If you’ve ever wondered why NBA writers type so fast, it’s because sometimes the direct quotes they report start to lose their validity before the ink is dry on the website.
OK, so one night Doc Rivers is calling his team soft. And just two and a half weeks ago he is saying the Celtics may jettison some underperformers if they don’t get their acts in order.
Cut to Thursday night, and Kobe Bryant is casting an admiring eye toward a Shamrock AC that, in the wake of Rajon Rondo’s torn ACL, has won six consecutive games.
Got whiplash yet?
While Kobe’s Lakers have gone through a coaching change, several dozen mood swings and some verbal knives to the back, the Celtics now seem like a paragon of parquet virtue. The team that underachieved its way to a sub-.500 record is now an ascending 26-23 and amazing one and all with its will and guile, and a toughness conspicuously absent for the first many weeks of the season.
“It’s typical,” said Bryant. “Typical Celtics basketball.![]()
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