Part of what the Celtics are experiencing right now is disbelief — not in themselves, certainly, but in the hairpin way the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series against the Chicago Bulls has turned.
Heading into Game 5 tomorrow night at the Garden, the home team has yet to win in this series. Not even the C’s record-breaking series against the Bulls in 2009, when league marks for overtime games (four) and overtime periods (seven) were set, went in this direction.
“Very, very strange. I honestly don’t recall ever seeing this happen,” Al Horford said.
Said Jae Crowder: “Never saw a series like that before.