Race 1 Super for the Thunders who trim 51 points to Morant’s Grizzlies. At TD Garden Tatum and Brown undertone, but Derrick White thinks about giving success to the Celtics
NBA evening that saw the playoff debut of the Boston Celtics in charge champions, who hosted Orlando, and the best team of the regular season, the Thunders, who awaited the grizzies. And if the Celtics won thanks to a second dominant time and the super evening of White, Okc gave himself a dream performance destroying Memphis and inflicting 51 waste points in Morant and members. Thunder and Grizzlies will return to the field on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday for race 2 at the Paycom Center, while the one between Boston and Orlando will be staged between Wednesday and Thursday.
Oklahoma City Thunder-Memphis Grizzlies 131-80
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After a record -breaking regular Season it was legitimate to expect a start -up start of the Thunder playoffs, but Daigneault’s team went far further. It is difficult to find the border between the monstrous performance of Okc and the bad one, to use it mildlyness, of the Grizzlies, who also pay some effort for the two play-in games, but the difference in the field was abysmal. The 51 waste points represent the fifth wider margin in the history of the playoffs, and have arrived despite the evening of the SGA: the opponents are notified …
The game
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The beginning is slow for both teams, who struggle to find rhythm for the great defensive intensity. Shai and Ja Forzano several conclusions, the attacks turn little, but the Thunders make the first tear at the end of the first quarter, with three triples of Holmgren, Joe and Jaylin Williams. It is the lightning that announces the storm: in the second quarter, OKC sweeps away the opponents with a partial of 26-2, which arrived thanks to the defensive domain, which forces the grizzies to terrifying percentages (1-11 during the partial), to the recoveries that bring 17 points in transition, to an indomitable Hartentein with its approaching florater. There are 14 points of the German in the first half, while Jalen Williams and Dort guide for stolen (3 each) and J-Dub makes the audience explode with a couple of crushes on the counterattack. 68-36 after 24 ‘represents the greatest advantage at the interval in the history of the franchise, and the most frightening thing (for Memphis and the others) is that Gilgeous-Alexander closed the first fraction with 9 points and 2/10 on the shot, sitting on the bench for most of the second quarter. The recovery, of pure administration, sees the advantage of the Thunder touch the 56 points, while for Memphis Marvin Bagley shines with 17 points (8/8 from the field) and the triple from his half field to the expiry of the third quarter.
Oklahoma City: Wiggins 21 (8/15, 4/7, 1/1 TL), Jal.williams 20, Holmgren 19. Rimbazi: Holmgren 10. Assist: Jal.williams 6.
Memphis: Bagley 17 (8/8, 1/1), Morant 17, Bane 9. Hatches: Edey 9. Assist: Morant and Pippen Jr 4.
Boston Celtics-Orlando Magic 103-86
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A good defensive match and the Banchero-Wagner duo to ruin the party in race 1 at TD Garden are not enough to Orlando. Boston is too deep, and on an evening in which Tatum and Brown do not climb all the gears of the engine, Derrick White thinks about giving success to the Celtics. The reigning champions initially suffer from the physicality of the Magic but bring home the victory by raising the intensity in the second half and running away thanks to the triples of White and Pritchard.
The game
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There are several errors in the first minutes for both teams: Orlando begins 7/21 on the shot (33%), and does not capitalize on the 8 offensive rebounds in the first quarter alone. Boston puts himself in front of two Triples of White and one of Horford, but Banchero and Wagner respond by creating 14 of the first 18 team points. The first extension of the Celtics bears the signature of Pripechard, with 11 points in a few minutes of play, but the Magic play it thanks to a very physical defense and the impact of Paolo and Franz: Banchero leads the comeback with 3 consecutive triples, and a basket of Caldwell-Pope from the corner even gives the advantage, to close the first fraction forward 48-49. In the second half, however, the reigning champions turn the game following a simple score: defense, exploiting the lack of a game creator in opponents, and transition (which will yield 26 points). He performs a master like Holiday, who steals two balls and creates three consecutive triples, while White continues to hit also putting a 4 -point game inside. The Magic, forced to several lost balls (14) and shots taken at the end of the 24 ”, keep Botta with the isolations of Banchero and Wagner until 36 ‘, but they collapse after the umpteenth triples of Pripchard and White, which takes the race cover 1 with 30 points and 7 triples.
Boston: White 30 (10/18, 7/12, 3/3 tl), Pripchard 19, Tatum 17. Hinders: Tatum 14. Assist: Holiday 5.
Orlando: Banchero 36 (14/27, 4/7, 4/6 TL), Wagner 23, Isaac 7. Has Broes: Carter Jr 13. Assist: Wagner 5.
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