Kyrie Irving: Celtics' inconsistency getting 'tiring' after loss to lowly Knicks

The NBA takes Thanksgiving off. In between servings of turkey and stuffing, Gordon Hayward hopes the struggling Boston Celtics use the holiday to think about where they stand as a team.

"Tomorrow might be a good day for us to reflect a little bit," Hayward said Wednesday night after the Celtics fell behind by as many as 26 and were booed by the Boston crowd during a 117-109 loss to the New York Knicks.

The Celtics have lost a season-high three in a row and seven of their last 10 games. So what's wrong with the team many pegged as the Eastern Conference favorite? Everything, according to coach Brad Stevens.

"This is a lot of things," Stevens said. "We have a myriad of issues we have to fix."

Boston's defense is a stout as ever — second in rating, third in points allowed, third in opponent field goal percentage, according to NBA.com.

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However, the Celtics have been struggling mightily to find the offensive consistency they enjoyed last season. Hayward and Kyrie Irving are healthy, giving Boston its full complement of weapons, but the Celtics are 25th in scoring, 27th in offensive rating and 29th in team field goal percentage.

"We're not playing with the same personality that we did last year and that's the easy way to describe it and the 50,000 issues are below that," said Stevens. "I just don't know that we're that good. Maybe it's not a wake-up call if you keep getting beat."

New York took an eight-point lead after the first quarter. After pushing the lead to double digits early in the second, the Knicks took control with a 17-5 run to go ahead 57-31 with about 3½ minutes left until halftime. That's when the boos started.

"It was just ugly. It’s a scary sight when it just comes down to us just playing hard," Irving said.

"I think it's just tiring at this point, when we show flashes of brilliance, and we put ourselves in a deep hole and we're consistently coming back, and we can't play like that."

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