While the Celtics have answered a whole bunch of the questions that left pundits leery at stages of this surge, there are still queries that remain.
The Celtics are 12-19 in crunch-time games. They rank 25th in crunch-time offensive rating at a grizzly 101.3. They’re 24th in net rating at minus-8.1. Too often in close games this team reverts back to bad isolation habits and abandons the ball-moving ways that have been the key to their recent offensive explosion.Maybe it won’t matter. The Celtics have so routinely built 20-plus point leads lately that they don’t even have to sweat the fourth quarter early in the postseason.
White is taking almost exclusively open looks. Only one of his 77 total 3-point attempts since arriving had a defender closer than 4 feet. But he’s 6-of-25 shooting on all"open" looks and 12 of 51 on all"wide-open" looks . As Payton Pritchard surges and Grant Williams holds down his Corner Office, getting White going is a luxury for a bench unit that will often be aided by having Jayson Tatum on the floor with them. White can still impact the game without making shots but his ability to keep defenses honest with that shot could be crucial at times in the postseason.When the Celtics are whole, they have been world-beaters.
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