Derrick White saved the Celtics’ season with a game-winning putback just before the buzzer in Miami on Saturday night, but he also made a number of underrated contributions earlier in the game, Baxter Holmes of ESPN notes.
White’s teammates shot 6-of-8 off his passes for 12 points and he held the Heat to 1-of-12 shooting when he contested a shot. That includes an 0-for-6 performance by Jimmy Butler when White was his primary defender in Game 6.
White has two years left on his four-year, $70MM contract.
We have more on the Celtics:
- Guard Malcolm Brogdon is listed as questionable for Game 7, Tim Bontemps of ESPN tweets. Brogdon suffered a right forearm strain that limited him in Game 5 and forced him to miss Game 6.
- The NBA officiating report stated the timing on allowing three seconds to remain after Butler was fouled by Al Horford was correct, Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel tweets. The officials added 0.9 seconds to the clock after a review. The report says the only incorrect calls in the last two minutes were a missed foul by Gabe Vincent against Jayson Tatum and a lane violation on Miami’s Caleb Martin.
- Mid-range shots played a key role in Game 6 as the Celtics made only 7-of-35 three-pointers and forced just five turnovers, Adam Himmelsbach of the Boston Globe observes. Based on the NBA.com shot chart, the Celtics connected on 12-of-19 shots inside the 3-point line and outside the restricted area, while the Heat were just 6-for-28 in that area.
NBA is wrong, watch the Horford foul frame by frame and the contact happened at either 2.9 or 2.8 depending on when whistle was blown, def not 3.0 seconds, they area simply wrong about that, its clear as day on replay.
They were wrong about Butler’s double dribble right before that.
They still call double dribble? Heck, you can take four steps to the basket these days and hang on the rim after a dunk for 4-5 seconds. Years ago, those were violations.
They all double dribble the whole year. Why call the first double dribble call of the year in the late playoffs.
they are going by the game clock which can differ from the clock shown to us on the tv
Was that even a foul on Al? Looked to me like a flailing flop by Butler.
No kidding, not to mention Horford blocked the shot
Boston fans complaining about the refs lol
Strus blew it. He left his man to go to shooter. If he just stays in front of his man. The clock runs out. He panicked imo.
You have to admit. It’s the Celtics D that turned this series around. Makes you wonder where it was the first 3 gms. I’m impressed they made it to gm 7.
I’m still amazed by the explanations you’re seeing about this. On one hand, they talk about Strus doubling Tatum to make sure he didn’t get a look. On the other, Spoelstra wants to keep talking about the “one bad bounce” that went White’s way
I get that it’s all for public consumption going into a game 7. You can’t trash your own team’s mind fart
But jeez, not allowing an easy rebound with the game on the line is Elementary Basketball 101
You make note of Boston’s defense and I’ll counter again with the idea that the difference between the Nuggets approach to game 4 and the Heat’s is glaring
One team played with urgency and intensity to not allow an opponent with some big time players back in the series, even for a moment. The other didn’t
Bam did watching the rebound
They have an advanced off-site replay enter, yet they still get clock issues, wrong?
The NBA wants a CELTICS championship, really bad.
Another guy who thinks the NBA is fixed and still watches it and follows a basketball website.
If its fake, why do you follow it?
Someone should do a study on this phenomenon.
The NBA wants the biggest market teams in the finals every year, it’s a fact. Cope
No, it’s an asinine conspiracy theory. You’d be more on target if you made note of MLB’s financial structure all but guaranteeing major market teams going to the World Series 9 out of every 10 years. Absent of the same ridiculous arrangement, the NBA and NFL are more wide open, no matter what their PR departments wish for
So?
How did they get it wrong, exactly? They have more camera angles than the TNT feed shows.
Ah yes, the NBA officiating report, reported by who? You guessed it the NBA!!!
This is why the report should come from a 3rd party.
Stop embarrassing the rest of us heat fans by your whining
Haha, didn’t you say the Heat were gonna lose in the first round? Great job!!!
The NBA IS the third party.
Silver and the refs are trying so hard for Boston
The NBA is the third party to the NBA? Hahahaha,that’s a new one!
Keep thinking, try again. I don’t have time to explain everything to you.