How Celtics Exposed Ever-Shifting Narrative In Two-Game Span

Tuesday night, when the Boston Celtics attempted to continue their 11-game winning streak against the Cleveland Cavaliers, they ran

into their worst fear.

With nine minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Boston had built a comfortable 22-point lead against Cleveland. However, Boston

inexplicably fell apart horrifically, reminding us of a few moments during last year’s playoffs.

Since the 1997–98 season, the Celtics has a 364-0 record when leading by 20 points or more in the fourth quarter. Star Donovan

Mitchell was out for the Cavaliers, and for the previous three quarters, Boston’s defense had kept them to fewer than thirty points.

In most cases, as their NBA-best (48-13) season has demonstrated, the Celtics would (and should) cruise to victory in such situation.

Rather, Boston shot themselves out of a 12th consecutive victory and, despite still leading the Eastern Conference by 7.5 games over

the second-seeded Milwaukee Bucks, awoke the following morning to a barrage of irrational outbursts.”They are turning into the

Buffalo Bills,” Colin Cowherd of FS1 asserted on “The Herd” on Wednesday. “.. Unexpectedly, the Eastern Conference is not very good.

With the Dame (Lillard)-Giannis (Antetokounmpo) combination, their defensive play has regressed. Joel: Forget about them; Embiid

got injured. The Knicks? strictly limited in terms of attack. While (Julius) Randle has been, (Jalen) Brunson is hurt. The Cavs are

youthful, cool, and attractive. Orlando, too? Please give me a moment.Boston has no say in how competitive their conference is. The

Celtics have performed better than other Eastern teams. Boston has a 15-6 record against Western Conference opponents; most

recently, they destroyed the Golden State Warriors in a historic 140-88 thrashing on Sunday. Now, that doesn’t necessarily portend

the Celtics’ performance should they advance to the NBA Finals, but then again, neither does a 105-104 loss to Cleveland in March.

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