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After hitting the one above, his next two looks were of the same variety. Tatum has a propensity for falling in love with the stepback 3-pointer, which is fine when the shot is falling but demoralizing if it’s not. Things began to tumble downhill from there. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. He hit his first three shots and was a team-high plus-11 in the first quarter. The peculiar thing about how Tatum’s night ended was how it started. I just feel like I didn’t get some of them to fall down like I wanted to. “I feel like I said some good looks,” Tatum said, explaining his struggles after the game. But once Brooklyn’s Big Three got it going late in the final frame, Tatum’s struggles meant the C’s didn’t have enough offense to keep the deficit from ballooning, ultimately coming up short 104-93. Though he was once again impressive by going 9-of-11 from the free-throw line, Tatum didn’t make a field goal in the second half and coughed up four turnovers and committed five fouls.īoston built a 12-point lead and hung close for a good chunk of the fourth quarter thanks to a strong defensive showing. In Game 1 against the Nets, Tatum wasn’t that same guy, shooting 6-of-20 from the field for 22 points in 41 minutes.

“(Tatum) has in the past 14 months become the kind of incendiary talent whose capacity to rain fire from all over the court can at least give Boston a puncher’s chance against the elite,” wrote The Ringer’s Dan Devine following the play-in victory. Jaylen Brown might be out, and other Celtics might be hobbled, but if Tatum could be at his best enough to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Kevin Durant, the realm of possibilities certainly expanded. After he scored 50 points to help the Celtics overcome Washington in the play-in game, I wrote how the greatness of Jayson Tatum could mask many of the hurdles Boston continues to face.