NBA - Celtics came back with their winning ways by defeating the Kings

By Ally White

The current champions and team in top spot of the NBA, the Boston Celtics, finally found the way to recover from their two losses in a row against the Lakers and the Warriors, and beat the Sacramento Kings in great way 108-63 on Sunday. The Celtics came out hunger for a victory and recapitalized their winning ways by shooting at a high percentage and having great defense. The Kings, for their part, weren’t able to find their shoots and didn’t have good decision making since they had too many turnovers.

Since the first quarter, the Celtics took over the control of the game by putting the score 14-4 with 6 points of Ray Allen. The Kings were not shooting well and scored only 6 field goals to be down 23-17 in the first quarter. Things got worst for the Sacramento Kings in the second quarter by poorly shooting 3 from 11 attempts and finishing at half time losing by 25 points with a score of 59-34. Starting the third quarter, the Kings scored their first basket after 3 and half minutes. Boston for its part was shooting incredible in hands of Garnett and Ray Allen, who extended their team lead by 35 points. At the end of the third quarter the score was 84-48. With this advantage, the Kings didn’t have a chance to comeback and Boston outplayed them in every way possible and got their deserved victory number 28.

The high scorers for the Celtics were Kevin Garnett with 21 points and 11 rebounds, then Ray Allen with 19 points and finally Paul Pierce and Eddie House with 13 and 15 points respectively. For the Sacramento Kings only one player got double figures, which is almost incredible for an NBA team and that was John Salmons with 11 points. The Kings shot for a 27, 9% at FG and a 22, 2% at the 3-point line, which was one of the worst shooting percentages in a NBA game this season. On the other hand, Boston shot for a 51.9% FG and a 33.3% in 3-pointers.

Coach Doc Rivers was really satisfied with his team performance and said that: “We needed it. It was good to get one on the road out west. I thought our guys came in with amazing focus. You could see it all game. Offensively, extra passes. Defensively, everyone was focused. It was a good team win for us. I just told our guys to keep their focus and reject showtime, please. And they did,” claimed Coach Rivers.

For its part, the coach of the Kings Kenny Natt, who did not have much to say, expressed that this was a learning experience against the current NBA champion and they need to keep working hard even when things don’t go their way.

At present, the Celtics have a record of 28-4 and their next game will be against the Portland Trail Blazers on December 30th. At the game facing Portland, Boston hopes to add another victory and keep their winning pace again. For its part, Sacramento has the third worst record in the western conference with 7 wins and 24 losses and will face the L.A Clippers also on December 30th. We hope the best for these two teams, one that wants to keep its good record and the other that wants to find their way and get better.

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