In defense of the bench

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty ImagesDo you remember those magic eye things? It was an incomprehensible collection of shapes and colors covering an entire page, but if you looked at it long enough, at the right angle, and relaxed your eyes, it started to make sense. Eventually, you could make out the outline of a schooner or a sailboat, which may be the same thing.

The Celtics’ bench is in their incomprehensible collection of shapes and colors phase. After watching whatever that 4th quarter against the Wizards was, it really feels like none of these guys make a lot of sense (except maybe Lamar Stevens and Oshae Brissett) after a cavalcade of missed shots on offense and a procession of…