Boston Celtics find new NBA playoff history low in lackluster performance compared to Knicks

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The Boston Celtics produced their worst achievements in the NBA playoffs when they had a defeat against the New York Knicks in the game 1 of the conference. The defending champion lost a lead of 20 points in the third quarter on Monday evening with 108-105 of 108-105. It was the first time when Boston lost a playoff game since the play-by-play era.

The Knicks exceeded the Celtics 55-39 in the second half to force the game in extra time. New York made an 8-2 run in the extension to close the game with Mikal Bridges' Summer beating theft. The Celtics set up a new NBA playoff record while shooting from a 3-point range.

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The bad 3-point shooting from Boston Celtics sets up the NBA playoff record

Boston Celtics, who had a lead of 20 points at the beginning of the second half, missed ten 3 points in the third quarter. Her star player Jaylen Brown was 1 out of 10 on threesome. The defending champion went with 3-converter with 3-von 60-30s who were most played in a playoff game. Boston set up the NBA record for most missed three in a playoff game with 45.

Celtics exceeded the record of the Timberwolves of 40 missed three. Minnesota put the record back against the Lakers for five days with a win of 103-96. Miami Heat is third in the Tally with 39 missed three-clayers and this record was also set up in this year's playoffs.

The Celtics were 3 out of 18 in the fourth and overtime. Her worst 3-point shooting helped the Knicks to take control of the game. On the way to the last quarter, the three-point shootout in Boston was 28.6%. The striker of Celtics, Jayson Tatum, went 4 out of 15 to 3S and shot 7-to-23 from the ground.

The Celtics shot 35.1% of the ground compared to 42.5% of the kinks. New York was also impressive at 3-point shooting when they were two more 3 points (17) when the Celtics made 23 less attempts. Boston was 9 from 34 to 3S after half -time. The incumbent NBA champions achieved an average of 21 3 points per game against the Knicks in the regular season.

The Celtics are also the first team to try 60 three-point pointers in a post-season game. They broke the record of the Rockets of 58 trials in the 2020 game in the first round playoff game. Boston also exceeded his earlier record of 55 3S against Bucks in game 7 of the semi -finals of the Eastern Conference 2022.

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