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Manchester United has found a new replacement for 24-year-old Brazilian player Antony SantGilbert Arenas says Celtics are ‘irrelevant’ After the Lost today and Raptors have more bragging rights over past 20 yearsosOn an individual level, the Celtics’ shooting numbers are pretty rough. Sam Hauser finished 2-for-10 from deep. Kristaps Porzingis was 1-for-4. Tatum and Brown were both 2-for-7. Payton Pritchard was 1-for-5.
Meanwhile, the Hawks outscored the Celtics 15-6 in points off turnovers, which was notable because they actually turned the ball over slightly more than the Celtics (7-5).
Mazzulla noted to reporters afterward that the Hawks challenged the Celtics in the postseason last year the same way: 3-pointers, points off turnovers and offensive rebounds. Perhaps the best way we can sum up Monday’s game is that the Celtics lost a game they should have won which will have absolutely no bearing on their future.
2. What will have a bearing on the Celtics’ future is whether or not they make their 3-pointers.
The Hawks, to steal Mazzulla’s terminology, won the margins significantly on Monday – most notably from the 3-point arc where they hit 18-for-36 (50 percent) to the Celtics’ 11-for-38 (28.9) percent. The second half was particularly brutal – Svi Mykhailiuk hit the only triple of the half as the Celtics went 1-for-15 while the Hawks hit 11-for-19 as they stormed back. That said, the loss does look bad in light of the Celtics’ reputation, especially given their late-game struggles offensively. They went stagnant down the stretch, and both Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown ran unsuccessful your-turn-my-turn iso sets. The Celtics will take their lumps on social media, which they deserve. If you can’t hold off the Hawks – who are 31-39 – and you lose once every three weeks, you have to hold the occasional L and all the concern trolling about the team that comes with it.
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