The NBA is an intriguing mystery to add a more attraction to the irresistible best league in the world. The conference semifinal series between Boston Celtics y New York Knicksa fascinating day of the marmot in which the reigning champion is caught in time, as if he were not going to have escape from the curse of the champion who is caught in the second round. Boston won again of 20 points in the final stretch of the third quarter, 70-50 with 4:03 of the partial to play and again the Knicks of Jalen Brunson wreck. Mikal Bridges He was the one who sealed the triumph (90-91) with a robbery at the last moment, this time to Tatum in time from A Brown. Again. The New York team did the unforeseen the unforeseen to put the 2-0 in the tie.
What seemed impossible in which the most unbalanced series has now become probable. The Celtics, a victim again of their self -complacency, will now have to scratch in the hell of the Madison Square Garden To flee that burning for which the champion has always remained in conference semifinals in the third decade of this 21st century. The Knicks had only won a game to Boston in the last year -just April 2024 -and have gone to birlar them two in a matter of three days.
Jaylen Brown y Jayson Tatum They were insufficient stars for Boston, with 20 points but an 8/23 in field shots and just 13 for the ‘0’, a leader too dim at this start of the tie. Derrick White contributed 20 while the always fight Josh Hartin an amazing but revealing fact that speaks of the guerrilla spirit of these knicks, it was the unexpected top scorer of the New York team with 23 on a thick night of Jalen Brunsonwith only 17 after a 6/19 into field shots but turning the two final free throws before Bridges anthological theft. The champion saw how those of Thibs They came but seemed still controlled with 85-77 in the absence of five minutes.
Karl-Anthony Towns He stuck a feast in the painting with a double-double of 21 points and 17 rebounds and Mikal Bridges, in a sample of the tireless character of the Knicks and his essence of Ironman, scored his 14 points in the last quarter. Kristaps Porzingissick, he left from the bench for the fifth time in his career, being able to play only 14 minutes in which he contributed 8 points and 4 rebounds.
“We generate good shots in the third and last quarter,” said Mazzulla. “We put ourselves in a position to win, we simply did not make the plays,” added the technician with an analysis that shows the same self -criticism that the Celtics lacked during the game.
A too simple reading -at least of the doors out -, with which those of Massachusetts will not be able to decipher the diligent and disciplined defense of the Knicks. Not everything is reduced to that unwavering character that prints from the bench Tom Thibodeau, but the New York team is reached the necessary tactical perfection to love the triple storm that derives from the game at the speed of Boston’s light.
Elite design equipment in which anyone can penetrate and pull three, Much of the Celtics game is based on creating a first rapid advantage to divide the defense and find an open shooter immediately or after a fleeting ball circulation. when not attacking the weakest link of the defense, Boston generates the advantages in the pick and roll, taking advantage of all the space that the great of the rival team gives him when he defends sunk or any other coverage that means that time and space with which his handlers do not forgive for ephemeral that they are.
Knicks are changing everything in blockages keeping Celtics at bay by not giving them that time and space and that also includes to Boston’s surprise Karl-Anthony Towns. The Dominican was held before some Celtics seeking to involve him in the pick and roll in the same way that Jalen Brunson endured the onslaught of superior players in size and athletic power like Tatum. Also a rough pivot like Mitchell Robinson It fulfilled the Knicks premise by changing to the ‘0’ penetration in the last action. The Playoffs passion gives special powers as special is what Boston will need. Although Jaylen Brown The tree already moves.
“change your mentality, change the approach. The past has already passed. Let it hurt a little and do whatever it takes in the third game,” Brown said.
The Knicks, those that for many were going to win a game and thanks after 0-4 of a regular season with several beatings, they have the current champion in critical condition and New York burning in the face of Saturday, in prime time from Spain (21:30). Meanwhile, the NBA continues to redefine the concept of entertainment monster as if it had unforeseen scripts stored under the sleeve: what seemed to be a bland announcement of an easy pass from the Celtics at the end of the conference has become an intriguing series that can lead to a drama. Now it’s Boston, convinced to lengthen him, turn him into a snake.
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