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Jaylen and The Celtics Fumble Away Their Season

Off The Pike with Brian Barrett

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The Celtics' Zone Offense

When the Celtics were winning those three games, the Celtics had an effective field goal percentage of 59.3% against man defense and 43.3%. Denver led the league this year with a 57.3% effective fieldgoal percentage. So the Celtics were 8.3 percentage points worse than the worse offense in the NBA against the heat zone. There needed to be more of Jason Tatum getting the ball at the free throw line. That's one of the weak spots of the zone. Get it to your best player. And I feel like they needed to help them more. It just felt what it turned into was the Celtics just at times trying to shoot over the zone or Jalen Brown

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