Well, as great as Brown has been in crunch time, ex-Celtic Isaiah Thomas and C's guard Kemba Walker might have something to say about that.We'll have to at least wait until the playoffs before we officially crown a king.The real Tatum showed up Sunday afternoon, putting up 34 points with eight assists and four rebounds.This is the kind of performance C's fans have come to expect from Tatum, who showed he was on the verge of superstardom before the NBA season was suspended in March. "Brad is not putting me back in,” said Walker. Deliver in the clutch in Celtics' first win in the BubbleCeltics vs. And it just takes our team to different heights when they’re playing basketball at that kind of level.”Walker might have been a spectator for the frenetic final frame but he was spectacular for the second straight game and — we’ll stress it here again — nothing is more important for the Celtics than Walker looking more like the All-Star talent we saw at the start of the 2019-20 season. A healthy Brown provides Boston with another defender for both Antetokounmpo and Middleton as well as another player with big-time scoring potential.The wild cards in this series will be Marcus Smart, who averaged 21.5 points in the two meetings as a fill-in for Brown, and the Bucks starting backcourt which was a combined 6-for-28 shooting in the two games. He’s not going over the restriction limit. Celtics Playoff Previews: vs. Pacers | vs. Heat | vs. Raptors | vs. 76ers; But the Celtics have reason to feel good about their chances considering one of the team’s top players, Jaylen Brown, was out with an injury in each of the two regular season meetings. While the 76ers did make three trips to the NBA Finals in Dr. J's first six years with the team, Tatum finished with a team-high 34 points, a fresh haircut both restoring his scoring prowess and giving him newfound assist superpowers. "We definitely missed Kemba out there, for sure,” said Brown. Copyright © 2020 NBA Media Ventures, LLC.
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We credit "That looked like a Jayson Tatum rhythm-type shot." We agree, The Celtics were cruising and had a 24-point lead in this game, but C's fans have come to learn this season that no lead is truly comfortable.Sure enough, the Trail Blazers stormed back to even take the lead at one point in the second half. Jaylen Brown (30 points) came up big when it mattered most, and Gordon Hayward added 22 points and eight rebounds of his own.Here are a few instant overreactions from the C's first victory of the season restart:Brown is the main reason the Celtics were able to hold off the Trail Blazers in the second half as he made clutch shot after clutch shot and tallied 16 points in the fourth quarter alone.This isn't Brown's first time stepping up when it matters most.