The Boston Celtics are coming off a season when they were the best defense in the league, where they could only consistently win games with a dominant effort on that end. Defense has always been the identity of the Celtics and you saw the importance of that more than ever last year.
With defense, the Celtics can make up for anything. It does not matter what kind of struggles they are having, when the Celtics played defense well they were able to stay alive in a game, and compete with the best teams in the league.