Road trip ends in disappointment: 10 Takeaways from Celtics/Jazz

Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images1. The Celtics return home to Boston off a 2-3 road trip and with a barely-above-.500 record of 12-11. The good news? The Eastern Conference stinks like chicken that you didn’t take out to the curb in time for trash pickup. That has the team somehow still in fourth place in the East.

Could the Celtics have gone 5-0 on the trip? Sure. Could they have gone 0-5? Less likely, but also a possibility. Instead, they went 2-3 and were a play or two away from 3-2. Basically, a perfectly average team.

That’s what the Celtics are at this moment. The key term being “at this moment”. Boston now has a string of home games and the schedule features several…