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00:00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:00:03 Can you say hard hats, folks?

00:00:07 Hard hats, lunch pail, steel tool, boots.

00:00:09 Anything short of a championship this year is a failure.

00:00:12 It's not even--

00:00:12 Look at this boomer right here.

00:00:14 You've just got so much talent here.

00:00:16 Somebody said we need to apologize for Jamie.

00:00:18 Can I pull the John?

00:00:19 What are we apologizing for?

00:00:21 What did we say?

00:00:22 What did we do?

00:00:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:00:26 [HUMMING]

00:00:29 Ahmet wasn't there.

00:00:35 Ahmet knows you're demanding.

00:00:36 He wasn't there to trail it out for you.

00:00:39 It's OK.

00:00:39 I let it slide.

00:00:40 I wasn't on the last show.

00:00:41 I would have reminded him.

00:00:42 You are correct.

00:00:44 You are correct.

00:00:44 And he made an outro.

00:00:45 I heard there's a nice outro.

00:00:47 He made it without you.

00:00:48 I heard I might be part of it.

00:00:50 He did make it without me, but--

00:00:53 With you in mind.

00:00:53 He also showed it to me in advance, too.

00:00:56 So I did get sneaky.

00:00:58 He made it with you in mind.

00:01:01 So we are here.

00:01:02 Jimmy Toscano, John Zanis, The Garden Report.

00:01:05 What's up, dude?

00:01:07 You guys are watching live.

00:01:08 You are looking live.

00:01:09 Or you could be watching on replay.

00:01:11 And if you are, what's up, dudes?

00:01:12 Well, do it live.

00:01:13 Yeah, good morning, good afternoon, good night,

00:01:15 wherever you are watching it, if you're not live.

00:01:17 Or even if you are.

00:01:19 Yeah, or you could be listening.

00:01:20 You could be listening to the audio version of the show,

00:01:23 which is available.

00:01:24 And you can always kind of run it back,

00:01:25 play some greatest hits.

00:01:26 People don't realize it's available on Spotify,

00:01:28 I feel like.

00:01:29 They just don't think that it is.

00:01:30 Well, it is, folks.

00:01:32 Jimmy, did you fog up?

00:01:34 Yeah, I did.

00:01:35 I did fog up.

00:01:36 You going to be all right?

00:01:38 I'm not sure.

00:01:40 I'm really not sure.

00:01:42 I'm just going to wipe the screen a little bit.

00:01:44 You know, if I go really close and then back up,

00:01:47 sometimes it--

00:01:50 nope, still didn't work.

00:01:51 Yes, we don't plug it.

00:01:52 Blorp, we don't.

00:01:54 Because you guys are here, and we

00:01:55 don't feel the need to plug it to the people who are here.

00:01:57 Because you're here.

00:01:59 Because you're here.

00:02:00 Defeats the purpose, but you're right.

00:02:02 There's an audio version.

00:02:03 On the days that you're not here, you can catch it,

00:02:05 obviously, on replay and audio.

00:02:07 Good game.

00:02:08 Good podcast, too.

00:02:09 Good win.

00:02:11 Josue and Bobby at the Garden, they'll be joining us in a bit.

00:02:16 Yes, hot, hot Jimmy.

00:02:18 Hot guy.

00:02:19 Hot guy.

00:02:20 Not hot guy.

00:02:21 Big difference.

00:02:22 Not hot guy, but the hot guy.

00:02:25 What are we doing about Mahomes?

00:02:27 Mahomes can't deny him, John.

00:02:28 What does that mean?

00:02:30 What does that mean?

00:02:31 I don't talk about Mahomes, because I

00:02:33 can't stand the Chiefs.

00:02:35 Love Mahomes.

00:02:36 No, John's like a Mahomes soy boy.

00:02:40 I love Mahomes.

00:02:41 I don't know why.

00:02:42 He's not like that likable at all.

00:02:44 I marvel at him.

00:02:45 He's amazing.

00:02:46 His whole family is unlikable.

00:02:48 It goes beyond him.

00:02:50 Oh, the rest of them suck.

00:02:51 I just-- I can't--

00:02:53 watching him play is just--

00:02:55 I just--

00:02:56 Yeah, you can't deny that he's a good player.

00:02:57 But he's not--

00:02:58 I marvel at him.

00:02:59 He's not Tom Brady, and he never will be.

00:03:02 You want to know why?

00:03:03 Because Tom Brady beat him--

00:03:04 Because he's going to surpass him.

00:03:06 No, Tom Brady beat him twice.

00:03:08 So as far as I'm concerned, that debate's already over.

00:03:12 Anyway, good win tonight.

00:03:14 Bobby's going to be coming in hot with his Zion sucks

00:03:16 takes, which--

00:03:19 Painful.

00:03:20 Which I'm just-- I'm preparing myself for it.

00:03:24 Running the stats.

00:03:25 Yeah.

00:03:27 Listen, Zion-- we'll get into Zion a little bit later.

00:03:31 Anyway, it's great comeback by the South Dakotas tonight.

00:03:34 Great comeback win.

00:03:34 Jimmy's trying not to make these jokes tonight, people.

00:03:37 So you're going to have to make them for him.

00:03:39 I know.

00:03:40 You know what?

00:03:41 There's a restaurant in the North End called Table.

00:03:44 No lie, John.

00:03:45 There's a restaurant called--

00:03:46 The Table.

00:03:48 If I know Zion, he's going there after the game

00:03:50 because he eats--

00:03:51 I saw a belly.

00:03:53 He's going to eat--

00:03:54 Zion, when he eats, he eats The Table.

00:03:57 You know what?

00:03:59 That restaurant is designed to--

00:04:01 it's like a family style restaurant.

00:04:03 It is like one big table, and it's

00:04:04 supposed to be shared between, I don't know, 10 people.

00:04:07 But that's the type of place where I feel like he would go

00:04:09 and just rent the table.

00:04:11 Just one-- how many sets of--

00:04:14 basically, you know how fat you are when you order,

00:04:16 and they put however many sets of cutlery, of plastic

00:04:20 they put in the bag?

00:04:22 When you order for one, and there's

00:04:23 four sets of plastic in there, and you're like--

00:04:28 One will do.

00:04:29 Just one.

00:04:32 That's all I got.

00:04:34 Or it's actually worse when they ask you.

00:04:36 Like, how many sets of utensils do you need?

00:04:39 Just one.

00:04:39 One.

00:04:40 That's what it is.

00:04:41 My food.

00:04:41 Give it to me.

00:04:42 Give me my food, please.

00:04:44 Quick Zion-- we'll get into the game itself.

00:04:48 Nice to win a game like this after you've lost a couple

00:04:50 with not great execution.

00:04:53 Nice to win a game where you were ice cold from three

00:04:57 and were able to pull it around.

00:04:59 Nice to win a game where you went on a run,

00:05:01 and the other team kind of reverted the ice ball

00:05:04 and went ice cold, and you imposed their will on them.

00:05:09 This was great.

00:05:12 Great win there.

00:05:12 But I do want to quickly give my Zion moment

00:05:14 before Bobby comes in here and turns into a full-on brawl.

00:05:19 You and I feel the same about this guy.

00:05:21 This is an MVP if he drops 40 pounds.

00:05:24 He is ridiculous.

00:05:28 Just the speed, his quickness.

00:05:31 He's 50 pounds overweight at least,

00:05:34 and he is so quick and fast.

00:05:37 He's not even jumping.

00:05:39 Scal made a great comment in the game.

00:05:40 He literally goes by people like it doesn't even matter.

00:05:46 Like they're not there.

00:05:47 The defense doesn't matter.

00:05:49 He just slices his way to the basket,

00:05:53 and then his finesse is what blows my mind.

00:05:56 He's a good dribbler.

00:05:57 He's a good passer.

00:05:58 He made a couple bad turnovers late, but his finesse--

00:06:02 oh my god.

00:06:03 This is an MVP.

00:06:03 That's the difference.

00:06:05 35-point-per-game MVP if he just took it seriously.

00:06:10 He's that good.

00:06:12 Most dominant force since Shaq if he just took it seriously.

00:06:17 It's unreal.

00:06:18 He's Shaq, but obviously not height-wise.

00:06:23 But he's Shaq, but with finesse.

00:06:25 Shaq is pretty much--

00:06:27 Shaq had a pretty little hook and all that stuff,

00:06:30 and he had some good--

00:06:31 I'm saying physically dominant, but not physical.

00:06:33 No, but Zion, his burst is still there.

00:06:36 He can just bully you around, and then yeah,

00:06:38 it's the finesse around the rim.

00:06:40 And some of those finishes tonight at the basket,

00:06:43 the way he just went--

00:06:45 I don't even know how he did it.

00:06:46 He had one that went so high off the glass and just--

00:06:49 Yeah, the one that spins it up high.

00:06:51 It honestly is a damn shame.

00:06:53 He's robbing us of just an unbelievable talent

00:06:56 because he really is his own sworn enemy.

00:06:58 Generational type of talent.

00:06:59 Yeah.

00:07:00 And I mean, listen, he's still young enough

00:07:02 where he can figure it out, but I

00:07:03 don't know if it's going to take a change of scenery.

00:07:05 Sometimes that's--

00:07:06 I don't know if he ever figures it out fully.

00:07:08 It's going to take a lot.

00:07:10 It's going to take a lot.

00:07:11 But you can see it tonight.

00:07:12 I mean, we don't get to watch him as much

00:07:15 because they don't have the games on national TV anymore.

00:07:18 But it's still there.

00:07:21 He's still got it.

00:07:21 He just needs to-- again, he needs to not--

00:07:23 when the Pelicans go back to the hotel tonight,

00:07:27 they cannot drive past the north end

00:07:29 because I think they'll take a left turn down Hanover Street,

00:07:32 and that might be the last time we see Zion.

00:07:34 Those are the things you've got to really focus on off

00:07:37 the court.

00:07:38 But yeah, he's unreal talent.

00:07:40 And John, we had a famous debate about Zion Ingram

00:07:44 versus Tatum Brown.

00:07:46 That's on ice right now.

00:07:47 That debate's on ice right now.

00:07:50 But the point, I think, at the time

00:07:52 was, before we knew that Zion could eat himself out

00:07:56 of the league, was that these were

00:07:58 two extremely talented young players

00:08:01 that you should be able to build a franchise around.

