Mhen the NBA is still in ‘shock’ by the terrible injury that the season has cost Ricky Rubio, the competition continues and a sporting victim is claimed: the Boston Celtics. Far from thinking that the ‘greens’ have been devastated by the covid, that their chemistry and performance are far from what is necessary to fight for the ring, and that before the Clippers, 82-91, suffered their third consecutive defeat and fourth in the last five games, the Celtics starred in a whole absurdity that above goes down in history, but into the black history of the NBA.
Against the Clippers, Boston signed a scandalous 4 of 42 on triples in one of the worst shooting performances in living memory. Asked if a bad shot is contagious in a team, Jalen Brown I replied with a: “It must be that I do.” Brown finished with 30 points, but was 13 of 36 on shooting from the field, 1 of 13 on triples. Horford bring a 0-7 to the festival, Pritchard made 0 out of 5, Langford, 0 of 3 and Richardson, 0 out of 5.
In the ridicule the Celtics made at the Garden, they set or approached some of the worst records in League history:
–The 4 of 42 in triples It is the second worst shooting performance by a team with 40 or more 3-pointers taken in a game. They lagged only 4 of 45 for the Rockets on February 28 of last season.
–Boston scores a 1 out of 18 in the fourth quarter, missing the last 15 triples he tried in the game. Those 17 failures are a negative record for a team in any period in the last 25 years.
–Boston’s 82 Points after 101 shots attempted in the game they are the worst scoring record by a team with 100 or more shots attempted since the three-point line was established in the 1976-77 season.
–The Celtics had 4 of 39 3-pointers in plays of ‘catch and shoot’, which means that it is the worst record since the statistics recorded this type of shots in the 2013-14 season. Since then there have been a total of 482 games with 35 or more triples in ‘catch and shoot’ and the Celtics’ is the worst.
Apart from the very poor image they left before the Clippers with many missed open shots And a recalcitrant inconsistency in their game, the problem for the Celtics is that they have long disappeared from any equation of favorites in the East. Clearly, by now, they are in the light of Nets, Bucks, Bulls o Heat and that they are even in danger of not even getting into the Play-In.
After last Monday’s loss to the Timberwolves, the coach Ime Udoka he asked his players for a reaction. The answer has been one of the worst long-distance shooting games in NBA memory. They are in free fall and have not yet hit rock bottom.
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