Coming into the season, much of the Celtics’ concern was on the defensive side of the ball and those fears were well founded. This was a team that, after all, lost arguably their two most important defensive anchors in the front court and seemed to have a real lack of rim protection. With Al Horford going off to Philadelphia and Aron Baynes shipped to Phoenix, Boston started the season down two of the main reasons why they finished with the first and seventh best defenses in the two previous seasons.
But now, here in March and nearly 60 games in, it’s clear that those qualms were wildly misguided as this Celtics team has not skipped a beat on defense.