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00:00 He the Celtics have not in the last five six years
00:02 They haven't had a guy like this who can stretch the floor
00:04 You're gonna have to work hard on both ends against or Zingas and I think he's been a very I
00:09 Don't want to say a surprise, but I think we found out he's actually an above-average defender
00:14 And he does present matchup problems on the defensive end, but offensively
00:19 The way he stretches the floor
00:22 They haven't had that piece
00:24 Whereas I'm talking more about the opponent now the opponent has to actually work really hard now to come out and guard
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00:37 What's up everyone welcome to another
00:41 Edition of Celtics beat it is the last one of the regular season
00:47 Which means the next time we join you and actually I don't think I'll be part of it
00:51 I think it's gonna be Evan whoever he is with and Valenti's here. I'm Adam Kaufman
00:55 I'll be on vacation
00:55 So I won't be around for the round one preview whoever it is the Celtics wind up getting and we honestly don't know yet
01:01 With the jockeying proceeding that is happening in the Eastern Conference. We'll touch on that a little bit later on but Celtics are
01:08 Incredible we know that they're just dicking around at the end of the regular season at this point in time
01:14 There's 62 and 17 three games left all at home against the Knicks the Hornets and Wizards
01:20 It's just a big bucket of suck. And so none we're not gonna spend a ton of time. Obviously, we're not gonna
01:26 Like preview these games that are coming up Thursday Friday and Sunday respectively. It just doesn't matter
01:33 I mean nothing that happens right now barring obviously injury
01:37 Matters as it relates to the end of the regular season and that was never made more clear than by that game
01:42 Just what as we sit here a little less than a week ago against Sacramento when Joe Mazzullo
01:49 refused to put the starters in for much of if not the entire fourth quarter as a lead was
01:55 You know double-digit lead was dwindling dwindling dwindling with the reserves and I mean like next level reserves like bottom of the bench
02:03 I may as well have been out there level reserves going up against the Kings
02:06 starters because they had something to play for and it took Xavier Tillman to hit a game winner with seven seconds left to win that
02:13 Game and after the game Mazzullo called it practice. So that is where we're at
02:17 That is where we're at at the end of the regular season, which honestly is a wonderful place to be
02:22 That's what you want. Get the guys in get them their reps as much as they want them and as much as you know, the the team
02:27 experts on load management and yada yada yada decide as necessary but a seize with a
02:34 14 game lead in the Eastern Conference it is
02:37 Obscene. I mean, this is like old-school Yankees leading everybody else and in the AL East in the 90s by double figures kind of
02:47 Situation right now late in the regular season, but there is you know
02:50 Potential injury stuff to talk about as it relates to other teams most notably the team that is quote-unquote right behind
02:57 the Boston Celtics the Milwaukee Bucks
02:59 Giannis and Ted to Kupo was out for the remainder of the regular season with this left calf injury and may not be ready for
03:05 the playoffs once again
03:07 we think about last year when they went down in the opening round when they were injury depleted obviously and
03:12 Upset by the Miami Heat who as is often the case became a postseason nightmare for the Boston Celtics
03:18 so a lot of stuff obviously to get into but as you heard in the intro as you can see on your
03:24 Cameras if you're watching on the CLNS YouTube page, we have a guy we haven't had on here in a little while and thrilled to welcome
03:32 him back
03:33 My friend and yours
03:34 Brendan Glassheen who as I said is the voice of the main Celtics who you want to talk about games that are meaningless for
03:41 The big club not the case in the G League right now the Maine sees no longer the Red Claws rest in peace
03:47 The Maine sees are one win away
03:50 From winning a championship. We talked about banner 18 in Boston
03:55 they're going for banner one in Maine, and this is an exciting time obviously and
04:00 You know if this were the Lakers they'd probably count that toward their additional titles
04:05 But the Boston Celtics aren't going to do that
04:07 They I don't think you'll see a Maine Celtics banner coming up at the TD Garden but clash you took game one
04:12 Not you, but you were part of it as far as I'm concerned over the Oklahoma City blue
04:16 106 to 86 and utter domination and of course game two coming up Thursday night in OKC
04:23 It's a best of three series. You guys can put it away now
04:26 Congrats in advance for when this team wins the title. I'm very excited for you. How are you? Welcome to the show?
04:34 First of all, you've done almost 600 of these that's incredible. First of all, not personally
04:39 When did we take over him like around 300?
