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It won’t be easy. the opportunity to have a great score. Somebody potentially can change the game for you. All right, great opportunity for the Cavs tonight. They are five and five in their last 10. They seem to be going through the motions a little bit. Kenny Atkinson doesn’t seem that agitated as they kind of go along here with Detroit. Toronto starting to run away with the East. Celtics will wear the home white tonight on the road. Green letters and numbers that will go right to left. Cavs were wearing the familiar old LeBron’s old school navy blue uniform with the wine trim. Celtics win a tip. Jaylen Brown finds Pritchard and four seconds into the game he knocks down. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The Celtics won a jump ball. Are you you kidding me? They hadn’t done that. Moley beat Tilman, but he won the ball backwards. It got pinled around and the Celtics controlled it. Now, the Celtics, who we’ve talked about time and time again trying to avoid early fouls, have Pritchard foul Moley 19 seconds into the game, reaching in for a steal, trying to come in for a steal. And what the Celtics want to do almost every time, double team on the post when Moley gets that basketball. Mitchell side of bounds and safe to Evan Mobley. Hand off Darius Garland. Push pass for Tyson. He’s going to try a three from the corner over Hower. Bounces out and the rebound for Jordan Walsh. like to see Jordan Walsh get a nice little bounce back of just scoring the ball. This time Tyson comes out to challenge Pritchard before he can release that three. Pritchard bounce pass for Jaylen Brown. He’s going to try Tyson right away. Gets him to the free throw line. Backs him to 14 ft. That steps back into a long two and hits it as he has done all year long. Five nothing. Shots incredible. He’s coming off the wrong foot and falling away with that. He’s shooting nearly 60% of those shots. Mobly penetrates kick back to wide open DeAndre Hunter and he misses the three and the rebound for Jaylen Brown. Shallow pass ahead to Baiten Pritchard. Pritchard watched by Garland. Fancy dribble between his legs. Step back long two. Swish. Wow. He was trying to jump behind the line, but he was in a little too close. That’s a long two and it’s seven nothing. Garland doesn’t want to defend the basketball. He is more of a score so Pitch can beat him with the basketball. Garland broke his jaw in Boston a couple of years ago. Moley gets Tilman to about 10 feet. Try to move it down low to Hunter. Hunter steps back away from Hower and his fall away bounces in. Hunter gets the Cavs on the board. It’s seven to two in minute number two. Peyton Pritchard left hand dribble behind Tilman’s screen into an open three swish, but he’s looking to get open and Tilman sets a bigger pick than Kada because of wideness of his shoulders. Richard has eight points in the first two minutes of the game. It’s 10 to2. Jordan Walsh has a steal. Stepping in front of Donovan Mitchell, but he throws the lead pass way too far for Hower. Back-to-back turnovers. Garland puts in the hands of Tyson over the shoulder pass. Donovan Mitchell up bakes the three. Jordan Walsh education continues tonight. He’s going to get Donovan Mitchell. Does have a size advantage on him. Entry Mobley takes Hower in and then kicks to the corner for a three from Tyson. That’s no good. And Jordan Walsh has the rebound. Selfies have hit both their threes. Cavs have missed both of theirs. Payeyton Pritchard. Swing pass for Hower. Now the left corner. Jordan Walsh. Pretty good looking at a three. Got it. Timeout. Kenny Atkinson. Maybe he’ll get a little louder now. Celtics hit their shots. Cavs don’t hit theirs. And it’s an early 11-point lead. Just 2 minutes and 27 seconds in. Boston 13, Cleveland 2. You show me what it seems and never around. You have been here all along. You have always been the one who knew it was you. You have always been the one. You have been here all along. You have been here all along. You have been here since day one. You have been here all along. All along the knew it was you. You have always game. They’re up 13-2 here. Just 2 minutes and 27 seconds in. Ball movement has been good, crisp, and even the fact that Walsh decided to take that three. I’ve asked him, and obviously I’m not part of the coaching staff, but be aggressive, son. Look to make your shot from time to time. Cellish basketball brought to you by AMA Insurance and AMA. They build a game plan with you in mind. Visit ama.com today to learn more about their award-winning customer service. No changes. Darius Garland first no-wise anyway. Darius Garland behind the Mobly screen down the right side. Now a little pick and roll action. Moves into Moy. Runs free in the corner. Three is wide open but missed. The rebound for Jaylen Brown. They ran a perfect play out of the timeout. Got Mitchell an open three and he missed it. Cavs just not shooting well here in the first couple of minutes of the game. Jaylen Brown against Darius Garland. Craping to the elbow. Throws a shoulder into him. Gets to the mid block. Pulls up for the jumper. Ribs out. Rebound belongs to Mo. Jordan Walsh was actually there crashing but he got there a little too soon. Mitchell bounce pass lead for Hunter. He’s open in the right corner for three. Hunter has all five here for Cleveland. Selvich by eight. Mitchell. Peyton Pritchard got the Celtics going. Drawing down the right side. Pulls up on Tyson. Pump fake. Tyson doesn’t go for it. Teams are starting to catch up a little bit and not take the pump fake from Pritchard. And he gets inside the paint. Jaylen Brown strong down the right side. He beats Moy. Scoops it up. does not get the bounce, but Hunter came late on the challenge. There’s going to be a foul either on Moy or Hunter. It’s on Moley. And we talk about Jaylen Brown not getting to the free throw line. He gets there 3 minutes and 29 seconds in tonight. Well, that’s what we talked about. He said, “I am one of the most aggressive downhill players. I get in position right now where I want to hit people with my body, go and then go to the free throw line.” He said, “It’s unacceptable.” Last night, I think he had four free throws. He said, “Look at everybody else. Why not me? So Jaylen Brown is getting about 6.3 free throw attempts a game on pace to be a careerhigh. And it’s interesting when you consider the fact that he is far and away his career numbers have changed dramatically as terms of the location of a shot. His shots are coming much farther away from the basket. A huge percentage of long twos. So obviously that would be a careerhigh. He gets one of two at the line. Moley has the rebound. 14 to five is the nine-point Boston lead. Jonathan Mitchell switches to the left hand, drives on Jordan Wall, shuttles to the corner. Tyson swings out to Hunter. Hunter turns Jaylen Brown around to moves back into the left corner for the three that’s no good. And the rebound belongs to Jaylen Brown. Tyson going from left to right. He’s trying to get something going. Tyson is 0 for three. Getting the start here. The Cavs going smaller without Jared Allen. Pritchard Josh back to Tilman. Hand off back to Pritchard. Runs behind Tilman screen. Launches a three off bounce. So good. But an offensive rebound for Jordan Walsh. This is how the Celtics beat the Cavs in the first meeting. Crashing, getting offensive rebound. Hand off Jaylen Brown. Shot clock already at six. Jaylen left hand. Joel coming strong. Bounce pass in the paint. Jordan Walsh. Couple of pump fakes. Ladies and with the left hand and the foul. Didn’t see the foul. I’m looking to see if he got hit on the hand by Moley. And if that was Moley, no, it was Hunter, I think. But why are you reaching for the basketball? Let it come up. Just whack you up on the arm. Good call. Count it and one. It’s interesting. Hunter, I was wondering, he wasn’t taking the pump. Think Jordan Wallace was just as if there was a sevenfootered there. It wasn’t. And he finally went up and got a lazy reachin foul. He knocks down the free throw. Jordan Wallace just his ninth free throw attempt of the year. It’s a three-point play. And the Celtics who led by 12 yesterday. Minnesota are up by 12 early in Cleveland tonight. Had a great first half yesterday. Garland drives, floats it with a right hand, no gun. rebound pinalled around. Sel just come out of the pack with it. Great start here on the second out of the back to back. Jaylen Brown dropped for Hower. Steps to his right. Clean look at a three. No good. Back iron. Offensive rebound. Tilman. Kick out. Hower has it punched away. Good job by Tyson. Forces the housing turnover. Garland running the floor. Finds Don. Mitchell steps right into an open three and knocks it down. And they punish you. When you turn the basketball over, they’re coming back. They’re flying up the court looking for those threes. It’s a big swing. 178 Boston lead is nine. Donovan Mitchell’s on the board. Peyton Bridget against Donovan Mitchell goes left side. Jaylen Brown watched by Moy. Moy hands in his face. Jaylen takes one step in. Takes a contested 18-footer. No good. Tough shot. And Hunter has the rebound. Mo might have got a piece of that one. Garland up the right side. Calls his own number. Short on the three. And Jaylen grabs another rebound. He’s got four rebounds already. Jaylen drives. Length of the floor. Runs it up in traffic. No good. Jordan Walsh crashes. keeps the rebound alive, but it goes off Jaylen Brown out of bounds and the Cavs will get it. And again, Jaylen Brown frustrated. Wanted the call there and didn’t get it. So, I’m in the paint. I’m getting hit. I’m attacking the rim, but I can’t get that call. Calls have changed though. Now, I mean, the ticky tac fouls right now, they’re not doing as much. I mean, that summer meeting I had with the officials, they told me all that. No ticky tap. Where did that take place? Charlotte them all out of Charlotte. Naquin Tomlin is in the game earlier than it normally would be with all the guys out for Cleveland. Dean Wade had a monster game against the Celtics here a couple of years ago. Checks in as well. They move it into the left corner and Hunter knocks down a three. So this is why leads don’t mean too much against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Backto-back threes by Donovan Mitchell and DeAndre Hunter. And the Boston lead is cut in half. Timeout. Joe Missoula. 616 to go. Opening quarter. Boston 17, Cleveland 11. on the bed. MGM 985 the sports hope. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. in defensive rebounding, but they are seven for seven on that end of the floor. Well, it it will benefit them, especially with Moy being out there. And just as we saw when Kada missed the game the other night, Amari Williams gets an early call. So Mari Williams and Simons come off the bench with Walsh Pritchard and Brown. Bridgetard down the right side. Pump fake on. Tyson 12footer is good. Tyson is not playing Pritchard close enough. Yeah, I mean he’s kind of letting Bridget go where he wants to go and said Pritchard hits you with your body. He’s getting great separation. Pritchard is in double figures. Garland launches a three and Pritchard clipped him from behind. It’s not only his three free throws because of the ticky tack foul he picked up earlier. Pritchard who’s the hot shooter here for the Celtics now has to come out picking up two early fouls. You you you defeat the purpose. I know you want to play defense, but watch when he comes off this pick. What are you going to do now? He just kind of pushed him in the back. A very lazy foul. Lazy reach in the times when you have to concede certain things, but this one, oo, it wasn’t that much of one. That chance to see the replay a little bit more. Celtics don’t even consider challenging Garland. Gets the first two free throws. Mentioned that the Raptors will be all over the Celtics radar this week playing the Knicks tonight. Then they will play the Lakers the game before the Lakers come. Both the Celtics and Lakers will be on a backto-back Friday. Two or three free throws for Darius Garland. 