The Boston Celtics had a scan of the New York Knicks season with an extension of 119-117 Tuesday evening at Madison Square Garden.
Jayson Tatum (32 points) forced overtime with a 3 -point clutch basket with two seconds to play in settlement before a huge shot of 3 points of Kristaps Porzingis late in overtime helped to ensure the victory of Boston.
The visitors dragged up to 11 points in the first half in the potential overview of the second round qualifiers between the rivals of the Atlantic division. However, Boston slowly pushed his head and maintained most of them in majority of the second half in one of the last melogabilized of the year for the first five. However, the Knicks used a 12-2 race at the end of the fourth quarter to resume the head before the clutch basket of forced Tatum at overtime.
Kristaps Porzingis finished with a 34 -point summit while overthrowing an eight 3 career summit. Jaylen Brown (six points) was limited to 22 minutes while continues to face a knees and did not play the fourth trimester due to a minute limit. Karl-Anthony Towns finished with a double-double, a summit of 34 points and 14 rebounds. Jalen Brunson also collected 26 points in his second return match of an ankle injury.
Boston will now take a long flight to Orlando for his last regular season game on Wednesday evening against a potential opponent of the first round.
Here are four points to remember from the Tuesday extension thriller:
Kristaps Porzingis draws the lights from the perimeter: The old choice of recovery of the Knicks likes to play in front of the lively lights at the Madison Square Garden and he presented a show Tuesday evening at long distance. The seven feet came back from an absence of a match to eliminate seven of his first 11 attempts by 3 points, before establishing his summit in career with a pocket 3 in overtime. The offensive explosion has shown a weak point in Knicks defensive staff while Porzingis has repeatedly punished the cities of Karl-Anthony as it was sagging. There are not many good options to defend the five departure from Boston, but giving an open look to Porzingis turns into a more risky option with performance like this.
No one could keep Karl-Anthony Towns: The Celtics were unable to play a lot of Bigs in this competition with Al Horford (knee) which withdraws. The Knicks were able to take advantage of it for much of the night with cities inside the arc. Boston has tried several times to use smaller defenders on the All-Star, but Towns managed to intimidate his way towards easy looks on the hoop, no matter who Boston threw him on him. He made 10 of his first 15 shots in the first three quarters and pulled a hot 75% in the field from the 2 -point beach in this section, carrying a Knicks offense which did not get well from the perimeter.
Celtics no longer officially play for sowing: Boston is directed to the seeded n ° 2 at the Eastern Conference in the past two months, but he has become officially on Tuesday evening with the Cavs who blowed the Bulls at home. This victory won the seeded and the advantage at home for Cleveland in a potential eastern final putting Boston firmly at No. 2 where they will probably wait for the winner of a probable confrontation between magic and the Hawks for the right to be the head of n ° 7. With three games to play, Boston will only focus on the fresh stay while they are preparing for the first round next.
The continuation of Boston in the history of the NBA path continues: Celtics have only one road match this season in Orlando on Wednesday evening and it is likely that they will be extremely digital disadvantage on their backs. However, the team will have a chance to cement themselves in the history of the NBA in the regular season if they can win a victory in Florida. This would give him 34 regular season victories, equaling the Golden State Warriors 2016 for the best road record in the history of the NBA. The number of regulars will go for this mark after a battle in overtime in the air, but there is a good chance that we will see a large part of the second unit Wednesday evening trying to make history.
