1. Well…that was a tough loss. Not because the Dallas Mavericks are a bad team. They aren’t. They are a lot like the Boston Celtics. They struggled early on, but then locked in on defense and have really taken off in 2022.
What made it a tough loss was that it was Kevin Garnett Day. With Garnett in the house, you wanted to see the Celtics pull one out. Alas, the best laid plans of mice and men…
The good news? Boston played with plenty of effort in a defensive battle that was a throwback to the KG days. The bad news? The offensive execution was poor.
And it wasn’t just down the stretch, although that wasn’t great either. It was all night long. Boston had just 16 assists (on 33 made baskets) in the game. The ball and player movement weren’t really there, as Dallas’ trap-and-recover system threw the Celtics off their game.
In the end, it was a game where most Celtics played poorly. And they were right there until the end. A loss is a loss, but this is more of a…
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