By almost every account, the Celtics have played their most inconsistent regular-season basketball in nearly two years. After losing 4 of 6, Derrick White called these past few weeks the “toughest stretch” of his tenure as a Celtic. Jayson Tatum has said everyone needs to look in the mirror and be better. Joe Mazzulla diagnosed the issues as “part effort, part focus.”
It’s a stretch of basketball that has called for new postgame press conference talking points, new sub-patterns — and new players in the rotations.
Amid the chaos, twenty-year-old Jordan Walsh has played the most extensive minutes of his young NBA career.