Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown won't put all of his team's struggles on this young core of players, claiming everyone else should be just as accountable for this midseason slump:

“We gotta be more accountable as a group,” Brown said, according to Tom Westerholm of MassLive. “It’s not one guy. It’s not the young guys’ or the old guys’ fault — it’s everybody’s fault. We all got to be accountable and turn this thing around. In stretches, we play good basketball and in stretches, we don’t. But we all got to have each other’s back.”

The Celtics have now gone winless through a short three-game road trip, losing to the Miami Heat, Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets, with the latter loss coming on Monday night without Kyrie Irving and Marcus Smart.

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Brown wants the finger-pointing to stop, a reference that alludes to Irving's recent comments about the young players not knowing how to play at a championship level, plus the discontent with the last play Brad Stevens drew up for the team against the Magic and how furious he was toward Gordon Hayward, who inbounded the pass:

“We just got to have each other’s back at the end of the day,” Brown continued. “We can’t make comments. We can’t be pointing fingers. We just got to continue to empower each other and have each other’s back. If we don’t and people start pointing fingers, everybody’s going to go into their own little shell. We got to continue to play basketball and it starts from the top to the bottom, not from the bottom to the top but from the top to the bottom, so we got to continue to empower each other and make the best of this. We got a lot of talent here. We know what we are capable of, it’s just a matter of going out and doing it.”

The Celtics will play seven of their next eight games at home and have the opportunity to turn things around throughout the rest of the month. At 25-18, the Celtics still have a three-game lead over the sixth-place Miami Heat, but will need to rack up the Ws to infiltrate the top four of the Eastern Conference.