You had one job. One. Job. Beat a team widely regarded as struggling, mediocre, and directionless?the Chicago Bulls. Instead, you let a team held together by duct tape and the fading hopes of DeMar DeRozan fans walk into your house and punk you as 15-point favorites. Fifteen. Let that sink in.
You?re supposed to be title contenders, right? Jayson Tatum, MVP chatter. Jaylen Brown, fresh off a supermax deal. Porzingis, supposedly the final Infinity Stone in Brad Stevens? master plan. And yet, this squad?stacked, loaded, hyped?gets outplayed by a team that can?t even decide if it wants to tank or scrape into the play-in.
Where was the defense? Where was the heart? The energy? Oh, that?s right. It evaporated the second the Bulls showed up with the audacity to care about the game more than you did. Derrick White and Al Horford can?t save you every night, Boston. The league?s ?best duo? looked like they were scrimmaging.
And don?t even get started on the bench. Bench? What bench? Sam Hauser? Payton Pritchard? You?d have been better off calling in Celtics fans from Section 319 to give it a shot.
It?s not just the loss. It?s what it says about this team. You have championship aspirations, but games like this scream ?pretender.? Elite teams don?t drop games like this, not in this fashion, not at home, and definitely not against a team that?s as far from a threat as the Bulls are this year.
So, Celtics fans, it?s time to come to terms with this: the NBA doesn?t crown champions for potential, for big names on paper, or for being Vegas favorites. You earn it. And right now, your team looks more like a footnote in the Bucks? or Nuggets? highlight reels than a banner-raising contender.
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