It’s not often that you can flip on a Celtics game without seeing one of Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown. Tuesday was one of those rare occasions where both of the Jays had the night off.
Their collective absence was felt heavily in the first half, when Boston managed just 44 (shout out, Jaden Springer) points against the 13th place Nets. This game was starting to feel like one of those nights where the Celtics would stick to their offensive process and shoot themselves out of it. No one could buy a bucket, and we were getting tweets like this with “insult stats” over the timeline.