Jaylen Brown had never seen anything like it before. To begin Sunday’s nationally-televised match-up against the Warriors, he was left wide-open nearly every possession.
Midway through the first quarter, the Celtics called a timeout, and immediately, his teammates swarmed him. They only had one message: keep shooting. Every single time.
So, he did. Brown hit three consecutive three-pointers in a 40-second span, and finished with 19 points in the first period – the most he’s had in any first quarter this season.
“We were really grateful for that,” Joe Mazzulla said of the Warriors game plan.