Boston Celtics: 3 keys to game-six series clinching victory

The Boston Celtics look to end their second-round series tonight with a game six victory over the Toronto Raptors.

After an unfortunate two-game stretch for the Boston Celtics, they finally find themselves once again in the driver’s seat in this Eastern Conference Semifinals series against the Toronto Raptors.

Starting out the series 2-0, it looked as though Beantown was destined for a quick and easy series against the defending world champions. However, like many expected heading into round-two, Toronto ended up making this a competitive series and, in turn, came back with vengeance in games three and four to tie things up.

Seemingly beaten and battered after quite a lousy performance in game four, many predicted momentum to continue on with Canada’s favorite ball club, making a victory for Boston in game five look to be an unbelievably challenging feat to accomplish.

However, as the game came and went it appeared as though the Celtics were the team on a two-game win streak, as they managed to coast to a 111-89 final score and, in turn, retake the series lead at a record of 3-2.

With this, tonight presents a special opportunity for the shamrocks: with a win, they’d find themselves advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals and go up against the surprise team of the bubble, Miami Heat.

As we’ve seen many a time throughout this series, the Raptors cannot be counted out (even when down with .5 seconds on the clock). With this, Boston will need to pull out all the stops in hopes of advancing on to the next round.

To best position themselves for a series-clinching victory tonight, the Cs will likely want to hone in on what hopefully with be these three keys of the second-round: