Jazz (15-49) at Celtics (46-18) Game #65 3/10/25

[radiohead]

This team is going to kill me in the playoffs.

Relax. We're without our best player and first two bigs, and we haven't really had a full team for a sustained period for months at this point.

No chance. I sweat through preseason games.

I understand.

Plus, it's not just about this game as frustrating as another big lead lost is - it's about why is this such a pattern and the fear that this tendency to lose focus will catch up with us and cost the Celts more important games in the playoffs. And bad habits usually come back to haunt teams.

Or?these close wins should only make us better performers during crunch time.

[Birdman]

A win is a win

[Silas]

A win is a win

I agree...

[ozgod]

A win is a win

I agree...

These are the wins I love, because they are put under adversity. Playoffs aren't going to be 20 point walkovers so each opportunity they have to be put under pressure, especially some of the bench guys, is only a good thing.

[Vermont Green]

Pritchard had a bad game (-4).  Scheierman (-11), Craig (-11), and Queta (-5) all played fairly high minutes with negative results.  This was the issue.

Hauser had a big game to make up for Pritchard, these guys are not going to both have good games every night (although Pritchard has been good pretty much every night).  And Scheierman, Craig, and Queta hopefully don't see the court in the playoffs.

It is easy to explain this one away.  I don't like to see the team give up leads any more than anyone else.  But I am not too worried about it at this point.