⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score quarter by quarter is not in yet.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Cavaliers won, and why the Celtics did not.
From the game
Made nineteen threes to their eleven- Looked after the ball, eleven turnovers to their eighteen
Key battles
12Offensive rebounds6
7Steals13
11Threes made19
18Turnovers11
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Celtics
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Gerald Green technical foul(1st technical foul)
Q2 9:48 · BOS 31-49 CLE
Cavaliers
Good plays
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run from level to 9 points up
Q1 10:26 · BOS 3-12 CLE
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 6-point lead to 17
Q1 6:11 · BOS 14-31 CLE
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 23-point lead to 34
Q3 4:03 · BOS 72-106 CLE
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| BOS | CLE | |
|---|---|---|
| 43% | Shooting from the field | 56% |
| 11 | Threes made | 19 |
| 37% | Three-point accuracy | 46% |
| 17 | Free throws made | 20 |
| 52 | Rebounds | 44 |
| 12 | Offensive rebounds | 6 |
| 20 | Assists | 24 |
| 38 | Points in the paint | 50 |
| 27 | Fast break points | 20 |
| 12 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 18 | Turnovers | 11 |
| 7 | Steals | 13 |
| 5 | Blocks | 5 |
