The Boston Celtics suffered a heavy 117-96 loss to their rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers, marking their worst defeat of the season. Playing five games in seven days took its toll on the players, leaving them feeling exhausted. Despite Jaylen Brown's impressive performance with 17 points, he emphasized the flatness of the team's gameplay. Jayson Tatum, while acknowledging fatigue, stressed the importance of pushing through it, indicating that such circumstances are part of the game. Brown expressed disappointment that such a significant rivalry match fell on the back end of a back-to-back.
You can give them credit, but I just think we came out flat. We just kinda looked tired. Maybe you could say it's just the game from last night going into overtime carried over.
No, I mean, it's tough. But it's part of the job, play overtime, play back-to-backs. Sometimes you gotta travel. So no excuses.
It is tough. Lakers-Celtics is one of the biggest matchups. Ideally, you wouldn't want that to be on the back of a back-to-back and coming off of a overtime game.
They just had more energy than us tonight. We were flat and you could see it.
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