1913. Boston by six. Here’s the first touch for Simons. against Tyson. Push pass to Omari Williams. Williams bumps with the veteran Dean Wade. Hands off to Jaylen Brown. Jaylen Brown puts it in the right hand. Circles on Dean Wade. Forces one up. No good go. But he gets the call and Jaylen Brown has earned himself two trips to the free throw line here in the first seven minutes. Look that back foot, Sean, as he slid it a little bit. Thought it could have been called for a walk. Get a chance to see the replay here. I’m watching Watch the A little shuffle. No, Cleveland shuffle, but I guess they’re saying they’re okay with it. Shor Stan Sanders got the start today off the streak. Uhoh. All the Browns fans tailgating. Sean Grandandy says that that’s not good news. No, he did not have a great game. our buddy Kevin Harland was here in Cleveland calling that game and so funny what you flash back to. But uh one of the other times that we were all in Cleveland together, Kevin Harland called the Gordon Hayward game on opening night in this building for TNT. Jaylen Brown gets the free throws. We’re at 2113 Boston by eight. Think about that. So I mean think of the number of times we’ve been here the sixth playoff series. Darius Garland shuttle pass for DeAndre Hunter up fakes on Jaylen Brown. Jaylen reaches out. Little touch foul the other way. And Jay, you can hear him saying it was just my hand. It was just my hand. And now Jaylen walking down Carl Lane. No, that that was a good call. I mean, you can’t chuck a guy with your your forearm if you jostle him out of off position. Tomlin hand off for the DeAndre Hunter. Left side of Tyson. And back to the Andre Hunter guarded by Baylor Shyman. Shyman’s worked his way back in the rotation this week. Stumbling is Hunter. Kick out to Tomlin, but he again threw him that grenade with the shot clock winding down. He couldn’t get the shot away. He was so distracted by what he thought should have been a foul on Shyman. He didn’t realize he was passing with one second on the shot clock. I love that the grenade. The pins already pulled and you just sitting there. Tick tick tick tick. Oh. Oh, here you take it. I know Jaylen Brown is still out there, but with Walsh, Shyman, and Amari Williams, Anthony Simons has to be a little more take this game over and not be shy in these minutes. Derek White on the floor. No, Peyton Pritchard. Essentially what they’re doing, they’re begging you to score, but look to score. Simons top of the circle against Tomlinstead throws the bounce entry to Jaylen Brown against Garland. Shot clock down to four. Jaylen got to make a move. Rises up. He’s called for the offensive foul. Oh, 3 seconds. He got lucky there. Here’s why he got lucky. They called 3 seconds, a split second before he rose up with that elbow and clipped Darius Garland, who remember broke his jaw a couple of years ago against Boston. Darius Garland is good at that particular thing. Yeah, he is after throwing his head back like that. Garland drives, kick to the wing. Tyson’s three online but short. Another defensive rebound for Jaylen Brown. He’s got seven rebounds already. Anthony Simons long diagonally lead. Baylor Shyman in the corner going to throw back to Jaylen Brown. Jaylen sizes up Tomlin go over the shot clock. Ducks the shoulder drives and there’s the contact. Easy call. No shot. And that was the fourth team foul to Cav. So this will be on the side and very quickly Moy and Mitchell will come back in the game. Which do you measure a guy and you see how confident he is? You can tell confidence on on the defender when you look in his eyes sometimes. Sometimes a guy looks like this is the last last place I want to be over here guarding you. That was me and Dr. Jay. I had no confidence first time I guarded him. Major D this way to your table, sir. I imagine he took confidence away from a lot of guys. Yeah. Well, particularly me. I don’t know about them. Simons turns the corner, drives past Dean Wade, switches to the right hand and scores off the window. Seldic Cat the lead back to 10. 2313. Thing about Dean Wade doesn’t have a lot of foot speed. Moving hand off Donovan Mitchell who does dribbles to the left elbow jump pass it in to the corner that’s Dean Wade spot he knocks down a three has killed you over the last couple years with that 23-16 Cavs 11 of their 13 shots have been threes both teams they both took 60% of their shots from three in the first meeting and that number is even higher here Jaylen Brown straight away. Rotted by Porter is in the game for the first time. Jaylen gets to the mid block. Awkward flip shot. No good to Mari Williams. Gets the hand on the rebound, but it comes down to Porter. Diagonal lead. Donovan Mitchell exposes the ball. Mari Williams reaches for it. Donovan Mitchell dribbles to the sideline as the right hand. Jumps into a three away from Jordan Walsh. No good. Rebound. Simons just kept Dean Wade at bay to get that to Amari Williams. It’s good job by Simons. Celtics plus eight on the glass here in the first quarter. Jaylen Brown spinning on Moley exposing the ball. Knocked away by Tomlin. Loose on the floor. Porter’s got it. Twoon one. Donovan Mitchell. Lobs up for Tomlin. Lays it in. Boston lead down to five. Jaylen can’t get himself in that position of trying to dribble in an elevator. Taylor Shyman moves to Jordan Walsh. Right hand dribble now backs it out of the way. Crosscourt to Mari Williams. Hand off to Simon. Simon’s looking for an opening. Stutter step in on Moley. Now backs it out. Five on the shot clock. Simons wants to take Moy. One of the better defenders in the league. Spins, takes a fadeaway, and hits it. Anthony Simons hits that long two fadeaway that Jaylen Brown’s been shooting all year. That’s a great shot going back over your body. 258 Moley going to attack Amari Williams. He runs it up and gets the bounce. Moley is long. He gets on the inside. He just normally just outreaches you. Brook 7 to2 run here for the Cavs. They’ve cut it to five. 2520. Anthony Simons puts in the right hand, steps to his right. Tough fall away. No good. Mobley has the rebound. Mobley dribbles into the front court. He’s going to launch a three. Circle the rim. Rim spits it out right to Porter for the easy put back. Nine to2 is the Cleveland run. Boston lead down to three. 25-22. Cleveland scoring now it’s with Pritchard out of the game. They have started to score. Simons rolls into a straightaway three and drills it. Porter and Dean Wade got crossed up as Jaylen Brown picked them off and Simons now has a last seven for the Zelda. He got in that low pocket that no man’s land defensively. Donovan Mitchell dribbles around. Jordan Walsh coming down. Simon not even going to challenge and Mitchell elevates for the two hand slam that electrifies the crowd. electrified me on the spider that’s attacking like that. 28-24 Boston by four. Clock rolling with a minute 17 to go in the first quarter. Jaylen Brown careerh high. He’s only had eight rebounds in a quarter once. He’s got seven. The fifth time he’s done that. Simons for Amari Williams attacks the middle of the floor. Then at the last second try to throw it out to the corner. Shyman punches it out to a wide open Jordan Walsh. She takes an extra second then misses the open three. Jumps for his own rebound at the elbow but ball knocked away from him. Mitchell long lead pass knocked away by Shyman. He deflected it right back to Mitchell. Mitchell lays it up. No good. And the ball ends up ricocheting off Mitchell out of bounds. That was a wild sequence. Tomman had a great chance. He was there all alone but Shyman was able to deflect the pass. Mitchell just put it up high. Made sure his man was the only one could get it. But that stutter step Mitchell has. And when he’s coming, boy, he gets you that hesitation dribble and hits that ball. He’s trying to pull the rim down as Brown now out of this game. How are the Celics going to do now? Playing without Kada and White tonight. Simon strong down the right side. Ball knocked away by Moley out of bounds. Celtics will keep it. Cavs immediately and voseiferously and demonstratively signaling for a replay review and they don’t want to use one. So Donovan Mitchell is trying to argue for the call. We’re getting a look on the jumbotron. I definitely should be Cleveland ball but it’s not. Ugo Gonzalez coming off of Mil Carton going to get some run here in the final 30 seconds of the quarter. Simons dribbles behind the Amari Williams screen. Long three is no good. Dean Wade has the rebound. about a three and a half second differential onto two clocks as we count it down in the first quarter. Celtics built the lead all the way to 12 now it is four Gonzalez Josh Minot in the game. Celtics have played 10 guys now here in the first quarter again playing without tonight. Donovan Mitchell drives around Simon jump pass into the corner. Tomman’s three is no good. Rebound hits Ugo Gonzalez. He doesn’t grab it. Porter does. Three seconds to go. Moley in the paint catches and is fouled with 9/10 of a second remaining. And the one defensive rebound the Celtics don’t secure is going to cost them free throws. And that ball was already in hand. He just didn’t pull it into the body. In the last two minutes, every year I look at Moy, he seems like he’s getting better and better. He has enough to shoot the ball from the outside. Has a pretty good stroke from the free throw line. He can rebound effectively. And what else I love about he can block shots around the rim and every year I see he’s getting stronger and stronger. I saw a couple clips on some reals where he was working out. I was impressed with some of the track stuff he was doing. I’m glad your algorithm is finally feeding you some NBA stuff. Free throws good for Moley. 135 is the close. May not from half court falls way short and the Cavs do what they need to do. They carve away at the 12-point deficit and they cut it to two at the end of one at Rocket Arena. 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Well, both Toronto and Miami had their win streak snap last night. Proctor in the game for the first time for Cleveland. Saw him in the preseason. Hans to Moy turnaround jumper is good over Tilman and that 12-point Boston lead is gone. We start over again. Tied at 28. 30 seconds into the second quarter. Zeldings begin it with an unusual line of combination. I think Donovan Mitchell just fouled Gonzalez away from the ball. Exactly what happened. Could be one of those things you send a, you know, send a a young kid a message. Give him a high elbow. Something crazy. I had a couple of them myself. Just wanted to test you, Rook. Just wanted to test you. How about welcome to the league. I would have taken that. Speaking of old school, great name when doing the pregame ceremony where you pull the sword out for the Cavs. Campy Russell Camp doing that and we’re celebrating a big birthday in the media tonight here. Shyman down the right side. They just completely pull away from him. So he flips it up and with a left hand and all the cats Moley is looking at Tyson. Tyson looking at Moley like I thought you had him. I thought you had him. Nobody did. Shyman gives Selvich a 30 to28 lead. They swing it around left side. Tyson’s three is good and the Cavs have the lead. Tyson’s been shooting it almost every other time. Time finally goes in. Yeah, he was 0 for four all threes, but the fifth one is the charm. 3130. Cleveland up by one after falling behind. 