Throughout most of the first three quarters of the Boston Celtics 103-84 loss to the Denver Nuggets, the Celtics were able to keep the game close despite shooting just 28% from beyond the arc and 35% from the field overall. But the Nuggets broke the game open vs. a tired Boston squad to secure the victory on their own home court of Ball Arena this past Wednesday (Feb. 25) night.

After the loss, star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown weighed in on what went sideways for his team in the defeat, saying “I think we just had a tough time tonight converting. I thought we got a lot of great looks, some open catch issues, and we just didn’t convert.”

“So, move on to the next tough night shooting the ball,” he added. “The physicality was pretty good tonight, but I thought we just didn’t convert on the offensive end, that spilled over the defense a little bit.”

“Every night is an opportunity to learn, so definitely some takeaways from tonight,” said Brown, taking a positive tack from the loss. “They’re a good team. I thought we put ourselves in a good position. We’ve just got to convert.”

“I feel like offensively, I think we had like 84, 85 points, but I thought we had a bunch of open looks. And we’ve just got to stick them and trust our guys to shoot it confidently. And then also, I think we gave them a couple more extra chance points than we would have liked on the glass. But other than that, I thought we competed.”

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