Denver/Bulls are the only two decent defensive teams for till March 1st. After that the schedule will test our offense a lot more.
Also post-allstar game road trip will also be a good test. Still shocking to me how poorly the Lakers played.
Reminds me of 2007, rationalizations by people to try and discredit what the Celtics are doing. It's quite curious isn't it, that when our team is playing good defense, suddenly everyone the team plays coincidentally plays poorly against us.
I'm not sure what the call out is for.
The C's are a very good defensive team, but the Lakers are also a good offensive team. And the Lakers got us in foul trouble quickly, but then they just showed no effort, hustle, or ball movement at all after the opening stages of the game.
I think that's just a consequence of what good defensive teams do to their opponents. The observations you're making are going to be a constant through a great percentage of games, particularly when our team is playing good defense.
I just find it reminiscent of 2007, that while everyone agreed that they were a good team, there was always a "but" that followed that proclamation. They're not playing that top teams, their opponents just had a bad shooting night, etc., etc.
There was always a "the real test comes next", and when that test was passed, a new "real test" came.