04:42 We did this math a long time ago, and I don't remember exactly the numbers. So we've been around for more than half
04:48 Yeah
04:51 Yeah, it's like the main Red Claws did the first half and then the main Celtics came in and did the
04:58 you know something like that, but uh
05:01 Thanks. Thanks for having me on
05:04 Yeah, Maine Maine is in a spot here where they can win their first ever championship
05:08 They've never been to a finals before I was looking this up the other day the last time an NBA franchise and it's G League
05:15 D-league affiliate won the championship in the same year was the 1415 Golden State Warriors and that Warriors team
05:23 went
05:26 65 and 17 so the Celtics are right in that boat
05:29 They're not gonna get to that 65 win total, but they're gonna be right there
05:32 Well, they can if they sweep the rest of the way can they is that right? Well, they have that's right
05:36 They have 17 losses so they could get there. Uh, okay more my bad Warriors went 67 and 15 67
05:42 I'm not gonna get there
05:44 but that year Golden State had a double-digit lead for first place and the
05:48 Houston with Chris Paul and James Harden was the next best team in the Western Conference that year and
05:53 Yeah, Santa Cruz end up winning the D League title
05:57 So I was looking that up because based on where Boston is and where Maine is out at this stage
06:02 It's been it's been a lot of fun to follow
06:05 This team and having been with the team now the last couple of years and seeing some guys that were in Maine that are now
06:10 impacting
06:12 Boston's winning the parallels in terms of how they play are very similar and it's not just blowing smoke
06:19 they they really take it seriously from the
06:21 How to get guys ready in a Boston like system and and try to get guys to play for the Boston Celtics and that's what's
06:28 Happened here the last couple years before we even touch on that and talking about some of the players and of course
06:33 There's you know Celtics draft picks in there that people are familiar with JD Davis and Jordan Walsh among other guys
06:38 Something I've and I were talking about just before the show started and we haven't been there to personally experience it
06:43 But looking at it from afar and obviously you've done a um team TV and even now in the playoffs some radio games for this
06:50 Team, but you're in the arena. You're in the atmosphere. It looks and obviously it's smaller gym
06:55 It's not like the TD Garden or something like that, but it looks like an absolutely insane incredible environment
07:01 They get like 3,000 people a night
07:03 So my first year was after the pandemic was still kind of going on so they were easing fans back in the building
07:09 I'll never forget when the the first year the the Maine Celtics had Theo Pinson on the roster
07:16 They had Jay Sean page Luke Hornet
07:19 Hornet was actually nabbed for like a 10-day. I want to say it was a Cleveland these 10-day hardship contracts and cough
07:28 I know you know about this kind of stuff because when you're playing
07:30 NBA DFS trying to manage your your lineups that there must be a whole a
07:35 Whole brain fart in terms of trying to figure out what the heck's going on with that
07:39 But that was what we were dealing with
07:41 So there would be guys coming off the plane taking a shuttle or a bus to play and we'd find out an hour before tip
07:47 Yeah, we got a guy coming in
07:48 So that's like the minor league background of what the G League does and you got to have eight guys to play
07:53 But now with full full packed houses, they've been selling out these games. They sold out the entire New Year's slate
08:01 We had 2,600 people at the playoff game on Tuesday night. It was absolutely it was so jam-packed you had
08:10 You felt some of the chance you would hear at an NBA game the let's go Celtics
08:14 There was a wave main was up 28 in the first half
08:17 They had a there was a wave in the first half the fans did a wave
08:20 there was a bunch of NBA and G League personnel there from the league coming in because it's the finals but
08:25 Yeah, they jam-pack it reminds me a lot for those of you that like to watch the AAU circuit in high school basketball
08:33 It has like a peach jam feel to it
08:35 You pack the place for the next big star and of course in this case these guys are pros
08:40 But it's been fantastic and the fans are really nice and now that we're doing radio we have fans sitting right on top of us
08:45 It's got like a Cameron indoor feel to it. So been really cool
08:48 And I know folks might think Maine they think you know college hockey or it's more of a hockey region
08:54 Oh, they like their basketball. They really do
08:56 Well, yeah Cooper flag, obviously
08:59 Flag play the game at the Expo in January
09:03 Some of the ticket prices to go watch Cooper flag
09:07 I think we played on a Thursday and then Maine was off until so it was like a Thursday Saturday
09:11 series the G League does a lot of series kind of things with teams just to
09:15 Save on travel and whatnot and we played Thursday Saturday Cooper flag had a game at the Expo on Friday and
09:23 Ticket prices were in the $80 to $100 range to go watch him play
09:28 Then he would play down the street downtown at the cross insurance center
09:31 But yeah exactly to your point
09:33 I mean, that's it's it's one of the oldest buildings in the country the Portland Expo and they do track and field events
09:39 They do a bunch of high school basketball. The Cooper flag thing is the next level of high school basketball
09:43 But yeah, they they do a good job. They really do and I don't remember her name you guys might know
09:48 I don't know for sure but the woman who does the Celtics in arena hosting
09:53 She's come in and done a couple of our games. She'll do like a dual host
09:56 So they they integrate some of the the Boston stuff with the game presentation
10:02 They do they do a fantastic job with it
10:03 You know, so let's get us up to speed a little bit here because a lot of people like myself. We're only really following
10:10 How's Jordan Walsh doing and how's Katie Davison progressing and you know, there's a little bit of you know
10:16 There's there's some obvious attraction to Kata. We just got a contract, you know, well-deserved, right?
