1. Six straight wins. Six straight wins by an average of 20.5 points per game. If you prefer to widen the sample a touch, it’s eight wins in the last nine games by an average of 25.6 points per game.
Yes, the Boston Celtics are beating bad teams. But if you dismiss their wins as unremarkable because of the opponent, you are missing two key factors.
First, the Celtics were regularly losing to bad teams earlier in this season. Sometimes in embarrassing fashion, lest we forget the Minnesota loss.
They’ve reversed that now.
Second, but no less important, Boston isn’t just beating these bad teams.