Al Horford, two for two and a steal.

Now it's time to talk, Celtics.

This is the Sports Hub Celtics show with Gasper and Murray, 385, the Sports Hub.

Robertson saves it into Kevin Knox, Knox, step back, force the three.

It's an air ball, rebound Jaylon Brown, and he will dribble out the clock, and that is only fit it.

Everyone wanted to know what's going to happen when Jalen Brown returns. Well, all he did was go for 21 in 25 minutes.

And the Celtics answered their loss here to the next 15 days ago with a blowout win. The final, Boston, 128, New York 100.

I thought he was really good. I thought he played with great pace and purpose and made really good decisions. I didn't think anything was forced, which sometimes when you come off the bench, that's one of the things you try to catch up to the game quickly. He just played the right way. Welcome into the Sportsup Celtics Show, Jim Murray, Chris Casper, along with Brian Rob Boston Sports Journal, talking Celtics with you at 617, 779-098-5. That was the final call to Celtics last game. Their fourth win in a row. They're 128 to 100 blowout over the New York and Knicks, followed by head coach Brad Stevens talking about Jalen Brown in his game high 21 points. Jalen Brown coming off the bench, Chris, first time this season. And I don't think there's any coincidence that he had his best performance of the year coming off the bench, the energy apparent from the start going back and down up and down the floor. The defensive times, he did have some guys shooting threes right in his face. But offensively, a very aggressive going to the rim. I thought it was a great night for Brown, and, you know, much like our regular show. It's been a month since we've done the Sports of Celtics show, and it's been quite a tumultuous month for the Celtics. Thankfully, it feels like they've, you know, kind of got things. Right at the ship here. Yeah, right of the ship over this last stretch of, you know, this four-game winning streak.

But boy, what a difference. Because a couple of weeks ago, against this very Knicks team, it was the lowest of the low. And you had a lot of people, even the most hardcore green teamers who always see puppy dogs and rainbows when they see this team or want to talk about them saying, what the hell's going on here? how can you lose to this team and having having Trey Burke, who was in the G League not too long ago, going off, like, you know, another bum point guard, like that's happened time and again in this early season. So your thoughts on how the Celtics have looked since we lasted this show and this recent winning streak that they've been on. Well, I think they found that some consistency in chemistry. And I think it's not a coincidence that you take two guys in Marcus Smart and Marcus Morris who know their games and know their roles and insert them into the starting lineup. And it starts to click. And that just lets everybody else sort of settle in, too. I mean, the Gordon Hayward game, the 30-point game against Minnesota. I thought that was huge for his confidence. I love the way that he played in that game. And I think it takes a little pressure off of him coming off the bench. It's easier for him to get some of these shots. And maybe there's not the same level of pressure to sort of fit in, you know, with the starting group. So that's been good. And then you see the way that Jalen Brown responds. So look, by the end of the year, I think that they'll be back to that lineup. And they even had finished games with that lineup that wasn't working as a starting lineup. You know, when you look out there, the three wings, Irving and Horford. But right now, this is what's working. You're Brad Stevens. I think you have to roll with it because you you've already seated too much ground to a team like the raptors for the top seat in the east to say

well we have to worry about soothing egos now you get something that's working you have roles that

guys are accepting and performing in go with this and by the time we get to you know february and

march i promise you they will be revisiting that starting lineup. And at that point, with less pressure and more established roles and a more established pecking order, it probably will click. That's a, that's a ways away. And, you know, the egos, I think, have been a bit of an issue for Brad Stevens to deal with earlier in the season. Feels like everything's calm now, but how sustainable is that? How, you know, Brown coming off the bench. If that's what we'll see come March, again, that's a ways away, is he going to be able to keep everyone calm until that point, you think? I think so. I mean, look, if you're Gordon-Haward and you're coming off the bench, you're scoring 30 points and you're getting to play in the fourth quarter and you're finishing. I mean, what's the difference, you know?

That's what I say, what's the difference,

you know?

That's what I say, but somehow it is.

Like to be in that starting five is obviously very important to players in that league.

If the minutes in the number, you know, statistically, if everything evens out by the end of the night,

it shouldn't really matter, but it does.

It does. Yeah, I guess it does. But also, if you're Gordon Hayward coming back from that gruesome injury, I think in his heart of hearts, he knows he's not the same player right now. And he's working back to that point. And that should make it easier for him to accept that role. And I think it makes it easier for the whole team, because we've talked about this on this show. I thought that Gordon Hayward was getting his role in the starting

lineup and getting his opportunities offensively based on reputation and relationship with Brad.

Like I said, you know, Little League dad. Like my son, Gordie, little Gordy plays no matter what.

It was what it felt like to me. And I think it was, even, and I think it was hard for guys like Roseir and Brown and Tatum to sort of accept that larger role for Hayward when he hadn't really earned it yet and when they hadn't really seen it yet. And so now he's coming off the bench. I think it's a different scenario. And I think it helps. And I also think that two of your most passionate guys, two guys that will open their mouths and aren't afraid to tell teammates that, hey, you stink tonight or, hey, you played with no heart, are in the starting lineup in Smart and Morris. I think that helps, too. I think that helps police the locker room a little bit, and it sort of sets a standard for effort and what's going to happen. The other thing I want to say about this,

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