On April 18, Beijing time, the Celtics played at home against the Nets, and the Celtics successfully defeated the Nets 115-114 at the end of the game. In the playoffs on the Eastern Side, the suspense of the duel between other teams is not big, but this round of the series has a lot of suspense, after all, in terms of the strength of the Nets, they undoubtedly have the opportunity to go to the following gram, of course, it is not difficult to complete such a thing, so the Nets need to go all out in the game. The Celtics had a good state in this game, they once opened the score in the third quarter, fortunately, the Nets withstood the pressure behind or chased the score, and the Fourth Quarter Nets completed the rebound, but then the Celtics caught up with the score, and finally Tatum completed the kill, and the Celtics also rejected the Nets' reversal.
In the first quarter of the game, the two teams attacked each to play a very sticky score, and then Smart and others helped the Celtics to take a slight lead, but Zhuang Shen and Durant responded by also tightening the score, and then the Nets performed sluggishly, Horford and Gwee helped the Celtics expand their lead, Zhuang Shen and Curry scored to stop the bleeding, and then relied on Irving and Clarkston Nets to tie the score. The scores alternated between the two teams in the final stage, ending the first quarter with the Celtics leading by one point. In the second quarter of the game, Pu Richard and Tatum helped the Celtics hold the lead, but after Curry and Irving directly helped the Nets to rebound by 1 point, Horford responded, and then relied on Brown and Durant Nets to maintain a slight lead, and then Tatum and Brown sent a threat to help the Celtics to surpass 4 points. Tatum and Brown continued to score in the final stage, but Dragic, Clarkston and Irving responded, and the two teams ended the half to a draw.
In the third quarter, the Celtics played a wave of 11-2, durant scored to stop the bleeding at the critical moment, but Smart's three-point burst helped the team extend the lead, and then Durant and Irving led the team to chase points, but Tatum responded, but Irving and Clarkston continued to score, and the Nets chased 7 points. Tatum led the team to extend the lead in the final stages, and the Nets trailed by 11 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter of the game, Irving broke out and led the team to 3 points, the following game Celtics performance was sluggish, Irving, Durant directly helped the Nets to surpass 4 points, at the critical moment Brown helped the Celtics score to stop the bleeding, Claxton, Irving continued to score, the Nets led to 5 points. After the timeout, Brown and Horford scored to help the Celtics tie the score, but Durant and Irving once again helped the Nets take the lead in the final stage, and in the final moment, Tatum made a layup to complete the kill.
Durant performed badly in this game, his performance has also become a drag, in the previous game Durant was attacked by the Celtics' strong defense, and Durant's offensive state was not good in the first half of the game, although Durant found some feel in the third quarter of the game, but Durant's play in the fourth quarter once again dragged down the team, there were mistakes and offensive fouls, coupled with poor hand, Durant's play hurt the Nets, and Durant got 23 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists at the end of the game. At the same time, the two substitutes Clarkston and Dragic in this game also tried their best, after all, the two helped the team in the game, which is also the key to the Nets' ability to bite the score, and Clarkston got 13 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist at the end of the game, and Dragic got 14 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist.
It is a real pity that the Nets lost this game, after all, Irving played a very good performance in this game, he turned the tide in the game to help the Nets take the lead, it can be said that Irving really tried his best in this game, but unfortunately the Nets still did not win the game, and at the end of the game, Irving got 39 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. Tatum did not perform well in the fourth quarter, but his final-minute layup was completed, and Tatum finished the game with 31 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists.