Celtics going overboard on 3-pointers
The most pressing assignment for the Celtics 18 games into the season is finding an offensive identity.
Wednesday night’s 121-114 loss to the Pistons showed the worst of the Celtics on the offensive side, let alone they allowed Detroit, a team that came in shooting 45.1 percent from the field, to make 55.2 percent of its attempts.
The Celtics launched 42 3-pointers, or 46.1 percent of their shot attempts. They converted 15 threes, and it was worse until Avery Bradley hit three consecutive in a too-little, too-late fourth-quarter run. In only 51 games in NBA history has a team attempted more than 42 3-pointers.
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