{"id":442207,"date":"2025-05-15T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=442207"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:08:12","slug":"jaylen-brown-we-didnt-want-to-give-up-or-make-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jaylen-brown-we-didnt-want-to-give-up-or-make-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown: We didn&#8217;t want to give up or make excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics without Jayson Tatum. The reaction? No panic, just determination, and victory in Game 5 with the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The air went out of the room after hearing that,\u2019 Jaylen Brown said in reference to Jayson Tatum&#8217;s injury. \u2018But we didn&#8217;t want to give up or make excuses. We didn&#8217;t want to go out like that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>With a joint speech between Brown, Al Horford and coach Joe Mazzulla, the team shifted gears. \u2018We said to each other: let&#8217;s go out and defend as much as we can. Just that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We lost an offensive motor, so the strategy was clear: defensive intensity,\u2019 added Brown, author of 26 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Kornet was also an unexpected protagonist: 10 points, nine rebounds and seven wicks. \u2018I just felt like giving energy. It was special to be useful to the team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mazzulla explained: \u2018Porzingis couldn&#8217;t breathe. It was an agreement between me and him: he was only available in an emergency.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Derrick White, who scored 34 points with seven threes, helped Brown manage the weight of the attack, in a more fluid and collective system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My role is to lead, to be myself, to do what it takes to push this team forward,\u2019 Brown concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45153852\/celtics-first-game-jayson-tatum-throttle-knicks\">Source: ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics without Jayson Tatum. The reaction? No panic, just determination, and victory in Game 5 with the New York Knicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":442180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-442207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/Gq9MF-BXwAAEoOc.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442207"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=442207"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=442207"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=442207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}