{"id":143179,"date":"2025-01-22T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=143179"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:43:55","slug":"celtics-adjust-rotations-for-jaylen-brown-and-jayson-tatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=143179","title":{"rendered":"Celtics Adjust Rotations for Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO — Jaylen Brown<\/strong> spoke for the first time in then days. When he last addressed the media, he contested the notion that the Celtics\u00a0didn\u2019t fight in a bad loss to the Kings. The hits kept coming as the team nearly collapsed two days later against New Orleans, then suffered its worst loss of the season in Toronto. Brown looked out of it for much of the night.<\/p>\n

He shot 38.8% from the field and 25% from three across those three games, and fell to 44.9% FG and 32% from three for the season after Saturday\u2019s loss to Atlanta. Though inefficient (9-27 FG), Brown grew more involved in the offense that night, posting 24 points and eight assists after playing deeper into the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum<\/strong> played two stints, exiting the game halfway through the first, then returned after Brown reached nine minutes. The split between the superstars, which also occurred the night before against Orlando and after at the Warriors, gave both players about nine minutes in a shake-up from the previous rotation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something me and Joe talk about,\u201d Tatum said when asked by CLNS Media <\/em>about the change. \u201cFor most of the season, I was playing the whole first quarter and the third, and then we had a talk of change, dynamics change, KP came back, what\u2019s best for our team, me starting the fourth quarter or whatever, and all of us have just gotta be open-minded. It can fluctuate throughout the season, and knowing that you\u2019re gonna play 34-35 minutes, it all ends up the same. Patterns change, but you just gotta be open-minded to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown expressed multiple times to begin the season that shifting away from playing full first quarters, his typical role across multiple seasons before this, was an adjustment. He repeated those comments on Monday after getting back on track as the\u00a0Celtics\u2019 primary finisher attacking Steph Curry<\/strong> inside. Brown scored 17 points on 8-for-14 shooting, taking on three shots from deep, and Joe Mazzulla<\/strong> praised his physicality while posting-up. While Brown\u2019s efficiency dropped to the lowest point since his rookie season into the second half of the schedule, his shots and scoring remained on par with last year and his assists increased.<\/p>\n