INDIANAPOLIS: Despite Jrue Holiday’s rather sluggish playoff debut, the Celtics weren’t very concerned. After all, Holiday is the only player on this C’s roster who has truly won a championship, despite all of the success the team has experienced.

However, Holiday’s recent basketball play has been among of his greatest; he consistently makes huge plays. His best performance came in the last minute of regulation of Game 3 of the East Finals against the Pacers. The Celtics were still unable to take the lead and get over the hump despite their best efforts to rally from an 18-point deficit. Until Holiday intervened, that is.

Initially, Holiday made a challenging and-1 basket, passing bigger player Pascal Siakam to draw the foul and finish the shot. For the first time since the second quarter, the Celtics were ahead thanks to his subsequent free throw. Then Holiday devised the game-winning play, removing the ball from Andrew Nembhard’s grasp in an attempt to steal as many points as he could. Holiday scored the game’s final five points on the play, sealing the 114-111 victory for the Celtics and preventing the Pacers from scoring.

“I have nothing but praise for Jrue,” Jayson Tatum remarked. “The ideal rival, teammate, and unquestionably champion. He wasn’t at shootaround today due to illness. handling shivers and similar situations. And we’ve all seen how difficult it is to push through that, so it’s really encouraging when he steps up to the plate and effectively wins the game for us, especially when it comes to defense.

Surprisingly, Holiday is still relatively new to the East Finals stage even though he is the only champion on the team. In his fifteen-year career, he has only made it to the conference finals twice. Compared to the C’s, who have advanced this far in six of the last eight seasons, that is a significant difference. Holiday insisted he wouldn’t miss the game, despite the fact that he had been recovering from an illness earlier in the day.

Holiday was playing his best ball, fortunately for the Celtics. Recovering from a difficult shooting start, he scored 14 points and pulled down nine rebounds. The C’s are just one victory away from earning a spot in the NBA Finals for the second time. the final three seasons. They have to win Game 4, which is scheduled for Monday at 8 p.m. at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, before they can start thinking too far forward.

Holiday remarked, “I think I just made a play.” “It seems like he drives with his right hand, and he has been acting really aggressively all evening.” Excellent player, fantastic game, but just made a play where he kind of leaped over his right hand to steal the ball.