17 to five to start the game. They really got to get this one. Tilman has the ball punched away from behind and they’re giving this. It’s off Tilman. Proctors has punched the ball away from him. It’s Tilman with a expression of disbelief on his face that they’re giving that to the Cavs. But the Celtics owed one from the early one. It should have been Cleveland ball in the first quarter. Mobley drive, scoops it up with the right hand and scores. Now the Cavs scoring a will. They’ve got 20 points in the last five minutes. Said remember on the Celtics led the Cavs 253 in Boston in February. Moving screen Shyman on Proctor and it’s starting to come apart here without White Brown or Kada on the floor or Pritchard. Wow. Really been interesting. Why? We’re going to talk more about it on Tuesday when we see the Knicks. Knicks and the Cavs seem perfectly content to let the other teams Detroit and Toronto get off to the hot start. Build an early lead in the East. Mobley diagonal kick out. Pretty good look. Proctor’s three from the left side is no good. Long rebound. Mine not keeps it away from Donovan Mitchell. Josh Min into the front court. High right hand dribble. Here’s the hand off to Baylor Shyman. Ball knocked away from him by Mitchell. Mitchell looked like he went out of bounds getting it, but he saves it back in. Simons has it. Sherman up takes a three on Mowgli. He did reset the shot clock. Plenty of time here for Simons. Crosscourt. Shyman. Crazy deep three. No good. Rebound. May not crashes. Has it go which way guys? They’re all calling different things. Going to be Boston ball. And because May not came on that backside, just trying to keep the basketball alive, you get an extra opportunity. Now Bryant will check in. Both teams have used 10 players already with 946 to go in the first half there. It’s not just Jared Allen who’s out tonight, but Sam Merrill remains out. Larry Nance, another big for Cleveland, and Max Strus we talked about the other day when we saw Javvante Green for Detroit. Hower under out of bounds. Tilman is open. And he’s going to fire up that left side three. It’s online and good. Well, he liked it. I mean, he paused for the cause then and he can shoot that that little long jump shot if you let him set his feet. Ty scores 33. Left side. Tyson again. Three again. He missed his first four. Now he’s made two in a row. 3633. Largest lead for the Cast. Simons down the right side. Takes Proctor all the way in deep. Falls away. Feeling contact. Banks it home. Score the foul. Chance for a three-point play for Anthony Simons. Attacking the rim, getting in the paint, high percentage shot where you can get fouled. That’s the thing about three-point shot. Very seldom you going to get fouled from the three-point range because it’s a harder shot. Nobody’s going to foul you there. But in the paint, people are going to be a lot more aggressive and you can pick up a foul in this situation. Simons had a good game against the Cavs a month ago. Made four threes. He misses the free throw here. So, he sticks on nine points. So it would have been he and Pritchard as the only Celtics in double figures had he made it but Cleveland hangs on to the lead 3635. Proctor dribbling behind his back. Simons actually shuts that off. Kick out. Mitchell drives it around Ugo Gonzalez. Bounce pass Proctor. Whoops it all the way out to the wing. Mobley ducks the shoulder. Pump fake. Oh turns. Gets away with a little fall away after landing on both feet. Diving to the floor is Tilman to get a loose ball. Shot Tman getting a chance to play here and making it pay off. Tilman getting the start for the injured Demish Kada. Expecting Kada to play against the Knicks and Carl Anthony Towns on Tuesday. Simons falls away from the mid block and hits. Wow, that was a great shot. He can Simons over the shoulder pass gives mine out a clean look at a three. No good. Back iron. Tilman got bumped from behind. Another loose ball foul should be on Bryant. Tilman just worked inside out and you get Bryant looking in disbelief. Get these these smaller guards. They come in and get that little side step separation bump. It gives them opportunity to shoot the basketball in the paint. That didn’t happen during the 80s because if you came in to bump the guy, a big guy, you were going down. Hower will trigger the side of the bounce playing with Simons, Tilman, Minot, and Ugo Gonzalez. Gonzalez shut off on the baseline. Throws back out to Simons. Simon’s moving to his right. Proctor leaning on him. Tilman trying to set a screen to free him. Simons bounce pass for Tilman. Tilman with the shot clock at one has to launch a crazy three. No good. wide left and a rebound for Bryant. That’s what he said about his percentages are going to go down and he’s moving. Cavs by two and the ball. Garland does that perky jerky move on Hower then throws it into Bryant and Simons just decides against the sevenfooter. I’m just going to grab him commit the foul. Wrap him up. Okay, let’s start it back over. Now you get Payton Pritchard back in there after he sat for a long time with the two fouls. But teams don’t really look for that as much that post up and the guys when you get a big against a smaller guy on his back. Side out of bounds. Bryant hands back to Garland. Cavs reset their offense with eight on the shot clock. Garland against Simons deep on the right side. Bryant sets the screen. Garland moving to his left. Flats his feet on Tilman. Followway three. No good. Back iron rebound. Wade deflects it. But how are going to chase it down in the corner. Celtics have been really good on the defensive glass here in the first half. They trail by two. switches to the left hand takes Porter in the 12 ft bounce pass out to Mina Mina dribbles away from Wade diagonal kick out Tilman hand off Simons turns the corner tries to step back it’s not there on Garland so we’ll keep the dribble alive with the left hand going to attack slot drive scoop and score off the window before Bryant could get there Simon’s got some moves Simon just kept that basketball and and they’re working it long lead pass Dean Wade’s three is no good offensive rebound Bryant got there couldn’t deflect it home have tied the game to 13 from Simons off the bench He’s going to try again. A trail three. Short front iron. Long rebound. May not’s got it. His foot back from the elbow is no good. And the rebound belongs to the Cavs. Proctor out of the pack. Pritchard back defensively. So a throw back out to the trailer. Garland’s three is good. Timeout. Joe Mazulu not going to be able to run back and forth in transition with these guys. 642 to go first half. Cleveland 42, Boston 39 on the Ben MGM985. The Sports Hope Celtics radio network. I am burning up You are burning. Everybody see how much time it will take. There’s something you’re trying to hide. There’s something you’re keeping inside. I’m trying to get to know you better. No matter how much it How is this? The NFC is crazy now. The Bears got off to this terrible start. Now, now the Chicago Bears are the number one seed in the NFC. Cowboys playing well now again. Eagles all of a sudden hit a little bump in the road. It’s not like the season I mean 17 games versus 16 doesn’t make but geographically chron chronologically it feels like the season is so much longer when you realize when we are in Los Angeles that first weekend in January that will still be the regular season. Calendar turns tomorrow. Celtics trying to avoid having that calendar turn back at 500 which they will be if they lose here. They trail by 34239. Pton Pritchard driving on Porter just chucks him away. He knocks down the shot and they’re calling an offensive foul. So, the Celtics lose the two points and you get a third foul on Pritchard with 626 to go in the first half on a night you’re playing without Derek White. Man, short-handed now. Is Joe going to roll the dice now? Let’s see if this off arm. Oh, come on. That shouldn’t happen. They generally have not been calling that, but you’re always taking a risk if you do it. Porter, they got to go right at Pritchard. Try to get the fourth foul. His step back is good. Pritchard couldn’t really challenge it. Cavs have their largest lead, 4439. That’s a horrible call though. Enter to Hower from Jaylen Brown. He scoops it up and then with a left hand. Hower use some quickness to beat Dwayne. Third assist. Seven rebounds for Jaylen Brown here. Garland dribbles it off his own foot out of bounds trying to attack Simons. Midway through the second quarter. Celtics with the ball down by three. 44-41. Cavs 12-8. But they their statistical profile is actually worse than the Celtics. Celtics still remain a top 10 team in the NBA in terms of net rating. Fifth in offense. Jaylen Brown dribbles to 12 feet. His jumper bounces out wide right and the rebound for DeAndre Hunter. Jaylen Brown should go over 12,000 career points tonight. Garland down the left side. Bounce pass to the cutter. Pump fake. Porter moves it to the middle where Bryant feeling contact throws it awkwardly at the rim. It’s no good. But he got a foul on Jordan Walsh. And Thomas Bryant the veteran will shoot free throws. Number 27, Jordan. Joe is rolling these dice here with Pritchard being in the game. I mean, you roll it. Pritchard doesn’t really want to get in that position and sometimes you stumble in the fouls. Hopefully, he doesn’t do it. Bryant makes his first free throw of the year. He’s been 0 for two. I told Brian when he was here last time, I said, “Man, you can get 20 years in this league.” He looked at me and laughed. I said a big seven-footer can be mobile, shoot the basketball, knock down some free throws, and defend. They need those all day. He gets both free throws here. 4641 Cleveland by five. 517 to go. They’re sinking up. Update that time for you. Jaylen Brown. Kick out. Pritchard. Crazy deep three for the left side swish. Oh wow. He’s He’s going to be on that foul trouble is what a terrible night to have cuz Pritchard is locked in here. He’s taken six shots and he’s got 13 points. Darius Garland with the Cavs up by two. Cross scor to Porter. Porter steps back away from Pritchard. Misses the three. Rebound. Jaylen Brown has got another one. That’s his eighth rebound. You got to attack Pritchard. You can’t settle for a three when he’s in foul trouble. Pritchard drives in deep. Pump fake. Scores off the window as Porter sails right by him. Tie game. 15 for Payton Pritchard in nine minutes. Garland jumped pass to the corner. Porter stepped out of bounds and Cleveland turns it over. Man, when you have Pritchard down there with three fouls and you go to a fall away jump shot, that’s your own fault. You shouldn’t even be in that situation. Got to attack him. Make him try to pick this other foul up. Keep waiting for the Celtics to get blown out of the game. And they just stay in every game regardless of who’s out there. Jaylen Brown of pressure. Deep three. Right side is good again. Ah, boys found in the bottom of the cup. Payton Pritchard has 18 points in 10 minutes and the Celtics lead by three. Also add in the three fouls though too. This is why he’s only played 10 minutes. Garland against Jordan Walsh. Shuttle pass left side rising into three is Hunter. No good. Long rebound free throw line. Porter kick out. Garland put back three is good. And a four to give the second chance opportunities up to a good shooting game. 23 of their 36 shots have been threes. Jaylen Brown turns a corner. Bumped by DeAndre Hunter. That’s the last foul the Cavs have to give here with 346 to go in the quarter. Game tied at 49. Simons and pressure offensively keeping the Celtics afloat. Caval substitution number four Evan Moley number 45. Moley comes back in. Jaylen Brown on statline here. Five points, eight rebounds, five assists. We had a unprecedented stat line in the first half yesterday in Minneapolis. Jaylen Brown still has not missed the game. Gets the screen from Tilman. Jaylen Deep on the left side against Moy going to pull up. Shoot a deep three. Nope. Sails way too strong. Tilman got to handle the rebound. Comes down to Mitchell. Long lead pass. Mobly releases and slams in two hands. Nobody got back. Moy will release. He just challenge that jump shot and that’s up to Brown. Then Jaylen Brown trying to play bully ball on Garland. Double team help comes. Wraparound pass in the paint. Tilman can’t handle it. It was a tough pass to handle. Knocked free and Moy has it. Mobley flips it out to Dean Wade. Steps right into a left side three. It is short. Rebound. Mobley the taller man. Kicks back to Garland. Now DeAndre Hunter takes the hand off. Drives Flo with the right hand. No good. Pritchard has the rebound in traffic. Rebounded. Great job by Pritchard. 