Posted in: 06/06/2022 – 07:12Last updated: 06/06/2022 – 07:10
San Francisco (AFP) – The Golden State Warriors rose in the third quarter of the second game of the NBA Finals series, to draw 1-1 Sunday by defeating the Boston Celtics 107-88 before moving the confrontation to the latter’s stadium.
After he opened the series by falling at home and among his fans 108-120, the Warriors seemed threatened to fall behind 0-2 after suffering at the beginning of the second match at home in the absence of Clay Thompson in particular and Stephen Curry to a lesser extent.
And as happened in the first game, but in favor of the Celtics, who scored 48 points compared to only 18 for their host during the second half, which allowed him to return from the “Chase Center” to win, the Warriors rose up in the second half as well and settled matters in his favor after he finished the first with two points thanks to a basket scored by Corey in the second Last.
The third quarter was decisive in determining the destination of victory, during which the hosts outperformed 35-14, expanding the difference to 23 points.
When the Warriors opened the last quarter by scoring the first six points to expand the difference to 29 points, the Celtics raised the white flag, realizing that a return had become almost impossible and their Nigerian coach, Aimee Odoka, removed his key players from the field.
Despite his difficult start in the match, Curry was the best scorer in the Warriors ranks with 29 points, while Jordan Bull compensated for Thompson’s modest performance (11 points after he succeeded in only 4 attempts out of 19, including one out of 8 outside the arc), by scoring 17 a point.
On the other hand, Jason Tatum scored 21 of his 28 points in the first half, and Jaylen Brown added 17, but he struggled this evening, especially in the second half, and was satisfied with only five successful attempts out of 17.
After failing even to reach the playoffs during the past two seasons, affected by injuries in his ranks, the Warriors returns again to “where it belongs,” according to its star Corey, to confirm that the historical era during which the team won three titles and reached the final five times in a row between 2015 and 2019, did not come to an end.
But the task will be difficult in the face of the historic Celtics, who snatched the advantage of the stadium from his opponent as a result of winning the first game, and he wants to build on that in order to try again to hold the record for the number of titles he currently shares with his rival Los Angeles Lakers (17 each).
In order to achieve this and avoid a repetition of the 2010 scenario and its last appearance in the final when it lost against the Lakers in particular, the green team must now take advantage of the ground workers in the next two matches, Wednesday and Friday, before returning to San Francisco again next Monday.
After that, and in the event that the series is not settled, the two teams will exchange hospitality in the sixth and seventh matches if the need arises, on the 16th and 19th of the current year.
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