5 rational thoughts following the Celtics' wacky win over the Warriors

LATE NIGHT TRAP GAMES MAKE ME FEEL SPACEY. Like a lighthouse keeper guzzling turpentine for its alcohol content. The Boston Celtics felt a little spacey themselves early in last night’s contest with the Golden State Warriors and let Alec Burks and Eric Paschall smack them silly, but eventually sobered up enough to secure their 10th straight win, 105-100. Let’s look at some key aspects:

The slow-start issue with this team is A Thing; it isn’t A Problem (yet)

Almost all of these games have shown early-game struggles for the Celtics, and all but one of them are wins, albeit narrow ones in several cases. (In fact, the team’s sole loss actually didn’t start poorly; they were pretty solid for the…