Boston 69, Cleveland 74

May 16, 2008

Conference Semi Finals - Boston wins 4-3

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, Ohio)

Attendance: 20,562

Officials: Dick Bavetta, Joe DeRosa, Joe Forte

Team Rebounds: Boston (6) Cleveland (8)

Technicals: Boston (1 (Bench)) Cleveland (1 (Bench))

  1 2 3 4 Final
BOS (66-16) 18 15 17 19 69
CLE (45-37) 18 24 17 15 74

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
BOS 80 86.0 92.3
CLE 80 92.3 86.0

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
BOS .426 0.212 0.189 0.162
CLE .363 0.175 0.356 0.288

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
20 Ray Allen Starter SG 42:03 3-8 0-3 3-3 8.6 1 5 6 2 2 1 0 0 9
5 Kevin Garnett Starter PF 42:42 11-21 0-2 3-4 14.8 2 6 8 2 1 0 2 3 25
43 Kendrick Perkins Starter C 26:50 2-4 0-0 1-2 3.2 1 2 3 2 5 0 2 2 5
34 Paul Pierce Starter SF 39:46 5-15 2-6 4-4 4.2 1 4 5 3 4 2 0 6 16
9 Rajon Rondo Starter PG 30:33 1-4 0-0 0-0 5.2 0 5 5 5 3 2 0 3 2
93 P.J. Brown Bench PF 08:11 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.5 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
11 Glen Davis Bench PF 17:19 2-8 0-0 0-0 0.0 2 2 4 0 5 1 1 1 4
50 Eddie House Bench PG 18:10 3-5 2-3 0-0 6.8 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 8
41 James Posey Bench SF 14:26 0-2 0-2 0-0 3.8 0 3 3 4 2 1 0 1 0
  Team                   6            
        240 27-68 4-16 11-13 69.1 7 30 43 19 25 8 5 17 69
          39.7% 25.0% 84.6%                    

Cleveland Cavaliers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
11 Zydrunas Ilgauskas Starter C 31:03 3-11 0-0 1-1 9.6 5 5 10 1 3 0 3 0 7
23 LeBron James Starter SF 46:39 9-23 1-3 13-15 18.9 3 9 12 6 2 2 1 8 32
10 Wally Szczerbiak Starter SG 30:13 2-11 1-6 4-4 2.8 0 2 2 2 2 0 1 0 9
4 Ben Wallace Starter PF 22:24 0-3 0-0 0-0 4.5 1 5 6 0 2 1 2 0 0
13 Delonte West Starter PG 45:02 4-7 2-3 0-0 2.8 1 2 3 0 1 0 0 4 10
19 Damon Jones Bench PG 02:58 0-2 0-1 0-0 -1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Sasha Pavlovic Bench SG 19:22 1-6 1-3 0-0 -1.5 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 3
32 Joe Smith Bench PF 26:53 3-4 0-0 3-4 9.0 1 4 5 1 3 1 0 0 9
17 Anderson Varejao Bench C 15:26 2-6 0-0 0-1 3.1 3 2 5 0 1 1 0 1 4
  Team                   8         2  
        240 24-73 5-16 21-25 61.6 16 29 53 10 16 5 7 16 74
          32.9% 31.3% 84.0%                    

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Rajon Rondo
10.6p, 4.2r, 5.1a		 Ray Allen
17.4p, 3.7r, 3.1a		 Paul Pierce
19.6p, 5.1r, 4.5a		 Kevin Garnett
18.8p, 9.2r, 3.4a		 Kendrick Perkins
6.9p, 6.1r, 1.1a
Rotation Eddie House
7.5p, 2.1r, 1.9a		  
 		 James Posey
7.4p, 4.4r, 1.5a		 Glen Davis
4.5p, 3r, 0.4a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		 P.J. Brown
2.2p, 3.8r, 0.6a		  
 

Cleveland Cavaliers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Delonte West
8.3p, 3.2r, 3.8a		 Wally Szczerbiak
11.5p, 2.9r, 1.4a		 LeBron James
30p, 7.9r, 7.2a		 Ben Wallace
4.8p, 8.4r, 1.5a		 Zydrunas Ilgauskas
14.1p, 9.3r, 1.4a
Rotation  
 		 Sasha Pavlovic
7.4p, 2.5r, 1.6a		  
 		 Joe Smith
10.1p, 5.2r, 0.9a		 Anderson Varejao
6.7p, 8.3r, 1.1a
Lim PT Damon Jones
6.5p, 1.1r, 1.9a		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 

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