256 right now remaining in the half. If you’re sinking up, Pritchard driving on to Andre Hunter. Gets to the dotted line. Throws back out to Jordan Walsh up. makes the three. Mitchell let him shoot it, but he wouldn’t didn’t want to. Jaylen Brown top of the circle. Carlin down in his defensive stance. Jaylen rises. Kick out. Jordan Walsh for three. Front iron. No good. Rebound Donovan Mitchell. Got to have some confidence when you release that basketball. Did not have it. Mitchell, he attacks. Pton Pritcher has to let him go, but he misses the layup and the rebound goes out of bounds off the Celtics. They had three guys down there. Nobody could grab it. And as a result, it’ll be Cavs ball when we return. 230 to go. First half, Cleveland 51, Boston 49 on the Bet MGM985, the Sports Oak Celtics radio network. Bet MGM, an authorized gaming partner of the NBA, is adding You me you me on You want me? You know you want me you want you be on Little you. by road games. Silics will be back home Tuesday, road game Thursday, home game Friday, then back on the road Saturday to complete the gauntlet Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Tyson out of the timeout. Left corner three is no good. Celtics again fail to secure the rebound. Donovan Mitchell throws it off Jaylen Brown, but it looked like it hit Mitchell again before it went out. Should be Boston ball. Donovan Mitchell is arguing. He’s saying, “I was already I had already had gone out of bounds off Jaylen when it hit me.” He looks to the Cleveland bench, but they’re not going to challenge on that. I tell you what, Tyson is shooting. There’s nothing else every time he touches it. He’s taken seven shots already. All three. Simons pressured by Garland. Over the shoulder pass gives Tilman a wide open three. Air ball, but Simon saves it. Shot clock didn’t reset. Kicks out to Hower. Hower two on the shot clock. Cowser has to launch a crazy one over Donovan Mitchell. He got the rim, but that’s it. And the rebound for Darius Garland. Cleveland by two and the ball. Garland keeping it away from Simons. Pritchard is out of the game here if you’re wondering with the three fouls. And Tyson catches, blocked at the rim. Jordan Walsh just waited for him and slapped it away. Seldon have a four on three. Jaylen Brown drives, takes Garland all the way to the rim, scoops it up and in with a left hand. Tie game. And Jaylen still complaining. He wanted that contact. Looked like Garland was on his left hand shoulder. Seven points, eight rebounds, five assists for Jaylen Brown. Mitchell penetrates, bounce pass to the corner. Tyson swings it out to Hunter. He misses an open three and a rebound for Tilman. So many threes, you’re going to get shooting random variety in terms of result. But here we are right back where we started. Tie game with a minute 11 to go in the first half. Simons out of the Cavaliier logo at center court. Swing pass right side. Jaylen Brown ducks the shoulder. Drives again. Feels contact shot. No good. But Jaylen’s going back to the free throw line here for the third time in the first half with 65 seconds remaining in a tie game. Did he complain? Complain saying, “I don’t go to the line.” This time aggressive again going towards the basket. Gets hit on the arm again. Going to his left. Chandler’s one of the few guys who’s right-handed. I think he prefers going to his left. I think he’s stronger that way as he makes the first and two free throws. He bounces in. He gets to the line 6.3 times per game. He’ll have six. This will be his sixth free throw attempt. Can I punctuate that? Please do. I can. Probably tough on the roads for you tonight. Weather is bad. Busiest travel day of the year. So glad you’re hanging out with us. All get there together nice and safe and slow. Jaylen Brown gets the free throw. Celtics regain the lead 5351. They’ve had about 30 lead changes over the last 24 hours. Garland shut off by Jordan Wash in the mid block. gets the ball knocked away. Saved off the floor by Tyson. Hower slides his feet. So Tyson kicks back out to Donovan Mitchell. Six on the shot clock. He is staring at Sam Hower here. Switches to the right hand. Pulls up. 20-footer. No good. Forced it. Rebound. Walsh. Celtics have a two for one here. Simons will push. Diagonal lead on the right side for Jaylen Brown. He’s going to pull up. Shoot a three. Short. Front iron. Rebound comes right to Jordan Walsh. He’ll hand off to Tilman. Short. Little flip shot is good. Celtics are crashing just like they did a month ago. And they’re making it pay off. And Xavier Tilman now with five points and four rebounds and his surprise start here tonight. 5551 Boston by four. Walsh is active today. Very active. Six rebounds for Jordan Walsh and six points. 6second differential on the two clocks as we count it down in quarter number two. 10 seconds on the game clock. Garland drives, scoops, no good. Well, he got all the way to the rim. Couldn’t finish. Six seconds. Jaylen Brown across half court. Jaylen diagonal lead. Simons three in the air. Got it with 1.9 to go. Tilman slaps the ball away from Hunter. Gets a baseline shot away. It’s good. They will have to check the clock to see if he released it, but DeAndre Hunter dropped his head, losing the ball after it came in bounds. Tilman grabbed it completely. Turned around and hit an 18-footer from the baseline. And now they will go to the scorers table to see if he got it off on time. Wow. Wow. Just that’s that’s thievery right there for you. The effect does count. It was a successful basket. This play is under review. They will review it, but for now it is a successful basket and the Celtics close the first half on an 110 run halftime in Cleveland. Boston 60 Cleveland 51 on the Bet MGM 985. The Sportsub Celtics radio network. Heat. Heat. me. Me love me. You me. It feels basic. Follow me. Me follow me. You love me. Heat. Heat. And this feel everything there. I can’t just call you when I’m moments are turning. Ier and restart Please take what you want me just Anyve. it all. I can’t hold on to your heart every day of the week, every week of the year. I’ got to rewind and restart. So you get what you need. So you get all of you all of me. I want to me every of the week. Every week of the year and restart of me. We got time. We got bills but no ray of light can be beautiful tomorrow’s There’s no tomorrow’s acting like We’re young and we’re stupid and we don’t really give We don’t really act like acting like to go over 12,000 points and he’ll end up in the top 10 in Celtics history before the year is over. Celtics have a trail by seven here and now or lead by seven, lead by four as Moy hits a three to begin the half. So a big swing. They took the two points away that Tilman got saying his shot did not leave his hand before the buzzer. So that dropped the lead to seven and Moy hits a three to begin the third quarter and Jordan Walsh pushes off on Garland. And that’s about as calamitous a 25 seconds as you could have. Tilman’s basket disallowed. A three my mobly and then an offensive foul turnover by Jordan Walsh. Garland will do that. He will step up in your mug and then he will fall backwards. Every uh jumping in the passing lane. Tilman has a steal. Rips off Garland. Goes the length of the floor. Scoops it up and in. Great job. Good job. Get the big elephant going like that. That’s a beautiful thing. Seven points, four rebounds for Tilman, plus the two he didn’t get. Beating the buzzer moley. Pump fake on Tilman. Runs it up and with a left hand. He gets the two right back. Mobly just scores so easily now as time just just really just took his man going to his left. 15 for Moley. Pritchard playing with three fouls. Steps back on Tyson at 12 ft. Knocks down another jumper. The foul trouble could not have come in a worse night because Pritchard is on a heater here. Eight of nine. 20 points in 12 minutes. Mobley left alone again. Hits another three. Tilman couldn’t fight to the screen. Moley starting to light it up. He’s got 18. 6259. Boston by three. These Sunday games, the second half has been a disaster the last few weeks for the Celtics. They build an early lead and then they either blow it, lose the game or survive. Pritchard steps to his left, floats a three, no good. Hower saves him from going out of bounds and Pritchard hustles to grab the loose ball. Returns it to Hower in the corner. Now Pritchard eight on the shot clock. Pritchard out on the wing. Switches to the left hand behind the back. Bounce pass. Tilman straight away. They run away from him. So he takes that three. Short front iron. Offensive rebound. Jordan Walsh the put back and the foul. He got inside out on Tyson. Jordan Walsh has had his way with Tyson physically all night. Yeah. Use the size this time. Elevated able to catch that ball at the apex and then go straight back up. Putting the put the ball on the glass. That’s what I like. Use that glass and you’re going to it’s very soft as it hits the window and just falls in. It is wild to think this is game 20 now for the silvers. They have had a chance to win all but one. The only game they got blown out of the water was the Houston game. Jordan Walsh finishes the three-point play. The recipe for finally taking a knockout loss was certainly tonight with the Celtics playing without Kada and Derek White. But here they are up by six early in the third quarter at Cleveland. Casual short-handed as well without Jared Allen tonight. Garland jump pass into the corner. Tyson fires again and hits again. Tyson’s taken nine shots, eight of them threes, and he’s now made three of them. Just playing the math game. 6562. Pritchard’s afraid to challenge though because he has those three fouls. Cavs have made four more threes. 12 to the Celtics eight. Pritchard four of six. The rest of the Celtics four of 18. Pritchard in the paint. Steps up block. Garland got a fingertip on it, but Jordan Walls chased it down. Prer with two on the shot clock. Drives. Euro step around. Garland flips it up and in to beat the shot clock buzzer. And Payton Pritchard is having the offensive game of his life right now. I don’t know if he got that off. They’re going to go back and look at it. Carrie nicely carry 6762 Mo diagonal kick out. Hunter’s left side three is no good. Jaylen Brown grabs his 10th rebound. Jaylen’s got a shot in a triple double tonight. 910 and six early in the third. And here’s Jaylen trail three from Frederick Swiss. And these guys playing well together acknowledging Brown has rebounded. Then the trail man coming down for the trail. 12 for Jaylen Brown. He’s closing in on a milestone here. Boston by eight. 