So the Boston Celtics faced the Milwaukee Bucks for the fourth and final time this year with Kadeem Allen at the other guard position alongside Jaylen Brown. Why? Well, my friends, it’s because the tail end of this season has been willed by the basketball gods to manifest itself as an endless series of gauntlets Brad Stevens must run through, with Terry Rozier and Shane Larkin adding their names to the injury report.
And…well, sometimes genius coaching ain’t enough. Not when the wound-depleted squad’s defense falters, yielding metric tons of short-range points by the opposition, and the offense isn’t strong at all.