The NBA playoffs continued on Friday with three major matches in the first round, which entered the game 3. Two games of the Eastern Conference and the match at the Western Conference began the weekend after the NBA season.
Check the forecasts of Yahoo Sports for each series of the first round, in addition to the rating of Kevin O’Connor out of the 40 best players in the post -zone of the NBA.
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Here are the results and key conclusions from Friday games:
Magic 95, Celtics 93
With two teams selling hot stripes, everything went down to the wire for this match on the east coast. But Boston’s last attempt in the last second did not pass, and magic won to reduce the Celtics series to 2-1.
Jason Tatum plays a strong, but young stars of Orlando stronger
This was another excellent game for Jason Tatum, which scored 36 points for the Celtics. There were times when the striker looked uncontrollable: at some moment in the second quarter, the tatum fell eight points in a row, reassuring the crowd of Orlando.
But when it comes to victory, two performances of 30 points are better than one. The victory of magic again went down to the young duo Paolo Banchera and Franz Wagner. Banchero finished with 29 points and six selection, while Wagner almost hit a triple oak with 32 points, selections and eight gears.
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Wagner, in particular, shone in the last quarter, hitting several clutch buckets to prevent the return of Celtics. In the end, this was enough to prevent the tatum of Tatum to lead Boston to victory.
Turnover note the fall of Boston
Although Celtics played well on both sides of the ball on Friday, there was one bright problem: turnover.
Throughout the regular season, Celtics had one of the lowest turnover indicators in the league, an average of 11.9 revolutions per game – yielding only to Oklahoma -City Thunder.
On Friday, Celtics had 21 turns. Worse, Boston lost 26 points from the revolutions of magic, compared to Orlando, losing eight.
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Gary Harris Theft at Payton Protchard in the last minutes of the game seemed to have served as an example of the problem: although the three signs of Wagner from the theft eventually suffered failure, he turned Boston into a dangerous situation.
The problem with magic spoils almost everything
Like all games in the postson, this series has become physical – and on Friday, this physics almost hit Orlando.
Three magic players ended the game with four fouls, including Banchero and Wagner. Wagner took the fourth in the last minutes of the game, after he polluted Kristap Porzhingas, before the ball was still introduced – a potentially catastrophic mistake with the game is so close.
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Another player who finished with four was Cole Anthony, who was also appreciated by the egregious folus in the first half, who stopped part of the pulse of magic.
This time, Orlando was able to achieve victory, even with his star players, creeping to trouble. But the fouls were a problem for magic during the season when the team on average was about 20 personal fouls per game. In the future, Orlando – especially his young stars – should be careful not to allow the fouls to interfere with victories.
– Kari Anderson
Bucks 117, Pacers 101
Based on the greatness of Jannis Antetokunmpo and some timely shooting Gary Trent Jr., Miluoki Baks defended the Fiserv forum to win the game 3 and reduce the series of the first round of Indiana Pacials to 2-1.
Jannis sets the tone
Antetokounmpo made his first five shots in the first quarter to establish his presence and announce that he would not be calm at night. He had 17 points in the first half of shooting 7 out of 10 and finished with 37 points (14 out of 19 FG, 9-10 FTS), 12 rebounds and six gears.
But the question remained whether he would receive enough support on Friday evening. Antetokounmpo was a team with one person in the first two games of the series, gaining an average of 35 points when shooting 65.1%, 15 rebounds and four programs, since Pacers quite easily won the first two games.
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Like the theme of the series, Bax still decreased by 57-47 in half.
Who would fit to give Jannis the support in which he will need?
It’s time to Trent
Trent hit five 3 signs in the key third period, when the bucks left the locker room with a new level of intensity and turned a 10-point deficiency into 86-75 leadership after three quarters. Trent finished the game with 37 points at shooting 11 out of 16, hitting nine 3-guides at 12 attempts.
This was an outstanding performance for a seven -year veteran, but if it is that type of emission, shooting money, needs victory, well, this is not a very comforting thought.
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Damian Lillard continued to fight, shooting at 2 out of 12 at seven points, and his appearance will be of great importance to help Baks in the development of some consistent additional production for Antetokounmpo
But Trent delivered one night. Now let’s see who can go up to game 4 in Miluoi at 21:30 East time on Sunday.
– Joe Garza
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