The Celtics dropped a second-straight ugly loss to the Magic on Sunday, falling 95-92 as their previously potent offense extinguished itself once again.
Here are the takeaways.
1. With apologies to the halcyon days of November, this regression was entirely inevitable.
“You thought we were just going to shoot lights out for the whole season? S—, I wish,” Jaylen Brown told reporters after the game. “It just never goes like that.”
The Celtics couldn’t find offense on Sunday. As a team, they shot 31-for-89 from the floor (34.8 percent) and 12-for-47 from 3-point range (25.