Celtics 'a bit away', but calmly after historically bad 3-pt night night

Boston-Die Boston Celtics had won 125 games of the regular season and 20 of their last 24 playoffs in the past two years, which were hit in their series with the New York Knicks, and was so happy that they apologized for their historical 3-point shot pants.

But the Celtics might have finally reached a saturation point when they missed a record of 45 of them on Monday evening when the Knicks were exploited in an overtime win of 108-105 games.

At one point in the second half, after the Celtics had built a lead of 20 points and seemed to be on the way to a tenth win in their last 11 meetings with the Knicks, Boston missed his next 10 shots and all were 3 points. In total, the Celtics went 15 out of 60 to 3 points, which were most played in a playoff game.

“Some of them felt good, some of them felt that we might have forced the problem,” said Celtics star Jaylen Brown, who was 1 out of 10 per 3. “In any case, our rhythm and timing was a bit far away. We have a lot of great appearance, but it may be a truth [to shooting too many] Today.”

Brown was correct in terms of appearance. The Celtics took 45 “undisputed” 3 pointers and missed 32 of them per ESPN research tracking. But the volume of the attempts, even if the shots did not fall, caused the second assumption.

“If we could return afterwards, we would probably drive the ball a little more because we missed many shots tonight,” said Celtics striker Jayson Tatum, who went to 3 out of 15. “You can always go back and see and see what you should have done differently.”

On several occasions on the route, the Celtic's offensive measures, which Tatum put in cheap matchups against smaller or slower defenders, but he saved the kinks by making longer percentage shots.

All error bostone was 9 out of 34 on 3s after the half-time-the door for New York opened to claw back after the tour. After the Knicks had given up 84 3 points in four losses to the Celtics during the regular season, they made two more 3-point (17) than the Celtics tries in 23.

“I look at the process and the quality of the shooting [and] Our shooting quality was high, “said Celtics trainer Joe Mazzulla, who made it a mission for his team to look for as many 3 points as possible.” There were probably eight to ten shots that could certainly be better. “

That may sound determined by the trainer, but this attitude is softer than the one that Mazzulla has taken in cold shooting nights in the past.

After the Celtics set up a lead of 20 points in the third quarter, they ended the game with 3 out of 28 to 3 to 3 and only took six free throws during this period. In the meantime, the Knicks OG Anunoby and Jalen Brunson saw or assisted a goal at 55 out of 63 points after half -time.

“In these moments when the other team got dynamics, they can't just fire 3s to destroy the swing,” said Brown. “You have to get to the free wire line, get to the color, get to the basket, maybe a simple two.