Alex Barth

Nobody can beat them.

You can't hit...

every three-pointer you take, and there's just going to be nights where you're cold.

And their inability to adjust off of that, they've struggled to adjust defensively, too.

That's a little more personnel-driven.

I don't know that they have the big man to contend with Joel Embiid.

Nemeth Keita has not had a good series, and he gets banged up last night, but...

It's a disappointment.

This is a series that they should have won, that they were in position to win.

They were up 3-1, and they're the better basketball team.

And in the NBA, more than any other sport, you just don't get upset in the playoffs.

So I know that there's some 8-1 series going on that have been dramatic, but this would be a pretty big disappointment, especially after they got bounced by a Knicks team last year that, again, they were supposed to and should have beat.

It's very split, and there are some Celtics fans, and it kind of goes along age lines, like the younger ones, the ones who are more in analytics, will stand by Zula ball, some older fans not so much.

I think for me...

If that's your, like you said, if that's your big right hook, if that's your main game plan, by all means, because it can be so effective when it's on.

What I worry about is, again, it's not going to be on every night, and I think what great teams do, whatever their primary game plan is,

you have to have something else to fall back on when that's taken away or when you don't have it.

What's your plan B?

What's your plan C?

And under Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics had never really had that.