00:08:05 Now, Pelicans haven't been able to.

00:08:07 And a lot of that is because of Zion.

00:08:10 But you can see tonight, the way that the Pelicans started

00:08:13 this game, they were more aggressive.

00:08:15 You can see the way that they can score, whether it's

00:08:18 McCollum, Ingram, Williamson.

00:08:20 The problem is, and Scal mentioned it,

00:08:21 they're not consistent.

00:08:22 So you saw it tonight.

00:08:23 Tonight was like a microcosm of, I think,

00:08:25 probably what that team is or that their season is.

00:08:28 They come out in bursts.

00:08:29 They can-- all of a sudden, they can drop 10.

00:08:31 Within a minute.

00:08:32 And then they go into these lows.

00:08:34 This game was all about runs, from whether it

00:08:36 was the Pelicans or the Celtics.

00:08:38 It was just one extreme to the next.

00:08:40 And man, the Celtics could not have started any colder

00:08:43 from beyond the arc.

00:08:44 I mean, the mid-range at the rim was OK.

00:08:48 But the three points, cold as can be,

00:08:51 stemming from that Clippers loss.

00:08:53 So got to give them credit for coming out in the second half.

00:08:55 It was a bad start with that, right?

00:08:57 Yeah.

00:08:58 After having that miserable, miserable shooting

00:09:02 game against the Clippers--

00:09:03 Hangover.

00:09:04 Yeah.

00:09:05 To come out as cold as they were to start the game

00:09:08 was definitely not great.

00:09:12 And obviously, they pulled it out.

00:09:14 Derek White--

00:09:17 Derek White, fourth quarter, man.

00:09:19 --got his groove back a little bit, because that was, again,

00:09:23 he's been cold for a little bit from three.

00:09:26 And he started this game bad, too.

00:09:28 I think one for eight or one for seven from three.

00:09:30 Yeah, he was missing everything.

00:09:31 Missed the halftime shot that was wide open.

00:09:35 But that fourth quarter, he hit that one-- no.

00:09:37 He did something, I think, in the paint.

00:09:39 And then he hit a three, like five quick points.

00:09:41 And then from that point on, he went into another level.

00:09:47 So I got to give the guards credit tonight,

00:09:49 because it was Drew Holiday, I think, for most of this game.

00:09:52 I thought Holiday was their most consistent player

00:09:54 from start to finish.

00:09:55 And then Derek White turned it on.

00:09:57 But then, again, you look at this box score,

00:10:00 or just watching the game, Tatum and Brown

00:10:04 combined for, I think, close to 50 or 50.

00:10:06 So it's like they found--

00:10:07 Not only that--

00:10:07 --a way to contribute, too.

00:10:08 They almost both had triple doubles.

00:10:10 21 rebounds between the two of them, seven and eight assists,

00:10:13 respectively.

00:10:14 It was three in the second half.

00:10:16 Yeah, crazy games.

00:10:18 Tatum finishes with 10 and eight.

00:10:20 Brown finishes 11 rebounds, seven assists.

00:10:22 Super impressive, the way they got that going.

00:10:25 Neither one shot well from three.

00:10:27 Tatum had a really bad turnover game tonight.

00:10:29 Jaylen Brown, zero turnovers tonight.

00:10:32 Zero turnovers.

00:10:33 And he took Zion, and forced a turnover late in that fourth,

00:10:36 too.

00:10:36 He did.

00:10:37 He did.

00:10:38 So good all-around games from those guys.

00:10:41 Holiday was good when everyone else was bad.

00:10:43 That made it twice as good, twice as important,

00:10:45 because a lot of people were struggling,

00:10:47 and Holiday was hitting shots.

00:10:48 And he was able to get to the basket some.

00:10:51 And he was playing well.

00:10:52 And I mean, he did the best I guess he could.

00:10:54 Matched up with Zion a couple of times,

00:10:56 but they didn't have anybody who was matching up there.

00:10:59 No, I mean, he was physical.

00:11:00 He gave it right back to Zion.

00:11:01 I thought he was physical on the offensive end

00:11:04 when he found himself up against him.

00:11:06 So it was bad.

00:11:08 You're not going to stop Zion if Zion gets into bully mode.

00:11:12 And it's just-- it's a testament to Holiday.

00:11:15 Yeah, I mean, the guy--

00:11:16 Holiday's always getting those types of match-ups.

00:11:18 And you've got to tip your cap to him for taking him on

00:11:22 and just doing the best he can.

00:11:23 But I mean, Zion hit some pretty--

00:11:26 you watch that game back.

00:11:27 You'll see him hit some pretty ridiculous shots

00:11:29 at the rim and whatnot.

00:11:30 So if you're a Pelicans fan or if you're a Pelicans player,

00:11:35 you're pissed off tonight, because this was a game

00:11:37 where you didn't play that poorly.

00:11:38 You actually played pretty damn well.

00:11:40 You just happened to play against one

00:11:41 of the better teams in the NBA.

00:11:42 And they turned it on in the second half.

00:11:44 But the talent is there.

00:11:46 I mean, Trey Murphy, the third, hit some big shots for them.

00:11:51 They have the guys.

00:11:52 It's just-- I don't know.

00:11:53 I don't watch enough of the Pelicans.

00:11:54 I don't know if it's coaching.

00:11:55 I don't know if it's just lack of execution

00:11:56 or if it's just they don't have the right veterans in place.

00:11:59 But they just don't put it all together in the Celtics.

00:12:02 You've got to give them credit for whatever adjustments

00:12:05 they were able to make at halftime.

00:12:08 I think a lot of it was just missed shots, John.

00:12:10 I mean, they were just missing three after three after three.

00:12:13 And you had to hope that it was going to even out at some point.

00:12:17 And it did.

00:12:19 And one guy we haven't mentioned--

00:12:20 and we have mentioned a couple of guys.

00:12:22 But I got to give Al Horford a little bit of credit tonight,

00:12:25 too.

00:12:26 I thought he got better as the game went on.

00:12:28 He got physical, again, against some of the younger

00:12:35 bigs in the league.

00:12:36 Again, and obviously Zion Ingram and those players.

00:12:40 Had a big, grown man, dad strength, offensive rebound

00:12:44 and putback in that fourth quarter

00:12:46 tonight that I thought was huge for them.

00:12:48 Yeah.

00:12:48 And for what it's worth--

00:12:50 and everyone's going to make a big deal about it.

00:12:52 But this is where the conversation

00:12:56 bores me a little bit on the too many threes situation.

00:13:01 I'll always favor the easy basket over the three,

00:13:04 because an easy basket is an easy basket.

00:13:06 When I'm talking easy basket, I'm

00:13:08 saying getting all the way to the cup,

00:13:10 creating easy baskets through passing,

00:13:13 not just driving into people and trying to win ISO matchups,

00:13:17 where there's help defense coming over

00:13:19 and shooters falling out of bounds

00:13:21 and creating transition opportunities the other way.

00:13:23 I mean, easy baskets.

00:13:25 You create easy baskets and easy looks by working the ball,

00:13:28 by working some matchups.

00:13:29 I always think that that's the favorite.

00:13:31 But if the Celtics stop shooting threes tonight

00:13:33 because they were cold and went away from it,

00:13:35 they lose the game.

00:13:37 The three ball got them back in it.

00:13:38 So again, I think they're not hugely different than a lot

00:13:42 of different teams.

00:13:43 You want to see them be able to get those easy baskets as well

00:13:47 and not be that entirely reliant on it.

00:13:48 But that's their formula.

00:13:51 And so they got to kind of stay with it,

00:13:53 even when it's not going great.

00:13:54 And it was going bad again after such a miserable game

00:13:58 against the Clippers.

00:13:58 And they had to keep shooting, and they did.

00:14:00 And that actually won them the game.

00:14:05 Yeah, I mean, listen, you go down 15 or whatever

00:14:08 it was in the first half.

00:14:10 And then they went down, I think, 11 in the third

00:14:12 for a quick second.

00:14:13 You're going to try to shoot your way back into it.

00:14:15 Now, it's one thing.

00:14:15 If you can get to the line and get fouls and take free throws,

00:14:18 that's great.

00:14:19 Three the hard way, there's no issues there.

00:14:23 But they have three points.

00:14:25 This team is designed and built to shoot threes.

00:14:29 So yeah, I mean, you're going to have nights like you did

00:14:32 against the Clippers or whoever, where if they're not falling,

00:14:35 then that's just it.

00:14:36 And there might be some teams that

00:14:38 can get away with it a little bit more,

00:14:39 because they might have more of an interior presence.

00:14:42 But this Celtics team focuses on those threes.

00:14:45 Even their bigs focus on threes, Porzingis and Horford.

00:14:48 Like, they don't have, I guess, K to play tonight.

00:14:51 So there's one guy that's not going

00:14:53 to be focusing on threes.

00:14:54 But--

00:14:54 That was it, man.

00:14:55 They have six of eight from three in the fourth quarter.

00:14:58 They shoot 72% of the field in the fourth.

00:15:00 They just got blazing hot.

00:15:01 And that was it.

00:15:02 Lights out.

00:15:03 They win the game.

00:15:05 I wouldn't say going away, but I mean, they friggin--

00:15:08 they just blew by him at the end there.

00:15:10 That was really impressive.

00:15:12 Fourth quarter by the Celtics.

00:15:13 So an all-around good win.

00:15:14 I'm seeing some people saying that the Missoula press

00:15:18 conference has been entertaining.

00:15:20 I'm very curious as to why.

00:15:23 I'll say this, John, too, just going back to the threes.

00:15:27 And Scal mentioned this on the broadcast.

00:15:29 This is kind of basically like coming out of halftime.

00:15:33 How the Celtics react when the shots aren't falling

00:15:37 is really going to speak to how well they'll end up

00:15:41 and how far they'll end up going.

00:15:43 Because-- and we've said this before.

00:15:45 When they miss shots, they tend to sulk.

00:15:48 They tend to start focusing on officiating

00:15:51 or whatever it might be.

00:15:52 I'm not saying that happened tonight,

00:15:53 but generally speaking, they let their guard down

00:15:56 on the defensive side if the shots aren't falling.

00:15:58 They need to figure out a way to still play hard defensively

00:16:03 when things aren't going their way offensively.

00:16:05 And I think that's kind of what happened a little bit

00:16:07 tonight with them against this team.

