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  • 2/25/2024
The Garden Report goes live following the Celtics game vs the Knicks. Catch the Celtics Postgame Show featuring Bobby Manning, Josue Pavon, Jimmy Toscano, A. Sherrod Blakely, and John Zannis as they offer insights and analysis from Boston's game in New York.

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00:00:00 (upbeat music)
00:00:02 - Can you say hard hats, folks?
00:00:06 Hard hats, lunch pails, steel tool boots.
00:00:09 - Anything short of a championship this year is a failure.
00:00:11 - It's time to look at this boomer right here.
00:00:13 - You've just got so much talent here.
00:00:15 - Somebody said we need to apologize for Jamie.
00:00:17 - Can I pull the John?
00:00:18 What are we apologizing for?
00:00:20 What did we say?
00:00:21 What did we do?
00:00:21 (upbeat music)
00:00:24 (upbeat music)
00:00:27 - Oh yeah, Ahmet.
00:00:32 This is how you know Ahmet loves us
00:00:34 when he trails the music off a little bit.
00:00:36 - See that?
00:00:37 See that?
00:00:38 - Yeah.
00:00:39 And fade it down.
00:00:41 - There you go.
00:00:43 - All the way down.
00:00:44 - There we go. - There we go.
00:00:45 Nice.
00:00:46 Welcome, Garden Report family.
00:00:49 John Zanisherod Blakely holding it down
00:00:52 as the Celtics defeat the Knicks 116-102.
00:00:56 Kind of similar in terms of just how the game went
00:01:00 to their first game back in the all-star break
00:01:02 where Celtics did a lot of good things in the first half,
00:01:05 let the Knicks hang around,
00:01:06 came out with a strong third quarter,
00:01:09 kept them at arms reach the rest of the way,
00:01:11 and a solid win and an absurd 45-12 record now.
00:01:16 And with the Cavs losing last night,
00:01:20 you are now eight games up on the second spot in the East
00:01:25 and nine, 10, nine on the bucks.
00:01:29 It's, I mean, the Vince Carter slam dunk contest, Sherrod?
00:01:34 - It's over.
00:01:37 Over.
00:01:38 - Okay.
00:01:39 - We're there.
00:01:40 We're there.
00:01:41 - Over.
00:01:42 It's been over.
00:01:44 - Yeah, I mean. - It's been over.
00:01:46 - At this point, I mean,
00:01:48 pretty much the top tier teams in the East,
00:01:51 you're playing for that consolation prize at this point.
00:01:53 You're playing for who's number two.
00:01:55 That's, 'cause the Celtics, I mean,
00:01:59 and granted, you have to put this game in perspective.
00:02:02 I mean, they were out three of the top four players
00:02:05 and they put up a good fight for the most part,
00:02:07 but the more you look at the way the Celtics
00:02:12 are beating teams and the reality
00:02:14 that they're positioning themselves
00:02:16 so that they're going to have their core guys healthy
00:02:19 come playoff time,
00:02:20 I just don't see any team in the East at this point
00:02:23 being able to beat them four times.
00:02:25 - Yeah.
00:02:26 - And that's when it comes down, they're beatable.
00:02:28 There's no question the Celtics are beatable,
00:02:30 but that is a completely irrelevant fact
00:02:33 that when you talk about the playoffs,
00:02:34 it's can they be beaten four times?
00:02:36 And I just, I don't see it.
00:02:38 I just don't see it.
00:02:39 - Yeah.
00:02:40 We'll get to this.
00:02:42 I'm curious why Tatum played as much as he played tonight,
00:02:45 the 43 minutes, it was playoff style minutes.
00:02:48 I'm not really sure.
00:02:50 The reason maybe they're trying to get
00:02:51 into a playoff style mode
00:02:54 to get those minutes up for a few games.
00:02:56 There, you know, no Tillman, no Springer type rotation
00:02:59 tonight, it is what it is.
00:03:01 I'm not going to get into that.
00:03:02 That's not really the story of the game.
00:03:04 Tonight is a little, first of all, complete effort
00:03:07 'cause you got good ball games
00:03:08 from a lot of different people.
00:03:10 You know, Holiday doing Holiday things.
00:03:12 Derek White when he needed to.
00:03:14 Porzingis again, outstanding tonight.
00:03:18 Jason Tatum doing what he's said he does more this year
00:03:23 is letting the game come to him, reading and reacting.
00:03:26 We've always talked about Sherrod,
00:03:28 the whole give the game what it needs thing.
00:03:30 And that being more important than going
00:03:32 into takeover mode.
00:03:34 But tonight is a Louise Moeller special
00:03:38 'cause Jalen Brown, not only did he do it,
00:03:42 they let him do it.
00:03:43 They let him do it early.
00:03:44 They let him do it late, okay?
00:03:46 They didn't take the ball out of Jalen's hands
00:03:48 as sometimes happens.
00:03:49 And I'm not saying that's intentional,
00:03:51 though there's some people, Louise,
00:03:53 who believe it's some sort of conspiracy.
00:03:56 But tonight, Jalen Brown was the clear alpha
00:04:01 in terms of the ball, getting the mismatches,
00:04:05 getting downhill, getting what he needed to get to,
00:04:07 found him all the time, was really relentless,
00:04:10 was just getting buckets, insanely efficient.
00:04:13 And again, put up, again, they all cooled down a little bit.
00:04:17 These numbers were insane up until the fourth quarter.
00:04:20 I think he was 12 of 16
00:04:22 and then went a little bit cold late.
00:04:24 And that's how you end up with a 13 for 24.
00:04:27 But ridiculously efficient night here.
00:04:31 And again, when he has the zero turnover games,
00:04:35 I wanna make sure to point that out
00:04:36 because it's important.
00:04:38 You put the ball in Brown's hands
00:04:40 and he's going to the basket.
00:04:42 I think you're going to allow for some turnovers
00:04:45 because he goes so fast sometimes.
00:04:47 And on the nights when he doesn't have it,
00:04:50 I don't know what it is.
00:04:52 He was certainly slumping, Gerard.
00:04:55 He had that kind of,
00:04:57 let me get to the all-star break-itis,
00:04:59 I think, last seven, eight games
00:05:01 or whatever it was, heading in,
00:05:03 not playing his best ball at all
00:05:05 after having a pretty dominant stretch
00:05:08 for a little bit there.
00:05:10 In the three or so weeks prior.
00:05:13 And he just,
00:05:14 it was the bad Brown for a little bit there.
00:05:19 Last two games, he's looked outstanding,
00:05:22 even though, again, he didn't get a ton of shots up
00:05:25 in the first game back from the break.
00:05:27 But his handle looks better.
00:05:29 He looks crisp.
00:05:30 He looks focused.
00:05:31 He looks really organized.
00:05:32 I've liked both games out of Brown
00:05:36 coming out of the all-star break after, as we said,
00:05:39 kind of a, eh, you know, again,
00:05:41 a lot of them went through fatigue
00:05:43 and the team was still winning,
00:05:44 but he had definitely dipped a tad
00:05:46 and he's looked super sharp.
00:05:47 - Yeah, and the thing that I like about
00:05:50 what we're seeing is that
00:05:52 not only is he playing better,
00:05:54 but he's playing longer.
00:05:56 It felt as though that, you know,
00:05:57 those last couple of weeks,
00:05:59 his minutes haven't quite been what they should be.
00:06:03 And he would have, like, basically,
00:06:04 he'd play a really great half
00:06:06 and then he'd disappear.
00:06:08 And there was no rhyme or reason to that.
00:06:11 And I was concerned a little bit about that in this game,
00:06:13 but to Joe's credit, to Jalen's credit,
00:06:17 to the entire team,
00:06:18 they allowed him to keep rolling when he had it going.
00:06:21 We've seen plenty of games where he'll have a great half
00:06:24 and they'll pretend as if he doesn't exist anymore.
00:06:27 That didn't happen tonight.
00:06:28 And that's really good to see
00:06:30 because they're going to need Jalen
00:06:32 at various points during their run through the playoffs
00:06:35 to be the best player on the floor.
00:06:37 He has that ability in him
00:06:38 and we haven't seen enough of that
00:06:41 of the last month or so,
00:06:43 but the first couple of games out of the break, absolutely.
00:06:47 He's been really, really good.
00:06:48 And to your point, John,
00:06:50 I'm always, for Jalen,
00:06:53 there's never, Jalen is never going to have a bad game
00:06:56 when he doesn't commit turnovers.
00:06:58 Any zero turnover game,
00:07:00 I don't care what his other numbers are.
00:07:01 It's a good game
00:07:03 because for a guy that has the ball in his hands
00:07:05 as much as he does,
00:07:06 and makes as many unforced turnovers as he tends to do,
00:07:11 for him to have a game like this,
00:07:13 the 30 points, that's great.
00:07:15 The rebounds, the assists, that's awesome.
00:07:17 But the zero turnovers,
00:07:18 that's when you know Jalen Brown is playing,
00:07:20 having really, really, having a really good night.
00:07:23 - Yeah.
00:07:24 And again, it was one of those games
00:07:25 where they worked it inside out a little bit
00:07:28 because it was a mismatched sort of game.
00:07:31 And the threes were falling,
00:07:32 but the volume wasn't there necessarily.
00:07:36 And I know Joe doesn't love that.
00:07:37 And honestly, as I said,
00:07:39 Joe, the mathematician,
00:07:41 in terms of understanding the numbers game
00:07:43 when it comes to the threes is really on point.
00:07:46 You see it a lot of times
00:07:47 where it looks like the Celtics are playing great.
00:07:49 And you're like, why is this game closer?
00:07:50 And then sometimes you look at the three point differential
00:07:53 and it's like, oh, maybe they should jack more threes.
00:07:56 And sometimes it comes down to that.
00:07:58 But they were attacking early, which is really nice.
00:08:00 And you soften things up
00:08:02 and the threes were falling and that was great.
00:08:04 But yeah, I mean, Brown, I agree,
00:08:08 was in his bag most of the night.
00:08:09 And it's one of those kind of unstoppable things
00:08:11 where it's like, Bobby put this out,
00:08:14 and this is a really good comment in our group thread,
00:08:17 that if you have a team,
00:08:19 this is where the Celtics,
00:08:21 where teams are really gonna struggle with the Celtics.
00:08:25 If you have a team that has more than one
00:08:28 like defensively deficient player
00:08:31 in the lineup at any given time, they're toast.
00:08:34 Like it's 'cause it's really, really,
00:08:36 you can't hide these guys out there.
00:08:38 And granted it's only Brown here.
00:08:40 And without having OG, look, OG on the floor
00:08:43 is a different story because his ability to defend.
00:08:46 And obviously they'd be a different team
00:08:48 with Mitchell and Robinson in there.
00:08:49 Mitchell, maybe he comes back.
00:08:50 Randall, we expect at some point or another.
00:08:53 But with this team, when you're seeing Brunson
00:08:57 and Bogdanovich out there at the same time,
00:08:59 it's just, pick your poison.
00:09:01 It's really, really, really difficult.
00:09:03 Celtics kind of found wherever they needed to go
00:09:06 time after time after time.
00:09:07 And I think that's gonna be the problem is,
00:09:10 teams that are gonna have to hide defenders.
00:09:12 And again, you look at the Bucs,
00:09:14 you're gonna have to hide Lillard all game long
00:09:16 because he's gonna get picked on.
00:09:18 And when you go to that bench,
00:09:19 you're gonna have some other problems there as well.
00:09:21 That's gonna be a continued issue for teams.
00:09:23 And that's the main difference between the Celtics.
00:09:26 I mean, Porzingis being an obvious difference,
00:09:29 but just again, the main difference between that,
00:09:32 you can't cheat, you can't double, you can't hide guys.
00:09:35 You're gonna get picked on.
00:09:36 They're gonna find that mismatch
00:09:37 and they're gonna kill you.
00:09:39 - Yeah, and the thing about it is,
00:09:41 they know this and they're taking advantage of it.
00:09:44 It seemed that there were stretches
00:09:45 where we would see these things play out
00:09:48 and then you'd see Tatum, Jack and seven threes,
00:09:51 even though he's got a guy that's six foot three guarding him
00:09:55 or Jalen would, he would begin to back a guy down
00:09:59 and have a little guy on him.
