Jayson Tatum led the Celtics in scoring, and Derrick White came alive late as the Celtics pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 103-91 win over the Heat, bouncing back from Wednesday’s loss.
Here are the takeaways.
Jayson Tatum did just enough (and that’s fine).
There will be nights when Jayson Tatum is an untouchable superstar – an MVP candidate who shows up on the biggest stage and puts up huge numbers that propel the Celtics to a clutch win.
And then there will be nights like Friday, when – on the front end of a back-to-back on a March night in Miami – he scores 28 relatively inefficient points and breaks even on assists and turnovers but manages a +10 in the box score as the Celtics win by 12.