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Game Time: 10:30 PM EDT on Monday March 11, 2024
Boston Celtics 79, Portland Trail Blazers 60 (Q3 7:44)
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Another strong game from Jaylen Brown. He has 23 pts in 21 minutes and just collected another steal. He has five steals since the Denver game. BOS 76, POR 60, 3Q. #Celtics #Blazers – 11:49 PM
Sam Hauser on the road trip…
On court
58 minutes
Celtics +29
Off court
110 minutes
Celtics -10 – 11:37 PM
9-4 #Celtics offensive rebounding advantage, most provided off the bench, a big difference with #Blazers shooting 8/20 from 3. C’s 19/29 (65.5%) on 2PT. 20 AST on 27 baskets. Good stuff overall. Living with Ayton’s mid-rangers. – 11:31 PM
Celtics 66, Blazers 52: halftime. 14 points, 6 rebounds for @DeandreAyton. 13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists for @AnferneeSimons. 7 points, 3 rebounds/assists for @thereal013. – 11:30 PM
#Celtics end 2Q on a 10-2 run, lead #Blazers 66-52. Brown 17, Tatum 12, Horford 9, White 9, Pritchard 7, Hauser 5; Ayton 14, Simons 13, Henderson 7. – 11:30 PM
Blazers went on an 11-0 run to make it a 6-point game, but then the Celtics responded with a 10-2 run. C’s lead 66-52 at halftime. – 11:30 PM
Jaylen Brown’s had a few nice finishes tonight going right at Deandre Ayton. He’s up to 17 points in the 1st half. – 11:28 PM
Like Brown-Tatum setting each other up atop at the 3pt line in recent games. – 11:28 PM
“Having that game happen so recently will be good for us to just understand the 3-point shooting that team has and the way you have to close out on them.”
Frank Vogel on facing #Celtics on Thursday in rematch after losing to them Saturday in Phoenix. #Suns pic.twitter.com/MHCKS2FWYh – 11:25 PM
Blazers on an 11-0 run to cut the Celtics’ lead to six with a little over three minutes to play in the first half – 11:25 PM
Give Darko credit. Barnes goes down, likely for the season. Poeltl after that. The losses pile up. Would be easy to quit on themselves but they haven’t. Even in defeat, they’ve shown fight vs PHO, POR and now DEN. Too bad they couldn’t turn that into an unlikely W vs the champs. – 11:23 PM
C’s trying Horford-Kornet again. They were a -52 in that Cavs game last week, but have worked a +0.6 for the season. – 11:20 PM
Luke Kornet is so much better when he’s actually contesting shots and not fake contesting shots – 11:17 PM
Celtics’ bench unit annihilated the Blazers’ reserves. Starters were mostly hanging in. – 11:17 PM
8-2 Celtics run to open the 2nd quarter. It’s now a 45-30 C’s lead. Very workmanlike from the Celtics so far – 11:11 PM
Celtics 37, Blazers 28: end of first quarter. 7 points, 3 rebounds for @AnferneeSimons. 7 points, 2 rebounds for @thereal013. 6 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist for @DeandreAyton. POR shooting 45 percent. BOS 56 percent. – 11:06 PM
#Celtics hit six threes, three from Al Horford, and lead #Blazers 37-28 after 1Q. Horford 9, Brown 9, Tatum 6, White 5; Henderson 7, Simons 7. Ayton 6. – 11:06 PM
The arena tried getting in a “Let’s Go Blazers” chant but it was completely drowned out so it was a “Let’s Go Celtics” chant instead – 11:02 PM
Derrick White has been in the middle of almost everything good so far, even if he doesn’t register a stat – 11:01 PM
First Oshae Brissett rotation minutes since January. Mazzulla has mentioned him being at the end of the rotation alongside Kornet, but Kornet’s strong run has continued over multiple weeks. – 10:58 PM
Hauser a quick sub for Pritchard, gets ahead of the POR defense for 2. #Celtics up early, but Tatum/Brown are 2/7. – 10:54 PM
Oshae Brissett and Dalano Banton are at the scorer’s table about to check into the game at the same time. So that’s kinda fun. – 10:53 PM