70 to 62. South pass for Garland. Garland picked the three over Hower. Brooks it back iron rebound. Jordan Walsh. Celtics have a chance to regain a double digit lead here early in the third. Jaylen Brown picked up by Hunter. Puts in the hands of Pritchard straight away. Pritchard against Tyson. gets a Tilman screen. Tilman peels away. Pritchard dribbling behind his back. Mobley comes to challenge. Pritchard going nowhere. Picks up his dribble. Throws it to Tilman. Return to Pritchard. But a three on the shot clock going to hack. Take another crazy deep three. Air ball. That was more about Pritchard dribbling himself into trouble. If the Celtics do a better job of moving the ball via the pass, they’re going to have open shots. Defense can adjust when you dribble, but when you pass it, they cannot adjust that pass. Donovan Mitchell down the right side, beats Jordan Walsh. Tilman there taking the rim away. Mitchell falls down trying to pivot and Jaylen Brown grabs the loose ball. Threeon-one lead pass. Hower lays it in with the left hand. Celtics by 10. You know, I haven’t seen Donovan Mitchell this inactive. Yeah. 3116 Boston run spanning halftime to go from down five to up 10. Garland in the paint, flips to the corner. Mobley runs there, takes another three. This one comes up short. His grabs the rebound, gets it away to Pritchard. Celtics lead by 10 and the ball. 741 to go in the third. Pritchard switches to the left hand. Moves into the corner. Jordan Walsh fakes on Hunter. Bad pass back towards Pritchard. Anticipated stolen easily by Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell dribbling low. Doesn’t get the foul on Pritchard who backs away. Kick to the corner. Tyson another three. Well, Tyson looking like Grant Williams in that game seven against Milwaukee. Just running to that left corner, shooting over and over and over again. He is now four of nine from three. 7265. Jaylen Brown dribbling low left side. Draws a double team. Returns to Tilman. Back to Jaylen Brown. Backs it out near half court. Five on the shot clock. Jaylen going to have to make a play against Moy. He and Hower look confused. So Jaylen would just pull up, shoot a tough 19footer, bounces out, offensive rebound. Tilman goes over the back of DeAndre Hunter, puts its back up and in. Tilman just used that big body to get inside out and kick that ball back up on the rim. 10 more offensive rebounds for the Celtics and now a steal. Garland had nowhere to go. Try to throw a pass to the wing. Jaylen Brown deflected it and stole it. Second steal for Jaylen. He dribbles to the right elbow. His jumper is no good, but he gets fouled. Another trip to the free throw line for Jaylen Brown. When we return, 637 to go. Third quarter, the plot it thickens. Boston 74, Cleveland 65 on the Bid MGM 985, the Sports Hub Celtics Radio Network. Hey, New England, Greg May here. against a short-handed Celtics team on the second night of a backto-back after a travel delay and a late arrival in Cleveland. It’s the Celtics who are up by nine, 7465 and free throws coming for Jaylen Brown. Attendance brought to you by Ticket Masterfield. the thrill of live Celtics basketball at the Garden Allseason. Receipts from Ticketmaster making a switch. Buy and sell your tickets today at ticketmaster.com/seltics. This is one of the best weeks of the year at the Garden. Not only was the last game against the Pistons, the game of the year candidate on Wednesday night, you got the Knicks, the NBC National Game on Tuesday night with Mike Tico and Reggie Miller coming to town. Then Friday national streaming game on Amazon Prime with the Celtics and the Lakers. Not going to say anything about Washington. Well, I’m saying those are I’m promoting games at the Garden because it’s the ticket master. That game is not at the Garden. It is in Washington. Wizards been a little better lately. Alex Sar had a really good game when we saw the Wizards a few weeks ago. Now, Jaylen Brown. Free throw conversation continues. He’s getting his seventh and eighth free throw attempts of the night. And we’re still midway through the third. So, if you talk about it, people are listening. And he starts getting these calls. said he’s got a real good shot. He is three assists away from a triple double. Jaylen Brown gets the free throws here. He’s also two points away from 12,000 for his career. He’s 14 point of the night. Celtics by 11. Wade out there with Tomlin Garland. Mitchell is out of the game right now. Sub patterns have been a little unusual for Cleveland. Some guys out they swing to Wade. air mails a three and it goes out of bounds as Jaylen Brown boxes out Aquan Tomlin. Great box out there by Brown. You don’t get it, I don’t get it, but it’s going out of bounds. It’s my ball. Convin Mitchell told Mark Spears of Manscape he likes this better than 15 and0. Frederick drives, puts the head down, gets around Porter, switches to the right hand and scores again. Celtics have their largest lead. He has beat this guy all day going towards the basket. Porter or you know not getting up on him. Pritchard a little bit stronger. Gets him on his shoulder and just lays it up softly. Peyton Pritchard has 24 points in 17 minutes. Celtics by 13 midway through the third. Best thing hasn’t picked up that other foul yet. First foul up in the opening seconds of the game. Second foul came early. Third foul came early. He’s had to miss time in this game because of it. Garland zips an entry right through DeAndre Hunter. Bad pass. Hower grabs a loose ball. Lead pass for Jaylen Brown. He attacks and gets fouled. Late foul call on Porter. They were going to let it go if Jaylen made the shot. He didn’t. And he will now go to the line with a chance to give the Celtics a 15-point lead and reach 12,000 points for his career. They were trying to say here that Jaylen, he didn’t know, but he looked behind it. That it’s close, but he might have had the risk. When the ball comes up, they’re normally not going to give you that call defensively. first free throw right down the middle. Well, you think of all the pressure he’s been under this year by, you know, not having Tatum around. Can Tatum come back? What is it going to be like? Jay, not focusing on his game, but focusing what wasn’t there? Jaylen Brown is the 15th player, the 14th player in Celtics history to reach 12,000 career points. I wish they counted my playoff points. It’s crazy. I bet you do. Garland drives running with the left hand. No good. Minot has the rebound. Celtics by 15 and the ball. Hower pull up three. Got it. Man, they running the Cavs out of this building. That is crazy to see. It is an 18-3 run for the Celtics and they have a stunning 18-point lead. 522 to go in the third quarter. Boston 83 Cleveland 65 on the Midm MGM 985. The Sports Hub Celtics radio network. Imagine looking up and seeing Heat. Heat. Payton Pritchard in foul trouble and they have an 18-point lead at Cleveland midway through the third. Garland enters to Mobley. Steps through on May not flips it up with the right hand. May not stay with him. Blocks the shot. Rebound Jaylen Brown. Tomlin reach in foul. I love what Jaylen Brown is doing. He is encouraging all his teammates every time they do something. That’s what a captain does. That’s how you make guys better around you. This has been a special weekend for Jaylen Brown and he’s three assists away from a triple double after a monster stack game against Anthony Edwards yesterday in Minnesota. Payton Pritchard on a crazy heater. 10 of 14, 24 points in 18 minutes in foul trouble tonight. Jaylen Brown kick out Pritchard. He’s going to aim at that deep three. Got another one. Wow. Wow. And and and won’t pick up that other foul. That’s he had three fouls and has not picked up the other one. Now Donovan Mitchell trying to get going. Stop and start drives on Jordan Walsh. He’s going to have to take this game over. You knew it was Sean cuz uh he has been almost invisible tonight. That’s crazy. Celtics Celtics by 19. 8667. 434 to go in the third. Boy, that feels like a long time against a Cleveland team with Mitchell out there. Jaylen Brown stop and start drives on Tomlin forced it off the glass. No good. He wanted the call. Didn’t get it. Rebound Moley. Stopped the ball. Moley lead for Dean Wade. Dean Wade extra pass into the corner. Garland’s three. Rim spits it out, but a loose ball foul called on the Celtics. First foul against Boston here in the quarter. That was Brown not getting back on the defensive end. Jaylen Brown. Even when you make a mistake or you miss a shot, get back on the defensive end. So my coach used to tell me all the time, you got to get back there. Got to get back there. Substitution number 20. Tyson comes back in. He’s been an increasingly hot shooter as the game has gone on. Watch out for the spider. Jaylen Brown has never had a triple double. Never had 10 assists in a game. Sitting on eight right now. Donovan Mitchell shakes off Jordan Wall. Steps to his left. Long two. No good. Back iron rebound. Carums all the way out to Moley. He attacks and Pritchard cannot pick up a foul. So he peels away. Two hand slam for Moley. Four quick points for Cleveland. Cuts it to 17. 8669 Boston. 355 to go in the third if you’re sickening up. Richard moving to his left against Dean Wade. Puts it back in the right hand. Now the left turns back behind the line and gets it back from Jordan Walsh. Shot clock at seven. Richard just switches to the left. Spins dotted line fall away. Free throw line. No good. And Jordan Walsh got pushed in to the back. Try to sell a foul. didn’t get the call on Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell into the front court turns to the left hand against Josh Moff. Bounce entry Tyson. Tyson misses the layup. Scramble for the rebound. Celtics have it. Letting a lot of contact go on both sides. Let the boys play. Let them play. Simons finds Jaylen Brown. Drives against Tyson. Draws the double team. Kick out. Pritchard. Aims. Fires. Three is no good. The rebound pulled down by Donovan Mitchell. And he is putting a stamp on the game now. Mitchell against Jordan Walsh. Comes strong down the left side. Scoops and scores. An immediate timeout here by Joe Missoula after the 6-0 run for the Cavs will keep it here. The lead is down to 15. 8671 Boston with 306 to go in the third. The Cavs Donovan Mitchell just gave him just enough room and now he’s pulling that fishing line back in. Yeah, I mean this is what great players do and we know about what Mitchell can do. He can score and can score in bunches. So some guys just kind of play possum for a while. Now his team needs him to do something. He might not pass the ball again for the entire night unless it’s a layup to another teammate. Jumbotron showing highlights of the Ohio State Michigan game for the first time since the pandemic. Ohio State beat Michigan yesterday. First time since 2019. I love how you know Michigan players protected the logo. Yeah. The wouldn’t leave. The Buckeye made the Ohio inscript in the snow on the crowd and they quickly and on the field they quickly wiped that down. I mean, it was amazing that Michigan beat them last year. That was the stunner. But Ohio State finally gets the win. One of the truly great rivalries in college football. And the thing about college football is you know how is is just unbelievable. But look at some of the coaching changes. The carousels going again. Talking about players transferring portal coaches are doing just as much as the players now. Yeah, that’s been the story obviously with Lane Kein and the well hypocrisy of the transfer portal which coaches have been in for decades. 8671. Boston lead down to 15. Three minutes to go. Third quarter. Jaylen Brown gobbled up in the paint. Kick out Shyman. Now they reset with Anthony Simons. Turn to Sherman. Pretty good look from the right side. It’s a three and it’s good. Man, Shyman just can’t miss. Whether he’s playing regularly or not, he has been money this year. Now 11 of 22, 50% from three. Moley jump pass down low in the dunker spot exposing it as Tomlin got punched away. Saved by Dean Wade. Kick out Donovan Mitchell. Swings it right side. Extra pass from Tyson into the corner to Moy. Shovel pass back to Tyson. His three. Good. Fifth of the night for Tyson. And the thing about Cavaliers, they’re they’re starting to play with a little bit of desperation. 14th three of the night for Cleveland. 8974. Boston by 15. 