Two realizations about the Celtics as they hit the All-Star break tangled up in the contradiction of having won nine of 10 games, with the loss coming in a casual, hitting-the-break-early performance against lowly Detroit Wednesday night:
· The ol’ blood-pressure monitor will no longer flash “DANGER! DANGER!” when you watch them if you can accept that some of their bad habits will never be permanently expunged.
· After some mixed early reviews, it is apparent that first-year coach Ime Udoka has done a remarkable job of getting the players to buy in to what he wants them to do, which includes stunting those bad habits (for the most part).