Outside Madison Square Garden, it was sunny and beautiful, a perfect day for the biggest game in Knicks qualifiers in more than two decades.
Inside, it was dark, a powerful storm of 3 Celtic points which would not stop until this series of semi-final of the Eastern Conference had a very different sensation.
The Knicks still hold an advance of 2-1 this series, but this advantage is incredibly precarious after the game of 115-93 on Saturday 3 in a silent and discouraged MSG.
It looked like the first three regular season games between the two teams – three Boston Rimamps.
It looked like the Celtics team who was supposed to pass the Knicks in the final of the Eastern Conference for the fourth consecutive year and was considered a favorite to repeat as champions.
According to Saturday, the Celtics were the 31st team in the history of the NBA qualifiers to abandon the first two home games in a series of best seven. Only five of them won the series.
Boston seeks to be the sixth.
After stopping in Boston, the stars wings Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown found their game, combining for 41 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists.
The Celtics struck 20 3 points in 40 attempts after missing a 75 combined during the first two competitions.
It was a 25-point match at halftime and 31 at the start of the third quarter.
There has been extended waste time, as Marv Albert liked to say.
Unlike the first two games in the series, the Knicks no longer returned from this kind of deficit. They never got closer to 20 years, installing a 4 -garden pivot match on Monday evening, and lost three consecutive playoffs.
Halfway through the third quarter, the Knicks took slowly from the momentum.
The advance was 24 years when Jalen Brunson inexplicably dribbled the ball of his foot. This led to a Lay-Up Tatum in transition-symbolic of the lost afternoon of the Knicks.
Really, no one has played well for the Tom Thibodeau team.
Og Anunoby (two points) did not score first half and has seven points in the last two games. Brunson had trouble during the first three quarters.
The rebound was poor early and the defense was gentle.
The problems of Mitchell Robinson on the Frankish throw line continued with a broadcast of 4 out of 12, leaving it 11 for 39 in the playoffs.
Brunson led the Knicks with 27 points, but most of it came with the game well in hand.
Karl-Anthony Towns added 21 points without impact and 15 rebounds and Josh Hart had 10.
Payton Pritchard scored 23 points on the bench for the Celtics.
It was 71-46 in favor of the Celtics at halftime, and there were very few positive points to take for the Knicks. They started 4 out of 17 on the field.
They were again exceeded (less and less), missed 10 attempts of 3 points and were mostly non-competitive.
The Celtics made their first three 3 points and continued to form them deeply.
They were 12 out of 19 from the distance to the first half. After having fought powerfully during the first two games, Tatum and Brown combined 31 points in the first half on 50% shooting.
The Celtics built a two -digit lead at only 6:35 after the tip, and they were up 16 years after one.
He changed 25 at the break.
The large crowd looked like a library.
