5 rational thoughts about another Celtics loss to the Bulls

The Celtics really could’ve avoided last night’s loss. Saying should’ve avoided almost seems silly this close to the end of the season, but you know they could’ve beaten this Bulls team. Even without Jaylen Brown and Rob Williams in the starting lineup.

1. Frustrating lack of effort and course-correction

Jayson Tatum seems like an obvious choice here, and he definitely had a bad night. The difference with him was he appeared, more often than not, to be trying—it just wasn’t working. (In the 4th, after the Cs tried to make a run and the Bulls streamrolled them, he definitely took his foot off the gas.) The most obvious criticism you could levy against him was taking a whole bunch of threes…