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Here's some fitting season-opening thoughts, 19 of them, on your NBA champion Celtics

Four games and four wins into the new season, I bring you 19 thoughts on the defending NBA champion Celtics.

Why 19? You know why …

1. As you may recall, Jayson Tatum shot 26.3 percent from 3-point range in the Finals, didn’t shoot higher than 30.6 percent from that territory in any of the four playoff series, and apparently left his jumper stateside during his complicated Olympics experience in Paris.

So what did he do about it? He simply went back to the gym and fixed the thing, ditching that unnecessary sweeping hitch and simplifying his release.