You are what your record says you are and the Celtics just aren’t a very good team right now. This team still has potential, but they aren’t going anywhere good without some big improvements on defense.
They just played appallingly bad defense for much off the first half, which gave the Sixers confidence. Once the C’s actually started playing better, the Sixers were so confident that they just kept hitting shots.
It was a valiant effort to get back in the game after trailing by 10 or more for the 2nd and 3rd quarters, but ultimately not enough to overcome the deficit their defense put them in early on.
The Celtics are 2-3. Yikes.