Celtics’ focus should be on helping Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown thrive
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Forsberg: C’s should be searching for pieces to help the Jays thrive originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The Boston Celtics have played with such maddening inconsistency over the past two seasons that we understand why a lot of people have lost their minds watching this team.
But even at the rock bottom-est of moments — and last week’s 25-point, national-TV meltdown against the Knicks sure felt about as low as this limbo line has sometimes gotten — it seemed like an overreaction to suggest that the Celtics needed to break up the Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown combo.
Now, it’s 100 percent fair to ponder all paths forward when a team with two young All-Stars has woefully underachieved over two full seasons worth of regular-season games. The Celtics overhauled their front office and much of the team’s supporting cast this summer and little has changed. But the idea of ripping out one of the team’s pillars seemingly only makes the future that less sturdy.
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Brown reeled in the “blow it up!” mafia a bit on Saturday night by producing his first career triple double. The Jays even had a few moments working in concert that offered subtle reminders of what this can be.
Brown then confronted the notion that he and Tatum cannot thrive together head-on in his postgame press conference.
“I disagree. I think we can play together,” said Brown. “We have played together well for the majority of our career and things like that. The last year or so hasn’t gone as expected but I think a lot of the adversity that we’re kind of going through now is going to help us grow and get better in the future.
“If we get over this slump and continue to learn, I think there’s a lot of good basketball on the other side of this. I only can control what I can control. I understand everybody has to do their jobs, but me and JT talk. We talked after the [Saturday night Knicks] game, communicated with each other and things like that. So we’re…
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