Just 24 hours after being outworked by the Atlanta Hawks in their NBA Cup opener, the Boston Celtics walked the walk against the Brooklyn Nets. They talked the talk Tuesday night, saying that they needed to be better and play harder and did just that in Brooklyn on the back end of a back-to-back when they issued fans a 25-point apology in their whomping of the Nets.
“We didn’t feel great getting on that plane last night... We wanted to bounce back,” Jayson Tatum told NBC Sports Boston’s Abby Chin, after hanging 36 points on the hosts at Barclays.