There is a lot of familiarity and mutual respect between the Boston Celtics and the Utah Jazz. With the Jazz poaching executives and some coaches from Boston, Utah hopes to replicate the success of the Celtics sooner rather than later. But tonight, Utah got a lesson in what the finished product looks like. It’s no secret that the Jazz have been using this year to focus on development, but the Celtics made the Jazz look like a G-League team that is further away from contention than they would like to think. Of course, one game is not an indictment of an entire rebuild, but Utah looked like a JV team almost the whole game
It was a pretty pedestrian game for Celtics star Jason Tatum, by his standards, but he still had 26 pts, 6 r and 6 assts and made one back-breaking shot after another.