Here are the takeaways as the Celtics pulled away from the Nets in Game 3 on Saturday and claimed a commanding 3-0 lead in their first-round series with a 109-103 victory.
1. We will get into the myriad things the Celtics did right, and there’s a long list of them. But we should probably start with this quote from Blake Griffin, who played his first minutes in quite some time and showed more fight than most of his teammates.
“I just feel like we didn’t have the right spirit throughout the entire game,” Griffin said afterward.