The matches follow each other and it is always difficult to read the Celtics. After a good (lost) game in attack against the Jazz and a successful fireworks display in Portland, the Boston players had two games in Los Angeles in two days to negotiate. And they leave California with two losses and a bitter taste in their mouths.
First because of the meeting against the Lakers, where the Celtics were physically dominated according to Ime Udoka.
“I am disappointed because we were jostled, they were more powerful than us”, explained the coach to Mass Live. “They wanted to go to the circle and they managed to do it, too easily. We saw a lack of effort and hardness. “
Then, the next day against the Clippers, the coach expected a correction from his players. But the Celtics let the second quarter slip away, losing 39-23, and ultimately the game. However, they won the other three quarters, to finish three points behind the troop of Ty Lue, deprived of Paul George.
“We shoot ourselves in the foot”
A quarter missed and it is a new defeat, therefore a new cause of disappointment for the men in green.
“The effort and the irregularity, it’s frustrating sometimes”, concedes Ime Udoka, still for Mass Live. “It’s frustrating to play like we did in the second half and not in the second quarter. We won three quarters, except the second. We dug our own grave with our lost balloons (23 against Nicolas Batum and company). »
Same feeling of incomplete at Jayson Tatum, who gives an explanation of this slack in the second quarter.
“It’s frustrating because we should know how to get out of it”, assures the All-Star winger. “Often, we shoot ourselves in the foot, because then, in the third and fourth quarters, we played faster, we were more focused in defense and we need to do that. We were too easy in the first half. We have better days than others, that’s life. No matter what the job, you can’t be perfect every day. “
So, what face will the Celtics have on Friday night in Phoenix?
| Tirs | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Jayson Tatum | 26 | 36.4 | 41.5 | 33.3 | 82.7 | 1.1 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 25.7 |
| Jaylen Brown | 13 | 32.8 | 46.3 | 36.5 | 76.3 | 0.5 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 21.4 |
| Dennis Schroder | 25 | 33.4 | 44.4 | 34.7 | 89.2 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 5.0 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 17.6 |
| Al Horford | 22 | 29.4 | 46.1 | 30.2 | 86.0 | 1.6 | 6.5 | 8.1 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 12.5 |
| Marcus Smart | 25 | 34.5 | 39.8 | 29.2 | 77.4 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 11.3 |
| Josh Richardson | 20 | 24.4 | 46.4 | 35.4 | 82.4 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 9.7 |
| Robert Williams | 19 | 27.8 | 73.8 | 0.0 | 64.5 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 8.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 9.1 |
| Grant Williams | 26 | 21.7 | 49.6 | 42.4 | 88.5 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 7.1 |
| Romeo Langford | 20 | 18.1 | 42.4 | 41.7 | 69.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 4.8 |
| Jabari Parker | 8 | 9.9 | 54.2 | 55.6 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 4.6 |
| One’s Edges | 15 | 11.9 | 45.3 | 33.3 | 83.3 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 4.3 |
| Aaron Nesmith | 21 | 9.7 | 36.4 | 26.7 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 3.0 |
| Payton Pritchard | 20 | 9.4 | 27.7 | 31.1 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 2.8 |
| Juancho Hernangomez | 13 | 4.3 | 22.2 | 16.7 | 80.0 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 |
| Bruno Fernando | 8 | 2.2 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Brodric Thomas | 2 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Sam Hauser | 2 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
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