{"id":436181,"date":"2023-05-18T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436181"},"modified":"2023-05-18T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:52:14","slug":"boston-comes-out-too-cool-after-the-halftime","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-comes-out-too-cool-after-the-halftime\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston comes out &#8216;too cool&#8217; after the halftime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the 1<sup>st<\/sup> two periods, everything looked very well for the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the East Conference finals. Celtics were leading 66-57 at TD Garden at halftime and were close to winning the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match in the series.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period, Boston&#8217;s franchise looked nothing like the team from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 24 minutes as Miami scored 46 points in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period as the home team answered with only 25. Nevertheless, the Floridian franchise had no problem closing the match in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> period and taking the home-court advantage in the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only our fault,&#8221; the Celtics&#8217; player Jaylen Brown answered when asked what happened in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half. &#8220;We looked nothing like the team from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half. We came out too aristocratic. It was like we didn&#8217;t play in the finals but a regular season match. It&#8217;s the East Conference finals. So, like, wake up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We couldn\u2019t hold off the Heat down the stretch as they took Game 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bC28e2c9jn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bC28e2c9jn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1659055056442871808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 1st two periods, everything looked very well for the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the East Conference finals. Celtics were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The 2nd half cost us the match, said the team.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436183,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436181\/revisions\/436183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436181"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436181"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}