November 3, 2025 • 17 mins
Utah grabbed an offensive rebound and put home a bucket with 0.6 seconds left to give the Utah Jazz a 105-103 win over the Boston Celtics. We relive the final seconds of the game, discuss what was Boston’s Achilles’ heel during this contest, and highlight Jaylen Brown nearly willing the Celtics into the winner’s circle.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Sound off with me Parks on Jalen Brown going off
during the second half, but it not being enough to
push the Boston Celtics past the Utah Jazz. Monday night
at TD Garden. This game came down to the final
second literally of regulation. This is how it all unfolded.
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Nimiash Kida went to the free throw line with a
little over twenty four seconds left and the Celtics trailing
by one. He made the first free throw to tie
the game up at one oh three to one oh three.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
He missed the second.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That free throw did not wind up really mattering in
the end, because here's what happened after that. Boston goes
on defense. Utah does not call for a timeout. I
was a bit surprised that the Jazz did not call
for timeout. It wound up working out for them. Keyante George,
who was the player of the game for the Utah Jazz,
wound up scoring thirty one points, a team high thirty
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one points during this game. He's the guy who had
the ball in his hands. He winds up driving against
I believe it was Peyton Pritchard gets down to the baseline,
puts up a fadeaway shot from the right baseline and
it misses long. Nimiash Kada is trying to box out
one of the better rebounders in the league in Usu Nurkic,
and the ball just it bounced far.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It went over Kada and it fell right into.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Nurkic's arms, and then he turned around and dropped in
a hook shot with zero point six seconds left, So
the Celtics are down by two at that point, they
called time out, still time to get off a shot,
but that didn't wind up happening. Joe Mizula draws up
a play and it winds up going to Jalen Brown,
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but a whistle was blown before he caught the inbound pass.
He was called for an offensive file with a little
bit of a push off and trying to free himself
up to get into the corner in front of Boston's bench,
which is where he did attempt a shot after the
whistle was blown. The Boston Celtics actually challenged that shot
to challenged the fall that was called on Jalen Brown,
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and Joe Mizoula did not win that challenge, So still
zero points six seconds seconds left on the clock, and
all Utah had to do was inbound the ball at
that point and the game was over. So that is
what happened during the final twenty four or so seconds
to deal the Celtics a loss against the Utah Jazz.
Utah with an offensive rebound on its final true offensive
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possession of the night. It was a quality rebound by
u Souper Nurkish but it wasn't a rebound where you
just looked if you look at the play, it's not
like Nimias Keida didn't try to box out. It's not
like he didn't give any effort.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He did.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He was caught in a spot where he was going
to try to help if if Kyante George drove to
the basket, and then he had to get back when
Kiante George fired up the baseline fade away, he had
to get back to his band and he did make contact.
He did try to box out, He did get a
body on Nurkic. He just wasn't able to push him
out far enough to be able to grab the rebound himself.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So that's how it all happened.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But the Celtics, in my opinion, did not lose this
game because of bad rebounding. There are a lot of
people out there who are claiming that that is the case.
You look at the raw numbers in the box score.
Everyone's gonna freak out. Fifteen offensive rebounds for the Utah Jazz.
Well guess what Eleven of those offensive rebounds were during
the first half, and the Celtics had a double digit
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lead during the first half, So that is the Celtics
lost this game. The Celtics lost this game during the
third quarter when they gave up thirty eight points to
the Utah Jazz. You know how many points the Celtics
gave up to the Jazz during the first half in total,
thirty six, So they gave up two more points during
the third quarter alone, then they gave up during the
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first half in total, and that was while the Jazz
grabbed those eleven offensive rebounds. So this game did not
come down to rebounding. I do understand and I will
acknowledge that the final bucket of the game did come
off in offensive rebound.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But that's it, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They grabbed four offensive rebounds during the second half the
Utah Jazz.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They scored nine second chance points, so did the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The Celtics scored nine second chance points too, so it's
a wash. That one critical play did occur, so we
can't just overlook that. But I do think Nmischkida actually
gave effort and did box out. The ball just didn't
bounce Boston's way. It bounced right into use of Nurkice's
hand and then he made a turn around hook shot
to put the Jazz in front.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So to me, the game was lost.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
In that third quarter when the Celtics had control coming
out of halftime, and they gave it away by allowing
the Jazz to score thirty eight points during the during
the quarter. And meanwhile, the Celtics didn't have a whole
lot of offensive firepower. They scored twenty six points during
the third quarter, but it wasn't very efficient. Shot only
thirty n nine percent from the field during that third quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't even want to say this number.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Nine point one percent from three point range during that
third quarter, one for eleven from beyond the arc. So yes,
they scored twenty six points themselves, but they gave up
thirty eight. That's where the game was lost. You had control,
you gave it away by not getting those stops in
the third quarter. Let's move on, Jalen Brown, I have
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to say this, this was one of the most impressive
takeover performances of his career in a half of basketball.
