Five seconds to go, a point ahead for Utah and the ball for Boston. The Celtics therefore have one last chance to win and everyone imagines that the ball will land in the hands of Jayson Tatum.
It is logical to expect this scenario since it is the plan of Boston and Joe Mazzulla. “The Jazz did a good job in defense”emphasizes the coach for Mass Live.
Obviously, the Celtics wanted to use the same system than against the Sixers, a few weeks ago. Malcolm Brogdon therefore had to serve Grant Williams, who then had to pass the ball to a thrown Jayson Tatum. Except Lauri Markkanen cut the first pass, which derailed the plan.
Finally, Jayson Tatum is not going to move from the midfield and Grant Williams receives the ball in another area. The latter goes to the basket, surrounded by two Jazz players, and is countered by Walker Kessler.
“I put a dribble, I looked around me and nobody was available”, explains the interior. “Jaylen Brown is falling, Sam Hauser is to my right. I only had three seconds. Tatum was too far, Brogdon still out of bounds. So I had to at least shoot. I sought contact with Kessler, attempted a feint but he countered me. »
In addition to the system for Jayson Tatum which did not work, perhaps also that Grant Williams was confident, after scoring 12 points in the last act, while his teammate was coming out of a very complicated half-time, at 0/4 to shoot after the break.
As Grant Williams finally failed with this complicated attempt against the pivot of the Jazz, isn’t the All-Star frustrated not to have had this match point? “If he scores, everyone is happy”, recalls the winger. “Grant tried, he didn’t have much time to act. Everything happened so fast. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jayson Tatum | 66 | 37.4 | 45.8 | 34.5 | 86.1 | 1.1 | 7.9 | 9.0 | 4.7 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 30.2 |
| Jaylen Brown | 59 | 36.2 | 49.0 | 33.8 | 77.2 | 1.3 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 26.8 |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 59 | 25.8 | 48.5 | 45.6 | 88.1 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 14.7 |
| Derrick White | 71 | 28.1 | 46.0 | 37.5 | 87.7 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 12.1 |
| Marcus Smart | 54 | 32.5 | 41.3 | 33.4 | 75.5 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 6.4 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 11.3 |
| Al Horford | 56 | 31.0 | 48.6 | 45.7 | 71.4 | 1.2 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 9.9 |
| Robert Williams | 28 | 24.2 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 62.5 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 8.6 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 8.4 |
| Grant Williams | 68 | 26.6 | 44.9 | 39.8 | 80.4 | 1.1 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 8.1 |
| Sam Hauser | 69 | 15.7 | 45.3 | 41.8 | 70.6 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 6.1 |
| Mike Muscala | 9 | 17.0 | 42.2 | 34.3 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 5.7 |
| Payton Pritchard | 45 | 12.5 | 39.0 | 33.1 | 73.3 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Blake Griffin | 33 | 14.2 | 49.6 | 34.5 | 62.5 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 4.4 |
| Luke Kornet | 58 | 11.5 | 67.9 | 33.3 | 81.1 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 3.8 |
| noah vonleh | 23 | 7.4 | 45.8 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Mfiondu Kabengele | 2 | 7.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| justin jackson | 23 | 4.7 | 25.9 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
| Jd Davison | 8 | 2.3 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
