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Tatum wins the first Player of the Month award for the third consecutive year
Jayson Tatum has been named the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Month, per NBA Communications.
This is Tatum’s fifth Player of the Month award, second only to Larry Bird’s seven for most in Boston Celtics history. This award includes the full month of November and the few games played at the end of October, in which Tatum averaged 28.7 points per game along with 8.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists.
Interestingly, Tatum has won the first Eastern Conference Player of the Month in three consecutive seasons, becoming the first player in NBA history to do that in either conference. To come out hot each year is a remarkable achievement given the sheer number of games Tatum plays, reaching Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals or further in all three proceeding seasons.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who captured the Western Conference award, and Nikola Jokic still sit ahead of Tatum in Most Valuable Player odds per DraftKings Sportsbook, though the NBA season is still not even a quarter done. Tatum was an early favorite to win the award both this and last season.
Tatum has sustained a remarkably consistent scoring output despite an incredibly talented supporting cast, the recent return of Kristaps Porzingis and the emergence of Payton Pritchard as a legitimate offensive creator. Despite this, Tatum’s durability and skillful malleability remain the Celtics’ silver bullets, and should continue to be for years to come.
The Cavs pushed the Celtics in their first matchup before beating Boston on Sunday as they’ve embraced their contrast of styles.
It’s rare that teams get a third chance. A second chance didn’t even appear possible for the Cleveland Cavaliers after the Donovan Mitchell era started with a 4-1 playoff loss to the Knicks team he admitted he thought he was headed to from Utah the previous summer. New York rumors would persist, and after the ensuing loss to the Celtics in the second round last year, Mitchell, Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen’s futures were all in flux.
“It was pretty obvious what the game plan was,” Mitchell said, looking back at the 4-1 Boston win. “It was myself, it was DG, pick-and-roll, pick-and-roll, pick-and-roll.”
The Cavs moved on from head coach JB Bickerstaff, the architect of one of the league’s best defenses and Cleveland’s rapid rebuild from the second LeBron James era. His departure allowed the team’s Big 4 to buy into a new voice in Kenny Atkinson, who showed success in his brief Brooklyn head coaching stint before beating Boston in the Finals on Steve Kerr’s 2022 staff. Atkinson reunited with Allen, who he emphasized with the Nets, sold Mitchell on the virtues of moving off-ball more often and brought ideas to revitalize the team’s offense while staying true to their double-big, defensive identity.
The result — a 15-0 start, two close games against the defending champion Celtics and a win in the second after they overcame a 14-point second half deficit on Sunday. Cleveland ranks second in offense, 0.1 points per 100 better than Boston, and 11th in defense, 0.6 points per 100 behind the Celtics. The Cavs were missing nearly their entire wing depth in the first game. Boston was without Jaylen Brown and Derrick White in the second. They’re nearly even, and after a 2024 season where the Celtics already highlighted the Cavs, statistically, as their largest East threat, Cleveland ran it back and got better and look like a legitimate challenger.
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“The biggest thing we saw (in that series) was Evan Mobley’s growth and improvement,” Mitchell said. “You’re seeing how we’ve gone about our offense this year. It’s not just myself or it’s not just DG. It’s through everybody, but Evan’s been more aggressive, more dominant with the ball. We saw that in this series, sometimes when your guys are out or you lose a series, you see things in that. I think that was his growth to become this guy that he’s been on the offensive end. We all know what he is defensively... his confidence, his playmaking ability, making the game easier for us, you’re starting to see that this year.”
Mobley’s offensive limitations mounted against Al Horford and the rest of the Celtics’ size before May’s second round series. He had averaged 2.0 points per game fewer than his career average against Boston, but with Allen already out and Mitchell succumbing to several injuries in Game 3, Mobley took all the twos the Celtics wanted to give him in favor of threes late in the series. Mobley averaged 23.0 PPG and shot 62.5% in Games 3-5. Now, he’s initiating some sets, trying 2.0 threes per game and posting 17.7 PPG, up from 15.7.
Atkinson said he didn’t want to mess with what worked defensively for Cleveland, so that left him maintaining the team’s bigger lineup. When Isaac Okoro returned on a new contract and Max Strus went down with an ankle injury to begin the year, that often left the Cavs’ front court with limited shooting across the board, including to close Sunday’s win. Cleveland is actually shooting roughly the same number of threes per game as they did last year. Atkinson, to space the floor, instead implemented an aggressive series of cutting principles that he’s explained can be as effective as standing out on the three-point line.
You saw that on Sunday, Cleveland back cutting Drew Peterson at one point, Jayson Tatum staying attached to Allen in the corner despite him not being a shooting threat and Okoro rolling on the play where Mobley snuck behind his dive for the decisive dunk.
