Celtics kept Lebron with low points and are leading the series 1-0 to the Cavs

How come Celtics and Cavs finished the first match of their semifinal series with such a low score? It’s rare when you see any of these two shooting for less than 80 points, and yesterday was one of those days, as final score was Boston 76 and Cavs 72.

Out of the big three from the Celts, only Kevin Garnett had a good linkage with the basket as he finished the game with 28 points, while Paul Pierce, in one of the worst performances of his career managed to score for only 4 points and Ray Allen was scoreless for the first time since 1997.

While for the Cavs, Lebron James has hold to only 16 points, and so the Celtics came to the Garden with a deffensive mentality, they knew they had to have their eyes on James, and so they were sucessful in that task, but an ex-Celtic, proved his former team that he’s also ready to play at his best this semifinals:Zydrunas Ilgauskas shot for 22 points and finished with 12 rebounds.

The game was quite balanced, nobody took an outstanding lead, and so at the final moments of the fourth quarter, James Posey got fouled with 22 seconds left on the clock with the score 74 to 72, he hit both free throws and with 8 seconds left, everybody at the Garden started chanting and praising the Celtics victory, even though the Cavs got the possesion and could run for one more chance of trying to put things even, but they missed that shot and so Boston is now 1-0 to Cleveland in their best-of-seven run.