“Another heartbreaking loss” is the first thing Brad Stevens and Jaylen Brown said to the media after Luka Doncic handed the Celtics another one Tuesday night. Stevens followed up his statement and qualified it by saying, “but it feels a little bit different than it did on Sunday.”
Does it though? It was yet another end of third and fourth quarter collapse brought on by lack of focus and ability to close out games. This is becoming a constant trend of just a bad fourth quarter team.
Before this gets too harsh, the Celtics do deserve credit for fighting back at the very end of this game by putting together solid possessions on offense and actually playing with intensity on the defensive end.