Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray outshine Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown as Boston Celtics home streak ends

Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray outshine Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown as Boston Celtics home streak ends

Boston Celtics suffer their first home loss of the season a tough one in a great game against the Denver Nuggets yic was a god Murray was almost as good and missed opportunities all of those cost the Celtics here it’s a lock down Celtics podcast bonus [Applause] edition

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Celtics lost to the Denver Nuggets what a shame but an awesome game overall and nothing to be uh ashamed of for those of you who are new to the podcast I’m John carrales I used to play a long time ago now I’m covering the Celtics for Boston Sports Journal make sure you’re

Subscribed on every podcast platform get into the YouTube page hop into the com comment section let me know what you think bonus podcast so it might be a little bit shorter here but let’s just dive into it I’ll talk about Derek white later talk about the missed opportunities in a minute but the

Overall overarching number one thing to take away from this game is that nicoa yic and Jamal Murray were better by a mile than Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown both both Duos took 43 shots both Duos took 43 shots Jason Tatum took 24 Jaylen Brown took 19 uh joic took 22 Murray

Took 21 it’s very Apples to Apples comparison the Celtics Duo missed 28 shots Denver’s made 29 so they were 29 of 43 uh Brown and Tatum were combined 15 of 43 so right off the bat you’re just not going to win a game where y is playing Godlike basketball was an assist

Shy of a triple double uh and Murray on top of it is having an amazing game uh and Jaylen Brown can’t hit a shot he was six of 19 one of nine from three and Jason Tatum couldn’t hit anything from three nine of 24 overall one of eight

From three those are that right there just telling you those numbers I don’t even know if you’d guess that this was a two-point loss that the Celtics had a chance to win that they had a lead in with a few minutes to go if I if I just read those stats off

To you you’d probably think the Celtics lost this by uh you know double digits but Derek white kept them in there in the game uh other players it started off with Christof porzingis Derek white later on other guys on the team made up for what the Celtics Stars couldn’t

Provide Derek white 24 points nine of 18 shooting five of 12 from three uh porzingis six of 11 again 11 shots though he got to the line eight times so it’s more it’s really more than 11 shots but still even if if all eight of those I don’t think they were all shooting

Fouls but he needs he just needs the ball a little bit more we need to find a way to get him the ball a little bit more but 21 points for him eight rebounds a couple of assists the Celtics took care of the ball this is this is

Almost an impossible game to lose when you think about all of the things the Celtics did well they took care of the ball three turnovers to Denver’s 11 Boston scored 17 points off of turnovers so they held a 15o Advantage there Boston didn’t shoot particularly great from three 14

Of 44 but Denver was eight of 31 so Boston had what six more three-pointers so that’s an 18-point advantage there they they got to the line about about the same so was they were 10 of 13 Boston was 10 of 14 the Celtics had 12 offensive rebounds

So they had uh they the Denver got uh you know three points uh three-point advantage on Second Chance points but the Celtics scored more points in the paint there’s going to be a lot of oh they took so many three-pointers and there were a few three-pointers in late

In the game where I think there might have been a couple of shots where they settled uh a couple of stretch is there where they got a bunch of offensive rebounds and they couldn’t cash in and and they ended up settling for a couple of Threes but when you take 44

Three-pointers there’s going to be some amount of settling involved so that’s something that I’m not too worried about the Celtics got to the line more than the Denver I sorry they got to the rim more than the Denver Nuggets uh they scored more points at The Rim than the

Denver Nuggets it it would it’s impossible almost to lose a game the way the Celtics did but Denver was 16 of 25 in the mid-range and Boston was four of 12 right the Celtics got to the restricted area 17 times Denver only nine Boston was 13 of 17 in the

Restricted area Denver was eight of nine so the the all the margins all the things that you want are things that the Celtics got the only thing that they couldn’t do is stop joic kind of flies in the face of turn him into a scorer

But he was he was both he was a scorer 34 points a rebounder 12 rebounds and nine assists if you’re gonna turn yic into a scorer the whole thing is you hope that he gets like four assists not nine uh but he’s he’s just too damn good he threw

One pass I think it was the porter I don’t even know how it got out there he just makes passes he’s in total control this is like it’s funny I I was looking up some of the things after the game and you know for my writing and it’s kind of funny how joic

And Tatum are on basically an extraordinarily similar trajectory right yic came into the league it took him a few years to kind of get his footing there was the the battle with um nurkic you know people might forget that nurkic and joic started on the teams

Together and there was there was at one point kind of like uh we need to get rid of one of these guys and there was a notion like well just pick one pick one of nurkic or yic and we’ll keep the other one and I’m not gonna say that’s

Exactly how it went down when he got traded to Portland but I do remember specifically the the conversation of Denver needs to get rid of one kind of it’s kind of a tossup at this point and it really wasn’t a tossup but anyway I digress Denver keeps joic he starts to

Blossom he wins his first MVP when he’s 25 years old his sixth year in the league wins a second one the next year and then after that is last season where he wins the title and that’s it’s kind of funny that Jason Tatum now is 25 and