00:10:00 And then he just kick it out to Al Horford or something.
00:10:04 And that's not happening now.
00:10:05 They're recognizing the advantages that they have
00:10:08 and they're making teams pay.
00:10:10 And that, I mean, that's a sign of growth.
00:10:13 And the fact that they've been very consistent with it,
00:10:15 it's a sign of understanding
00:10:17 what you have to do to be great.
00:10:19 This team is kind of, they're scary good
00:10:22 when they're locked in,
00:10:23 when they're literally just playing the game
00:10:26 to their strengths.
00:10:27 And again, looking at where they are,
00:10:30 looking at the rest of the East,
00:10:32 I just don't see a healthy Southeast team
00:10:34 not getting to the finals.
00:10:37 I just don't see it.
00:10:38 - Yeah.
00:10:40 It's hard to envision it until, of course, again.
00:10:47 - Until then.
00:10:48 - Yeah.
00:10:49 Are there potential landmines?
00:10:50 Sure.
00:10:51 But it's almost like you're trying to not get too cocky
00:10:54 when you're looking at it.
00:10:56 And again, we had this conversation again
00:10:59 when we were talking on our thread earlier.
00:11:01 I still think Milwaukee,
00:11:03 though they haven't looked great,
00:11:06 is a team you definitely don't wanna play
00:11:08 because ultimately, I'm not gonna say
00:11:10 they have the best two players,
00:11:11 but that Giannis and Dame duo is ridiculous.
00:11:14 Giannis might be arguably the best player
00:11:16 in the East right now.
00:11:18 But, you know, and obviously you're making case
00:11:19 for Tatum as well.
00:11:20 It's a scary duo to have to contend with.
00:11:24 And at the end of the day, they are kind of like you are.
00:11:27 They're about a six deep team.
00:11:29 They don't, you know, and things can happen there,
00:11:33 but I think you have to talk yourself into it
00:11:34 because you look at the way they're playing
00:11:36 and they did have a decent win in Minnesota,
00:11:38 even though they almost pissed it away late.
00:11:41 You know, it looks good on paper,
00:11:42 but they did almost blow, they blew a 14 point lead there.
00:11:45 That's it.
00:11:48 Miami sometimes scares you a little
00:11:49 or a fully healthy Knicks team.
00:11:52 You certainly wouldn't want an early round matchup
00:11:54 against Philly if Embiid were to return
00:11:56 and be able to play anywhere close to full strength.
00:11:59 That would be kind of unfair
00:12:00 because that was a team that was threatening
00:12:02 for the number two overall seed there.
00:12:04 There's landmines there, but again,
00:12:06 it's that whole seven games thing, Sherrod.
00:12:08 I think you got to pitch a perfect game
00:12:09 to be able to beat them in a series right now
00:12:11 the way they're playing.
00:12:12 - Yeah, you do.
00:12:14 Because again, they-
00:12:16 - Any one game, sure.
00:12:17 But it's just, I don't know how you do it,
00:12:20 you know, night in, night out.
00:12:21 I don't know.
00:12:23 - It feels as though if it happens,
00:12:25 it's going to be the Celtics beating themselves
00:12:27 and you just happen to be on the floor as a spectator.
00:12:29 Because the idea that Jalen, Jason, Porzingis,
00:12:34 Derek White, Drew Holiday,
00:12:36 four of those guys having really bad nights
00:12:39 on the same night,
00:12:40 just doesn't seem like that's going to happen
00:12:42 four times in a playoff series.
00:12:44 You may get a couple games like that
00:12:46 where, you know, multiple guys are struggling,
00:12:49 but what we've seen all season long
00:12:51 was when that happens,
00:12:52 that's the night that Peyton Pritchard gets you 19.
00:12:55 That's the night where Sam Houser will get you like,
00:12:57 you know, 12 points on four for six
00:13:00 shooting from three point range.
00:13:01 Or Al Horford will, you know, hit the time machine
00:13:03 and get you like a double-double or something like that.
00:13:06 It seems as though the way this team is built and structured
00:13:10 when one of their core guys hasn't got it going,
00:13:13 someone is ready to fill that void.
00:13:15 - Yeah.
00:13:17 And this is the, and I agree with this 100%, Derek.
00:13:20 We've said it a ton of times.
00:13:21 It's almost, I don't want to make every single show
00:13:25 a playoff preview because it seems ridiculous.
00:13:28 But like, that's what it comes down to.
00:13:30 And that's why it's like,
00:13:31 you're trying to get not too high and not too low.
00:13:33 It almost becomes ho-hum
00:13:35 when you're winning one game after another.
00:13:36 And that's also why I haven't overreacted
00:13:38 to the few not great losses or crap wins against,
00:13:43 you know, against teams that have been a little beat up.
00:13:45 Is that, it really only matters
00:13:49 when they get to the playoffs
00:13:50 and what's going to happen, like which Celtics show up.
00:13:53 And are you going to have the, you know,
00:13:56 wavering intensity Celtics, or obviously health is,
00:13:59 and no teams can sustain injuries to their top players.
00:14:02 But are you going to have those Celtics
00:14:04 that are going to be, you know,
00:14:06 oh, we didn't come out tonight,
00:14:08 or, you know, everyone else ratchets it up
00:14:10 and they're playing the same?
00:14:12 I tend to think no with this year's team.
00:14:14 I think that level of focus, you know, since day one,
00:14:18 you know, what were the things we talked about?
00:14:20 The grownups in the room, right?
00:14:22 Like, it just felt like very businesslike.
00:14:25 Tonight felt like an extremely businesslike win, you know?
00:14:29 And I think they're kind of,
00:14:30 they're stacking these together where like,
00:14:32 this is, we know what we have to do.
00:14:34 I have to think that carries over to the playoffs as well.
00:14:37 And I have to think, I have to think,
00:14:40 and you see, you hear a lot in what Tatum said recently,
00:14:44 and a lot's been made out of, you know,
00:14:49 the all-star conversation or Tatum
00:14:51 kind of playing a little victim people
00:14:53 while people dog me because I haven't won yet.
00:14:55 For whatever reason, it's sunk in, I believe,
00:14:59 the understanding that like, we really have to win.
00:15:02 Like, you know, we really have to win
00:15:04 because I mean, Howard Bryant, I mean, you know,
00:15:07 entered the chat all of a sudden over the weekend
00:15:10 and compared Tatum potentially,
00:15:12 he said he's entering Dak Prescott territory.
00:15:15 That might be a little cold, but you're right.
00:15:19 I think Tatum's starting to get a little bit,
00:15:21 a little bit wary of getting a reputation
00:15:23 of great player on good teams that can't carry them.
00:15:28 And you've built a super team here.
00:15:31 I think they have to recognize the pressure
00:15:34 on we can't around this time, you know?
00:15:37 This has to happen.
00:15:38 This has to happen for us.
00:15:40 - Yeah, and it's hard to, again, not-
00:15:43 - Shout out, Derek, again, thank you for this.
00:15:45 We do appreciate it.
00:15:47 - Thank you. - Super chat.
00:15:48 And anybody who contributes, we thank you very much.
00:15:51 And all of the proceeds do go to the hosts.
00:15:54 So we do appreciate that.
00:15:55 Thank you.
00:15:56 Go ahead, Shred.
00:15:57 - No, I was gonna say, they just get it.
00:16:01 They just absolutely get it in a way
00:16:04 that we just haven't seen before.
00:16:06 And again, I keep coming back to consistency
00:16:10 because that seems to be the one thing
00:16:11 that when you look at just the Tatum profile,
00:16:15 that's been the one thing that's been missing.
00:16:16 He's shown the ability to score, defend,
00:16:18 do all those things on the court,
00:16:19 but can he do it at an elite level consistently?
00:16:24 Because there's, and we've seen this up close and personal
00:16:28 with a guy like Paul Pierce.
00:16:29 There's being consistent player,
00:16:31 and then there's being a consistent playing superstar.
00:16:34 Tatum is in that zone now where his level of consistency
00:16:40 is akin to what you expect from your best player.
00:16:43 And literally the only box he has not checked off yet
00:16:46 is winning a championship.
00:16:48 'Cause there's nothing he has to prove other than that.
00:16:51 And so if you're the,
00:16:54 and to your point, John, I think that he knew that,
00:16:59 but I think now he's starting to feel the pressure
00:17:02 that comes with knowing that.
00:17:04 And that's getting him, I think, frankly, locking in.
00:17:08 I think he's mentally locking in more so now
00:17:11 than I think we saw two, three weeks ago.
00:17:14 So it's good to see that,
00:17:17 because they're gonna need him to be that guy
00:17:19 to win a championship.
00:17:21 - Yeah, I think, and that was always the thing
00:17:23 that was gonna happen is like,
00:17:25 eventually criticism comes in, warranted or not,
00:17:29 'cause the expectation becomes,
00:17:31 you're supposed to win.
00:17:33 You wanna be great?
00:17:34 Win it.
00:17:35 Like the face of the NBA stuff?
00:17:37 - Yeah, sure.
00:17:39 You can totally be the face of the NBA.
00:17:41 Go out and win a couple titles
00:17:42 and we'll make you the face of the NBA.
00:17:44 You know what I mean?
00:17:44 - That's cool.
00:17:45 - It's kind of there for the taking.
00:17:47 And I mean, the funny thing is,
00:17:50 is I've never been fully on board.
00:17:53 And thank you here again for the contribution.
00:17:55 Yeah, we're gonna talk about that in a little bit too,
00:17:57 the 43 minutes.
00:17:59 - Yeah.
00:17:59 - 'Cause I didn't love it.
00:18:01 Pardon me.
00:18:03 But I've never been,
00:18:07 I've always thought it's slightly overrated
00:18:11 in the sense that it's not always one person's fault
00:18:16 that a team didn't win.
00:18:17 Like, are you faulting LeBron
00:18:19 for some of those finals losses are coming up short?
00:18:23 Playing against super teams on the other side,
00:18:28 or when he was the only guy on California,
00:18:32 on Cleveland with no supporting cast
00:18:35 and he's carrying that team well past
00:18:37 where expectations should take them
00:18:39 and dropping those L's.
00:18:41 I'm not putting those on him.
00:18:42 You know, and I think in some cases,
00:18:45 you know, I don't think it's entirely up to the person.
00:18:47 This is a different year though.
00:18:48 I think this is the year that if you don't win,
00:18:53 you are gonna point some fingers.
00:18:55 And again, I'm not saying this as a negative.
00:18:57 I'm saying this as a,
00:18:58 I believe it's a bit of a realization for those guys
00:19:00 that they really need to do it.
00:19:02 - Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:19:04 And it just feels like those things
00:19:07 are falling into place finally for these guys,
00:19:09 both on the court and in terms of just having
00:19:12 that mental edge and focus and fire
00:19:16 that they're gonna need to win a championship.
00:19:18 And it really does feel as though the only thing
00:19:21 that could derail this team
00:19:23 from being one of the last team standing is health.
00:19:26 And they've gone well out of their way
00:19:28 to make sure as best they can,
00:19:30 that their core guys who have some health concerns
00:19:33 slash issues get that rest.
00:19:35 I would be very surprised if we see Prazingis,
00:19:38 play more than half of the remaining games
00:19:43 left on the schedule.
00:19:44 Because frankly, you wanna do every,
00:19:47 particularly you're this close to the playoffs.
00:19:49 You don't want to overextend him
00:19:51 when you don't have to this close to the playoffs.
00:19:54 So I think they're gonna be very conservative
00:19:56 about his playing time in terms of games played
00:20:00 and minutes when he's out there.
00:20:02 - Yeah.
00:20:03 And this is a good thing.
00:20:05 And this is a conversation we had last time,
00:20:06 the whole like, how's Tatum wired?
00:20:10 Is he wired where the MVP is important to him
00:20:12 and how important is it and getting that recognition
00:20:15 and that's what fuels him and all of that stuff
00:20:18 versus get the finals MVPs, they're much cooler.
00:20:21 You know, like it's a much better thing
00:20:24 to be a finals MVP than a regular season MVP, trust me.
