3 major concerns for the Boston Celtics heading into Game 6

Boston Celtics concern No. 2) The great disparity in offensive rebounding

The Boston Celtics clearly are a great team and, in many ways, could be argued as being the best in the Eastern Conference, even better than the top-seeded Heat.

That said, there are a few areas that Miami is, in fact, superior to the C’s in, and one, in specific, is when it comes to crashing the boards, particularly on the offensive side of the floor.

So far this series, the boys from South Beach have been absolutely dominating this area of the game (comparatively to the shamrocks, at least), and this was exemplified to a tee on Wednesday night as they pulled down a whopping 19 offensive rebounds in comparison to Boston’s six.

Thus far into the series, Miami is outpacing the Celtics 58 to 45 in this category and, since the start of round two against Milwaukee (where this was also a major issue for them), they’ve been outrebounded 134 to just 98.

Now, granted, Ime Udoka’s squad has managed to overcome this dilemma more often than not by generating enough success on offense and by putting up more points than the opposing team, but this is by no means a sustainable plan to help them continue to win games.

The more offensive boards they let up, the more second-chance scoring opportunities they give the Miami Heat. Luckily for Boston, they weren’t able to convert on these attempts as often as they would have liked.

However, the more looks they get, the more likely they are to cash in on these luxuries.

In Game 6, the Celtics must do their best to mitigate Miami’s offensive rebounding.