This was truly a tale of two halves. The Celtics came out horrible in this one both offensively and defensively. We got outscored 29-18 in the first and started the second horrible as well getting down by as much as 18 points. The Pelicans took advantage of the pick and roll, turnovers and also their youth resulting in them running up and down the court every possession tonight and in the first half, the Celtics weren't getting back enough. They fell into the trap on taking too many threes and found themselves down big. They did make some adjustments in the middle of the second and got the deficit down to 7 which was huge. 

The second half was when the Celtics turned on the jets and took over this game. The biggest difference in the second half was shot selection. They attacked the basket hard starting in the third and kept that rolling the rest of the way which paid off big for them. They outscored the Pelicans 32-23 in the third and 33-23 in the fourth and a lot of it was on the back of Tatum, Brown and Schroder. All 3 of them stepped up in major ways down the stretch which was good to see after a very rough start for both Jaylen and Jayson. This was a game where we got very little contributions from our bench but we saw another really solid game from Grant who got the start today in place of Timelord who was out today because he was having a child. All in all, you hate to see the Celtics fall down by 18 to a bad team like the Pelicans but as I've said over and over, every win counts at this point.

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