10:21 When you look at the the G League landscape, where does this team fall in terms of talent?
10:28 I mean look they're in the finals. They just beat their opponent by 20 points in game one
10:33 the three of us based on your suggestion are feeling rather confident about the the ability for Maine to win this whole thing and
10:42 Yet is this a shock to you that they're here at this point?
10:46 They were in ninth place at the end of February and you guys were just talking about it
10:52 I think Adam was just talking about the East and after Boston between two and nine
10:58 It's it's a jumble, right?
10:59 It's a cluster of teams that could get to two or get to three and teams are fighting for home court
11:04 You got to win your division to secure that you get a higher seed and you've got Miami and Philadelphia
11:10 Just trying to tread water and get stars back in their lineups and whatnot
11:13 Well, the East and the G League was like that all year one through
11:17 13 so Maine was a ninth place that so six teams get in in each conference
11:22 Maine was in ninth as of the end of February they would win to lose to win one lose one and
11:28 That's the nature of the biz when Kate is with Boston all year and then Walsh might join Boston on a road trip
11:34 I think there was a trip where they went Miami to Dallas and
11:37 Walsh had an assist at the end of the Miami game is one of those TNT games and then he's from DeSoto, Texas
11:44 So they wanted to get him on the road. He saw some family
11:46 JD might make a trip Peterson was getting some time at the end of December when they went on the road to play the Clippers
11:52 He's from California or he played his college basketball account in California. I should say at USC
11:57 But like taking out the the family ties that they also Boston might have a need because you're arresting a poor Zingas
12:04 So you need Kata or you're without true holiday. So you need an extra guard JD's gonna get the call
12:09 So that's the nature of it, right? You're gonna just kind of hang around tread water, but the talent was there
12:14 We said all year if Kata was with this team like Walsh was and played 40 plus games
12:19 I think they build a pretty considerable lead in the conference
12:23 That was not the case and they went on a huge run. They won 10 of their last 12
12:26 They went 9 and 2 in March. They had Kata for half of those games in March and
12:30 They've put it all together with Peterson who was on the Sioux Falls Sky Force the Miami Heat affiliate
12:37 2 and 2 together you play your NBA games in Miami, but maybe to keep the G League team
12:44 Sane we're gonna keep you guys in South Dakota. I make sure you guys are focused on basketballs. There's no G League team in Miami
12:50 For those guys, but Peterson's been a good story JD's been with the team for two years
12:55 So they only brought two guys back from last year's team in
12:57 Davison and Tony Snell who was just throw him in the mix. He's 32 in the NBA for almost a decade and
13:04 consummate pro
13:07 Extension of the staff all those cliches, but it's true
13:10 So we always had the feeling if they put it together and they got home games because of how great their home court is because
13:15 Across the G League. There's no home court like Maine with you can pack a place with 2,500
13:20 Some of these teams play at NBA facilities. So when you watch a game
13:23 I think there was a playoff game last Tuesday when Indiana played Delaware and it's at the Pacers home arena
13:30 And they're showing wide shots on the broadcast
13:32 I'm like you might want to tighten this up because there's there's not many people there
13:35 But these these games at the Expo have been fantastic
13:38 But no, I mean look that they're here and I think some guys that you know
13:42 A Kade is a great example like you're itching to get an NBA contract. You want to be at the next level?
