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Originally Posted by mrsister
The Suns, Mavs, Spurs, and Pistons have all lost to some pretty bad teams - many worse than the Bobcats or Wizards (most recently, the Pistons got trounced by NY). I'm not too worried yet. I do think their offense has sputtered recently, though. The crisp ball movement they had at the beginning of the season that lead to blowouts is no longer there. I have a feeling all the concentration on defense has kind of worn them down on offense. They still play great defense, but the offense doesn't seem to be running smoothly anymore. Either that, or teams have figured out how to stop them.
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You can't figure how to stop a team with such a three great players like Allen, Garnett and Pierce, and several other perimeter threats. But scouting has certainly did part in it. Teams now have some better ideas what they want to do defensively. Most of those defensive plans won't work on most of the nights, but Celts are going to see all kinds of defences. If somebody suprises them (like Wiz did with that very deep double team on the ballhandler last time) it is possible that it'll result in a very poor offensive performance or a loss, but Celtics should be able to adjust quickly.