The night brings advice but the night… it mainly plays basketball. In the last hours, three new pre-season matches had thus been scheduled, and if we must obviously not draw any conclusions from the matches played on October 2, we have indeed noted some trends which should be confirmed when the game resumes on October 18. .
The pre-season is the perfect time to discover new cracks in “NBA conditions”, to see what someone or another looks like with their new jersey, but also to draw some great hasty conclusions, because it’s our favorite game in autumn. Yesterday ? Three new matches on the schedule. Earlier in the day the Warriors doubled the lead in Japan against the Warriors and last night the Clippers whistled against a team with a bizarre namewhile the Grizzlies without Ja Morant had managed Bucks without Giannis Antetokounmpo, but last night…we almost got the NBA rhythm back, hallelujah.
- Celtics – Hornets : 134-93
- Raptors – Jazz : 114-82
- Rockets – Spurs : 134-96
- Suns – Adelaide 36ers : 124-134
What can we learn from this little night of recovery? Both a lot of things and three times nothing. Already, the differences. +41, +32, +38, let’s say that we shivered very little. The Suns losing to a team named after one of my annoying exes? Boarf, recovery match, a little scary but let’s move on. For the Celtics we could see in the evening that Jaylen Brown still liked the start of the match so muchthat LaMelo Ball had to believe it was a play-in match because he tore on shot, Gordon Hayward was absent because it is a redundancy, Jayson Tatum absolutely did not force and Malcolm Brogdon made his debut in the green jersey by already releasing a few caviars off the bench.
The Raptors? They therefore received this incredible outsider for the 2023 title, the Jazz, in Edmonton to vary the pleasures, and if on the Utah side Lauri Markkanen planted 20 and that the two highly anticipated rookies Collin Sexton and Simone Fontecchio started on the bench, it’s a first jerk received by the players of Will Hardy, which should lead to others. Apart from Markkanen, the sophomore Kessler and Sexton from the parking lot, the Jazz must shoot at least 20% on the match, difficult to win when you play drunk and Nick Nurse was even able to count on almost 20 players to strum with his rotations, with a special mention – already – to Scottie Barnes, versatile at will and seeming to master the art of stepback to perfection this back to school. Finally the Rockets, new kings of the Texan derby and very happy to see that their doublet Jabari Smith Jr. / Tari Eason should not take too long to adapt to the adult world. 21 points and 8 rebounds for JSJ, 5/8 from the parking lot, 21 checkers and 10 strikes for Tari, because here, here, it’s Tari. Jeremy Sochan did try to… no he didn’t try anything at all and he was already very happy to play, even to see old Eric Gordon stacking buckets at 56, even to see Sengun and Christopher slowly rev up, even to see the two wisps Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Jr. do a ball-trap in the middle of the match (6/21 cumulative).
In conclusion ? Nothing at all, except that the youth of Houston seem more ready than that of the Spurs, except that the Jazz seem good at losing, except that the Celtics were playing in white and that tonight Ben Simmons could play against the Sixers. WHAT ??? Wait repeat a bit to see? Yeah, you heard very well my friend.
Jaylen Brown had the hot hand in Game 1 of the @celtics‘ #NBAPreseason ♨
☘ 24 PTS (8-11 FGM), 5 REB pic.twitter.com/3D9P3YoKev
— NBA (@NBA) October 2, 2022
???? #NBAPreseason Final Score Thread ????
Jaylen Brown caught ???? to lead the @celtics to the win in their NBA preseason opener!
Jaylen Brown: 24 PTS (8-11 FGM), 5 REB
Kelly Oubre Jr.: 17 PTS, 3 STL pic.twitter.com/zsvxkXgn6y— NBA (@NBA) October 2, 2022
Tonight’s program:
- 1h30 : Nets – Sixers
- 2h : Grizzlies – Magic
- 3h : Nuggets – Thunder
- 4h30 : Lakers – Kings
- 4h30 : Clippers – Blazers