Like he was trying to assert himself and basically saying,
like we are not losing this game. I Am going
to do everything we need me to do to win
this game, and he almost did it. Listen, the Celtics
were down by eleven points during the second half. Jalen
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Brown is the guy who got them back into the game.
I believe at one point he scored eleven straight points
overall during the second half, sixteen points during the third quarter,
eleven during the fourth quarter. That's twenty seven points during
the second half alone. He was on fire and really
just putting pressure on the defense when the ball got
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into his hands. He was nine of fifteen from the
field during that second half, nine of nine from the
free throw line.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Got to give.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Him an applause and applaud the way that he played
during that second half to do everything he could to
try to give the Celtics a chance to win. And
he did give them a chance to win. They just
didn't pull it off. They didn't grab the critical rebound,
they did get the critical stop originally on the shot
by Keante George. They didn't grab the rebound, and then
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Nurkish was able to put it home, and then obviously
Jalen was called for the turnover. On the final offensive
possession of the night for the Boston Celtics, he committed
a foul on a pushoff. I don't think it was
that egregious watching it back, it was a foul. The
refs called it, But sometimes it might be a coin
flip where the refs don't call that play, don't call
that foul, and Jalen Brown winds up getting a good
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quality look on that final possession. So I just got
to say, like, Jalen was awesome during this game. Finishes
with thirty six points on thirteen of twenty eight shooting
from the field, four assists during this game, to he
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trailed only Derek White in that category on the team,
grabbed a couple of rebounds ten of eleven from the
free throw line, the only area he had two steals
during that stretch during the third quarter and fourth quarter
where he was getting the Celtics back into the game.
The only area where he did not play well was
shooting from beyond the arc. He was zero for nine,
but that's the only area of the game where he
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did not play well. He asserted himself as the dominant
player in this game the rest basically everywhere else in
the box score, the entire rest of the game. It
was just that three point shooting that he just didn't
have the rhythm tonight this game against the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Another thing we got a note.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Is that Peyton Pritchard finally found his rhythm from downtown.
We have not seen him shooting the ball the way
that he typically does from long range. Well, we finally
saw it tonight, so that was great to see. Finishes
this game shooting four to eleven from long distance. Those
four to three pointers are the most that he has
made all season long in a game. Prior to tonight,
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he had not made more than two three pointers in
a game. He made three during the first half alone,
So great to see Peyton Pritchard getting a little bit
of rhythm from beyond the arc. Derek White also made
three of his eight shots from long distance. Not the
best percentage there, but we're starting to see those two
guys get a little bit of rhythm from long distance,
and that is critical for Boston's offense. That doesn't have
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the firepower that it's had in the past couple of years.
The balance across the board, well, they need those guys
to shoot the ball well from distance. They started to
do so tonight, combining to shoot seven of nineteen from
long range. So that was great to see as well.
Let's get into a couple of fan comments Hereap is
chiming in on what the Celtics need to control while
they are out there on the court. And then we've
(09:09):
got twerking class hero on Boston's poor shooting night. So Quapt,
you're up first.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, here's the comment from Quapped after this game.
He says, should not have been that close, but Utah
dominated on the glass. That and the obvious eleven for
fifty one from deep. You can't control the officials, so
you have to do well at what you can control.
