Celtics (19-12) at Jazz (12-19) Game #32 12/30/25

[slamtheking]

Keyonte George is pretty good.. 

Utah's got some solid young players.  if they actually played their full roster they'd be a real challenge for a lot of teams this year

What do you mean by that. Who aren?t they playing?

Bailey's the obvious one missing.  Kessler too.  Love and Niang are serviceable.  not top of the rotation players but can add something off the bench

Those guys are all injured.

I'm not saying they're sitting healthy players.  I'm saying that if they had their full roster they'd be a dangerous team.  their D isn't particularly good but I think Hardy could coach that up with them to be at least respectable.

[SHAQATTACK]

Closer than I wanted . 

I ll take it

[Who]

10 assists for Jaylen. Is that a career high?

Update: He had 11 assists earlier in the season which tied his career high. He has done that 3 times (11 dimes) and has another 3 games with 10 assists. 6 career games with 10 or 11 assists.

[boscel33]

Looks like we?re gonna survive despite poor shooting from 3. Too bad JB isn?t gonna break the 30 point streak but he?s still in good company with Larry Legend.

As a Larry Legend fanatic, glad he tied it and didn't break it!

[Neurotic Guy]

Looks like we?re gonna survive despite poor shooting from 3. Too bad JB isn?t gonna break the 30 point streak but he?s still in good company with Larry Legend.

As a Larry Legend fanatic, glad he tied it and didn't break it!

Interesting to note that Larry?s highest ppg was 29.9 in 87-88 in 39mpg.  JB is currently 29.5 ppg in 34 mpg. Speaks to how great an offensive year JB is having. 

[Phantom255x]

Utah is starting to make some strides despite what the record says. Keyonte George is a beast. Collier, Filipowski and Clayton are good young pieces to continue to develop. Markannen probably isn't a long term fit there but I'd explore seeing if you can land another young piece and picks at some point, and then you get Kessler back next year too to go along with a Top-10 pick this year

[Roy H.]

I missed the game.  Derrick White had seven blocks?!  When is the last time a Celtics guard did that?

27 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 7 blocks.  The first guard in history with that stat line, and only the 13th player ever. 

[Donoghus]

I missed the game.  Derrick White had seven blocks?!  When is the last time a Celtics guard did that?

27 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 7 blocks.  The first guard in history with that stat line, and only the 13th player ever.

I don't think a Celtics guard has ever done it before.  DJ did it for Seattle.  The crazy thing about that instance was that it was in the '78 NBA Finals!

[boscel33]

Looks like we?re gonna survive despite poor shooting from 3. Too bad JB isn?t gonna break the 30 point streak but he?s still in good company with Larry Legend.

As a Larry Legend fanatic, glad he tied it and didn't break it!

Interesting to note that Larry?s highest ppg was 29.9 in 87-88 in 39mpg.  JB is currently 29.5 ppg in 34 mpg. Speaks to how great an offensive year JB is having.

That's true, but it's a different mindset now in how the game is played. 

In 87-88, Bird had 237 total 3PA or 3.1 3PAPG and made 41.4%.  Jaylen already has 135 3PA and is shooting 5.5 3PAPG and is hitting 37%.  Jaylen is doubling what players used to do.  Imagine Larry taking 487 3's which is Jaylen's high but instead of hitting 33.5% like Jaylen did, he hit 41%.  Even in Birds last year, bad back and all, he hit 52/128 3's for 40.6%!

Bird's career APG is 6.3 and 10 RPG.  Jaylen is 2.7 APG and 5.4 RPG.

Don't get me wrong, I love JB, but comparing him the LB is wrong.

[Goldstar88]

Utah is starting to make some strides despite what the record says. Keyonte George is a beast. Collier, Filipowski and Clayton are good young pieces to continue to develop. Markannen probably isn't a long term fit there but I'd explore seeing if you can land another young piece and picks at some point, and then you get Kessler back next year too to go along with a Top-10 pick this year

They have some nice pieces and it will be interesting to see how Bailey develops. Team needs a quality starting wing. George and Markannen are playing at an All-star level.

[Phantom255x]

Utah is starting to make some strides despite what the record says. Keyonte George is a beast. Collier, Filipowski and Clayton are good young pieces to continue to develop. Markannen probably isn't a long term fit there but I'd explore seeing if you can land another young piece and picks at some point, and then you get Kessler back next year too to go along with a Top-10 pick this year

They have some nice pieces and it will be interesting to see how Bailey develops. Team needs a quality starting wing. George and Markannen are playing at an All-star level.

Actually I also forgot Markannen signed a big extension with Utah and it started this year. They can keep and build with Lauri around, the goal will be to try and land another star player at some point via FA or trade to go along with the young pieces.

I wonder if Utah also realizes their lottery luck has been poor and are no longer truly tanking anymore. They'll still be bad this year, but probably not "atrocious" or not trying levels of bad. It's probably more now about development of the current guys.

[keevsnick]

If Utah could get a top three pick this year and get one of those elite guys it feels like everything could fall into place really quickly for them. They aren't a bad team at all.

Its going to be interesting to see how they handle owing a top-8 protected pick to OKC. Do they tank to keep it?