What can Brown do for you? How about a triple-double?

Jaylen Brown was in his bag, delivering something we never saw from him - a triple-double. He had 22 points to go with 11 rebounds and 11 assists.

If you didn’t watch the Boston-New York game from the very beginning, you probably missed one of the most important moments for this team, this season.

Leading 73-60 with a few ticks on the clock in the third quarter, Jayson Tatum was in full-blown isolation mode.

He dribbled the clock to next to nothing.

Just when it seemed he was going to take a last-season, contested shot, he swung the ball to Jaylen Brown who drained a deep, deep 3-pointer to end the quarter.

That wasn’t the big takeaway.

It was the high-five exchange between Tatum and Brown moments after the play, one of the few times this season we have seen them engage each other after one assisted the other on a made shot.

It was symbolic of how most of Saturday’s win over the New York Knicks went.

The Celtics swung the ball, turning down good shots for great ones that went in frequently - 47.4 percent of the time to be precise.

Boston went from having control of the game to crushing any hopes of a New York rally, as Boston steadily pulled away for a 99-75 win.

The talk about how the J’s function together won’t go away, in large part because they have had significant roles on teams that had unexpected postseason success with them at the forefront of the team’s go-to guys.

What they are experiencing now are the challenges that so many before them, have talked about when it comes to maintaining success.

It’s one thing to be part of a team that makes a deep playoff run.

Doing so consistently, over and over again, is another matter entirely.

What we saw on Saturday was Brown and Tatum (he had a solid 19 points on 6-for-14 shooting) finding that sweet spot in which they both were impactful, but didn’t seem to be operating their play on parallel tracks.

For a change, they seemed to be on the same page, impacting the game on all levels which included them doing the toughest thing for young stars on the rise to do - make their teammates better.

Here are the Stars, Studs and Duds from Boston’s win over the Knicks.

STARS

JAYLEN BROWN: It was good to see Jaylen Brown return to the floor with 7:42 to play with Boston in firm command of the game and Brown needing just one rebound for his first career triple-double. This was Brown in his bag in a way we had rarely seen before, finding guys in their sweet spots for shot attempts. And his teammates rewarded his unselfish play by making most of them. He would finish with that elusive triple-double, scoring 22 points to go with 11 rebounds and a career-high 11 assists.

STUDS

IMMANUEL QUICKLEY: With the usual Celtics killer Evan Fournier out, someone had to pick up the slack for New York, right? Quickley didn’t torch the Celtics the way Fournier usually does his former team, but there was no mistaking Quickley’s play was one of the few bright spots for the Knicks. Quickley finished with 18 points on 7-for-11 shooting along with four assists.

JOSH RICHARDSON: While the shot-making wasn’t great, Richardson’s ability to get to the line off dribble-drives or just getting his defender out of position, was important for a Celtics team that needed a boost from its bench. Richardson finished with 17 points on 4-for-10 shooting, with most of his points coming from the line where he made seven of his eight attempts.

DUDS

JULIUS RANDLE: The more you watch Julius Randle play, the more his breakout play last season has a one-hit-wonder feel to it. Randle was a major non-factor all game before finishing with 13 points on 6-for-19 shooting from the field.

KNICKS’ FREE THROW SHOOTING: Had the Celtics pulled out a win in New York on Thursday, New York’s free throw shooting would have been a key to the defeat. Saturday’s game was yet another woeful performance by New York from the line as the Knicks shot just 40 percent (6-for-15).