Boston Celtics earn third straight blowout win, demolish San Antonio Spurs 137-93

Winners of six of their final eight video games — together with consecutive blowouts over Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers — the Boston Celtics have discovered a little bit of a rhythm in latest weeks. At dwelling towards the San Antonio Spurs, the surge continued. The Celtics earned one other snug victory, main by as many as 30 factors earlier than the benches emptied and incomes a 137-93 win.

With Jayson Tatum a late scratch, it was all Jaylen Brown, on a regular basis. The Celtics’ co-star stepped as much as the duty, scoring 41 factors on 18-of-29 capturing and grabbing 13 rebounds. Supporting him had been robust evenings from Derrick White and Malcolm Brogdon, who mixed for 39 factors, alongside a robust defensive effort team-wide that included 10 blocked pictures. Zach Collins led the Spurs with 21 factors, however San Antonio had few solutions for a Boston lineup that appeared to get higher as the sport went alongside.

The Celtics fed Brown the ball early and infrequently as play started. He scored 15 factors within the first quarter, aggressively attacking the basket because the crew’s prime scoring choice. Whereas he was efficient, the crew struggled to comprise the San Antonio in response. The Spurs related on 5 first quarter three and shot higher than 50% from the sector within the opening quarter, taking a 32-30 lead getting into the second.

If there was a wart in Brown’s — and the crew’s — scoring assault, it was their capturing from vary. Whereas Brown was extremely efficient going downhill, he related on simply two of his eight three-point makes an attempt within the first half, and the Celtics added simply two extra makes to his complete en path to a crew proportion of 27%. This was one other robust capturing night time for the Celtics’ offense.

Regardless of the capturing struggles, the Brown-led Boston assault was in a position to create a long way from the Spurs because the second quarter wore on. Halfway by means of the run, they went on a 15-4 run to push themselves into the driving force’s seat for the night. Brown pushed his team-leading scoring complete to 26, main the Celtics to a 38-point second quarter and a 10-point halftime benefit, 68-58.

The tempo of the sport slowed dramatically as play resumed. The place each groups had been scoring nearly at will within the first half, the defenses took heart stage within the second. The Celtics staged a block celebration, with three starters (Good, White and Horford) recording a number of blocked pictures on the night time. The slowed paced favored Boston; they clawed their technique to a 11-2 run to increase their lead into the kids. They scored fewer than 30 factors in 1 / 4 for the primary time within the sport, however nonetheless outscored the Spurs 28-19, giving them a 19-point lead getting into the ultimate body, 96-77.

Late within the third quarter, Marcus Good picked up his second technical foul of the night, leading to an automated ejection. Fortuitously, the Celtics didn’t want his companies down the stretch tonight. They opened up the fourth quarter with a fast 11-0 run, and rendered the rest of the night time’s proceedings nearly trivial.

Subsequent up, the Celtics will journey to the nation’s capital for a Tuesday night time showdown towards the Washington Wizards at 7 PM EST on NBC Sports activities Boston.