00:16:10 They started missing some shots, frustrating shots,

00:16:13 getting frustrated, maybe not putting in the level of effort

00:16:17 that they need to on the defensive end

00:16:19 because it's the NBA.

00:16:20 You can't just take games off.

00:16:22 And when you do, you see what happens.

00:16:24 You see the bucks.

00:16:25 You see maybe a situation like--

00:16:28 not a game, but if you take enough time off within a game,

00:16:31 it can get away from you quickly.

00:16:32 So they need to figure out how to still be engaged and play

00:16:36 hard on the defensive end.

00:16:37 And that's how you kind of get into the games

00:16:39 when the threes aren't falling, John.

00:16:41 You get stops defensively.

00:16:42 You get out in transition.

00:16:44 You tire the other team.

00:16:45 They were making Zion run tonight.

00:16:47 So he was getting winded.

00:16:48 I think he had to call out a couple of times.

00:16:50 They were attacking him.

00:16:51 So yeah, it was the threes on one hand, John.

00:16:54 But if they didn't get out and get stops and run in transition

00:16:58 and make Norlands work defensively--

00:17:01 No, they played faster too, and that was good.

00:17:03 Yeah, I don't think they got back either.

00:17:05 They got to the basket too.

00:17:07 The threes also started falling there.

00:17:10 I mean, dominant fourth.

00:17:11 They got whatever they wanted there.

00:17:13 So that was great.

00:17:15 I'm really intrigued by this Mazzullo stuff.

00:17:17 What's going on?

00:17:18 He's just being weird in ways only Joe can be.

00:17:22 So I'll let the viewers kind of determine for themselves.

00:17:27 Well, Amit will clip it for us for sure.

00:17:29 When Amit clips it and sends it over.

00:17:31 That's-- yeah, that's-- unless you

00:17:33 ask him to make some spicy intro or outro or something

00:17:37 for you.

00:17:38 No, I'm good with the outro.

00:17:39 Yeah, we're good for now.

00:17:40 It diverts his attention, yeah.

00:17:43 Hey, Amit came to my gig on Friday, John.

00:17:45 So you're on the hot seat.

00:17:46 Did he?

00:17:47 Yeah.

00:17:49 Hasn't he come a bunch?

00:17:50 He's like a groupie now.

00:17:51 He's come to a few, yeah.

00:17:52 I'm not going to say any more, but he's-- yeah, we have fun.

00:17:55 We have a good time.

00:17:56 Yeah, groupie.

00:17:58 I'm not going to say groupie, no.

00:17:59 He's not a groupie.

00:17:59 But he's got some groupies.

00:18:01 You ever watch--

00:18:01 I think he's got some groupies, to be completely honest.

00:18:04 You ever watch Flight of the Concords?

00:18:07 You know what?

00:18:08 I never really-- I know the show, but I never got into it.

00:18:10 It was a little too--

00:18:12 it was a little too Portland for me.

00:18:14 Kristen Schaal-- no, that's New Zealand.

00:18:18 It's the New Zealanders, Bret and Jermaine.

00:18:20 Anyway, it doesn't matter.

00:18:21 They're a musical duo, and they have one fan,

00:18:27 and it's Kristen Schaal.

00:18:28 And so that's why I was going to make that joke with Ahmet.

00:18:31 I don't know.

00:18:32 I don't know.

00:18:33 Yeah.

00:18:34 Ahmet's in with the band.

00:18:36 He's in with the band.

00:18:38 I'll say that.

00:18:39 Ahmet's on my VIP list, for sure.

00:18:41 So does this wash away the Clippers' stank for you

00:18:44 a little bit?

00:18:46 No, not entirely.

00:18:47 No, because again, this goes back to what I said

00:18:50 after the Bucks lost.

00:18:51 This goes back to what I said--

00:18:55 oh, after the Denver loss.

00:18:58 And I'll give the Pelicans credit.

00:18:59 They're not a basement-dwelling team,

00:19:01 but they're not a championship-contending team

00:19:03 either.

00:19:03 Does it wash it away?

00:19:04 Does it lessen the stench?

00:19:07 Sure, it does, because you know why?

00:19:08 I like that they won this game, Jerm,

00:19:10 because if they lose tonight, now

00:19:12 they've got a back-to-back tomorrow with Indy.

00:19:14 Now we're talking about, oh, God, maybe a losing streak.

00:19:17 And it's like it could all of a sudden spiral.

00:19:19 So I do like the fight, and I like the recovery

00:19:21 they made in this game.

00:19:22 But it doesn't take away from a stinker

00:19:26 against a title contender in the Clippers.

00:19:30 And again, I go back to the games

00:19:32 that they've lost this year.

00:19:34 They've lost to the Sixers.

00:19:35 They've lost to the Bucks.

00:19:36 They've lost to the Nuggets.

00:19:37 They've lost to the Clippers.

00:19:39 They're losing to all the teams that they're

00:19:40 going to see either in the Eastern Conference finals

00:19:44 or in the NBA finals.

00:19:45 So those games are never just going to disappear for me.

00:19:48 It's great to bounce back and get the wins

00:19:51 from everybody else.

00:19:52 But I still care about those games.

00:19:54 And that's why I care when they no-show

00:19:56 or when they get blown out, because those

00:20:01 are litmus tests for me.

00:20:02 And so I want good competitive games.

00:20:04 I want wins in the end.

00:20:05 So that's my answer to that.

00:20:07 But that being said, it's still a nice win for them.

00:20:11 It is a nice win.

00:20:13 I agree.

00:20:14 I think people got a little--

00:20:16 people got really-- people got triggered, Jimmy.

00:20:19 You got foggy again.

00:20:20 Yeah, I know.

00:20:21 It's-- you know what?

00:20:22 I think it's the new thing we're doing here.

00:20:24 But whatever.

00:20:25 OK, yeah, blame the tech.

00:20:26 I think it's the new thing we're doing here.

00:20:29 Blame the tech.

00:20:31 The-- welcome, Ice Cream.

00:20:33 Yeah, Joe's comments are about entitlement.

00:20:38 We'll get that in a little bit here.

00:20:40 Look at me now.

00:20:41 Yeah, we beat those teams, too.

00:20:44 But they're like five and six against some Kess.

00:20:47 It's not the end of the world.

00:20:48 That's not good.

00:20:49 That's not a good record, John.

00:20:50 Last I checked, that's a losing record.

00:20:52 Look, I mean, the best teams are going to play each other in

00:20:54 and around 500.

00:20:56 So it's not great.

00:20:57 But you lost OKC.

00:20:59 You did come back and you beat Minnesota.

00:21:01 You just lost recently.

00:21:02 You also lost to Minnesota.

00:21:03 And you lost to Minnesota.

00:21:05 You lost to Philly.

00:21:06 So I mean, you've had a couple.

00:21:07 Yeah.

00:21:07 Yeah, it's-- listen, it's-- they're floating around 500,

00:21:10 which I can't expect them to go undefeated against these teams.

00:21:13 But you asked me if it washes away the stench

00:21:15 from the Clippers.

00:21:16 It doesn't wash it away.

00:21:17 They got absolutely embarrassed.

00:21:19 And they've gotten embarrassed a couple of times this year.

00:21:21 And so I don't like that trend.

00:21:24 I don't like the idea of just throwing

00:21:27 in the towel in the middle of these games like we've seen.

00:21:29 So I want to address this one.

00:21:31 I think people do put them all in the same bucket.

00:21:34 And they're not in the same bucket.

00:21:36 The reason people bring those up is this--

00:21:41 Celtics are good enough to sleepwalk their way

00:21:43 through most games.

00:21:45 Celtics team this year has played bad games

00:21:47 in one against bad teams.

00:21:50 Other teams-- other Celtics teams didn't do that as much.

00:21:53 They would have letdowns against bad teams, which

00:21:55 would be frustrating as hell, but more excusable than giving

00:21:59 your best shot with a full roster against a good team.

00:22:04 And losing, that tells you a little more.

00:22:05 So yes, it's not the end of the world.

00:22:08 It just means more.

00:22:10 I actually think that--

00:22:11 I think the OKC just lost to Detroit.

00:22:13 I think the let--

00:22:14 I think the emotional letdown when you look past a team

00:22:17 doesn't bother me at all.

00:22:19 It really doesn't.

00:22:20 It's annoying, but I don't rant over those.

00:22:22 I don't rant over the losses against bad teams either.

00:22:25 But when you talk about them, or when you watch them,

00:22:30 they hold more weight.

00:22:32 Because both teams want to make--

00:22:35 the Clippers came in and they had--

00:22:37 they wanted to send a message because they got friggin'

00:22:39 embarrassed.

00:22:40 It was without Kawhi.

00:22:41 They got embarrassed in LA.

00:22:43 They came here, and they friggin' put it to you.

00:22:46 Denver beat you on your home court.

00:22:47 They're getting up for you the same way

00:22:49 you're getting up for them.

00:22:50 So you're getting their best shot.

00:22:53 And it doesn't mean that--

00:22:55 It doesn't mean you're going to lose to them if you face them.

00:22:57 But you're like, OK, wow, that was a loss.

00:23:01 You'd feel better about a win.

00:23:02 In the same way-- and again, I don't

00:23:04 know why fans get this way.

00:23:07 If you rip through Denver, the Clippers, Minnesota, OKC,

00:23:13 and Philly, and we're 5-0, are you

00:23:15 telling me fans wouldn't be like, look how they've

00:23:17 played against the contenders?

00:23:18 It's both ways, guys.

00:23:20 It doesn't mean because you beat the contenders

00:23:22 you would beat them in the finals,

00:23:23 but you'll puff your chest out a little bit about it.

00:23:26 If you lose to them, you're going to be like, oh,

00:23:28 so we lost.

00:23:29 OK?

00:23:30 Kind of like knocks you down a peg or two.

00:23:32 That's it.

00:23:33 It just knocks you down a peg or two.

00:23:34 That's it.

00:23:35 Yeah, it is.

00:23:36 It is not happy.

00:23:37 No, I'm just addressing your nonsense.

00:23:39 That's all, OK?

00:23:41 You're going to be that kind of fan.

00:23:43 That's what I'm going to say.

00:23:44 That's it.

00:23:45 I'm sorry, buddy.

00:23:45 [INTERPOSING VOICES]

00:23:47 We're talking about this game.

00:23:48 We're talking about bigger picture stuff.

