I'll just leave this here.
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The C's got the 7th best net rating in the league during their last 15 games, yet we are 7-8 in that stretch.
kinda makes you think that the efficiency stats are failing to capture something important about what's wrong with the Celtics
Not really, you just need to do some legwork and thinking to parse what they're trying to tell us.
These efficiency stats are reflecting our
capacity - we have the ability to absolutely pound on teams and beat any team on any given night, but our massive coaching disadvantage routinely gives teams a way back into games that we should win. Now this would also mean that these metrics are also
underselling what this team is capable of (because us being able to hold onto our leads would give us even better numbers): as I have said, this is a squad with top-level defensive personnel and above average attackers, and the fact that we're below average on offence and great but not truly elite on defence is an indictment on the people responsible for unlocking the talent we have on the team.
