Triple teaming someone implies 2 players wide open, right?
That's happening the last two weeks and we are watching the result of this.
IT4 might be too selfish with the ball. Gotta learn to distribute it especially in those circumstances!
IT4 dished out 7 assists in the ATL game.
Also, he had 24 'true scoring attempts' (either FGA or attempts that drew a foul) in this game - basically the same as his average for the season. So it is not really the case that Isaiah was taking any more shots than usual. He just wasn't getting clean looks and when he did, the ball couldn't seem to drop through the invisible lid on the basket.
Our problems in this game had nothing to do with being 'selfish with the ball'.
ATL game-planned to aggressively fight over picks and grab IT (and Marcus) to slow him down when coming off screens. This is the same tactic that TOR did. It's the same strategy as you see with defensive coverage being physical and interfering with receivers in the NFL. You do this until the refs blow their whistles enough on you to make you stop. In both the TOR game and especially in the ATL game, the refs had bubble gum clogging their whistles. So ATL not only kept it up, but they got even more aggressive with the tactic.
If the refs don't call this (and make no mistake, this is a foul. This has been very consistently called a foul all season.) then it blows up the dive action off the pick & roll because it gives the big defender and the help defender a split second extra to prepare for the dive. Teams are going to keep doing this to the Celtics so long as refs let them.
Brad should have adjusted to this by using more double screens or calling for more play through a rolling big instead of almost always having the screener pop to become a kick-out target. Jae, Amir, Al & Kelly combined to go 1 for 11 on threes. The few times our bigs went to the hoop paid off. Amir & Tyler were a combined 4 of 4 on those.
Or he should have screamed at the refs to call the [dang] game correctly. Getting tossed once in a while wouldn't kill him. Worked for Red and Tommy.