Celtics’ Playoff Fate Hangs by a Thread: Can They Escape a Shocking Collapse Against the Knicks?
For the Boston Celtics, last season’s swoosh-worthy barrage of threes was nothing short of a championship symphony — a relentless rain of shots that turned defenses into frantic calculators trying to solve an impossible equation. But now? The tune’s gone sour. Imagine betting on a laser-focused sharp-shooter who suddenly can’t find the rim from 23 feet. For two games straight, the Celtics have watched Big Leads turn into heartbreakers, thanks largely to a bewildering drought from beyond the arc. Could their once lethal three-point obsession be morphing into a liability? When you’re chucking nearly 50 threes a night and barely hitting a quarter of ’em in crunch time, it’s hard not to wonder if the bubble’s burst on Boston’s shoot-first ethos — or if there’s a deeper trouble brewing under those green jerseys. One thing’s crystal clear: if the Celtics don’t recalibrate, their hard-fought title defense might be over before it really got going. LEARN MORE.
For the second straight game, the Celtics blew a big lead by missing a ton of shots. Are the 3s the reason the Celtics are losing?
The 2023-24 Boston Celtics were champions for a lot of reasons. But one of them was their 3-point volume.
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