{"id":48830,"date":"2023-11-21T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\/2023\/11\/21\/23970436\/lessons-from-boston-celtics-charlotte-hornets-this-cannot-happen-jayson-tatum-jaylen-brown"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:00:00","slug":"lessons-from-celtics-hornets-this-cannot-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/lessons-from-celtics-hornets-this-cannot-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Celtics-Hornets: this cannot happen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Celtics had a lot of excuses built into Monday night\u2019s loss, but none of it explains giving the game away in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n

Luke Kornet +26.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the only one stat you need to know to understand how positively pitiful that loss was for the Celtics<\/a>. I could talk about how four Celtics starters combined for 3-25 from beyond the arc, how Jrue Holiday turned the ball over seven times, or how the Celtics shot a prehistoric 64 percent from the free-throw line. But that just doesn\u2019t do this loss justice.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Kornet serving up a team-high in plus\/minus in a game they lost by three hits like a fresh cup of curdled milk on Christmas morning. Kornet was subbed out for Jaylen Brown with 6:38 left in the fourth quarter, and did not reenter the game. At that point, the Celtics were up by eight.<\/p>\n

And from that moment on, the Celtics executed a generationally pitiful attempt to close out the game, torpedoing the crunch-time five\u2019s plus\/minus numbers as LaMelo Ball cashed bucket after bucket to hand the Celtics by far their worst loss of the year.<\/p>\n

Please direct any and all excuses to the excuses box, because I\u2019m not going to sit here and sugarcoat it. The Celtics made every mistake in the book, and dusted off their tried-and-true methods of losing games. Three-point shooting? Terrible. Turnovers? You know it. Horrific decision-making? Book it.<\/p>\n

Oh, sorry. Was it the final game of a road trip, second night of a back-to-back, without Derrick White or Al Horford? Was it, per chance, a trap game? <\/em>Nope, not today. File all that away in the excuse box, which will be thrown into the ocean along with this game following a 24-hour grace period. <\/p>\n

Because an excuse is not the same thing as a permission. Sure, all of that explains why<\/em> the Celtics lost, but under no circumstances does that make the complete buffoonery that lost this game okay. <\/p>\n

I can tell you exactly when I said the words \u201cwe are going to lose this game\u201d to the four friends that were watching this train-wreck-in-slow-motion alongside me. It was with 1:10 left in the fourth quarter, when Jaylen Brown was forced into a heavily contested three at the end of the shot clock, with the Celtics nursing a four-point lead.<\/p>\n

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