If you’ve watched Sam Hauser enough, watched the Celtics enough and watched basketball enough, you just knew the second that shot left Hauser’s hands that it was absolute money.
The same man who shot 7 percent from 3-point range in the last series played a critical role in one of the defining sequences of the night – a night where he left his imprint on the action in more ways than one.
Kristaps Porzingis drilled a 3 on one end, swatted a shot on the other and passed it to Jrue Holiday. Holiday found a drifting Hauser in the corner, and Hauser nailed it with a hand in his face to extend the lead to 17.