The box score for the fourth quarter of Boston’s Game 5 loss to the Warriors in the NBA Finals reads as though one team had just awoken from a soothing afternoon nap and the other had decided to play while wearing concrete sneakers. Fatigue, and the bench, weighed down the Celtics in this loss.
A Limited Celtics Bench, All Season
Credit Udoka, as always, with his honesty—most coaches would refrain from admitting at the NBA Finals podium that his stars were tired, and when asked about it themselves, Brown brushed off the topic and Tatum only mildly acknowledged that, yes, players are more tired at the end of a game than at the beginning.
In his year as a head coach, perhaps because he was too focused on the immediate and feared piling up losses, Udoka was especially reticent about using his reserves. It’s one of the few criticisms of the job he has done this season that has some validity to it. He started the season with veterans Dennis Schroder and Josh Richardson on the bench, and the Celtics swapped them out for Derrick White and Daniel Theis at the trade deadline.
Pritchard has had some good moments in this postseason, but in Game 5, he had a poor start, missing three 3-pointers and committing a turnover in 4:41 of playing time spanning the end of the first quarter and the start of the second. He did not go back into the game. In all, Udoka has tightened up his already limited rotation in the playoffs, as all coaches do. But he has one of the tightest, with bench players getting an average of 13.
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