The Boston Celtics (34/31) team did not defend home walls in the National Basketball Association (NBA) at home 119:129 (32:34, 39:37, 27:32, 21:26) landed at the Portland Trail Blazers (36/28) club.
Both teams advanced evenly throughout the match, with a minute and a half left to play Marcusas Smartas was kicked out of the court after a technical foul, and Jayson Tatum soon reduced the gap to two points with a free throw (119: 121). However, Carmelo Anthony and Norman Powell responded with accurate throws, and the Celtics suffered a fatal disaster.
With just 40 seconds left in the defense, the leaders of the Boston club were hit by the road Jayson Tatumas and Jaylen Brownwho suffered pain for a long time while lying on the ground. Finally, ascended, J. Brown limped straight into the locker room, J.Tatumas soon followed in his footsteps.
The remaining Celtics did not work wonders for the rest of the time.
He became the main forge of victory for the guests C.J.McCollumas, scored 33 points in 38 minutes (8/12 two-pointers, 4/8 three-pointers, 5/6 free throws), rebounded 5 balls, made 5 assists, blocked the throw and made one mistake once.
The Celtics seemed to have taken all the steps towards victory – winning the fight for the balls (45:36), making more assists (29:27), losing just two free throws (13/15) and hitting more than half a three-pointer (20/39). ), but was left without a triumph.
Both clubs are in a similar situation at their conferences – they are in seventh place and are trying to avoid an additional tournament in which teams with 7-10 places will compete for places in the playoffs.
„Trail Blazers“: CJMcCollumas 33 (4/8 three-point, 5 reb., 5 res.), Damian Lillard 26 (6 reb., 13 res.), Norman Powell 23 (4/6 three), Jusufas Nurkičius 14 (rec. 11), Carmelo Anthony 13 (3/5 three-pointers), Robert Covington 10 (3/6 three-pointers).
„Celtics“: Jayson Tatum 33 (5 res., 4/5 three-point), Evan Fournier 21 (5 rep., 5/7 three-point), Jaylen Brown (11 rep., 1/9 three-point) and Aaron Nesmith ( 4/4 three-pointers) after 16, Payton Pritchard 13 (6 sec.), Marcus Smart 11 (8 rep., 8 res.).
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