They didn't. It's as simple as that. So let's concentrate
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on a couple areas of this comment. First and foremost,
Utah dominating the glass. Listen, I already commented on this
during the open. I'm gonna comment on again tonight here
during this segment as well. I think the raw numbers
say yes, Utah dominated the glass. I think in the
end they wound up out rebounding the Celtics. Yeah, it
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was fifty five to thirty six, so nineteen more rebounds
for the Jazz than the Boston Celtics. But if you
really dig a little bit deeper, and in particular during
the second half when the game was decided, during the
second half, not the first half, Boston grabbed twelve rebounds.
During the second half, Utah grabbed twenty four. So they
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got doubled up. But let's keep diving deeper. Let's pull
the layers back on this onion and not just look
at the raw numbers here. This is why Utah doubled
up the Boston Celtics in rebounding during the second half.
Are you ready to understand why this happened. It's not
because Boston just didn't rebound. It's because of this. Utah
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missed thirteen shots during the second half, thirteen Boston missed
twenty four, So the Celtics missed eleven more shots than
Utah during the second half. That right, there is a
huge chunk of that rebounding differential. It simply comes down
to the fact that Utah shot sixty four percent from
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the field during the second half, so they didn't miss much,
so therefore there weren't a lot of opportunities for the
Celtics to grab rebounds. The Celtics did miss a lot
because they shot only forty four percent from the field,
therefore there were more opportunities for Utah to grab rebounds. Again,
I'll reiterate that these two teams scored the exact same
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amount of second chance points during the second half, nine
to nine. This was simply about one team missed a
lot more shots during the second half, and therefore the
other team had more rebounding opportunities.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So I don't think that this was.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
A case of the Celtics just getting crushed on the
glass and they can't control anything with their big men. No,
it was that their offense missed shots at a far
higher rate than the other team during the second half,
and therefore the other team had more opportunities to rebound
the basketball. The other part of the comment that I
really want to zone in on is you can't control
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the officials, so you have to do well at what
you can control. And yes, there were some whistles during
that final minute that did not go Boston's way. There's
no doubt about that. It happened like there were some
fifty to fifty plays and the whistle went in Utah's favor.
It happens, that's the NBA. So to Kap's point, you've
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got to control what you can control. The Celtics can
control turnovers. The Celtics can to a degree control their
offense in creating and generating quality looks and making those shots.
Those are things that you can control. You can't turn
the ball over, especially in critical moments like on that
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final possession when Jalen was called for the offensive foul,
which I believe fifty percent of the time that gets
called for a foul, fifty percent of the time it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It did tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But the other thing is just being able to control
the offensive, able to get quality looks and make those shots.
You can control if you make shots and don't make shots,
you can't control how the whistle goes. So totally agree
with quappt on this comment of you've got to concentrate
and control what you can control. This is something that
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Brad Stevens has been saying for years, dating back to
his coaching time with the Boston Celtics. Control what you
can control, let the other chips fall as they may.
The Celtics did not control what they could control tonight.
They allowed thirty eight points during that third quarter to
the Utah Jazz, and the Celtics just did not score
with any efficiency during the second half. So those two
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areas really cost them this game, all right, Second and
final comment of the night. This is coming in from
twerking Class Hero, who says this team is not going
to win a lot of games shooting like that. With
an exclamation point, let's recap the numbers. Okay, eleven for
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fifty one from three point range. That is twenty one
point six percent. That's not good enough. I agree with
working Class Hero in this comment. Boston's not going to
win a lot of games when it shoots twenty ish
percent from long distance. No team in the league is
going to win many games when you shoot twenty ish
percent from long distance. The Celtics need to take quality threes,
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and they need their big time quality three point shooters
to make their shots at a high clip. Tonight, it
didn't happen. The only one who did was Peyton Pritchard
four for eleven during this game. That's not even over
forty percent, and we can all do the math there.
That's about thirty seven is percent from three point range.
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Derek White three for eight, Jalen Brown zero for nine,
Sam Houser one for eight, Anthony Simons two for eight.
These are all the guys who need to carry the
load from long distance, and they combine. I mean, I'm
just gonna do the math here quickly.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Forty four. They took forty four.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Combined three pointers, and they made ten, ten for forty four.
