Jayson Tatum finds himself again, Boston Celtics extend Eastern finals by 1 game

After the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated 4-0 by the Denver Nuggets, many fans feared a similar ending would come to the Boston Celtics in the face of Miami's strength and home advantage.

But at Game 4 this morning (May 24), Jayson Tatum exploded to extend the Eastern final series by at least 1 more match, winning right on the away land with a score of 116- 99.

With the home field advantage and comfortable mentality when leading 3-0, the Miami Heat are the better players. They soon got into the game, fully exploiting the 3-second zone of Boston with Bam Adebayo's muscles.

At one point, Miami had a successful completion rate of 85%, a 6-7 FG performance within 1 meter of the basket in the second half. Since then, the Heat have twice taken the lead over the Celtics with a 9 point difference. .

However, the turning point of the match came from an 18-0 shake that Boston suddenly created in the third half, including 4 successful 3-pointers. Particularly, Jayson Tatum directly scored or assisted up to 11 points in this sublimation series.

From a 9-point lead (61-52), the Celtics rose to a 70-61 lead and then took the initiative completely against the opponent.

Not only good but Jayson Tatum and his teammates also defended very well in the second half of the game, forcing the Miami Heat to only score 23 and 20 points in the 3-4 quarters.

The Game 4 home team could not prevent Boston from scoring, nor did any effective attack plan. Although Jimmy Butler scored 29 points the whole game and performed excellently in the third half, he was completely locked with 1-5 FG in the last 12 minutes.

The 9-point gap was then extended to 18 points when the match was close to 3 minutes, bringing a very important victory for the Boston Celtics.

Finding himself after 3 rounds of playing under form, Jayson Tatum scored 33 points with 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 more blocks. Tatum's four 3-pointers in Game 4 (4-9 3PT) were close to the total number of 3-pointers he got in all three previous matches (5-20 3PT in Game 1-2-3).

Besides Tatum, all members of the Boston Celtics starting line-up scored over 10 points, led by Jaylen Brown with 17 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.

Derrick White added 16 points, 2 steals and 2 blocks. Grant Williams also played well from the reserve team, scoring 14 points and 6 rebounds and a 3-point throw rate up to 67% (4-6 3PT).

On the Miami Heat side, the best person is the familiar name Jimmy Butler. He scored 29 points with 9 rebounds and 5 assists (9-21 FG, 10-12 FT). Gabe Vincent is behind with 17 points, 4 assists.

The whole Heat team threw 3 points with a low rate in this match, reaching only 25% (8-32 3PT) with 8 successful shots. This is far behind the average of more than 14 3-pointers per game in the previous three games.

After two matches taking place in Miami, Game 5 of the Eastern Finals series will move to the home ground of the Boston Celtics. The match will take place at 7:30 a.m. on May 26.

Surely this will be a better opportunity for Jayson Tatum and his teammates to continue to shorten the gap, inspired by the cheers of the audience.