Before the game against the Magic, the Celtics had just beaten the Western Conference's mighty Suns, while their opponents, the Magic, suffered a four-game losing streak. It seems that the Celtics, who are at home in this game, will easily defeat their opponents to win two consecutive games, but the Green Army has played hard with their opponents in this game, and finally won 116:111 in extra time.
In the first quarter of the game, the Celtics played a very hot state, the whole team blossomed to play a very good start, and at one point in the second quarter of the game to achieve a double-digit lead. But at the end of the quarter, the Magic played a small wave of climax to close the score, and at the end of the half, the Green Army was only 3 points ahead of their opponents. In the third quarter, the game suddenly changed, and the Magic scored consecutive points and surpassed their opponents by as many as 12 points. In the final quarter, the Celtics gradually erased the point difference with Brown's excellent performance and helped the team reach overtime. In overtime, the Celtics narrowly won over their opponents with Horford's key three-pointers.
Brown, who performed extremely well, was undoubtedly one of the biggest contributors to the team's victory, playing 46 minutes in this game, shooting 10 of 19 of 29 three-pointers, and frantically cutting a career-high 50 points, in addition to 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks. In the first half of the game, Brown had 17 points and 8 rebounds on 6-of-10 shooting, and scored 9 points in the third quarter. If it weren't for Brown's bitter support in the third quarter, the Celtics would most likely have been further widened by their opponents.
By the most critical fourth quarter, the Celtics had trailed by as many as 12 points, and it was Brown who stepped up and scored 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting in the quarter. Especially in the final moments of the fourth quarter, Brown scored consecutive points to help the team tighten the score. Although Brown conceded a deadly goal, the team won the game in extra time. By the end of regular time, Brown had scored a career-high 47 points. In overtime, as Brown hit another three-pointer, his personal single-game scoring record also reached 50 points. While playing the strongest game of his career, Brown also helped the team win this precious victory.
After scoring 50 points in the game, Brown also set a series of personal records. First, 50 points is a new career-high single-game scoring for Brown, and before this game, his career-high score also happened to be the 46 points he scored in the opening game against the Knicks. Second, after Brown scored 50 points, he became the seventh player in Celtics history to score 50+ points per game. Again, Brown scored 50 points in a single game and scored 11 rebounds, on par with team stars Bird, McHale and his teammate Tatum. In the end, Brown became the third player of the season to score 50 points in a single game, followed by Curry and Durant, two superstars.
In fact, with the exception of this game, Brown has played very well in the vast majority of games so far this season. In the 23 games currently playing for the Celtics this season, Brown averaged 24.3 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 34.4 minutes per game, shooting 45.6 percent from the field and 36 percent from three-point range. This season, Brown has also missed a lot of games due to a hamstring strain injury, but he still maintains a very good state after coming back, which is really not easy.
Especially since Tatum, one of the two-flower duo, missed the game because of triggering the league's health and safety agreement, Brown became the team's first choice on the offensive end, and he did take the responsibility to play a good performance. In those four games, Brown averaged a double-double of 32.5 points and 10 rebounds per game, and led the team to a 2-2 record, which helped the team through this game where Tatum was not. After the win in this game, the current Celtics have a record of 18 wins and 19 losses, temporarily in ninth place in the East, one win away from reaching the top eight in the East.
So far this season, although the double tandem combination of Brown and Tatum has still played a very good performance, and the team has very good players such as Horford and Smart, for many reasons, the Celtics this season have become one of the most disappointing teams in the league, and are still struggling to reach the top eight in the East. Fortunately, at the moment Brown has taken on the corresponding responsibilities and played an extremely good performance, helping the team to win consecutive games during Tatum's absence, which is undoubtedly very good news for the Celtics.
And if the double probe combination can stay healthy and maintain a fiery state, then the Celtics still have a very good hope of reaching the playoffs and making a difference in the playoffs. After all, in the past few seasons, with the growth of the double exploration flower combination, the Green Army has become a strong team in the East, although it has not been able to reach the finals, but they are the forces that cannot be ignored in the East who have been entering the Eastern Conference Finals for many years. The Celtics were eliminated by the Nets in the first round last season due to injuries, and the reason for their poor performance this season has a lot to do with the team's repeated injuries. All in all, the current Big Braun is a good signal for the team's journey this season.
It is worth mentioning that in the past few seasons, Brown has repeatedly appeared in the Celtics' trade rumors. When Harden applied for a deal to the Rockets, the Rockets offered to ask the Celtics to use Brown as a chip, but the Green Army ultimately chose to refuse, resolutely making Brown the core of the team's future team building. The latter also gave the team back with practical actions, last season Brown was selected for the first time in the career all-Star team, and from the current trend of the season, Brown is likely to be selected for the All-Star team again. In short, Brown has ushered in a personal transformation in the past two seasons, and in the future he will become a forward player who occupies an important position in the league.