‘This is definitely the beginning of the end of Jayson Tatum/Jaylen Brown pairing,’ says B/R’s Jake Fischer

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

Before we begin, let us be clear — change is on order for the Boston Celtics, and one way or another, it will come. But any time the team hits a rough patch, a familiar refrain of the necessity of splitting up Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum makes the rounds in the NBA media, with little to point to in terms of on-court chemistry, style of play, or off-court issues that would make such a claim have weight.

And once again we find the Celtics in such a position after a brutal West Coast swing, with Boston trying to do better than tread water with a roster full of non-shooters and finishers that is by most accounts a flawed one.

Speaking on Sirius FM radio, Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer was blunt in his assessment of the Celtics’ status quo in terms to how they might improve their current misfortune.