Jaylen Brown scored 37 points, but the Celtics didn’t deserve to beat the Hawks on Tuesday, and in the end, they didn’t: Atlanta claimed a hard-fought 117-116 win in Game 1 of the Emirates NBA Cup’s group play.
Here are the takeaways.
The Celtics played sloppy, ugly basketball.
The Celtics lost Tuesday’s game in the most appropriate way possible: By giving up an offensive rebound to Onyeka Okongwu for a layup, which put the Hawks up by one, and by turning the ball over on the other end.
20 turnovers.
20 offensive rebounds for their opponent.