If my mass serves me correctly, here on those five players,
Jalen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, Derek White, Samhauser and Anthony Simon's like,
it's just not gonna cut it. Those guys need to
shoot at a higher clip from long distance for the
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Celtics to win games, because that's how they score. They
score from three point range. That's how those guys score.
With the exception maybe of Jalen Brown, who scores inside
the ark and at the basket quite a bit, gets
the free throw line at a pretty high clip, the
rest of those guys, their main portion of their offense
is shooting from long range. So I have confidence that
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those guys are going to turn it around. It's not
like they're not getting quality looks. They are getting quality looks,
so they're going to make these shots. I've been saying
this for a few games. Like Derek White and Peyton
Pritchard number one, those guys haven't shot well this season.
I said they're gonna start to find a rhythm. They
did a little bit tonight. Both of them shot in
the mid thirties percentage from three point range tonight. Now
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we got to get it just a little bit farther
and then we got to get the rest of the
guys to shoot well on the exact same night. Okay,
So are the Celtics gonna win many games when they
shoot eleven for fifty one from three point range? No?
But I can tell you this. You can look around
the entire league. There's thirty teams. Boston ain't the only
one that's gonna struggle if they shoot twenty percent from
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three point range. Every team in the league is going
to struggle to win games when they shoot twenty percent
from long distance. So are the Celtics gonna be better
from long distance? Yes, I promise you that, But tonight
they weren't. And that's what wound up being a major
factor in them not being able to win this game. Now,
what is the beautiful part of NBA basketball? There's always
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another game on the schedule. Boston is right back at
it on TD Garden on the TD Garden Court. Wednesday night,
they play host to the Washington Wizards at seven thirty.
That game will be broadcast on NBC Sports Boston. Let's
hope that the Southers can grab it winning that game,
get back into the win column, and head out on
the road for a three game road trip that hopefully
we'll get them back to and back over the five
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hundred mark again. The game is at seven thirty Wednesday
night on NBC Sports Boston. Make sure you send in
your comments after the final buzzer. You might wind up
in the next episode of sound Off that's Wednesday night.
In the meantime, have a great start to your week, folks,
and I'll see you after the Wizards go
Sound off with me Parks on Jalen Brown going off
during the second half, but it not being enough to
push the Boston Celtics past the Utah Jazz. Monday night
at TD Garden. This game came down to the final
second literally of regulation. This is how it all unfolded.
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Nimiash Kida went to the free throw line with a
little over twenty four seconds left and the Celtics trailing
by one. He made the first free throw to tie
the game up at one oh three to one oh three.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
He missed the second.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That free throw did not wind up really mattering in
the end, because here's what happened after that. Boston goes
on defense. Utah does not call for a timeout. I
was a bit surprised that the Jazz did not call
for timeout. It wound up working out for them. Keyante George,
who was the player of the game for the Utah Jazz,
wound up scoring thirty one points, a team high thirty
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one points during this game. He's the guy who had
the ball in his hands. He winds up driving against
I believe it was Peyton Pritchard gets down to the baseline,
puts up a fadeaway shot from the right baseline and
it misses long. Nimiash Kada is trying to box out
one of the better rebounders in the league in Usu Nurkic,
and the ball just it bounced far.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It went over Kada and it fell right into.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Nurkic's arms, and then he turned around and dropped in
a hook shot with zero point six seconds left, So
the Celtics are down by two at that point, they
called time out, still time to get off a shot,
but that didn't wind up happening. Joe Mizula draws up
a play and it winds up going to Jalen Brown,
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but a whistle was blown before he caught the inbound pass.
He was called for an offensive file with a little
bit of a push off and trying to free himself
up to get into the corner in front of Boston's bench,
which is where he did attempt a shot after the
whistle was blown. The Boston Celtics actually challenged that shot
to challenged the fall that was called on Jalen Brown,
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and Joe Mizoula did not win that challenge, So still
zero points six seconds seconds left on the clock, and
all Utah had to do was inbound the ball at
that point and the game was over. So that is
what happened during the final twenty four or so seconds
to deal the Celtics a loss against the Utah Jazz.
