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Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla said Jaylen Brown is setting the tone for the side with his defensive efforts.
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00:00Jalen had had a rough start shooting start to the season.
00:05Was it good to see him get a little hot early on?
00:07And then the flip side of that, did it feel like that almost negatively impacted
00:12you guys after he got so hot?
00:13I think you missed 11 straight shots after he made five.
00:17I don't know if it negatively impacted us.
00:18I mean, if you're gonna ask me if we're gonna be up,
00:20what were we up, six or eight or something like that?
00:25I would take that in the first quarter against a team like that.
00:27But do you have to fight to have a rhythm for others?
00:30Yeah, at the same time, it was cool.
00:32I think Jalen recognized that.
00:33He was like, hey, I think he passed up another one.
00:36I went to him and he was like, yeah,
00:37I just gotta make sure we get our rhythm back as a team.
00:39And so it's great to have guys like him that you could do that, but
00:42also could point out where it wasn't a negative impact.
00:44But it was like, okay, let's get our offensive rhythm and connectivity there.
00:48And I don't know if that was a direct correlation to the 11 in a row.
00:51Some of those were wide open layups.
00:54Some of them were good shots, so I don't think it was a correlation to that.
00:57But I do think there's a rhythm component to it, and
00:58he did a great job of balancing that in that quarter.
01:01Yeah, it's great to have a player of his caliber take defense to another level and
01:06take match-ups personally when your best players are your best defenders.
01:11It kind of sets a tone for your team and in your locker room defensively.
01:16So he takes pride in individual match-ups, so
01:18he did a great job of that tonight.

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