Then, the foul game began, 18 minutes of back-and-forth intentional fouls that prevented the Celtics from getting a three-pointer off behind by three after Payton Pritchard snuck one in running full court trailing by four. Atkinson, who’s acknowledged lessons learned from his Nets firing throughout this year, added fouling ahead by three to the list. And with Pritchard scoring to begin this year and part of Boston’s speed attack late in quarters, he did it early. Joe Mazzulla later tipped his cap to the strategy.
“I was like, ‘Screw that, we’re fouling,’” Atkinson said. “I don’t want to see Peyton Prichard come down and shoot a step back.”
This ridiculous group stage system is confusing me beyond belief, and zapping my enjoyment of the NBA Cup. Thankfully, I have thoughts to fix it.
The NBA Cup is getting on my nerves.
I’m totally in favor of the concept in theory — I spent a great many words defending it at the beginning of last season and thoroughly enjoyed Joe Mazzulla declaring war on Andre Drummond and intentionally fouling him to run up a 27-point victory to advance to the quarterfinals.
But I’m kind of over this whole group stage concept, which works better in soccer when scores are 3-1 instead of 138-129. I’m kind of over “the Celtics need to beat the Bulls by 16 and the Magic have to lose to the Pacers or beat them by less than 7 and/or the Knicks need to trade for Joel Embiid and the planets need to align in perfect parallax and we all have to sing ‘Rich Girl’ by Daryl Hall and John Oates in four-part harmony” for the Celtics to advance.
I’m kind of over 124 word Tim Bontemps tweets explaining the scenarios. I’m kind of over the Celtics’ broadcast team openly admitting they don’t know exactly what the Celtics need to win, and I kind of don’t blame them for it. Nobody can expect them to know that, because the Celtics are currently winning by nine, they need the Magic to win, the Bucks need to beat the Pistons by five or more OR the Pistons need to beat the Bucks by six or more. Like, come on.
The math checks out, but I’m flagging this for the sanity police to take a look at. The fact that the Celtics have some sliding scale of results for a Bucks-Pistons game is completely asinine, and I don’t understand why it can’t just be a knockout tournament.
Picture this: every team is placed in a 30-team, single elimination bracket, with the two NBA Finals teams from the previous year receiving byes. One game, midseason madness, since I have had it up to here with this group stage absurdity. It cannot be thathard to put some TBDs on the regular season schedule and fly teams out for the games, right?
This may sound like sour grapes, with the Celtics at the mercy of a completely absurd three-way barnyard explosion of outcomes that makes Steven Hawking’s theory of parallel universes seem relatively simple. But I legitimately think this will improve the product that is still new enough to significantly change.
To those who would say a fully single-elimination bracket would infringe on the sanctity of the playoffs, I’d say that is unnecessary fearmongering. Nobody in the English Premier League thinks the FA Cup holds a candle to the actual Premier League title, and it would make the tournament a billion times more exciting and a billion-and-one times more important.
This group stage feels like it was designedto make the tournament feel like it matters less, and I am of the opinion that the NBA should lean into the concept rather than handicapping it by confusing everyone. If the league wants fans to care about the NBA Cup, a fully single-elimination tournament is a way to go, no matter how logistically complex. But if they want fans to have the choice to care or not to care like they’re some sort of weird NBA-cup-based version of Hamlet, then sure, let’s keep it like this. I prefer the former.
The Celtcs center had extra stuffing from Thanksgiving.
When the game started, Miami came out strong, scoring the game’s first seven points. The Boston Celtics then got four straight points from Kornet to get going offensively. But where Luke made his impact on the night was on the defensive end. Tying a career-high with six blocks, Kornet made life difficult for the Heat to get any points in the paint.
“Luke has been the ultimate teammate since he’s been here. Whatever you ask him to do he’s willing to do. He does his job each and every night,” Brown said. “He knows the game well. Offensively, he’s a great connector for us. Defensively, he uses his size well. Tonight was an example of that and was able to get a career-high in blocks. When Luke’s playing well, I think we’re even a better team as well.”
Mazzulla followed that up during his postgame press conference talking about how Luke’s screening was a big factor in the game in addition to his defense.
“When he plays with the level of physicality on both ends of the floor, it makes our team different. I think his two biggest strengths are his physicality and rim protection when he’s at his best,” Mazzulla said. “His screening versus different coverages I thought he saw both of those throughout the game and he just got to continue to do that. But when he plays at a high level, we’re a different team and we can go to different things.”
It was Joe Mazzulla’s decision not to stagger one of Kristaps Porzingis and Al Horford with their back-to-back games, so Kornet got the start and had to deal with All-Star center Bam Adebayo.
