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Game Three Shows Importance of Boston’s Second Unit

While a lot of the emphasis is being put on the new small ball starting unit that Brad Stevens put forward in game three, the second unit may have been even more important for the Boston Celtics. The most important minutes of the game were when the Celtics held off Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade at the beginning of the fourth, with both Isaiah Thomas and Al Horford on the bench.

Chances are their absence for that long in the fourth will be an anomaly. It is hard to imagine that Stevens planned to have them sit that long.