Los Boston Celticswho suffered an unexpected setback against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, reacted this Wednesday defeating en Brooklyn por 114-139 to the Netswhich is trained by the Spanish Jordi Fernández.
The first day of the Emirates NBA Cup left several surprising results on Tuesday and among them stood out the Celtics defeat by 116-117 against some Hawks sin Trae Young.
Beyond losing, the image of the current champions of the NBA was very poorbut fortunately they had a meeting in Brooklyn just 24 hours later to right the ship.
Misguided at the start and much finer and more lethal as the match progressed, the Celtics (10-3), who only have the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers (13-0) ahead of them in the East, allowed themselves to be guided tonight for a gran Jayson Tatumwho was one breath away from signing a powerful triple-double (36 points with 12 of 19 shots and 5 of 6 in triples, 8 rebounds and 10 assists).
Additionally, Jaylen Brown contributed 24 points and 12 rebounds and Payton Pritchard shined in the second unit with 23 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
Los Celtics They made 22 of 45 in triples, controlled the rebound (33-44) and dominate clearly the second half (54-74).
In the Nets (5-7), who squeezed the Celtics last week until losing in overtime, the best were Ziaire Williams (23 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists), Cam Thomas (17 points) and Dennis Schroder ( 16 points).
Al Horford did not play in Boston, while Brooklyn was without Ben Simmons and Dorian Finney-Smith.
Fernández will now face his first visit to Madison Square Garden to face the New York Knicks in the New York duel. It will be a double date since the Knicks and Nets will face each other on Friday and Sunday.
From less to more
If Joe Mazzulla expected a convincing reaction from his players after the setback against Atlanta, he did not find it at the beginning.
Disconnected, with three-pointers that went nowhere and with a staggering lack of concentration on defense, the Celtics started with a 19-8 lead in six minutes for some firm Nets who did arrive on time for the game.
The most inspired was Williams with 11 points, but the entire local attack performed at a high level. Nevertheless, Tatum decided to put the Celtics on his back with 13 points and Boston, which lost by 13, left the difference in nothing towards the second period (34-32).
Thomas and Schroder took over for the Nets, but the problem with facing the Celtics is that any of their figures can combust at any moment to score points.
That happened in the second period with Brown, who scored 13 points and took the helm of the visitors along with Pritchard’s always valuable contributions from the bench.
With all this, Boston took control of the match after the first half (65-60) with 19 points from Brown, 16 from Tatum and 13 from Pritchard. For the Nets, Williams with 16 points, Thomas with 12 and Schroder with 11 were the most active.
Los triples How difficult it was for the Celtics to score in the first quarter (5 of 13) little by little they began to enter. In fact, it was a three-pointer from Tatum that gave Boston its first double-digit lead and forced Fernández to call a timeout (68-80 with 8.14 on the clock).
The siege from the perimeter was relentless with a 7 of 11 in that third quarter. Tatum put on his boots with a 3 of 3 triple for 15 points in total and the Celtics, who also took advantage of 6 turnovers from their rivals, went straight to a +17.
Perhaps due to the result the game was not over (89-103), but due to feelings the Nets were touched path of the last period.
The first +20 for Boston came with seven minutes left after a basket by Jrue Holiday and, with no arguments from the Nets for a comeback, the Celtics were able to further extend their lead until the end.
