They left TD Garden calling their debut as positive a first impression imaginable for a group attempting to pull off a difficult feat – building trust on the fly while holding onto a playoff spot in the regular season’s stretch run.
“It was a little bit of a roller coaster game, right?” rookie Landry Shamet said after the Clippers rallied from 28 points down to beat Boston, 123-112, in the largest comeback in franchise history. “I learned a lot in a really short period of time about this team.
“You’ve got Patrick Beverley and [Montrezl Harrell], two guys that are going to play hard all the time.