This was AWESOME to Witness...

This was. As the Boston Celtics in this highly talked about first matchup between Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. This was a very exciting game, one that we've looked all season for. I know we're only about 10 games in, but we were waiting for this one and we got a great result and I cannot wait to talk about it here on this video on Celtics Digest. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. Welcome to another video. I am your host, Patrick Billings, and guys, we had quite the game in Philly, and I mean, we got the matchup between JT and JB, the beef between Mitchell Robinson and Embiid. It's Paul George's first time going back and playing against Philly. I mean, this game had everything that you could have ever asked for, and we're going to break it down here because, I mean, Jalen Brown, where were you? I mean, I thought, I mean, look, I thought you were supposed to be the guy. You talked a lot and it didn't seem like it came in your favor. 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And when you guys trade your first $25, you get $55 added instantly into your account when you use this promo code. Digest NBA so if you guys are very much so interested go and hit that link and the pinned comment down below and let's get into this one as this one was awesome. I had a great time watching it and I hope you guys had a great time watching it too as They walked into Philly and dominated. It was 123-101. And, of course, the Celtics had their little bit of a slip-up in the third quarter, but they brought back the difference. It looked like it was going to slip away from them as the Sixers tied it up. But the Celtics went on an end-of-the-third-quarter run. That really just helped them pull away. As Jason Day, I believe this is the third straight game. That he hasn't played in the fourth quarter. Someone can correct me on that one. But I believe he hasn't played in the fourth quarter in a very long time. But let's take a look at some of the box scores. Let's see how Philly did. And of course, it was led by Tyrese Maxey. He is playing at an incredible level this year. He is an unbelievable point guard. Yeah, you know, a lot of those players say that it's his team. You know, it's going to run through him. And clearly you saw that tonight as Embiid finished with 16.6 rebounds, finally made a three after missing 23 straight, I believe the number was. Yeah, and you can see Jalen Brown had an unbelievable game for the Boston Celtics by not playing good and continually fouling and making dumb fouls, having four fouls. Kept getting into that early foul trouble, two in the first, getting his third in the first half, then going back out there in the third and picking up his fourth pretty quickly, and that was just about it for Philly after that. Thank I mean, for a guy that's really said, This is something about lamb chops, right, Jalen Brown? You were supposed to be the guy, talk about how you're the guy. you You're trying to create this whole narrative about I was the player, for all these different types of things, but you didn't answer. I mean, you went four for nine. that. You come out of the gates trying to face card Jason Tatum, holding him, grabbing him, all these different things. And, I mean... You're really just trying to create some beef. Even in the pregame, Jason Tatum, he tried. He tried to dap you up and say, you know, let's go. Let's have a good game. And all you do is just in the side eye, you know, all right, if that's how you're going to play, this is how an NBA superstar is going to take care of things and play the game correctly. Because, I mean, just going at your stats here. 13 points, four turnovers, four fouls, and a minus 27. That's just not going to get it done over there in Philly. Sorry, but you tried, but we're having fun over there. Look, I promise this whole thing is not going to be a hate on Jalen Brown because there's a lot of good things that happened in this game. Like the guy we traded for Jalen Brown, Paul George, with 36 points, five rebounds, one assist on 14 to 22, six of 11 from three. I don't understand what Philly was doing. But they just decided to leave Paul George wide open constantly from three, especially in that third quarter. They started to send a double team to Jason Tatum, and he just did one swing pass to the opposite wing. And Paul George is wide open pretty much five or six times tonight. I thank them for that, and Jason Tatum definitely answered the bell with 21 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 8 of 17 shooting. He went through a little spurt of, you know, kind of putting up a couple of shots he usually would make but went a little cold, but had some guys step up off the bench. Of course, Pritchard hitting a lot of threes tonight, 4-3. Sam Hauser with 4 threes himself. Ugo Gonzalez playing some very good minutes for the Celtics. Everything was really clicking for this Boston Celtics team. You could tell they really, really wanted this one. And Paul George definitely wanted this one as well as he had a quote prior to the game saying that he absolutely loved playing in Boston. He said he's kind of been blown away and he thinks that it's exceeded his expectations being in Boston and he can't talk enough about the thrill and the happiness and excitement and joy that it has brought being here. And you can tell just the way that he's playing his game, especially tonight. I mean, you know, the whole narrative was surrounded by JT and JB. But there was other narratives, and one of them being Paul George's return to Philly. And, I mean, that is one hell of a statement in your return. Everyone's calling you old, saying you can't do it anymore. And he pretty much came out in that post-game interview saying, I just wasn't that healthy, and now that he's 100% healthy, he's playing 100% free, just having fun. This is a dangerous player, and I couldn't be happier with the situation, especially with him wanting to make Jason Tatum a better player, play off of him, understands his role. This has been the perfect guy through 10 games this season, and we're going to see a lot lot more Paul George and I hope he continues at this rate because This was a lot of fun, and when we're talking about Jason Tatum, just a quick little stat for you guys, as Jason Tatum is the fastest Celtic since Larry Bird in 1984 to reach 250 points, 50 rebounds, and 50 assists in a season, as Larry Bird went on to win MVP that year. I mean, are we saying that Jason Tatum is going to win MVP this year? Maybe. I mean, you look at that face there. Or is he just going to take over and just continually try and dominate other players, go in with contact, be this aggressive guy, do everything at all three levels and just do anything that he can to make his team win? I think that's the type of guy that we are getting. And guys, it was a very, very exciting game. And I think that this was one that I was personally excited for. I was nervous. I wanted Jason Tatum to play well. Truly, wanted to see a good match between the two of them. I'm not going to audibly say that I wanted Jalen Brown to stink, but he didn't play that well, and I think everything worked out in our favor, seeing Paul George have the game he had, Jason Tatum have the game he had, not really getting too much in his head, and Jalen Brown taking it over the edge and not playing well. So that's how things turn out, and it really paints this certain picture of what really might have been going on behind the scenes and who was really behind all this beef. All along and guys that's going to do it for this one as it was a quick video a fun video for me being able to talk about all this but just a reminder guys if you guys want to try out Kalshi make sure you use the link in the description or the pinned comment and using Digest NBA as your promo code as you get $55 added to your account when you trade your first $25 and guys I will see every single one of you in the next video make sure you drop a like Flood up those comment sections. I'm sure you guys have so much to say about this game, and I'm very excited for all of your opinions. Make sure you hit that subscribe button if you have not already. Thank you all for watching. I'll see you all in the next one. Peace out. Let's go Boston Celtics.