Each week during the 2022-23 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league's biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
There are two ways a team can respond when their coach shows his players a picture of a sandcastle and asks them how they're going to build theirs each day before the tide forces them to rebuild anew tomorrow. This is straight dad stuff, and you're more likely to embrace the lesson when your best player lives it daily.
It helps that the Celtics have surrounded Tatum with teammates equally invested in their growth together. Jaylen Brown has entered the All-NBA chat. Their backcourt is so deep that Payton Pritchard rarely ever plays.
The space created by the attention paid to the two stars has Malcolm Brogdon, Grant Williams, Al Horford, Sam Hauser and Derrick White shooting a combined 46% on 20.5 attempts from 3-point range per game. All five rank in the top 16 among players who have attempted at least 80 3-pointers this season, and it feels sustainable, as NBA tracking data registers 94% of their 483 3-point attempts as either open or wide open.
If the execution on that end approaches the heights they have reached offensively, the 66-win pace they are currently tracking could approach 70, so long as they stay healthy and don't release their foot from the gas. Their master class was already in session for a road victory on Wednesday, when the Celtics took a 94-89 lead midway through the third quarter against the Phoenix Suns, then the Western Conference's top seed.
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