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

[SCeltic34]

Meanwhile the Lakers are about to lose to the lowly Nets.  No Lebron, but that's still bad.  We broke their win streak and their spirit.

[Silas]

Meanwhile the Lakers are about to lose to the lowly Nets.  No Lebron, but that's still bad.  We broke their win streak and their spirit.

and their faker hearts.

[celticinorlando]

Cs must have broken the Lakers. Their fans were ready to celebrate winning the West because they got to second place in the West for a few days.

[celticinorlando]

Heat lose to the Hornets. It is amazing how bad they are now.

[radiohead]

Meanwhile the Lakers are about to lose to the lowly Nets.  No Lebron, but that's still bad.  We broke their win streak and their spirit.

and their faker hearts.

Luka with a hollow triple double anchored on poor shooting. Reaves also had a poor shooting night. Will Luka want to extend with a team like LA or will he look at other opportunities? He doesn?t look happy.

[jpotter33]

Meanwhile the Lakers are about to lose to the lowly Nets.  No Lebron, but that's still bad.  We broke their win streak and their spirit.

and their faker hearts.

Luka with a hollow triple double anchored on poor shooting. Reaves also had a poor shooting night. Will Luka want to extend with a team like LA or will he look at other opportunities? He doesn?t look happy.

22 points on 8 for 26 shooting with 5 TOs. Yuck.

I'm sure he was out there gimping around to sell the injury excuse.

[SHAQATTACK]

Meanwhile the Lakers are about to lose to the lowly Nets.  No Lebron, but that's still bad.  We broke their win streak and their spirit.

Yup, exposed their fake run

[Phantom255x]

Idk if people have looked but the Lakers upcoming schedule is very, very brutal:

@MIL, @DEN, PHO, SAS, DEN, MIL - and 3 of these sets are B2Bs

Without Lebron, I definitely could see them going 3-4 or maybe worse.

They also have a stretch late May-early April where they play @MEM, HOU, GSW, NOP, then 2 in a row against OKC. Decent chance IMO LAL slips to the 3 or even 4 seed. MEM/HOU are only 1 and 2 games back of them respectively

If I had to predict today, I think there's a decent chance LAL drops to 4, and GSW rises to 5 and that's the first round matchup, and a potential 2nd round matchup against OKC.

[Silas]

Idk if people have looked but the Lakers upcoming schedule is very, very brutal:

@MIL, @DEN, PHO, SAS, DEN, MIL - and 3 of these sets are B2Bs

Without Lebron, I definitely could see them going 3-4 or maybe worse.

They also have a stretch late May-early April where they play @MEM, HOU, GSW, NOP, then 2 in a row against OKC. Decent chance IMO LAL slips to the 3 or even 4 seed. MEM/HOU are only 1 and 2 games back of them respectively

If I had to predict today, I think there's a decent chance LAL drops to 4, and GSW rises to 5 and that's the first round matchup, and a potential 2nd round matchup against OKC.

What a pity...

[Phantom255x]

Missed most of the game due to a dinner event. Wasn't happy they nearly blew another 20+ lead, but a win is a win. It'd be huge if Hauser can consistently make these 3s going forward. A lot of focus is on PP off the bench but if Hauser can nail more of these, we're even more dangerous.

[SparzWizard]

Idk if people have looked but the Lakers upcoming schedule is very, very brutal:

@MIL, @DEN, PHO, SAS, DEN, MIL - and 3 of these sets are B2Bs

Without Lebron, I definitely could see them going 3-4 or maybe worse.

They also have a stretch late May-early April where they play @MEM, HOU, GSW, NOP, then 2 in a row against OKC. Decent chance IMO LAL slips to the 3 or even 4 seed. MEM/HOU are only 1 and 2 games back of them respectively

If I had to predict today, I think there's a decent chance LAL drops to 4, and GSW rises to 5 and that's the first round matchup, and a potential 2nd round matchup against OKC.

They may just go 0-4 on this current road trip. Wild times. Just gotta make sure LAL and GSW draw each other in round 1...that series could go the limit. Then, hope OKC has an easy bye of a first round so if the Lakers come out, both teams give each other all they can handle.

[tenn_smoothie]

Missed most of the game due to a dinner event. Wasn't happy they nearly blew another 20+ lead, but a win is a win. It'd be huge if Hauser can consistently make these 3s going forward. A lot of focus is on PP off the bench but if Hauser can nail more of these, we're even more dangerous.

Need scoring from both Hauser and Pritchard come playoff time.
Torey Craig looked good tonight. Any chance he can start getting more minutes or is Joe going to bury him on the bench.
He looks like an energy guy who can help that bench and score a little.

[hodgy03038]

We need to stop squandering HUGE LEADS in short minutes. It is getting to be a bad trend.

Thanks Hauser for the offense.

[Surferdad]

Missed most of the game due to a dinner event. Wasn't happy they nearly blew another 20+ lead, but a win is a win. It'd be huge if Hauser can consistently make these 3s going forward. A lot of focus is on PP off the bench but if Hauser can nail more of these, we're even more dangerous.

Need scoring from both Hauser and Pritchard come playoff time.
Torey Craig looked good tonight. Any chance he can start getting more minutes or is Joe going to bury him on the bench.
He looks like an energy guy who can help that bench and score a little.

Craig and Queta both had good games.

[tenn_smoothie]

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.