00:20:28 - Yeah, yeah.
00:20:30 And it's, I mean, that's, and it really,
00:20:32 that should be the mindset you would hope
00:20:34 of all really good players that what you do
00:20:37 in a postseason should trump whatever happens
00:20:39 or accolades or praise you get in a regular season.
00:20:42 Tatum's a funny one like that though.
00:20:43 He's, I mean, he wants to be great.
00:20:45 He's made no secret about wanting to be
00:20:47 one of the all time greats.
00:20:48 And part of that narrative is being the best player
00:20:52 in a regular season.
00:20:53 And I'm just hoping that it's not something
00:20:58 that he gives a ton of thought to
00:21:00 because they don't need him to be the best player
00:21:02 in a regular season,
00:21:03 and even be the best player in the playoffs.
00:21:04 That's where your legacy is established,
00:21:09 cemented and kicked.
00:21:10 And then Tatum has been very clear
00:21:12 about wanting to have a legacy in Boston
00:21:15 as one of the all time greats, if not the all time great.
00:21:19 - And it's almost funny.
00:21:20 It's almost like, yeah, I'm not, don't take this wrong,
00:21:23 but it's almost like, you know, like a kid, you know,
00:21:26 like fine, you're not gonna give me the MVP, fine.
00:21:29 I'll just go win this one instead.
00:21:30 You know, like, I don't mind that.
00:21:32 I think that that's great is maybe he recognizes,
00:21:35 yeah, Dex a little stacked against me.
00:21:37 I'm on a super team, you know,
00:21:39 I might have to be Kawhi Leonard here, you know,
00:21:41 like I might not have the counting stats now
00:21:44 at the end of the year.
00:21:46 Teams too freaking good, you know,
00:21:48 they were too good.
00:21:49 We added two all-star caliber players.
00:21:51 What are we doing?
00:21:52 Like, that's the thing.
00:21:53 You're this guy, like it just happened for Tatum
00:21:57 three, four years earlier than it happens
00:22:00 for most guys of his caliber.
00:22:02 They get to 30, 31, they haven't won a championship
00:22:05 and they're like, bring me a freaking super team.
00:22:07 You know, now I need to win now.
00:22:10 It happened to him during his peak prime,
00:22:13 get 31, 32, 33 point per game potential
00:22:16 scoring championship years.
00:22:18 So he's being asked to not take a back seat,
00:22:22 just being told do a little less, you know, this year,
00:22:27 because that's better for the whole.
00:22:29 And it's just kind of happened earlier.
00:22:31 So you talk about the development,
00:22:32 everything about Tatum's development,
00:22:35 Tatum and Brown for that matter, has been accelerated.
00:22:37 From year one, when Tatum comes in the league
00:22:39 and you know, Gordon Hayward breaks his leg
00:22:41 and he's thrust into the starting rotation,
00:22:43 he's starting lineup and he just sits there all year,
00:22:45 has an outstanding season and then off and running.
00:22:48 And that's it.
00:22:49 Those guys, baptism by fire, they got in it early.
00:22:53 And you know, their first seasons,
00:22:55 they're in conference finals.
00:22:56 Like they've been, it is accelerated.
00:22:59 So the whole age thing, I've always thought,
00:23:01 nah man, they're really deep into their, you know,
00:23:05 careers just in terms of what they've been able
00:23:07 to accomplish and how much has been on their shoulders
00:23:11 for as long as it has.
00:23:12 And so this is already kind of happening to them.
00:23:14 It's like, you got your super team, go win it now.
00:23:16 You know, you've got a couple of your window here,
00:23:18 get it done, you know, and see what happens after that.
00:23:21 And I think he's, you know,
00:23:22 he's definitely coming to that realization,
00:23:24 which I think is good.
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00:25:11 what was the last time you had to worry about your hair?
00:25:13 - Oh my God.
00:25:14 Wow.
00:25:15 We're talking more than a decade.
00:25:20 - Yeah?
00:25:21 - Yeah, it has been a long time.
00:25:24 - I feel like you had, when we first met,
00:25:28 you were still pretending that hair was important.
00:25:32 - It's been a decade, yeah.
00:25:33 (laughing)
00:25:34 It's been a decade.
00:25:36 It's been a decade.
00:25:37 - Yeah.
00:25:38 - So no.
00:25:39 No.
00:25:41 - I like this.
00:25:42 I've always liked this look.
00:25:44 It looks good.
00:25:45 It's good for you.
00:25:46 - I'm good, I'm good.
00:25:47 I'm good.
00:25:49 But it's great to have options though.
00:25:51 I mean, it is great that our listeners can have options
00:25:54 to maximize their mane.
00:25:56 - Yeah, exactly.
00:25:59 It's not slander.
00:26:02 I love it.
00:26:02 Are you kidding me?
00:26:03 (laughing)
00:26:05 - Why'd you stick up for me, Jon Hill, my guy?
00:26:07 - Yeah, there he is.
00:26:08 There he is, the guy.
00:26:09 Yeah, so back to the conversation here.
00:26:12 And again, I'm not balding.
00:26:15 This is not, hat's not covering it.
00:26:16 Sherrod's seen the mane.
00:26:18 This is real.
00:26:19 This is thick. - It's real.
00:26:20 - It's thick, it's lustrous.
00:26:22 I'm not that guy with the hair,
00:26:23 it's crept all the way back.
00:26:25 I take off the hat and you're like,
00:26:25 holy crap, what happened to that guy?
00:26:27 - No, Jon, I don't think you got the halo effect yet.
00:26:31 - No, I'm okay.
00:26:32 - Good. - I am okay.
00:26:33 Neutrafol's gonna make it better.
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00:26:36 - Neutrafol's gonna be, hey, I made it this long.
00:26:38 What else do I have to worry about, right?
00:26:41 You make it this point in your life.
00:26:42 You win, you've won.
00:26:44 - Yeah, you get to this part.
00:26:45 Yeah, you're good.
00:26:46 You're good. - Yeah.
00:26:48 Lustrous.
00:26:49 Lust, sorry.
00:26:50 (Jon laughing)
00:26:52 - Yeah.
00:26:53 - Oh gosh.
00:26:55 - Yeah. - Oh man.
00:26:56 - So that's good stuff.
00:26:57 Other things, pardon me,
00:26:59 other things that stood out for you?
00:27:00 - Just, I mean, one of our listeners,
00:27:04 they pointed out just the minutes of Tatum and those guys.
00:27:07 It felt as though that Joe went into this game and said,
00:27:10 damn it, we're gonna play a playoff type of rotation.
00:27:15 And you look at the way the minutes were dispersed.
00:27:17 I mean, pretty much everyone in that starting lineup
00:27:19 played, yeah, they all played more than 30 minutes.
00:27:23 Al was the only guy off the bench
00:27:24 that played significant minutes.
00:27:26 Sam Houser played 10, Peyton Pritchard played 15,
00:27:30 Luke Cornett got about 10,
00:27:31 and that's pretty much what they're gonna get
00:27:33 in the playoffs, more nice than not.
00:27:36 So it very much felt as though from a minute standpoint,
00:27:40 there was a conscious, intentional effort
00:27:42 to put these guys in playoff type-
00:27:45 - Playoff mode.
00:27:45 - In terms of the minutes played.
00:27:48 So, but I think that what's,
00:27:50 I think Joe Mazzullo's plan is most likely
00:27:53 to have two or three games where they do that,
00:27:57 and then have two or three games where he's just playing
00:28:00 the Tillmans, the Cornets, the Sam Houser's extended runs
00:28:05 and give his starters a chance to kind of not play as much.
00:28:10 'Cause there's a balancing act that I know
00:28:11 that they're trying to maintain,
00:28:13 and that is giving the guys enough run
00:28:15 to keep them fresh and engaged and in a rhythm
00:28:18 without wearing them down in the process.
00:28:21 So, but this definitely was like a playoff type of,
00:28:26 I wouldn't say atmosphere,
00:28:27 but just playoff type rotation and minutes distribution.
00:28:30 - It was, I almost feel though, like tonight,
00:28:34 Joe only fell asleep on Tatum.
00:28:39 - Yeah.
00:28:41 - 'Cause he did his regular sit down
00:28:45 midway through the first,
00:28:46 and then he brought him in late first as he often does.
00:28:50 So he played nearly nine minutes in the first quarter.
00:28:53 Then he played him the entire second.
00:28:55 The only guy to do that.
00:28:56 Jalen Brown played seven minutes in the second.
00:28:59 Tatum played 12.
00:29:01 - Yeah.
00:29:01 - Or Zingas played six.
00:29:02 So I feel like Joe might have just brain cramped a little.
00:29:07 And then in the third, instead of bringing Tatum out
00:29:12 when he normally does,
00:29:13 he played him the entire third quarter as well.
00:29:15 And he only sat a minute in the fourth.
00:29:17 So I think for some reason he just napped on Tatum
00:29:21 'cause the other minutes weren't bad.
00:29:23 They were in the thirties, you know?
00:29:25 So that was it.
00:29:27 I think he just, he extended him a little longer,
00:29:29 maybe didn't bring Brown in, you know,
00:29:33 earlier as he should have.
00:29:34 Because again, white 32, Brown 35, Holiday 35.
00:29:42 You know, he could have avoided the Tatum 43 there.
00:29:46 It wasn't full blown playoff minutes.
00:29:47 At the end of the day, I mean,
00:29:49 you still got 10, 10 and 15 from your, you know,
00:29:52 your, you know, your Howser, Cornett, Pritchard,
00:29:56 which is more than those guys are gonna get
00:29:57 in the playoffs most likely.
00:29:59 - Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:00 And if you're gonna do it, you might as well do it now,
00:30:04 coming out of the break,
00:30:05 trying to get guys back into a rhythm.
00:30:08 'Cause you know, you just never know
00:30:10 how quickly they'll get back into the flow of things
00:30:13 coming out of the offside break.
00:30:14 And to Joe's credit, you know,
00:30:16 he's playing a major minute so that they can
00:30:18 kind of fast track that rhythm
00:30:20 that these guys were in before the break.
00:30:23 - Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:25 No doubt about it.
00:30:25 A couple of things I wanted to mention as well.
00:30:28 Some people, I think rightfully giving Joe props
00:30:32 for letting Celtics play through a stretch there,
00:30:35 where it looked like the Knicks were coming back
00:30:36 in the second half and they turned,
00:30:39 what was it, a game that was into this.
00:30:41 They got it back down to single digits
00:30:42 and then boom, boom, boom.
00:30:43 They were able to pull that right out there.
00:30:45 And again, that could be a, you know,
00:30:48 another battle tested sort of like,
00:30:53 you know, figure your shit out.
00:30:54 It's gonna get harder as we go on.
00:30:57 And again, that's kind of what a lot of this
00:31:00 down the stretch stuff has to be, right?
00:31:03 In addition to, as we said,
00:31:05 I still think you gotta figure out
00:31:08 I still think you gotta figure out
00:31:10 if you're gonna use Tillman
00:31:11 and you gotta figure it out sooner than later.
00:31:14 And so hopefully that happens in the next couple of weeks
00:31:19 where you start to see him integrate a tad
00:31:22 because you just wanna see whether you have it.
00:31:23 But otherwise, yeah, I think just learning moments,
00:31:27 maintaining focus, doing whatever you have to do here
00:31:29 down the stretch is pretty much it.
00:31:31 I mean, they have a little break here too, right?
00:31:36 Are they off for three days?
00:31:39 - Yeah, they've got a stretch at some point
00:31:41 where they've got a little bit of a gap.
00:31:44 That's definitely a little bit longer than usual.
00:31:47 Yeah, after...
00:31:50 - They're Tuesday, Friday here.
00:31:53 So yeah, they don't play Sunday, Monday.
00:31:55 So they've got three days off.
00:31:56 They got two days off the next couple.
00:31:59 They don't play Sunday, Monday.
00:32:00 They're back on Tuesday, home versus Philly.
00:32:02 Then they have Wednesday, Thursday off,
00:32:04 and then it's Friday.
00:32:05 So this is a nice little stretch here to rest up
00:32:07 some of their guys.
00:32:09 Golden State comes in on Sunday.
