While walking on water since the start of the season, the Celtics took a slap on Monday, on the floor of the Clippers who offered their reference victory, winning by 20 points (113-93) under the impetus of a great duo Kawhi Leonard – Paul George.
A heavy defeat which had the gift of annoying Joe Mazzullawho then chose a radical strategy: go after his two best players, even though they were not the most at fault in the defeat (20 points and 11 rebounds for Jayson Tatum ; 21 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals for Jaylen Brown), in order to instill in them a feeling of revolt before the “back-to-back” against the Lakers, and thus train their entire team.
” Before the match, he shared his impressions. He made it clear to us that everyone had to do better, starting with Jayson and me, because everyone would follow suit afterwards. So he challenged us to do better » said Jaylen Brown, letting the other “Jay” go into a bit more detail. ” He told me that I had a shitty match [contre les Clippers]. And if I started to play better, everyone would play better added Jayson Tatum. ” Then he moved on to JB [Jaylen Brown]then to Marcus [Smart]explaining that it was in our power [d’insuffler la révolte]. »
The (radical) message seems to have been received 5 out of 5, since its leaders responded in the Celtics’ epic victory over the Lakers’ floor (44 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists for Jayson Tatum; 25 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 interceptions for Jaylen Brown), last night.
Empower players and promote self-management
If Joe Mazzulla’s criticism of the two “Jay’s” seemed clearly harsh and exaggerated, it’s because it obviously fits into a path of thought on the part of the Celtics technician. That of the systematic accountability of its players, as “JT” details.
” Joe always tells us he’s not going to save us with a time-out, especially when we’re not playing right “Explains the winger, while his coach did not actually take any time-outs during the “money-time” against the Lakers. A risky but profitable choice since the C’s finally picked up the score and then snatched the extension. ” He often tells us to manage, like tonight. »
A strategy that the main interested party justifies.
” Since the beginning of the season, we are used to winning in the same way. However, we must learn to win in different contexts. We have often won by crushing our opponents. There we won by getting back into the game, and executing our game plan late in the game concluded Joe Mazzulla. ” So this [road-trip] benefits us in the sense that we understand and learn how to win in conditions that we may not have experienced before. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jayson Tatum | 27 | 36.7 | 46.8 | 35.6 | 85.6 | 1.1 | 7.1 | 8.2 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 29.7 |
| Jaylen Brown | 26 | 35.4 | 50.4 | 33.9 | 81.9 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 26.6 |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 23 | 23.4 | 50.4 | 48.4 | 87.1 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 14.3 |
| Marcus Smart | 25 | 32.9 | 43.8 | 34.4 | 76.6 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 7.3 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 11.4 |
| Al Horford | 20 | 31.6 | 53.7 | 46.6 | 62.5 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 10.2 |
| Derrick White | 28 | 25.4 | 45.0 | 41.0 | 87.0 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 10.2 |
| Grant Williams | 27 | 28.8 | 55.6 | 45.8 | 82.9 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 9.3 |
| Sam Hauser | 28 | 16.5 | 47.8 | 43.8 | 77.8 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 6.9 |
| Blake Griffin | 12 | 16.2 | 56.8 | 44.4 | 71.4 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 6.1 |
| Payton Pritchard | 17 | 11.5 | 40.3 | 35.6 | 70.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| Luke Kornet | 23 | 13.6 | 71.9 | 33.3 | 93.8 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 4.7 |
| Mfiondu Kabengele | 1 | 8.3 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| noah vonleh | 19 | 8.4 | 45.8 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Jd Davison | 3 | 2.8 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| justin jackson | 12 | 5.1 | 15.4 | 18.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
