The Celtics narrowly lost to the Bucks 131-125 in overtime on Tuesday, allowing Milwaukee to draw within a half-game in the standings.
Here are the takeaways.
1. We’ll start where we should: with the absences. The Celtics were without Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart and Al Horford on Tuesday. Robert Williams played limited minutes. The Bucks were entirely healthy, with the exception of Bobby Portis. Tuesday’s game looked like it would be an unserious contest.
Except that it wasn’t unserious, because Malcolm Brogdon, Blake Griffin, Grant Williams, Mike Muscala, Sam Hauser and the increasingly emergent Derrick White took it very seriously.