Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
The Boston Celtics led the Chicago Bulls by 19 with 14:53 to play on Monday and lost by 14. The Celtics did not record a single defensive rebound in the fourth quarter, as the Bulls made 13 of their 16 field-goal attempts and corralled offensive rebounds on their three misses. It was an impossibly bad outing for a team that hoped a coaching change would revitalize a roster that reached the 2020 Eastern Conference finals.