Atlanta Hawks win at TD Garden and stay alive in the series
Atlanta Hawks with Living Dream
In Game 5 of the series, the Celtics and Hawks played a game worthy of the playoffs, as has been practically every first round match. In front of their home crowd, Boston led the series 3-1 and could guarantee the classification tonight.
But Trae Young was there to thwart the team’s plans. But before talking about the Atlanta star, the game started off smoothly, especially for the home team. They started losing the first quarter by 30-27, but soon in the following period they managed a good recovery, the Celtics won with an advantage of 11 points by 39-28.
When the teams returned to the locker room, the Boston Celtics were winning by 66-58 and they managed to maintain this good advantage when the third quarter ended, the difference was 10 points over the Hawks, and until the final 10 minutes the same distance remained on the scoreboard.
However, they ended up taking the game winner and losing the match by 119-117, now they will have to face Atlanta again at home, for Game 6. Currently the series is 3-2 for the Celtics.
Best Performances
When talking about performance in this game, we cannot fail to mention Trae Young as the game winner of the match. he had the last possession of the ball, with 5 seconds left for the clock to run out, and from the middle of the court the iceman spiked a three-pointer guaranteeing the team’s victory.
He was responsible for his team’s last 14 points. Jaylen Brown was also featured on the Celtics side, in the first half alone he scored 23 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist. Check the match numbers now.
Boston Celtics
- Jaylen Brown 35 PTS/7 REB/5 AST
- J. Tatum 19 PTS/8 REB/8 AST
- D.White 18 PTS/5 REB/4 AST
Atlanta Hawks
- Trae Young 38 PTS/4 REB/13 AST
- J. Collins 22 PTS/2 REB
- B. Bogdanovic 18 PTS/6 REB/5 AST
Bets
ThePicks had two bets for tonight, one on the Over/Under market and the other for player statistics, we are 50% on our predictions for this game, see which bet was green and red.
- Atlanta Hawks Under 110.5 points (1.62)
- Robert Williams Over 1.5 assists (2.70)
