Boston Celtics will not be defeated against the New York Knicks, who visited the teams of the teams on Monday night in the 1st game of the Eastern Conference semi -finals.
Knicks lost each of the four normal season matches against Celtics, and the first three losses came at least 13 points. Boston also defeated New York 119-117 during the 8th of April overtime.
“Obviously, we have to play better during the normal season (against them),” Knicks said Jalen Brunson. He said. “Be better, ready to do it without jumping, knowing that there will be a running game, knowing that they can do many great things.
“I feel that we play better in this (fourth) game. We've arranged them for the first three times, obviously we still don't do it, but he's definitely played better than the first three games.
Six times All-Star Jayson Tatum, Boston's first round of six matches defeating Detroit'i defeating the third seed against New York 125 points per game, 53.5 percent of the four normal season match was 33.5 points.
OG Anunoby can take the protection of Tatum in this series. Anunoby helped Detroit's Cade Cunningham in the first round to hold a 42.6 percent shot (17.9 percent from the 3 -point area). In the normal season, Cunningham received more than 30 points per game against Knicks, which is generally better than 50 percent and beyond 3 -point arc.
The second -seed Boston needed five games to beat Orlando in the first round. Jrue Holiday missed the last three games of this series with a tight right Hamstring, but joined the application on Saturday. Boston coach Joe Mazzulla, Holiday's game 1 was uncertain about the matching.
“He was able to work on everything he wanted to work with.” He said. “Heals every day.”
This has been introduced for the first time in a playoff series since Celtics and Knicks 2013. Boston won four of the seven playoff series between the two franchises.
“To me, the series is at 0-0,” Mazzulla said. “At the same time, you don't have expectations. These playoffs. Two teams fighting for something.
“There is not only one way to go to a series. As you can see throughout history and now you have seen in the playoffs, at the end of the day, he has no expectation about how he should go. Just get ready to give what he needs and do everything necessary to win, but when he wins to win.”
Celtics is trying to reach the Eastern Conference finals for the fourth season. Knicks has not been in the conference finals since 2000.
Karl-Anthony Towns from New York said, “We should just go there, execute and stay disciplined.” “If we run the way I know we can, if we play the way I can play basketball, we'll give ourselves a chance every night.”
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