13:47 He was in the G League last year in the playoffs. He was the MVP runner-up in the league
13:52 But they've instilled this like they all play for each other. They're sacrificing
13:57 It's very similar to what we're seeing in Boston, of course at a higher level these guys make way more money
14:01 there are more expectations, but
14:03 These guys could have very at any point could have just say alright, you know, we're going through the motions
14:07 Let's let's wrap this up so we can go to our offseason get ready for summer league and figure out what's next for me
14:13 But they've all kind of they've all done it for each other and they've they've pieced it together to go on this pretty awesome run
14:18 Well, that's kind of what I was wondering, you know, and I'm thinking of like the in hockey
14:24 You'll have the black aces, you know
14:25 The minor league guys get called up to the playoffs that really, you know
14:28 Barring significant injury have no chance of sniffing playing in a playoff game
14:33 But they're there for practices and to be extra bodies and partners. I'm sure obviously some of these guys from
14:40 Main, you know, whether it's Kata or Davidson or Walsh and some of these guys, you know, they're gonna come up
14:46 They're gonna be the same thing, you know depth for Boston that you know, hopefully never sees a game
14:51 You know, just disrespect and tell I get it. Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna be there to to help out
14:57 So that in mind, you know some of these guys and again
14:59 I'm I'm just thinking about some experiences that I've had working in in minor league hockey in the past some of these guys
15:05 you could just really tell it's
15:08 Some years like going out chasing a championship and at that time the AHL, you know with you we're talking about the G League
15:15 It's it's meaningful. It's important. You know, you're a competitor you want to win a ring other guys?
15:20 It's like yeah, I mean that I'd like get me up to the pros sooner so I can be in that atmosphere
15:25 And with those guys and getting those
15:28 You know day checks week checks, whatever
15:31 It what's what's the vibe around this group? I mean, I realize they're only a win away
15:36 So I think I probably know the answer to the question even as I ask it
15:40 but how important does it seem like it really feels to this crew to go out and and
15:44 You know to be where they are in the first place and then obviously to finish the job
15:48 I think it's helped them quite a bit
15:50 So just to throw a couple more names at you like JD Davidson and DJ Stewart
15:54 They started to get to know each other on a pro level back in August when they were in Boston for training camp
16:00 So Stewart played for the Sixers summer league team and then he got picked up by Maine on a G League contract
16:06 But Stewart was a training camp invite
16:08 So Stewart and Davidson go way back Walsh, of course was a draft pick signed to an NBA contract
16:14 He was in camp Tate has been in camp from the beginning into a two-way contract
16:18 they got Peterson as I mentioned in December when he was just a
16:21 Standard guy and then he was on a Miami G League deal and then Boston gave him a two-way
16:27 These guys have all been part of winning cultures where they've been
16:31 Walsh and Davidson were in the NCAA tournament after their one years at their respective schools
16:36 Walsh was part of an upset against Kansas and last year's NCAA tournament
16:41 Davidson was on some really good Alabama got to the final four this year
16:45 But Davidson was part of that fabric that Nate Oates has created at the college level
16:49 Stewart played at Duke was part of a winning culture. There was in the playoffs in the G League last year
16:54 Peterson was an NCAA tournament player Brandon Slater
16:57 I mean look at that you guys know this look at the Knicks all those Villanova dudes that are playing NBA minutes
17:01 I mean Brandon Slater was on those Villanova teams. He didn't win a title, but he got to a final four
17:05 They've got winning habits. And I think what should be
17:09 Kept keeping in mind. It's easy because this is a Celtics podcast
17:14 The Celtics have built such a huge lead in the East that these games in March and April are just tune-up games
17:21 Let's see what we have with Tillman and Cornette. Do we have a guy that is fighting for?