Utah with an offensive rebound on its final true offensive
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possession of the night. It was a quality rebound by
u Souper Nurkish but it wasn't a rebound where you
just looked if you look at the play, it's not
like Nimias Keida didn't try to box out. It's not
like he didn't give any effort.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He did.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He was caught in a spot where he was going
to try to help if if Kyante George drove to
the basket, and then he had to get back when
Kiante George fired up the baseline fade away, he had
to get back to his band and he did make contact.
He did try to box out, He did get a
body on Nurkic. He just wasn't able to push him
out far enough to be able to grab the rebound himself.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So that's how it all happened.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But the Celtics, in my opinion, did not lose this
game because of bad rebounding. There are a lot of
people out there who are claiming that that is the case.
You look at the raw numbers in the box score.
Everyone's gonna freak out. Fifteen offensive rebounds for the Utah Jazz.
Well guess what Eleven of those offensive rebounds were during
the first half, and the Celtics had a double digit
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lead during the first half, So that is the Celtics
lost this game. The Celtics lost this game during the
third quarter when they gave up thirty eight points to
the Utah Jazz. You know how many points the Celtics
gave up to the Jazz during the first half in total,
thirty six, So they gave up two more points during
the third quarter alone, then they gave up during the
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first half in total, and that was while the Jazz
grabbed those eleven offensive rebounds. So this game did not
come down to rebounding. I do understand and I will
acknowledge that the final bucket of the game did come
off in offensive rebound.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But that's it, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They grabbed four offensive rebounds during the second half the
Utah Jazz.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They scored nine second chance points, so did the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The Celtics scored nine second chance points too, so it's
a wash. That one critical play did occur, so we
can't just overlook that. But I do think Nmischkida actually
gave effort and did box out. The ball just didn't
bounce Boston's way. It bounced right into use of Nurkice's
hand and then he made a turn around hook shot
to put the Jazz in front.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So to me, the game was lost.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
In that third quarter when the Celtics had control coming
out of halftime, and they gave it away by allowing
the Jazz to score thirty eight points during the during
the quarter. And meanwhile, the Celtics didn't have a whole
lot of offensive firepower. They scored twenty six points during
the third quarter, but it wasn't very efficient. Shot only
thirty n nine percent from the field during that third quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't even want to say this number.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Nine point one percent from three point range during that
third quarter, one for eleven from beyond the arc. So yes,
they scored twenty six points themselves, but they gave up
thirty eight. That's where the game was lost. You had control,
you gave it away by not getting those stops in
the third quarter. Let's move on, Jalen Brown, I have
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to say this, this was one of the most impressive
takeover performances of his career in a half of basketball.
Like he was trying to assert himself and basically saying,
like we are not losing this game. I Am going
to do everything we need me to do to win
this game, and he almost did it. Listen, the Celtics
were down by eleven points during the second half. Jalen
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Brown is the guy who got them back into the game.
I believe at one point he scored eleven straight points
overall during the second half, sixteen points during the third quarter,
eleven during the fourth quarter. That's twenty seven points during
the second half alone. He was on fire and really
just putting pressure on the defense when the ball got
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into his hands. He was nine of fifteen from the
field during that second half, nine of nine from the
free throw line.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Got to give.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Him an applause and applaud the way that he played
during that second half to do everything he could to
try to give the Celtics a chance to win. And
he did give them a chance to win. They just
didn't pull it off. They didn't grab the critical rebound,
they did get the critical stop originally on the shot
by Keante George. They didn't grab the rebound, and then
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Nurkish was able to put it home, and then obviously
Jalen was called for the turnover. On the final offensive
possession of the night for the Boston Celtics, he committed
a foul on a pushoff. I don't think it was
that egregious watching it back, it was a foul. The
refs called it, But sometimes it might be a coin
flip where the refs don't call that play, don't call
that foul, and Jalen Brown winds up getting a good
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quality look on that final possession. So I just got
to say, like, Jalen was awesome during this game. Finishes
with thirty six points on thirteen of twenty eight shooting
from the field, four assists during this game, to he
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trailed only Derek White in that category on the team,
grabbed a couple of rebounds ten of eleven from the
free throw line, the only area he had two steals
during that stretch during the third quarter and fourth quarter
where he was getting the Celtics back into the game.
