"Are you dragging or rushing?"
BOSTON -- The Celtics usually control the game's flow with their fast-paced offense. But in Tuesday's 89-77 loss to the Cavaliers, the game was not quite Brad's tempo. "I thought our offense was really stagnant," Celtics head coach Brad Stevens said after the game, "but for whatever reason we were in mud a little bit."
That's an understatement. The Celtics were actually sinking in quicksand.
Entering Tuesday, the Celtics had the NBA's fourth-quickest pace, but against the Cavaliers they played at their slowest pace of the year (91.