The Boston Celtics are averaging 105.9 points on 44 percent shooting and allowing 102.6 points on 44 percent shooting.
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They are only 1.0 games behind the Celtics and Heat at the moment and with wins in their last two games, can also find themselves climbing the rankings in the East. He shot 52.0 percent from the floor, 36.9 percent from beyond the arc and 85.2 percent from the free-throw line during the regular season.
Joe Johnson scored 25 points on 10-for-15 shooting from the field in the Heat’s victory over the Pistons last night.
Going into the final day of the regular season, the Eastern Conference playoff picture is still a jumbled mess, with the Celtics jockeying for position with three other teams in the middle of the playoff standings.
Thomas was part of a furious second half comeback from a 26 point deficit to the Heat.
Celtics lose: If the Celtics lose to the Heat on Wednesday, they would miss out on any chance of home court advantage in the first round, and the best the team could hope for is the No. 5 seed.
It’s not necessarily the easiest, however.
The Celtics have a certain level of concern due to their recent struggles, but have proven repeatedly this season that they can rise to the occasion and knock off any team, anywhere – ask the Golden State Warriors whose 54-game home winning streak was snapped by Boston on April 1. Lin was spectacular in the first half, scoring 21 of his 25 points. Eventually, Daniels started to get more playing time, cutting into the Lamb share. “We’re going to need you for a deep run in the playoffs”, Thomas said. The mentality that we had today was very good. “I’m interested to see how we respond”. Evan Turner is a legitimate candidate for Sixth Man of the Year, having embraced his role as the go-to player on Boston’s second unit while averaging 10.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. From the the Celtics Post-Game show, to the Garden Report, and to Celtics Beat, CLNS Radio will now provide basketball fans gameday coverage before anyone else in the lead up to tip-off. We know what’s at stake.
“Monday was probably the worst home game we played”.
The Celtics out rebounded the Charlotte Hornets 46-44.
Boston is coming off of back-to-back losses in which they blew a 12 point third quarter lead in Atlanta this past Saturday and then lost to Charlotte on Monday night after being outscored 30-3 in the final 8 minutes of the first half.
Finally, with Batum, the Hornets would lose a great amount of production if they were not to bring him back to Charlotte. But he has been so valuable this season to the Hornets’ makeover. Miami won the Southeast Division – and secured the No. 3 seed – by virtue of division tie-breaker while Atlanta slotted fourth ahead of Boston based on head-to-head performance against the remaining tied teams.
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“We’ll do everything we can to control that and it starts with a win (Wednesday)”, guard Isiah Thomas told the team’s official website. “Hopefully we can get fourth place and have home-court in the first round because it would definitely help us”.
