The Celtics beat the Hawks 128-120 and are moving on to Philly!!! This was a nail biter through and through. The defense through 3 quarters was atrocious but the Celtics stepped up big time in the 4th and held the Hawks to just 20pts after 3 straight quarters of 33+. Trae Young cooked the Celtics in the first half with 25pts BUT the Celtics locked him up in the second half and held him to just 5pts!! This game was truly won by our trio of JB, Tatum and Smart. JB, to me, was the best player on the court tonight because he was super aggressive and was pushing the pace all night long getting easy buckets in transition. JB ended the night with a team high 32pts on 13-25 from the field and 6-8 from 3. Tatum flirted with a 30pt Triple Double adding 14reb and 7ast including a monster block on Collins with :19 left that helped solidify this game. Smart got the Celtics started in this game with 7pts 2reb 2ast contributing to all 12 of the Celtics pts in the first 2:30 of the game and despite him missing 2 wide open 3s in the 4th, he hit a clutch 3 from JB to go up 124-116 with 1`:32 left and then hit another big layup to go up 126-119 with :59 left. That trio did it all tonight!

We had plenty of guys step up in this one but one that we haven't talked about much in this series is Grant Williams. Credit Joe Mazzulla for making the adjustment and going with Grant for 17min in this one. His defense certainly paid off at times against Collins but he also had a huge steal at half court that led to a Brogdon floater and then took a charge on Collins. This was not a pretty game for the most part but down the stretch in the 4th quarter was excellent. This is how you finish basketball games. Now, the Celtics look ahead to our 2nd round matchup against Philly! Game 1 starts on Monday!

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