00:32:11 That should be a lot of fun as well.
00:32:14 - The schedule gets crazy after Philly though,
00:32:16 because they're literally playing every other day.
00:32:19 - Yeah.
00:32:20 - And that's, yeah.
00:32:22 And I think maybe that's part of Joe's thinking
00:32:25 that he's gonna have to go to the bench more
00:32:28 during that stretch 'cause you can't play Tatum
00:32:29 43 minutes every other game.
00:32:32 That's just insane to do that.
00:32:36 - And then we also get to have a Grant Williams
00:32:39 intervention on Friday as Dallas comes in.
00:32:43 - Listen, it's getting real interesting
00:32:44 with Grant Williams.
00:32:45 I mean, Draymond kind of went in on him a little bit
00:32:49 on his recent podcast basically saying,
00:32:50 and this was after Golden State played Charlotte,
00:32:53 and basically saying that Grant's not a tough guy
00:32:55 and he needs to just stop trying to be a tough guy
00:32:57 and just stop running his mouth all the time.
00:33:00 Which to hear Draymond say that is kind of ironic
00:33:03 because basically he's doing you only he's not as good
00:33:06 as you are doing you.
00:33:09 But Grant, yeah, it'll be good to see Grant.
00:33:13 I mean, from a strictly selfish media standpoint,
00:33:16 'cause we love Grant, Grant gives us great content.
00:33:19 Grant, I think Grant might be the only selfish player
00:33:22 that we've had on the Garden Report
00:33:23 that one game in Charlotte where Grant just kind of,
00:33:26 you know, cameoed into our shot.
00:33:30 But I want him to do well
00:33:33 just because he's a genuinely nice guy,
00:33:35 but he's gotta figure out how to control those gums.
00:33:40 He's gotta figure out when to flap his gums
00:33:43 and when to just let it go.
00:33:46 - So I tweeted this earlier.
00:33:49 I do think the pendulum swung too far on Grant now.
00:33:52 Also, it's kind of like, wait a second, we get to beat up.
00:33:56 It's like your family, right?
00:33:58 We get to say this stuff about Grant
00:34:01 because there's still some love.
00:34:03 You guys don't get to say it.
00:34:05 That's just mean.
00:34:06 So it does feel like he's getting picked on a tad,
00:34:08 but I do think it is more performative than anything.
00:34:12 I think he doesn't read the room well.
00:34:15 And I think he's doing this because he thinks it's,
00:34:18 I think he thinks it's helpful
00:34:22 and he's not realizing a lot of his teammates are like,
00:34:24 nah, man, this isn't what we need right now.
00:34:26 You know, even the Jimmy Butler thing last year,
00:34:28 I mean, the Celtics showed you how much
00:34:29 they wanted to see him do that.
00:34:32 Nobody really, everyone's like, ah, Grant, this isn't,
00:34:36 I know you think this is the thing,
00:34:38 but I really wish you didn't do that.
00:34:41 So he doesn't quite have that.
00:34:43 Someone just asked, why does Doris Burke hate the Celtics?
00:34:47 I've never understood this criticism at all.
00:34:50 I think she loves the Celtics.
00:34:52 Like, in second and top of the country,
00:34:56 I've never quite understood that.
00:34:58 - Yeah, I mean, I think there was like maybe one moment
00:35:02 where something happened in a game
00:35:05 and her response wasn't as immediate or,
00:35:08 I don't know, I can't remember exactly what it was,
00:35:12 but it seemed like there was like one incident
00:35:14 that just kind of set everyone off.
00:35:15 - And she loved it.
00:35:17 Yeah.
00:35:17 - She, in all the conversations I've had with her,
00:35:22 you know, publicly and privately,
00:35:23 I've never got the sense that she did not like,
00:35:26 I don't, we'll put it this way.
00:35:28 The way I see her is a 180 from the way I see Scott Foster.
00:35:33 - Yeah.
00:35:34 - Scott Foster, I feel did not like the Celtics.
00:35:36 I feel like it's very personal
00:35:38 when Scott's on the floor on the call.
00:35:40 That feels ridiculously personal.
00:35:44 And I don't get that same vibe with Doris.
00:35:46 I just don't.
00:35:48 - I've never gotten it.
00:35:51 She definitely likes us a little less than,
00:35:53 yeah, I know she likes that B2,
00:35:55 but show me someone she loved more than Rob Williams, okay?
00:35:59 Like, and this Rob was on the team until last year.
00:36:04 Loved, loved, loved Rob, loved him.
00:36:09 Couldn't stop talking about him
00:36:10 every second he was on the court.
00:36:11 So no, I think she plays it pretty well down the middle.
00:36:15 And then every once in a while,
00:36:16 people just don't like it when she gushes
00:36:18 about somebody on some other team.
00:36:20 - Yeah, like Joelle.
00:36:21 Like she definitely gushes about Joelle,
00:36:24 but my goodness, he's seven foot one, seven, two,
00:36:26 can shoot threes and is physically imposing.
00:36:30 I mean, Joelle Albida is the future Hall of Famer
00:36:34 and arguably the best center.
00:36:37 You can hear me yoke it, different kind of centers,
00:36:40 but definitely high impact centers.
00:36:42 That's the only guy that when I think about players
00:36:46 that she talks about, he's the only one
00:36:50 that I say she probably likes him a little bit
00:36:52 more than most, but I don't see what others,
00:36:57 what some of the fans jump on her about.
00:37:02 Yeah. - Yeah.
00:37:04 - Yeah, it was a Philly game.
00:37:07 - Yeah, I don't know.
00:37:09 Everyone got mad.
00:37:11 Absolutely rooting for Rob.
00:37:13 Couple things from Joe.
00:37:15 Couple quotes coming out of the locker room.
00:37:16 Jalen Brown, "We are more organized.
00:37:19 We're a more organized team this year.
00:37:21 We're thinking the game.
00:37:22 We're trying to be the smarter team every night.
00:37:24 I just want people to remember that for our criticisms
00:37:27 or feedback or anything that we'd said
00:37:29 about the teams in prior years."
00:37:31 - Is that a preemptive strike on his part to just say,
00:37:34 "Hey, you know, when you, 'cause the criticism
00:37:36 is gonna come when we play like crap,
00:37:38 but remember this." - It's not that,
00:37:41 but that's what, anytime we'd go in on them a little bit
00:37:45 in the years past, it's like,
00:37:47 because they were just kind of, you know,
00:37:49 they weren't organized.
00:37:51 They were just, there was too much freestyling,
00:37:53 too much ISO, too much hero ball.
00:37:55 And you're right.
00:37:56 I mean, the ball movement tonight was outstanding.
00:38:01 - Yeah, I mean, they had that one sequence
00:38:03 where they passed up three really good shots
00:38:06 for the corner ball from Drew.
00:38:08 That was like, wow.
00:38:11 If you're the Knicks, and you're going back
00:38:13 and you're reviewing film after the game,
00:38:15 and you're just like, "What the hell can we do?"
00:38:19 - What's funny is Tibbs called a timeout right after that.
00:38:24 And it was just to say like, probably like,
00:38:26 "There's nothing we can do."
00:38:28 - Just keep playing guys.
00:38:30 - There's, you know, 'cause it was just so freaking fast,
00:38:34 you know? - Yeah.
00:38:35 - And really outstanding stuff.
00:38:38 Couple other things from Joe.
00:38:40 So Missoula, beautiful display of basketball from Jason
00:38:43 that I think will go under looked
00:38:44 and will not go into the most valuable category.
00:38:46 Guys, we gotta stop doing this.
00:38:48 It's just gotta stop.
00:38:49 We have to stop.
00:38:51 We have to stop. - Joe can't help himself.
00:38:53 Joe can't help.
00:38:54 Clearly Joe can't help himself.
00:38:56 He wants...
00:38:57 This is the thing that bugs me about that though.
00:39:02 We're, and by we, I mean the media,
00:39:04 are gonna be accused of keeping that MVP discussion
00:39:08 and discourse going.
00:39:09 And that's not...
00:39:12 I don't believe Joe was asked about MVP.
00:39:15 - Gotta stop.
00:39:16 They did it, he did it with Brown
00:39:17 and his potential assist and his reads,
00:39:19 the defensive stuff.
00:39:20 Joe's spending too much time
00:39:22 taking it in.
00:39:24 And I've said this a million times before.
00:39:27 Don't say it.
00:39:29 We'll end up saying it for you.
00:39:32 Both fans and media, everyone's saying, everyone.
00:39:37 Media, people on Twitter, fans in the chat,
00:39:42 really understated game from Tatum tonight.
00:39:44 I liked how he just kind of let everybody else
00:39:46 do their thing and just...
00:39:47 We said it at the beginning of the show.
00:39:49 He gave the game what it needed.
00:39:51 You love to see that from Tatum.
00:39:52 Not worrying about the stats.
00:39:54 Doris said it for everyone going in on Doris.
00:39:56 I mean, emphatically said in the broadcast,
00:39:59 he doesn't care about his stats.
00:40:01 So she threw that out there emphatically,
00:40:05 definitively early in the game.
00:40:07 It'll be said for you.
00:40:09 When you say it, it makes it worse
00:40:11 because now you're inserting it into the conversation.
00:40:13 Let everybody else figure it out.
00:40:15 You don't need to do that.
00:40:16 That's just a tip.
00:40:18 You don't need to do that
00:40:19 'cause the more you do, it makes it seem like...
00:40:22 Anyway.
00:40:23 Mizzou also talked about execution,
00:40:26 which we were just talking about.
00:40:29 Players take a lot of pride in execution.
00:40:30 Best way to defend the Knicks is to attack them.
00:40:32 They only had seven points in transition,
00:40:35 and that's because we were very patient
00:40:37 and poised in our mindset.
00:40:38 Cosign, absolutely.
00:40:40 They did.
00:40:41 That was good.
00:40:43 You're gonna nitpick.
00:40:44 They got beat up on the glass a little bit.
00:40:46 Always it.
00:40:47 Always gonna be a thing.
00:40:48 Not always, but the offensive rebounding wasn't great.
00:40:52 They leveled it off as time went on
00:40:54 and the Celtics went on themselves
00:40:55 to grab a few offensive boards
00:40:56 when the shots weren't falling.
00:40:58 One of the reasons the Celtics
00:40:59 didn't have a lot of offensive rebounds
00:41:00 is 'cause every f***ing shot went in.
00:41:02 They shot 71% through three quarters.
00:41:04 So you're gonna lose that battle.
00:41:06 You're gonna lose the battle on the offensive boards
00:41:08 when there's no rebounds.
00:41:10 Yeah, you lose the battle on the offensive boards
00:41:13 because there are no rebounds
00:41:15 to get off the offensive glass.
00:41:17 Yeah.
00:41:18 Every now and then, we really need context
00:41:21 for some of the criticism that we have for this team.
00:41:24 And that was one of those instances.
00:41:27 Yeah.
00:41:29 Yeah, one of those instances.
00:41:32 Yeah.
00:41:33 Your pitcher was low-key good in this game.
00:41:36 I mean, he did some things in the paint that were,
00:41:39 you know, he had like a dribble drive in the paint
00:41:41 and it seemed like he got stuck.
00:41:42 And then next thing you know,
00:41:43 Al Horford's got a layup at the rim.
00:41:45 I like what we've seen about Pritchard
00:41:49 like the last month or so.
00:41:51 He looked, this is the Pritchard that you thought
00:41:53 you were getting at the start of the season that you didn't.
00:41:55 So.
00:41:57 I like Pritchard.
00:41:58 I think he's very within himself.
00:42:00 You know, like there's games where it felt like Pritchard
00:42:02 was either gonna force every shot
00:42:04 that was potentially available
00:42:05 or simply couldn't get any off, right?
00:42:08 And like, if he didn't score,
00:42:10 he wasn't making contributions.
00:42:11 I think he's learned a little bit better this year
00:42:13 how to make decent contributions without scoring.
00:42:16 Only time he scored was at transition bucket,
00:42:18 all game long.
00:42:19 That's it.
00:42:21 Yeah.
00:42:21 And I thought he was fine tonight.
00:42:23 I thought he was a positive coming off the bench there.
