Caris LeVert scores 51 points, Brooklyn makes an unlikely comeback, double-dedication to Kyrie Irving

Right now, the best possible plan in the NBA is to come back to TD Garden but not be a Celtics fan. Another unbreathable victory in Boston, this time it was Caris LeVert who put the Nets on his back and snatched the victory in Massachusetts. All in a new scenario… incredible.

Where to start ? Difficult to say, there is so much to say about this match. Already, even before it started, we knew what had happened a few days earlier in the same arena. The visiting Rockets, a game lost in overtime when there was a miracle at the buzzer, we expected a better overall performance from the men of Brad Stevens. And if Jayon Tatum was announced absent, to the great misfortune of TV broadcasters, it was Kemba Walker who found his family and hoped to send a message to Kyrie Irving, forced to watch the game from afar following his recent operation. On paper, Boston had the best team, the most motivated players, the home advantage, and the imperative to reassure their home crowd. And, at the start of the match, everything was going in the direction announced since Marcus Smart imposed his lock in defense, Jaylen Brown added his usual energy, the scoring was well distributed and the Nets did not find their automatisms. An easy to predict victory, could one say in the spans of TD Garden, while some fans dared to sing ” Where is Kyrie »While applauding their athletes. By leading more than 10 points at half-time (56-43) and more than 15 points at the start of the last quarter (84-67), there was something to act and think so. We could not imagine anything other than a victory for the Celtics, whatever the face of this money-time. The problem … is that little by little, the planets of horror will align to make this late night nightmarish in Boston. With a Kemba Walker limited in playing time, it’s impossible to pull his rope. What about Gordon Hayward? Injured in the middle of the game. Jaylen Brown? Injured at the end of the match. When you take that trio off as you go, knowing that he can’t count on Tatum’s input already, it can leave the door open to a funny scenario. The kind of scenario that should never happen, unless you have a guy in front of you who plays like Michael Jordan and you lose all your means.

Yep.

Boston will chain errors, lose its usual defensive benchmarks, and install the ideal platform for a man on fire to become the star of the night in the NBA. Mr. Caris LeVert, or Caris LeRougeFoncé, was simply unconscious last night: 25 points in the money-time to snatch this overtime, 37 of his 51 points in the fourth quarter and overtime! Unthinkable, incredible, and above all unacceptable, as songs paying homage to Kyrie circulated a few minutes before the flood. Until the start of this last quarter, Caris and his guys were not in top form. He was at 14 points, Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot and Spencer Dinwiddie did the job as much as possible at his side, but there was nothing to predict such an eruption. Then came the click, this little one switch which makes LeVert a respected talent in the League today. Long-range shots, back-to-basket play, provoked throws, touching penetrations, Caris was at his maximum level of concentration and a whole group followed him in his business of demolishing the Celtics. In front ? The discipline returned to the locker room, Boston offered multiple chances of survival to the Nets, Marcus Smart faulted LeVert at the buzzer and at three-pointers so that he returned his throws and created an overtime … In short, an avalanche of errors causing 51 points (!) for the Nets in the last 12 minutes of the game. Stunned, the TD Garden audience fell silent as Caris continued his mixtape, confirming that he had nothing but ice in his veins. Nothing to do, nothing to say, one shutdown complete Boston both as a team and as an audience, which necessarily plunged the region into a funny position days after the difficult OT loss to Houston. How was that possible? The galleys followed one another, for sure, but Caris LeVert was incredible, above all. Acting as a leader, an unstoppable scorer, the boy recalled that he was part of the Nets’ overall picture for seasons to come, and that he had no plans to be a butler for Kyrie and KD. The latter did not miss the opportunity to congratulate his foal on the networks, also hallucinated by the performance of LeVert.

Caris LeVert EXPLODED for 51 points including 37 in the 4th and OT as the @BrooklynNets stunned Boston.#WeGoHard pic.twitter.com/9dQvsjmodW

– NBA Australia (@NBA_AU) March 4, 2020

You never know what an NBA game can hold for us. We say it often, but here is the proof. Boston led 84 to 67 at the start of the last quarter, from this precise moment the Celtics will put 36 points… and Caris LeVert 37, in the unlikely comeback of the Nets. Hats off to the artist, it was simply Jordanesque.

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