Joe Mazzulla puts strange spin on Celtics' Game 1 loss to Heat
Joe Mazzulla puts strange spin on Celtics' Game 1 loss to Heat The Celtics led by nine points at halftime on Wednesday night. The Celtics then trailed by 12 points after the third quarter. It wasn't pretty, as the Heat bludgeoned the Celtics in that third quarter and withstood a strong Boston push in the fourth quarter to take Game 1 on the road, 123-116. If there's one thing we know, it's that the Celtics won't panic. They lost Game 1 at home last series, and they lost Game 5 at home, too. Yet for the second straight year, the Celtics were able to be part of the 20 percent of teams in history to still win series after falling behind 3-2. A 1-0 series deficit certainly isn't a catastrophe for this group of Celtics. Joe Mazzulla puts strange spin on Celtics' Game 1 loss to Heat But the positivity, really, ends there. The Heat were hungrier in this series opener, and they executed their game plan better than Boston did. So it was strange -- to say the...