The Golden State Warriors have become the fourth NBA champion in the last eight years after defeating the Boston Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at TD Garden on Thursday night. After lagging 14-2 to start the game, Warriors finally took control of things, thanks to a 30-8 run that grew from the end of the first quarter to the second quarter.
The Celtics were finally able to reduce the deficit to a single digit in the fourth quarter, but Stephen Curry and the Warriors seemed to have an answer every time Boston ran at a stretch, rejecting the next championship. It never happened. In the end, Curry again led the way to the Golden State at the end of the offensive. He finished the series clinch victory with the team’s best 34 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, adding yet another chapter to his already renowned career. Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson all scored double digits, so the rest of the Warriors provided a lot of support to Curry.
Meanwhile, the Celtics, led by Jaylen Brown, did their best with 34 points, seven rebounds and three assists, but unfortunately for Boston fans, extending the season by another match is not enough. It was enough. From now on, the Celtics front office will need to find a way to push this group up on the hump, but tonight it’s about the Warriors expanding the dynasty.
1. Curry captures the elusive final MVP
The name of Currys is Bill Russell Finals MVP Award Winner.. It was even more surprising that he was a unanimous choice to win it. That’s how Curry performed dominantly in the 6-game series. His 43-point explosion in Game 4 is the only reason the Warriors were able to win and pull back the series two games at a time. If he didn’t have all the buckets he made in the game, the Warriors are likely to be 3-1 down in this series and are in a very different position today.
For most of the series, the Warriors struggled to get consistent production from guys like Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Jordan Poole, but Curry remained constant with all wins and losses. It wasn’t just his score that helped bring the Warriors to the title, but the gravitational pull he had whenever he was on the floor made him very dangerous. He is deadly as soon as he crosses the half-court, so he gets so much attention from the defense and opens up scoring opportunities from the other guys on the floor. The Celtics make tough defensive decisions throughout the series, whether they double the curry, play straight, show drop coverage with pick and roll, or fight on the screen. I was forced to.All that turmoil led to a bucket of curry When His teammate.
Curry was a natural choice for this award, but his victory is an important moment as the first final MVP of his career. The future Hall of Fame guard has two regular season MVP awards in his name and currently has four championships, but having won the final MVP in any of the last three rings the Warriors have won. There is none. Andre Iguodala won the honor in 2015, while Kevin Durant won the honor in 2017 and 2018 in a row.
But this time it’s definitely all Currys, and he concludes with Game 6’s signature performance. So he went 11 6 from the middle of the night with 34 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds. This is the fourth time in the series that Curry has scored more than 30 points, which is 32.5 career points per game in the title clinching game. It ranks second in NBA history for closed title games, second only to Michael Jordan. For each ESPN statistic and information.
2. The Warriors showed how scary the team was
The Warriors blew the Celtics away in Game 2 of the series, but never actually saw a version of the Warriors that would punish their opponents in this series. The Celtics most often faced this powerful Warriors team in the finals of the Western Conference against the Mavericks and in the first round against the Denver Nuggets.
It was until Thursday night. For all but six minutes in Game 6, the Warriors put together performance masterpieces at both ends of the floor to outperform the Celtics.At some point in the second quarter, the golden state Made a 21-0 run To completely change the momentum of the game. It gave the Warriors a 15-point lead, and they never looked back from that point. That run also happened to be the longest run in the league’s final game of the last 50 years. The previous high was a 20-0 run … also by the Warriors during the 2019 final against the Raptors.
The 21-0 run encapsulated the Warriors team of this dynasty. A team that boasts a “strength of numbers” mantra. Curry wasn’t the only one who got the hang of it. To dazzle the Celtics, five different Warriors players won buckets during their run. It was seen in Game 6 that the depth and selfishness of this type of ball makes it very difficult to beat this Warriors team.
3. The Celtics couldn’t get out of their way … again
If you want to see one stat to see why the Celtics lost the game, check the fact that the Celtics have turned the ball more than 22 times. As a context, in the two games Boston won in this series, they averaged 12 turnovers in these matches. In the previous three defeats, the average turnover of the game was 17 times. Some teams can overcome these trends, but the Celtics weren’t part of this series. The worst part about it is the fact that many of their turnovers are unforced errors. Men like Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were either careless about the ball while driving towards the rim or panicked when the defense showed pressure.
But beyond the turnover, the Celtics really struggled to keep up with the Warriors’ run until the fourth quarter, which was a bit too late. Tatum raised 11 in the first half, then scored only 3 points in the second half, Smart scored 4 out of 12 with 9 points from the field, and Bench generated a total of 6 points. Brown was the only Celtics player to actually do that tonight, but his 34 points alone weren’t enough to get past the Warriors team, who were playing the best basketball at the right time.
It’s a difficult drug to swallow in the off-season, but the Celtics will continue to be a mix of championship candidates next season. This is the team that started firing at the right time in the second half of the season, and through the playoffs they overcame adversity many times to get here. That wasn’t the result they wanted, but this experience only helps them get better prepared for the next season.
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