Not really sure how definitively the Celtics earned last night’s win, but a win it certainly was. So c’mon, let’s get granular:
Brad is exceptionally right about last night’s defense.
In my recap last night, I said it seemed like the Celtics weren’t not trying on defense so much as trying and failing miserably. For the most part I stand by that, but it doesn’t change the fact of how “awful” the D was, as Brad Stevens called it.
“When we’re shorthanded like that we just have to be way better defensively,” said the Cs head coach, per The Athletic’s Jay King.