dispirited performance a result of boston defence?

[rollie mass]

are teams cracking as they face the celtics defence of avery,marcus and crowder as well as jerebkos abiliity to move laterally and switch
even kelly has improved his defence
crowder and smart along with isaiah can be so physical and undaunted by pain,avery is a pickpocket and gets up so close in your face and refs are looking to call it on moving screens
then on the offensive side
you have the constant humilation of isaiah and having to chase him through a  maze of screens with bigs that are useless and to top it off the refs are calling in his favor and he hits 90% from the line-chasing isaiah ,then being hounded by the perimiter defence-then throw in kelly spreading the floor and sumo sully-this is one team you don't want to play
this is one heck of a collection of oddballs-the last couple of weeks
i have seen things happen that are just crazy and impossible
- so please,please pick isaiah for all stars

[Kuberski33]

Better teams have handled the Celtics defense just fine. 

[rollie mass]

listen and watch wizards coach after game with press he was broken like the philly coach

[Rosco917]

Individual and team defense is our number one attribute. If there is one thing on this team, that is heading in the direction of being able to compete for a championship, it's defense and effort.

Honestly the only reason we receive little attention from it, is lack of interior defenders, and lack of a true rim protecting center. 

If the C's had a lower top 10 center, and another shooter or two. We would be able to compete with the Cavs in the east. 

[jambr380]

Individual and team defense is our number one attribute. If there is one thing on this team, that is heading in the direction of being able to compete for a championship, it's defense and effort.

Honestly the only reason we receive little attention from it, is lack of interior defenders, and lack of a true rim protecting center. 

If the C's had a lower top 10 center, and another shooter or two. We would be able to compete with the Cavs in the east.

Yeah, I don't think people will really take us seriously until they see us compete in the half-court game (on both sides of the ball), as this is especially important in the playoffs when teams slow down the game.

Amir has been a welcome addition this year and should be able to help in this department come playoff time, but it sure would be nice to have a guy like Gobert manning the middle.