17:26 Maybe a games worth of minutes over the course of a seven game series
17:31 Who's gonna who's gonna go over who in the on the depth chart? So I say that because
17:36 All eyes, I mean, I think the way these guys have approached it is well the big clubs got their crap all put together
17:44 They're fine. They've got a 14 game lead
17:46 They're gonna be the one seed in the East and it's pretty close to but certain they're gonna be the number one overall seed
17:52 right depending on the West and how that shakes out, but
17:54 All eyes are on the G League for the for this particular team
17:58 Stevens was at our game last night Rich Gotham was at our game last night Mike Zarin who is a treat to watch just as
18:04 A fan he gets super into it Remy Cofield Jarrell Christian the GM
18:08 These guys are approaching it like not only for the Celtics
18:12 But all scouting eyes and folks that help run personnel when these games are on national TV
18:19 And I know they're not on ABC or ESPN or a TNT, but they're on ESPN news ESPN you will as that field shrinks
18:26 Most scouts have their eyes on you and you could be the next
18:30 Diamond in the rough and I'm sure any of these guys would love I just saw this tonight
18:35 The Memphis Grizzlies just used their 50th starting lineup because of all the injuries they've had including former Celtic Marcus smart
18:41 I was looking at their roster today
18:43 Memphis has like eight guys on their team that have played in the G League
18:47 But they're NBA players now because they've been granted an opportunity. So I think the way these guys have all come together is let's
18:53 Take back a little bit of what we do individually put it together
18:57 And if we win games and we show winning habits that's gonna attract an NBA team
19:01 to perhaps give us a
19:04 standard contract or at the very least to bring us in for a camp invite and have a chance to be an
19:09 impact player and an impact player can be a guy who's 10th 11th off an NBA bench and I
19:14 Think they I'm not just saying this
19:16 I think they see guys like Hauser and Cornette and what their track was Houser was an undrafted five-year college player Luke Cornette was in
19:23 Chicago Boston got him in a trade and as I mentioned he was on a hardship 10-day and then he was on a two-way with
19:29 Boston briefly and
19:31 Then what do you know? They're playing minutes for an NBA championship caliber team
19:36 So the the fabric and the the culture that Boston has established these last handful of years and how they've utilized their G League
19:44 Has I think?
19:46 Motivated these guys and the it's true like guys like Kato will come back and he says hey
19:51 I was talking to Luke Cornette and poor Zingas and Horford are sending me a text Congrats on the contract
19:55 Like those guys don't have to do that
19:57 like they're happy for a guy like Kato because he's put the work in and they see it on a day-in day-out basis and guys
20:02 Like Stewart and Davison as I mentioned, they're in camp
20:05 JD Davison said he was super pumped when they got true holiday because he wanted to pick his brain about defense and how to pick
20:11 your spots on offense and how to guard multiple positions and
20:14 Even Walsh having a guy like Tony Snell and the Tatum and Brown guys that he looks up to and he's 20 years old
20:20 So they look up to these guys
20:22 I think when you see the winning at the next level from the parent club you look at it
20:26 It's like they appreciate people that take back a little bit and want to win games
20:31 Yeah, that was a big part coffee me you probably experienced maybe some of this but when I I was doing play-by-play for the Valley Cats
20:38 minor league affiliate of the Astros
20:41 So a hockey baseball basketball minor league. Yeah, we got the minor leagues wrapped up here, but we had a
20:48 visit from the then GM Jeff Lunao Jeff talked about the value at winning at every level and
20:57 They wanted to win the New York Pennant League
21:01 Championship, they wanted to win the Sally League Championship the double-a championship the triple-a championship and the World Series
21:08 They were serious about
21:10 Developing winning habits from as early as you possibly can so to the credit that the Celtics have done they've created
21:17 One a Celtics environment in Maine right guys the offense is similar. The defense is similar
21:23 You know guys are gonna have roles like I think Jordan Walsh talked to the day
21:27 He's you know, he's it's tough for him because he's he knows what his role needs to be to get in the NBA Club
21:32 But his role with Maine is slightly different
21:34 he's talked about the balancing act of that but the thing that you can you can take all the way through with you is
21:39 Winning and winning at every level and if you're winning
21:43 Julie games and you do what it takes to win Julie games that translates and I think it's admirable. They're trying to create this sort of
21:50 Culture not just within their own locker room, but within all the locker rooms that embody the Boston Celtics
21:56 that's that's that's pretty awesome to hear that stuff because as
21:59 You look as much as we all want to sit here and say this core of the Celtics is gonna be together forever
22:06 We all know that's not the case
22:08 We know JD is sitting there waiting for you know, the Peyton Pritchard trade or you know, somebody to move
22:14 Evan Evan just use a quick example. I mean look what look at Derek White and his
22:20 His ascension as a pro in Popovich when he comes to town or Boston's in San Antonio pop always has a soft spot for Derek
22:28 White but when Derek White was a G League guy
22:30 you have quiet Leonard and Tim Duncan and managing Obley like you're you're focused on winning a title at that level, but
22:37 At some point guys like Derek White who kind of fly under the radar are gonna fill out a 13-man
22:44 active roster any given night so I
22:47 Guys that guys that appreciate the winning culture at the next level and know
22:52 Also when you have a superstar like Jalen Brown
22:55 We just got a huge extension and Tatum's do and they just gave Porzingis a deal
22:59 If the money's gonna be at the top of the roster, you got to find your houses
23:04 You got to find your Cornets to fill out your roster
23:06 At some point down the road and I think that's kind of the path and I'll add this to I mean look at all the teams
23:11 That are out of it in the East now, Brooklyn, Toronto, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit. We'll see those affiliates come in. So
23:17 Motor City and Capital City and
23:20 Greensboro and the team in Mississauga that comes down from Toronto and then you've got Long Island like
23:28 Some of these teams that are bad in the NBA
23:31 They're just kind of throwing crap against the wall
23:33 Hoping they can find a two-way that just has some buzz has some talent and then they can go boom
23:37 Look, we found a guy that can maybe play like a sixth man role at the NBA level
23:41 Whereas this team is like we're there. They're telling Walsh
23:44 We want you to be able to come to our team and be Jason Tatum and/or Jalen Brown's
23:51 backup and come in and give us 15 minutes and be a stopper defensively and knock down shots and that's
23:59 That's the give-and-take do you want to go to an NBA team?
