All the pieces you should know concerning the Celtics’ 117-109 loss to Utah Jazz with perception and evaluation from BSJ:

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JAZZ JUST TOO: The Utah Jazz are an excellent, very deep staff. The Celtics typically performed nicely, however a staff can solely make a sure variety of errors towards the Jazz earlier than they set you on fireplace.

“We have had too many instances the place we have hit screens on the prime of the sidelines on ball screens, and so they’ve made us pay,” Brad stevens mentioned of his protection which is a bit too lifeless on screens all through the season. “We ended up going beneath a display once we wanted to run after and problem. … However your margin towards them is that when you do not do this, they are going to succeed.

Jazz bench beat Boston 45-21. On an evening when Utah beat Boston by 27 from behind the arc and by 19 and the free throw line, getting blown off their bench was only one other thing. Boston may have survived any of these items. Perhaps two. However not all three.

ALWAYS, THIS LOSS HAS BEEN BETTER THAN SOME FEBRUARY EARNINGS: Nobody needs to listen to about ethical victories, however when you have a look at it from a “course of” perspective, the Celtics have executed a variety of good issues. They did not let the Jazz get away within the fourth quarter. They responded to Jazz races.

It was a three-point sport with 2:35 left, however the Celtics could not play whereas Utah did. Boston simply is not on par with Utah.

“(I) thought we had excellent defensive possessions, however not sufficient,” Stevens mentioned. “However it’s a mixture of nice coaches, nice gamers, extraordinarily quick determination making and a 7-foot-4 man rolling in entrance of the rim each time.

TURNING

Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley have hit 3 factors in straight video games with about three minutes to go to show a one-point sport right into a seven-point sport. It was simply an excessive amount of for the Celtics to beat.

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