{"id":549183,"date":"2026-01-20T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/549183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:42:17","slug":"payton-pritchard-makes-key-point-about-celtics-multiple-losses-to-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/549183\/","title":{"rendered":"Payton Pritchard Makes Key Point About Celtics&#8217; Multiple Losses To Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics point guard Payton Pritchard has a wise perspective on his team\u2019s 1-3 record against the Detroit Pistons this season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after Boston\u2019s recent loss to the Pistons in Detroit on Monday, Pritchard pointed out that regular-season head-to-head records don\u2019t always mean anything once the postseason begins.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyKrivitsky\/status\/2013468572647915679?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">pointed to last season as a prime example<\/a>, when the Celtics went 4-0 against the New York Knicks in the regular season but ended up losing to New York in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Payton Pritchard on the Celtics going 1-3 but losing close games to the Pistons:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost to the Knicks last year and we went 4-0.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IqtApj7lC1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IqtApj7lC1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby Krivitsky (@BobbyKrivitsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyKrivitsky\/status\/2013468572647915679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday night was <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/jaylen-brown-scores-32-points-but-celtics-fall-to-pistons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another close game<\/a> between Detroit and Boston, reminding fans that these two teams are evenly matched. The contest came down to the final possession, in which Jaylen Brown back-rimmed a jumper that would have won the game for the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>These are very clearly the top two teams in the Eastern Conference, so long as the Knicks continue to struggle.<\/p>\n<p>And while the Pistons might go <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/latest-pistons-trade-prediction-bodes-terribly-for-celtics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shopping for a big addition<\/a> before the Feb. 5 trade deadline,  the Celtics have a big addition of their own possibly on the way in the form of Jayson Tatum returning from injury.<\/p>\n<p>A playoff showdown feels inevitable between these two hard-nosed squads, and provided they each keep stacking wins during the regular-season, that matchup might not happen until the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics point guard Payton Pritchard has a wise perspective on his team\u2019s 1-3 record against the Detroit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-549183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-payton-pritchard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115928429154895194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}