'When he’s being aggressive it just opens everything up,” Jayson Tatum said White's banner night evening.
MIAMI — caught the ball at the top of the arc with , one of the ’s best defenders, standing just a couple of feet away. The passive choice would have been to swing the ball to a teammate or to dribble the ball out and continue the offense, but White shed his passive nature long ago. Already rolling about midway through the first quarter, he decided to test the power of his hot hand.
It was Holiday, not White, who needed to give up significant touches. The Celtics put White in a position to do more. That was smart. They always seem to flow better when he’s prominently involved. “When he’s being aggressive it just opens everything up,” Tatum said. “Whatever they’re trying to take away, maybe for myself, when your teammates are hitting shots and being aggressive and attacking closeouts and making plays, it really makes us very, very hard to guard.
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