Celtics Life · Feb 9, 2021
Week in review: Celtics go 1-1 without Jaylen Brown
Week seven of the NBA season was a roller coaster for the Boston Celtics. As fans, we saw the good, the great, and the bad in the matter of four games as they went 2-2. This week we saw the first four games of a grueling five game west coast road trip in which all five games were/are against either the top of the west and three teams fighting for a playoff spot. They started off the trip with a four point victory over the Golden State Warriors in a game where Jaylen struggle with the three ball and Steph Curry was, well..... Steph Curry. Then they fell to the underrated Sacramento Kings where De'Aaron Fox showed us why he's a star in this league. Game three of this stretch was against the LA Clippers and Jayson Tatum remained the king of LA in this wire to wire thriller with 34 points in the victory. The week was finished off with a day time dud on Super Bowl Sunday against the retooled Phoenix Suns. Jaylen Brown missed the last two games against LA and Phoenix, though Stevens has said he is trending up. Here are my takeaways from the week;