Celtics (12-10) at Jazz (14-7) Game #23 12/3/21

[Celtics2021]

Took 39 3s tonight, wow.. need an inside game but just don’t have a Center..

Yeah, but they hit the threes at 35.9% which is 4.8% points over their team average and 1.5% points over league average. Not going to complain about the number of threes taken when they hit them at a good rate.

You can live and/or die by the three in this league. Last night, the C's shot good from three. The Jazz shot unbelievably good from three. The amount of threes the Jazz hit with people right in their face contesting the shot had to be 15 or more. That's ridiculous.

Both teams played great. Sometimes after a loss like this you just have to tip your cap to the competition and say "good game" and know in your heart that if you play this good all the time, you are going to win most games and go deep into the playoffs.

Yeah, the Celtics won the turnover battle 20-6, shot over 50% from the floor, a respectable 36% from 3, and we’re perfect from the line.  You win that game 9 times out of 10.  But the Jazz couldn’t miss from 3, and we saw that on the first possession when Mitchell made a 30-footer at the shot clock buzzer when he was trapped on the sideline. 

[Phantom255x]

Nothing you can do about yesterday really. Utah basically played like they had the sliders for 3-point shots at 100 on NBA2K lol (and ugh). Despite that we still had a slim lead at times and only lost by 7.

Bounce back tonight.

[ScoobyDoo]

Agreed. Strangely, I actually liked our D last night even though we gave up 137. I thought we played solid aggressive, physical defense and most of the threes were well contested -we had a hand in their face on most of those threes.

Bounce back tonight, move to 2-1 for December, get some rest and get focused for the Lakers and Clippers.

Zero complaints with our grit and effort last night.   

[SHAQATTACK]

When their whole team is shooting like the Curry family , what can ya say ,  Boston played hard , good enough to win most nights ,  hats off to Utah hot shooting streak .  I got no complaints about last nights effort .