The Celtics appeared to have the Hawks on the ropes, but Trae Young helped the Hawks rally from a double-digit deficit late in the fourth to claim a 119-117 victory.
Here are the takeaways.
1. It’s genuinely hard to overstate how bad that loss was for the Celtics.
We can’t just point out how bad Jayson Tatum was, although he was really bad — 19 points on 8-for-21 shooting, including a paltry 1-for-10 shooting from behind the arc against a Hawks team that has struggled to defend the Celtics when they attack the rim.