External Shot, Duo Tatum-White and an accurate holiday, formula for the triumph of Celtics

With this they are already 11 consecutive seasons that the Celtics get into the race for the title.

The victory of Boston Celtics by 103-91 before the Miami Heat combined with the defeat of Atlanta Hawks 121-98 in front of the clippers allowed the reigning champions ensure your place in the playoffs of the current season in search of the two -time championship.

With this they are already 11 consecutive seasons that TD Garden get into the race for the title And for this, Friday’s victory against the Heat was important despite the suffered that at times the game for coach Joe Mazzulla that had their great headache with 14, but that they knew how to take advantage of the formula of the three -shot and had an accurate three Jrue Holiday.

Holiday contributed 25 points, 16 of them in the first half (4 triples). The escort had 29 consecutive games without scoring 20 units, the second longest drought in that figure in his career and the longest since he scored 49 goals in a rookie in his 2009-10 rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers.

To the work of Holiday we must add that Boston was generally effective from the arc, hitting 19-50 (38.0%) which marked the game number 55 for them with at least 15 triple during this season. The only other team to achieve it in the history of the NBA were the same Celtics last year (NBA record: 63 games with 15 triples).

And it is that despite playing outside the TD Garden, Celtics do not change their game style, that of the outer shot. In this season, they have scored 15 triples in 16 consecutive games away from home, extending the longest streak of this type in the NBA history (the Cleveland Cavaliers of the 2024-25 have the second longest streak: 12 consecutive from December to January).

In this area, three players are key: Jayson Tatum, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard.

Tatum and White are the third different pair of colleagues in the NBA history to score 225 triples each in a season, joining Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson (6 times) now James Harden and Eric Gordon In the 2016-17 season, while Pritchard collaborates so that the Celtics are the first team in the history of the association to have 3 players scoring 215 triples in the same season (Tatum, White).

With information from AM850 Stats & Info.