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The Boston Celtics haven’t beaten the San Antonio Spurs on the latter’s home floor since 2011. The streak ended this Saturday evening with a 135-115 victory—unfortunately, in perhaps the most Pyrrhic fashion you can possibly imagine due to Gordon Hayward’s hand injury.
Jaylen Brown led all scorers with 30 points (plus 7 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal), continuing his trend of killing it in San Anton’. He was one of five Celtics in double figures, alongside Kemba Walker (26-5-8-1-1), Jayson Tatum (19-7-4-3), Marcus Smart (16-3-3-2) and last but not least, Robert Williams with 11-7-2 and 6 BLOCKS.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?#SunLifeDunk4Diabetes pic.twitter.com/JMx6Hkx0BY
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 10, 2019
Let’s take a closer look:
The Spurs initially appeared to exhibit their usual home field advantage in a quick seven-point blitz, but it soon went the other way AND HARD:
Make that two!
16-3 Celtics run, and the 3 were gift FTs on a sketchy call.
— Mike Dynon ☘️🏀 (@MikeDynon) November 9, 2019
Jaylen Brown was a big reason for this, but the offense was potent overall. I mean look at this ish:
Kemba Walker assists this Gordon Hayward dunk 🎆 pic.twitter.com/i8EIDcMQz6
— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) November 9, 2019
It continued as soon as SMARF took the floor:
https://twitter.com/Riffs_Man/status/1193294726369333248?s=20
He then drained another about five seconds later. The quarter ended 39-30 Boston—the Cs’ most points in a quarter thus far in this young season.
Despite gumption from the Spurs early in the second frame, San Antonio’s ostensible star LaMarcus Aldridge was a complete non-factor, leaving DeMar DeRozan and Bryn Forbes to fuel the offense alone. Which was Not Enough to stop the Celtics’ pressure:
WE
ARE
COOKIN'
👨🍳 https://t.co/P2DOspj9pN— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 9, 2019
The Celtics just put up 72 first-half points, which is the highest-scoring half against the Spurs this season.
— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) November 9, 2019
It really was all…going…so…well.
And then, sometime leading up toward the halftime mark, while he attempted to defend a Dejounte Murray drive to the cup:
#NEBHInjuryReport Gordon Hayward has been diagnosed with a left hand fracture after an x-ray examination and is out for the remainder of tonight’s game against San Antonio.
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 9, 2019
Reactions were about as you’d expect.
You have got to be kidding https://t.co/HHZidVsBQG
— John Karalis 🇬🇷🇺🇦 (@John_Karalis) November 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/JonesyNBA/status/1193309825083596800?s=20
https://twitter.com/SamSheehan/status/1193309724835487745?s=20
Can't catch a break smh https://t.co/YQ1IHUm8hY
— Talal Abdullah (@UnderdogsSports) November 9, 2019
Even Lakers partisans were bummed:
This absolutely sucks. He was looking great, Celtics were cooking https://t.co/LGeisxt7Gr
— Daman Rangoola (@damanr) November 9, 2019
The show had to go on. Kemba, who had a slow first half, made up for his lost time in a big way:
A casual three from Kemba 🤷♀️ pic.twitter.com/B7XwR4D6PQ
— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) November 9, 2019
And Jaylen was not going to let the momentum slip away. Hence destruction like this:
.@fchwpo's just playing with them now pic.twitter.com/KcjhTFi2iC
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 9, 2019
The Spurs managed to stay within a few yards of a possible comeback (closing it to 104-91 at Q3’s end) due to strong three-point shooting from dudes like Patty Mills and Trey Lyles. The Celtics’ bench, however, was a lot more up for it, and more ready for DUNK KING:
TIME LORD‼️#SunLifeDunk4Diabetes https://t.co/2M4CKKYVCD
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 9, 2019
GET UP YOUNG FELLA 🔨#SunLifeDunk4Diabetes https://t.co/UdQjlRF6Ag
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 9, 2019
After a few minutes of protest San Antonio’s shots went cold again, Boston’s lead ballooned to the 20s, where it remained.
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