Is Celtics malaise a temporary affliction? Might be turnaround time!

NBA.com's Sreve Aschburner just wrote what I, and many other Celtics fans, have been thinking since the start of this season - namely, that the talent on the Boston roster is too damn good for this level of mediocrity to continue.

Steve Aschburner: Maybe I’m just analyzing according to laundry at this point, but the Boston Celtics thrashing around at .500 or worse for much of this season has surprised me. Having two tremendous wings in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown somehow has turned into the my turn-your turn dead end of the unsatisfying Paul Pierce-Antoine Walker days. I get that point guard has been an issue and Al Horford is well past his prime, but Marcus Smart is tough, Robert Williams III is delivering in the middle and I simply assumed Brad Stevens taking his coaching chops upstairs meant he would replace or surpass them with his choice of sideline successor (Ime Udoka). I get it, they’re vertically challenged defensively, but I cannot believe this mediocrity is going to persist through the second half. Even a minor hot streak could jump them three or four spots in the conference standings.

Aschburner is right on the money. No, this is not just about Tatum's magnificent game in the win over the Wizards last night. Tatum, Brown, Smart and RWill could be a 'fearsome foursome" if they can get their act together.

And I loved Steve's mention of the "unsatisfying Paul Pierce-Antoine Walker days". I don't want to see that again. I have felt all along that the Celtics malaise was a temporary affliction. The second half of the season will reveal if Steve and I are on target.

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