Around the time he coughed up three straight turnovers in the second quarter of Game 1, Shane Larkin’s golden coach appeared headed for the pumpkin patch.
But, as teammate Marcus Morris likes to point out, these are the playoffs. Fortunes change every two days. Larkin, back in his role as Brad Stevens’ pace-changing point guard, helped break open Tuesday night’s 120-106 Game 2 win against Milwaukee, giving the Celtics a 2-0 series lead.
Larkin’s buzzer-beating trey at the third quarter buzzer, good for a 90-85 lead at the time, set up a furious Celtics stretch run that included game-sealing 3-pointers from Terry Rozier, Al Horford and Jaylen Brown in the last 3:31.