On paper, this confrontation against the Hawks was not necessarily the most reassuring for the Celtics. Because facing Trae Young and Dejounte Murray, one of the best back duos in the league, the Boston squad was without its two best weapons to hinder them in defense: Marcus Smart and his lining Malcolm Brogdon.
The first absentee from the major five is Derrick White who found a starting place and slipped into the role of the main ball carrier. The second absent from the bench is Payton Pritchardone of the big losers of the change of coach made this summer at “Beantown”, who thus took the lead off the bench.
And if the two backs did not manage to completely muzzle Trae Young and Dejounte Murray, authors of 46 of their team’s 101 points, they did however fully participate in the Celtics’ new attacking “masterclass”, with 16 points and 10 assists for Derrick White, and 14 points (4/6 at 3-pts) and 4 assists for Payton Pritchard, so much so that the absences of Marcus Smart and Malcolm Brogdon finally went unnoticed.
The symbol of a team calm and sure of its forces after the storm at the start of the season, even the orphans of two executives in its rotation, which can afford to have problems with the rich on its back lines.
” We have a lot of guys capable of doing a lot of things in this team. Everyone trusts each other, and every player who steps on the pitch can help us win the game. » summarized Derrick White thusultimately the main example of his own statement, of which his coach appreciated his ability to ” find the spots on the ground where its impact is very important. »
” Payton, I loved his entrance, he was ready. It’s never easy, never knowing if you’re going to play and yet bring the same enthusiasm and energy. That’s what he did tonight added Jaylen Brown.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jayson Tatum | 14 | 37.5 | 49.1 | 36.8 | 86.6 | 0.8 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 31.9 |
| Jaylen Brown | 13 | 36.8 | 48.2 | 33.7 | 83.1 | 0.9 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 25.4 |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 11 | 23.0 | 47.7 | 36.8 | 86.1 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 13.7 |
| Marcus Smart | 14 | 32.7 | 41.9 | 29.2 | 82.8 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 7.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 3.1 | 11.4 |
| Al Horford | 11 | 31.5 | 53.9 | 45.1 | 62.5 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 11.3 |
| Grant Williams | 13 | 28.2 | 58.6 | 48.8 | 81.8 | 0.8 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 9.3 |
| Derrick White | 14 | 25.6 | 42.9 | 40.0 | 87.5 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 8.9 |
| Sam Hauser | 14 | 15.6 | 50.7 | 45.2 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 7.4 |
| Payton Pritchard | 7 | 10.6 | 45.5 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 5.3 |
| Blake Griffin | 6 | 12.0 | 44.4 | 37.5 | 83.3 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| Luke Kornet | 10 | 11.7 | 52.4 | 33.3 | 87.5 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 3.0 |
| justin jackson | 3 | 4.9 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 2.0 |
| noah vonleh | 12 | 10.6 | 52.6 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Jd Davison | 1 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
