Here are the takeaways as the Celtics dropped perhaps their worst loss of the season to date 108-103 against a very depleted Timberwolves team.
1. We can’t call that loss “shocking” or “inexplicable” because it was neither. We could try “inexcusable,” but that just sounds patronizing.
“One of the poorest losses of the year,” Ime Udoka said after the game, which sums it up acceptably.
Losing to the Timberwolves — who were missing their entire starting lineup, including Karl-Anthony Towns, D’Angelo Russell and Anthony Edwards — wasn’t shocking, because this type of bizarre performance keeps happening.