Despite a slightly clumsy Stephen Curry, Golden State dominated Boston tonight (104-94) and is now just one victory away from the title in these NBA Finals. The Warriors will have their first chance to close the deal in a few days at the TD Garden.
The Warriors take the lead! For the first time in this series, the Californians are ahead and it comes at (perhaps) the best of times for them. Indeed, on the night from Monday to Tuesday, Golden State beat Boston in its fourth (104-94) and now leads 3-2 in these NBA Finals. It must be said that at the Chase Center, the locals quickly took control of the match, thanks to a 24-8 inning. Behind, despite their awakening, the Celtics were still 12 points behind at halftime (51-39). If the latter almost zeroed the counters at the time of the third quarter and thus returned to a length of the players of Steve Kerr (75-74), Jayson Tatum (27 points and 10 rebounds) and theirs then they seemed to lack juice in the last 12 minutes. They could not then do anything to counteract the Californians who again made the difference to finally win almost without trembling in money-time, they who had up to 16 points ahead at the end of the game. Thanks to this second success in a row against Boston, Thus, Golden State takes the lead in this series for the first time and will have two shots at the title.including the premiere in a few days at the TD Garden.
Wiggins y Thompson reemplazan a Curry
If Stephen Curry (16 points and 8 assists) and the Warriors can have a smile, the point guard was very clumsy during Game 5 (7 of 22 shooting, including 0 of 9 on three points), which also ended his incredible streak of 233 straight games with at least one 3-point shot made. It’s even the first time this has happened to him in his career, in 132 playoff games. An obviously contagious clumsiness in this fifth duel between Warriors and Celtics, as evidenced by the 52 missed triples in this one (20/72).
If local number 30 has therefore had less prominence, Iperfectly complemented by Andrew Wiggins (26 points and 13 rebounds) and Klay Thompson (21 points), or even Gary Payton II (15 points and 5 rebounds) and Jordan Poole (14 points) off the bench. Opposite, despite the contribution of Marcus Smart (20 points), Jaylen Brown (18 points and 9 rebounds) or even Robert Williams (10 points and 8 rebounds), the visitors paid dearly for the numerous free throws left along the way ( 21 of 31).
BASKETBALL – NBA / FINALS
From June 3 to 19, 2022
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS – BOSTON CELTICS: 3-2
party 1 – Golden State Warriors- Boston Celts : 108-120
Party 2 – golden state warriors –Celtics de Boston: 107-88
party 3 – Boston Celts – Golden State Warriors: 116-100
party 4 -Boston Celts- golden state warriors : 97-107
Party 5 – golden state warriors –Celtics de Boston: 104-94
Game 6 on Thursday June 16 in Boston
Game 7 (if necessary) on Sunday June 19 at San Francisco
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