Overview
- Jaylen Brown scored 35 points in 26 minutes as Boston beat Washington 136-107, hitting 39% of 41 threes after an 0-for-8 start.
- The victory ended a two-game slide and moved the Celtics to 4-5, with Josh Minott posting a career-high 21 and Neemias Queta adding 15 points and 12 rebounds.
- Two nights earlier Boston went 11-for-51 from deep in a 105-103 loss to Utah, the worst percentage ever by a team with at least 50 attempts.
- Boston continues to fire from long range at a league-leading rate (about 47.8 attempts) while converting around 31.2%, fueling questions about Joe Mazzulla’s three-heavy approach.
- Payton Pritchard said prolonged misses put pressure on the defense and stall the offense, and while tracking labeled nearly all those Utah attempts as open or wide open, at least one independent review disputed that classification.