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The Celtics went 4-of-42 from 3.
The Celtics went 4-of-42 from the 3-point line as they lost a home game to the Clippers. The song is called "2:03."
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The NBA is a make-or-miss league, according to an old adage. The LA Clippers' victory over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night was proof that was true.
Boston, which has lost three in a row and four of its past five games, had one of the worst shooting performances of the season, shooting 4-for-42 from 3-point range.
Jaylen Brown, who scored 30 points but shot 13-for-36 for the game, was asked if shooting good or bad can be contagious. I thought we had a lot of open looks.
We got the ball after moving it. I know they played zone, but we got a lot of great shots. There are wide-open looks. They didn't go down.
The numbers back him up. Here is a quick run through the gory details.
The Celtics' shooting performance from 3-point range was the second-worst in NBA history, trailing only the Houston Rockets' 4-for-45 performance last season.
Boston missed its final 15 3-pointers of the game in the fourth quarter. The 17 misses in the quarter were the most by any team in a single quarter over the past 25 seasons.
Boston's 81 points on 101 field goal attempts is their lowest point total in a game with at least 100 field goal attempts since the 3-point line was introduced.
Boston's performance on catch-and-shoot 3-pointers is the worst of any team since Second Spectrum began using tracking data. Boston's game Wednesday night was the last of 482 such games.
Boston's actual effective field goal percentage was 36.63 and its expected effective field goal percentage was 56.68, which was the worst mark any team has had this season.
Brown's 36 field goal attempts without an assist are the most by any player since former CelticAntoine Walker took that many shots in a loss to the Wizards in 1998. Brown had eight potential assists, which was tied for the most of any player this season, in a game in which he finished with no actual assists.
The Celtics got a lot of wide-open, quality shots and missed a lot of them.
The fact that Boston has dropped back-to-back games to teams ravaged by injuries and COVID-19 doesn't change. The Clippers were so shorthanded that they had two players arrive in Boston hours before the game, including James Ennis, who played against them in a win over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday in Los Angeles.
The Boston Celtics are in a three-way tie for 10th in the Eastern Conference with the Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors. It left them searching for answers as to how to snap out of a rut that has sent a positive performance during the hardest month of their season careening in the opposite direction.
"I think we got a lot of open looks despite what the statistics would say," Brown said. I don't think we were forcing shots. I thought we had a lot of open looks.
We wanted to respond from last game. A lot of those guys were ready to fight, but we just came up short.
We came up short.
Ime Udoka said there were some positives to take away from Boston's performance in Monday's loss to the shorthanded Wolves.
Boston grabbed 21 offensive boards and took 20 more shots in a win over the Clippers. The Celtics held the LA Clippers to a measly 91 points, and they only committed eight turnovers.
A bad shooting night, one that sinks Boston further down the East, is another disappointing night in a season full of them.
Udoka said that they should win the game because they get 20 more shots and hold the team to 91 points.
Grant Williams said that he thinks shooting is something we have to be better at.
