Shannon Brown on Ray Allen 0-13: I Hope He Does it Again Thursday

The Los Angeles Lakers put the NBA Finals in a statistical stranglehold Tuesday night with their 91-84 Game 3 win over the Boston Celtics at the TD Garden. Teams that have won Game 3 of an NBA Finals series tied at one apiece are 28-4 overall and 10-0 since going to the 2-3-2 format in 1985. Those numbers, combined with Phil Jackson’s 47-0 record when his team wins the first game of a series, mean it’s time for the Fat Lady to start her vocal scales.

Ray Allen going 0-13 is an easy place to start when you’re looking for what went wrong for the Celtics. Allen almost tied the Finals record of 0-14 from the field one game after setting or tying Finals records for 3s in a game, 3s in a quarter, 3s in a half and consecutive 3s. Ray missed a 14th shot but a Kevin Garnett moving screen saved him from the bottom/top spot. After the game a reporter asked Lakers guard Shannon Brown how he would explain Allen dropping 32 in one game and then two points the next. Brown didn’t try to assess what went wrong. He wants Ray to do it again.

Makes sense that the Lakers would want one of Boston’s best players to miss every shot he takes but I think this is a little deeper for Shannon. I think he’s still harboring some bad feelings for Ray after their meeting in the regular season: