Leading a nine-game winning streak, the Celtics are firmly in first place in the NBA, and that’s a small feat considering their complicated preseason between the serious injury of Danilo Gallinari, the new operation on the knee of Robert Williams and of course the suspension of Ime Udoka.
In his place, we find a rookie coach, Joe Mazzulla, and the latter is in favor of “letting go” in complicated moments, and he is one of those coaches who like their players to find the solutions themselves, rather than to take a time-out. A character trait that seduces Jaylen Brown.
“I find that sometimes it’s good” does he recognize. “It challenges us not only for the situation we are facing, but also to do better next. We’ve been in the NBA long enough to know how to find our spots and how to fix some of our mistakes. We have a balanced team, which means that our head coach trusts us and encourages us to find solutions. »
Overall, is it a method he likes? “To be honest, that’s what we’re looking for as a player. You want to have this type of relationship with your coach, that he trusts you and that you find the solution. Most of the time we did this year. We just have to keep going and raise the bar. »
Trained at Spurs, Derrick White does not hide that it changes him from Gregg Popovich… “ Pop takes arguably the fastest timeouts in the NBA! I think there’s a lot of confidence behind that, and I find that (Joe) trusts us a lot to resist these “runs” and find the right solution. There’s a lot of trust going both ways.”
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jayson Tatum | 16 | 37.3 | 47.3 | 35.3 | 86.9 | 0.8 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 30.3 |
| Jaylen Brown | 15 | 35.9 | 49.0 | 33.7 | 81.9 | 1.0 | 5.9 | 6.9 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 25.3 |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 12 | 22.6 | 45.4 | 34.9 | 86.8 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 13.0 |
| Al Horford | 13 | 31.4 | 56.3 | 47.5 | 62.5 | 1.5 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 11.5 |
| 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 |
| Derrick White | 16 | 26.6 | 47.1 | 45.2 | 89.3 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 10.4 |
| Grant Williams | 15 | 28.6 | 57.8 | 48.2 | 83.3 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 10.1 |
| Sam Hauser | 16 | 16.7 | 51.2 | 47.9 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 7.8 |
| Payton Pritchard | 9 | 11.5 | 47.6 | 40.9 | 50.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 5.7 |
| Luke Kornet | 12 | 13.1 | 65.5 | 50.0 | 90.0 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 4.1 |
| Blake Griffin | 7 | 11.3 | 42.1 | 37.5 | 83.3 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 3.4 |
| 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 |
| justin jackson | 4 | 6.2 | 28.6 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Jd Davison | 2 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
