Payton Pritchard and Sam Hauser's struggles in Celtics' loss prove their value

The Boston Celtics' loss to the Houston Rockets last night wasn't fun to watch, but honestly, it wasn't that disheartening. The second night of a back-to-back on the road against one of the NBA's best teams with no Paul George? It's actually pretty impressive that they were in the game for most of it until Houston pulled away in the fourth.

Among the contributing factors to their loss was the cold shooting of Payton Pritchard and Sam Hauser (and Derrick White, to be fair). However, Pritchard and Hauser both had goose eggs from distance, shooting zero-for-10 combined. In a game Boston lost by 16 - again, it was single digits for most of the game - if six of those threes go in, the Celtics win.

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