24:03 It doesn't win games or do you want to be part of a winning culture and then be part of a team that could maybe
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25:05 So look obviously we all know the names. It's Davidson. It's Walsh. It's catered to a degree
25:11 you know, he's not a Boston draft pick like the other two, but as
25:14 You know, you're not a scout, but you know watch these guys on a I think so basis
25:21 Obviously and and you also have conversations with the coaching staff there pretty regularly and you've interviewed Brad and you know
25:27 I don't know if anyone's that ever able to get Zarin on the on the mic
25:31 But you know, there's a collection of influential people and scouts. I'm sure you've had some off-the-record conversations with as well
25:38 Is there anyone not that the big club is?
25:41 In need of anything right now as you alluded to that changes, you know
25:47 You look at Derek white and and what he you know
25:49 The hurdles he had to climb not only to serve a purpose in San Antonio
25:53 but he gets traded to Boston a deal that some people did question at the time and
25:58 You know eventually has to leapfrog
26:01 Marcus smart Malcolm Bragdon become the player that he is now today who's gonna get a nice fat new contract here
26:08 So as you look at at that, you know group that exists in Maine right now
26:13 I mean, how do you handicap the chances of some of these guys that we talked about getting to the NBA?
26:20 Whether it's Boston or otherwise getting to the NBA and becoming impactful players
26:24 Well again a lot of that has to do with what the choices are made at the at the NBA level and what
26:31 It comes down to contracts and all kind of the things we just went through right when you have two
26:38 Has the skill to do? Oh, I see. Okay
26:40 Well, I think Walsh can serve a role on a
26:46 Winning team is three point percentages up from his one year in college
26:51 He can when you say serve a role like be a rotation guy
26:54 Yeah, be a rotation guy and he can hit so his shooting percentage has gone up and he can defend multiple positions
27:00 He's six seven. He's sick. They list him as six six, but his wingspan makes him he can guard fours
27:05 He can guard threes. He can guard the ball
27:07 So Walsh I think definitely has a future but he's there's so much raw ability and he had a windmill dunk last night that I
27:14 think fans might get a whiff of and they're like get this guy to Boston and I'm like I get it but
27:20 The dude needs games and that speaks to
27:22 to answer your question cough in a general sense the one-and-done era of college basketball and
27:29 These guys don't have if you're gonna go one and done
27:33 The era of good
27:34 I think the last big one and done that went to the NBA and played right away and was a star and even then he
27:39 still had trouble staying on the floor as I on Williamson and
27:41 a lot of these guys go to teams that aren't very good like Cade Cunningham was a big name a couple years ago and
27:48 The Pistons aren't any good and Cunningham had to admit his miss games because of injury or whatever it may be
27:54 But the the G League as a whole
27:58 Has grown from the one and done and I think the NBA and the Celtics more specifically are trying to really use that as a as
28:04 A next step and they make it about their team now as you said
28:08 Davison Walsh and Cata because of the two ways and Peterson - we should throw drew Peterson in there cuz he's on a two-way
28:14 Walsh on assignment they're looking at those guys in there in their
28:18 Diaphragm of of their of their program and how they fit their program
28:24 DJ Stewart's a guy he's he's short. He's 6 - but man that guy competes. He makes big shots
28:30 Off the dribble can play off the ball him and Davison have been fun
28:34 We call him initials cuz he's DJ and then you got JD
28:37 So we just call him we just came up with a dumb nickname like initials
28:40 But DJ Stewart's been a G League guy is often on as a two-way. He's on a G League deal with Maine
28:45 He's a guy to me that feels like he wants that chance to be a two-way and be part of an organization
28:51 And someone to take a chance on him, but he comes off the bench as a sixth man me and he's a he's a sniper
28:56 He's a game changer can take it to the basket even at his at his height
29:00 It's not as big as some other talented two ways in the league
29:03 But he can shoot it to off the dribble come off the screen and shoot it
29:06 So he's a shifty guard that has a future. I think Peterson's another one where he could be
29:12 He's got that Hauser body type 6 8 6 9 catch and shoot come off the screen can guard multiple spots
29:19 Joe Weiss camp who speaking of the Spurs Weiss camp was a second round pick of the Spurs in
29:24 2021 was bouncing around and then Jarrell Christian went out and got him and said hey
29:29 He's a guy that could fit what we do
29:31 And if he comes in and does what we think
