Al Horford “not worried” about Celtics, says problems are “correctable”

The Boston Celtics have not started the 2018-19 NBA season as many would have expected, but veteran forward Al Horford is confident the problems plaguing the team are fixable.

“I’m not worried,” Horford told Marc Stein of the New York Times after Saturday's road loss to the Dallas Mavericks. “I am on edge as a guy that wants to win and wants everything to be right. But the problems that we’re facing — they’re correctable. I just think we don’t have the same sense of urgency that we did last year. It’s something that we’re working on, getting back to playing at that level that we need. We’re only playing the way we want to play for parts of the game. We wish it would come together quicker. It just hasn’t.

“The one thing is that we have to make sure that we’re sticking together. This is something that we haven’t really experienced before. Winning is hard. But the spirit is still good here. None of us want to go through this.”

Horford and the C's responded to that disappointing defeat in Dallas with one of their best performances of the season Monday night in New Orleans, where Boston earned a 124-107 win over Anthony Davis and the Pelicans.

Horford was one of three C's players who scored 20 or more points. He scored 12 of his 20 points in the first quarter, helping the Celtics set the tone and avoid the type of bad start that's plagued them early this season.

One win isn't going to fix everything for the Celtics, but Monday's result certainly was a step in the right direction and showed that Boston's issues certainly are fixable.

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