00:23:50 We're setting--

00:23:51 That's the thing, yeah.

00:23:51 If we're talking about just this game, yeah, I have nothing to be--

00:23:54 I'm happy that we talked about it.

00:23:57 They started off cold.

00:23:59 I love the way that they responded in the second half.

00:24:00 And they're doing this without Porzingis too, which is huge.

00:24:03 Because he's monstrous.

00:24:05 But yeah, go ahead.

00:24:06 No, I mean, I don't want to repeat myself.

00:24:07 I feel like I made it very clear that I was impressed by the way

00:24:10 that they came back in the second half.

00:24:11 They were down 11 in the fourth, I think,

00:24:13 or at least nine in the fourth.

00:24:15 And Derek White got hot.

00:24:16 Jason Tatum made some--

00:24:19 again, I tweeted about this too.

00:24:21 There was a play in that fourth quarter--

00:24:23 I think it was either the third or fourth--

00:24:25 where he got called for an offensive foul.

00:24:28 It looked like McCollum kind of flopped a little bit.

00:24:30 But he got hit in the mouth.

00:24:31 They called Tatum for it.

00:24:33 Tatum kind of waved off the ref, which maybe he got lucky

00:24:38 he didn't get teed up for that.

00:24:39 But on the very next play, what did he do?

00:24:41 He saw a pass being made.

00:24:45 And he made the steal on it off McCollum.

00:24:47 And then he made a nice pass to Holliday.

00:24:49 And Holliday went in for the and-one layup.

00:24:52 And that was off-- and McCollum fouled him.

00:24:55 So I was like, that's the response

00:24:56 you want from these guys.

00:24:57 So that was a perfect example of just, again, maybe

00:25:01 a little bit of maturity there, staying in the game,

00:25:04 staying locked in, not letting the referees or the opponent

00:25:07 get under your skin, and making the right play

00:25:09 on the very next possession.

00:25:10 And flipping the game in that way.

00:25:12 So I love that from Tatum tonight.

00:25:16 So there was a lot of good moments in this game.

00:25:18 Game in general, I liked winning a little ugly.

00:25:21 I like it being gross.

00:25:23 This felt bad.

00:25:25 It felt bad, right, for a lot of the game.

00:25:27 Didn't feel good at all.

00:25:28 Yeah, it was ugly.

00:25:29 Didn't you get into a rhythm?

00:25:30 You knew you were short.

00:25:31 You knew the personnel you were missing

00:25:33 was affecting how the game was going.

00:25:35 You weren't hitting your threes again.

00:25:37 And you're starting to worry about, uh-oh,

00:25:39 is this kind of a funk?

00:25:40 Or-- no, it's too short to say regression to the mean.

00:25:44 But we saw what happened last year,

00:25:47 ridiculously hot for a while.

00:25:49 And then it came down.

00:25:50 It was like, uh-oh.

00:25:51 So if this team went on a stretch of 10 games, 15 games,

00:25:55 shooting 32% from three, does that

00:25:56 change everything about the perception of the team?

00:25:59 So yeah, you get a little-- you see them not falling again

00:26:02 and like, uh-oh, I don't like that at all.

00:26:03 And they topped it out.

00:26:04 I like that a lot.

00:26:05 And they did it--

00:26:06 they got timely baskets from Hauser and from--

00:26:10 Hauser had a huge three.

00:26:11 Yep.

00:26:12 From whatever, Keita with the dime--

00:26:14 Keita with the play of the day.

00:26:16 The dime to Hauser for the dunk.

00:26:19 That was great.

00:26:19 Those back-to-backs were terrific

00:26:21 there in the third quarter that pushed him up

00:26:22 and gave him a lead.

00:26:23 Great-- it was a good game.

00:26:24 It was a good game.

00:26:25 I counted zero Keita tweets from Bobby, I think.

00:26:28 Counted zero.

00:26:29 So I'm curious about this comment here.

00:26:32 I don't know if that's true, actually.

00:26:34 What's that?

00:26:36 TJ537 writes, "In reality, we're missing something

00:26:40 to change our opinion of this, guys."

00:26:42 What are you talking about?

00:26:43 They could be talking about you and me.

00:26:44 They could be talking about the Celtics.

00:26:46 I do wonder if it's like, you're still waiting for that--

00:26:49 maybe you know what it is, Jimmy.

00:26:50 I might misinterpret this comment,

00:26:53 but I'm going with it anyway.

00:26:55 I guess what people are looking for is like, certainty, right?

00:27:04 You want to see that thing that makes you feel like,

00:27:08 definitely, this is it, right?

00:27:11 Because I wouldn't say you've been fooled,

00:27:13 but you've gotten your hopes up now for multiple years.

00:27:17 And I know people kind of like to ride that whole, oh,

00:27:19 the Eastern Conference finals and stuff like that,

00:27:22 which is great.

00:27:23 But the reality is you're just not good enough to get there,

00:27:25 not good enough to win it.

00:27:27 And this year feels like you are.

00:27:29 So I guess any indication that you might not be kind of

00:27:35 heightens everybody's senses.

00:27:36 We see how the chat reacts after--

00:27:38 I mean, the Clippers was, "You should have seen it here."

00:27:40 Holy crap, man.

00:27:41 This place-- I was cheering people up.

00:27:44 I was like, relax, everybody.

00:27:46 It was, "We're fine.

00:27:48 Everybody chill."

00:27:49 People were freak-fired.

00:27:51 "Joe, these guys suck.

00:27:53 Tatum's never going to win it like this.

00:27:54 Brown's contract was a waste."

00:27:56 It got grisly in here.

00:27:59 It got really, really, really ugly.

00:28:02 But that's the thing.

00:28:03 You want to just feel good, right?

00:28:05 Was it as bad as they said, in your opinion?

00:28:09 It got killed, man.

00:28:10 Obviously not.

00:28:11 But--

00:28:12 They got killed.

00:28:13 I'll say this about you, John.

00:28:15 Maybe this is just this year.

00:28:17 What?

00:28:17 You've been relatively non-panic.

00:28:21 Like, we may have to change the panic meter.

00:28:24 Because you haven't really--

00:28:25 I want to say you haven't really cared much

00:28:27 about any of these losses.

00:28:29 Because I'm kind of here.

00:28:31 I kind of think that it's--

00:28:36 nothing-- it's-- you know how you felt--

00:28:39 I'll put it this way.

00:28:40 For about 15 years covering the Patriots or longer,

00:28:45 nothing mattered.

00:28:46 Nothing mattered.

00:28:47 There were two games in the season, the AFC championship

00:28:50 and the Super Bowl.

00:28:51 Nothing mattered.

00:28:53 So they could play like ass in a game and be like, who cares?

00:28:56 They're going to go here.

00:28:57 It's so like, you realize how good this team is.

00:29:00 None of it really matters.

00:29:01 It's like, when you get to that point in the playoffs,

00:29:05 are these guys who have let you down in the past going

00:29:09 to not let you down this time?

00:29:11 It's all anyone cares about, right?

00:29:14 You know, I'm not-- before I get angry,

00:29:16 because here's why I would get angry before,

00:29:18 just to understand it.

00:29:19 Like, I didn't like these guys.

00:29:22 Like, I didn't like what they were doing.

00:29:24 I didn't think they had the pieces.

00:29:25 I didn't like the way the Jays were playing.

00:29:27 I didn't think they could do it on their own.

00:29:29 I thought they needed help.

00:29:30 I wasn't a Marcus guy.

00:29:32 I didn't buy it.

00:29:33 I never bought it.

00:29:34 I buy this team because I think they've got it.

00:29:37 So now you're just waiting till you get to the playoffs.

00:29:39 And just to see, so do they actually have it?

00:29:42 And if they do, you'll just feel good about it.

00:29:44 But I think Kes is right.

00:29:45 You're never going to get there.

00:29:47 You're never going to feel good, like so good

00:29:50 that they've got it locked up.

00:29:52 I'm never going to feel that bad because I

00:29:53 know how good they are.

00:29:55 If they're healthy, they get there.

00:29:56 That's when we're going to kind of make our decision making.

00:29:59 But I'm not getting high and low with a lot of things

00:30:01 because I've seen enough to know it's not the same thing.

00:30:04 They're able to win games like this when they're playing bad.

00:30:08 They're able to execute down the stretch.

00:30:10 They're able to win games with their defense.

00:30:12 They've won games a lot of different ways.

00:30:14 It's much different.

00:30:15 It's much better.

00:30:16 But you just got to see how it's going

00:30:18 to play in the playoffs or whether Tatum and Brown step

00:30:20 it up, all the other teams do.

00:30:23 Yeah.

00:30:23 So that's why I'm not freaking this year

00:30:25 because before I had issues, a lot of issues with the team.

00:30:28 I don't have issues with this team or how they're playing

00:30:31 or when they shoot too many threes.

00:30:32 They'll have good nights, bad nights.

00:30:34 But I like this team and I think they've got it.

00:30:36 We'll just see what happens.

00:30:37 So that's where I'm at.

00:30:38 I think there's a lot of truth to that.

00:30:41 I guess my only concern is probably

00:30:45 something that doesn't exist, which is not wanting this

00:30:49 to turn into a trend where they do lose,

00:30:51 they do start to play lazy basketball for the next 20

00:30:55 games because they're bored and they just

00:30:57 want to get to the playoffs, like you say.

00:30:59 And they know that they look at the standings

00:31:01 and they're a one seed and that it's really

00:31:03 their conference to lose.

00:31:06 I'm all about trying to build good habits going

00:31:10 into those playoffs.

00:31:10 So yeah, I'm not freaking out after a loss,

00:31:14 but I'm making a note of it and saying, OK,

00:31:16 that was a weird game.

00:31:17 This one was also weird.

00:31:19 Not this one tonight, but just game X was a weird game.

00:31:22 And trying to take--

00:31:24 what are they taking from those games?

00:31:26 Or what's Joe Mizzou take from those games?

00:31:27 Now, Joe seems to downplay a lot of these games,

00:31:31 much like you do.

00:31:31 So maybe you two are like two peas in a pod in that sense.

00:31:35 You're a lot more similar than you think.

00:31:38 I'm saying I've seen enough in the regular season

00:31:40 to feel good about the team in general.

00:31:43 I don't know what--

00:31:45 The Celtics do not have a Tom Brady

00:31:47 and they do not have a Bill Belichick.