29:34 What he's asked of him and what we think he's capable of he can also fit into our group as a space
29:39 A pace in space guy who can shoot defend and we scamps numbers since he's come to Maine have shot up exponentially
29:48 as a three-point shooter, so
29:50 Those are some other guys that are that are part of the deal in Portland
29:54 Yeah, the thing with the least camp was I remember when they when he first came out
30:01 So I was hitting my mute button here my phone man
30:03 But the thing with him was he was like the best shooter the draft when he came out drew Peterson can shoot the hell out
30:08 Of it. I mean and what Sam Hauser is showing you is that in the end?
30:13 Yeah, I'll go back not go all the way back here, but I'll throw Duncan Robinson out
30:17 There's another guy who is
30:19 Like these movement shooters like you don't have to be Clay Thompson to get drafted
30:24 You know the upper end of the first round and have all this
30:27 Accolades in the history of his father like to be attached to you
30:30 Yeah
30:31 Get a spot in the NBA shooting has never been more important in this this league than ever like right now
30:37 If you can be a movement shooter
30:39 There's a spot for you somewhere and the way the Celtics have embraced the three-point line
30:44 It makes these guys like a Weiss camp or a Peterson or like what's really tragic to me is to watch our guy Gary Bird
30:51 Gary
30:54 What's Texas last name? It's not is it Matthews or Gary's Matthews or whatever his name is
30:58 They had him in there for a while Gary Payton. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
31:02 No, I'm it's it's a white guy that I can't quite remember his name
31:05 What yeah, it's Matthews
31:08 You know, they let they let him get away and he's come into a terrific shooter
31:12 It's it's the max truce, you know streus you bring him in with Javante green and they pick Javante who's had a nice career himself
31:19 Don't get me wrong with max. Drew's is
31:21 Playing for you know, legit rotation minutes for a championship contender for a team. That's gonna play in the playoffs, right like
31:28 those guys
31:31 Without this new Avenue of like get movement shooting has ever been more reliable and valuable than ever like there's definitely a spot for you
31:38 So these guys going out competing, you know, maybe DJ Stewart's a little too small for this particular type of role
31:44 but like the other guys like there's there's a spot for you and Boston's gonna have a
31:48 Spot for you at some point as we talked about the Ross are getting more expensive
31:52 Like they're gonna find weight to cut corners like Sam Hauser
31:54 I keep thinking about this cop and I haven't mentioned this in our group chat at all yet
31:58 but like I am terrified of the contract that
32:01 Sam house is gonna get when he hits the open market because it's gonna be substantial if he keeps shooting like this
32:07 He's just an unbelievable shooter
32:09 so you're gonna have somebody in the wing like
32:11 Do you think these guys these guys must understand that like they look at the Boston Club and say hey
32:15 Like there's I'm looking at a version of me who eventually
32:20 Be here and I can I can be that guy. So like all these minutes are super valuable
32:26 It's just looking up Duncan Robinson got five years nine nine ninety million dollars
32:30 From Miami. I mean that's like a horrific contract but putting that aside he got it
32:36 Yeah, but the AAV isn't that crazy when you consider some of the other guys that get that right and he's on a winning
32:43 I just mean it is for Duncan Robinson, but
32:45 About the guys the guys currently playing for the main Celtics. I didn't even would would kill for
32:50 True. Yeah, you know when I say horrendous, I don't mean in it like I mean in his favor
32:58 I got it. Yeah. Yeah. No, I
33:01 Evan I think you you hit the nail on the head
33:04 I think that's exactly what these guys think and even when it is a situation where they get
33:08 if Peterson's with Boston on a on a road trip or even just sits on the bench for a home game and he's just there as
33:15 An extra body and there are games where these guys will go and it's an off night, Maine
33:18 And the teams at home on a homestand and they've got a night off and Boston's at the garden and they're not
33:23 Even if they're not playing and they're in street clothes
33:25 it's a chance for them to pick these guys brains and it houses the
33:29 Houser came back up for a game. He is like
33:33 He is so I think he
33:35 Even seen some of the video footage that's come out the last couple days where you got how the Cornette was wearing a Maine jersey
33:40 And warm-ups the other night. I think was against I forget who they were playing in Boston at home
33:45 But they do pick these guys brains and and how's our cornet are two excellent examples of this because they are they are playing they are
33:53 Actually playing how's are more regularly than Hornet Cornette's almost like a he's it's like a spot starter in baseball, right?