00:42:26 So no qualms, no quibble over that.
00:42:30 You know, Hauser again, limited minutes comes in.
00:42:32 What does he do?
00:42:33 Takes two threes, hits two threes.
00:42:36 Horford, people beat up on him.
00:42:37 It's being an old man.
00:42:39 I thought Horford,
00:42:40 you know what I thought was really big on Horford?
00:42:42 When the outside shots stopped falling,
00:42:45 they fed him in the post.
00:42:46 And again, Al's not a big post guy,
00:42:48 but he went to work a couple of times
00:42:50 and settled things down.
00:42:51 And I thought that was super important as well.
00:42:53 Yeah.
00:42:54 I mean, Al still has enough in the tank
00:42:55 where he can give you really good three, four minutes
00:42:58 stretch where he can be impactful.
00:43:01 But they have to do a better job of finding him
00:43:05 in those positions.
00:43:06 'Cause he's still good enough to help you statistically,
00:43:11 not just give you that leadership intangible,
00:43:15 which is important, but Al can still play.
00:43:18 It's not like, this is not, you know,
00:43:22 he's near the end, obviously,
00:43:23 but he's not at the end of his career.
00:43:26 He's, Al's a good player still.
00:43:29 And at one of the points, I think,
00:43:31 I believe either Doris or JJ Reddick made on a broadcast,
00:43:35 they talked about how Al's still good enough
00:43:37 where there's a lot of teams in the NBA
00:43:39 he'd be a starter for right now.
00:43:41 So.
00:43:43 That, I mean, that's a hundred percent.
00:43:46 And that's the thing is like, it's, you know,
00:43:48 it's a crazy, someone just put it in the chat.
00:43:51 It's a crazy luxury that you have Al Horford
00:43:55 as a sixth man, because he absolutely could still
00:43:58 be playing starters minutes for a lot of different teams.
00:44:02 And he's perfectly capable when they do go in there.
00:44:05 And again, the luxury of just simply
00:44:07 when you need the size or when you're going
00:44:08 against certain teams to lean on those lineups
00:44:10 a little bit more is great.
00:44:12 Again, it's why I want to see X-Man in there too.
00:44:14 'Cause I think that gives you more versatility
00:44:16 in that regard, in the ability to defend.
00:44:19 I don't understand.
00:44:20 I, again, it's early,
00:44:23 so I'm not going to make a thing out of it,
00:44:25 but I'm going to start getting annoyed in a few games
00:44:28 if Joe doesn't at least see what he's got in that,
00:44:30 because I think it can be an asset
00:44:32 in the playoffs, 'cause I do think,
00:44:34 I think the Luke trigger is going to be extremely fast
00:44:38 in the playoffs, like extremely fast.
00:44:41 He might get two and three minute runs.
00:44:43 And if they don't like the way it's going
00:44:45 or he's getting, they're taking it to him.
00:44:48 I don't think it's going to be gone.
00:44:51 Like there's going to be some games where-
00:44:52 - Short hook for Luke, huh?
00:44:55 - I think so.
00:44:55 And not only that, not just the short hook in the first,
00:44:58 in the first rotation, there won't be a second one.
00:45:01 And you see that happen a lot too,
00:45:03 where they go down to six or seven
00:45:05 for the whole second half and that's it.
00:45:07 So.
00:45:09 - Yeah, that's very real.
00:45:10 - And that's playoff basketball and I understand it,
00:45:12 but I think you can put X-Man in there
00:45:16 and let him do, you know,
00:45:19 what Al's doing in there as well.
00:45:24 So, you know, that's a thing.
00:45:27 And again, also when you need the defense,
00:45:30 yeah, Porzingis has been great as a, you know,
00:45:33 as a shot blocker, but he's struggled certain times.
00:45:36 He struggled a little bit tonight at times
00:45:39 and guys like Al and Tillman,
00:45:41 I think could hold it down a little bit better.
00:45:43 And sometimes you might need that.
00:45:45 So you can't do it if you're bringing in Luke
00:45:48 as your third big in that regard.
00:45:49 If you're getting beat up a little bit, you know,
00:45:52 with your drop coverage or whatever it is,
00:45:54 I think that that's risky.
00:45:55 So I want to see it.
00:45:58 I'm not going to make it my everything or obsess about it.
00:46:01 But again, I think the likelihood of Tillman
00:46:05 being useful in the playoffs is a great bit higher
00:46:09 than Luke being useful in the playoffs.
00:46:10 That's my opinion.
00:46:11 - Yeah, yeah.
00:46:12 That makes sense.
00:46:14 That makes sense.
00:46:14 - Yeah.
00:46:15 - I guess, yeah, I mean, think about, you know,
00:46:19 Luke and just what is it about him that kind of bugs me?
00:46:24 And I think the fact that Luke doesn't,
00:46:27 you don't really feel Luke has any room to grow.
00:46:31 Like this is who he is.
00:46:33 And I look at Tillman, Tillman can get better
00:46:37 and you can envision him getting better.
00:46:39 You start going through the guys coming off the bench,
00:46:42 every one of them has the potential
00:46:44 without it being a stretch of the imagination to be better.
00:46:48 And I just don't, you know, see that with Luke.
00:46:52 This is who he is.
00:46:53 He's not going to be any better.
00:46:55 He's not going to be any worse.
00:46:56 This is just who he is.
00:46:57 And it's weird to have a guy that's that cemented
00:47:02 in a role who doesn't have upside.
00:47:08 I mean, it's one thing if Al Horford doesn't have upside,
00:47:10 Al's like a five-time all-star who started seven years old.
00:47:14 His upside is long gone, but damn,
00:47:16 Luke is, it feels like Luke is the only guy on his team
00:47:20 that doesn't have clear and undeniable upside going forward.
00:47:25 - And yes, we are having this conversation now
00:47:28 because I simply can't do it with Bobby
00:47:30 and I won't do it with Bobby.
00:47:32 I won't.
00:47:33 I can't do this one again.
00:47:35 I can't.
00:47:38 I can't.
00:47:41 - Here we go.
00:47:43 - I can't, I won't, I don't want to.
00:47:45 Missoula on Tatum's 43 minutes.
00:47:50 I'll throw that one in there as well.
00:47:52 The way they were guarding him and the way he was playing,
00:47:54 I wanted to stay in that space.
00:47:56 He put himself on Brunson defensively,
00:47:58 switched it, then stayed on him for a few possessions.
00:48:00 So not as some people had guessed,
00:48:04 trying to get into playoff mode.
00:48:06 He just liked what everything Tatum was doing out there
00:48:09 and decided to ride him a little bit longer.
00:48:11 That's the thing.
00:48:12 It's hard to not want to do that because, you know,
00:48:15 I mean, much less so this year, you know,
00:48:18 but taking Tatum out in the past has been death, you know,
00:48:22 surviving the non-Tatum minutes were always challenging
00:48:25 for this team.
00:48:26 And I know sometimes you probably feel the same way.
00:48:29 And so tonight was probably one of those nights
00:48:31 where Joe got the vibe of like,
00:48:33 I think he's keeping it together in a way that I gotta make
00:48:35 sure that he stays out there.
00:48:37 I think he's gonna feel that a lot in the playoffs too.
00:48:39 So, you know, gotta be careful.
00:48:41 I think, you know, as we saw in the finals two years ago,
00:48:45 even though Tatum was only 19, he got tired, man.
00:48:49 You know, those guys were worn down by their minutes
00:48:52 for sure.
00:48:53 Poor Zingas on getting boos from the MSG crowd.
00:48:57 I enjoy it to be honest, obviously.
00:49:00 They went down in my years in Washington,
00:49:02 I was still getting booed,
00:49:03 but they've ramped up a little bit with me being the Celtics.
00:49:05 No shit. That's great.
00:49:06 He was smiling from the get-go.
00:49:08 I think he, I think he dug it.
00:49:10 Drew Holliday, it felt good,
00:49:13 especially in MSG to be able to play here
00:49:15 and do it in front of this crowd.
00:49:17 So, you know, again, Knicks under man,
00:49:19 I am curious what they can do, Sherrod, at full strength.
00:49:22 I like this team. I really do.
00:49:24 And it's more than just Brunson and, you know,
00:49:29 the Brunson show.
00:49:31 I think, you know, Randall was playing well pre-injury,
00:49:34 had a slow start to the season.
00:49:36 Obviously, Mitchell Robinson is important to them.
00:49:39 But I mean, when those guys,
00:49:40 if those guys are healthy and they're in there,
00:49:42 and OG is great just for his ability to defend,
00:49:46 their team that was defending really, really well,
00:49:49 they can be a pain in the ass to play against.
00:49:52 And then when you bump those other guys down
00:49:55 into bench rolls, but Devin Chenzo,
00:49:57 I know he didn't have a great game tonight.
00:49:58 He has been ridiculous of late
00:50:02 in terms of as a volume three-point shooter,
00:50:05 he's been striping it.
00:50:06 So, you know, they can run you,
00:50:11 they can run you pretty deep into the playoffs
00:50:14 when they have everybody healthy.
00:50:15 And so it's, you know, oh, sorry.
00:50:19 - That's a big if though.
00:50:21 - It's an if, it's an if, it's an if.
00:50:23 - It's a big one with that team because they have,
00:50:26 the answer really isn't an if,
00:50:28 it's they just haven't been healthy.
00:50:30 And there's no clear sense that once they get past
00:50:35 this latest wave of injuries,
00:50:37 that they'll just be great and ready to roll.
00:50:39 But the Knicks have every reason to be optimistic
00:50:43 about their team now because they look like a team.
00:50:45 Even when those guys are out of the lineup and roster,
00:50:49 out of the, you know,
00:50:51 they're not playing because they're hurt.
00:50:52 This Knicks team at full strength, legitimate,
00:50:56 very legitimate, legitimate threat.
00:50:59 - I think this is a legit comment here from Judah on Luke.
00:51:03 There's nothing wrong with him, that's the point.
00:51:05 That's why I hate having this conversation.
00:51:07 Everything that he's done in regular season,
00:51:08 it's been commendable.
00:51:10 I worry in the playoffs, as I said,
00:51:12 and what else do you want out of your third big?
00:51:14 He's where he needs to be, he's doing the right things.
00:51:17 There's a good chemistry.
00:51:18 He gets to the right spots.
00:51:20 He's been an asset there on the lobs and things like that.
00:51:25 But I do worry in the playoffs,
00:51:28 the stuff's, it's just not gonna fly.
00:51:30 It's not gonna fly.
00:51:31 - That's gonna be a problem.
00:51:33 - So yeah.
00:51:34 - Which is what, which maybe, yeah.
00:51:37 And that's why having a guy like Xavier is so important.
00:51:41 'Cause you know that at some point you're going to need
00:51:44 another level of physicality in that front court
00:51:48 that you're not getting now.
00:51:49 And it's good to have a guy that you know
00:51:52 that's part of his game.
00:51:52 But it'd be nice to see him play a little bit
00:51:54 before you actually have to use him.
00:51:57 - Yeah, it would be nice.
00:52:00 We will see it, but again,
00:52:01 I'm not gonna make it my thing until a little bit longer,
00:52:05 and then I might get a teeny bit annoyed.
00:52:08 Let's see.
00:52:10 (laughing)
00:52:12 Amin, are you adding any, are you giving me any sound here
00:52:15 or are we just getting quotes here?
00:52:17 Yeah, poor Zingas with some nice words on D White.
00:52:24 Generally a happy bunch here.
00:52:26 Post game has wrapped up and Bobby Manning
00:52:30 is going to be joining the show in a little bit.
00:52:31 Sherrod, we gotta get, these 830 games, man,
00:52:34 this thing tipped off at what, like 843?
00:52:36 We should have been halfway through the third at this point.
00:52:38 These are two East Coast teams.
00:52:39 Why are you, what are you effing with us for?
00:52:43 Like Monday Night Football doesn't start this late.
00:52:45 What are we doing here?
00:52:46 - It's not gonna get your numbers better.
00:52:49 And if it's not gonna get your numbers,
00:52:51 you're just annoying people, really.
00:52:53 - Come on, people.
00:52:55 Let's do this thing.
