We had our quick reactions to the Celtics’ down-to-the-wire loss against the Bucks last night; now we gather to look at the whole bloody affair with more nuance. Let’s ramble:
Lack of ball movement reared its ugly head again.
The common thread in many Celtics losses—not just last night, or even solely within this season, but throughout the whole Brad Stevens era—is the players’ failure to move the ball well on offense, for one reason or another.
The Celtics have just 8 assists on 30 baskets. That's a more telling stat than the ridiculous imbalance in the three-point shooting.