Autumn and Winter Check-in Challenge
The current best team in the NBA is the Celtics, with a record of 21 wins and 6 losses, and the Celtics are still the best team in the NBA since the start of the season. With two key trades this summer, first a 220-centimeter interior Porzingis and then a championship-winning former Bucks guard Holiday in exchange for a new roster, the Celtics made the biggest changes at the expense of bench and roster depth.
The Celtic penalty area is higher, more active and wider, and the 220cm Porzingis is in place at both ends of the pitch, averaging 18 per game9 points, 68 rebounds, including 52 percent from the field4% career high. Holiday paired with White in the backcourt, two elite defensive combinations, a nightmare for all opponents, White averaged 16 points per game and shot 41 from three-point range5% is a career best and Holiday is averaging 126 points, 67 rebounds and 39 three-point shooting8%, more than 5 fewer shots per game than last season, scoring efficiency is still above the level, and the three-point shooting percentage remains a career high.
The Celtics sent away center Lowe and forward Gwe, sacrificing guards Smart and Brogdon, and the Celtics used the league's No. 1 record to prove that the Celtics' combat power and starters have increased to a considerable extent, especially the height of the penalty area, frame protection, backcourt pressing, and alignment, which can create the greatest offensive and defensive advantages and misplaced offense. The sacrificial bench and squad depth can be filled by the maturity of role players and young players in the lineup, including forward Hauser, defender Pritchard, center Cornet, and defensive engineer forwards 198cm Stevens and 201cm Brisset.
Celtic made significant changes and sacrifices to win the championship and are currently moving in a good direction. However, on December 13, the Celtics played against the Warriors, and the Celtics lost to the Warriors 126:132 in overtime on the road.
Several stats from the Celtics this year can prove that this jump shot team wants to win, and they are too hungry for outside luck and talent.
1. The Celtics currently shoot 43 three-pointers per game, the first in the league.
2. Celtics vsIn the Warriors' game, the two teams made a total of 108 three-pointers, setting a record for the most in a single game in the NBA, and the old record was 106 in 2019. Among them, the Celtics made 58 shots, hitting 17 shots, and the three-point shooting percentage was 293%。
3. The Celtics led the Warriors by as many as 17 points, but in the end they were overturned, the Green Army scored in the restricted area and lost a few rebounds, and finally planted a few key points and three-point shots in the Warriors guard Curry's decisive period.
4. The Celtics averaged 20 free throws per game this season9 times, ranked 24th, the jump shooting team offense relies heavily on three-point shots, smashing into the restricted area, making fouls, and striving for free throws is naturally less.
As for the Celtics coach Mazzulla's conservative use of soldiers, the main axis is the eight-man rotation, and even shrunk to only seven rotations, the more critical the decisive moments and games, the more he dare not play cards and use people flexibly, and tap the maximum potential of the bench, which has been the cover door of the Celtics since last season.
With the Celtics shallower, more experienced bench this year, and no reliable Super Sixth Man to back it up, Mazzulla will struggle against both competitive and tough opponents. Brogdon, the Celtics' sixth-of-the-year bench man of the year, currently plays for the Trail Blazers.
Although the Celtics are still the team with the best record in the league and one of the favorites to win the championship, the bench is not good, and the hidden concerns of extreme playing style have not been resolved.
The lead of 17 points was also overturned by the Warriors, this ball Celtics ball dribbling is too back, the key ball many empty three-point points, the basket also missed, giving the Warriors many opportunities to counterattack, but this is the challenge that the jump shooting team will encounter, especially in the playoffs, the style of play is very handy, the team is easy to fluctuate, the jump shot team can of course win the championship, but the ball dribble is greater.
The Celtics also have an elite-level defense as a backing this year, ranking first in the league in defensive efficiency, second only to the Timberwolves, Rockets, and Magic.