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Rapid Recap: Celtics blow strong start, fall again to Nets firepower in Game 4

The Celtics started strong in Game 4 but eventually fell prey to old bad habits and the furious firepower of the Nets in a 140-125 loss that was often a lot less close than that.

Let’s begin our real-time look at how the game unfolded with a recognition of THE FULL F***IN GARDEN:

The noise meter would break if they put it on the TD Garden Jumbotron right now.

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) May 30, 2021

As in Game 3, Jayson Tatum (who’d eventually reach 40-7-5-1-2) and Marcus Smart (16-6-9-2-0) were the primary offensive aggressors:

Marcus Smart gets the game started hitting a deep contested 3 #Celtics Rewind presented by @tmobile pic.