Celtics (12-10) at Jazz (19-5) Game #23 2/9/21

[cltc5]

That’s a good starting five right now if they had tatum

[kraidstar]

TT continuing his recent streak of good play. Looking more and more the guy the Cs wanted.

He has been surprisingly good with that baby hook of his, too. Tommy would be happy to see someone finally taking his advice and being aggressive with it.

[PAOBoston]

If they are going to play two bigs, they can’t be giving up this many offensive rebounds.

[MICeltsfan]

TT continuing his recent streak of good play. Looking more and more the guy the Cs wanted.

Was going to say the same thing. Several posters said he needed to play himself into shape given the initial injury and lack of a pre season. I didn’t believe them. Oops.

[Atzar]

I hope we have a plan when these threes dry up.  We aren't going to keep hitting 80% on them.  At some point, we'll need to get something closer to the rim. 

[cltc5]

Grant your not an nba big

[slamtheking]

I hope we have a plan when these threes dry up.  We aren't going to keep hitting 80% on them.  At some point, we'll need to get something closer to the rim.

agreed, they're just dancing around on the perimeter.  no driving for closer shots or drive-and-kicks

[kraidstar]

Scal seeing what I have been seeing all season.

All of the time our opponents bait us into double-teams to get wide-open shots. it is so obvious what they are doing - the Heat abused this last year in the playoffs - we need to have way more discipline and keep them guessing.

Meanwhile on offense our guys are way too predictable in looking for their own shots instead of deliberately creating shots for others.

Other teams an coaches have really figured all of this out, and we only get by on sheer talent.

Agree. First we need to know when to double team and when not to. Lots of time it's not necessary to double team, but somehow they just do it.

Once we commit we need to be disciplined.

Yeah. It's tough because we have so many young and new players. No-one wants to be the guy not working hard enough to help his teammates. Everyone wants to play the defense the right way, maybe too much so.

Hopefully as the season goes on we find balance.

[cltc5]

Grant you bum

[slamtheking]

started well, didn't end so well.  Utah keeping it way to close for comfort

[PAOBoston]

Rob Williams lost on defense. So frustrating to watch some times.

[jpotter33]

Well, would've liked to be up by more than 3 after the first quarter with us hitting 7 threes.

[Celtics Mike]

 Another big momentum shift at the end of the Quarter. Why do Celtics always struggle to close out quarters ?

[esel1000]

Well, would've liked to be up by more than 3 after the first quarter with us hitting 7 threes.

Gobert makes life tough

[Goldstar88]

Playing well in every facet but rebounding, which to be fair against this team is really difficult. Just need to keep making shots tough for them.

*against every team