To put it bluntly, last night’s Boston Celtics season opener against the Philadelphia 76ers did not play out like an ideal first game for a championship aspiring team. Overmatched and overpowered, the team looked like a work in progress, as opposed to a projected top-5 team in the Eastern Conference.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t the team’s defense, nor their center rotation, that was the main culprit for their demise. In fact, those may have been two of the lone bright spots that came out of the contest.
One could point to their lackluster shooting performance, as Boston only shot 37% from the field and a messily 27% from deep.