Marcus Smart on Bucks’ 17 offensive rebounds: “we beat ourselves”

In a loss, there’s always one stat that sticks out. For Boston in a Game 5 heartbreaker, it was offensive rebounds. Seventeen of them, with one at the very end that perfectly illustrates the Celtics having the game in their hands and letting it slip out of their fingers.

With the Celtics up two with 14.2 seconds to play, Grant Williams fouled Giannis Antetokounmpo and sent him to the line for two free throws. Antetokounmpo would hit the first to neatly cap off a 40-point night, but the second clanked off the right side of the rim.

Well, and then this happened:

In a quarter where the Celtics would give up nine second chance points (20 for the entire game on those 17 offensive rebounds), it was…