Just noticed something brutal about the Celtics defense. They help out way too much instead of just playing man to man. This Help defense worked a few year back but its very old now. More teams have caught on & we also have gotten older & slower trying to help then get back. Look how Rondo & Pierce are getting buried 2nite so far. It happens in all of our games especially when a team has good shooters.
We got lucky last night playing a bad shooting team that missed a lot of good open shots. This won't happen on most nights. No wonder we got killed on the west coast road trip. I haven't watched those games yet, the boxscore alone from my phone turned me off.