The matches will follow and it is always difficult to play the Celtics. After a good match (lost) attack against the Jazz and fireworks managed to Portland, Boston players had two games in Los Angeles in two days to negotiate. And they leave California with two losses and a bitter taste in the mouth.
First because of the meeting against the Lakers, where the Celtics were physically dominated according to Ime Udoka.
“I’m disappointed because we were jostled, they were more powerful than us”, explained the coach à Mass Live. “They wanted to go to the circle and they managed to do it, too easily. We saw a lack of effort and toughness. »
Then, the next day against the Clippers, the coach expected a correction from his players. But the Celtics let the second quarter slip away, losing 39-23, and ultimately the game. However, they won the other three quarters, to finish three points behind Ty Lue’s troops, deprived of Paul George.
“We shoot ourselves in the foot”
A missed quarter and it’s a new defeat, so a new reason for disappointment for the men in green.
“The effort and the irregularity is frustrating sometimes”, concedes Ime Udoka, still pour Mass Live. “It’s frustrating to play like we did in the second half and not in the second quarter. We won three quarters, except the second. We dug our own grave with our lost balloons (23 against Nicolas Batum and company). »
Same feeling of incompleteness with Jayson Tatum, who offers an explanation for this slack in the second quarter.
“It’s frustrating because we should know how to get out of it”, assures the All-Star winger. “Often, shoots himself in the foot, because then, in third and fourth quarter, faster we played, we were more concentrated in defense and we need to do that. It was too easy in the first period. We have better days than others, that’s life that. No matter the job, we can not be perfect every day. »
So what face will the Celtics have on Friday night in Phoenix?
| Tirs | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Jayson Tatum | 40 | 36.7 | 41.7 | 32.7 | 84.8 | 1.2 | 7.4 | 8.6 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 25.5 |
| Jaylen Brown | 30 | 34.7 | 45.9 | 36.7 | 77.7 | 0.9 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 24.2 |
| Dennis Schroder | 37 | 31.6 | 43.5 | 34.2 | 84.6 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 15.7 |
| Marcus Smart | 38 | 34.1 | 39.3 | 30.4 | 79.8 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 11.6 |
| Al Horford | 35 | 29.1 | 43.9 | 28.1 | 85.9 | 1.6 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 10.7 |
| Josh Richardson | 32 | 26.0 | 45.3 | 41.4 | 85.0 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 10.3 |
| Robert Williams | 35 | 29.4 | 74.4 | 0.0 | 68.3 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 9.2 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 10.0 |
| Grant Williams | 39 | 22.5 | 48.1 | 41.9 | 87.8 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 7.0 |
| Payton Pritchard | 34 | 13.8 | 37.4 | 37.6 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 5.3 |
| Romeo Langford | 33 | 18.4 | 41.8 | 32.8 | 64.0 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 4.8 |
| Jabari Parker | 12 | 9.4 | 47.4 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 4.4 |
| One’s Edges | 27 | 12.4 | 55.3 | 25.0 | 81.0 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 5.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 4.1 |
| Aaron Nesmith | 30 | 10.4 | 36.7 | 24.2 | 80.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Joe Johnson | 1 | 1.9 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Justin Jackson | 1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Sam Hauser | 7 | 4.5 | 27.3 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| Juancho Hernangomez | 18 | 5.3 | 18.5 | 16.7 | 66.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| Bruno Fernando | 14 | 2.7 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Brodric Thomas | 7 | 3.9 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| C.j. Miles | 1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |