With heads bowed and shoulders shrugged, the Boston Celtics trudged to the visitor’s locker room of the Chase Center without any shred of command. They hadn’t recorded a made field goal since there were roughly three minutes remaining in the second quarter. And though the Warriors had similar results down the stretch of the second, they managed to score twice, both within the final 1:11 of the first half, and grasped what appeared to be all the momentum. It was as though the lead was 10, or 20, or 29, like it grew to later in the game.
Good things typically come in threes. For the Celtics, it’s much more complicated.