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00:53:59 I am told we have some sound here.
00:54:02 Let me see what it is.
00:54:04 Horford, Al Horford here talking about the Celtics'
00:54:07 versatility in the way that they attacked the Knicks tonight.
00:54:10 - I think it's important to have,
00:54:12 as we've learned in the past few years,
00:54:15 that in the playoffs especially,
00:54:16 we have to find different ways to win.
00:54:18 And the Knicks really challenged us tonight,
00:54:21 and we have to find different ways to be effective.
00:54:25 So that's the strength of our group,
00:54:27 and it speaks of the versatility of the guys in this room.
00:54:31 You know, you got Drew Holiday posting up,
00:54:34 pulling up for a three, playmaking.
00:54:36 So, you know, it's playing to our strengths.
00:54:40 - Yeah.
00:54:44 Yeah. - Pretty fair.
00:54:45 A lot of guys who can beat you in a lot of different ways.
00:54:47 Again, I mean, the versatility is nuts,
00:54:49 but we've known this from the get-go.
00:54:50 You've got six guys who can all defend their position,
00:54:54 six guys that can shoot from the outside,
00:54:57 guys who can take it inside as well,
00:54:59 defend multiple positions, switchable.
00:55:02 It's really, I think, you know,
00:55:05 I think people need to definitely embrace it.
00:55:08 It's really hard to be this complete,
00:55:11 like to have this many people who do this many things.
00:55:14 You can find any contender,
00:55:17 and you can point to somebody and be like,
00:55:19 "That's a weakness."
00:55:22 It's really hard to do with the Celtics.
00:55:24 It's really hard to do.
00:55:26 And it comes down to, as we said,
00:55:28 every team's gonna have one guy
00:55:29 in their starting lineup at least
00:55:31 who's a bit of a defensive liability,
00:55:33 or lineups where they just don't have
00:55:38 enough shooting on the floor.
00:55:40 And these are things the Celtics have gone through
00:55:41 in the past, you would see it, which is,
00:55:44 even last year, you look around and say,
00:55:47 "I don't think they got enough here.
00:55:49 "I don't think they've got enough shooting
00:55:52 "and enough offensive versatility."
00:55:54 And again, look at who they were starting a year ago,
00:55:58 a year and a half ago, before Rob Williams got injured.
00:56:00 Rob Williams and Marcus Smart, great, terrific players,
00:56:04 but obvious drawbacks to what they could do
00:56:07 because they were offensively limited.
00:56:10 And I know everybody stands for Marcus Smart
00:56:12 because they loved him, and X, Y, and Z,
00:56:14 and what he could do with the ball in his hands.
00:56:15 But again, he was a limited point guard
00:56:19 and one who had very little gravity.
00:56:22 Of course he could pass, and he was a smart player.
00:56:24 No gravity because he couldn't create his own offense
00:56:28 and he's a poor shooter.
00:56:30 And Rob Williams refused to look at the basket.
00:56:33 So he did create a lot of things,
00:56:36 and you would get some stuff with him,
00:56:37 with the lobs and the offensive rebounds.
00:56:39 But again, this is a team that just doesn't have a ton here.
00:56:43 I agree with this.
00:56:45 I do think that interior defense,
00:56:47 particularly with Porzingis against bigger centers,
00:56:50 a little bit of a problem.
00:56:51 You're gonna see that, but again,
00:56:53 it's hard to be perfect, perfect all across the board.
00:56:57 And when you are running into these things,
00:57:01 you do have some beef on the bench.
00:57:02 And tonight was another example where you bring in Horford
00:57:05 and kind of lock things up a little bit,
00:57:07 and you can do that.
00:57:09 So again, nothing against any of the old players
00:57:12 who played here, they're imperfect.
00:57:14 And I'm not gonna say these guys are perfect.
00:57:19 They can just do a lot more.
00:57:21 And again, I'm gonna go back to it.
00:57:22 This is why in those big boy match-ups,
00:57:26 you wanna see a little bit of the,
00:57:28 you wanna see a little Tillman out there.
00:57:29 That's all I'm saying.
00:57:30 That's all I'm saying.
00:57:31 - That'd be good.
00:57:32 That'd be good.
00:57:33 - Yup.
00:57:34 - That'd be good.
00:57:35 'Cause you're not going to get to the promised land
00:57:39 of the playoffs without elevating your physical play.
00:57:44 - Yup.
00:57:46 - It's just not gonna happen.
00:57:47 And Tillman, he better find his way on the floor soon.
00:57:52 - You need guys who are who Grant Williams thinks he is.
00:57:56 Right?
00:57:57 (laughing)
00:57:59 You need some of those guys.
00:58:01 - Damn.
00:58:02 Damn.
00:58:03 - I didn't mean, I accidentally,
00:58:04 I just side swiped Marcus and Grant to make my point.
00:58:09 I didn't mean to.
00:58:10 - You're right though.
00:58:10 That's, I mean, that's valid.
00:58:12 That's, damn.
00:58:14 Yeah.
00:58:16 Yup, that's, yeah.
00:58:20 - I liked when Cass said Davis brothers
00:58:23 that put Tillman out there.
00:58:26 I don't know if Al qualifies as a Davis brother
00:58:30 in terms of snarl, but you know, again,
00:58:32 they're stout guys, you know?
00:58:34 - Yeah.
00:58:35 True.
00:58:36 - Yeah.
00:58:37 Bobby Manning is threatening to come on.
00:58:39 Bobby, thumbs up.
00:58:40 Feeling good?
00:58:41 Ish?
00:58:42 Yup, he's good to go.
00:58:43 Let's bring in Bobby and get a take here.
00:58:46 Bobby, we've been all around the world and back
00:58:48 because it's 58 minutes into the show,
00:58:50 but we're happy to have you nonetheless.
00:58:52 What's your primary takeaway tonight?
00:58:54 And tell us what's, you know,
00:58:56 what was going on with the guys.
00:58:58 - Oh, they're jubilant.
00:58:59 I mean, this was a real victory lap for this team
00:59:03 and everything that they've been trying to accomplish
00:59:04 this year, offensively especially.
00:59:06 And they had some defensive letdowns
00:59:08 that Joe wasn't happy about,
00:59:10 especially in the second quarter,
00:59:11 but letting them play through it.
00:59:12 I think he called one time out
00:59:14 for the first two and a half quarters there,
00:59:16 something like that.
00:59:17 So they dealt with the blows offensively from the Knicks,
00:59:21 or defensively rather,
00:59:22 and just executed and executed and executed
00:59:26 for three quarters in a way that
00:59:28 I've never seen them look this good offensively, John.
00:59:32 70% through three quarters.
00:59:34 I mean, you just gotta be kidding me.
00:59:35 And yeah, the shots fell, hit a ton of threes,
00:59:38 but the way they set them up,
00:59:40 the way they got to different spots on the floor,
00:59:42 the amount of guys that they had involved
00:59:44 on many of these baskets,
00:59:46 it was just silly what they were doing out there
00:59:48 against a stout team that's defense first.
00:59:51 So I know it's an under-end Knicks team.
00:59:55 I know it's a hot shooting night,
00:59:57 but I've never seen them play better on offense.
00:59:59 I really haven't.
01:00:01 - Yeah.
01:00:02 Yeah.
01:00:03 It was- - They were really good.
01:00:05 Really, really good.
01:00:06 - And the movement, as you said, Bobby,
01:00:09 it's a tired conversation,
01:00:13 but every time somebody gets mad
01:00:14 about someone asking about the threes
01:00:16 or about how you went about it,
01:00:19 not every shot is created equal
01:00:21 just because you can see it on a game chart on nba.com,
01:00:24 with where you're getting them from
01:00:26 and the quality of shot.
01:00:27 The quality of shot was great.
01:00:29 And just their ability to seek out the mismatches
01:00:32 when they had them and attack,
01:00:34 work in the post when they needed to get the ball down low
01:00:36 every once in a while.
01:00:37 And it was, as we said, sometimes you got Drew down there,
01:00:41 sometimes you got Al down there.
01:00:43 Porzingis is a double threat.
01:00:46 The spacing that they had, again,
01:00:47 Porzingis' ability to space the floor
01:00:50 so extremely where he's standing 27 feet back
01:00:53 from the basket and taking shots
01:00:58 and just the second the ball touches his hand,
01:01:01 he just rips it.
01:01:02 It was just an impressive display of like,
01:01:07 this is one of those games where if you're watching,
01:01:09 you'd be like, "Oh, shit.
01:01:11 If you were scouting the Celtics,
01:01:15 what are we gonna do here?"
01:01:18 We mentioned one possession
01:01:20 where they whipped it all around the corner,
01:01:21 got it to Holiday in the corner for three,
01:01:23 and it was a perfect possession.
01:01:25 And Tibbs called the timeout.
01:01:26 And I don't think it was to crap on his guys
01:01:28 for a bad rotation or not closing out.
01:01:31 I think it was just simply like,
01:01:33 "Okay, they're good.
01:01:36 That's gonna happen.
01:01:37 Pull it together.
01:01:38 Don't overreact."
01:01:40 But yeah, they're taking it to us a little bit right now.
01:01:43 And it wasn't necessarily to any fault of the Knicks.
01:01:46 - Yeah, and by contrast-
01:01:48 - It wasn't breakdowns, really.
01:01:49 It was just elite offense.
01:01:51 - Yeah, their defense just got stressed to the maximum.
01:01:54 And they tried different things too.
01:01:56 They went to drops.
01:01:58 They had double bigs out there.
01:02:00 They had good rotations at different points.
01:02:02 I mean, that rotation,
01:02:03 when the Celtics were starting the third,
01:02:04 six of seven from three,
01:02:06 Devin Chenzo just had this ridiculous rotation
01:02:09 to get out on block ground.
01:02:10 And Celtics probably would have started that quarter
01:02:12 seven of seven from three if he didn't do that.
01:02:14 So the Knicks brought it.
01:02:16 And Joe said that.
01:02:17 He was like, "They brought it at a level
01:02:18 that brought the best out of us."
01:02:20 - They did.
01:02:21 - It felt like a playoff game because of that.
01:02:23 And so, yeah, they were shorthanded,
01:02:24 but the guys who were out there,
01:02:26 whether it was Achua, whether it was Devin Chenzo,
01:02:28 up and down the lineup, they played well in this game.
01:02:32 They hit 40% of their threes
01:02:34 while the Celtics were hitting 50.
01:02:36 Brunson got into that in-between area
01:02:37 and was hitting everything.
01:02:38 I think he started seven to 13.
01:02:41 They went all in on this game.
01:02:44 Tibbs didn't pull the Stars till late, of course.
01:02:48 They just kept rallying.
01:02:49 - That's what Tibbs is gonna do.
01:02:50 That's so Tibbs.
01:02:52 - And he tore through timeouts, as you mentioned there, John.
01:02:54 Six and about three quarters from Tibbs there
01:02:56 just to try to slow the Celtics down.
01:02:59 And for all the people who say, "Joe, call a timeout,"
01:03:03 it's another example that they're not magical.
01:03:06 They're not gonna just turn into momentum
01:03:08 in your direction necessarily.
01:03:10 So you mentioned it too, John, reading the game.
01:03:14 The level the Celtics have,
01:03:16 even a guy like Jalen Brown,
01:03:17 who the one thing you can criticize with him
01:03:19 is the playmaking,
01:03:21 made all the right plays in this game,
01:03:23 for himself and others, setting guys up,
01:03:25 the little lob pass to Porzingis in transition
01:03:27 when he had DiVincenzo on him for the and one.
01:03:29 Plays like that throughout this game.
01:03:31 This team, when they're matchup hunting like that,
01:03:35 any team that has a Brunson on the floor,
01:03:37 DiVincenzo, guys you can go at,
01:03:39 even Hartenstein at times, Tatum really went at him.
01:03:42 Those teams have no chance against the Celtics
01:03:46 if they're gonna be this methodical
01:03:47 in terms of taking advantage of those guys.
01:03:50 It's just silly.
01:03:51 And like you said, Tibbs before the game,
01:03:53 just rattling off the different things
01:03:54 the Celtics can do.
