The Celtics were up with 111-99 with 5:24 left in this game and managed to lose 119-117. The Celtics did a great job all night of taking good care of the ball. They only had 2 turnovers at half, 4 after the 3rd quarter and then added on another 5 late in that 4th quarter. When the Hawks were making their comeback, Tatum throws the ball away and should've gotten called for a transition take foul which would've hurt us even more but then Trae hits a 3. Very next possession, Smart turns the ball over and Trae hits another deep 3 tying the game at 111. Then we get another moving screen from Smart followed by another dumb foul by Smart on Trae at halfcourt giving him FTs to go up 116-115. This was an all out collapse riddled with dumb turnovers and fouls after a full game of playing pretty well.

What hurts even more about this loss is we had some guys that came in and stepped up to the pressure and it wasn't enough. JB was excellent in this one with 35pts 7reb 5ast on 15-23 from the field and was super aggressive getting to his spots all night long. Derrick White was great in this adding in 18pts including 2 clutch FTs to go up 117-116 with 7sec left right before Trae hit that dagger 3 with 1.8sec left. Horford, despite having another mediocre night offensively, stepped up again with 5blks alongside 5ast and a stl. I'll even give credit to Mazzulla who used his timeouts beautifully tonight, the rotations were great and even unexpected a bit. The Celtics became stagnant and watched the lead slip away a bit and he puts Blake in to insert some energy and the Celtics immediately go on a 5-0 run to extend the lead back up. Then the play call at the end getting Derrick White the ball to attack Trae was brilliant as well. There were so many things that were done well but the lead we built up wasn't enough to withstand the collapse we experienced late in the 4th.

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