For a little more than a month now, the Celtics have been playing inconsistent basketball.
They’re 12-10 since Dec. 19. They’ve lost six of their last 12 games. They’re just one game ahead of the third place Knicks, and they’ve compiled several troubling losses to teams that were either shorthanded or sub-.500 at the time.
It seems like this team, which dominated the regular-season last year before cruising to a franchise-best 16-3 playoff record and bringing virtually the entire team back, should somehow be able to flip a switch and snap out of this prolonged funk.