87It’s not often that you see the Boston Celtics log the same amount of made threes as technical fouls in a quarter, but that was the case in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s 117-108 loss to the Chicago Bulls.
On a night when Boston made just 25% of its long-distance attempts, frustrations were already high. The Celtics were playing the same brand of basketball as they always do: strong effort on the defensive end, creativity and good ball movement on the offensive end, and a high volume of three-point attempts.
It just wasn’t working.
“Yeah, I think we played a high-level defensive game in the first half, and I thought we fought for great shots,” said head coach Joe Mazzulla.