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Game 9: Celtics 98, Jazz 93
Posted by: TACOREV on November 15th, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.Despite Rajon Rondo leaving with injury in the third quarter, the Jazz lose a tight one at Boston to fall to 1-5 on the road.
Paul Pierce scored 23 while Leandro Barbosa and Jeff Green each added 16 to lead the Celtics. Rondo had six points and 10 assists before leaving the game.
Millsap led the Jazz with 23 & 12, while Mo, Hayward, and Favors all chipped in with 14 apiece. Jefferson also added 13 & 14.
Tinsley contributed absolutely nothing in 10 minutes of play, aside from a turnover and three fouls.
The Jazz had several chances late to tie and/or take the lead, but couldn’t buy a basket down the stretch and the result leaves them with a 1-1 record on this East coast road trip.
On to Philly Friday night.
Jazz player of the game: Paul Millsap
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With Watson back I wonder if Tinsley will be glued to the bench? Burks could do no worse.Favors is getting better every game. Jazz stayed close and that was a good sign.Going to take some time..
When I was watching this I was saying, “Oh look, the Celtics figured out if they can drive past their man, there’s nothing stopping them from a layup. Sure, Al’s down there, but like I said, nothing’s stopping them.” Barbosa did it a couple times, Jeff Green did it, Pierce did it. Al needs to learn to step up in front of the restricted area, arms out to stop the pass around him, and if he’s going to foul someone, foul the crap out of them. Take a charge if you’re not going to foul. All I’m seeing is Boozer’s old Matador routine. Ole!
OMG we need a real pg right now!!!!!
The realization I have made is that Foye is pretty much the Jimmer. Hes a specialist that does his speciality very well, but thats it, and then hes too small and too slow to guard the NBA SG position. Foye is a liability down the stretch cuz teams (Toronto and Boston) have figured to post up Foye if your are bigger and blow by him if your are quicker. Foye is the Jimmer.
No one can say Tinsley is better play than Burks…..hell no!! You cannot make that case. Tinsley and Watson should get ZERO minutes if the roster is healthy, period. Murphy ranks higher than them two in terms of who gives us a better chance to win. Play Burks WITH Foye!!
The thing is Al is soooo horrible that when he plays okay we think he played good. Which is not true. Millsap and Al are maybe the worst interior D that I have seen the Jazz have—how many alley-oops did the Celtics get?! Wilcox shot great cuz he just got damn dunks all night?! It was pathetic. The reason the Jazz are in all these games late is simply because of Favors, point-blank. If Jazz FO is holding auditions, I think Millsap has won….trade Al already. Millsap at the 3 is taking minutes away from Marvin, get rid of Al.
Hayward is FN great. His biggest problem is that his minutes come with the first unit, which really hurts him. Mo has the ball most of time, and Al is more and more being to much of a vocal point of the offense. Al is so damn one dimensional, Hayward cant run the P&R with Al, cuz Al never rolls?!! He just strolls to his box and camps out like usual. The P&R with Millsap and Hayward looked pretty damn good!!! And when Hayward spit the P&R, that was awesome. Everyone said Hayward tore it up at Olympics training camp, but we cannot see it cuz the offense is run through Al who just takes up space and Mo has the ball in his hands a lot, so.
Hayward needs 35 minutes; Favors needs 35 minutes; Kanter 15-20 minutes; Burks 15-20 minutes. And the rest of the minutes figure out after that.
I really like Mo, but his facilitating skills aren’t what I thought they were. If you watch, when Favors is on the floor, he will set up a perfect pick-and-roll and be left hanging by Mo, who looks for his own shot first. It’s so frustrating, because if Mo were to play with Favors like Stockton did with Malone, Favors would get 30-40 points a game, because he’s huge, can plow through inner defense and finish at the rim. It seems like he doesn’t have an offensive game because he doesn’t get set up, he has to do everything himself.
And those last four shots Mo took gave me heart disease. They were stupid, every last one of them. Refs don’t call fouls against Jazz opponents late in the game, every Celtic player was locking down the paint, don’t drive and toss the ball in the air! Pass it to your open man! And that three he took with, what, eight seconds left? It was steadily contested, and Mo was off all night! Give it to Foye or Hayward, for God’s sake. Boston handed us the game time and time again, and we didn’t capitalize.
Al is pathetically one-dimensional, and not even that great at what he does. He plays decent offense in the post, but he’s inefficient. He has to take more than twice as many shots as he makes to be effective. He needs to go. And Millsap has been lazy on defense too. It’s infuriating to see no-name scrubs tiptoe through the lightpost defense and throw down showtime dunks.
The Jazz played well tonight, despite the loss.
I’m very encouraged headed into Philly. I think things are trending in the right direction.
I would like to see Corbin play Foye and Burks together in the backup guard roles for a few games, just to see if the combination can work.
I like the fact that Ty is going to the “big” lineup early in the season this year, as opposed to waiting until the end of the year, like last season. Millsap does a solid job at small forward.
Foye’s D is horrible. Anyone know if Murphy can play D, cos if he can he should be playing ahead of Foye. I like the idea of Hayward playing with the 2nd unit so he can play to his potential. At least favors is getting minutes