Bored, so I'm re-watching the last 5 minutes of Celtics-Nuggets: the Celtics' offense was actually really good down the stretch, and they just had some incredibly bad luck.
The possessions prior to the final one were:
- Tatum blocked by the rim on a shot he makes > 90% of the time
- wide, wide open Horford pick-and-pop 3
- uncontested FT-line fadeaway for Tatum
- Jaylen gets fouled, misses both FTs
- open Jaylen 3 off the OReb, missed
- open DWhite 3 off another OReb, missed
- Tatum dunk
- open DWhite corner 3, missed
- KP called for loose ball foul on rebound
- Tatum missed transition layup
Literally every possession was a quality look, from all 3 scoring levels, with very varied offense.
The talking head takes about Celtics late-game problems, or how Denver's defense stepped up in crunchtime, are complete garbage and results-oriented. The Celtics ran great offense, got good, diverse looks, and missed ~all of them.