#Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse- Cleveland, OH
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401658226/celtics-cavaliers)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1cpu87w/game_thread_boston_celtics_11_at_cleveland/l3n3l2p/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|BOS |30|27|27|22|106|
|CLE |28|20|21|24|93|
###Player Stats
**Boston Celtics**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. Brown|40:39|28|13-17|2-3|0-2|2|7|9|3|1|0|2|4|18
|J. Tatum|41:57|33|11-25|2-8|9-9|1|12|13|6|1|1|5|2|8
|A. Horford|38:45|2|1-7|0-6|0-0|3|4|7|2|0|0|0|3|12
|D. White|36:54|12|4-13|3-8|1-1|0|3|3|3|1|1|1|1|13
|J. Holiday|37:40|18|7-10|3-4|1-2|2|6|8|5|0|1|1|1|15
|P. Pritchard|22:20|5|2-4|1-2|0-0|1|2|3|3|0|0|1|1|-4
|L. Kornet|7:51|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|1|0|1|1
|S. Hauser|9:56|6|2-3|2-3|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|10
|O. Brissett|1:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-2
|J. Springer|1:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-2
|S. Mykhailiuk|1:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-2
|J. Walsh|:56|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-2
**Cleveland Cavaliers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|M. Strus|37:27|6|2-8|2-6|0-0|0|5|5|2|0|0|1|4|-14
|I. Okoro|17:46|2|1-7|0-4|0-0|0|1|1|1|1|0|1|0|-17
|E. Mobley|37:06|17|7-11|0-1|3-3|3|5|8|1|1|0|3|1|-16
|D. Mitchell|43:24|33|12-22|7-12|2-3|0|6|6|3|2|0|0|2|-10
|D. Garland|37:51|15|6-15|1-6|2-2|0|3|3|6|0|1|2|3|-17
|C. LeVert|29:37|15|6-12|1-3|2-2|2|4|6|1|0|0|1|0|-1
|D. Wade|16:48|5|2-6|1-4|0-0|1|2|3|3|0|1|0|2|12
|T. Thompson|4:31|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|1|1|2|0|0|0|0|2|-6
|M. Morris Sr.|4:36|0|0-2|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|-2
|S. Merrill|10:53|0|0-1|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|6
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|BOS|41-80|13-34|11-14|22|14|3|11|4|9|35|51|
|CLE|36-84|12-36|9-10|17|14|4|8|2|7|28|40|
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Winning a game where Mitchell went off, JB’s high shooting efficiency, and Tatum showed aggression and his star power is a win-win-win. Get on board boys, Celtics in 5!
Jayson please stop shooting 3’s over Mobley!
Gritty win. Now stop messing around and get the next one so we can put them on the brink.
Playing away from TD is our home court at this point lmao
Survived an epic shooting night from Mitchell and Mobley, still won by double digits.. hopefully we close this out in 5
LETS FUCKING GO
Big Deuce is our superstar
Home court is back on the menu boys!
Jrue with his best game of the playoffs, probably the reason we won tbh. Brown with a super efficient night too, you love to see it.
As far as learning from this one goes, they need to figure out what to do when Horford gets singled out on D, Mitchell cooked him a little bit.
Tatum and Brown with 25+ each? Fuck yeah.
Major props to Donovan Mitchell for carrying his team the way he did.
Even bigger props to Zach Zarba for keeping them in the game.
Fuck Donovan Mitchell. This is how I respect him.
Great JT and Jrue games. That’s how you respond to adversity! Tatum at the 5 at the end was great bc Horford was fried.
Have you considered Jaylen Brown
Both Jays showed the fuck out today. Tatum shut the haters up 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Shoutout Jrue for stepping up too and White for not letting a bad 3 quarters get to him and hitting some big shots in the 4th
Also fuck Max Strus
Shoutout to all the fake ass fans saying this team can’t win and this series is over. You guys are awesome and make watching wins like that so much more sweet. Go Celtics 🍀🍀🍀.
tatum finally scoring a bit better is awesome, but jrue finally having an efficiently great game was key
JT: is this what you want! An aggressive JT! Huh?? Haaaaaa!!!
Fans: yes
JT: ok
6-1 when wearing a Derrick White Jersey over Dark Green is still a winning record!
Forget the last game, Boston deserves a hall of fame, because Celtics rocked and The Cavaliers rolled!
10 to go!
First win that felt like a playoff game. Jays masterclass. Shoutout Jrue
That Pritchard logo three was so important
JB’s efficiency tonight was superb (aside from two clanked FTs I saw coming a mile away)
I swear JT’s FG% would be fine without those insane iso shots he takes
S/O to Joe tonight. He coached a GREAT game
Excellent 4th quarter defense and ball movement
Doomers GTFOH
JB and JT are cooking
Good response … We didn’t come here just for one though … Foot on neck on Monday
The Jays show up as they always do in these moments
BIG Jrue game
Hauser hits 2 biggies in 1H, Payton with a BIGGIE in the 4th
I overreact when they lose so let me overreact now that they’ve won:
The Celtics will never lose again
Doomers can quiet down.
Overall a good win, but needing 40 minutes from Horford is rough, especially with him having to play every other day for this series. It’s hard not to wonder if his 0/6 from 3 performance today was mainly fatigue.
Mazzulla has gotta find a way to cut his minutes down.
What bounce back. Time to take game 4 and close out in game 5
Love it. Jays were great.
Doomers real quiet tonight
Tatum w/ a 30 piece, Jrue w/ 18, we’re so fucking back
There you go Tatum! You proved tonight that you are everything we wanted you to be. Let’s continue this and boogie our way to the ECF 😝
Doomer Brigade, crawl back into your holes please
Friendly reminder, they want to win
Idk how much longer Al can keep playing this many minutes. My goat was tired as shit
Walsh playoff minutes will always make me happy
I love JB’s pep talk to JT. Love the Jays!
Where all the Jrue haters at?
For the “nO AdjUStmEnTS!” crowd, here are all of the defensive adjustments I noticed within this game to try and slow down the Mitchell PnR game:
* Switching
* Having a way higher drop
* Hedging Horford
* Trapping (tried this once or twice)
* Moving Horford to Dean Wade/Isaac Okoro and Tatum to Mobley so they are forced to either use a smaller, worse screener or face a more mobile defender
* Several primary defenders
That’s essentially everything you can try, bro was just cooking in the first half lmao. The last one would be way more effective with Porzingis, and is actually the in game adjustment (shocking, as apparently we’ve never made one in the Mazzulla era) we made earlier this year in the regular season against them. A big issue last game was being unable to turn defense into offense in the second half and having to play entirely in the half court, we did great on that this game
So for the “no adjustments” people, please shut the fuck up and stop pretending like you know enough to recognize adjustments when they happen.
Also shoutout Jrue Holiday for being an elite screen navigator. It is beautiful to watch. We had success with him on Mitchell.
Fuck off doomers!
Won and didn’t even take 30 threes. Take that national media that only thinks we win when chucking up threes
Idc about the efficiency atp Tatum being aggressive is good for the team
I feel dirty saying it, but Zach Zarba… called a fine game tonight??
Jaylen Brown masterpiece. Always undervalued and under appreciated. He’s been extremely consistent through this run. 10 more to go.