About a month ago, my venerable colleague Bill Sy wrote that these Celtics were hard to watch. His critique wasn’t about stats or success, but rather aesthetics. Analytical bully-ball was often very successful, but came at the cost of the beauty of ball and man movement.
Out of the quagmire of endless Celtics-watching, Bill dug out the point exactly: we don’t just want the Celtics to be good, we want them to look good too. We want to tell our kids about this team, how they soared around the court with precision and intention, unlike anything we had ever seen.