The Celtics will win the series and win the world championship because in my opinion they are the best team left in the playoffs,” former star player Charles Barkley said in his prediction for the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors.” two will move to the first stadium on Wednesday and are the same distance after the first two out of seven possible matches.

But in order to achieve what the Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and former Houston Rockets were among the first dream team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and then four years later at the Atlanta Olympics , with the Americans winning gold on both occasions, the Celtics must shake off the ball loss problem (flips) and go into hibernation during the third quarter to achieve their first title dream since 2008.

The legendary green team returns to the league finals for the first time in 12 years and got off to a great start, winning Game 1 at San Francisco’s Warriors Stadium after a powerful final quarter in which he scored 40 points to just 16 from his host. but he came back and lost the second game on Sunday due to a lot of turnovers.

The Celtics lost the ball 19 times to score 33 points to Stephen Curry and his teammates, coach Steve Kerr, in an 88-107 loss to the away team after a decisive third quarter in which the Warriors conceded 35-14.

Regarding Nigerian-born Celtics coach Aimee Odok: “We didn’t give ourselves a chance (to win) because of ‘transitions’. We didn’t know how to handle the ball and that disappointed us.”

After failing to even make the playoffs for the past two seasons due to injuries in their ranks, the Warriors are returning to reaffirm that historic era in which the team won three titles and reached the Finals five times in a row between 2015 and 2019 years. did not reach the end.

But the task will be daunting in the face of the historic Celtics, who wrested stadium advantage from their rival with a Game 1 victory, and he wants to build on that to try again to hold the record for the number of titles he currently shares with his Los Angeles rivals. Angeles Lakers (17 each).

To achieve this and avoid a repeat of the 2010 scenario and its last Finals appearance when it lost to the Lakers in particular, the green team must now use ground workers in the next two games, Wednesday and Friday. before returning to San Francisco again the following Monday.

After that, and if the series is not decided, the two teams will exchange hospitality in the sixth and seventh matches, if necessary, on the 16th and 19th of the current year.

The Celtics’ performance at home in the current playoffs is not encouraging: they won five out of nine games, while on the road they scored eight wins and three losses.

“We know the Warriors are a third quarter team.”

But star player Jaylen Brown isn’t worried about that, saying, “We have to get on the field and play the best version of the way we play basketball. We cannot let what happened in the past affect our thoughts about the future. .”

“We had to go on the field and work better with the ball,” he stressed.

The Celtics should get rid of the third quarter problem and come out of the halftime break better than they did in the first two games, as they allowed the Warriors to get the better of them in the first game during that quarter. 38-24, and then in the second game 35-14.

Brown believed that his team should come out of the two-half break “ready to play”. minutes.”

“We understand that the Warriors are a third quarter team. We talked about it, and yet they came and managed to leave. We must be prepared to respond.”

As for another star, Jason Tatum, he emphasized the importance of shortening the dots, adding: “They scored a lot of points because of the dots. This is something we need to improve in the next match. Playoffs we lost in all matches. During which we made many “coups”.

And after he was out of contention for the title, the Celtics had a brilliant playoff start, beating the Brooklyn Nets 4-0 before stripping the title to the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round in a 4-game decision. :3, and then overtaking the Miami Heat, who had the season’s best record of the Regular, in the regional final, tearing the last card out of their opponent’s stronghold, defeating him in the decisive seventh match.

The fate of the final series hinges on how the Celtics manage the team and whether Brown and Tatum get the help they need from Marcus Smart and Al Horford, who withdrew in Game 1 after scoring 26 points in Game 1 and 18 in Game 2. , but their total return in the second was only 4 points.

But Horford promised to do better in Game 3, adding: “I felt like I missed a lot of easy shots (in Game 2). I have to be better in this area and I will be in the next game. watch the footage of the match and learn from it.”

Horford said his team needs to have a different mentality to get through the third quarter better, explaining: “It’s a mentality. This is what we have to fix. The coach talked about it. we can.”

He concluded by saying, “Let’s move on to the third match. I am looking forward to entering the Garden (TD Garden). I’m sure the atmosphere on Wednesday will be very exciting.”