00:31:48 And they have not ever won anything yet either.

00:31:50 So that would be where the comparison ends.

00:31:53 Jimmy, would it stun you?

00:31:55 Would it stun you?

00:31:56 I mean, again, it's like--

00:31:58 I don't believe Bill Belichick.

00:32:01 I mean, again, Miami's the eighth seed right now.

00:32:05 Would it stun you if they lost a 1-8 matchup to Miami?

00:32:08 Stun you, I mean.

00:32:09 The Celtics?

00:32:09 No.

00:32:10 No.

00:32:11 It wouldn't, right?

00:32:13 I mean, this team, yeah, I think it kind of would.

00:32:16 They just dismantled the Heat too.

00:32:17 I know that's just an example you're giving for an eighth

00:32:19 seed.

00:32:20 But to your point and to your credit, John,

00:32:22 I agree with you that this Celtics team,

00:32:25 I feel a lot better about it than I have the past team.

00:32:28 So yeah, that would stun me.

00:32:30 But I've talked about this already.

00:32:31 The second round is not going to be easy.

00:32:33 You're going to end up probably with the Pacers, maybe.

00:32:36 That's what I mean.

00:32:37 It's like, I picked the Heat because even that wouldn't

00:32:40 be a cupcake.

00:32:40 No, it wouldn't be either.

00:32:41 But in the second round, Pacers, Knicks, whomever,

00:32:47 all of that feels like far from a certainty.

00:32:52 So yeah, I think they're better than these teams.

00:32:54 I've been getting experience.

00:32:56 I think they have--

00:32:56 I think there actually is a slight separation between them

00:32:59 and the Pac in this year.

00:33:01 I think it's them and then everyone else.

00:33:02 I don't think they're that far behind.

00:33:04 But I think that the 2, 3, 4, 5 are actually pretty tightly

00:33:08 packed together.

00:33:09 And the Celtics, I think, are a bit above them.

00:33:12 But until we get there, we're not going to know.

00:33:15 That's kind of--

00:33:15 They are a bit above them.

00:33:17 Just to explain, that's just to explain why I'm not--

00:33:21 Yeah.

00:33:21 I mean, the seven-game series switches--

00:33:25 changes things up, too.

00:33:26 I mean, coaching becomes more important, I think,

00:33:28 in a playoff series.

00:33:29 Adjustments, mid-series, becomes a little bit more

00:33:32 of a chess match.

00:33:33 So how do you feel about that?

00:33:35 I guess that's something that you'll cross.

00:33:36 And then, again, just going out and doing it.

00:33:40 We keep saying that they can do it.

00:33:42 They can do it.

00:33:43 But we need to actually see them do it.

00:33:45 We do.

00:33:46 We're going to hear from Joe Mazzuolo.

00:33:48 We're going to hear from Bobby Manning.

00:33:50 Ridiculous things from Bobby.

00:33:51 I'm preparing you guys.

00:33:52 I'm telling you.

00:33:53 I just went through his tweets.

00:33:55 I went through his tweets.

00:33:56 And yeah, he's like, five straight points

00:34:00 off Zion turnovers, bop, bop, bop.

00:34:02 You know what I mean?

00:34:02 It's like stuff like that.

00:34:03 He's just--

00:34:04 Agenda.

00:34:05 It's agenda.

00:34:06 Agenda.

00:34:08 We also have an agenda here.

00:34:10 This thing doesn't work.

00:34:11 It's too low.

00:34:14 Too low.

00:34:15 Doesn't work.

00:34:16 Move the ticker.

00:34:17 My lower third doesn't work.

00:34:18 Well, just get rid of the ticker.

00:34:21 Oh, but my lower third doesn't work.

00:34:24 I don't know why that is.

00:34:26 There you go.

00:34:26 You got rid of the ticker.

00:34:27 Now it works.

00:34:29 Now it works.

00:34:31 Dudes.

00:34:33 Hey.

00:34:34 We went from 150 to 200 in bonus bets.

00:34:37 Why?

00:34:38 Frickin' Super Bowl, baby.

00:34:39 Happy Super Bowl.

00:34:40 Hell yeah.

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00:34:51 And if you're like me, Jimmy, are you like me?

00:34:54 No, thank God.

00:34:55 But go on.

00:34:56 OK.

00:34:57 Super Bowl Sunday is all about scoring the best

00:34:59 seat on the couch, grabbing your favorite football snacks.

00:35:02 Jimmy has a go-to.

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00:35:06 Oh, Buffalo chicken dip?

00:35:08 Buffalo chicken dip.

00:35:09 That's your thing.

00:35:10 That's your agenda, right?

00:35:10 Oh, Super Bowl, you've got to have--

00:35:12 I mean, everyone's got to have a Buffalo chicken

00:35:13 dip at the Super Bowl, amongst other things.

00:35:15 But yeah, you've got to have that.

00:35:15 Amongst other things.

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00:36:14 All right, heading back to the game.

00:36:15 One last thing.

00:36:17 One last thing on FanDuel.

00:36:19 OK, yeah.

00:36:20 I tossed in a quick--

00:36:22 I tossed in a bet at halftime on the Celtics plus 2 and 1/2.

00:36:25 That's how Vegas had this game tonight,

00:36:32 because the Celtics were down by whatever it was they were down.

00:36:35 Plus 2 and 1/2.

00:36:36 I think it was a little before halftime.

00:36:39 Do we want to hear from Weird Joe?

00:36:40 You got to keep the live bets.

00:36:42 You got to check FanDuel during the game.

00:36:45 If you think the Celtics are--

00:36:47 let's say the Celtics are down 10 or 12,

00:36:49 but you don't think they're playing horrible.

00:36:51 That's good value.

00:36:52 You put in a live bet.

00:36:53 Put in your $5 FanDuel bet.

00:36:55 Celtics make their comeback.

00:36:58 You win the bet, and then you've got $200 to work with

00:37:00 for the Super Bowl.

00:37:01 OK.

00:37:02 I'm down.

00:37:05 It's a value bet.

00:37:06 I'm down.

00:37:08 We've addressed this one, Ethan.

00:37:12 I don't know.

00:37:13 Here's what I'll say.

00:37:15 Here's what I'll say about it.

00:37:16 Yes.

00:37:21 Yes-ish.

00:37:25 But also, Eamon is the type of guy

00:37:27 that a team could tune out also, because he's hard,

00:37:32 and he could be a bit of an ass.

00:37:34 And sometimes people don't want to hear that.

00:37:36 So you never know who the right guy for what team is.

00:37:38 I'll say this about Eamon.

00:37:39 I'll put it to bed once and for all.

00:37:41 Eamon was the right guy for the team he coached.

00:37:46 Jimmy.

00:37:47 Eamon was the right guy.

00:37:49 Couldn't help himself.

00:37:50 That's what she said.

00:37:50 Eamon was 100% the right guy for that team he coached.

00:38:00 That team needed a slap upside the head.

00:38:03 And he gave it to him, and he turned him around,

00:38:05 and he made them a frigging killer,

00:38:07 and he got them to the finals.

00:38:08 I don't know if he's the right guy for this team.

00:38:10 I don't know.

00:38:10 So yeah.

00:38:12 I'm going to answer that by saying I think

00:38:13 that it hurt them last year.

00:38:15 I think Eamon gets them back to the finals,

00:38:18 and I think they maybe even win it.

00:38:20 But I thought they lacked toughness last year,

00:38:21 and we saw that against the Heat.

00:38:23 And I don't think it matters this year.

00:38:26 I don't think Eamon thinks it matters at all this year.

00:38:28 So it's over and done with.

00:38:31 Yeah, it's over and done with.

00:38:32 It's over and done with.

00:38:34 You may or may not love Joe, but I

00:38:36 think continuing with the Eamon stuff I think

00:38:38 is silly at this point.

00:38:40 If you didn't like Joe, you could have gotten someone else.

00:38:42 So at this point, it's on management.

00:38:45 If you want to be the Bucks and Brad

00:38:47 doesn't think Joe's the guy, you can do the Adrian Griffin

00:38:49 right now and get spicy with it.

00:38:51 You got assistance on there too.

00:38:53 If you really didn't like the guy, great.

00:38:56 You've got options.

00:38:57 You're the Celtics, OK?

00:38:59 So you can do something.

00:39:00 In the balls.

00:39:02 But I don't know what I'm throwing to here,

00:39:05 but I'm told Joe did weird stuff a couple of times.

00:39:08 Here's the first one.

00:39:09 I don't know how weird this is, but this

00:39:11 was Joe talking about expectations or entitlement,

00:39:14 I should say.

00:39:14 And I can't tell if he's digging at his team

00:39:17 or the unfair expectations around it.

00:39:21 You brought up the sense of entitlement a couple of times.

00:39:24 I don't think it's the team, personally.

00:39:26 I think it's just this general narrative of this

00:39:28 is supposed to go our way all the time.

00:39:30 So do you think that's just outsiders thinking

00:39:33 the Celtics should be wiping everybody off the court?

00:39:36 I didn't say that.

00:39:37 So can you just tell me what this is?

00:39:42 Yeah, I just think it just happens.

00:39:44 It just happens.

00:39:46 It's just like being down 10 in the NBA

00:39:50 is really not foreign to the 99th percentile of the NBA.

00:39:55 That happens all the time.

00:39:56 And so at halftime, I said that.

00:39:58 I was like, what are you doing?

00:39:59 It's a 10-point game.

00:40:00 It's three possessions in an NBA game.

00:40:03 Or the idea of having to battle for a win, earn a win,

00:40:07 it's like, Celtics have to earn a win tonight?

00:40:10 It's like, yeah, playing in the NBA.

00:40:13 It's a good team.

00:40:14 And so we can't lose sight of the fact

00:40:16 of we have to earn a win every night.

00:40:18 It's going to be just as hard tomorrow.

00:40:20 Doesn't matter if the record's 5-20 or they're undefeated.

00:40:23 You see it all around the league.

00:40:25 So it's fine, but it's, again, it's

00:40:30 Joe versus the media, and basically like--

00:40:33 Is it?

00:40:33 I didn't even--

00:40:34 Yeah, I'll tell you why it is.

00:40:36 It's actually-- I speak Joe now.

00:40:38 I can decipher this pretty easily.

00:40:41 OK?

