2022 Eventually, misunderstandings escalate into disagreements and all-out fighting in Wissam’s world, a microcosm of what will soon loom over his young life.Īnn Hornaday, Washington Post, 6 Sep. Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022 The immaculate inning represented a microcosm of how well the 24-year-old has pitched since making his major-league debut. Then, when you need them the most, Tatum and Brown came up with multiple huge baskets that broke the Brooklyn defense.Recent Examples on the Web But behind the Orientalist fantasia lies a microcosm of empire at the point of collapse. The game slows down and everyone can see what the next right pass is in slow motion. Given that confidence boost, everything flows a little easier in offensive sets. When that’s happening, easy transition opportunities lead to more buckets on the other end.
It is extremely difficult to keep up elite defensive focus for the entire game, but this team has shown that they are capable of hitting that level for 4-5 minutes and completely shut down anything the Nets were trying to do. The defense settled down into a rhythm as well, taking things away from Durant and Irving and not overreacting to the secondary players who found their level over the course of the game.Īt some point in the 3rd quarter, the Celtics just turned it up a notch and just took off. Or sometimes they can benefit from the ball coming back to them in a more advantageous position than if they had squared up in isolation and tried to beat their man one-on-one. And the upshot is that those kinds of plays eventually open things up for Tatum and Brown to create with more space. That is the kind of play that unlocked this team’s offensive potential this season. He passes out of the double (trusting his teammates) and saw the ball immediately moved through two more teammates before finding Grant Williams in the corner for one of his 3 pointers. Late in the 1st quarter, Tatum got the ball on the block and found himself surrounded by Nets with two double teaming him and the other 3 within a couple steps of him. To me, this speaks to coaching principles being repeated and the players slowly but surely picking up what Ime and the staff were preaching and applying it to their play. There was no exact turning point in the season you could point to and say, “everything changed after that.” Just like in this game there was no “here we go, now everything is different.” That sinking feeling of “oh great, now we could be facing 1-1 headed back to Brooklyn” is pretty similar to that early season of “here we go again on the treadmill of mediocrity” vibe. (Analysis!) Add in some sloppy turnovers by multiple folks and you’ve got the makings of a 17-point deficit.
Much like the start of the year, he was just missing shots. Theoretically the Celtics could have stayed afloat early in the game if Tatum could simply hit a few more shots.
Defensively, Brooklyn’s role players got off to a hot start (perhaps due in part to the extra attention that Durant and Irving were getting). Credit the Nets with making some adjustments, namely running more people to put a body on Tatum and Brown (basically the same strategy we used against Durant). At the start of Game 2, the Celtics were flummoxed on offense and the defense seemed out of sorts as well. Let’s break it down.Īt the beginning of the year, the Celtics had no offensive flow and they needed time to adjust to Ime Udoka’s switch-heavy defense. Did anyone else get some big picture deja-vu from Game 2? The Boston Celtics started off slow, picked up steam, and then ran away with the game - much like they did over the course of the regular season.
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