209 to go into third. zone against the Celtics. So Simon shoots right over the zone trying to bust it up. Missed the three. Offensive rebound. Shyman kick out. Min puts it to the floor. Drives on Tyson trying to make the pass into the paint. Turned it over. Empty possession here for the Celtics. Cleveland within 15. Donovan Mitchell. No look. Zips it right through Tommen who wasn’t ready for that pass. Jared Allen or Moy maybe, but not Naquin Tomlin. Donovan Mitchell commits the turnover with a minute 50 to go into third. Celtics with a 15-point lead down the ball. And the reason he didn’t because those guys haven’t played enough with him to understand who he is and when he might pass the basketball. Maybe they heard you say he wasn’t going to do it again. Oh well. Jaylen Brown push past the corner. Miniard contested three. No good. Rebound. Jordan Walsh. They have to call the foul here on Dean Wayne. He has had him hog tied now. Cavs are over the limit. There should be free throws here for Jordan Walsh with a minute 34 to go in the quarter. Let me tell you why that that was called though. with with anyway because he never looked and identified. If he put his body on Walsh, all he did was turn around and grabbed him and wouldn’t let him move. You at least got to make an attempt to get in front of the guy instead of holding it. Now Walsh gets a couple of free throws. Need something positive. There it goes. May not comes out. Second free throw no good. 90-74 Celtics by 16. either can do zoom zoom by the combinator. Simons guarding him. Bounce pass out the way. Return to Donovan Mitchell. Five on the shot clock. Simon’s trying to hold his ground. Mitchell draws a double team from Sherman. Throws it into the corner. Tyson rises for another three. This one’s short at the shot clock buzzer. Offensive rebound though. Mobley and a two-hand slam put back since Donovan Mitchell re-engaged his teammates here. 11 to4 is the run. Boston lead down to 14. Final minute, third quarter. Alfred Simon gets a Tilman screen behind the back pass. Tilman had a look. Didn’t want it. Goes to Jordan Walsh. Eight on the shot clock. Jordan Walsh pressured by Mitchell. Now the shot clock already down to the five. Jaylen Brown runs behind a screen. Launches a three. Rims out. Rebound Donovan Mitchell. Two for one here for Cleveland. Stopped the ball. Mitchell switches to the left hand. Throws back out to Moy. Good look at a three. Got it. Mobley and Mitchell have come alive late in the third just as the Celtics are starting to pull away and now the lead is down to 11. 90 to 79. 21 seconds to go in the third. Simons pressure by Tyson in the logo. 10 on the shot clock. 17 on the game clock. Simons crosscourt. Jaylen Brown against Tomlin. Four on the shot clock. Jaylen Brown fumbles the dribble. Drives into traffic. Throws to the corner. Shyman can’t release it in time. Another bad pass by Jaylen Brown. Too late in the shot clock. Celtics have come unglued here. Jenna Brown thought he got a hit. This could be a big basket right now for the Cavaliers. Got to stop this. 6.6 on the clock. Wow. Trying to get some back in this game. Why not? Bigger body coming in for Simons. Better defender. Celtics led by 21 with 450 to go in the third quarter. But a 14-4 run here down the stretch of the third. 11-point game. Celtics had a foul to give and they give it to slow down Donovan Mitchell. No, you know how I feel about that one. Yeah. In this case, what you’re just trying to do is slow it down. Take a second or two off the clock to make I want more seconds taken off. At least wait until he gets into the front court. Or what I would do, deny the basketball and make him go back to the back court. Now watch it. Let him come in. Hand off from Moley to Mitchell. Mitchell down the right side. Blocked from behind into the hands of Shyman. Shyman releases from threequarters court. Hits the glass and nothing else. And the very least the Celtics get one defensive stop at the end of the third. It’s gotten interesting now. The temperature turned up inside. Celtics led by two at the end of one. They led by seven at halftime by as many as 21 in the third quarter. But the lead is 11 as we make the turn for home. End of three at Rocket Arena. Boston 90. I just want to make you I just want to make you I just I like it. I just want to make you make you I make you Don’t lonely. lonely. stay. He can play bigger minutes in the fourth quarter, but already playing without White and Kada. Joe Missoula is going to sit Pton Pritchard and Jaylen Brown here to start the fourth. Donovan Mitchell is on the floor for Cleveland. Selfies playing with Hower, Walsh, Simon, Shyman, and Min. May not is the five here against Mobly. Jordan Walsh four on the shot clock. Left hand dribble driving strong. Runs it up with left hand. No good. Rebound belongs to Cleveland Proctor. Lead for Tomlin. Tomlin finds Donovan Mitchell. Good move. Mitchell against Sherman. Gives it up to Moy. Moy left hand dribble. Two long strides. Extra pass. No shot available for Tyson. So we’ll kick out to Donovan Mitchell. Eight on the shot clock. Mitchell resets it. Moving to Proctor. Ups on Minot. Zips an entry down low and an easy layin at the cup for Tomlin. Lead is down to nine. 90 to 81. Celtics starters have been great tonight, but the bench has not been able to hold it. Elvis needs something from Simons here. Simons for May not ups the three now. Drive strong. Gets Moley. Crazy run with a left hand. No good. He thought he was going to get a foul call. He thought wrong. Lead from Mitchell. And Proctor lays it up and in. Could have been an and one. Celtics are fortunate it wasn’t. Seven-point game. Proctor is still down. So a five on four. Simons looking for the opening here. Is going to drive on. Tomlin falling away in the baseline. Tough shot is good. He said some tough shots this time. falling away with a big big guy only about 6’8. That ends the n0 run. Nine-point Boston lead. Donovan Mitchell runs into Shyman. Goes collapsing to the ground as if he got hit by a truck and he gets the foul call on Shyman. Okay, you take that one cuz Mitchell’s going to be coming and he’s going to try to get into a penalty situation sooner than later. Goes right into the body. He knew he didn’t have any place to go but went right into Sharma’s body. Number 12, DeAndre Hunter. Toronto playing short-handed in New York tonight in the second night of backto-back. They’re down by 12 late in the third quarter. Knicks will be in Boston for the national TV game on Tuesday night. Late start coming to the ballpark. 8:00 game. Donovan Mitchell bounce pass right side. Tyson again. Three go. Comes up short. Rebound comes right back to him. Tyson attacks, floats, and scores. It’s down to seven. Tyson now with 17 points on 16 shots. Simon’s never boxed out then. 9285. Aiden Pritchard right hand dribble down the middle of the floor. Got jostled from behind. Ball goes out of bounds. That’s a compromise call now. Kenny Atinson’s thinking about challenging here. It looked like it went out of bounds off Pritchard, but that’s because he got hit. Mitchell might have slapped open the ball and got a fingertip on it. Eight seconds here on the shot clock. Hower on the under out of bounds in safely to Pritchard. Pritchard spinning on Donovan Mitchell. Slaps the ball. Pritchard has to get rid of it too on the shot clock. He shuffles his feet. This golfer traveling and the offense has come unglued here when the Wolves put pressure on the Celtics. They kind of came undone yesterday in Minneapolis and the same is happening now. Who’s going to get tough buckets for the Celtics who had no Derek White tonight and Jaylen Brown on the bench? Jaylen’s played 30 minutes on this back to back if you’re wondering. We still have 951 to go. Mo hand off for DeAndre Hunter finds an open man. Proctor’s three is good. That’s enough for Joe Mazula. That did not take long. It takes less than 7 minutes for the Boston lead to get cut from 21 to 4. 944 to go. Boston 92, Cleveland 88 on the Ben MGM 985. The Sports Hub Celtics Radio Network mind without I don’t care. I’ll do it again. They unleash their venom on social media when things like this happen. But you got to be realistic about the players here on the floor. You’re facing a team that most people thought was the best team in the Eastern Conference. I know they’re short-handed, but it’s still Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley out there. Sely’s playing without Derek White and Mia Kada tonight and Jaylen Brown. All he can do is sit and watch here. Yeah, I mean you there’s had to be a point where you can give him some rest. But Selvich a plus 18 with Jaylen on the floor tonight. Minus 14 with him out. Jaylen Brown stays out of the game here with 937 to go. They had a tough game yesterday scoring 41 points at Minnesota. Simons moves into the right corner. Tilman hand back to Simons. Simons against Moley. Shot clock already down to four. Simons step back. Tough three. Nope. That was a hope shot. Cavs have the rebound for the moment. DeAndre Hunter. Jordan Walsh reaches in, rips the ball away, and gets fouled and a reach by Donovan Mitchell. Jordan Walsh. Rip the ball away. That could be a big play. I mean, you got a chance to come back down and score. Making a one possession game. Now Walsh comes in and you just don’t secure the basketball and just fumble around and Walsh just finally just rips it away. Gets fouled. DeAndre has been a disaster against the Celtics this year. He’s played 50 minutes. The Cavs are a minus 54 in those 50 minutes he has played this year. And he shot 32. Insane poor play. I guess those stats every time you read that out. And he comes back into the game now. Jordan Walsh gets both free throws. Career high. Five of six from the line for Jordan Walsh tonight. Moy catch and shoot straight away three. Air ball. So Celtics trying to get a little momentum back. They push the lead back to six and they’ve got the ball here with 905 to go. Still don’t want to give Moley those clean looks. At least have a hand in his face. Brutal schedule stretch for the Celtics and they actually won the first two. Lost yesterday in Minnesota. Really tough schedule game tonight. Simons on the right side trying to use the Tilman screen. Tyson stays in front of him. Switches to the left hand. Simons zips a pass down low to Tilman. Pump fake going to have to force it. Shot blocked. Rebound. Jordan Walsh follow the way. Beat the buzzer and he knocks it down. M did he beat the buzzer? He did that time. He did. Jordan Walsh has been tremendous tonight trying to stay in front of Donovan Mitchell now who drives switches to the left hand and scores. He is so special. He wants 90. Yeah. When he wants to get it going. Very few players in the league right now can stop him. He’s up to 11 points now. Celtics by six. Nathan Pritchard 27 points in 22 minutes tonight. Hower tips the left wing. Simons five on the shot clock. Simon steps away from Tyson. Fall away three. Rims out. Celtics should get another offensive rebound. Tilman and a Simons kick out. Hower swing to Pritchard. They’ll reset with 10 on the shot clock. Pritchard left hand dribble around Proctor getting in deep. Kick to the corner. Open. Tilman three. Not a chance. It’s a side of the backboard and the rebound belongs to Tyson. Well, do you expect Tman to make them all? Mitchell feeling contact from Hower. Launches a three. Compromised call though. They’re going to say that foul is on the floor on Hower. Yeah, that foul should be on the floor. But he anticipated the content. Jordan Walsh careerhigh 14 points, his first double double. Jordan Walsh has six offensive rebounds today after Kada had eight yesterday in Minnesota. Jaylen Brown is two assists away from a triple double. Jordan Walsh has his first career double double. Also just joining us, Jaylen Brown became the 14th Celtics to get to 12,000 career points. As I said, they just took that basket away from Jordan Walsh. Oh. Garland number 32 team Wade number 35 make one. So their lead is four not eight. There is Garland down the left side. Spied by Hower the whole time they swing out to the Andre Hunter. Go Gonzalez punches the ball away. Dives to the floor. He has the loose ball and but tried to push it to Hower and it goes out of bounds hitting Hunter and the hustle play by Ugo Gonzalez and he was the worst for wear trying to shake his neck off. Hunter does not want to see the Celtics. And my goodness, you can’t play as poorly. Boston by four. That was close. 