What ails this team is the offense; they need 90 points or it's a loss...

[greenpride32]

MIA 77 L
CHI 81 L
ATL 83 L
*IND 100 L (15 pt 4th Q)
*MIN 85 W (no Love, T-Wolves shot 37%)
CHA 81 L
MEM 87 L
*NOR 89 W (down big early, but able to come back)
HOU 77 L
NJN 79 L
*MIL 87 W (Bucks shot 31%; 90 broken if starters didn't rest)
PHI 86 L
*LAC 100 L (down big early; 37pt 4th Q not enough)

I'm using 90 as a magic number.  Above is a list of games where we scored under 90 during our recent down stretch; win or loss; most of them being losses.  There are a few game were we broke 90 and still lost, but there were some extreme point swings in those games.

Basically this team can't score.  For a team that takes so much pride in defense, if you only allow 85 points in a game ( which is great and far and a way better than the #1 ranked defense); but can only score 79 you still lose. 

What we've seen:

*Rondo assist numbers way down.
*Ray, Paul, KG, BBD all having miserable shooting nights (probably helps attribute to the former).
*Ray not getting many shots at all; he's the team's second leading scorer; and we have a great record when he gets over 18.
*More bad turnovers than usual.  An inexplicable number of lazy passes, passes way out of reach or out of bounds, home run passes into turnovers.
*No points from the bench.  BBD is our most reliable bench scorer and he seems to be struggling since return from injury.
*Do you ever recall a stretch where there have been so many 24 second clock violations or forced shots?

I'm not even going to mention rebounding because let's face it, that's been a weakness of ours for the past 3 years; it's not something unusual for this team.

So what is going on?  I think teams are:

-playing off Rondo
-doubling Ray
-playing for the pass

Rondo has been taking more jumpers lately because teams are inviting him to; there isn't a person within 5 feet of him for most of his jumpers.
Without a defender glued to Rondo, they can afford to double and trap Ray.  Remember all those post game interviews where Doc says he's amazed at how open Ray is; maybe other teams finally listened.
Just in general a player off Rondo clogs up all the passing lanes. 
BOS likes to move the ball on offense; they don't play isolation basketball.  Perhaps teams are just playing for the pass especially early in the shot clock and when the player is not in a good shooting area.  This would explain a lot of bad turnovers where it look like a BOS player is simply handing the ball to the other team.   

[pearljammer10]

Yeah I dont understand the offense right now. Too many jump shots and not enough penetration to the basket. Shaq isnt in there so no one is really being double teamed at all. Teams have figured us out lately and we havent really made an adjustments.

[Assassin70]

We are primarily a jump shooting team.

That is fine when the ball moves and people are getting and hitting open shots.

But looks putrid when the ball doesn't move we get the shot clock to 2 and Baby and Rondo have to take a shot and miss it.

Besides PP who gets to the line on a regular basis?

Even when we do drive we either miss and don't get the foul called or get it blocked.  That has been the Celtics MO all year.

Are there games where this is not the case of course.  But the most of the loses show exactly what I mentioned above.