Tom Westerholm

3 days ago | boston.com | Conor Roche |Tom Westerholm

The Celtics built a big lead and – finally – kept it on Saturday, blowing out the Knicks 115-93, trimming their series deficit to 2-1. Here are the takeaways. The Celtics found their stroke (and the game looked way more normal). Given that the Celtics have led by 20 in each of the first three games of this series, it’s staggering that they trail 2-1 after Saturday’s win, but that’s neither here nor there.

6 days ago | boston.com | Tom Westerholm

The Celtics blew a 20-point second-half lead for the second consecutive game against the Knicks on Wednesday, falling 91-90 and dropping both home games to dig a 2-0 series hole. Here are the takeaways. Where do we even start? Let’s begin with Jayson Tatum, who had another abysmal game. For all of the plaudits he received (and richly deserved) during the Magic series, he has been nearly invisible against the Knicks – a team who should be eminently exploitable for a player with Tatum’s skillset.

1 week ago | boston.com | Tom Westerholm

After an impressive series against the Magic, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown played one of their worst games in recent memory, and the Celtics dropped Game 1 against the Knicks 108-105 in overtime. Here are the takeaways. One of the concerns for the Celtics in this series is that if they start missing 3-pointers, they crack the door open for a Knicks team that otherwise faces a nightmarish set of matchups.

2 weeks ago | boston.com | Tom Westerholm

Jayson Tatum and the Celtics put together a dominant second half on Tuesday, pulling away from the Magic in Game 5 for a 120-89 victory that propelled them into the second round. Here are the takeaways. If the wrist that Tatum injured in Game 1 bothered him at all in any of the games he played, he never showed it. Tuesday’s Game 5 may have been Tatum’s best performance of the series – a 35-point masterpiece on 10-for-16 shooting, including 4-for-5 from three and 11-for-11 from the free-throw line.

2 weeks ago | boston.com | Tom Westerholm

Jayson Tatum willed the Celtics to a 107-98 Game 4 victory over the Magic with a massive performance, as Celtics took a 3-1 lead in their first-round series. Here are the takeaways. Jayson Tatum carried the Celtics to the verge of a series winWe’ll go out on a limb by saying that Jayson Tatum is not happy with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. But, the wrist injury Tatum suffered in his collision with the Magic guard in Game 1 doesn’t seem to be affecting his production.