{"id":20703,"date":"2024-12-26T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20703"},"modified":"2024-12-26T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:53:52","slug":"breaking-news-jayson-tatum-offers-reassuring-message-following-celtics-christmas-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=20703","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Jayson Tatum Offers Reassuring Message Following Celtics\u2019 Christmas Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1986929\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-hero__copy-upper\">\n<div class=\"article-hero__default-inner\">\n<h3 class=\"article-hero__subheading h6\">&#8216;We&#8217;re not panicking&#8217;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-hero__copy-lower\">\n<div class=\"article-hero__default-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/12\/Jayson-Tatum-5.jpg\" alt=\"Jayson Tatum Offers Reassuring Message Following Christmas Collapse\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 Jayson Tatum and the Celtics had higher hopes for Christmas Day\u2019s matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation of a well overdue response to Monday night\u2019s crumbling to the undermanned Orlando Magic, coupled with the spirit of the holiday season, however, just wasn\u2019t enough. Boston swallowed a tough pill in the form of a 118-114 loss to Philadelphia despite Jayson Tatum\u2019s (loud) return to the floor \u2014 Tatum recorded a 32-point, 15-rebound double-double and shot 11-of-20 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it wasn\u2019t an overall team effort up to par for the reigning NBA champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s things that we gotta address. We gotta be better,\u201d Tatum said postgame. \u201cIt\u2019s still a long season. Nobody\u2019s panicking. You just have to be able to navigate the emotional rollercoaster of an NBA season. It feels a lot worse than it actually is. We\u2019re not panicking or anything. We gotta man up and look in the mirror and figure out some things that we gotta do better at. Everyone\u2019s fully capable and we\u2019ve always done a good job at responding and I have no doubt that we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, the Celtics did respond to their defensive underperformance \u2014 by holding the Sixers to 16 points in the third quarter \u2014 <em>but<\/em> the momentum was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>Boston\u2019s sign of life in overcoming 60 points combined between Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid, plus Caleb Martin\u2019s seven 3-pointers made, quickly took an untimely U-turn and sent the Celtics back to square one. There, Boston sat scratching its head and watched a 108-105 deficit in the last 2:25 minutes of regulation turn into an outpouring of fans fleeing for the exits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we gotta take some ownership,\u201d Tatum confessed. \u201cWe gotta be better. We gotta acknowledge the things that we\u2019ve done not so great. We gotta look in the mirror and man up, and we just gotta be better. We fully believe in ourselves, the things that we can do when we\u2019re fully locked in and we\u2019ve done it time and time again. We\u2019ve just had some lapses recently. We just gotta get back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics committed 13 turnovers to Philadelphia\u2019s six, shot 61.5% from the free-throw line (on 13 attempts) and never held a lead in the double figures. It didn\u2019t just rain, it poured, leaving Boston in the same place it entered the floor on Christmas Day \u2014 in need of a refueling response to light a fuse.<\/p>\n<p>And even though the Magic \u2014 without Paolo Banchero and Franz Wager \u2014 and the Sixers \u2014 who are still climbing out of the Eastern Conference\u2019s coffin at 11-17 \u2014 got the better of Boston, the Celtics aren\u2019t questioning who they are deep down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like being to three straight conference finals, two Finals appearances in the last three years, we\u2019ve been getting everybody\u2019s best shot over the last three years,\u201d Tatum said. \u201cSo it\u2019s not something that should catch us off guard or anything like that. 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