Jayson Tatum and Luka Doncic are totally different sorts of MVP candidates. The latter is the superstar-centric head of the Dallas Mavericks snake. The previous is a two-way terror and arguably the most effective offensive participant on the most effective offense and finest defender on the most effective defenses within the NBA.
On Friday night time, staff ball prevailed with the Celtics crushing the Mavericks 138-110.
Doncic dazzled with one other monster line of 37 factors, 12 rebounds, and 11 assists, but it surely was Boston’s balanced assault that stretched their win streak to 10. The Celtics top-6 all scored in double digits, together with Jaylen Brown with 25 factors (with 7 rebounds and 5 assists), Kristaps Porzingis with 24 (4-of-8 from 3), and Derrick White with a close to triple double of 13-7-8.
By comparability, the Celtics completed with 32 assists to the Mavs’ 20.
Payton Pritchard chipped in with 10 factors off the bench. Xavier Tillman Sr. performed his first significant minutes in inexperienced and completed with 6 factors and two assists.
However it’s not like Tatum didn’t have himself an MVP night time as effectively. When Dallas threatened within the third quarter chopping the result in two factors, Tatum responded with 16 factors on 4-of-7 from behind the arc. Previous to tonight, JT was almost averaging a triple-down with 27.7 factors, 9.1 rebounds, and seven.1 assists over the past 9 video games. Two days away from age-26, he completed the night time with 32 factors and eight rebounds.
After the sport, Tatum informed ESPN’s Cassidy Hubbarth, “in easy phrases, we’ve acquired a extremely good staff. Each night time, it’s going to look somewhat bit totally different. So long as the tip result’s we proceed to construct good habits and win, it’s all going to work itself out. It’s trusting the method. It’s not at all times going to look the identical whether or not you begin off scorching or finish off scorching, it’s at all times trusting that we’re taking part in the best manner and we’re making an attempt to win.”
The Celtics will wrap up their three-game homestand internet hosting the Golden State Warriors for a Sunday matinee (3:30 pm on ABC). They’ll then go away TD Backyard for 5 video games out west with twelve of Boston’s subsequent fifteen video games on the highway.
