Defeat in trompe l’oeil for Boston. Because the Celtics and the Raptors played a regular season game for three quarters, and Joe Mazzulla’s troupe largely dominated that of Nick Nurse during this period.
Still hot, Jaylen Brown trained his team with 23 points at 9/14 shooting in 27 minutes and if Jayson Tatum still hasn’t set the sights from afar (0/7), he went for points near the circle. Off the bench, Malcolm Brogdon enjoyed serving Sam Hauser (22 points 5/8 from afar), still well settled.
The shooter thus offered an 18-point lead (90-72) to his team at the end of the third quarter, Boston having been impressive in control during the second and third quarters.
But in preseason, the last quarter is usually reserved at the end of the bench, and that of the Celtics did not resist that of the Raptors. Josh Jackson (13 points) and company have thus highlighted the physical limits of certain Boston substitutes, who have therefore let slip the advantage created by their teammates upstream.
Jeff Dowtin equalized at 110 everywhere with ten seconds remaining to send the two teams into overtime and, on their way, the Raptors therefore offered themselves a prestigious victory (125-119) at TD Garden.
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