Fourteen points ahead in the last quarter. 15 max. Two free throws with the score tied and only eight tenths on the clock. Beyond the significant losses (Tatum, Williams, Horford), the Boston Celtics they had everything to pull off an upset win in their visit to Cleveland. Instead, however, they added their own third consecutive lossat the end of the heart attack in which the Cavs ended up prevailing 118-114 supplementary.
This is the third time Cleveland has beaten Boston in overtime this season. (The Celtics won the other duel). Bickerstaff now has perfect 7-0 overtime record in 2022-2023 (the Celtics fell to 4-7), showing tremendous sheer mental toughness, with Donovan Mitchell as a standard bearer
IN HIS HEAD😱 #LetEmKnow pic.twitter.com/k31NErfli7
— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) March 7, 2023
beyond that Darius Garland and Evan Mobley had important contributions to close the gap at the end of the fourth quarter, it was Mitchell who ended up scoring 9 points in the last two minutes, to leave the history 109 the same. However, Boston had two free throws to win it 0.8 on the clockbut Grant Williamsusually 83% shooter from the line, both failed and Mazzulla’s ended up succumbing in five extra minutes.
Grant Williams had TWO free throws for a chance to win the game for the Celtics (+250 ML)
He said “I’ll fix them both” before losing them both 😭
The Celtics lost in OT. pic.twitter.com/Tc7zhmmdf3
— br_betting (@br_betting) March 7, 2023
This short losing streak is testing the Celtics. Not because there have been any very worrisome deficits from a basketball standpoint, but let’s see How do they handle bumps? at a key part of the season where any setback can be extremely costly. especially with the The 76 are nipping at his heels in pursuit of second place in the East.
Boston needs to quickly regain that dominant image it has had for much of the year. And it is that since the All-Star, the Celtics have played seven games, 3-4 record and perhaps even more worryingly, differential -20 in the accumulated of these meetings.
After an affordable home match against Portland (Wednesday, March 8), the Celtics will take on a six-match away tourwhich will help you find out how much a team that continues to appear among the title favorites is rebounding or hitting.
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