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Hopefully we’re far abundant removed from Gordon Hayward’s air-conditioned opening-night leg abrasion to accord some anticipation to the bigger implications for the Celtics. The Hayward play, which best anybody wishes they could unsee, appeared a barbarous course-correction for a new-look Boston aggregation with absolute aspirations this season. With Hayward on the mend for the blow of the season, focus understandably accouterment against the development of the Celtics’ baddest adolescent players. So for bigger or worse, talking about Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum in abstracted breaths is activity to be difficult for the time being. So far, it’s been mostly better.

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The post-Hayward absoluteness has skewed abutting to best-case book for the Celtics through the aboriginal two weeks. Quicker than you can say “Draft Assets,” Brad Stevens has steered them to a more-than-respectable 4–2 almanac entering a Monday angle with the Spurs. As such, the biggy adequacy of Brown, who aloof angry 21, and Tatum, a 19-year-old rookie, deserves our attention. Both assiduously accept accustomed Boston in the adjacency of 15 credibility and six rebounds per bold in starting roles. Last week, Brown and Tatum accumulated for 45 credibility in a win over the Knicks, acceptable the aboriginal brace of under-22 players in Celtics history to account 20 apiece in one game. Yes, Brad Stevens was a abuse acceptable academy coach, but the achievement from two audience who could still be starring aback on campus has been no beneath stunning.

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Many kept a alert eye as Brown and Tatum, the corresponding No. 3 picks in the 2016 and 2017 drafts (and the fruits of Danny Ainge’s adept commerce) took turns accepting shots up at Summer League. Both had absorbing spurts in July, but there was alone trace affirmation of what ability construe immediately. It’s an ambiance area two things tend to be calmly apparent: aristocratic able-bodied talent, and on-court habits both absolute and negative. As such, it was no abruptness to appear abroad afflicted and still admiration absolutely how the Celtics’ big-boy agenda would absolutely fit calm aback it began to matter.

With that in mind, what’s best auspicious about these developments has been the credible embrace of adjustments. These are two players who entered the alliance as scorers, with added facets of their amateur absolute added in the abstract. Brown’s backbone and explosiveness aback advancing the bassinet accept consistently fabricated him difficult to accord with, but over the advance of the accomplished year, he’s additionally accepted a abode as Boston’s best able apostle (apologies to Marcus Smart). Brown’s jumper and ball-handing accept additionally improved, but it’s the credible self-knowledge and role accepting that accept apart him as a key allotment this aboriginal in his career.

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The accident of Hayward—coupled with Marcus Morris's absence—forced Boston to amend how roles were doled out in the frontcourt, and Stevens’s top two lineups in the earlygoing have been congenital about Brown’s versatility. The Celtics accept been acknowledged arena Smart at the two, Tatum at the three and Brown at the four abutting to Kyrie Irving and Al Horford, but they've additionally gone big by slotting Aron Baynes in the average to apple-pie up the blend and accepting Brown stick to the opponent’s top scoring wing. It’s a baby sample size, but aback he’s off the court, Boston’s net appraisement has been added than 13 credibility worse. The counting stats are nice, but Brown’s started to advance alfresco the box score. Also, we alone accept a baby sample size, but the Celtics own the NBA’s second-ranked defense, acceptance aloof 95.1 credibility per 100 backing over their aboriginal six games.

As for Tatum, well, his burning activity has been added surprising. We knew that he could and would be able to account at a aerial level, and the avant-garde able and abhorrent instincts accept agitated over nicely. He’s cutting 50% from the acreage and attractive bouncier and added active than he did at Duke. Although his set-shot mechanics from three are a little awkward, they attending repeatable and passable. Also: he’s frickin’ 19! Tatum can still be a ball-stopper, and the ache of Trying to Do Too Abundant may yet ensnare him on the abhorrent end. The Celtics accept absolutely been decidedly added able scoring the brawl aback he’s off the floor. But these are growing pains, and the Celtics will booty what they’re accepting from him. Also, watch at atomic the aboriginal 30 abnormal of this mix below, because Tim Hardaway Jr. gets got.

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Much like with Brown, the best abrupt agency has been Tatum’s arresting effort. He’s looked focused and has not been the accountability abounding expected. Arena with Brown and Smart agency the Celtics can finer ascendancy Tatum’s matchups, and he can accomplish to rebounding, application his breadth and blockage aural his means. Tatum has never been accepted for his defense, dating aback to aerial school, but to be fair, he’s additionally never been asked to do abundant of it. He wasn’t abominable in college, averaging added than a abduct and block per game, but those numbers aren’t consistently apocalyptic of arresting adequacy and how it translates to the complexities of the abutting level. Brown’s high-end arresting awning abilities attending like a absolute complement, and Tatum has the affluence of abatement himself into Boston’s schemes. Remember, of course, that the Celtics were able to move bottomward and accept a first-round aces to get him.

Of course, a lot of acclaim goes to Stevens for authoritative this work. It’s not accessible to fit aforetime ball-dominant kids into positions that crave a array of demands on a agenda that already skewed young. Arena off Irving, one of the league’s best at axis annihilation backing into credibility absolutely helps (and he’s broadcast the brawl adequately able-bodied so far). Horford has consistently tended to accomplish his teammates bigger on both ends, and in Baynes, Boston has a dirty-work guy to advice break airy issues and accelerate Horford to the four. It’ll be analytical to see what Stevens does aback Morris comes aback to accost a block of the ability advanced minutes. The synergy amid team, arrangement and drillmaster is credible in Brown and Tatum’s successes. There are ups and downs still to come, but both youngsters will wind up bigger for the abrupt demands this division has placed on them. Anyone got any acceptable nicknames?

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