00:40:41 What it means is you all think we're king shit,

00:40:49 and we should come out here and eviscerate

00:40:51 every team that's lower than us.

00:40:53 And NBA teams are good, and we have

00:40:56 to play hard out of the time.

00:40:57 And sometimes it's going to be ugly,

00:40:59 and we're not perfect either.

00:41:00 And it's about the process, and it's about how we go about it.

00:41:04 But if we don't go out there and blow these teams out,

00:41:06 you guys ask us questions about how we didn't do this

00:41:09 and didn't do that, or blah, blah, blah.

00:41:11 And basically, it's your expectations of the team.

00:41:15 Entitlement is the wrong word, because entitlement makes

00:41:20 it sound like it's the players.

00:41:22 What he means is the media expectations

00:41:24 or the outside expectations of the team

00:41:27 and how the narrative around the team

00:41:30 is shaped by it, which is if you don't kill them,

00:41:32 you did something wrong.

00:41:34 And what he's doing is defending his team against that.

00:41:37 Makes sense?

00:41:38 Yeah, that makes sense the way you put it.

00:41:39 I took it a little bit more where

00:41:41 he was telling his players, like, hey, yeah, we--

00:41:44 none of this is given.

00:41:45 He's in his feelings again, but yeah.

00:41:47 Yeah.

00:41:48 Yeah, and it's fine.

00:41:49 I mean, sure.

00:41:51 I get that.

00:41:52 So he's basically just saying--

00:41:53 I think people are saying it too.

00:41:55 Tatum's got it, yeah.

00:41:57 Right, I think--

00:41:58 But it's also the excuses for poor play.

00:42:01 I think there's just a lot of defense of the team, you know?

00:42:05 So--

00:42:06 Or is he telling his guys, like, you don't have the opportunity

00:42:09 to coast.

00:42:09 When you do, this is what happens.

00:42:11 Like, we do need to play hard.

00:42:12 Doesn't matter who you're playing.

00:42:13 We need to play hard, and we need to compete.

00:42:15 It's the NBA, and it's the 1% of the 1% in the world.

00:42:21 And if you take nights off, you're

00:42:24 going to end up sitting the second half,

00:42:25 or you're going to sit in the fourth quarter,

00:42:26 because things got out of hand quickly.

00:42:28 I don't know if that had any part of that message,

00:42:32 or if it's just strictly him saying,

00:42:34 what do you guys expect?

00:42:35 Of course it's going to be hard.

00:42:36 It's the NBA.

00:42:37 Yeah, like, we're human.

00:42:39 We play different games.

00:42:40 These are good teams.

00:42:41 But I think it's kind of like, you guys get hard on us

00:42:46 when we're not being this way.

00:42:47 It's, again, a little bit of oversensitivity,

00:42:50 but I don't give a crap.

00:42:51 I just don't get it after a win.

00:42:53 I don't know what the line of questioning was there,

00:42:55 but that's what it was.

00:42:58 I'm also told he and Bobby had a weird exchange.

00:43:01 In this, I'm already nervous to play.

00:43:03 I don't know what it is, but--

00:43:04 [LAUGHS]

00:43:06 I don't know what it is.

00:43:07 Just play it.

00:43:08 I'm going to play it.

00:43:10 Joe, you talked a lot before the game about pulling lessons

00:43:12 from a game.

00:43:13 Do you even pull lessons from a half after that first half,

00:43:16 especially the way you came out in the second

00:43:18 and applied them on some of those runs,

00:43:19 and even some of the runs they went on in the second half?

00:43:23 I'd like to get your take.

00:43:24 You thought the second quarter was bad?

00:43:25 25 points.

00:43:27 We only gave up 24.

00:43:29 Yeah, but in terms of the offense,

00:43:31 how that went better in the second half.

00:43:32 Yeah, I mean, I think that's the key, right?

00:43:34 I think the first half, there's this sense of entitlement

00:43:37 where we're just supposed to play amazing basketball every

00:43:39 quarter, every game, and that's just not how it works.

00:43:42 And like I said to the guys at halftime,

00:43:44 it felt like we gave up 24 points.

00:43:47 It was 25 to 24.

00:43:48 We won the quarter after giving up 36.

00:43:51 And so this expectation of it's supposed

00:43:53 to go a certain way all the time,

00:43:55 it can be extremely unhealthy.

00:43:56 And we have to just continue to play,

00:43:58 regardless of whether down five, up eight, it doesn't matter.

00:44:02 And so I thought the momentum changed for us

00:44:04 in the second quarter when we finally started to defend,

00:44:08 gave up a 24-point quarter.

00:44:10 Loved the process of the shots that we got in the second

00:44:12 quarter, and we can't be defined by a result.

00:44:16 And so if we're going to only play--

00:44:18 we're only going to feel good about ourselves

00:44:20 when the ball's going in, then that's a recipe

00:44:21 for short-term success.

00:44:23 And I thought that was what the issue was in the second quarter

00:44:25 but I thought we played great.

00:44:26 So I would say that three quarters of basketball

00:44:29 was kind of who we were.

00:44:32 OK, so that must have been asked before the second clip

00:44:37 that we played-- the first clip that we played,

00:44:38 because that makes more sense that he's

00:44:40 talking about expectations on the outside, not on the inside.

00:44:46 You know what I mean?

00:44:47 I just said--

00:44:48 I've said this before.

00:44:49 We can pick on Bobby.

00:44:51 You guys can't pick on Bobby.

00:44:54 So I don't like that, Joe, but that's OK.

00:44:56 Again, it's the--

00:44:58 It's clear that he's talking--

00:44:59 it's clear that what you said, your interpretation

00:45:03 of his first clip that we played,

00:45:05 it's clear that you were right on that.

00:45:08 And I honestly don't mind these things.

00:45:09 I just don't even know why you need

00:45:11 to be defensive in a win here.

00:45:13 These aren't scathing, difficult questions at this point.

00:45:18 I'm confused by it, but yeah.

00:45:20 I just don't see--

00:45:21 I don't see the--

00:45:22 I don't see the need.

00:45:23 I don't see-- I don't see what's--

00:45:24 I don't see what's--

00:45:26 both the questions, I just don't see the benefit of it.

00:45:30 I don't get it.

00:45:31 Well, yeah, I mean, listen, they scored 25 points

00:45:35 in the first-- in each of the first two quarters.

00:45:37 Like, typically, that's low scoring for them.

00:45:39 So I think it's fair for Bobby to bring up that aspect of it.

00:45:43 Yeah, OK, they clamped down a little bit

00:45:44 on the defensive side, but the whole point of what he was

00:45:47 talking about was offensively.

00:45:48 So yeah, I don't really see the need to ask.

00:45:53 It's like, you actually don't care what Bobby thinks

00:45:55 of the first of the second quarter.

00:45:56 So don't say, oh, I'm interested in what you think.

00:45:58 You tell me.

00:45:59 No, you actually don't give a shit.

00:46:01 So whatever.

00:46:04 And this is exactly right.

00:46:06 This is basically what--

00:46:08 here's the thing.

00:46:09 Here's the secret.

00:46:10 It's not a secret.

00:46:12 Every player in every sport and every coach in every sport

00:46:16 thinks everyone asking them a question knows nothing,

00:46:20 and they're right.

00:46:22 Nobody in that room knows what they're talking about

00:46:26 within a mile of these guys.

00:46:29 They're not even close.

00:46:31 The things that these guys see and the complexity of the game

00:46:36 and how they view it--

00:46:37 and I'm talking everything--

00:46:40 angles, how they approach--

00:46:41 I mean, they are--

00:46:44 they dissect it in such a granular level.

00:46:46 We're just Neanderthals trying to say,

00:46:49 even the people who think they know stuff

00:46:51 don't know anything.

00:46:53 And so yes--

00:46:55 Oh, you know a ball.

00:46:57 You know a ball, John.

00:46:58 This is the contract between know-nothing reporters

00:47:02 and the people who answer the questions.

00:47:05 You kind of let it go, because if you

00:47:09 had this feeling all the time, every answer

00:47:11 would be like this, every single one.

00:47:14 Because nobody is entitled to ask a question,

00:47:16 because they don't understand on a level, on a high enough level

00:47:20 to be able to question these guys about why did this happen

00:47:23 and how did this go that way.

00:47:24 It's just about the kind of the professional exchange

00:47:27 and the dance that you do in the back and forth.

00:47:29 That's all it is.

00:47:30 And some people call it out.

00:47:31 You know?

00:47:33 And Joe likes to call it out.

00:47:36 But again, nobody in that room knows--

00:47:40 like I said, everyone in that room,

00:47:42 even the people who know basketball great,

00:47:45 had just graduated kindergarten.

00:47:46 And Joe has a PhD.

00:47:48 Like it's not even close.

00:47:50 But I don't think--

00:47:51 And that's not insulting.

00:47:52 It's not insulting.

00:47:54 They're that good.

00:47:55 They're that good.

00:47:56 Right, but I'm not going to speak

00:47:58 for any of the other reporters.

00:48:00 But when I was covering teams, I didn't go in there--

00:48:04 I went in there to try to ask questions

00:48:06 so that I could relay the information

00:48:08 and explain it to other people who also don't know anything.

00:48:11 Tell me what happened.

00:48:12 Yeah, so I think that originally was what the reporter's job was.

00:48:16 Well, then they feel challenged.

00:48:17 It's kind of evolved over the years now, where everyone

00:48:19 is an analyst too.

00:48:20 And they want to break down the film.

00:48:22 And by all means, please do.

00:48:24 But I think that's where there's maybe more of a back and forth

00:48:28 between reporters and coaches, reporters and players,

00:48:30 when the reporter wants to tell you

00:48:34 or wants to shape the question in a way that's

00:48:36 kind of insinuating something or telling you something

00:48:39 that you're doing wrong or whatever,

00:48:41 instead of just asking and saying, hey,

00:48:44 I'm just asking this question so that I

00:48:45 could fill a quote for my story on what happened tonight.

00:48:47 You know what I mean?

00:48:48 So it's just changed over the years.

00:48:50 But I can understand why players or coaches would be like,

00:48:53 dude, shut up.

00:48:54 When they feel challenged, when they feel challenged,

00:49:00 what is it you saw that you didn't like?

00:49:02 Basically, they might be asking a relevant question.

00:49:05 He just doesn't think you have the right to the question.

00:49:07 And again, they're not wrong.

