By remaining stuck at 93 points, 26 less (!) than their average, the Celtics had their worst offensive night of the season in Los Angeles, against the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard and the Californians were outstanding on defense in stifling Jayson Tatum and his teammates.
What helped Tyronn Lue’s players was also the attitude of the 2022 finalists with the referees. Several times, the Celtics lost the thread while arguing with the men in gray, then conceded baskets.
“The obvious answer is that we have to be better in these moments, because otherwise it snowballs,” sorry Jayson Tatum for Mass Live. “Since the start of the season, we have done quite well, whereas last season we had more difficulty. There, we sometimes got overwhelmed. »
We can isolate two sequences to illustrate this, each time in the last quarter. The first, after a missed layup from Luke Kennard. Both teams battle for the rebound, the ball goes out and the umpires give it to the Clippers. The Celtics do not agree and let it be known, but Los Angeles wastes no time and, on the throw-in, Terrence Mann takes the opportunity to score an easy basket.
The second comes later. Luke Kennard does not receive a pass from Paul George well and he returns to the zone. The Celtics stop playing, thinking the referees are going to whistle. This is not the case, the Boston players are enraged, Grant Williams and Marcus Smart in the lead, and the Clippers shooter, he hits at 3-pts.
“These are mental errors, absences”notes Grant Williams, who neglected Luke Kennard during this action to get closer to referee Ashley Moyer-Gleich. “He’s not a particular player. It is a question of involvement. »
It was therefore a good time for Jaylen Brown to remind him that he and the Celtics must focus above all on the game and not on the whistles.
“As I approached the season, I decided to focus on this: on not complaining in front of the referees”, explains the winger, always at Mass Live. “I’m not going to budge on this. If I see something worth watching then I’ll tell them. But I’m not going to complain too much. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Jayson Tatum | 26 | 36.7 | 47.2 | 36.0 | 85.3 | 1.1 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 30.0 |
| Jaylen Brown | 25 | 35.6 | 50.1 | 34.5 | 84.1 | 1.0 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 26.8 |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 22 | 23.0 | 50.5 | 49.4 | 86.2 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 14.1 |
| Marcus Smart | 24 | 32.9 | 44.5 | 34.7 | 76.6 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 7.5 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 11.8 |
| Derrick White | 27 | 25.7 | 45.2 | 41.2 | 87.0 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 10.4 |
| 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 |
| Grant Williams | 26 | 28.8 | 55.6 | 46.2 | 85.7 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 9.1 |
| Sam Hauser | 27 | 16.6 | 48.9 | 45.2 | 77.8 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 6.9 |
| Blake Griffin | 11 | 15.8 | 58.5 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 6.2 |
| Payton Pritchard | 16 | 11.7 | 40.8 | 36.4 | 70.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 5.3 |
| Luke Kornet | 22 | 13.5 | 71.0 | 33.3 | 93.8 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 4.8 |
| 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 | 18 | 8.5 | 45.8 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 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 | 11 | 5.3 | 15.4 | 18.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
