NEW YORK — The New York Knicks will look to take a commanding 3-1 collection lead over the Boston Celtics with a win on Monday night time, after dropping Sport 3 by a whopping 22-point deficit.
The Celtics’ 3-point contact got here again in Sport 3, so the Knicks did not.
Jayson Tatum had 22 factors, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, Payton Pritchard scored 23 factors and Boston simply bought its first win within the Japanese Convention semifinals by routing New York 115-93 on Saturday.
The Celtics went 20 for 40 from 3-point vary after going simply 25 for 100 of their two losses in Boston, once they blew 20-point leads within the second half of each video games. The defending NBA champions went forward by 31 on this one and there was by no means something resembling a comeback for the Knicks.
“You have to beat us 4 instances. That is what it comes all the way down to. Not twice, not as soon as, not three,” Celtics ahead Jaylen Brown mentioned. “You have to win 4 video games, so there’s a number of basketball to be performed.”
Tatum, an All-Star who shot simply 12 for 42 general in Boston, and Pritchard, the NBA Sixth Man of the Yr, each made 5 3s.
Brown scored 19 factors and Derrick White had 17 for the Celtics, who will attempt to tie the collection Monday night time in Sport 4 earlier than returning to Boston for Sport 5 on Wednesday.
Jalen Brunson scored 27 factors and Karl-Anthony Cities had 21 factors and 15 rebounds for the Knicks, who blew a 2-0 lead on this spherical final yr and are nonetheless in search of their first convention finals look since 2000.
“I do not assume we got here with the mindset of being happy, however I believe it was simply subconsciously happy being up 2-0,” Brunson mentioned. “Simply not the best way we have to strategy the sport.”
Boston made extra 3-pointers than any group in NBA historical past in the course of the common season, when it swept all 4 conferences towards New York. However the Celtics have been ice chilly to open this collection, beginning with an NBA playoff-record 45 misses in Sport 1.
They made their first 4 3-point photographs in a blistering begin Saturday and by no means actually slowed down. They completed 6 for 7 behind the arc en path to a 36-20 lead, their highest-scoring first quarter of the postseason, shortly taking the power out of a crowd the place some followers paid greater than $600 per ticket to be within the enviornment with the celebrities for one of many largest video games the Knicks have performed within the 2000s.
“Only a matter of time,” Tatum mentioned.
Tatum and Pritchard hit consecutive 3s for a 55-33 lead with 4 1/2 minutes remaining within the half, and Boston took a 71-46 result in the locker room.
New York was 5 for 25 behind the arc and shot 68.6% on free throws – although that was principally as a result of Mitchell Robinson went 4 for 12 because the Celtics fouled the poor free throw shooter deliberately.
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