Hornets Head Coach Explains Celtics’ Remarkable Success This Season

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Maybe no NBA workforce misplaced extra expertise final offseason than the Boston Celtics, who parted methods with Jrue Vacation, Kristaps Porzingis, Luke Kornet and Al Horford. In addition they misplaced Jayson Tatum to damage.

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And but, they’ve nonetheless been among the finest groups within the league this yr, going 41-21 with the NBA’s second-best internet score.

Whereas many followers and media members had been caught off guard by the Celtics’ success, quite a few gamers, coaches and opponents have mentioned that they are not shocked, citing the workforce’s championship tradition and customary.

Charlotte Hornets head coach Charles Lee defined why he thinks Boston’s been so profitable previous to Wednesday’s recreation at TD Backyard.

“#1 is realizing the historical past of the Celtics — this place is about profitable and profitable championships. From the participant standpoint and from the teaching standpoint, you had lots of people nonetheless that had been a part of that championship workforce, and they also know what it takes, on a day-to-day foundation to win a recreation, and that aggressive spirit or hearth, it do not simply go away as a result of somebody will get damage — like it’s at all times there,” Lee informed CLNS reporter Noa Dalzell.

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“While you win a championship, you develop into much more hungry, extra thirsty to do it once more… Payton and Sam [Hauser] and JB and all these guys, and Joe and DJ MacLeay and Tony Dobbins, Sam [Cassell]they’ve all been there. And they also need it once more, and so whoever they’ve come within the constructing, there’s an ordinary, and the usual is to win and to play arduous, and that is what they do,” Lee added.

Joe Mazzulla, Brad Stevens and Celtics gamers have all mentioned the “customary” talked about by Lee. Mazzulla is among the best folks within the league and needs to win each evening, so it is not stunning that his gamers have adopted swimsuit.

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