The Boston Celtics just returned from their longest road trip of the season, a five game west coast swing that tested them against some of the Western Conference’s best teams in a grueling eight day stretch. Although they managed to post just a 2-3 record over the course of the trip, there were many positive takeaways to be had despite plenty of adversity thrown their way.
They lost those three games by a combined seven points, two of them at the hands of the class of the Western Conference in the Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets. They managed all that without the services of Gordon Hayward.