The Boston Celtics are currently standing in the season with a score of 45-12 and are first in the Eastern Conference. They have recently defeated the New York Knicks with a concluding score of 102-116. The Knicks are standing fourth in the Eastern Conference and are 34-23 for the season.
The five-time NBA All-Star Jayson Tatum served as the offensive engine and the Celtics were stronger and took the second half under them with balanced attack.
“JT, he deserves a lot of credit because he can say F it. I want to score 30 every night. I want to get MVP. But he’s not doing that. I think people are overlooking that. You have to give him credit.”
– Kristaps Porzingis on Jayson Tatum
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Jaylen Brown scored a team-high thirty points, including eight rebounds, and three assists. The NBA All-Star, Kristaps Porzingis scored 22 points, 4 assists, and 4 rebounds. Jayson Tatum posted another 19 points to the tally including 6 rebounds, and 6 assists.
Derrick White ended his night with 13 points, three rebounds, and 6 assists. Jrue Holiday also added another 12 points including one rebound and 6 assists. Porzingis became the most recent player who expressed his opinions on winning and how excited he is to play with the squad.
According to SI, he expressed, “JT, JB, Jrue, I’ve said it before; he probably is the guy that’s sacrificed the most for winning, for being on this type of level team. But even JT — he deserves a lot, like a lot of credit, because he could say, ‘(expletive) it, I want to score 30 every night, I want to get the MVP,’ but he’s not doing that, and I think people are overlooking that. And you have to give him credit because when he does that, it makes everybody else do that, and then we’re winning games because everybody’s feeling good, everybody’s scoring, all dangerous.”
Kristaps Porzingis on Jayson Tatum:
"JT deserves a lot of credit because he could say F it, I wanna score 30 every night, I wanna get the MVP but he's not doing that … he deserves a lot more credit than he's getting."
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Porzingis further shared that Jayson Tatum is focusing on the team goal rather than his individual goal of scoring more to achieve other accolades. Porzingis is extending his respect to Tatum as he is collating the team’s goal and not just his own and due to his incredible approach, he is worthy of more “credit” than what he’s been subjected to.
He further continues, “So, I think he deserves a lot more credit than he’s getting, and everybody has made a sacrifice, and I think people from the outside kind of see that, but us as players, we know what we’re doing, and we know what the goal is, so we’re all putting our stuff to the side for one bigger goal.”
