{"id":221,"date":"2026-07-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/celtics-tatum-clutch-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:26:47","slug":"celtics-tatum-clutch-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/celtics-tatum-clutch-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatum owns the clutch again, and Boston knows it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best fourth-quarter scoring margin in the conference, and a closer shooting 47% on contested pull-ups after the eight-minute mark.<\/p><p>The medical staff will re-evaluate in two weeks, but the timeline matters less than the structure around it. Minutes restrictions, back-to-back management and a deep rotation give the training staff room to be conservative.<\/p><p>What the box score will not show is how the defensive assignments flipped after halftime. Switching every screen took away the rhythm three-pointers that had kept the visitors afloat, and the open looks simply dried up.<\/p><p>The advanced numbers tell the same story from a different angle. Since the calendar turned, the lineup&#8217;s net rating has climbed into the league&#8217;s top five, driven almost entirely by transition defense and a sharp cut in turnovers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best fourth-quarter scoring margin in the conference, and a closer shooting 47% on contested pull-ups after the eight-minute mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/courtside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}