Jayson Tatum, Joe Mazzulla embrace the uncomfortable amid Celtics' poor stretch
Jayson Tatum and Joe Mazzulla aren't happy with the way the Celtics are playing, but they're also taking a positive mindset through it.
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Jayson Tatum knows the Celtics are playing poorly, but hopes later in the year they can look back on this stretch and feel grateful for it. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff)
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The Celtics are in the middle of a funk. Bad shooting is a leading contributor, but Boston is not playing winning basketball, and is 2-3 in its last five games with a pair of ugly losses, to the Raptors on Wednesday and Hawks on Saturday.
Boston knows it can play better. Both head coach Joe Mazzulla and Celtics star Jayson Tatum both made that clear following Saturday’s overtime loss. However, the pair also expressed a positive outlook on the rough stretch.
“You’ve got to take the good with the bad, and understand that down the road, we could be grateful for this stretch,” Tatum said postgame. “If we continue to stick together, if we continue to be a close-knit group. If we figure it out together, come out on the other side of this, we’ll feel a lot better about ourselves.”
A lot went wrong for Boston against Atlanta, particularly in the final 30 seconds of regulation. However, at the heart of the issues, the Celtics stars had another ice-cold shooting night.
Advertisement:Tatum seemed to have the worst of it down the stretch; he was 1 for 7 from the field in the fourth quarter and overtime. That included just two points in overtime, a missed game-tying shot in overtime and a missed game-winner in regulation.
Granted, both his buzzer shots were challenging, but at least the overtime attempt was made more difficult by Tatum himself. Tatum finished the game with 23 points and was 2 for 9 from three. He, Jaylen Brown, and Derrick White combined for 9 of 34 from beyond the arc.
“[We’re not making] shots that we normally shoot at a higher rate that would stop the bleeding in this stretch,” Tatum said. “Still trying to generate the right shot, and get guys in the right spots. We’re just not shooting the ball as well as we normally do.”
Advertisement:Mazzulla also took the positive approach after the loss, and took it even a few steps further than Tatum did.
“I’m actually more excited at this juncture of the season than I was at the beginning,” Mazzulla told reporters. “This is part of it. It’s the fun part … this is what you sign up for.”
Mazzulla then elaborated extensively on exactly why he feels the way he does and isn’t hitting the panic button internally or with the team.
“I always ask myself in situations like this … ‘what the [expletive] did you expect? Did you expect that we were just going to have another 64 win season, and we were just never going to make mistakes?’,” Mazzulla said. “And so, we just don’t have time to worry about that. We need to fix it. We have to fix the details. And we will.
“But what keeps me on, and kind of what I’m explaining to you is I trust the character and the mindset and the preparation of our team.
Mazzulla’s tirade served as a reminder that while every game will be important for the Celtics in terms of wins and lessons, no NBA team is gearing up to look its best in January. Every team is aiming its peak for the postseason.
Advertisement:So while Boston is slumping, in the middle of quite possibly the worst stretch this specific group has gone through, there are no alarm bells ringing for Mazzulla and the Celtics.
“There’s not a group of people that I would rather go through something difficult together with,” Mazzulla said. “So again, sign me up. It doesn’t mean I’m happy. But this is the thought process about how we’re going to go about it.”
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