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BOSTON -- As Jayson Tatum sat on the podium early Friday morning, a little more than an hour after the Boston Celtics' defense had suffocated the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, he was asked about Boston's ability to throw several elite individual defenders at two of the game's elite scorers in Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving.
"What makes our team really special is we don't have guys that we hide on defense," Tatum said. "Bigs and guards, we switch, we take on the challenge of individual defense, understanding that we have help.