00:49:10 So I get where they're coming from on it.

00:49:13 I think that's kind of what it is there.

00:49:16 But yeah.

00:49:17 Don't come at Bobby.

00:49:18 Only we come at Bobby.

00:49:20 Only we do that.

00:49:21 We're going to wrap this in a little bit.

00:49:23 I'm not waiting for Bobby if he's going to take an hour.

00:49:25 Just not going to do it, Jimmy.

00:49:26 Joe Sway there?

00:49:28 You know what?

00:49:29 I'm handing the show to those guys.

00:49:32 Yeah, I thought they'd be on by now.

00:49:34 We're almost an hour in.

00:49:36 Yeah, we're almost an hour in.

00:49:38 These guys aren't supposed to make you wait after a win,

00:49:42 right?

00:49:43 No, they're not.

00:49:44 Maybe they're talking to Zion.

00:49:45 Maybe they're snacking in the visitor's locker

00:49:51 and with the rest of the Pelicans.

00:49:52 What do you think?

00:49:53 Does Pacers tomorrow on a back to back,

00:49:55 you think Porzingis plays?

00:49:58 I'm going to say yes.

00:49:59 I do think he plays.

00:50:01 He wants to play.

00:50:02 I saw him all-- he was all practicing, wasn't he?

00:50:04 Or I saw him like some video shooting around or whatever.

00:50:06 I think that they know Al's not going to play tomorrow.

00:50:09 And so they said, let's hold Porzingis out one more.

00:50:12 I kind of think so too, right?

00:50:15 They keep saying they're not worried about the ankle.

00:50:17 So OK, if you're not worried about it, then put him in there.

00:50:19 Let's see what's going on.

00:50:20 All right, John.

00:50:21 We'll hang a little bit.

00:50:23 Thank you for the plea.

00:50:25 I need this.

00:50:26 I need this.

00:50:27 [LAUGHS]

00:50:29 We all need this.

00:50:31 My kids haven't been in school for eight days, buddy.

00:50:33 Oh my god, yeah.

00:50:34 That's crazy.

00:50:35 Any progress today?

00:50:38 No, this is my strike beard.

00:50:41 Yeah.

00:50:42 What's your opinion?

00:50:43 No, I'm just kidding.

00:50:44 Don't answer that.

00:50:45 No, you don't want to hear it.

00:50:46 [LAUGHS]

00:50:48 Yeah, that's tough.

00:50:51 Yeah, it's a tough situation over there.

00:50:52 So for people who don't know, John

00:50:55 lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

00:50:56 And all the teachers are on strike.

00:50:58 [LAUGHS]

00:51:00 So he's-- what are you?

00:51:02 Are you playing like Daddy Daycare over there?

00:51:05 This week?

00:51:06 A little bit.

00:51:07 Wow.

00:51:08 I'm looking after 18 kids tomorrow.

00:51:12 Wow, thoughts and prayers to all those children.

00:51:14 I know, exactly.

00:51:16 How does that end up happening?

00:51:18 Is that to force the teacher's hands?

00:51:20 Say, look what you're doing to our kids.

00:51:22 This animal.

00:51:24 [LAUGHS]

00:51:25 Look what they're forced to listen to.

00:51:27 Fessenden, yeah, my daughter practices soccer there.

00:51:30 Just sit them in front of the Garden Report.

00:51:32 No, one of the parent organizations,

00:51:35 they arranged it where some middle schoolers are trying

00:51:39 to entertain kids at the basement of this such and such.

00:51:42 And they need a parent to keep them from dying.

00:51:46 And I'm that guy tomorrow.

00:51:48 Oh, wow.

00:51:49 Yeah.

00:51:49 Well, good luck.

00:51:50 Yeah.

00:51:52 Good luck to the kids, not to you.

00:51:54 Good luck to the kids.

00:51:55 Good luck to the kids.

00:51:57 Yeah, I'm that guy.

00:51:59 Jimmy, you're Pacers tomorrow.

00:52:00 What do you think?

00:52:01 Listen, you know I'm a huge Pacers guy.

00:52:06 But I'm very intrigued by the Pacers after this trade

00:52:12 that they made.

00:52:15 I do think that they're easily a top four team.

00:52:18 I think I had said top three.

00:52:21 But it's hard for me to really say one way or the other

00:52:24 if they're better than the Sixers or the Bucs

00:52:26 until I see a little bit more with them.

00:52:30 But was it the last game they played

00:52:34 where Halliburton got hurt?

00:52:35 I think it was in the middle of that game.

00:52:38 We did that split.

00:52:39 So--

00:52:40 Yeah, I teach ball.

00:52:42 I want to see them--

00:52:43 I want to see both teams' full strength going at it.

00:52:45 Oh, Zervas, I'm right down the street.

00:52:47 We're in danger.

00:52:48 Anyway, go ahead.

00:52:50 You don't actually care.

00:52:52 I do care.

00:52:53 Halliburton--

00:52:53 No, I'm just excited for the game.

00:52:54 --got hurt, that last one.

00:52:55 I'm excited for the game.

00:52:56 It's just two like hot, like entertaining teams.

00:53:00 Both have really good offenses.

00:53:01 I like what the Pacers do to teams.

00:53:04 They really make you run.

00:53:08 They make, again, it's like,

00:53:10 I said this to Bobby or whoever, I think it was Bobby,

00:53:12 or no, it was you.

00:53:13 If you're the Celtics, you can't fall into their trap,

00:53:18 which is playing their game,

00:53:21 which is shots, shots, shots, shots, offense, offense,

00:53:25 offense, offense, offense.

00:53:26 It's very rare that you're going to out-offense the Pacers.

00:53:29 What you need to do is try to slow them down,

00:53:31 play hard on the defensive end, and get physical with them.

00:53:34 That's the one thing I'll say about the Pacers.

00:53:37 I don't like playing the Pacers, yeah.

00:53:39 - Get out and run.

00:53:40 - You have to be tough and physical with them.

00:53:44 Slow them down, knock them to the ground, don't be dirty.

00:53:48 But I don't think the Pacers wanna get

00:53:49 into a defensive game with anybody.

00:53:52 They wanna just shoot, they wanna be flashy,

00:53:54 they wanna dance around.

00:53:55 Tyrese Halliburton wants to be Steph Curry 2.0 now,

00:53:59 and all this stuff.

00:54:01 And I think the Celtics can't fall into that trap.

00:54:05 They can't let, what's his name?

00:54:07 What's his name?

00:54:07 Mac, Mac, my guy, McConnell, TJ McConnell.

00:54:11 They can't let TJ McConnell run the show,

00:54:13 like they did last year.

00:54:14 - I don't like this notion of slow.

00:54:17 - John, they can't let TJ McConnell run laps around them.

00:54:21 - That's all that happened last time.

00:54:23 Make shots, defend.

00:54:25 Just, you know, that's it.

00:54:28 - You have to defend, but you can't get

00:54:30 into a running gun type game with this Pacers team.

00:54:32 That's what they want.

00:54:33 They wanna maximize possessions more than you do.

00:54:35 So McConnell was the X factor in that game

00:54:41 after Halliburton went out and they had no answer for him.

00:54:43 They just let him run around and run laps around them.

00:54:45 So I like that they have some film to go off of now

00:54:48 after that, because that was unacceptable.

00:54:50 I'm excited for the game.

00:54:53 - That's my take, what's yours?

00:54:55 - I think Nick is taking over effective immediately.

00:54:58 - Oh God, that would be something.

00:55:03 - Yeah.

00:55:04 - That would be a boomer's show.

00:55:07 - Yeah, so yeah.

00:55:09 And that's, yeah, that's where we're at.

00:55:11 Jimmy, are you comfortable rapping?

00:55:13 - Whoa, did we hear from Bobby at all?

00:55:16 I'd like to get his take.

00:55:18 - No idea.

00:55:20 - Where the F are you?

00:55:22 - So I will agree with this comment, Soda Pop.

00:55:26 I did not for one second doubt

00:55:32 the 2018 was winning the title.

00:55:34 I didn't at any point in time.

00:55:38 Throughout the course of the whole season,

00:55:40 they struggled in a real crap seven game series

00:55:43 with Atlanta.

00:55:44 It was the most lopsided seven game series

00:55:45 in the history of sports.

00:55:47 They won every game they won, they won by like 35 points.

00:55:50 And then they lost, you know.

00:55:51 - That was tough. - That was a weird series.

00:55:53 And then they just, I just never,

00:55:55 they just never let up.

00:55:56 I never at any point thought they weren't gonna win that.

00:56:00 I actually felt the same way about that team

00:56:01 up until KG got hurt in 2009 too.

00:56:04 I was like, they're gonna steamroll to a title this year.

00:56:07 And so you're right, that's a little different.

00:56:10 But there's more parody now.

00:56:13 There's so many good teams.

00:56:14 There's so much talent in the league.

00:56:17 It's crazy.

00:56:18 It's some really, really, really good--

00:56:20 - And you can't even win the way that they won anymore.

00:56:24 You can't win playing defense

00:56:25 the way that they were able to do it.

00:56:27 Like you can't be physical the way that they were physical.

00:56:30 You can't have a guy like, you know,

00:56:33 I feel like Garnett wouldn't even be in the,

00:56:36 sounds crazy to say, but Garnett wouldn't be able

00:56:38 to do half the stuff that he was able to do probably

00:56:40 for most of his career.

00:56:41 So yeah, it's a different league now.

00:56:45 There's talent all the way up and down.

00:56:48 Maybe that's what Mizzou was talking about a little bit

00:56:50 and like, hey, like none of these games are given.

00:56:54 They all have to be earned.

00:56:55 That's what we can expect, I guess, competitive,

00:57:01 competitive left, nothing from Bobby, nothing from Josue.

00:57:05 - Nothing we can do guys.

00:57:06 They're deep.

00:57:08 Yeah.

00:57:09 - What else is going on?

00:57:13 What else has gone on in the league right now?

00:57:15 Anything?

00:57:16 I think we're interviewing Sean McVay's dentist

00:57:19 and his barber tomorrow to see if they can, you know,

00:57:24 they might be interested in the offensive coordinator.

00:57:26 - Oh my God.

00:57:28 You might as well at this point.

00:57:29 Can we do Patriots for a second?

00:57:33 While I wait for Bobby, can we just do a few minutes?

00:57:34 - Okay.

