Mercifully, the west coast road trip has come to an end.
On Friday night, stop number five on the Pacific tour was in Phoenix against one of the NBA’s premier teams: the 20-4 Phoenix Suns. Without their two best young players in Devin Booker and DeAndre Ayton, this was a chance for the Celts to close out the road trip with a 2-3 record.
Instead, cold shooting (4-26 from 3) and an inability to create for each other (13 assists on 35 baskets) made the Celtics offense appear stuck in the mud, not the first time it has with Jaylen Brown out of the lineup.