Jayson Tatum helped the Boston Celtics safe a second consecutive win over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday, 113-103. Regardless of a wretched capturing night time from the perimeter, he nonetheless discovered a method to drop 29 factors on Charles Lee’s workforce.Â
Tatum took 17 free-throw makes an attempt throughout that sport, hitting 14 of them. He additionally grabbed seven rebounds and dished out three assists. With Jaylen Brown sidelined because of a left hip flexor harm, Tatum led the road in true star style.Â
When addressing the media throughout his post-game information convention, Lee praised Tatum’s developments over the previous couple of seasons.
“He’s such a harmful participant as a result of he now has the power to play isolation basketball,” Lee stated. “He’s additionally trusting his teammates increasingly in each scenario, so now he’s a prepared passer. I feel he’s at all times been succesful, and now he’s simply much more prepared to go …The opposite factor that I feel he’s completed an awesome job of is simply having extra composure, extra poise to him. You possibly can see it now the place you hit him, you entice him, and he will get off of it and also you assume you possibly can deny him.”