Boston Celtics ahead Sam Hauser (30) takes a 3-point shot towards the Utah Jazz in the course of the second half of an NBA basketball recreation, Monday, March 10, 2025, in Boston. (AP Picture/Charles Krupa)
BOSTON — Sam Hauser began instead of Jayson Tatum and did what he and the Boston Celtics have completed all NBA season — shoot a bunch of 3-pointers and make greater than their share.
Hauser made a season-high 9 3s, a part of a career-best 33-point night time within the Celtics’ 114-108 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday. He joined teammates Tatum, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard in having a recreation with 9 3s or extra — the primary time 4 teammates have completed that in an NBA season.
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Maybe it was inevitable for a group that shoots an NBA-most 47.5 3s per recreation and makes 17.7. The Celtics are the one group to aim extra 3-pointers than 2-pointers.
They outdid these averages by making 18 of 53 on Monday night time, led by Hauser, who went 9 of 19. Boston was 22 of 40 contained in the arc.
“No thought, no thought, however that’s cool,” Hauser stated when requested if was conscious of he and his teammates’ accomplishment.
4 days earlier, Pritchard made 10 3s in Boston’s 123-105 win over Philadelphia. The day earlier than that, White made 9 3s in a win over Portland. Tatum, who sat out Monday night time to handle a proper knee subject, made 9 3s towards Chicago in December.
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Hauser additionally turned the twentieth NBA participant to make a minimum of seven 3s in 1 / 4, doing it within the third towards the Jazz.
“Working in transition and looking for a window, these guys had been searching for me. I used to be simply making an attempt to make that call repay,” Hauser stated. “Generally once you get in a circulation, each shot you are taking feels prefer it’s moving into.”
Three is greater than two — and the Celtics dwell by that axiom, successful the NBA title final season and sitting comfortably in second place within the Japanese Convention as they search a repeat.
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“It wasn’t like we had been going out of our option to get him the ball. He has an innate capability to seek out the ball and create benefits,” coach Joe Mazzulla stated. “The blokes did an ideal job of discovering him as soon as he obtained scorching. There’s no shot that he shoots that we predict is a foul shot.”
