Bulpett: Celtics must take better advantage of Wizards’ aggression

WASHINGTON -- The Celtics should have seen Game 3 coming, and not just because it was on the schedule.

They didn’t need to get a court order to conduct surveillance on the Wizards to know the opponent was ready to rumble (trademark: Michael Buffer). Hell, the Wiz had said it to every reporter in the vicinity, and probably some of the players had stood outside the Metro stop on the corner of 7th and F and told passersby they were going to 7th-and-F the Celtics up on Thursday night.

Yet the Celts seemed stunningly unprepared to deal with and even take advantage of the Wizards’ aggression in what became a 116-89 romp by the hosts, cutting the latter’s series deficit to 2-1. Oh, the Bostonians…