The Boston Celtics have gone 12-8 for the reason that starting of December and Joe Mazzulla’s staff has struggled on each side of the ground in current weeks. They have been unable to guard the rim (or the glass), have struggled to guard the three-point line and been cold and hot on offense.
On Sunday, Boston clawed its solution to a one-point win over the New Orleans Pelicans — a staff with the worst report within the Western Convention. The Celtics shot 29.5 p.c from three-point vary throughout that sport, resulting in a rise of their makes an attempt on the rim.
Contemplating the Celtics entered the season with expectations of another dominant run towards the NBA Finals, it is comprehensible why the fanbase is barely disenchanted with how the staff is taking part in proper now. And as Mazzulla came upon throughout Sunday’s postgame information convention that disappointment has discovered its means into the media overlaying the staff.
“Crucial factor is profitable the sport and making the required performs, even when issues aren’t going properly, so to talk,” Mazzulla mentioned. “So, each season brings on totally different challenges, each sport brings on totally different alternatives. And, the state of affairs that we’re in now’s — we received to simply struggle to win…What are we, the third-best staff within the league proper now? Which isn’t nice, however look, it feels like a morgue in right here. And that’s the way it must be.”