In his sixth year in the league which is when joic wins his first MVP now Tatum is not exactly in line to win an MVP right now because joic is playing the way he’s playing and embiid’s playing the way he’s playing and you can make Arguments for a couple other guys uh

Your same you know typical candidates here but uh still the the point stands Tatum is now at a point where he is the leader of a team a championship level team he is 25 years old and in his sixth season and that’s where joic first started to kind of feel himself and be

The the the yic that we see now so Tatum is still kind of like this is kind of his breakout or expected breakout or next level leap and and this game was kind of a lesson to Tatum be like hey you know what this is what it

Takes to be yic to be that level to take that step from in the MVP discuss to MVP favorite right in the MVP discussion means we’re listing off five six seven guys and you’re you know going through like the top guys joic embiid Giannis and then you’re going to like well you

Know Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and Jason tum and Luca donic and those guys that’s the conversation that’s the MVP conversation what you want to be is MVP favorite joic embiid Giannis kind of guy so this was a lesson of when everything was starting to you know look their worst

For Denver joic cool calm was never sped up was always in control had kind it just felt like he whatever he needed to do whatever he wanted to do he could do it and he wasn’t in a rush whereas Tatum you look at the last two possessions the

Last two shots that he took Celtics get the rebound uh off of a missed Aaron Gordon Corner three uh there’s 23 seconds on the clock Tatum is bringing it up he sees he should see two guys in front of him he had yic kind of on his

Side like on his hip kind of behind him and instead of being patient and saying okay we’ve got 23 seconds it’s at at that point a one-point game it’s a one-point game no need to rush by the way by the way side note that one

Point you can go back to the stupid dumb Tech that Tatum got for hanging on the rim get rid of that dumb stupid rule I hate that rule everybody hates that rule Tatum comes down it has a full head of steam gets hit midair okay fine you want

To call principle of verticality fine he still gets hit midair and his momentum still takes him through the rim and he swings he hangs he pulls himself up okay he pulled himself self up it gave it a little bit extra to give him a tech on

That in that moment are you kidding me that’s total crap the NBA needs to get that Tech out of this league nobody likes it nobody wants it I’ve never seen a fight or an argument start from someone hanging on the rim that’s a rule that fixes a problem that doesn’t

Exist side note so the Celtics are down one instead of tied and Tums bringing the ball up the floor it’s basically a one on four now I don’t know if if it was tied if he would have just pulled it back but he still should have pulled it back

Instead he goes and he he rushes goes one on four gets kind of stripped from behind loses control gets control back but at that point he’s flying forward he’s he he puts a decent shot up off the rim but it it falls off Aaron Gordon gets the rebound Derek white fouls

Him so he’s sped up he’s playing a little too frantic Tatum and brown have this habit still of falling into the pace of a game falling into the kind of frantic nature of end of game situations whereas joic the thing that he did the best is stay under control stay calm stay

Patient he’s not worried about the time I’m ticking off the clock he’s just worried about executing doing what he does and that’s it and he executes down the stretch and calmly leads his team to wins the the Celtics get a little too sped up at the end of the game Jason

Tatum admitted I went too fast I thought I you know I I didn’t give myself I give myself uh not enough time I had more time than I thought on that final play the Celtics inbound they call a timeout after they didn’t get the play that they

Wanted then they get the ball inbounded to Tatum he kind of takes a rushed turnaround fade away he had more time than he thought but still he you know wasn’t under control and that’s the difference and that’s where Tatum needs to get to it doesn’t need to change a lot about

His game just needs to play Under Control Jaylen Brown play Under Control you’re be calm when everything is starting to go crazy you are the calm in the center of the storm no problem you gota you gotta be the guy if you’re gonna be in that role you gotta be the

Guy that steps up and like hey be cool my babies I got you don’t worry about a thing 30 seconds left I got you don’t worry watch this not like okay okay give me the ball I got it here we go what am I doing and they tend to do that a little

Too too much sometimes not all the time and so that’s that’s the difference in the game to me the other difference in this game is the Celtics were unable to finish quarters strong and this is a priority this is a priority in the league this is a priority for Joe moula

They didn’t end quarters well you have to finish these quarters and go into the next quarter with some level of momentum you have to F because if you build up these leads and then the other team goes into the quarter and feels good about themselves then that just makes

Everything harder and after the third quarter was over I wrote in my Boston Sports Journal live blog I was like this by by losing the the non- yic minutes which they did at the top of the second and the fourth by losing the non yic minutes and

Not closing quarter strong I said that rarely goes unpunished I kind of knew at that point this was going to be a hard game to win and they they didn’t win it because of that that’s part it’s a real big reason the Celtics had uh up five they

Were up five in the first quarter with a minute for 45 to go they finished the first quarter up one they’re up 12 with three and a half to go in the second they finished up six they’re up nine with 340 to go in the third they

Finished up one they’re up three with 451 to go in the fourth they lost the game by two at some point late in these quarters the Celtics had leads that they could hold and that is like yeah joic is there Murray is there they have something to

