“I thought (Vincent) had as much of an impact and put his fingerprints on the win in Game 2 as he did tonight,” Spoelstra said. He finished the game 11-of-14 from the field and 6-of-9 from deep. Vincent took over in the second half with 19 points. Martin scored eight in the first and was Miami’s leading scorer (11) at halftime, and finished shooting 7-of-11 overall and 4-of-7 from 3. Love, though, suffered a left ankle early in the first quarter and did not return, while Martin, who burned the Celtics’ small lineup in Game 2 (25 points), picked up where he left off. Mazzulla went to it for the start of Game 3, hoping to exploit Heat forward Kevin Love in space against smaller, quicker players. White is a 6-foot-4 guard and Williams is a 6-foot-9 center - and Boston started the second half of Game 2 with this look. Boston beat the Heat in last season’s conference finals in seven games.
The 2023 series is a long, long way from even getting to a Game 6. It would be the Heat’s seventh finals appearance and first since 2020, when they beat the Celtics in six games in the Eastern finals at the Disney bubble. 8 seed in league history and the first since the 1999 Knicks to reach the finals. If there is any silver lining for Boston, and there really isn’t, it’s that the only team to win a series after trailing 3-0 in baseball was the 2004 Red Sox. “I should have - whatever it was, whether it was the starting lineup or it was an adjustment, I have to get them in a better place ready to play, and that’s on me.”
“I just didn’t have them ready to play,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. The Celtics shot a disastrous 11-of-42 from 3, compared to the Heat’s 19-of-35 from deep. Jaylen Brown, who’s right behind Tatum but has had a bad series, had 12 points on 6-of-17 shooting and 0-of-7 from 3-point range. Jayson Tatum, Boston’s primary star, scored 14 points but shot 6-of-18. Heat show they are more than Jimmy Butler as they embarrass Celtics
0 kommentar(er)
