A couple of teams that are not too dangerous will meet on Friday, when Charlotte Hornets visited Boston Celtics.
Boston (59-21) was locked as a seed 2 for the Eastern Conference Playoffs, and on Wednesday, the first six players during the loss of 96-76 in Orlando. A victory would give Celtics a share of the NBA record for most road win in a season because they finished 33-8 from the house. 2015-16 Golden State Warriors was 34-7 on the road.
Boston won 119-117 overtime victory against New York Knicks on Tuesday night, then Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis and Al Horford for their second matches.
Boston coach Joe Mazzulla after the loss of Wednesday, “I appreciate everyone asking for the creativity, but at 4:30 in the morning we arrived at the hotel (Orlando).” He said.
Celtics, in the first quarter of Orlando against the 16-game turnover, and the 3-point range of 40 (17.5 percent) of the 40 of the range. Celtics finished with the lowest score of the season.
“Unfortunately, we haven’t really hit our good appearance than 3, which suffers, especially in the modern NBA,” Boston Guard Payton Pritchard said. He said. “Sleep plays a role in fatigue. You enter at 4:30 in the morning, so it is not easy, but it is not an excuse. So you have to find ways to win. This frustration part, you learn from it, you grow up and continue.”
Charlotte (19-61) was removed from the playoff contention last month and may be more concerned about the NBA draft than the last two matches. Celtics and Hornets will complete the normal season with another game in Boston on Sunday.
Hornets has not been entitled to NBA playoffs since 2016, when they won seeds number 6 and lost to Miami Heat in seven matches in the first round. Charlotte was entitled to participate in the NBA’s game tournament in 2021 and 2022, but both times did not progress.
Although Hornets lost five in a row and seven on the road, they received 28 points and 10 rebounds from Nick Smith Jr. Smith gets 9.9 points and 2.1 rebounds average per game this season.
Charlotte Charles Lee, “Sometimes statistics can be deceptive, but they never lied (against Toronto).” He said. “(Smith) did this in many different ways. Defensively, after talking how many attack rebounds (raptors) took it, they entered and rebels. And then took what the game gave him.
“If I told him to make that sewing pass, he made an extra transition to the sewing. If he continued and took a part of the paint, he would kick Wendell Moore for a corner 3. And then he was able to score goals for him, so I liked everything he could give to our team.”
Celtics and Hornets played a row in Charlotte at the beginning of this season. Boston won 124-109 on November 1 and 113-103 on 2 November.
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