The only area where he did not play well was
shooting from beyond the arc. He was zero for nine,
but that's the only area of the game where he
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did not play well. He asserted himself as the dominant
player in this game the rest basically everywhere else in
the box score, the entire rest of the game. It
was just that three point shooting that he just didn't
have the rhythm tonight this game against the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Another thing we got a note.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Is that Peyton Pritchard finally found his rhythm from downtown.
We have not seen him shooting the ball the way
that he typically does from long range. Well, we finally
saw it tonight, so that was great to see. Finishes
this game shooting four to eleven from long distance. Those
four to three pointers are the most that he has
made all season long in a game. Prior to tonight,
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he had not made more than two three pointers in
a game. He made three during the first half alone,
So great to see Peyton Pritchard getting a little bit
of rhythm from beyond the arc. Derek White also made
three of his eight shots from long distance. Not the
best percentage there, but we're starting to see those two
guys get a little bit of rhythm from long distance,
and that is critical for Boston's offense. That doesn't have
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the firepower that it's had in the past couple of years.
The balance across the board, well, they need those guys
to shoot the ball well from distance. They started to
do so tonight, combining to shoot seven of nineteen from
long range. So that was great to see as well.
Let's get into a couple of fan comments Hereap is
chiming in on what the Celtics need to control while
they are out there on the court. And then we've
(09:09):
got twerking class hero on Boston's poor shooting night. So Quapt,
you're up first.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, here's the comment from Quapped after this game.
He says, should not have been that close, but Utah
dominated on the glass. That and the obvious eleven for
fifty one from deep. You can't control the officials, so
you have to do well at what you can control.
They didn't. It's as simple as that. So let's concentrate
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on a couple areas of this comment. First and foremost,
Utah dominating the glass. Listen, I already commented on this
during the open. I'm gonna comment on again tonight here
during this segment as well. I think the raw numbers
say yes, Utah dominated the glass. I think in the
end they wound up out rebounding the Celtics. Yeah, it
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was fifty five to thirty six, so nineteen more rebounds
for the Jazz than the Boston Celtics. But if you
really dig a little bit deeper, and in particular during
the second half when the game was decided, during the
second half, not the first half, Boston grabbed twelve rebounds.
During the second half, Utah grabbed twenty four. So they
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got doubled up. But let's keep diving deeper. Let's pull
the layers back on this onion and not just look
at the raw numbers here. This is why Utah doubled
up the Boston Celtics in rebounding during the second half.
Are you ready to understand why this happened. It's not
because Boston just didn't rebound. It's because of this. Utah
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missed thirteen shots during the second half, thirteen Boston missed
twenty four, So the Celtics missed eleven more shots than
Utah during the second half. That right, there is a
huge chunk of that rebounding differential. It simply comes down
to the fact that Utah shot sixty four percent from
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the field during the second half, so they didn't miss much,
so therefore there weren't a lot of opportunities for the
Celtics to grab rebounds. The Celtics did miss a lot
because they shot only forty four percent from the field,
therefore there were more opportunities for Utah to grab rebounds. Again,
I'll reiterate that these two teams scored the exact same
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amount of second chance points during the second half, nine
to nine. This was simply about one team missed a
lot more shots during the second half, and therefore the
other team had more rebounding opportunities.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So I don't think that this was.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
A case of the Celtics just getting crushed on the
glass and they can't control anything with their big men. No,
it was that their offense missed shots at a far
higher rate than the other team during the second half,
and therefore the other team had more opportunities to rebound
the basketball. The other part of the comment that I
really want to zone in on is you can't control
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the officials, so you have to do well at what
you can control. And yes, there were some whistles during
that final minute that did not go Boston's way. There's
no doubt about that. It happened like there were some
fifty to fifty plays and the whistle went in Utah's favor.
It happens, that's the NBA. So to Kap's point, you've
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got to control what you can control. The Celtics can
control turnovers. The Celtics can to a degree control their
offense in creating and generating quality looks and making those shots.
