NBA regular season Celtics ushered in a matchup with the Pacers, the Celtics are back-to-back, the interior Porzingis can play is undoubtedly good news for them, but this game Porzingis was beaten in a round and left the court with an eye injury, but fortunately, when Tanhua played well, with their performance, led the team to win the game, especially in the final quarter of the wave laid the foundation for the victory of the game. Ended the Pacers' six-game winning streak. Porzingis retired from injury, the Green Army beat the Pacers, and Haliburton was in a slump.
At the beginning of the first quarter, both sides did not score for more than a minute, and the Celtics took the lead to find an offensive feeling and played a wave of 6-0, and the Pacers responded with a three-pointer from Smith, and then they also chased the score and the two sides were deadlocked. During a rebounding scramble, Smith hit Porzingis in the face, and Porzingis left the court. Or maybe it was this turn of events that made the Celtics suddenly find their sense on the offensive end, hitting back-to-back three-pointers to instantly extend their lead to double digits. Turner scored a basket to stop the bleeding. However, it was still difficult to stop the firepower output of the Celtics' offensive end, and they continued to hit inside and outside shots, always maintaining a double-digit lead, and they always responded whenever a player on the Pacers' side scored, and they maintained their lead at 12 points at the end of the first quarter.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the Celtics continued their hot hand on the offensive end, and the lead expanded. On the Pacers' side, Mathurin hit the basket and Gilder could hit it from beyond the three-point line, and they countered and played a wave of offensive mini-climaxes, narrowing the gap to seven points, and the two sides fell into a tug-of-war, and the score hovered around double digits. In the game, Tatum can be said to be full of firepower, hitting 6 goals in 10 shots, reaching 14 points, 5 rebounds and two assists in a single quarter, and the other core Brown also maintained an efficient output and scored 7 points on 3-of-4 shooting. Although the starting lineup on the Walkers' side performed mediocre in the game, they were always able to have players step up and score points to contribute to the team's biting of the score.
In the third quarter of the game, the Pacers maintained the state of the second quarter, and they further reduced the score in the single quarter, while the Celtics did not have high efficiency in the third quarter, and the output of other players could not keep up, and they lost 6 points in the first quarter, and the lead was further narrowed. In the fourth quarter of the game, the Celtics once again had full firepower on the offensive end, with a wave of 12-4 offensive climax, once again extending the lead to double digits. Next, they still maintained an efficient output on the offensive end, withstood the Pacers' counterattack, and defeated the opponent to win.
Although the Celtics were back-to-back in this game, their hands on the offensive end can be said to be hot, and both Tanhua have excellent performances, especially Tatum, who hit 5 of the 10 shooters in the third quarter of the game outside the three-point line, and also maintained an excellent feel throughout the game, and the team was in the lead for most of the game under the leadership of the two of them. Although Burzingis' injury and retirement took their toll on them, they remained steady in the face of the Pacers' comeback, prepared for difficult games, and finally won on the road. The duo contributed a total of 69+18, leading the team to continue to consolidate its position at the top of the Eastern Conference standings.
On the Pacers' starting lineup, the state of several players is not ideal, and the plus/minus values are all negative, especially the star Haliburton is in a sluggish state, in the face of the Celtics' high-intensity defense, he frequently hits iron outside the three-point line, and the overall offensive efficiency is not high. Although they relied on their overall performance to chase their backward situation to only single digits, they were unable to withstand the wave of Celtics in the final quarter, and finally only lost to their opponents, and their 6-game winning streak was also ended by Celtic.