Jayson Tatum’s decision to iso and attack at the end of the first overtime period brought to mind his iso 3-pointer on Giannis Antetokounmpo about a year ago during last season’s opener … except that this time, Tatum missed everything. In any case, Brown was excellent on Wednesday.Ģ. Officials can’t change a charge to a no-call. He might be right that the call wouldn’t have been overturned if only because - as Van Gundy noted - it probably should have been a play on rather than a blocking foul. Ime Udoka told reporters after the game the Celtics assistants didn’t believe the call would be overturned and the Celtics didn’t want to lose a timeout. On replay, Brown appeared to avoid hitting Walker in the chest, and Jeff Van Gundy on the ESPN broadcast thought the play should have been a no-call.
Brown caught fire from 3-point range, but he also buried a tough turnaround jumper and got to the rim in the first quarter - beating defenders off the bounce and in transition with good body control.īrown looked like he had good body control as well when he attacked the rim late in the fourth quarter only to be whistled for a charge for crashing into Kemba Walker.
Jaylen Brown’s 46 points - the most ever scored in a Celtics season opener - were impressive not just because he dropped a career-high 24 hours after being cleared to return from COVID-19, but also because of the variety of baskets he scored. Here are the takeaways as the Celtics fell to the Knicks 138-134 in a double-OT season-opening thriller.ġ. ‘I could hear my heartbeat’: Jaylen Brown scores 46 in return from COVID-19
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