Mazzulla acknowledged that his decision was based on matchups and trying to position his team to win certain matchups. Mazzulla was right because Luke Kornet got the better of the Bam Adebayo matchup, helping to hold Bam to just 6-of-18 shooting from the floor.
Postgame, Kornet spoke about his mindset in his third start of the season.
“I feel like I just wanted to do a good job of protecting the rim,” he said.
Luke Kornet stuffs Tyler Herro to tie his career-high of six blocks. Jayson Tatum buries a three at the other end. Timeout Heat. The Celtics lead 68-52 with 8:30 remaining in the third quarter. https://t.co/3QEtzW7aVcpic.twitter.com/vQ1bX8QKGA
He did more than a great job protecting the basket and in typical Kornet fashion, he spoke about Derrick White and his ability as a shot blocker.
“I think him and I both know a thing or two about rejection in our life. Perhaps that is part of it,” Kornet said smiling.
With Porzingis slowly ramping back up to full fitness and Horford being rested on back-to-back Kornet needs to deliver when they’re short in the front court. He was reliable all last season, and this year, it’s been no different.
Luke Kornet tied his career high with six blocks Monday. | Winslow Townson-Imagn Images
Luke Kornet was a menace defensively. Payton Pritchard continued his torrid stretch offensively.
The shorthanded Celtics had no trouble dispatching the Heat, 108-89, Monday night at TD Garden.
Here are 10 takeaways, as Boston moved to 17-4 on the season following a convincing effort.
1. Defense dominated
The Celtics held the Heat to 34.9 percent from the floor and 20.6 percent from 3-point range.
Every Heat starter shot below 50 percent on the night, as Boston kept an opponent under 90 for the first time in the regular season since March of last year.
Part of it was players like Bam Adebayo missing shots they often make, but the Celtics deserve credit for rotating well, closing out on shooters and consistently forcing the Heat into tough twos.
2. Kornet about it
Luke Kornet was the catalyst defensively, tying his career high with six blocks. He didn't bust out the Dikembe Mutombo finger wag this time, but the Heat certainly got the message.
One of his best blocks came early in the third quarter when he helped at the last second and swatted Jaime Jaquez Jr.’s shot. The grand finale happened moments later, as Kornet recovered to reject Tyler Herro and set up a Jayson Tatum 3.
The Celtics are 10-0 when Kornet starts over the last two seasons. Coincidence? Probably not.
Payton Pritchard contributed 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting, to go with five rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block.
Per Celtics statistician Dick Lipe, Pritchard is the first Celtic to string together four straight 20-point games off bench since Isaiah Thomas in 2015. He continues to strengthen his Sixth Man of the Year case and is the clear favorite at the moment.
He scored from all three levels, was fearless in the lane and was a pest defensively. And yes, he beat the buzzer again (this one was a layup, but it was still impressive).
Jaylen Brown entered Monday averaging a career-high 6.8 free-throw attempts per game and shooting a career-best 76.5 percent from the stripe.
He upped both those totals against the Heat, attacking the basket early and often and finishing 9 of 10. Brown is one of the best transition players in the league, so there’s no reason he shouldn’t get to the line frequently.
When he’s playing downhill, and with poise in the paint, he’s almost unguardable.
5. Depth on display
With Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday and Al Horford sidelined, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla turned to a variety of options.
Derrick White, Brown, Tatum, Jordan Walsh and Kornet got the start. Drew Peterson played 23 minutes, Baylor Scheierman 10 and every Celtic saw the floor in some capacity.
Peterson finished with 7 points and 7 rebounds, making a conscious effort to do work on the glass. Scheierman didn’t hit a shot, but he was active defensively and made a sweet no-look pass to Brown for a corner 3.
The reserves have shown they’re ready when they get their opportunity.
The Heat were without Jimmy Butler, Kevin Love, Nikola Jovic and old friend Josh Richardson. No one played particularly well.
Love this pass by Baylor Scheierman to find Jaylen Brown (29 points) in the corner for three pic.twitter.com/2eUgHlcALa
It was largely a smooth and stress-free win for the Celtics, but it did get a bit sloppy early in the third quarter.
Tatum, who finished with six turnovers, coughed it up multiple times early in the quarter. The Celtics had four turnovers in the first two minutes after finishing with just three in the first half.
When they’re at their best, they’re OK with occasional turnovers like the prime Warriors were a few years back. If they’re moving the ball with a purpose, and looking for the right shots, the occasional miscue is inevitable.
But these turnovers were more a result of miscommunication and what appeared to be complacency, which isn’t ideal. They quickly cleaned it up, however, and returned to form.
