Malcolm Brogdon (back) listed as questionable against the Wizards

Becoming a member of the long-term members of the Boston Celtics’ harm report – Robert Williams and Danilo Gallinari – is Malcom Brogdon, who’s questionable for tomorrow night time’s sport towards the Washington Wizards. He’s apparently experiencing again stiffness, the crew introduced.

This doesn’t seem like a severe, long-term problem for Brogdon, however it’s fascinating that he’s the second Celtic to look on the harm report for again stiffness. Al Horford just lately missed the sport towards the Orlando Magic with low again stiffness.

Washington is off to a stable begin to the season at 3-2, so this isn’t going to be a cakewalk that the Celtics can simply stroll into. With an explosive offensive guard in Bradley Beal, Boston’s porous protection might be examined as soon as once more, particularly as Beal now has an honest level guard and a few shooters on the wing. The Celtics have to discover a option to defend a lot better than they’ve this season, so the Wizards sport might be a chance to course right.

Brogdon has been large off the bench by bringing a way of poise and by distributing the ball to Boston’s bench shooters. He’s averaging 11.4 factors, 3.4 rebounds and three.6 assists on 44/31/91 capturing splits. Nevertheless, he was additionally accountable from a number of the defensive lapses final night time towards the Cleveland Cavaliers, and his lack of ability to field out and assist out on the boards (not simply him, however lots of people) actually harm towards an extended Cleveland crew. It could be that the low again stiffness contributed to a few of his deficiencies.

Fortunately, the Celtics are deep at guard, so if Brogdon does have to take the night time off, Derrick White, Marcus Sensible and Payton Pritchard is greater than sufficient to maintain the ship afloat in his absence.

The three-2 Boston Celtics will problem the 3-2 Washington Wizards tomorrow night time at 6 p.m. ET.