Coming up, the next two games are with Miami. They will want to make it a street fight but the C's has been so focused from the tip recently. I'll be interested in seeing how they do turnover-wise, that was the C's kryptonite in the Miami series.
Over the opening 12 minutes, the Celtics made 10 3-pointers and handed out 13 assists on 17 made field goals. Three Boston players reached double figures in scoring before the end of the quarter, including Jayson Tatum, who scored 16 of his game-high 35 points during the period. Brogdon scored 10 first-quarter points on perfect 5-for-5 shooting off the bench. Marcus Smart racked up 10 points and eight of his career-high 15 assists before the second quarter arrived.
As a sign of just how well their offense flowed early, the Celtics took all of their first-quarter shots from inside the paint or outside the 3-point arc.
They hung a 72-point first half against the Wizards on Sunday with Tatum out of the lineup. They have scored at least 112 points per 100 possessions (essentially the league average so far this season) in all but four of their 21 games. They have scored at least 116 points per 100 possessions (which would rank second in the NBA throughout the entire season) in 14 of their 21 games. Mazzulla said it takes “spacing” and “decision-making” to manage such consistency. Then he pointed out the one late-first-quarter stretch during which the Celtics deviated from those strengths.
“We had four straight possessions with turnovers,” Mazzulla said. “And so that’s how you have off nights on offense is when you don’t value the basketball and you don’t fight for your space. And there’s moments in the game tonight where we didn’t do that. And they might not have cost us tonight, but if we don’t continue to work on it, it will cost us eventually. So that’s the fight we gotta have. We gotta fight for our spacing, we gotta fight for our decision-making.”
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Over the opening 12 minutes, the Celtics made 10 3-pointers and handed out 13 assists on 17 made field goals. Three Boston players reached double figures in scoring before the end of the quarter, including Jayson Tatum, who scored 16 of his game-high 35 points during the period. Brogdon scored 10 first-quarter points on perfect 5-for-5 shooting off the bench. Marcus Smart racked up 10 points and eight of his career-high 15 assists before the second quarter arrived.
As a sign of just how well their offense flowed early, the Celtics took all of their first-quarter shots from inside the paint or outside the 3-point arc.
They hung a 72-point first half against the Wizards on Sunday with Tatum out of the lineup. They have scored at least 112 points per 100 possessions (essentially the league average so far this season) in all but four of their 21 games. They have scored at least 116 points per 100 possessions (which would rank second in the NBA throughout the entire season) in 14 of their 21 games. Mazzulla said it takes “spacing” and “decision-making” to manage such consistency. Then he pointed out the one late-first-quarter stretch during which the Celtics deviated from those strengths.
“We had four straight possessions with turnovers,” Mazzulla said. “And so that’s how you have off nights on offense is when you don’t value the basketball and you don’t fight for your space. And there’s moments in the game tonight where we didn’t do that. And they might not have cost us tonight, but if we don’t continue to work on it, it will cost us eventually. So that’s the fight we gotta have. We gotta fight for our spacing, we gotta fight for our decision-making.”
https://theathletic.com/3947648/2022/11/29/celtics-victory-hornets/
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