CelticsBlog · Apr 24, 2021
Sloppy play buries shorthanded C’s: 10 Takeaways from Celtics-Nets
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images1. Could the Celtics have beaten the Nets? Yes. Should the Celtics have beaten the Nets? That’s a more complicated answer. On one hand you can say Brooklyn was missing two of their top-three players and Kyrie Irving shot terribly. That would lead to an answer that Boston should have won.
On the other hand, the Celtics were missing two of their top-three players too. While Jayson Tatum shot it well, Boston doesn’t have nearly the depth the Nets have. That makes winning games like this a difficult proposition.