01:03:56 Whether it's Holiday in the corners,
01:03:57 or Porzingis mid-high post,
01:03:59 and Tatum high and low,
01:04:00 and even Brown got into a post-up game
01:04:02 at a consistency that we hadn't seen from him before.
01:04:05 Horford, they said, just in the flow of the game,
01:04:09 they saw the Knicks were doubling him,
01:04:10 so they went to him in the post to draw those doubles,
01:04:12 and ran offense through there.
01:04:14 And it's all decisions by the players.
01:04:17 And from all the gripes we've had
01:04:19 about Joe not calling plays,
01:04:20 and not inserting himself, and this and that,
01:04:22 this is what he was trying to build towards,
01:04:25 going back to last season.
01:04:27 And even Emeigh was trying to get them to this point too,
01:04:29 when he took over.
01:04:31 - Yeah, but I don't actually,
01:04:32 does it matter though?
01:04:33 Like, yeah, you want the players
01:04:35 to be able to handle a situation.
01:04:38 I don't necessarily want the players deciding
01:04:40 what actions they're gonna run,
01:04:42 and what they're gonna do.
01:04:43 I do want that coming from the coach.
01:04:45 I don't think those two things are necessarily linked.
01:04:46 - I think it is.
01:04:47 - I think letting a team handle someone coming at you,
01:04:51 and dealing with it, and playing with poise,
01:04:53 and going through and doing the things
01:04:55 you're supposed to do is fine.
01:04:56 I don't see any downside to Joe saying,
01:04:58 let's start working Al out of the post here.
01:05:01 Why would that, why does that need to come from the players?
01:05:04 I've never quite understood that.
01:05:05 - I think how it goes is that Joe will end up
01:05:08 having structures that they work out of.
01:05:10 And I was talking to him about pre-game.
01:05:13 He wants them to be able to have that one structure
01:05:16 that they can do 10 different things out of.
01:05:18 So if they see a coverage, they'll have,
01:05:20 let's say, the double horns or whatever
01:05:22 that they're working out of.
01:05:23 You know, give it to a guy in the high post.
01:05:26 Maybe he's going, someone else is going downhill out of that.
01:05:29 You know, maybe they go into the corner out of that play.
01:05:31 So they're just reading the way
01:05:32 the defense is covering that play.
01:05:34 And they might run it 10 times in a row,
01:05:36 as Joe said pre-game,
01:05:38 but they're gonna do something different out of it
01:05:40 every time based on what the players see,
01:05:42 and where the mismatch is, and all the rest.
01:05:44 You know, how they're gonna guard it.
01:05:45 A lot of times in this game,
01:05:46 they were switching down to, you know,
01:05:48 a smaller guy in the post.
01:05:50 So, you know, you get it to Porzingis there,
01:05:52 you get it to Brown there.
01:05:53 You know, whoever's kind of coming out of that screen
01:05:55 a lot of the time is gonna get it there.
01:05:56 Horford too in this game.
01:05:57 So you're just putting pressure on the defense constantly.
01:06:01 And, you know, I guess the one thing left
01:06:04 that you're looking for them to do
01:06:06 a little bit less offensively is the settling.
01:06:09 And, you know, Tatum,
01:06:10 well the last two games certainly has pulled up
01:06:12 quite a bit from three.
01:06:13 That's still the criticism we've had
01:06:15 about him at different points,
01:06:17 but he's hitting them now.
01:06:18 And, you know, when they're going in,
01:06:19 they look a lot better than when they're not.
01:06:22 So that's just what takes you to the next level
01:06:25 offensively when he's able to do that.
01:06:27 You know, Brown a little bit in this game too.
01:06:29 But you love when the ball is working around.
01:06:32 You love when everyone's getting touches.
01:06:33 Holiday was four or six early,
01:06:34 and he's often the guy who gets forgotten.
01:06:36 He got quite a bit work early off in this game
01:06:39 going against smaller guys.
01:06:40 So this is the championship Celtics right here.
01:06:45 And, you know, there's room for improvement
01:06:48 defensively out of a game like this.
01:06:50 I thought the Knicks physically,
01:06:51 especially really took it to them at times
01:06:54 on the defensive end of the floor.
01:06:55 But offensively, I mean, there's no team that can guard this.
01:06:59 I mean, the Knicks sure are about as good as it gets
01:07:01 defensively from like an X's and O's standpoint.
01:07:03 And they just looked overwhelmed.
01:07:05 - Yeah.
01:07:08 As we were talking about, Bobby, you said it earlier,
01:07:11 this is a championship.
01:07:12 This is what a championship team looks like.
01:07:14 And Sherrod and I had alluded to it earlier
01:07:18 in the broadcast.
01:07:20 The lead's up to eight right now in the conference.
01:07:24 Nine over the box. - It's over.
01:07:26 - It's legit.
01:07:27 That's what we said.
01:07:28 (laughing)
01:07:29 That's what we said at the beginning.
01:07:30 - It's time to experiment, rest, and just ramp up.
01:07:34 - And we did talk about that.
01:07:35 And I'm gonna pick your brain a little bit
01:07:37 on the Tillman stuff.
01:07:39 I also wanna ask a couple more questions
01:07:41 about tonight's game.
01:07:43 But Porzingis talked not too long ago
01:07:48 and he was asked about this huge lead
01:07:50 that the Celtics have right now.
01:07:53 And he's given Brad, he's given Brad props for it.
01:07:56 - To be honest, I have to, like,
01:07:59 we have to give a lot of credit to our front office
01:08:02 for putting this kind of team together.
01:08:05 And when the opportunity presented, for me at least,
01:08:09 I said, "This is gonna work 100%.
01:08:12 "This is gonna work, or we're gonna figure it out
01:08:14 "sooner or later."
01:08:15 And it just worked right away because of the fit,
01:08:16 because of where I am in my career.
01:08:20 And yeah, I think Drew was,
01:08:25 and D-Wright's playing at an incredible level.
01:08:26 And I'm not even saying anything about JB and JT.
01:08:29 Those guys are always on top of their game.
01:08:31 So just, yeah, overall great players,
01:08:36 but also great people.
01:08:38 And that makes the team connect very easily.
01:08:43 - Yeah, yeah.
01:08:51 - There it is.
01:08:52 Brad put them together and they love each other.
01:08:55 But again, the Porzingis glue factor
01:09:01 can't be overstated here.
01:09:06 Again, on the court and off the court, he's been,
01:09:10 we've talked about it a ton, a ridiculous,
01:09:15 ridiculous addition.
01:09:17 And they talked about it on the broadcast as well,
01:09:22 like, you know, giving props to Marcus Smart
01:09:26 as a heart and soul player on the team.
01:09:27 But they're like, "This guy just fits so much better."
01:09:30 And obviously, obviously, obviously it does.
01:09:32 But yeah, good stuff.
01:09:35 - The sunshine that he brings into Jalen's life.
01:09:38 We needed that.
01:09:39 We needed that.
01:09:41 - We always thought-
01:09:42 - Jalen, we needed that.
01:09:43 Absolutely did.
01:09:45 - Yeah.
01:09:46 - We always thought, or at least I did,
01:09:48 you needed that pressure on Brown and Tatum at all times.
01:09:51 Some of those intense personalities
01:09:52 who would get on them, hold them accountable.
01:09:54 We almost wonder with the style of this team
01:09:56 and the success they've had,
01:09:57 whether it's better that they've had some guys
01:09:59 who compliment them on the court,
01:10:01 but off the court sort of defer to them, you know,
01:10:03 as the leaders of the team,
01:10:05 as the guys who are gonna do everything.
01:10:07 It's worked well, obviously, this season,
01:10:10 not having a guy who's up their ass,
01:10:13 for lack of a better term.
01:10:14 And, you know, I'm sure they're gonna need that
01:10:16 at certain points, but through the flow of the season,
01:10:20 it's worked well having a guy like Porzingis
01:10:22 who's just gonna praise them and, you know,
01:10:24 do the little things around them and set them up.
01:10:26 - Isn't that interesting?
01:10:28 Because between Marcus and Grant,
01:10:31 you did lose the get in your face
01:10:33 and make a lot of noise guys that-
01:10:36 - Even E-May.
01:10:37 - That, yeah, and E-May, that when things aren't going well,
01:10:42 you want the tough guys.
01:10:44 But sometimes it's kind of like,
01:10:46 and we mentioned this with Grant
01:10:48 and we alluded to the Draymond stuff, you know,
01:10:51 from the other day.
01:10:52 And we'll talk about that a little bit too,
01:10:53 but it's like, we don't wanna hear this
01:10:58 from you right now, man.
01:10:59 You know, like, I don't know how much of that stuff helped,
01:11:02 even though, you know, as fans sometimes,
01:11:05 and people, you know, media and analysts,
01:11:08 and looking at it like,
01:11:10 God, it feels like Tatum needs a wake up call.
01:11:12 Maybe, but I think it needed to come from within.
01:11:15 And I don't think it was coming from Grant Williams,
01:11:17 you know, and I don't, and I mean, even Jalen Brown,
01:11:20 who talked about having a, you know,
01:11:22 big brother, little brother-like relationship
01:11:24 with Marcus Smart, flat out said like,
01:11:26 I hate Fuggie, I didn't always like the guy.
01:11:30 - And Marcus confirmed it.
01:11:31 And Marcus confirmed the feeling with Mitchell.
01:11:33 - We didn't really like, like,
01:11:35 it was kind of like sometimes like,
01:11:37 enough out of you, man.
01:11:39 And like, maybe the pressure,
01:11:41 what's funny is you think they need it,
01:11:43 and then you have someone like Porzingis come in
01:11:45 and he's like, "Hey, JB,
01:11:47 we should get an apartment together."
01:11:48 And they're just like buddies, and that's it.
01:11:50 That's all you needed, right?
01:11:51 It's so strange.
01:11:53 All that is just quiet and just does his thing,
01:11:55 and he's a pro.
01:11:56 It's like, oh yeah, maybe you didn't need people ranting
01:11:59 and throwing chairs and yelling at him.
01:12:01 - Yeah, this is fresh too.
01:12:02 And obviously across sports,
01:12:04 whether it's coaches or teammates or whatever it might be,
01:12:06 things get stale and tired.
01:12:07 - And Joe's love.
01:12:08 - We talked about that being a dynamic.
01:12:09 - They needed Joe's love, yeah.
01:12:10 - Yeah, and Smart had been there for what, nine years.
01:12:14 Grant had been there for four at that point.
01:12:16 So, and that dynamic just might've gotten tired
01:12:20 to some degree in terms of the room.
01:12:22 And it really is a unique room going in there.
01:12:26 Not that I'm in a ton of different teams' locker rooms,
01:12:30 but when visiting teams come in,
01:12:31 you do get a little bit of a comparison.
01:12:33 And some things are close.
01:12:36 Everybody's talking in there.
01:12:38 Everybody's joking around.
01:12:39 After this game, Luke and Tatum were going back and forth,
01:12:42 asking who was in the crowd, celebrities and stuff.
01:12:45 Drew was going back and forth with O'Shea,
01:12:48 and Al's just kind of mixing it up with everybody.
01:12:50 Like there's bonds across this locker room
01:12:53 that are pretty clear.
01:12:54 And they've talked a lot throughout this year
01:12:56 about how close this group is
01:12:58 and just how good the chemistry's been.
01:13:00 I think guys like Xavier,
01:13:03 Xavier was in there chatting it up too.
01:13:05 I'm going to add to that.
01:13:06 Jaden, I talked to him for a while pre-game.
01:13:08 Seems like a solid dude who's really working
01:13:12 and really excited to be here.
01:13:14 Like he's just, he can't stop smiling
01:13:15 about the fact that that trade happened.
01:13:17 So it's a good room.
01:13:19 It's a good, good room that they have here.
01:13:22 And that's definitely adding to their success.
01:13:24 And it's the perfect team on the court.
01:13:26 Like everything works.
01:13:27 And when you're winning,
01:13:28 it's always easier to have that dynamic.
01:13:30 - Yeah, you're like, yeah, exactly right.
01:13:32 If it was Rocky, it's again, it's the whole-
01:13:36 - But they were winning last year too,
01:13:37 and something was off.
