The shorthanded Celtics put up a good fight in a 114-112 loss to the Rockets on Monday night but last minute defensive blunders ultimately cost Boston the win. Plenty of attention will be paid to the miscues that Joe Mazzulla took responsibility for in the final ten seconds of the setback but there was much more to Monday’s defeat than those crunch time issues.

Sitting at the podium after Monday night’s Celtics loss, Joe Mazzulla didn’t critique Luke Kornet for his positioning on Alperen Sengun or Jaylen Brown for his last-second defense on Amen Thompson. The late Houston Rockets baskets that put Boston on the wrong end of a 114-112 thriller at TD Garden,