Those are things that you can control. You can't turn
the ball over, especially in critical moments like on that
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final possession when Jalen was called for the offensive foul,
which I believe fifty percent of the time that gets
called for a foul, fifty percent of the time it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It did tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But the other thing is just being able to control
the offensive, able to get quality looks and make those shots.
You can control if you make shots and don't make shots,
you can't control how the whistle goes. So totally agree
with quappt on this comment of you've got to concentrate
and control what you can control. This is something that
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Brad Stevens has been saying for years, dating back to
his coaching time with the Boston Celtics. Control what you
can control, let the other chips fall as they may.
The Celtics did not control what they could control tonight.
They allowed thirty eight points during that third quarter to
the Utah Jazz, and the Celtics just did not score
with any efficiency during the second half. So those two
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areas really cost them this game, all right, Second and
final comment of the night. This is coming in from
twerking Class Hero, who says this team is not going
to win a lot of games shooting like that. With
an exclamation point, let's recap the numbers. Okay, eleven for
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fifty one from three point range. That is twenty one
point six percent. That's not good enough. I agree with
working Class Hero in this comment. Boston's not going to
win a lot of games when it shoots twenty ish
percent from long distance. No team in the league is
going to win many games when you shoot twenty ish
percent from long distance. The Celtics need to take quality threes,
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and they need their big time quality three point shooters
to make their shots at a high clip. Tonight, it
didn't happen. The only one who did was Peyton Pritchard
four for eleven during this game. That's not even over
forty percent, and we can all do the math there.
That's about thirty seven is percent from three point range.
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Derek White three for eight, Jalen Brown zero for nine,
Sam Houser one for eight, Anthony Simons two for eight.
These are all the guys who need to carry the
load from long distance, and they combine. I mean, I'm
just gonna do the math here quickly.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Forty four. They took forty four.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Combined three pointers, and they made ten, ten for forty four.
If my mass serves me correctly, here on those five players,
Jalen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, Derek White, Samhauser and Anthony Simon's like,
it's just not gonna cut it. Those guys need to
shoot at a higher clip from long distance for the
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Celtics to win games, because that's how they score. They
score from three point range. That's how those guys score.
With the exception maybe of Jalen Brown, who scores inside
the ark and at the basket quite a bit, gets
the free throw line at a pretty high clip, the
rest of those guys, their main portion of their offense
is shooting from long range. So I have confidence that
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those guys are going to turn it around. It's not
like they're not getting quality looks. They are getting quality looks,
so they're going to make these shots. I've been saying
this for a few games. Like Derek White and Peyton
Pritchard number one, those guys haven't shot well this season.
I said they're gonna start to find a rhythm. They
did a little bit tonight. Both of them shot in
the mid thirties percentage from three point range tonight. Now
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we got to get it just a little bit farther
and then we got to get the rest of the
guys to shoot well on the exact same night. Okay,
So are the Celtics gonna win many games when they
shoot eleven for fifty one from three point range? No?
But I can tell you this. You can look around
the entire league. There's thirty teams. Boston ain't the only
one that's gonna struggle if they shoot twenty percent from
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three point range. Every team in the league is going
to struggle to win games when they shoot twenty percent
from long distance. So are the Celtics gonna be better
from long distance? Yes, I promise you that, But tonight
they weren't. And that's what wound up being a major
factor in them not being able to win this game. Now,
what is the beautiful part of NBA basketball? There's always
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another game on the schedule. Boston is right back at
it on TD Garden on the TD Garden Court. Wednesday night,
they play host to the Washington Wizards at seven thirty.
That game will be broadcast on NBC Sports Boston. Let's
hope that the Southers can grab it winning that game,
get back into the win column, and head out on
the road for a three game road trip that hopefully
we'll get them back to and back over the five
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hundred mark again. The game is at seven thirty Wednesday
night on NBC Sports Boston. Make sure you send in
your comments after the final buzzer. You might wind up
in the next episode of sound Off that's Wednesday night.
In the meantime, have a great start to your week, folks,
and I'll see you after the Wizards go
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