1. This version of the Takeaways was started four different times. Each felt off, which is sort of fitting, given the Boston Celtics Game 5 performance against the Philadelphia 76ers.
Now, much like the Celtics themselves, it feels like this version is going to be flat, asking a lot of questions and waiting on answers that aren’t going to come.
At this point of the season, and this team’s arc, it’s unfathomable how they can admittedly play a playoff game with no energy. Yet here we are. And this isn’t one of those “feeling” things either.