After a Nuggets turnover, the Celtics had a two-on-one breaking towards the basket, with Jaylen Brown handling the ball and Horford trailing behind him. When the defender committed to Brown, he tossed the ball up for Horford to finish.
In their last outing without Holiday and Porzingis, Boston decided to start Sam Hauser with Luke Kornet, but on Sunday they started Al Horford alongside Kornet, going with a bigge
When it comes to the help they give their team, it's fair to compare star Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum to Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic. Or at least that is the position of Celtics teammate Al Horford,
The Celtics got little from their bench in the Cavaliers loss, so the depth guys made up for it with big contributions in the Nuggets win.
Boston had two bigs — Al Horford and Luke Kornet — in the starting lineup with center Kristaps Porzingis sidelined by an illness, but Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla’s approach to containing Jokic was centered around limiting everything around the Nuggets star.