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Jaylen Brown had a particular focus on Saturday—getting a win on the roadway that would put the Boston Celtics back up in their Eastern Conference Semifinals face-off versus the Cleveland Cavaliers.
And Brown made sure his colleagues had the right mindset heading into Game 3.
“Making sure before the videogame, at movie, shoot-around, talking to everyone, touching everyone, letting everyone understand like, ‘Hey, we’re not here to play around. We didn’t come to Cleveland for the weathercondition. So let’s go,'” Brown informed pressreporters.
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Jaylen Brown informed colleagues “we didn’t come to Cleveland for the weathercondition, so let’s go.”
Nobody, it turns out, has ever gone to Cleveland for the weathercondition. But the Celtics did wrest back home-court benefit in the series after losing it in Game 2, whipping Cleveland 106-93 on Saturday behind strong efficiencies by Jayson Tatum (33 points, 13 rebounds 6 helps) and Brown (28 points, 9 boards)