Heist Deals! The gold content of Holiday is still rising!

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2024-05-26 22:44Published in Fujian

In the Eastern Conference G3, the Celtics defeated the Pacers 114-111 and rewrote the score to 3-0.

In this G3, the Celtics almost fell behind all the way after the second quarter, and they still trailed by 18 points more than halfway through the third quarter, and even until 2 minutes and 38 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Celtics were still 101-109 behind by 8 points.

What is the concept? At the time, the probability of Celtic's victory was only 6.2%, but with less than 3 minutes left, Celtic played a wave of 13-2 and reversed the game.

There is no doubt that Tatum is the MVP of this game.

In the whole game, Tatum played a total of 44 minutes, shot 12-of-23, 5-of-10 three-pointers, scored 36 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 blocks, and did not have a single turnover.

Tatum had deficiencies in his previous two games, but this one was really not black, full of offense and defense at both ends, and he also had a three-pointer and a back pass at critical moments, and his on-court plus/minus was +9, the highest starter.

The other of the double tanhuas, Jaylen Brown also played well, scoring 24 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 1 block on 10-of-18 from the field, scoring the second highest on the team;

In the second quarter, Brown scored 10 points in a single quarter to bite the Pacers, and in the last 5 minutes of the fourth quarter, it was also Brown, first dunking Turner, and then chasing Turner's backward jumper.

So far, the performance of the two Tanhua has been very good, including Tatum averaging 31.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.3 steals per game, with a true shooting rate of 58.7%; Brown averaged 30.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game, shooting 59.9% from the field, and both of them had the possibility of winning the MVP of the Eastern Conference finals.

However, there is one more player on the Celtics team that cannot be ignored, and that is Holiday .

In this G3, Holiday played 38 minutes, shot 4 of 10, scored 14 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists, and the data is certainly not as good as the double probe, but Holiday delivered 3 steals and took over the game at the end of the fourth quarter.

40 seconds left, the Celtics chased 109-111, and then it was Holiday who received a pass from Tatum and went straight to the basket, and scored a 2+1 lead against Siakam;

With three seconds left, the Celtics led 112-111, and it was also Holiday who cut Nembhard head-to-head and then hit both free throws to ensure that the Celtics were undefeated and ultimately won.

It needs to be said that this is not the first time that Holiday has made meritorious service in the East Duel.

G1, Holiday played 48 minutes, shot 10 of 16, scored 28 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals, he scored 8 points in the fourth quarter, and the statistics were better than Brown (26+7+5), who made a three-point shot;

G2, Holiday played 37 minutes, shooting 6-of-7 from the field and 3-of-4 from three-point range, scoring 15 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists, and his 10 assists were his personal highest in this year's playoffs.

It's worth noting that Holiday has shot 44.4 percent from three-point range so far, and he can reduce the three-point shooting percentage from 38 percent to 35 percent.

Even crazier is this, when 6 feet inside, Holiday can reduce an opponent's shooting percentage from 66.3 percent to 61.5 percent, and it's hard to imagine that this is a guard stat.

This is also Holiday 'magic's", on the offensive end, if the opponent does not pay attention to it, he can hand over no less than superstar data, focusing on the defensive end, not only to defend the outside, but also to defend against Sika, Turner, Mobley, Adebayo These interior lines, and they are absolutely reliable at critical moments.

In the 2021 Finals, Holiday proved his "champion gene", when he stole Paul at the last moment in G4 and Booker at the last moment in G5, and won two consecutive games with defense;

And, two years ago, it was also Holiday who faced Smart and killed the game with a block and a steal.

Interestingly, last offseason, the Celtics sent Smart away and then promoted to Holiday .

While these are two different trades, the chips used to get Holiday do include the assets that Smart got (a 2024 Warriors first-rounder), and the deal looks like this:

- Celtics get Holiday

- Trail Blazers get Lowe, Brogdon and two future first-round picks (Warriors top-four protected in 2024, Celtics unprotected in 2029)

After the deal was completed, many fans felt that the Celtics had made up for the final link in the championship, and James commented on the deal a few months ago: "The Celtics traded a bag of potato chips for Holiday . ”

And from now, the Celtics did benefit from this deal, Holiday not only had a good offense, but also showed his DPOY-level skills on defense - not to mention, in the end of this G3, if it was replaced by Smart, the Celtics would probably not be able to take it.

Listening to what his teammates said about Holiday again, Jaylen Brown said in the interview: "Holiday Jrue is really different, I can't find any other words to describe him except this word, he is really different." ”

Unlike the Doubles, Holiday has already won a championship with the Bucks, but now he has a chance to return to the Finals and pick up his second ring — look at his performance in the Eastern Conference finals, that's the value of a championship guard, and the value of the Celtics' trade last summer is still rising.

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