Jaylen Brown blames Celtics for first loss in 12 games: “I think…”

The surprising defeat to Cleveland Cavaliers meant almost nothing in terms of position in the table for the Boston Celtics. However, the star of the Massachusetts franchise Jaylen Brown He was not at all satisfied with the result. That's because the problem was the way the setback came. The Eastern Conference leader opened up a 22-point lead with just nine minutes left in the match. But the team ended up collapsing on both sides of the court, being surpassed in Ohio after 11 games without losing.

“Today matters, of course. We know our advantage this season, but it's all about habits. Your mentality needs to always be the same, so that you always have a chance to win. So, we have to watch the video of the last quarter and understand what we did wrong. Those last few minutes need to be thrown away; We can’t repeat it”reflected the winger, about breaking the streak through the biggest comeback suffered by the Celtics since the 1996/97 season.

“I think we are a much better team than we showed today. Like I said before, mindset. We had the game in hand. A few more minutes running and we could rest easy. Today's NBA is unforgiving. A big difference for us in 2023/24 is how more disciplined we are. We weren't in other years and we repeated that today. This, above all, is the reason for them to return to the game and turn the score around.”commented Brown.

According to shirt 7, the best campaign in NBA it was too loose at the end of the match. “This can not happen. We cannot be lax. Unfortunately, our mentality today was in that definition. We made a lot of attacking mistakes, we didn't perform as we should in attack. We gave up some rebounds that were costly. We made them very comfortable to score. It’s difficult, but today it needs to matter so that it doesn’t happen again.”shot.