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The Boston Celtics lost in disappointing fashion on Monday to a Minnesota Timberwolves team that was without their three best players. It's the second straight loss for Boston, who needed star Jaylen Brown to step up with fellow forward Jayson Tatum in the health and safety protocols. A quick look at the box score says that Brown played an ok game, though the Celtics star disagrees.
Jaylen Brown: "The game isn't as hard as I made it tonight…My team needed me to make plays and step up and I turned the ball over too much, I missed easy shots, easy reads and we lost."
— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) December 28, 2021
Jaylen Brown not only feels that the loss to the Timberwolves was one of his worst games but he also feels that it was one of the worst Celtics' losses of the season.
Brown might have a point, as the Timberwolves were down to bottom-of-the-rotation type players in Nathan Knight and Jaylen Nowell, but the two torched the Boston defense en route to the victory.
Brown himself had a team-high 26 points but shot just 8-for-24 from the field and committed six turnovers, which he said were easy reads and easy shots that he just flat-out missed for the Celtics against Minnesota.
The Celtics are still very much in the mix as the current nine seed in the Eastern Conference, though Brown knows that their level of play pales in comparison to the upper echelon teams in the East, where Boston though they would be at the start of the year.
The Celtics, especially Jaylen Brown, will need to be better for that to change.
