Plenty of folks, including your man right here, thought last night in Salt Lake City would be a scheduled loss for the Celtics. It was anything but; in fact, you could consider arguments for it being February’s second-most entertaining game behind that Clippers double-OT blockbuster. Let’s look at the key points of this team-driven 114-103 win:
A game of peaks and valleys
Not much of the first quarter had gone by before I realized that whatever the game turned out to be, it would not be a typical SEGABABA blowout loss attributable to travel exhaustion.