Celtics are getting a lot of great looks early on. Quick 8-0 run to take a 13-7 lead. – 10:46 PM
Payton Pritchard gets a healthy cheer from the Moda Center crowd during pregame intros. Jayson Tatum also got a lot of applause. There are also a lottttt of Celtics fans here in Portland. – 10:37 PM
Payton Pritchard gets the 10th start of his NBA career and first start of the season in his hometown of Portland. He receives a nice ovation when introduced. #Celtics #Blazers – 10:36 PM
Joe Mazzulla on POR on NBC: Second unit speed, switching and offensive rebounding something to watch for. – 10:36 PM
Celtics play tomorrow night at altitude at 9pm ET in Utah – 10:26 PM
Celtics at Blazers – Moda Center – March 11, 2024
Boston – Pritchard, White, Brown, Tatum, Horford
Portland – Anfernee Simons, Scoot Henderson, Kris Murray, Jerami Grant, Deandre Ayton
OUT – Boston: Porzingis, Holiday, Mykhailiuk Portland: Brogdon, Walker, R Williams, Sharpe pic.twitter.com/ou3zxbj2H0 – 10:05 PM
Celtics and the 18-45 Blazers getting set to go in Portland.
Boston is 22-1 vs. sub-.500 teams. They’ve won 16 straight since the lone loss at Charlotte November 20. (A game they led by 18 in the 2nd quarter, and by 9 with 2:00 left)
12 of Boston’s final 19 vs. sub-.500 teams. – 9:59 PM
Enjoyed covering @DALANOBANTON during his short time in Boston. Here was a sit down we had for @TheGardenReport early this year. He did all he could to fight for minutes and even earned a start: youtu.be/lP6TpWetcvc?fe… pic.twitter.com/w9PVdqKXg4 – 9:58 PM
Tonight’s game in Portland on NBATV, ends a run of eight consecutive nationally televised Celtics games.
Price of fame.
After tonight, 8 of the final 18 games will be national, starting Thursday night against Kevin Durant and the Suns in Boston. – 9:57 PM
Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla on Dalano Banton: “I’m happy for him. He was patient here. Seeing him on film, he’s doing a lot of the things we thought he was capable of here if he’d gotten the opportunity. He’s playing free.” – 9:04 PM
Starters tonight vs. Celtics: @AnferneeSimons, @thereal013, @KrisMurray24, @JeramiGrant and @DeandreAyton – 8:50 PM
Malcolm Brogdon and Shaedon Sharpe are both increasing their workloads. No timetable for either of their returns but Chauncey Billups says both are trending in the right direction. – 8:50 PM
Jerami Grant is good to go and Scoot Henderson is off the minutes restriction. Both will start. – 8:47 PM
Aside from Dean Wade going nuts in the fourth quarter against the Celtics I think that first quarter was the best the #Cavs offense has looked since Donovan Mitchell exited the lineup. – 8:03 PM
Chris Boucher sustained a partial tear to the medial collateral ligament in his right knee on his game-tying bucket at the end of regulation in Saturday’s OT loss to Portland. He’ll undergo further assessment by specialists, Raptors say. – 8:02 PM
Raptors announce that Chris Boucher has suffered a partial MCL tear of right knee vs. Portland. He’s being assessed for treatment. Per source, not expected to require surgery. – 7:56 PM
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It’s the 116th edition of The Blazers Balcony with @brookeolzendam! DA picks up right where he left off, Scoot returns to the lineup, Dalano continues to impress, Toumani and Matisse get serious and Brooke ventures into NoPo for the Remix on.nba.com/3Tu9Zj9 – 5:24 PM
Today’s ep of the #GoodWord is LIVE with guest, my friend @getnickwright! Nick talks gambling in the NBA, the Celtics not being a Finals lock and of course….you know, that other thing.
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📺: youtu.be/3TEqXGtWnos pic.twitter.com/HoLB1I84po – 4:52 PM
C’s have 5 over the next 8 days so I guess it makes sense to stagger rest some. Horford inevitably out tomorrow. – 4:30 PM