten years and the 22nd in their history marked by 17 titles, current record . The hardest part therefore remains to be done, but with this success they maintain the suspense in this thrilling series and nothing indicates that it does not end up turning to their advantage.
Because they showed a hell of a character to revive after a first period too inside, where they lacked a bit of everything, offensively address, defensive intensity, scam more generally. In the third quarter, the face of Boston was not the same and Miami, which had led a little too quietly by nine points at the break, took a huge green tide (41-25) whose wave the most forte was named Jayson Tatum, author of 17 of his 31 points (10 rebounds, 6 assists).
Fatigue on the Miami side
Jaylen Brown (28 pts, 8 rebounds) took over at the start of the 4th quarter by scoring two baskets behind the arc in quick succession, and Daniel Theis, omnipresent on both sides of the racket, did a huge job ( 15 pts, 12 rebounds, 3 blocks), to allow the C’s to escape a little more to count 16 steps ahead just before the money-time. A sufficient mattress to carry it.
On the Heat side, the energy that usually makes their big nights lacked, except at Goran Dragic (23 pts) who even had a little too much to spare since he left for six faults too early in the last quarter. Jimmy Butler did not weigh (17 pts, 8 assists), shooting quite little (5/11), when Tyler Herro also seemed underused offensively (14 pts) two days after his heroic evening (37 pts). Fatigue may be felt, it is up to them not to give up on Saturday for game number 6.
