Boston Celtics: 1 stud and 1 dud from C’s heartbreaking loss to Knicks

Boston Celtics stud: Dennis Schroder

For the majority of his tenure thus far with the Boston Celtics, Dennis Schroder has struggled when serving as the team’s spark-plug sixth man, looking far less comfortable in said role than when slotting in with the team’s first five.

While this still seems to be a very sad but real truth and is something that we must continue to monitor moving forward, Thursday Schroder seemed to look right at home whilst coming off the pine for the C’s.

Logging 27 minutes by game’s end, Schroder wound up finishing as the team’s second-leading scorer, going on to drop 20 points to go along with five boards on a highly-efficient 67 percent shooting from the floor and 50 percent shooting from deep.

Providing his long documented isolation scoring excellence while also knocking down a few snazzy catch-and-shoot attempts as well (not a trait he’s well known for), the contributions that Dennis Schroder brought to the floor for Boston were unequivocally valuable and, quite frankly, encouraging for what may be to come should he continue to come off the bench (let’s hope no more injuries or COVID surprises pop up anytime soon).

Unfortunately, however, these efforts were simply not enough to help the team get over the hump and finally collect win No. 19.