The Boston Celtics this season have been underwater for a long time, and some idiots are keen to publish his views on human freedom on the Internet, which has caused the team to be boycotted.
At the basketball level, this team, which used to be known for its youth + hope, has finally come to the "present tense". They are in a slump in 2021 and the rankings are always on the edge of the playoffs.
In December, they also handed over a record of 6 wins and 9 losses in a single month, when no one in the Blossoming East thought that the Celtics would be able to top the Eastern Conference with a net win score of 5.4 points in February.
In fact, from the state of the core, we can glimpse the bad state of the Celtics. Tatum, who has a career worst three-point score of 37.3 percent, plummeted to 32.6 percent this season.
Of course, this is related to the increased difficulty of his shot, but it is really not too much. In the case of peak playing time, the score does not rise but falls, and the state is good and bad.
Jaylen also regressed this season after playing a career year last season, seemingly losing the delicate maneuvers he had developed in the mid-range, and the three-point decline was not as efficient as before.
The team's new additions, Richardson and Schroeder, are also embarrassing, and the defensive end that the Celtics used to be proud of has also frequently collapsed, losing the ability to defend in the past.
But in the past ten games, the Celtics have handed over 9 consecutive wins, and although they lost by 1 point to the full-fledged Pistons, the Celtics' outstanding performance during this time is obvious to all.
The Celtics' offensive level is only in the middle of the league, and the three points are terrible. Even in the last ten games, their three points are not good. The most accurate was the exploding Gervay (52.5%) who had left the team Richardson (40%).
The key to making the Celtics competitive again is defense. Especially after the trade, the main rotation that the Celtics can do, who are the people.
White + Smart + Jaylen + Tatum + Lowe. The Green Army's closing lineup has no single-sided weaknesses on the defensive end, and White + Smart will be the best defensive backcourt in the league, perhaps not one. Jaylen is able to provide tough single defenses and Tatum has a very good assistive instinct.
Lowe, who does not jump around, is terrible, 3 hats per game, he can also defend and change defenses, even if he does not change defenses, if he finds White or Smart to block and dismantle, he will have to face their terrible squeezing cover ability.
On the bench are Horford, who is not old, Gwe, who is not bad in defense, and Tess, who is familiar with the sword. You have to play against a defensive team that has no obvious weaknesses in 48 minutes, at least in the case of the regular season, it is difficult for the opponent to break them on the offensive end.
The new white player is smart and tough, seamlessly connected to the team. When you see that he can perfectly run tactics and do co-defense without any joint training with the team, you know the value of the player's change.
With their recent outstanding play, the Celtics are already the second most effective defensively in the league and have become a force that is difficult to ignore in the East. However, their main attackers are in average condition, and the depth of the lineup is not enough (8 people in the regular season are actually not very good), which are hidden dangers.
But we're seeing that kind of defense in the Celtics again, that kind of defense that goes to the end no matter who the opponent is. And this is probably the secret of their winning.