Jayson Tatum getting back to "Top-5 Tatum" Status? No Such Luck Against the Blazers

Jayson Tatum's luck when it comes to getting back on track shooting isn't any better on St. Patrick's Day. But the good news for Celtics fans? They got the win, their fourth in the last five games.

PORTLAND, ORE. – Save for a few past-their-playing prime Boston Celtics assistant coaches, the only squeaky shoes heard at the end of the Celtics’ morning shoot-around, belonged to Jayson Tatum.

Being the last player to leave the gym, is nothing new for Tatum.

But like most shooters, periods of below-average shooting aren’t discouraging as much as they are a reminder to double-down on the good habits that got you to the league. 

The Celtics came into Friday’s game against Portland with a pedestrian 6-5 record since the All-Star Break, in part because of Tatum becoming a more inefficient scorer.

Of the 10 games Tatum has played in since the ASB, he shot 40 percent or less in five of them which includes shooting just 12-for-38 (31.6 percent) from the field in Boston’s last two games.

And so that’s where we find Tatum, back in the lab, mixing, matching, concocting what he hoped would be the perfect elixir to his shot-making doldrums.

And the result?