BOSTON — Ray Allen lost the shooting touch that made history two days earlier.
One of the NBA’s most reliable outside scorers took 13 shots from the field Tuesday night and missed every one. Not coincidentally, the Lakers won 91-84 to take a 2-1 lead over the Celtics in the NBA Finals.
The worst playoff shooting performance by any player in at least 18 years was an amazing turnaround from Sunday’s 103-94 Boston victory, when Allen made his first seven 3-point shots, finished with a Finals-record eight and scored 32 points.
On Tuesday, he was 0-for-8 from beyond the arc, missed five 2-pointers and got to the line only twice. But he was spared from matching the worst shooting performance in NBA Finals history when Kevin Garnett was called for an offensive foul away from the ball in the final minute while Allen clanged another shot off the rim.
Two players went 0-for-14 in Finals games — Chuck Reiser for Baltimore at Philadelphia in 1948 and Dennis Johnson for Seattle against Washington in 1978.
