The Boston Celtics are back among the NBA’s teams with winning records after their 122 – 120 close road win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday, sitting sixth overall in the Eastern Conference standings at four wins and three losses.
And while the wins have come against a mixed bag of opponents, so have the losses, Sunday’s contest an example of precisely how narrow Boston’s path to victory has been. In their first game of the two teams’ pandemic-necessitated regular season series, the Celtics dropped the ball and lost 96 – 93 after a slow early start and late inaccuracy doomed them. In this most recent contest, Boston played much harder and consistently, shot well — and still escaped a team that was 0 and 4 when they first met by the skin of their teeth.
A look at the highs, lows and works in progress ought to help make what ails the Celtics clearer.
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— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) January 4, 2021