Road performance was one of the few unanswered concerns about this Celtics squad heading into a difficult four-game road trip last week.Boston has been mostly ordinary away from home this season, but they are an unbeaten team at home. A portion of those problems were brought on by injuries and challenging opponents, but over the previous seven days, they faced some of the top teams in the West, and they had something to show. On that front, the Celtics delivered on their promise on Monday night against the Lakers, winning by 11 points to wrap up an incredible 3-1 road trip after a disheartening overtime loss to the Warriors.

Boston’s point differential for the trip was +67 despite the Warriors’ loss and this group finished this stretch with the best record in the NBA at 23-6. They currently hold the 2nd best net rating in the NBA and are top 5 in both offensive rating (2nd) and defensive rating (5th).

“I mean, we’ve got a really good team,” Jayson Tatum told reporters in Los Angeles Monday night. “We’ve got a lot of great individual players and we’ve been playing, for the most part, really good basketball. We expected that. We expected to be good and we worked hard this training camp and the beginning of the season. We obviously know what our ultimate goal is. We’re just trying to get better every day.”