There’s definitely something about this game being the last of a four-game roadtrip — during which the Golden State Warriors were on the road for a week — that contributed to them being blown out of Boston by the league-best Celtics.
There’s also the missing-two-starters part, Steph Curry being hobbled with knee bursitis, and there’s definitely the part about the Warriors plainly being not in the same tier as the team that has lost only 12 games out of 60 played, is first in the league offensively (122.6 offensive rating), third in the league defensively (111.