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Recap: Crowder fadeaway seals 1st round date with Cavs

Chuck - Red's Army April 14, 2015 Recaps 7 Comments

Jae Crowder for the game-winner! Celtics win, 95-93! pic.twitter.com/BT6Vs8iwN5

— Peter Stringer (@peterstringer) April 15, 2015

Boom. Where LeBron at? We coming for you, King James.

Jae Crowder’s corner fadeaway with 0.8 seconds remaining propelled the Celtics past the Raptors, 95-93, and into a 1st round playoff match-up with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

How did the Celts manage to win this game while shooting so poorly (38% FG, 22% 3 FG)? A pinch of heart and hustle with a dash of grit and balls.

Evan Turner (14 points, 9 assists, 7 rebounds, 7 TOs) continues to make clutch plays. His jumper with 35 seconds remaining put Boston up 91-89 and his hustle/offensive rebound/assist combo resulted in a Tyler Zeller lay-up that put Boston up 93-91 with 14 seconds left.

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Marcus Smart’s stat line (9 points, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks, 1 steal) isn’t indicative of the impact the kid had on this game. Pure hustle tonight.

Gross

Kelly Olynyk had 3 points in 13 minutes.

Avery Bradley left the game in the 3rd quarter with a bruised quad and did not return. The injury doesn’t appear to be serious.

Greenlights

Marcus Smart with the lefty jam to beat the halftime buzzer

Grid

Boston had 17 offensive rebounds
Jae Crowder is 7-48 from 3 FG since March 16
The Celtics marked the 50th anniversary of Havlicek stole the ball with an on the court ceremony featuring Hondo and his family

Box score

Brad P

Imagine the hysteria if we steal Game 1 or 2 in Cleveland. I can’t wait.
MJ

favorite part of that clip: ET spanking CBS at the end. Man I love this team.
Mike C

These guys are like the “Bad News Bears”. I dont know where they came from, but they’re fun to watch.
Alex Costa

Not sure what to say about Olynyk… If he can’t strive in Brad Stevens’ system… what system can work for him? Or is he just a really soft player?

Anyways, great game overall by the C’s. Quite the thriller. I wish we faced the Toronto Raptors in the playoffs. Would have been a great series!
Finks

I could watch that Smart Jam all day long. That’s my boy Marcus!!
Rod Shaftwell

The calls were hilarious in this game, or should I say no calls. The Raps were literally giving fouls on purpose and the Refs weren’t calling them. There were MULTIPLE 5 point swing plays where the Raps fouled the C’s, no call was made, then they go down and score a 3.

The Raptors really wanted this win. The officials really wanted to help them out. We didn’t need this game at all, our game high leading scorer goes out in the 3rd, and the C’s shot a terrible FG%… All of this adds up to a loss on any given night, but no, not the Celtics. This team wins anyway.

I love being a Celtic fan.
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