The Boston Celtics found themselves during a shocking late-game surge that produced a 103-94 win over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday.
And it's that version of the Celtics, that collective, frenzied, defensively dialed-in iteration, that must show up more often if Brad Stevens' team is going to stabilize this up-and-down season.
In other words, the chaos needs to be consistent.
Boston stole the ball from Indiana—just flat-out took it away—four times in the final 2:33 of the fourth quarter, turning every one of the thefts into buckets on the other end. And when the Celtics weren't relieving Indiana of the rock, they were forcing hopeless shot attempts.
The truly unusual 12-0 run Boston used to close the game left observers like Bleacher Report contributor Brian Robb awestruck:
Jae Crowder was right in the middle of it all, and he was pretty impressed, too:
Paul George led the Pacers with 23 points, but he succumbed to some of his hero-ball tendencies against Crowder, which is rarely a good idea. George coughed the ball up to him at t ...
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Boston Celtics Embracing Chaos and Wednesday NBA Takeaways
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