I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?
I’m assuming you went with ‘bad news.’
The bad news is that the Celtics beat themselves on Friday night.
The C’s had been playing with fire all evening long. They committed a ton of unforced errors and got away with them for the first 42 minutes of the game. Even though the turnover stats are what stands out, the C’s also displayed stretches of appalling shot selection, so much so that while the focus will naturally be on the terrible shots taken as the game drew to a close, the C’s did not really get away from a winning game plan once the game got tight: they had been playing fast and loose with a proven formula for the majority of the game.