Brown and Tatum share the work of the Celtics

After braking twice against Denver and Oklahoma, the strategy is repeated in Boston. There are four consecutive victories, which add up to eight in the last ten games and thirty in the total for the season. Mazzulla’s team has been sailing in first position almost the entire course and now that the Nets are approaching, it brings out its good record in November and December. In the Garden he triumphed again against some Pelicans who are having a hard time in recent dates.

In this 125-114 had a lot to do Jaylen Brown. Not only because he is the most in tune of the locals, with 41 points and 12 rebounds, nor because it seems that between him and Jayson Tatum (31+10) they are passing the baton of leading the attack to maximize the damage they do to their rivals. , no, but because his pull was the definitive one to break this game and not worry about those from Louisiana again. On the other shore, CJ McCollum, author of 38 goals, was left alone, who is not campaigning to go to the All-Star because he is already “paid like an All-Star player”. The visitors, catastrophic in the fight for the rebound: they lost 50 to 33.

Zion Williamson is missing inside the area and Herb Jones was also missing as glue, not counting an Ingram who has also been out for a while. The absolute lack of forcefulness between Valanciunas, Nance and Hayes did not arouse in Willie Green the desire to take the Spanish Willy Hernangómez out on the track, who has been able to jump onto the track in half the matches that his team has played this season. Changing course in some Pelicans that have slowed down their momentum.

Watching, going into the second half of the third quarter, that Brogdon (20) and Horford (14) had teamed up with Tatum to hit three straight 3-pointers and distance themselves from knocking Pels, Brown wanted his share of the limelight. The forward not only put the difference in the score above ten by himself, he cleaned the game of dust and straw. He scored 13 points without mediating other teammates. The visitors could not recover from that blow, who during the remaining period could only braid some good play but not reduce that already insurmountable distance. To retain the offensive flow of NOLA it was not even necessary for the fiercest defender of the greens, Marcus Smart, and to hunt so many rebounds there was not the center Robert Williams, both reserved due to knee problems. Boston’s next trip is to Brooklyn, where they face the Nets this Thursday in a duel between first and second in the conference that, surely, will be treated as the game of the week in the American League.