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Tim BontempsESPN
Lake Buena Vista, Fla. – The Celtics guard Marcus was booming on his teammates in the locker room before leaving the smart room after the Boston Celtics blew the second straight half-second lead and lost 106-101 to the Miami Heat on Thursday night. According to ESPN’s Malika Andrews.
According to Smart Andrews, Smart screamed in the locker room, “Y ‘on some bull,” and there were a lot of loud clicks – like throwing something – it was coming from inside, while some players, just ahead of Smart, screamed. Were.
While the NBA went without speaking to smart reporters following the follow-up to Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, those who spoke – Celtics coach Brad Stevens, guards Kemba Vakerkar and Jalen Brown and forward Jason Tatum – all tried to tackle the situation.
“It was nothing,” Wal Wal said. “This is nothing.”
The guys were emotional after a tough game, Stevens said. “Hard loss.”
“It just flies around, a lot of emotions,” Brown said. “Obviously we felt like we could win, we won, but we didn’t win. So, a lot of emotions were flying around. Just.”
“I don’t know who said that,” Tatum said. “I mean we’re 0-2. I mean we’re disappointed, but these are team games.
“We shouldn’t be happy to come down to 0-2, but there’s nothing normal about the game. It’s great. Got ready for the next one.”
To prepare for the next one, the Celtics will have to find out what happened to them in the fourth quarter of Game 1 and the third quarter of Game 2 – both of which saw Boston cough up double-digit leads (14) points in Game 1, and in Game 2. 15). Boston were outsourced 37-17 in the third quarter on Thursday night, shattered by a barrage of missed shots and ugly turnover.
“Man, they pushed us forward,” Wal Wal said. “They introduced us. It’s really unacceptable on our part. It was a really bad quarter for us.
“We didn’t continue to do what we had to do to move us forward and get that lead. I think we got a kind of comfort and those guys, it benefited a lot. They played hard. They played really hard. Played harder than they wanted to. “
But even then, the Celtics managed to stabilize themselves once again. And after scoring 15-2, Boston took a 25: 94-8989 lead while: 25: remaining: 25 was left when Waker did – burying the pointer, and it looks like the Celtics will be able to survive their devastating third quarter.
Only when things seemed to be stolen in the Celtics did they quickly separate again. Miami closed the game 17-7, including nine runs with just one minute left to go from two to seven.
And when the Celtics managed to bounce back into space with a back-to-back 3-pointer boom by Braun, his potential game-tying triple had 15.1 seconds left in front of the Miami bench, and he hit a knock off Jimmy Butler. Pair free throws on the game ice for a hit.
“We’ll be voice, executive and together right now,” Brown said. “It’s the same. We feel confident about our abilities, we feel confident about our game plan.
“We haven’t run it to the extent that we know we can. Two games, we landed short at the end of the game, and we’re looking forward to the game. We’ll have to find a way to win.”
The Celtics struggled hard against Miami’s zone defense in the second half, went 5-for-15 off the field and made five turnovers. Boston had similar issues in the semifinal series of the seven-game Eastern Conference against the Toronto Raptors, one he only managed to survive after kicking a few games he should have barely won.
Now, after doing so in the first two games of the series, the Celtics find themselves away from two matches against the Miami team which is 10-1 in the playoffs. To add insult to injury, Butler himself said after the game that the Heat did not have as much talent in this Boston team – an advantage that should be ahead in Boston’s favor if forward Gordon Hayward, who was made suspicious before missing Game 2, on Saturday night. Game 3 or Wednesday 4 is able to return to the game.
“That’s what it is [defense is] About, winning championships, ”Butler said.
“That’s the way we’re going to win. We have to make it a tough game. We have to get it out of the swamp. As we say, because at the talent level, I think Boston has the edge.”
So far, whether it has been very difficult or executed, Boston has not been able to play at a consistent level for the entire game. And, because of that, the Celtics find themselves in a two-way hole in this series.
“We didn’t just play the full 48 minutes of locking and implementing the game plan,” Brown said. “I think about 75 per cent, we’ve played really well. It’s always a quarter or a sequence of events where we have losses, and against this team, we can’t get that.
“If we take it, we’ll win.”
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