There is one second left on the clock in the game between the Celtics and Bulls. Boston is at +6 (135-129) and therefore won the match with the ball in hand, but Joe Mazzulla still calls a time-out for one last system.
Enough to allow Sam Hauser to score a final 3-pointer at the buzzer, to win 138-129.
This is because the meeting was played as part of the NBA Cup and the Celtics will not finish first in their group, dominated by the Hawks. To reach the quarter-finals of the mid-season tournament, the Massachusetts players must recover the “wild card” for best second, which will undoubtedly be played out on “point average”.
“I love it, because this tournament, with the “point average”, eliminates all the unspoken rules that we must follow or not follow” explained the Boston coach after the meeting. “In a normal situation, we wouldn't do that. But in this case, we design a system and we try to do better. The guys did a good job running the system and we tried to increase the point average as much as we could. »
This 3-pointer from Sam Hauser could also be of capital importance because it allows the Celtics to post a “point average” of +23. Boston will thus find itself in a tie with the losers of the Magic (+60) – Knicks (+15) and Bucks (+29) – Pistons (+28) matches and, in this three-way tie, every point could count…
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Jayson Tatum | 19 | 36.3 | 46.1 | 37.8 | 79.5 | 0.5 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 5.8 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 28.7 |
| Jaylen Brown | 15 | 36.5 | 43.2 | 33.9 | 76.5 | 1.4 | 4.9 | 6.3 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 24.7 |
| Kristaps Porzingis | 2 | 23.9 | 56.5 | 27.3 | 72.7 | 0.5 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 18.5 |
| Derrick White | 19 | 34.3 | 47.6 | 41.9 | 85.0 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 18.3 |
| Payton Pritchard | 19 | 27.4 | 48.5 | 44.0 | 87.5 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 15.6 |
| Jrue Holiday | 18 | 31.0 | 45.9 | 34.4 | 90.9 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 12.1 |
| Al Horford | 15 | 27.7 | 47.7 | 42.9 | 100.0 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 9.5 |
| Sam Hauser | 16 | 21.4 | 40.4 | 34.1 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 7.5 |
| Neemias Queta | 17 | 18.5 | 63.9 | 0.0 | 77.3 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 6.4 |
| Luke Kornett | 14 | 17.2 | 65.7 | 0.0 | 88.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 4.4 |
| Jordan Walsh | 14 | 8.6 | 33.3 | 26.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| Xavier Tillman, Sr. | 13 | 9.3 | 25.9 | 20.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| Jaden Springer | 5 | 4.3 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.2 |
| Baylor Scheierman | 4 | 5.8 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| Jd Davison | 3 | 4.8 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
| Drew Peterson | 3 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
