My Take: Jazz Dominate Celtics

‘Road Rage’ (David Dow - NBAE/Getty Images)
FINAL SCORE — JAZZ 110 Celtics 92
Jazz win on the road wearing home white uniforms
Deron’s performance is beyond words.
Jazz are first Western Conference to win on the road in Boston and the largest lost of the year by Boston.
Boston had two field goals in the final 7 minutes.
Jazz had tough moments and tough possessions but they held their focus and confidence.
Deron had 32 and shot 18 free throws — he was the best player on the floor.
Harpring finished the game tonight and played very well.
Pierce 1 for 7.
3:02 4th Quarter — Jazz 98 Celtics 89
Deron is amazing. Two huge drives for buckets that swung the big mo back to the Jazz.
First he went down the middle and ran right into KG, got no call, but hit the shot
Then he went down the right side like he did to Shaq and hit a absurd fader.
Boozer just got his first field goal of the half.
Korver three great passes but got beat on two plays.
9:00 4th Quarter — Jazz 86 Celtics 77
this is intense hoops, everything is happening off hustle.
Korver made back to back brilliant passes one to Harpring the next to Memo. Both players had great tough finishes.
End of the 3rd Quarter — Jazz 79 Boston 74
Boozer was 0 for 5 in the quarter. He also has 4 fouls
Milsap made two big plays to keep the Jazz in control
The Celtics played really hard in the quarter and are very good.
Jazz are 40-7 leading after 3 and 14-6 on the road
Celts are 5-7
3:31 3rd Quarter — Jazz 72 Boston 68
Shots are hard to come by. The jazz aren’t getting into plays. Boston is playing really hard
Guys look uncomfortable.
if the Jazz don’t get something off the bench they are in big trouble.
9-2 run by the Celtics
Jerry just got a T
6:10 3rd quarter — Jazz 70 Celtics 59
Jazz focus is not as good, missing double teams on defense and turning the ball over
The Celtics have 20 points off turnover
AK just hit a miracle 3 at the shot clock, it was from 35 feet set shot from the hip
Jazz are 2 for 10 in the quarter
Halftime — Jazz 62 Boston 49
62 is the second most allowed in the first half by the Celtics this year
The focus has been fantastic. Deron is taking it to Rondo.
Jazz are shooting 58% in the first half.
Garnett and Pierce are 1 for 9 combined.
Carlos and Deron both have 15 points.
This one is still going to be a tustle too much going right for the Jazz.
Jazz are 12-5 when leading at the half on the road — Boston 10-5 when they trail at the half
5:00 2nd Quarter — Jazz 48 Boston 36
Ray Allen has jammed his ankle his return is questionable
8:00 2nd Quarter — Jazz 41 Boston 32
Jazz are playing very well. Matt Harpring is playing great. His activity is causing the Celtics issues.
The Jazz bench has picked up in the last few
Ronnie hit two shots but didn’t have a very good floor game.
Celtics will come back with their man guys for the final 8 mins of the quarter, lets see how the Jazz re-act
Pau Gasol just left the Lakers game with a sprained ankle, he was helped to the locker-room.
End of 1st Quarter — Jazz 32 Boston 22
32 points in a quarter against the Celtics is fantastic. this team is only allowing about 90.
Movement was fantastic on offense, Jazz hit a lot of cutters and got good looks.
Defensively the Jazz were helping well and forcing another pass.
10 of the Celtics 18 shots came from players other than the big 3
Boozer had 10 points and Deron went to the line 7 times.
55% shooting in the 1st Quarter and only 1 turnover plus 5 offensive rebounds.
jazz got 50% of the available offensive rebounds
4:47 1st Quarter — Jazz 18 Boston 12
Boozer had two great moves from the right block going with his left hand across the paint for a lay-up one on Garnett and one on Perkins
Perkins is a nice powerful player
Brewer got an easy one off nice movement, which is can work all night against Ray Allen
Jazz are turnover free
Odds Note
this is only the 17th time this year the Jazz have been an underdog.
Keys to the Game
1. Execute offensive
2. Easy looks for Brewer
3. Try to get as many possessions as possible out of the big three.
Key Numbers for the Jazz v. Celtics
The jazz #2 offense in the NBA plays against #1 defense in the NBA.
The Celtics defense is #1 in the NBA against the shot, #1 at forcing turnovers and #10 at defensive rebounding.
Boston has #10 offense in the NBA and the Jazz have the #12 defense
Boston has won 10 in a row and over the last 10 games they are the #4 offensive team and the #2 defensive teams.
The Jazz are the #1 offensive team in the NBA over the past 10 games.
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Wow that was awesome, Boston did their best to push us around but we took the blows and kept on playing. I was impressed by how good of defense Boston plays and how quick Rondo is. They didn’t give us anything, we went and took it.
Allright the Jazz won a big game on the road, but they can not afford to let up. The west is too tight, and the team that has a let up may miss the playoffs. If the jazz were not winning their division they would barely be in the playoffs, and Denver is not that far back with the amount of games that remain. Here is my prediction:
1. San Antonio
2. Lakers
3. Houston
4. Jazz
5. Suns
6. New Orleans
7. Dallas
8. Denver
San Antonio does not have too many more games against playoff contenders so I think they will finish 1st or 2nd. Lakers are banged up including Kobe and they have some tough games coming up so I think they take the 2 spot. It is a toss up between Houston, Suns, NOH because either of those thems could take the 3 spot. Houston has a tough week and it will determine a lot, they may fall to the 6 spot. Sun do not have too tough of schedule and I see how they could gain some ground and maybe take the 3 spot if they are lucky, but I think they will play the Jazz in the 1st round or Houston will. NOH has some big games coming up too and could also fall to the 6 spot. I think Dallas will remain either 7th or 6th. Now if Denver can win and Warriors (who have some tough games to play) loose then Denver will take the 8th spot. Hopefully the Jazz do not have a fall off in play cause they could fall to 8th too. ( I don’t think so though) Either way if you want to make the playoffs in the west you can not lose more then 30 games this year. The team who falls below 30 in the lose column does not make the playoffs period. Ok you might be able to get there with 31 loses, but no more then that.
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