724 to go. Shot. Jaylen Brown is back in the game. Pritchard down the right side. Kicks out. Gonzalez open for three. Got it. How about 19year-old Ugo Gonzalez sitting on the bench all night, all weekend, all week. and he hits his first shot and it’s a three to put the Celtics up by seven with 708 to go. Garland tries to get it right back, misses his three. Jaylen Brown grabs his 12th rebound. 1612 and eight for Jaylen Brown. Boston by seven. Peyton Pritching for Jaylen Brown up fakes a straightaway three. DeAndre Hunter in front of him. Jaylen turns into him, stumbles, and it’s called for Traveler. Jaylen’s getting himself in trouble by dribbling into a foam boot. You’re going to let a little bit more space be out there before you start dribbling the basketball. Five turnovers for Jaylen Brown. Cleveland with the ball. Margin is seven. 9790. Clock rolling with 646 to go. Proctor moving to his left against Hower. Goes all the way back out to Garland. Garland against Simon. Down the left side he comes. Floats it up. Blocked by Gonzalez, but they’re calling the foul. Garland is in a slick. Come on. He comes in not much of a foul, but still maybe just slightly on the arm going up. Thing you do realize about Hugo is that he’s not afraid because he’s been playing across the water for as long as he has. This a young man who’s a veteran. Wow. Garland misses the first free throw. And that is news. Why? as Darius Garland entered the night without missing a single free throw. And tonight, he’s missed two. He was 20 for 20 on the year, and he’s missed two tonight. One on a three-point attempt earlier, and he misses here. So, we’re at 9791 after he gets the second. 633 to go. 9791 is the score. Celtics led by 21. Four and a half to go in the third quarter. Payeyton Pritchard getting the Jaylen Brown screen. Proctor in front of him. Shot clock already at eight. Too much dribbling from Pritchard. Jaylen Brown down the right side. Beats Garland. Puff fake at the rim. Draws the foul on Tomlin. And Jaylen will go back to the line. You are exactly right because he’s dribbling or overdribbling right now. Shot clock going down and Brown had to make something here pretty much out of nothing. Are they going to give him two free throws? That looked like he was in the act of shooting. Well, it’s been apologies to Jaylen Brown night from the officials. He’s getting his 11th and 12th free throw attempts. First one short. Celtics 14 of 18 from the line tonight. Cleveland 79. And that is a geyser of a free throw advantage for the Celtics to have a 19-9 free throw advantage. And for Jaylen Brown to have more free throw attempts than the other team has, that’s a pretty stunning turnaround from what we’ve seen this year. Fans waving thunder sticks and pompoms at the basket that Jaylen Brown is shooting at in the white uniform. And he missed both free throws. Jaylen’s done a lot of amazing stuff tonight, but he also has five turnovers and he misses two free throws here. Boston lead remains six. 9791 606 to go. Donovan bounce pass for Moley. Mobley hand off to Darius Garland. Garland to the free throw line. Jumper’s good. 9793 Boston by four. Jaylen Brown throws a shoulder into Donovan Mitchell. Gets him to the dotted line. Draws another foul. Third team foul on Cleveland. Second foul. Third foul on Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell is third. Brown is trying to say this time. They’re not going to let shooting the basketball, but you were being helped then by Mitchell. Sam Hower on the inbound for Payton Pritchard player with Tilman Brown and Jordan Walsh. Pritchard deep on the left side crosscourt. Jaylen Brown. Tilman sets a screen on DeAndre Hunter. Jaylen five on the shot clock. Jaylen puts it in the left hand. Gets to the elbow field and contact shot bounces out. But more free throws coming. Who did he pay off? I’ll tell you what, Jaylen Brown has become the free throw merchant tonight. That’s a good call. Fans obviously the home fans aren’t going to like it, but that’s it’s a clear-cut foul. DeAndre Hunter put his left arm under the right arm of Jaylen Brown. You can’t do that. If you reach out like that, you’re going to get called every time. Now, how can you make some free throws, though? Just missed the last two. He started nine of 10 from the line tonight, but he just missed two. And he bounces one in. That was way short, but he got a friendly bounce. Clock stopped here with 537 to go. Can’t go fast enough for the Celtics right now. 21-point lead just evaporated way too quick. Donovich and Evan Mobley got going late in the third quarter. Joe Mazula just doesn’t have enough bodies to go to. Jaylen gets the free throw. I wouldn’t be I wouldn’t be uh too opposed to bring Charman back in this game the way he’s shooting the basketball. 1812 and eight for Jaylen Brown. 9993. Donov Mitchell finds Hunter. He is due, but he misses another three. Rebound Pton Pritchard. Celtics by six and the ball. 525 to go. Payton Pritchard shovel pass for Jaylen Brown. Looking for an opening. Mitchell takes that lane away. Kick back to Pritchard. Deep three. Got it. He is begging for that basketball. Sixth three of the night for Payton Pritchard. 30 points in 25 minutes. Garland coming downhill right side. Floats a pass all the way back out to Tyson. Tyson finds Mitchell who relocates for a straightaway three. No good. Long rebound. Cavs have another one. Garland hand off to DeAndre Hunter. Hunter will launch one over Jaylen Brown. That is no good. Rebound Jordan Walsh. Hunter cannot buy one against the Celtics. Boston by nine and the ball. Clock rolling with 448 to go. Aiden Pritchard, offensive end. What an absolute steal of a game this would be if the Celtics could pull this off. We thought that Detroit win was the win of the year on Wednesday. Jaylen Brown down the left side, finds the cutter. Payton Pritchard in the dunker spot. Reverses it up and in. Smallest man out there under the rim where Kada normally is. And Brown gets another assist. Seven straight for the Celtics. 11-point lead. 422 to go. Jaylen Brown one assist away from a triple double. Garland moves it in the middle. Tyson ducks his shoulder, drives, floats it. Blocked by Tilman. And here’s Hower the other way. Puts in the hands of Jaylen Brown who keeps it away from Garland, but reaching to knock the ball away was Hunter. Jaylen saves it. And did Joe Missoula get a timeout? I thought it was a foul then on Brown. It was definitely about to be a foul, but I think the Celtics got a timeout first. That’s the indication from Brandon Schwab. Well, how can you do that though if the ball is still right now? You you don’t possess it. Calls timeout. Joe got it in. Use it or lose it and he will use it with 409 to go. Boston 104, Cleveland 93 on the bet. MGM 985. The sports Drama fake friends every The TUS University School of Dental Medicine’s Cares for Veterans Program. Follow along at 985portub.com/veterans. 10 of those 18 assists belong to Jaylen Brown. His fifth career triple double to go along with his 12,000th career point. And the Celtics turn it over on the inbound. A 5second call out of a timeout. That is a killer. You want something going to drive you crazy? You call the timeout for it to get the possession and you come back in and turn it over and the spider kick out. Tomlin left side three is off. Rebound. Hower deflects it. Cavs. Can they save it? They can. And Garland moves it down low in the dunker spot all alone for the easy two. Was Tomlin and Kenny Atinson’s finally gotten a hit. He has pulled the Andre Hunter here. The minus 31 in this game. Garland by the way is a minus 34. 10495. Boston by nine. 338 to go. Jaylen Brown swings back to an open. Hower. Celtics need this one. Don’t get it. Front iron. A wide open three for Sam Hower. Rebounded by Moley. 328 to go. Garland down the right side. Leans in and scores. You know what Brown was looking for? That was the other assist he’s looking for for a triple double, wasn’t he? Nope. He already has it. He just said fifth career triple double for Jaylen Brown. Wake up. Peyton Pritchard switches to the left hand. Blows by Garland. Free throw line. Jumper is good. What a night. Peyton Pritchard is out shooting the basketball. 14 of 20. He’s got 34 points in 27 minutes. Mitchell. Bounce pass for Moley. Floats it out of the wing for Garland. Guarded by Hower. Left hand dribble for Garland. Going to attack the paint. Scoop and score. He got the bounce. Margin is seven. 1069. Celtics have led nearly wire to wire and by as many as 21. It’s seven right now with 240 to go if you’re sinking up. Pritchard uses the houseer screen to get three on the right side of the floor. Pritchard with Tomman in front of main on the shot clock. Bounce pass for Jaylen Brown against Garland. Jaylen ducks the shoulder, bumps Garland. Lost the ball, has it back, elevates, zips it down low to Jordan Walsh in the dunker spot, reverses it up and in the Selvich have found something there. Boy, I’m saying what Brown has absolutely done it all tonight. 11 assists for Jaylen Brown. Careerhigh. Mitchell falling away to his right. Missed the three. Rebound knocked out of bounds by Donovan Mitchell. Celtics will get it. Leading by nine with 212 to go. Whoa, that’s crazy. Man, Chris has been held in the back court. About to have the twominute announcement here in Cleveland coming right now. 108.99. Pritchard switches to the left hand. Tomlin reaches around to knock the ball free. Commits the foul. Cleveland is over the limit. That is a terrible foul with seven on the shot clock. Now Pton Pritchard will go to the free throw line. He has 34 points without a single free throw attempt. I love how you get to that, you know, terrible call and it was. But on top of that, again, what Pritchard hasn’t done, I don’t think, and me just picked up another foul. Picked up those three fouls and has really just done a great job of not getting another foul. And look like some of the fans right now starting to move and groove out of there. Been a long day. Three-hour football game. Four. If you watch the Browns offense. Now they have the Cavs. This would be a bad bad loss for the Cavaliers. Pritchard hits the free throws. The margin is now 11 with a minute 52 to go. Mitchell feeling contact, throws up a crazy three. And they’re going to make this call against Jordan Walsh. It should be before it is. He’s on the floor. He He’s anticipating. He’s going for it. He had Yeah, he hit him before he got that basketball away. Garland step back from the wing. His three is good. Pass still alive. 