Celtic pride: Bradley’s last-second shot stuns Cavs 111-108
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But that seemed to be the only resemblance. It wasn’t about the bad mood carrying over. “We’re happy and excited, but we didn’t come to just win one game”, Boston’s Jaylen Brown told CSNNE.com following the win. “You move on and hopefully be better the next game”. Let us regroup. Let us regroup, and all the narrative and everything that was going on, let’s regroup, and let’s get back to playing desperate basketball, which they did tonight. They scrapped. They have a scrappy team.
James was not his usual fun and smiling self during the post-game press conference Sunday.
The Cavs were up by 21 points in the third quarter and allowed the Celtics to get back in the game and eventually win it by three points.
Everybody knows the conference finals are just a tune up for the Cavs’ inevitable – or as conspiracy theorists call it, “pre-ordained” – rematch with Golden State for the championship belt. “What else do you want me to say?”
Bradley finished with 20 points, while teammate Marcus Smart added 27 on 8 of 14 shooting overall.
“Boston”, Lue said without hesitation.
Marcus Smart (left) in the Adidas D Lillard 2.0. But that was Jerebko last night, freed from the bench and impacting the game with his energy. “He shot the ball well”.
Don’t be fooled. Las Vegas bookmakers looked at that monumental upset, shrugged, re-evaluated and then promptly knocked the Cavs down to a 15-point favorite ahead of Thursday night’s Game 4. In the second half, the Celtics had eight offensive rebounds – they got a second attempt on one-third of their missed shots.
Tyronn Lue, who won a ring with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2000-01 and was added to Doc Rivers staff a season after the C’s won the 2007-08 title, was asked what team from his past most reminds the coach of his Cavaliers.
“I was just pretty poor”, James said. “We lost; it happens”.
ESPN Staff Writer, Chris Forsberg quoted Bradley in his recent article saying, “One of the plays that he [Brad Stevens] drew up when Jerebko hit [a late] shot, it was for me to lay the ball up”. That stood out a lot, just how physical they were. They started to get momentum, and that’s what happens – you give a team a life.
“They’ve got a lot of fight, a lot of pride, and they played well last night, but we’ve just got to play better, be more physical”. They were a better defensive team without him without a doubt. Shumpert sent out a tweet, calling it a “great practice”.
“I feel like you have to have some type of adversity in order to be successful”, James said. (Richard Jefferson) and all that.
“We decided were going to go out and play hard, swinging”. He played 169 playoff games between those two games.