Boston — celtics Fans got a rare sighting inside TD Gardens on Sunday afternoon. Jayson Tatum sat courtside at the edge of the Celtics bench, wearing a beige sweatshirt, hat, and dark green pants. Boston played cotton candy-themed Wizards on his team in a black-and-green look, with the superstar resting with his ankle ailment he picked up earlier last week.
Jaylen Brown took over the lead-scoring role, and the Celtics won 130–121 after taking another 10-point lead, their 17th of the season, and a 17-point advantage at halftime. Brown scored his 36 but played closer to the rim in front of the defense as Marcus He Smart, Malcolm He Brogdon and Derrick White got a greater share of ball handling.
“It’s important to have players in the best position to run on the attacking side,” Joe Mazura said before the game. “He had two assists in the fourth quarter of 2018. Smart did a great job, Malcolm, it’s just a matter of keeping it running.”
Brown started two makes in the lane as the Celtics and Wizards came back from an 8-2 down to take a brief lead midway through the first. Grant Williams and Marcus Smart erased it at the basket at the rim after Smart, switching frequently to Kristaps Porzingis in the post, catching a few bumps after the crowd uttered, and attacking. I drew a foul— Oh oh!
Mazura maintained his bench rotation, with Malcolm Brogdon, Sam Hauser and Luke Cornette checking in after a turnaround performance to beat the Kings on Friday. Cornette planted a putback to give Boston his 22-19 lead, missed Jordan Goodwin in his contest for patent-pending short, finished with a pick-and-roll, and finished early in the second quarter. gave an assist to Grant. However, a mistake from his right corner ended a 16-16 shooting streak.
Payton Pritchard checked in and quickly drilled 3 and Hauser saw his attempt from the left corner bounce high off the rim. – Post how he started 5-19 from deep with the Wizards. Another Kornet contest worked again, this time from Anthony Gill, and it looks like Smart later tried his own version running into the left corner.
Brown and the Celtics also worked in between, shooting 14-for-22 from midrange to three-quarters and 10-for-11 at the uptempo rim. All five Celtics touched the ball along the perimeter in a second-quarter breakout by Derrick White, the first to go through four extra passes for an open three in the corner he missed. set him up after the drive.
Boston didn’t miss often on Sunday night, improving 15 of their first 30 tries from three to 40%.Brown hit a tough greener to start the second half near the paint and finish directly at the rim through Deni Avdija — Shout out and oneHe scored 30 points in 30 minutes on 11-of-19 shooting with just two turnovers. His 6-for-10 shooting after halftime put the Celtics ahead by 20 minutes and they never looked back.
Smart went crazy for high layups, dribbling around the world to free Horford in the paint, and Bradley Beal’s 11-for-16 shot in the arc saw the Wizards rally to equal Boston dominance It was all I could do. Beal didn’t shoot from deep in his three tries.
Justin Jackson prepared to check in as the final seconds ticked into the third. After Hauser hit a runner, three free throws, and a triple from Pritchard, the Celtics looked up and scored as many points as they scored in the last four quarters to 1 over Washington’s 10th-ranked defense. exceeded by a month. They led him 113-88 and were ready to give the starters extra rest ahead of his game at home against Charlotte on Monday.
That didn’t go as planned, as Washington cut a 26-point deficit in half and drew within 11 in less than three minutes to play on Beale and Porzingis’ basket. Brown, Horford, Smart and Grant with his Williams back in the game midway through the quarter, Brown stemmed the tide with a three-point play on Beale’s layup.
The Celtics have won 11 of their last 12 games as they gear up for the Hornets-Heat miniseries to wrap up their homestand.
