{"id":25811,"date":"2024-02-15T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/25811\/celtics-rout-nets-by-50\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:44:26","slug":"celtics-rout-nets-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=25811","title":{"rendered":"Celtics rout Nets by 50 points to join exclusive NBA club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celtics rout Nets by 50 points to join exclusive NBA club\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 Payton Pritchard scored 28 points and the NBA-leading Boston Celtics beat the Brooklyn Nets 136-86 Wednesday night to become the third team in league history to post multiple 50-point victories in one season.<\/p>\n<p>This victory was also Joe Mazzulla&#39;s 100th as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick White finished with 27 points and Jayson Tatum added 20 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds for the Celtics, who have beaten the Nets on back-to-back nights.  This was the last game for both teams before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can&#39;t operate by feeling, so it doesn&#39;t matter if we lost tonight and won five out of six or six out of six, you tend to relax, you tend to put it on cruise control,\u201d Mazzulla said.  \u201cSo winning is just as dangerous as losing if you don\u2019t handle it the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston will enter the break with a 43-12 NBA record.  The Celtics went 57-25 in Mazzulla&#39;s first year as coach last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the guys it&#39;s something to be proud of, something to be grateful for, and it&#39;s just a testament to the people around us,\u201d Mazzulla said of the achievement. of 100 victories.  \u201cIn a business where there&#39;s a lot of talk about individual success every night, the company scoring points and stuff like that, it&#39;s important to have a group of people with whom you can share your success.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Payton Pritchard led the way for the Celtics, scoring 28 points in a 136-86 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> over the Nets on Wednesday night. <cite>David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers by 51 points on November 1.  Boston joined the 1992-93 Sacramento Kings and the 1978-79 Milwaukee Bucks as the only teams to have multiple wins by at least 50 points in a season.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth 50-point victory in team history.<\/p>\n<p>Kristaps Porzingis thinks Mazzulla doesn&#39;t always get recognition, perhaps because it&#39;s only his second season as coach.  But he thinks he should.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#39;s very underrated as a coach. And different. I think people really don&#39;t see who he is and how he coaches,&#8221; Porzingis said.  \u201cHe deserves a lot of credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Porzingis left the game in the first half with a sprained ankle and did not return.  But he said he was available in the second half, but was held in check with the game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Trendon Watford had 15 points for the Nets, who have lost five of their last six games.  They trailed by as many as 56 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics played without All-Star Jaylen Brown (bruised right shoulder) and Al Horford (sprained big toe), but they controlled the game throughout, jumping out to an early double-digit lead and building a lead of 37 points in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He went to 46 points in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#39;s starters sat the entire final period.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets saw a player return from injury for the second night in a row, this time getting Cam Johnson back after his four-game absence with a strained adductor muscle.  He came off the bench and entered for the first time at the end of the first quarter.  He played 18 minutes and finished with four points on 1-of-5 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#39;s presence wasn&#39;t enough to slow down a Boston team that shot over 64 percent in the first half and made 22 of the game&#39;s 44 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great reminder &#8230; that we have work to do,\u201d Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said.  &#8220;We have to be able to get the job done. But I believe this team can get the job done. So use this as a reminder that we got kicked tonight and after the break it won&#39;t get any easier . But we are up to the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#39;s 68-32 halftime advantage was its largest since January 13, 2010, when they had a 36-point advantage over the New Jersey Nets.  Brooklyn&#39;s 34 points Wednesday marked a season low in the first half.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOWING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nets:<\/strong> At the Raptors on February 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celts:<\/strong> At the Bulls on February 22.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtics rout Nets by 50 points to join exclusive NBA club\u060c BOSTON \u2014 Payton Pritchard scored 28 points and the NBA-leading Boston Celtics beat the Brooklyn Nets 136-86 Wednesday night to become the third team in league history to post multiple 50-point victories in one season. 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