In simply over three weeks on April eighth, we’ll witness a complete photo voltaic eclipse. If you happen to can’t wait till then, hopefully you caught the Celtics once more overshadowing the Suns 127-112 on Thursday evening. Again on Saturday, the Celtics went into the valley of the Suns and gained wire-to-wire 117-107, regardless of a 45-spot from Kevin Durant.
With Paul Pierce in attendance at TD Backyard, a lot of the sport resembled an old style duel. The Finals MVP as soon as outplayed LeBron James and Kobe Bryant to boost Banner 17 in 2008. Via the primary quarter, Jayson Tatum and Durant tallied 14 and 15 factors respectively. Within the second, Jaylen Brown battled Bol Bol, 15-10. After halftime, it was Sam Hauser and Al Horford outscoring KD, Bradley Beal, and Devin Booker 16-15. Brown closed out the ultimate body with 9 factors and completed the sport with a team-high 37 factors.
Heading into Thursday evening, the Large 3 of Durant, Beal, and Booker had solely performed in 24 video games collectively this season (15-9). However even with their mixed 65 factors and Grayson Allen chipping in with one other 20, it wasn’t sufficient in opposition to Boston’s traditionally environment friendly offense.
On their five-game highway journey out west, Boston hit a lukewarm 37.3% from behind the arc, together with hitting simply 11-of-38 in a loss in opposition to the defending world champs. The Celtics don’t are inclined to shoot any higher in TD Backyard, however of their homecoming after ten days away from the parquet, they obtained some dwelling cooking, hitting half of their 50 three-pointers.
In a throwback recreation, Horford completed with 24 on 6-of-10 capturing from 3. Tatum went 26-5-5.
The Celtics performed their twentieth recreation and 4th in a row with out Kristaps Porzingis who’s nursing a proper hamstring pressure. Earlier than the sport, Mazzulla stated that “he’s getting higher and higher. He was on the courtroom at this time and he’s progressing. I don’t assume it’s long run, however we’ll simply sort of see how he’s day-to-day.”
The staff will head to DC over the weekend for a Sunday matinee in opposition to the Wizards and can return to the Backyard for a three-game homestand in opposition to Detroit on the backend of a back-to-back on Monday and Milwaukee on Wednesday.
