塞軍雙星拆夥傳聞愈趨嚴重，塞軍GM Brad Steve出面回應

今季塞爾特人的戰績浮浮沉沉，尤其在東岸球隊今年戰力強勁的情況下，塞爾特人開季至今打出23勝、22負的戰績亦只能位居東岸第十的位置。如果東岸局勢持續下去，而塞爾特人戰績未有明顯進步，那塞爾特人極有可能今個賽季缺席季後賽。


對於戰績未如預期，矛頭直指塞爾特人雙星—Jayson Tatum以及Jaylen Brown。更開始有不少的傳聞指塞爾特人有意將這對拍檔拆夥，將其中一人交易。雖然雙子先後都於媒體面前表明想與對方繼續合作，但不少媒體都認為二人離拆夥的時候不遠了。



今日塞軍總管、兩人的前主教練Brad Steve在接受美媒《The Athletic》訪問時，主動回應兩人的交易傳聞。

Brad Steve語重心長表示塞軍現時以5成勝率卡在東岸，而時常在第四節時無法維持戰力敗陣，大家很自然會將矛頭指向隊中最好的球員。但對Brad Steve自己而言，Jayson Tatum和Jaylen Brown二人的成長現時是遠超自己預期。


Brad Steve補充：「且二人25歲和23歲，卻帶領著新一代的塞爾特人前進，這一隊塞軍更只是由去年開始，我們要繼續讓我們最好的球員為基礎去進步、建構。」他認為當大家批評他們二人時，可以將視線放眼至與他們二人同齡進入NBA的球員，就會發現Tatum和Brown是何其優秀，因此塞爾特人將繼續以他們二人去建構球隊。但他亦表示二人都要繼續進步，才能令球隊變得更好。

引用Well, I think, first of all, all that chatter is obviously when your team is .500 and you go back and forth and we haven’t found any real consistency, the obvious bit of attention usually goes to the highest-profile people and the best players. At the end of the day, I think they’re by far the least of my concerns. I’ve talked about this a ton, they are 23 and 25 and they are carrying new burdens for the Celtics. The burdens that really began last year and just continue to increase and that you just have to get used to as the best players in the building. So if you look at it kind of in totality of what those guys have done in their first five years and six years in the NBA, I think that there’s a reason to just take a step back and just remember how unique and good they are, and continue to try to find our best way as a group to help complement them. And they need to continue to improve, there’s no doubt about that. But they’ve shown no reason for anyone not to think they will.