01:13:39 - You could tell, but it is a chicken and the egg thing.
01:13:42 You know, was it the right mix of people,
01:13:45 you know, behind the scenes that brought the best out of them
01:13:47 or did they just play,
01:13:49 there was so much harmony on the court
01:13:51 that like there's just good vibes that they went throughout.
01:13:53 Did they appreciate the understated professionalism
01:13:57 of the people that they added?
01:13:58 You know, was there noise before, you know,
01:14:01 in the smart and the things.
01:14:03 I always say this a lot.
01:14:04 Like sometimes it's not like, ugh, I don't hate this guy.
01:14:08 But when he's around, if I were at a 10, you know,
01:14:12 and then he's around, I drop to an eight or a seven.
01:14:15 Like, I'm just not as psyched as I was
01:14:20 before they walked in the room.
01:14:21 Some guys, some people have that effect, right?
01:14:24 And it just is like, ah,
01:14:26 and you're just a little less of yourself
01:14:27 and you don't camp.
01:14:28 It's not the thing or enough of a thing to make an issue of,
01:14:32 but you do wonder if clearing some stuff out
01:14:35 has given them a little bit more, you know,
01:14:37 and there's talk and reporting behind the scenes
01:14:40 that some things got tired
01:14:41 and again, Grant Williams wore out his stay
01:14:45 in like 10 seconds in Dallas, you know, who knows,
01:14:48 but without disparaging what was here before,
01:14:51 you can definitely sense that there's an overall improvement
01:14:54 in the room and the vibe just from the time.
01:14:56 I mean, Bobby, you spend a ton of time in Sherrod,
01:14:58 ton of time around the team,
01:14:59 but even the times I'm down there at practice,
01:15:01 it feels different.
01:15:02 It really felt like just sub clicks, you know, in the past.
01:15:09 You know, guys had their guys and that was kind of it,
01:15:12 but a little bit more like, I don't know,
01:15:16 a little more disjointed in the past.
01:15:18 It doesn't feel that way this year.
01:15:19 It's a little, it's freer and easier
01:15:21 and it's kind of been that way from the get-go.
01:15:24 - Yeah.
01:15:25 - That's why, you know,
01:15:26 that's why it's been compared to '08 so much
01:15:28 is a group of guys at different points of their career
01:15:30 who are figuring out that we'd done a lot,
01:15:33 and poor Zing has talked about this too.
01:15:35 You get to a point where the only thing left
01:15:37 that matters is winning and drew aside,
01:15:41 everybody on this team hasn't done that yet.
01:15:44 So they're all bought into a collective mission here
01:15:47 and you saw it play out in the highest form in this game.
01:15:51 I mean, this, you know, I've been holding out, John,
01:15:53 on the championship, you know,
01:15:55 picking them this year and believing in them.
01:15:57 This is about as close as I've gotten to buying in.
01:16:01 Like this was, this was a real circle of the calendar game
01:16:06 in a tough environment against a team
01:16:08 that was playing like hell.
01:16:10 Like they just took it to them
01:16:13 and couldn't even make a dent, the Knicks did.
01:16:16 And again, they're shorthanded.
01:16:17 And I know someone in the chat was just asking like,
01:16:20 who you worry about in the East,
01:16:22 who you worry about in the league?
01:16:23 This team's there.
01:16:24 Like when they're healthy,
01:16:25 they're going to be a problem for Boston
01:16:28 and everybody really that they go up against.
01:16:31 But if the Celtics are executing like this,
01:16:33 they're still not going to have enough
01:16:35 to at least win the series.
01:16:38 - Yeah.
01:16:39 Throwing up one more,
01:16:40 we talked about Jason Tatum playing that understated game.
01:16:44 Now Tatum said things to this effect recently
01:16:47 about how he's letting things come to him a little bit more.
01:16:50 And yeah, year over year,
01:16:52 his first quarter scoring is a little bit down
01:16:54 than it was last year.
01:16:55 So you can see a person who is known
01:16:59 for starting slow at times
01:17:01 is doing it now more intentionally,
01:17:04 or at least that's the way he views it,
01:17:06 which is the, I'll let it come to me.
01:17:08 I'll eventually get mine,
01:17:09 but I don't have to go out there jacking shots early.
01:17:11 I'll take what the game gives me.
01:17:14 But again, is it hurting overall numbers?
01:17:18 Sure, you look at the stat line tonight.
01:17:19 If you didn't watch the game,
01:17:20 you might get the impression like,
01:17:21 oh, what's up with Tatum?
01:17:23 Why didn't he get involved?
01:17:24 It didn't feel like one of those games.
01:17:26 It felt like he did exactly what he needed to do tonight
01:17:28 when he needed to do it.
01:17:29 Joe, once again, kind of giving him flowers.
01:17:32 People aren't seeing this stuff.
01:17:34 What bugs me isn't that he said it,
01:17:36 it's that everybody sees it.
01:17:38 I don't know who you need to convince of this.
01:17:41 I think everybody sees it.
01:17:42 - It's not showing up in the stat sheet.
01:17:44 - Yeah, we get it, we get it.
01:17:45 But I think everyone is kind of saying the same thing.
01:17:48 No one's looking at these down games with Tatum.
01:17:50 We even said at the beginning of the year,
01:17:52 the best version of him is gonna score less
01:17:54 and do everything else a little bit more
01:17:56 and play defense and get his teammates involved
01:17:59 and not worry about putting up 30.
01:18:01 But poor Zingas after the game kind of doubled down
01:18:04 on the JT love about doing all the little things
01:18:06 needed to win.
01:18:08 - JT, JB, like every, Drew, I've said it before.
01:18:12 He probably is the guy that's like sacrificed the most,
01:18:14 you know, for winning,
01:18:15 for like being on this type of level team.
01:18:18 But even JT, like he deserves a lot,
01:18:22 like a lot of credit because he could, you know, say,
01:18:25 F it, like I want to score 30 every night.
01:18:27 Like I want to get the MVP, like, you know,
01:18:30 but he's not doing that.
01:18:31 And I think people are like overlooking that
01:18:34 and you have to give him credit because when he does that,
01:18:37 it makes everybody else do that.
01:18:39 And then we're winning games
01:18:40 because everybody's feeling good.
01:18:41 Everybody's scoring, you know, we're all dangerous.
01:18:44 So I think there's,
01:18:48 he deserves a lot more credit than he's getting
01:18:50 and everybody has made a sacrifice.
01:18:54 And I think people from outside kind of see that,
01:18:56 but us as players, you know,
01:19:00 we know what we're doing and we know what the goal is.
01:19:02 So we were all putting our stuff to the side
01:19:06 for one bigger goal.
01:19:07 - F it.
01:19:10 - That's the stuff you want to hear.
01:19:16 And it makes it, you know,
01:19:18 what are you smiling about Bobby?
01:19:20 Uh-oh.
01:19:23 - Can you see Luke?
01:19:24 - Bobby, who's making eyes at you?
01:19:29 - The mice are out.
01:19:31 You know how it is here.
01:19:33 - Yeah.
01:19:35 And they're not mice.
01:19:37 - Yeah.
01:19:37 - You can tell yourself that, that makes you feel better.
01:19:41 - They're mutant rats.
01:19:44 - Yeah, I don't know how much longer
01:19:45 you're going to get from me.
01:19:46 (laughing)
01:19:49 - We're about to see the Mickey takeover.
01:19:53 The Mickey takeover.
01:19:54 - I want to see how high that voice gets.
01:19:57 - Yeah.
01:19:59 (screaming)
01:20:02 - I'm already getting there.
01:20:03 (laughing)
01:20:05 - I want full Tom and Jerry standing on the chair.
01:20:08 I want you to like just freaking out here.
01:20:11 - Manhattan Mickey.
01:20:12 Manhattan Mickey is ready to take over.
01:20:16 - They're so bold here too.
01:20:17 They're not afraid at all.
01:20:19 - Oh yeah.
01:20:20 You have some people feed them.
01:20:21 - Yeah.
01:20:23 - Yeah.
01:20:23 All right, we can wrap it up Bobby.
01:20:25 Any closing thoughts here?
01:20:27 - I'm just feeling great about where they're at.
01:20:32 And, you know, we talk about the rest,
01:20:35 getting guys integrated.
01:20:36 I know you were talking about that off the top here.
01:20:39 You do have to start to integrate Tillman
01:20:42 at some point here.
01:20:43 And I think the big thing that is going on there right now
01:20:47 is just preparing them.
01:20:52 You see them before the game,
01:20:55 like they were here three hours as I was John
01:20:57 working overtime.
01:20:59 - Who the rats were?
01:21:00 - No, Tillman and Springer.
01:21:03 - Oh, okay, okay.
01:21:03 - Like they are getting in extra work right now
01:21:05 trying to catch up.
01:21:06 And I think that's probably the biggest reason
01:21:07 you're not seeing them.
01:21:08 And Joe's talked about it is catching up to the system.
01:21:11 You know, I think for Tillman probably more defensively
01:21:14 and he's, you know, getting ready to post up too.
01:21:16 I think what she says has been the biggest difference here,
01:21:19 like getting ready to get into attacking those mismatches
01:21:22 as we said earlier, being a threat out there offensively,
01:21:24 which he really didn't have to do as much in Memphis.
01:21:26 And then for Springer,
01:21:28 I think there's a longer learning curve.
01:21:29 So, you know, for anyone who thought
01:21:31 he might sneak in this year,
01:21:32 probably not happening in his case.
01:21:35 I just don't know if there's enough time
01:21:36 and certainly a need for him.
01:21:39 Oh, good, the rat took off.
01:21:41 - Was it eye level?
01:21:45 - No, it just, it's on the ground,
01:21:49 but it just, you know, keeps getting closer and closer.
01:21:52 - Oh my God.
01:21:53 - Manhattan Mickey.
01:21:57 - I hate it here.
01:21:58 - Oh, I love it there.
01:22:00 - Oh, damn.
01:22:02 - I love MSG.
01:22:03 - Mike, you ain't right, Mike.
01:22:07 - Yeah, I love MSG.
01:22:08 Yeah, that's it.
01:22:10 We can wrap it, Bobby, for your safety.
01:22:13 And, you know, for Sherrod's, you know,
01:22:17 poor sleepy Sherrod trying to hold it down for us
01:22:20 while you're getting all the post-game comments.
01:22:22 And, oh, Bobby's ready to move.
01:22:24 - Yep. - Ready.
01:22:25 - Yeah, the second this ends, it's gonna be like.
01:22:28 - Out of here, yeah.
01:22:32 So yeah, we got a little break here, which is cool.
01:22:34 We're back on Tuesday night, back at the Garden.
01:22:39 A couple of fun games next week.
01:22:40 So that should be great.
01:22:42 We should have the whole gang back for that one.
01:22:45 But again, Celtics win 116-102.
01:22:49 They have a ridiculous, ridiculous lead
01:22:54 in the Eastern Conference.
01:22:57 Eight games up on the Cavs, nine games over the Bucs.
01:23:00 And as we said, this thing is over.
01:23:02 And as the Celtics kinda, you know,
01:23:05 are honestly playing out the string
01:23:07 with 25 games left to go, which is really banana land.
01:23:10 We are gonna wrap it up.
01:23:12 - Yeah, that's good advice.
01:23:16 - Who put that one up?
01:23:18 - No, that was me.
01:23:20 - Oh, that was you?
01:23:21 Oh, you have the access there?
01:23:22 - I think you should use Fox Bobby.
01:23:23 - That's funny, yeah.
01:23:25 We're gonna wrap it again.
01:23:26 Bobby's gotta get out of here.
01:23:27 We will see you guys in a couple of days.
01:23:32 Take care, everyone.
01:23:34 - Wait, Amit's got an outro for us, I think.
01:23:36 - No, he doesn't.
01:23:37 - You said he was gonna work on an outro.
01:23:39 - Man, he had a phenomenal game.
01:23:42 - Phenomenal.
01:23:43 - Poor Firdoud, I think it's an option.
01:23:47 (laughing)
01:23:50 - That did not sound like a chair.
01:23:52 - It was a freaking chair.
01:23:54 It does sound like a chair.
01:23:55 (upbeat music)
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