7. A supremely confident Derrick White
Derrick White has always been a confident shooter, but he looks more confident than ever at the moment. White, who shot 5-of-12 from 3 en route to 19 points, is wasting no time when he catches the ball in rhythm.
It doesn’t matter where he is or who’s on him. If he has a sliver of space, he’s going to let it fly. That’s exactly what he should do. White has hit at least four 3-pointers in four straight games and continues to strength his All-Star resume.
He’s going to be checking his pockets an awful lot if he keeps this up.
After splashing a corner 3, Peterson looked back at the Heat bench to let them know he meant business.
Peterson, who shined in the Summer League for the Heat before getting released, reminded his old pals that he’s been in the lab. He’s made the most of his opportunity over the past two nights and deserves to see time moving forward.
Drew Peterson knocks down the 3 in front of Miami's bench and stares down his former Heat teammates.
The Celtics rebounded quite well, corralling 54 boards to 44 for Miami. Tatum had 11, and Brown, Neemias Queta and Peterson added seven apiece to lead the way.
Boston isn’t a bad rebounding team (14th entering Monday), but it’s definitely an area to tighten up overall – particularly when Porzingis is out. This was a promising sign, as the Celtics exceeded their season average by 10.
10. Another quick turnaround
This was the opener in a four-game homestand, as the Celtics welcome the Pistons to town Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. After that, it’s the Bucks on Friday, then Marcus Smart’s return with the Grizzlies on Saturday.
As of Monday, the Celtics sit one game behind the Cavaliers and have the second-best record in the NBA.
Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard | Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images
Payton torched the Heat for his 4th straight 20-ball.
Another game, another Payton Pritchard 20-piece.
Monday’s win over the Miami Heat saw the Boston Celtics guard record his fourth straight 20+-point game off the bench. It was the eighth time this season that the former Oregon Duck surpassed that mark.
To add some perspective, in Pritchard’s first four years in Boston, he scored 20+ just 18 times. That number drops to just seven if you remove last season from the equation.
PP’s current run has been a blast to watch. He followed up a pair of high-scoring fourth quarters against the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers, with a game-sealing third quarter against the Heat.
His game has taken a major leap this year, as he’s displayed a widened scoring ability. Celtics fans have always known they can rely on the 26-year-old to knock down long-range shots. Now, they understand that the ball will probably find the bottom of the net, no matter where the shot is coming from.
Pritchard has been given the freedom to be more creative with the ball, which has led to an increase in attempts from inside the paint and the occasional mid-range jumper.
The revelation of his “bag” has been must-see TV, especially in the last week when he’s been red hot.
“When he’s got it going, I think it makes it easier for us and is better for us as a team,” praised Jaylen Brown. “So, I’m here for it.”
Here are a few examples from his 25-point outburst against the Heat (it’s a real shame that we have to include Tyler Herro in these clips).
Pritchard averaged a career-high 9.6 points per game last season, but he wasn’t satisfied. He told reporters before this season started that he wanted to continue growing all facets of his game.
“Getting more consistent off the dribble with the three-ball,” Pritchard said of his offseason goals back in October (h/t NBC Sports Boston). “I thought my finishing and mid-range game last year took a big jump, so I thought that was really good. Obviously, I’m always working on that stuff. But, if I can be more efficient shooting off the dribble from there, as well as the catch-and-shoot, then that completes my game. Then defensively, just finding ways to be better at taking charges, getting more hands on balls, steals and stuff like that. So, if I can make a jump then I’ll keep improving as a player.”
You’d have to imagine that there are some big fat checkmarks next to those goals already. Pritchard has added over six points to his scoring average this year and has, more importantly, become a key cog in the offensive machine that is the Celtics.
“He’s a gym rat,” Brown said of Pritchard. “He’s always in the gym working on his game...He’s earned the right to do the things he’s been doing all season long...On nights when he has it going, I take my butt to the corner and let him run the show.”
There’s no doubt that he’s put in the work, but opportunity has also been a factor here.
Pritchard’s minutes are up significantly this season. At 27.8 per game, he’s playing over five minutes more than the 22.3 he averaged in the 2023-24 campaign.
“The hardest thing for young guys is to make it through their first contract when there’s a lot of unknowns,” said Joe Mazzulla of his sixth man after Monday’s win. “And you look at his first year, he played a lot, then Kemba (Walker) came back and he didn’t play — and seems like his first couple years, every year there was just wings ahead of him, he’s just continued to work. And that’s hard to do for a young man.”
If you combine the added playing time, opportunity for creativity, and sheer hard work that Pritchard has put in, then you end up with this eye-opening stretch. A stretch where many are glued to their screens waiting to see what’s next for the frontrunner for the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award.
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