They never learned. And they never adjusted.
Not the rookie coach. And not the core of players who have so much more big-game experience than their haphazard performances under the brightest lights suggest.
Celtics
And so the Celtics season ended Monday night in frustrating and all-too-familiar fashion — with their worst habits rearing up at a moment when they should have been at their best.
Jimmy Butler scored 28 points, series-long nuisance Caleb Martin scored 26, and the Heat defeated the Celtics, 103-84, in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.