Boston’s Jayson Tatum explains why it took so long for the Celtics to truly click on both ends

The team has won eight in a row after a tough start to the 2021-22 NBA season.

While there certainly is an abundance of happiness among the Boston Celtics and their fans both, the lingering question of what it was that took so long for the team to find its way with its recent eight-game winning streak. The early, maddening inconsistency drove fans crazy on a regular basis, with late-game collapses part of the expected landscape of any given Celtics game, no matter the strength of the opponent.

Now, however, Boston has found its way on both ends of the ball and has a sense of how to use its strengths to knock teams off balance early and put them away late. Speaking to the media after the team’s most recent win over the Atlanta Hawks, star forward Jayson Tatum shared his thoughts on why this version of the team took so long to get things moving in the right direction.

“I think the reality is (that) we had a new staff, pretty much a new team,” he suggested.