Keith Smith: There is nothing positive to take from this one. Not even if you squint really, really hard. Everything was bad. The defense has completely fallen apart. The rebounding is back to being a severe weakness. And the offense is wildly inconsistent.
Some of those things can be blamed on injuries and the tightly compressed schedule. But no one in the Boston locker room will use those excuses. At least not publicly. Games against the Bulls, the injury-ravaged Heat and the Knicks are games the Celtics should win.