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Isaiah Thomas: "I remember last year, dudes didn't like playing against us."
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Isaiah Thomas: "Our defense isn't where we wanted to be but that's been the story of our whole season."
Only took these guys half a season to realize this. Perhaps this was the embarrassment we needed. I've been saying that for awhile now, though.
It just ticks me off, because we're just simply not playing up to our potential. If we could just up our defense to somewhere even close to what it was last year, then I think we're clearly the second best team in the East. But we've maybe played one or two games all season with the type of defensive intensity that we played with all last year.
Yeah, honestly though I don't expect the defense to go back to that same intensity as last year.
They can definitely improve, but it just seems this team lost its "edge" over the course of this season.
I think mainly because last season, no one really had any expectations for the C's (people though they would be like a 40 win team, not 48), but now with Horford + Brown added, people thought the C's could win 50 games, grab a 2-3 seed, etc., so expectations were higher and the C's felt confident (though evidently, a little too confident).
When they played like underdogs last season.. they were fierce and hustled on defense, as if trying to prove a point.