The quality of the game was high today, and the top two players in the East and West were playing against each other in pairs today, and both played with playoff level intensity. The Cavaliers and Celtics, each with double-digit leads, have both recovered their own point differences. In the end, I still see the stars of the ball.
The duel between the stars does not depend on how many points are scored in the end, but on what the stars have done at the key moments of the game. The Celtics still led the Cavaliers by 12 points in more than 8 minutes in the final quarter, and then Mitchell came on the court and two mid-range shots sounded the horn for the Cavaliers to chase points.
With 3:10 left and the Celtics holding a five-point lead, Mitchell stepped up again. Single-handedly, Hauser moved sideways and retreated to unreasonable three-point shooting, the defender has done the extreme, and Mitchell is even more extreme.
The Celtics scored 2 points and 2 points, and Mitchell chased 3 points and 3 points. Next, he caught the ball and scored three points from a long distance, opened up the shooting space by blocking and dismantling for three points, and hit three three-pointers in a row, and the difference was tied at 101.
Tatum singled Garland and didn't score, and Mitchell scored a throw in the counterattack, overtaking! From 92-103, Mitchell scored 11 points in a row alone, pure star individual ability, one person carries a team, one person plays a team, Mitchell is too familiar with this kind of thing.
When Mitchell scored 11 points in a row to kill all sides, Tatum's two attacks completely lost the suspense of this star matchup. At 101 draw, Tatum pointed to Garland, broke through the board and was intercepted and did not score, and Mitchell threw the overtaking ball.
At 101-103, Tatum clicked on Garland again, and Garland still didn't have much to do about Tatum's strong outburst. But Tatum lost his rhythm during the breakaway and lost a basket with a handle, and the Celtics fell into passivity.
The excellent lineup configuration of the two teams made it difficult to overly assist the ball carrier at the last moment, let alone the bag. After Mitchell scored 11 points in a row, Boshen's defense after the block was a little slower, and Mobley found an opportunity to dunk and score.
So the final stage is purely the individual ability of the star to solve the problem, Tatum missed Mitchell by a move, and the result was that the Celtics were successfully reversed by the Cavaliers, avenging the first meeting of the season.
I have to say that these two teams are really good at free throws, and the basic skills are excellent. In the final stage of the "penalty shootout", Pritchard and Garland did not lose it, and the Warriors and Lakers felt incredible when they saw it. Of course, the one that Pritchard missed in the end was also deliberately unable to score, and he even grabbed the ball, but was blown into the line early.
Just wrote about Duck King Pritchard the day before yesterday, and today he scored 24 points again off the bench with White not playing. In the final stage, he even sat under the basket and played Garland, and this season's Sixth Man of the Year is getting more and more dramatic.
In the first meeting of the season, the Cavaliers lost by 3 points, and Mitchell's 22 points in the second half failed to save the team. Today, Mitchell scored 30 points in the second half and scored 20 points in 6-of-6 in the fourth quarter, and he should have won. Mitchell's 35-point score in the whole game is not an exaggeration, but he scored 11 points in a row at a critical moment, and once again conquered many fans.
Of course, can you say that Tatum, who has 33 points and 8 rebounds, played poorly? The efficiency of 12 of 27 is a little low, but let's not forget that the Celtics' Brown and White did not play today, losing two major ball holders, and the burden of the Celtics' ball handling is on Tatum's shoulders.
When the score opened in the third quarter, Tatum scored 17 points in a single quarter and threw three three-pointers, and the Green Army made 7 of 13 three-pointers in the third quarter. In the middle of the final quarter, when the Celtics couldn't score points, Tatum broke the scoring drought with consecutive mid-range throws.
Tatum played 38 minutes today and took 27 shots, and his physical fitness is limited after all. In the end, Garland did not score two goals in the single, and the physical factor accounted for the majority. It's just a regular season game, this one is lost, and tomorrow it's just a game against the Heat.
The Celtics ended the Cavaliers' 15-game winning streak before, and today the Cavaliers ended the Celtics' seven-game winning streak. This year, it looks like these two teams are in the East, so let's see each other in the East.