Keith Smith: This R&R isn’t about a specific part of the game, because nothing remarkable happened to stand out. Unless you want to go deep on zone defense!
But that is what makes this Celtics season so special and improbable. Nothing is remarkable or stands out, but it’s all been unbelievable.
On opening night, Gordon Hayward went down. The team could have taken a “let’s re-adjust and focus on development and get after it in 2018-19” approach. Instead, they won 16 straight games.
Kyrie Irving, Marcus Smart and Daniel Theis went down in short order.