Udoka cleared the bench for much of the fourth quarter, giving his starters some needed rest after grinding their way through grueling, back-to-back seven-game series in the Eastern Conference playoffs. That was a big quarter for them, and really a quarter that put us away.” It’s easy to talk about, but we’ve got to go out there and change something. “I mean, we’ve talk about it pretty much the whole postseason. “It’s definitely frustrating,” guard Derrick White said. When the Celtics outside shooting went cold in the third quarter, the Warriors turned a close game into a rout with a 35-14 blitz.īoston had five turnovers and four baskets in the crucial third quarter, leading to a 23-point deficit that was too much to try to overcome after the Celtics rallied from 12 points down after a bad third quarter to win the series opener. But outside of a fast start by Jaylen Brown, he had no help and the Celtics had no answers.īoston shot 37.5% overall and struggled all night to make anything inside the 3-point line. Tatum bounced back from a 3-for-17 shooting performance in the opener to lead the way offensively for Boston with 28 points.
Then we turned the ball over and didn’t give ourselves a chance with a lot of those turnovers.” “I don’t think we got as much penetration to the paint,” coach Ime Udoka said. Now instead of going home in control of the Finals, the Celtics will need to regroup following a 107-88 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Sunday night that evened the series at one game apiece. SAN FRANCISCO - Jayson Tatum found his scoring touch after a rare poor shooting night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals but it was the rest of his Boston Celtics teammates who went missing.
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