With this Celtics team, you have to pick your poison. All five starters have career 3-point shooting percentages of 36 percent or higher. Guarding them all effectively is a task that very few teams are equipped to handle.
The Celtics’ strength is their biggest strength is their depth. Any one of their starters can go off on a given night.
So, on Saturday night, the Grizzlies decided to leave Jrue Holiday open. They packed the paint and took away some of Kristaps Porzingis’s post-up opportunities and helped when the Celtics’ wings decided to slash. They practically dared Holiday to shoot them out of their scheme.