On May 16th, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and today the Celtics and Cavaliers ushered in the fifth game of the series, after the Green Army led 3-1, although the Cavaliers sat at home in this game, but their core Mitchell was still unable to play due to injury, in this case, the Green Army is also optimistic about being able to advance, and then let's talk about the game process, and then talk about the players' play.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Strus made all three free throws to help the Cavaliers take the lead, Brown and White hit three points in response, Strus hit a three-point shot, White and Tatum combined to cut 4 points in response, Morris Jr. and Garland combined to cut 4 points, White and Tatum combined to cut 5 points, the two sides played very close in this quarter, at the end of the quarter, Garland made two free throws to help the Cavaliers take the lead, and Cornet made an inside kill to help the Green Army chase down to 28 in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Pritchard and Hauser hit three points to help the Green Army establish a lead, Okoro and Strus hit three points in response, Mobley and Meryl combined for 5 points to help the Cavaliers overtake the Green Army, Brown and Cornet successively killed inside, Morris Jr. and Garland combined for 7 points to help the Cavaliers establish a 6-point lead, but then the Cavaliers' offense suddenly lost power, Horford and White combined for 4 points, Tatum scored 5 points in a row to help the Green Army lead by 6 points at halftime.
Yibian fought Strus and Mobley together for 5 points to help the Cavaliers catch up with the difference, but the Green Army obviously didn't want to be entangled with the Cavaliers like this, Holiday and Horford combined for 4 points, Tatum and Horford scored 7 points in a row, the Green Army directly extended the lead to double digits, thinking that the game was going to lose suspense, but Morris Jr. became a wonder soldier, he scored 5 points in a row to help the team chase to only 7 points to end the third quarter.
In the final quarter, Mobley's inside kill helped the team chase down to only 5 points, and seeing that the opponent was about to rise, Tatum, White and Horford hit three three-pointers in succession, and the Celtics also extended the lead to 14 points, and then although the Cavaliers did not want to give up, the Green Army did not let them play the counterattack climax again, and finally the Celtics defeated the Cavaliers 113-98, and the team advanced to the division finals.
Mobley did his best, and Garland was locked up
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the players' play, this game Cavaliers Mobley tried his best, 15 of 24 shots, 2 of 2 three-pointers, got 33 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 block, in this round of the series Allen was injured, Mobley propped up the team's interior, although the finishing efficiency is not as good as Allen, but he also proved that he can help the team on the offensive end when he has the ball, maybe the Cavaliers will give up Allen in the offseason and completely correct Mobley.
However, the team's two No. 5 positions are all water, Garland, who played well in the last game, was taken care of by the opponent's strict defense in this game, and it turned out that in the face of high-intensity defense, Garland is indeed untrustworthy, he shot 4 of 17 in this game, and 0 of 4 three-pointers got 11 points, 9 assists and 2 steals. Okoro had 5 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist on 2-of-4 shooting, and the Cavaliers abandoned him early because of too many fouls.
LeVert also missed the game due to injury in this game, and it can be said that the knights were already planning to give up, but they didn't expect Mobley and Xiao Mo to lead the team to play suspense. Morris Jr., who replaced LeVert and got the ball in this game, proved that he still had gas in the tank, the Green Army veteran scored 25 points on 10-of-13 shooting, Strus scored 12 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, and the Heat veteran was really not afraid of facing the Celtics, and he was still very excited.
Tatum showed great value, and Brown lay down to win
Coupled with this game, Tatum has played an efficient performance in three consecutive games, compared to the performance in the early playoffs, the efficiency has been significantly improved, and Tatum can improve mainly because he has reduced the role of the organization, and now he can focus all his energy on individual offense, this game he shot 9 of 16, 2 of 6 three-pointers got 25 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals.
Brown is easy paddling, 4 of 8 shots, 1 of 2 three-pointers got 11 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, this game Horford and White have played a good performance, Brown is also willing to be a wedding dress, this game White swept away the inefficient play of the past two games, 7 of 16 shots, 4 of 8 three-pointers got 18 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks, Horford saw the hope of promotion is also the old man chatting about juvenile madness, 8 of 15 shots got 22 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks.
After winning this series, the Celtics officially stepped into the division finals, Porzingis is likely to return in the division finals, when the Celtics will usher in a complete body, they will most likely face the Knicks, now the Knicks have got the match point, but the Knicks' main players are injured too much, in this case, as long as the Celtics play steadily, it should not be a big problem to reach the finals.
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