NBA Playoffs 2024 basketball commentary – Miami Heat vs Boston Celtics April 25: Jayson Tatum shows his strength?

Match information, predictions and basketball commentary for NBA Playoffs 2024, match between Miami Heat vs Boston Celtics at 6:00 am on April 25.

Miami Heat (record 46-36, 8th place in the East) will have an away trip against the Boston Celtics (record 64-18, 1st place in the East) at TD Garden, home of the Celtics at 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, December April 25.

This is Game 2 of the 2024 NBA Playoffs round 1 series in the Eastern region, matches for places 1-8. The Boston Celtics have home-court advantage due to their higher seeding. In Game 1, Boston won 114-94, temporarily leading the series 1-0.

Odds: Boston Celtics -14.5 points

O/U ratio: 214.5 points

Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics had a gentle victory in Game 1, at one point leading by 34 points before eventually winning 114-94
Match information:  Jimmy Butler not playing has left a huge hole in both statistics and spirit on the Miami Heat side. They played like they were no longer themselves in Game 1 against Boston and at one point led by 34 points.

In Game 2, Miami Heat will try to use a patchwork squad to find a way to break the Boston Celtics’ sublimation streak. However, this will not be an easy task, especially when Boston still has home field advantage. After 1 week of NBA Playoffs 2024, the away team has still not been able to win in the Game 1 and Game 2 series up to now.

The two teams have met three times in the Regular Season with all three wins belonging to the Boston Celtics. The scores of the matches were 119-111, 143-110 and 110-106 respectively before the Celtics won Game 1 of the Playoffs with a score of 114-94 on April 22.

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Notable stars : Jayson Tatum is averaging 26.9 points, 8.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game for the Boston Celtics. Jaylen Brown is right behind with 23.0 points along with 3.6 assists and 5.5 rebounds.

On the away team Miami Heat, shooter Tyler Herro leads the team with 20.8 points and 4.5 assists and has an average of 3.1 successful 3-pointers per game. Bam Adebayo is the next notable name with 16.7 points and 8.2 rebounds in the last 10 matches.

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Performance in the past 10 matches: 

– Host Boston Celtics won 8 and lost 2. The team scored an average of 115.9 points per game with 49.3% shooting and allowed opponents to score 103.9 points/game.

– The away team Miami Heat won 6 and lost 4. The team scored an average of 111.3 points per game with 47.6% FG and allowed the opponent to score an average of 110.8 points/game.

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Injury situation:

– Boston Celtics has the strongest squad.

– Miami Heat is without Jimmy Butler (knee), the playing ability of Terry Rozier (neck) is unknown.