
Are the Celtics on the Brink of an Unexpected Knockout by the Knicks?
This season, the Celtics ratchetted up the 3-point volume even more. The Celtics led the league with 42.5 last season; that number ballooned to 48.2 this time around. They shot 5.8 more 3s per game than the team with the second-most attempts (the Warriors).
Could this be too much of what is normally a good thing? The Celtics find themselves down 2-0 to the New York Knicks in the second round after two stunning, fourth-quarter collapses.
Only six teams in NBA history have come back to win a series after losing the first two games at home, and five of those comebacks came in the first round. The 1993-94 Houston Rockets are the only team to achieve this comeback later in the playoffs, when they beat the Phoenix Suns in seven games in the Western Conference second round after dropping the first two at home.
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