110 102. Celtics an eight-point lead down the ball. Clock rolling with a minute 39 to go. We’re just come get this basketball. Jaylen Brown has the ball punched away by Mitchell. Mitchell wins the foot race. Falls down, but he slides out of bounds. And this will go back to Boston unless they call a foul on Jaylen Brown. Loose ball. And immediately on the Celtics bench, they are looking at it to decide whether or not to challenge. His third penalty situation. This is going to be free throws for Donovan Mitchell. Matt Reynolds throwing his palms up in the air at Joe Mazula like it’s not worth challenging. So disaster for the Celtics. They had the ball and an eight-point lead. Jaylen Brown turns it over. Sixth turnover and then he fouls Donovan Mitchell. So free throws here for Mitchell to try to make it a two-possession game. Well, the thing that happened was the fact, as I said before, Pritchard has to come get that basketball. You get your most reliable ball handler at that particular time. Now, Brown can make plays on the offside, but I’m not giving them the ball in the front to try to set other people up. He’s done a great job of doing it tonight. Second free throw missed. Offensive rebound. Tomlin gets fouled. Power play. Jordan Walsh. His fifth. Fifth foul on Jordan Walsh. And now Tomlin will go to the line to try to make it a five-point game with 90 seconds left. You know, the the thing that that happens in a when you’re boxing now is you don’t take a step forward. What you do, you take a step towards the defender over there. Oh, Tyler misses the first and two. 12 of 16 on the year. Go watch free throw of the night. Watch what they do, Sean. Watch how they collapse and you don’t step in, you step back. So, five straight points for the Cavs. They’ve cut it to six. 110 104. Tyson all over Pritchard and he fouls him. Stops the clock and we’re playing the free throw game now with both teams over the limit. Pritchard will go there with a minute 24 to go. Your best free throw shooter and your best ball handler have to be in that situation of controlling the game at the end. That was a great thing about a guy like Larry Bird. control the game at the end because he’s handling the basketball. He had the vision. Now, one thing about it, Pritchard being a smaller guy, I probably want to trap him with the basketball because he can’t see over the double team. You couldn’t do that with Bird cuz he was 610. Richard gets the first free throw. His 37 point. And there’s number 38. Celtics lead by eight. 112 104. Clock rolling with a minute 22 to go. Darius Garland angles to his left. He beats Tilman. getting in deep. No one can touch it, but he misses the layup, but nobody boxes out Moley. That’s a rough possession for Tilman. Easy two for Moy. 112, 106. 111, 110, 109 to go here in Cleveland. Celtics try to hang on to score their second monster win this week. Pritchard straight away against Donov Mitchell. Bounce pass Jaylen Brown. Turns, gets mugged by Garland, then kicks out to Pritchard for a deep three. It rims out. Rebound eludes Tilman. Ball in the hands of Garland. Cap still alive down by six. 49 seconds to go. Garland to his left. Tilman in front of him. Zip pass Metro. Quick three. Got it. It’s a three-point game. 112 109. 40 seconds to go. Pritchard across half court. Tyson reaching in for a steal. Now Pritchard used the house screen. Has Garland in front of him. 10 on the shot clock. Cavs do not have to foul. Everybody on their feet. Pritchard down the right side. Pull up 12-footer. Got it. The man is gold tonight. He’s golden. A 40point night for Payton Pritchard. Donna Mitchell across half court. Crazy deep. Three is good. Two-point game. 20.5 to go. Now the Cavs have to foul. Jordan Walsh gets it in safer. Pritchard pressured by Tyson in the back court. Has to get rid of it. But call timeout before he doesn’t. He saw that thing going badly cuz you had three guys in the back court trying to trap Pritchard. So here’s the game situation. They have to go. We do not have the shot clock because they turned it off. So they have to go and figure out. That’s exactly what the Celtics coaching staff is asking. How much time do the Celtics have to get it across half court? Joe Mazula going to the officials first to find out before he draws up the inbound. Peyton Pritchard did not get the half court, so the Celtics do have not gained that yet. The ball was inbounded. 15.6 seconds to go in regulation. Celtics have the ball and lead 114 to 112. Can’t lose a game like this. We thought Wednesday was the game of the year. The Mitchell shot was credited officially with 20.5 seconds to go. So, the Celtics have should have 3.1 to get it across half court. And if they do, then the Cavs will have to foul. Peyton Pritchard second career 40point game. Remember, he and Derek White both had 40. Pritchard had 43 in that game against Portland last year. Did the Cavs just give the Celtics a little too much room to pull away in the third quarter going up by 21? They reeled them back in, but that’s a difficult mountain to climb, especially with Payton Pritchard on an alltime heater. 40 points in 30 minutes. How the Celtics are trying to inbound this ball. Jordan Walsh will inbound it near half court. Pritchard trying to get free from Tyson. That’s where they want the ball to go. Pritchard has it. Angles to his right, gets across half court and gets it away to Hower. Now the Cavs have to foul at some point. 9 seconds to go. Pritchard tried to dribble away from Tomlin. More seconds come off the clock and they finally foul Pritchard. But we’re down to 5.9 to go. Did not did not play the clock. Didn’t play the clock. If the Cowboys waited too long. Yeah, you got a foul and you look to trap. But to me, I didn’t like Pritcher in the back court. Then the double team came. Watch. She just makes the cross and barely almost walked with that basketball. It was Tyson who fell asleep. He should have fouled Hower about 3 or 4 seconds ago. And Howser is a good free throw shooter, but remember he’s barely been to the line this year. Pritchard is already four for four tonight. Now five for five. And he can put the Celtics a long way towards another huge upset win this week if he can get the second free throw. Well, I remember you were talking about this. You looked at the murderer’s row and said, “Man, how can the Celtics get through this?” And going to Cleveland on the second night of a backto-back. Well, it’s all about will and desire. Could the Celtics go four and four in these eight games? They’re about to go three and one. Pritchard gets the free throw. Timeout, Kenny Atinson. But the Cavs trail by four with 5.9 to go. Now, you just don’t do anything dumb. You just don’t do anything dumb. I know I put it out there. I’m sorry, but it had to be said. The game Wednesday night had everything. What you realize as you look at this 20 game body of work for a Celtics team that a lot of people, myself included, had sort of written off as a playoff team that it was going to be too much of a hill to climb. You were giving away too much every night. The question was going to be about the effort. They were going to have nights where they knocked down threes. is they were going to have nights when they rebounded well enough even though they were underside. But the one thing that has been consistent through the 20 games is the compete level that in this league will give you a chance to win and to score upsets on any given night. And the Celtics are 5.9 away from getting through the first 20 games of this season. Two games over 500. Well, you and I talked about that and and I talked about it till Nazium and saying that Joe Mazula is going to have these guys competing every night. You remember Orlando did not have the most talent, but they were scrappy and they played every game and they won a lot of games. It’s the same thing right now with the Celtics. Not as much of talent as you think about, but you know, compete every single game. The Celtics do have a timeout remaining. Cleveland has to score quickly here. Down four with 5.9 to go. Wade, Tyson, Mitchell, Garland, and the four on the floor. Mowgli will trigger the inbound. Watched by Tilman. Cavs have one more timeout if they can’t get it in. Mobley floats it to Garland. Garland has to do something quick here. Garland two dribbles now launches the three. He got it with 1.2 to go. It’s a one-point game. Celtics just have to get the ball in bounds. Joe Missoula will call a timeout to make sure they do. 116 to 115 with 1.2 on the clock. Here’s my thing about a shot like that. I don’t like it in the fact that why don’t you if you’re the Celtics, why don’t you just foul? Yeah, I agree. And and make them shoot two free throws. You see How’s right here? Just foul. When you dribbling around like that, foul. Don’t allow them to get the three off. He took so much time to do it. Well, Cavs have scored 36 points in this fourth quarter, but they need two more to win the game. Celtics have watched this lead just get whittleled away and whittleled away, but they’ve made enough plays. Jordan Walsh has made huge plays all night. Payton Pritchard has been on an all-time heater. And how many points does Peyton Pritchard score tonight if he does not get into foul trouble? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe 50. He’s got 42 points in 31 minutes. Jim Mazoula is diagramming this play. what you normally do. You have it, remember the last time the Celtics, they had a uh situation where they weren’t able to get the ball in at the half. So, S right now, get the ball in. Watch out for the milk palazio. Conjure that name. Shyman will trigger the inbound in the front court. 1.9 to go. It’s into Jaylen Brown. Donovan Mitchell gives the foul right away. Stops the clock with.7 to go. Donovan Mitchell is arguing about Tom. Did he foul? They took about 1.2 off the clock. Donovan Mitchell I I read I am 50 ft away and I’m reading his lips. He said 7 as if it should be more time than that. Remember the best the Celtics can do here is go up by three. They’re going to make it 0.9. And the Cavs have a timeout, so they’re going to get a shot at this thing. Jaylen Brown. Jaylen Brown. We talk about him not getting to the line. How about 16 free throw attempts tonight in his fifth career trouble double, 18, 12, and 11, but he shot it poorly. Three of 13 from the floor, 11 of 14 from the line. First one right down the middle. Big ones. Big boys. Big boys with the big draws on. Jaylen Brown trying to make it a three-point game. And the Cavs will call timeout. Jaylen Brown dribbles three times. Puts it back in his right hand. Bends the knee. Second free throw. Bounces out. Rebound. Mobley. Timeout. Cleveland. 7 on the clock. The Cavs will have a chance to tie. The Cavs will have a chance to win as they trail by two. 26 seconds. They changed the clock to 6. There is time to catch and shoot. This would be heartbreak beyond belief if the Cavs could pull this one off. They can go upstairs with love to Moy. Got so many different options right now. Kate Pritchard 42 points in 31 minutes. It’s been done four times in Celtics history. Twice by Larry Bird, once by Jaylen Brown, and once by Tommy Heinson. None of the statistics are the concern right now. Can the Celtics hang on for another half second, leading by two? Amari Williams is going to come in the game. You’re going to have Williams, Tilman, Walsh, Shyman, and Jaylen Brown as the five on the floor. And what does Kenny Atkinson draw up here? Well, you’re looking to protect the rim. You know, I’d want to put a lot of pressure on the basketball initially. I’d put a big out there. It’s going to be Mitchell that triggers it. So, watch for the ball maybe to come right back to him. Not enough time. Mitchell will trigger. That suggests to me that they’re going to try to lob at the Moble. Let’s see. 5second count about to begin. Ball handed to Donovan Mitchell. Cavs down by two. 6/10 of a second. Donovan Mitchell gets it into Moley. Launches the long two. It’s short and the Celtics have won the ball game. A remarkable finish to a remarkable night in a remarkable week in an unexpected season for the Boston Celtics who upset the Pistons in the game of the year on Wednesday night and may just have topped it coming into Cleveland on a back-to back and beating the Cavs. The final score, Boston 117, Cleveland 115. Back with more on the Ben MGM 985, the Sports Hub Celtics Radio Network. 985 the sports.
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