Following a disheartening home loss on Tuesday night, the Celtics sit just one game away from elimination in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
It’s an unenviable position to be in for the team with the second-best record in the NBA. As expected, there is plenty of blame to go around for Boston’s current 3-2 deficit against the 76ers.
But throughout this season, most of the blame has fallen on the shoulders of first-year head coach Joe Mazzulla.
Plenty of those gripes are backed by valid examples of the Celtics’ winning ways being hampered by a lack of timeouts, sluggish in-game adjustments, and head-scratching rotations.