Embarrassed.
I don't feel any embarrassment but the Celtics better after this game.
That usually happens at the professional level when you take a night off in basketball. The Celtics didn’t seem to care and the score showed with Toronto taking this one easily, 86-74.
Blaming each other for the miscommunications was hard to watch.
Doc Rivers had to call two time outs in a row late in the first quarter to scream at his team. He preached effort and emotion in the first time out. That pledge fell on deaf ears as the Celtics continued to stand around.
Toronto had the advantage early on in the first quarter with the points in the paint, 18-2. The Celtics allowed the Raptors to take 11 more first quarter shots, which makes winning any game, or quarter for that matter hard.
Showing some signs of life in the second quarter, the Celtics prevented this game form getting out of hand with better defense, led by Avery Bradley who scored the same amount of points in six minutes as Rondo h...
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