Rolling along with a blowout: 10 Takeaways from Celtics-Spurs

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images1. Whenever Jayson Tatum is out, there’s at least a momentary worry about how the Boston Celtics will play without him. Those worries lasted until about midway through the second quarter against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday.

Boston pulled away for a double-digit lead by the time halftime hit. In the third quarter and start of the fourth quarter, the Celtics poured it on so much that that the game was a runaway.

Jaylen Brown led the way for Boston, but he wasn’t left to do it himself. Malcolm Brogdon turned in a great night off the bench, as did Rob Williams. Derrick White did his always-solid Derrick White thing. Marcus Smart was effective,…