Boston Celtics and Miami Heat took to the court this Wednesday, the 25th, and faced each other in a game valid for Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
After falling behind in the series, the Boston Celtics showed his power of reaction and ran after the damage. facing the Miami Heatwhich was the leader of the Eastern Conference during the regular season, the Massachusetts franchise started losing away from home, but managed to equalize the confrontation quickly and now takes advantage of the dispute.
Winning Game 5 93-80, the Celtics turned the series around and now won 3-2. Now, the next game is decisive for the future of both teams in the competition as, on the one hand, the Boston franchise can reach to the final and, on the other hand, Florida needs to win to force the seventh and final possible game of the series.
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The game, which had a lower score than normal by NBA standards, was very truncated and marred by a few lead changes in the scoreboard. The game remained balanced until the end of the third quarter, when the Celtics were better and started to open up a comfortable lead to just manage.
After leading the score for most of the second period, the Miami Heat had a blackout and ended up suffering an upset in the third quarter. Despite being behind, the team behaved well in the first eight minutes behind. However, with 2:44 remaining in the third period, Gabe Vincent scored the 58th point for the Heat, who kept the same score for nearly five minutes played.
With that, the Celtics took advantage to open the advantage. During the period that Miami spent “blank”, the opponents did not let the opportunity slip and scored 12 points, which gave a lead of 14 points ahead, with 10 minutes to go. Already without much hope, the Heat slowed down even more and now they will have to chase the damage.
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