Boston Celtics "flying color" in Game 7, Miami Heat deserves to enter the NBA Finals 2023
From a 0-3 gap, the Boston Celtics did something rare in history with 3 consecutive victories, forcing the NBA Eastern Finals series in 2023 to Game 7. But perhaps because it was too sublimated in the previous three games. , Celtics were out of breath today and were caught.
In contrast to Boston, the Miami Heat, despite having to play away from home, still played very calmly. They played confidently and controlled the game impressively throughout all 4 rounds.
Overcoming a slow start in the first half, the Miami Heat rose up while the Boston throwers were still passionate about throwing 3 points. The away team's 10-point lead was established early in the first half and extended into the second half.
After the break, the Boston Celtics tried to come back in the 3rd half with the personal shine of Derrick White. But the 28-year-old player alone could not do anything when he was next to him, Jaylen Brown had a bad finishing feeling and Jayson Tatum suppressed the pain of the game so it was ineffective.
Miami stood firm against Boston's shake (narrowing the gap from 14 to 5), then calmly responded with goals from Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and Caleb Martin.
The last "knock-out" phase was launched by them at the beginning of the 4th half, scoring a series of 14-2 points to bring the gap between the two teams close to 20 points.This run put an end to Game 7 right from the minute. the beginning of the final round.
Coach Joe Mazzulla decided to pull out all the Celtics pillars when the match had 2 minutes left, "raised the white flag" and accepted defeat. The final whistle sounded with a 104-83 victory belonging to the Miami Heat, brought a ticket to the NBA Finals for Jimmy Butler and his teammates.
Jimmy Butler led the Miami Heat team with 28 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals. However, even more excellent and commendable than Butler at this Game 7 is Caleb Martin.
The pitcher born in 1995 was extremely sublimated with 11-16 FG, scoring 26 points and completing a double-double with 10 rebounds. If not counting the last 2 minutes of the game when the reserves of both sides were launched, Caleb only took a break for less than 1 minute (45 minutes of the whole match).
In addition, Heat also has two players with double-digits: Bam Adebayo (12 points, 7 assists, 10 rebounds) and Gabe Vincent (10 points, 4 assists, 2-3 3PT).
Jaylen Brown is the top scorer on the Boston side with 19 points, but he only has 8-23 FG and 1-9 3PT. Sadly for Brown, he was involved in eight turnovers, the most TOs in a game in the 26-year-old's entire career.
Derrick White scored 18 points with 5-12 FG. Jayson Tatum scored just 14 points (5-13 FG, 1-4 3PT) with 11 rebounds and four assists in 42 minutes.
The whole Celtics team threw 3 points 9-42 3PT, the success rate was only 21.4%. This is probably one of Game 7's landmark stats.
After a series of extremely tense Eastern finals, the Miami Heat were the winning team with a score of 4-3. Now they will enter the second NBA Finals series in three years, facing the opponent is the champion of the West - Denver Nuggets.
The NBA Finals 2023 series will officially begin at 7:30 am on Friday, June 2.
