A frustrated Gerald Green had a simple eight words to emphasize the Boston Celtics plans for their upcoming game on Sunday after getting throttled 116-89 on Thursday night.
“We're gonna beat their a** in Game 4,” Green told reporters during Game 3's post-game press conference.
Thursday's Game 3 was the chippiest of the them all, with eight technical fouls (four each way) and three ejections throughout regulation — boasting physical play all around and back-and-forth trash talk between stars and even role players in the team.
After two blown first-quarter leads in the first two games of the series, the Washington Wizards got off to a 37-17 advantage heading into the second, but this time managed to keep their foot on the gas throughout the game, coming out with a 27-point blowout to come within a game of tying the series.
While there wasn't a particular explosion by any player in a Wizards jersey, the team did well on providing a well-balanced attack, with all five starters in double figures, and benefitting from Bojan Bogdanovic‘s long-range shooting (19 points, 3-of-4 from deep).
“We don’t like them and they don’t like us,” Celtics star Isaiah Thomastold Malika Andrews of Yahoo! Sports. “It’s just what it is. Two teams competing. Whatever bad blood we had during the season has carried over to the playoffs, but we’re just competing and trying to win. And they did that today. We took care of business at home. Now we just have to try to get game 4.”
Thomas' 53-point explosion in Game 2 was reduced to a feeble 13 points in Game 3, deflating the point of attack of the Celtics and falling to a point of no return by the fourth quarter. The All-Star point guard will need to get back on the horse if the Celtics expect to come away with a road win come Sunday.
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