00:57:35 - Can I just, I'm gonna throw it to you

00:57:38 because I wanna make sure

00:57:39 that I'm not taking crazy pills here.

00:57:41 Patriots obviously had a problem, front office, coaching,

00:57:44 all the way down.

00:57:46 So they got rid of Belichick,

00:57:48 which I think they probably should have done

00:57:51 and they needed to do.

00:57:53 But why did it just end there?

00:57:54 I didn't think it was gonna stop there.

00:57:56 I thought that that would have just been like,

00:57:59 everybody was going after that.

00:58:01 Instead, it's the complete opposite.

00:58:03 They're hiring people who have been with the team,

00:58:06 who left the team, who coming back with the team.

00:58:08 This guy, Kaylee, who was the freaking tight ends coach

00:58:11 for like five years in New England.

00:58:14 And then he just went to be the tight ends coach

00:58:17 in St. Louis.

00:58:18 It's not like he got it.

00:58:19 You know what I mean?

00:58:19 It's like, and now all of a sudden he's qualified

00:58:21 to be the offensive coordinator.

00:58:22 Nobody knew who this guy was

00:58:24 for his entire time in New England.

00:58:27 And by the way, the tight ends absolutely sucked

00:58:29 for the past like five years here.

00:58:32 I mean, has a tight end done shit?

00:58:34 Excuse my language.

00:58:35 So I'm not thrilled about that as an offensive coordinator.

00:58:38 They signed a defensive coordinator with no experience

00:58:40 as a defensive coordinator.

00:58:42 And I'm team Mayo, but he has no experience either.

00:58:45 So very, very interesting.

00:58:48 And they're not hiring a GM.

00:58:49 So I don't know who's running this ghost ship currently.

00:58:52 I really don't know what's gonna happen.

00:58:54 I, you know what it is, John?

00:58:55 I'm like, I didn't know it was gonna be this bad

00:58:59 when it all ended.

00:59:00 I knew it was all gonna end,

00:59:01 but I just didn't know that it was,

00:59:03 we were gonna be faced with a situation

00:59:05 of like total doom and gloom.

00:59:07 And I mean, total doom and gloom.

00:59:09 I thought that there'd be a couple of guys hanging out.

00:59:12 I thought there'd be a guy waiting to coach.

00:59:14 I thought there'd be some good players.

00:59:16 There is nothing.

00:59:19 So that's my Patriots rant.

00:59:22 And maybe I'm overreacting, but I don't think that I am.

00:59:25 I think I'm pretty realistic.

00:59:27 Now, the only saving grace is that they absolutely

00:59:30 nail this third overall pick.

00:59:32 That's their only saving grace.

00:59:34 And I'm not saying I know who it is,

00:59:37 but they just have to nail it.

00:59:38 It's not my job to know who it is.

00:59:41 It's just my job to complain about it

00:59:43 if they don't nail it.

00:59:44 - Yeah, I'm already mad.

00:59:47 Every draft I get pre-mad,

00:59:49 'cause I'm just waiting for it to be angry about the pick.

00:59:52 - Yeah.

00:59:54 - So I don't know.

00:59:55 I can't go into it.

00:59:58 I'm in a good head space right now.

01:00:02 - I just need to say that's weird too,

01:00:06 'cause I don't have anywhere else to,

01:00:09 my friends don't wanna hear me anymore.

01:00:11 I'm completely tuned out by them.

01:00:15 So I need to say it to anybody who will listen.

01:00:18 - Yeah, it's bad.

01:00:21 And look, I said this once and I'll say it one last time.

01:00:25 I do not understand this obsession with continuity.

01:00:35 People who are familiar with the system,

01:00:37 the Patriot Way, this guy coached here, he knows us.

01:00:41 Oh, higher from within.

01:00:42 Look, I don't give a crap if the dudes are aliens

01:00:46 and I don't care who you bring in here.

01:00:49 This idea of the Patriot Way somehow continuing on

01:00:54 post-Bill and Brady is ludicrous.

01:00:58 It's ludicrous.

01:01:00 Just get good people.

01:01:02 I don't care where they're from.

01:01:05 Why do you think recycling people

01:01:08 who have some experience here is the right play?

01:01:12 I don't get it.

01:01:13 There is nothing to continue.

01:01:15 As I've said, nothing.

01:01:17 The ML car, Chris Ford Celtics were not a continuation

01:01:22 of the Casey Jones, Larry Bird.

01:01:24 They're not.

01:01:26 Like it doesn't matter.

01:01:27 - No, they weren't, John,

01:01:28 but we lost a lot of Celtic pride over that stretch,

01:01:32 post Bird.

01:01:33 - But then--

01:01:34 - Things went very fast.

01:01:35 And then it had to slowly come back.

01:01:36 - Celtics pride isn't a thing.

01:01:38 Celtics pride was Red Arbor--

01:01:40 - Oh, contraire, my friend.

01:01:42 It is a thing.

01:01:43 - It was those dominant teams that own the NBA

01:01:46 and then a really great run from those guys.

01:01:50 It was just dominance year after year after year.

01:01:52 The second they're gone, you're just another team.

01:01:55 There's no, it doesn't,

01:01:56 pride and all of that doesn't translate over.

01:01:59 Every team has a pocket of time in their history

01:02:02 they can draw back from and be like,

01:02:04 oh, this was the good old days.

01:02:06 You know, like when we played like this

01:02:08 and when we won title, doesn't matter.

01:02:10 Like the Celtics just had a much, much longer one.

01:02:12 But when you're 40 years removed from it, you know,

01:02:14 like the Patriots five years from now,

01:02:17 the Brady Belt, it's over.

01:02:18 It's been over.

01:02:19 There's nothing resembling those Patriots anymore.

01:02:22 Completely gone.

01:02:23 - You just need good players.

01:02:24 You need good players and the pride comes back.

01:02:25 - You just need good everything.

01:02:26 I don't care where you get them, right?

01:02:29 - Sure.

01:02:29 No, I don't care where you get them either.

01:02:30 You just got to get them and you got to keep them.

01:02:32 And that's how you sort of,

01:02:33 that's how you instill a new Patriot way

01:02:36 with the new crop of players.

01:02:37 It's not going to have anything to do with

01:02:39 the guys who were there.

01:02:40 It doesn't have nothing to do with Teddy Bruschi

01:02:43 and Willie McGinnis and Tom Brady.

01:02:45 And it just, I guess, nothing to do with

01:02:47 the second iteration of them,

01:02:49 Edelman and Gronk and whoever else.

01:02:51 It's going to be a new crop of players,

01:02:53 but you got to get them in the door

01:02:56 and you got to keep them

01:02:57 and you got to build around those guys.

01:02:58 You don't, yeah, it's not carrying over.

01:03:01 It's a new generation.

01:03:03 - What carries it over is the fans and the interest.

01:03:06 So if you keep winning like the Celtics did,

01:03:08 it stays that way because the passion is there.

01:03:11 It means something because it means a lot

01:03:12 to a lot of people.

01:03:13 You dip in and out, you lose people along the way.

01:03:16 And so it matters less.

01:03:18 And so this notion of like it being a thing is great,

01:03:21 you know, but like the Celtics, like I said,

01:03:23 they've won one title in 40 years, you know,

01:03:25 like most people, most NBA fans currently are like, what?

01:03:30 You know what I mean?

01:03:31 It's like, it's great, but Boston is great.

01:03:34 Like we like basketball.

01:03:35 So when basketball's good here, everything is great,

01:03:38 you know, and that's kind of what makes it a big thing.

01:03:40 It's the fans, honestly, more than it is like

01:03:43 the playing for the Celtics.

01:03:45 So the fans here are what make it, you know,

01:03:48 are what make it good.

01:03:49 So anyway, that's it.

01:03:51 We're an hour in and we don't have Bobby and Josue.

01:03:53 I got no choice but to wrap it, Jimmy.

01:03:55 - I got one more question for you.

01:03:56 Thoughts on the Lions choke job last night.

01:04:00 Do you blame Dan Campbell?

01:04:01 Like what's your take?

01:04:04 - I don't blame Dan Campbell.

01:04:06 I would have kicked the field goal for sure,

01:04:07 but I don't blame Dan Campbell.

01:04:09 I don't, the most egregious thing was running a run play

01:04:13 when you had three timeouts and you had to burn one

01:04:16 on the goal line there, forcing an outside kick.

01:04:19 That's the only super egregious thing.

01:04:22 I don't get not kicking the field goal there

01:04:26 because you might still get the ball back.

01:04:28 So just play it, play it even.

01:04:30 Take just, it's now a seven minute game.

01:04:36 You know, go out there, stop them or let them score

01:04:38 and then go score again.

01:04:39 But you want to be within one score.

01:04:41 It's the most important thing, you know,

01:04:43 like that really, really matters.

01:04:44 So I might've, that's, I would have kicked the field goal,

01:04:47 but you know, he can get some-

01:04:49 - Analytics ruining the game?

01:04:51 - No, that's the dumbest thing ever.

01:04:52 And I'm so tired of these boomers

01:04:54 that are out there and say it.

01:04:56 Those guys never surface when that shit works, you know?

01:05:00 They never do.

01:05:01 I've been saying this my whole life.

01:05:05 I'd be going for fourth down everywhere on the field.

01:05:08 I think it's so dumb that you keep giving the ball back

01:05:11 to the team.

01:05:11 Fourth and one everywhere you go for it.

01:05:14 And finally teams started doing it,

01:05:15 like Philly, Tush pushing on their own 20.

01:05:19 Great, keep the ball.

01:05:21 People are freaking out about that too.

01:05:23 - No, I love it.

01:05:24 So, all right, we're going to wrap.

01:05:25 We got another one tomorrow.

01:05:26 So no garden presents tonight.

01:05:29 We apologize, but we'll see you guys later.

01:05:31 All right?

01:05:33 - Stay for the outro.

01:05:34 - We'll stay for the outro.

01:05:35 - Wait, Ahmed's got an outro for us, I think.

01:05:37 - No, he doesn't.

01:05:38 - He said he was going to work on an outro.

01:05:41 - He had a phenomenal game.

01:05:43 - Phenomenal.

01:05:44 - Four for down, I think it's an odd one.

01:05:48 (laughing)

01:05:51 - That did not sound like a chair.

01:05:53 - It was a freaking chair.

01:05:54 It does sound like a chair.

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