Jaylen Brown dominates Raptors, Celtics bewitch 3-2 lead in East semifinals
Sept. 7 (UPI) — Jaylen Brown scored a recreation-high 27 good points to e book the Boston Celtics to a 111-89 desire over the Toronto Raptors in Sport 5 an Eastern Convention semifinals sequence Monday in Orlando, Fla. The Celtics now lead the sequence 3-2.
“Our guys got here out ready to wrestle tonight and we have to reach out ready to wrestle in the following recreation,” Brown in actual fact helpful journalists.
The Celtics led by as many as 30 good points in the blowout and are in reality one desire some distance off from a state in the Eastern Convention finals.
Boston indubitably no longer trailed Toronto in Sport 5 and ended the Raptors’ two-recreation successful trip in the sequence at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the route of the Walt Disney World Resort.
“We were undoubtedly active and trying to play as exhausting as we would possibly perhaps perhaps moreover,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens acknowledged. “We were taking part in with immense reason. You would possibly perhaps perhaps perhaps moreover feel it from the accumulate-run.”
The Celtics went on a 5-0 urge to starting up Monday’s recreation. Boston the outmoded one other 8-0 urge to originate a 25-11 lead after the predominant 12 minutes. Brown scored nine good points in the second quarter and helped the Celtics outscore the Raptors 37-24 in the body to staunch a 62-35 lead at halftime.
Boston persevered to pour it on in the third body and pushed the lead to 79-49 with 4: 23 final in the quarter. The Raptors outscored the Celtics 26-24 in the fourth quarter, but would possibly perhaps perhaps moreover no longer rally to shut the immense deficit.
Kemba Walker scored 21 good points and had seven assists and four rebounds in the desire. Jayson Tatum chipped in 18 good points and 10 rebounds for Boston. Fred VanVleet scored a employees-high 18 good points for Toronto. Norman Powell scored 16 good points off the bench for the Raptors.
“Or no longer it is indispensable to present them credit,” VanVleet acknowledged. “They outplayed us in handsome unprecedented every side of the sport. They were sooner to the ball, taking part in with extra drive and tempo and as a result, you saw the [bad] starting up we were ready to accumulate out to.”
The Celtics wrestle the Raptors in Sport 6 at 6: 30 p.m. EDT Wednesday in Orlando.
“We simply have to cease focussed, cease locked in, enact the sport conception, reach out and play exhausting and conclude our jobs and do every other responsible,” Brown acknowledged.