Say about this the Denver Nuggets are the reigning Champs and for a reason they’re very good they are damn good basketball team we saw why so they have something to say about that but the focus to end these quarters strong to go out there and play with that little bit

Something extra with that little bit of focus to say okay they scored a point they scored a bucket how do we come back let’s just come back and score a bucket let’s just come back and find a way to get a make don’t get caught up in the

Flow just say okay that’s great we’re going to come down we got to make a shot how do you how do you finish a quarter strong so you can carry that lead into the start of the next quarter put pressure on the other team that’s what the Celtics didn’t

Do and that’s hard you have to be able to do that the offense gets bogged down and there’s the game you C you can’t give joic and Murray Champions who know how to play Under Pressure those opportunities the end of the first the end of the second

The end of the third those were chances to build up double digit leads right you go up five you go up 12 gotta hold on to those because then the the whole calculus of the game changes uh I I liked uh just to go with some of the

Things that I liked in this game I liked that the uh Derek white was awesome at one point he got MVP chance at one point he finished a a play late in the game and Chris TOS porzingis came and kissed his bald head which I appreciate it’s a

Nice shiny bald head some it’s made for kissing so you sometimes you got to plant one on top of the bald Dome Derek was awesome 24 points nine of 18 shooting five of 12 from three five assists two steals a block just one turnover the Celtics had three turnovers

Two of them were actual turnovers one was a 24 second violation a team turnover so they had one turnover from Derek white and one turnover uh from somebody else from who was it drew holiday who did not play well for most of this game uh he had a bad game too

You got you got good game great great game from Derek white a good game from Chris absor zingas who carried the first quarter bad games from Tatum and brown and a bad game from Drew Holliday they didn’t win like I said before they didn’t win the nonic minutes

At the top of the second and top of the fourth that’s a Tatum thing Tatum that that was an opportunity for Tatum to be like I’m the man this is my chance watch me cook and really the formula for beating the Denver Nuggets is play play them

Even when joic is on the floor roast their bench that’s how you beat the Denver Nuggets and you if you don’t roast their bench then you’re gonna have trouble with jic and Murray and this is what happened but Derek white was awesome uh I thought that was good I thought the

Celtics did a nice job I really thought at one point late in the third quarter they went they spammed the Derek white Chris thops brising his pick and roll over and over and over again and joic was out there having to defend it and having to switch he was really huffing

And puffing at the end of the third quarter and I thought this this is where the Celtics can really they they got they they got joic kind of tired this is your chance and they couldn’t finish that quarter strong that really was where they missed the biggest opportunity they went to White porzingis

Pick and roll and they missed shots they missed a bunch of three-pointers and they were good looks I would say most of these three-pointers were good looks they just couldn’t get the shots to fall and and they Denver just converted enough on the other end where they kind

Of they they won the third quarter that’s where I thought they really blew this opportunity porzingis um really made joic work I thought that was really smart they went double big for a lot of this I thought that was good um early on they you know before Horford checked in they they they

Instead of bringing Horford in for porzingis they brought Horford in they played him next to porzingis and I thought that was a good a good move that kind of helped the Celtics defensively thought defensively the Celtics were mostly fine and you can chalk this up to jic was playing just amazing basketball

And not only that you know this was an under kind of reported thing before the game and I I completely didn’t think about this the S the Golden State Warriors coach dejon mil mosovich uh was jokic’s coach in Serbia this guy was a Serbian basketball star he coached

Joic he convinced joic he was NBA material he’s the guy that got yic kind of into NBA shape that convinced them that the NBA could be a thing he’s as responsible as just about any coach maybe maybe more for joic being what he is and his passing this week

Is devastating to yic so he came out and he wanted to play for his former coach and so there’s a little extra motivation there so he was playing with a little something extra in this game and you know that kind of motivation is tough the Celtics still had their

Opportunities though even though jic was a God uh they still had their chances so it’s it’s not the it’s not the worst loss in the world I think this is a fine this is you know they Lo the Celtics this was an awesome game they they lost

They you can chalk it up to tatlor and brown didn’t shoot well holiday didn’t have a good game and if they just had a normal a normal kind of performance it would have been fine but they didn’t and Denver came in and did they played great Denver wins

Boston was never going to go perfect at home so I’m not too worried about it uh but still lots of lessons to be taken from this and you know the key is to build on it so you know obviously not the best you don’t want to see the team

Lose uh you want it to see this home winning streak continue but it’s over and now you build another home winning streak that’s how you do it now the Selix head out on the road uh I’m here at the TD Garden in one of the side

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The Celtics home winning streak is over at 20 thanks to amazing performances by Jokic and Murray and subpar shooting from Tatum and Brown. That, plus Boston’s inability to end quarters well or win the non-Jokic minute was their undoing. John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal has all that from TD Garden, why it’s almost impossible to lose the way Boston did, Tatum’s career mirroring Jokic’s in a way, and the great game from Derrick White and hot start from Kristaps Porzingis.

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