34:00 they'll give him a spot start or a spot backup role and Horford's out on the second night of a back-to-back or
34:06 Tillman's wasn't quite ready yet getting involved with the team Porzingis the nights they manage him
34:11 It's exactly what that runs through their mind and I think they think of it also like oh, you know
34:16 It's not just Boston like this is what the leagues turned into
34:18 For a guy like a Peterson or a Weiss camp or even a guy like Walsh who's got a little bit more raw ability
34:27 Across the board not just to be a role guy, but maybe in the NBA with a lesser NBA team and play more
34:34 But that's the give-and-take of what being part of the Celtics is well
34:38 It's to that point exactly guys are not at this level
34:41 I mean what I feel like most people know this I think it's kind of common sense
34:45 But you know, there's no like organizational loyalty like guys in Maine are not thinking about how do I get to Boston?
34:51 They're good. I get to the NBA. How do I get to an opportunity that exists for me with the
34:57 Anyone in the Association they don't care about the Celtics
35:00 In fact, they look at it and say I'm gonna get my opportunity here in Maine and take advantage of it as best I can
35:05 I can see there's no opportunity
35:07 There's no room for me in the roster in Maine or in Boston
35:10 But so long as I make an impact down here somebody's gonna come Colin and so that's that's the objective while you're here
35:16 Glash and I don't wanna go too long with this show, but I want to mix in a little bit of NBA
35:20 You don't just talk G League. Obviously, you know what's going on in the Association, you know, we're talking about the
35:27 Playoff seeding and the jockeying for position. I just want to point out I just noticed this it's not at all relevant to Boston
35:33 But I just think it's funny
35:34 So in the Western Conference where I mean that is is very much in flux right now
35:40 I'm Minnesota and Denver are still tied for the top seed, Oklahoma City only a game back you have the Clippers
35:46 Maverick Mavericks Pelicans Suns part of me all separated by just a few games Kings Lakers Warriors, you know
35:53 we know who's
35:55 Everyone else below them has been eliminated. So one through ten, we know we just don't know what the order
36:00 Obviously is going to be and so it makes it play in tournament
36:03 You know
36:05 Unpredictable and funny and you know, like we see the Lakers and Warriors play against each other in the play in tournament
36:11 It's season ended today. They didn't they do that a couple years ago that happened a couple years ago, right?
36:15 It's just nuts with that kind of star power. But what I wanted to point out was Minnesota Denver
36:20 Ok, see Clippers Mavericks Pelicans in that order that is your one through six
36:25 That is the current playoff bracket in the Western Conference and all of those teams just a it's a little fluky
36:32 I realized but just to highlight, you know
36:34 These teams going for it right now trying to lock in whatever specific seed
36:39 These teams are all riding winning streaks all of them all six
36:43 it's it's just kind of nuts, you know, not not as much so in the
36:48 In the East or even among the play in teams, but the Eastern Conference, which obviously people care more about we know the Celtics are
36:54 Firmly locked into their spot as the top team not only in the East but in the NBA and by a wide margin
37:00 Then the Bucs are the only other team guys that have clinched a playoff spot in the East the Knicks the Magic the Cavs
37:06 the Pacers the Sixers the Heat
37:08 All right now are separated by three games
37:13 Three through eight separated by three games
37:16 So any of them could be playoff teams or could be play in tournament teams the Bulls and the Hawks are locked in
37:24 however in nine and ten in whichever the order winds up being so we know they are playing in the play in tournament against each
37:30 Other but everybody else, you know, it's it's TBD and we have had injuries load management
37:36 whatever all over the place the East is just
37:39 It's thinning out I mean, I don't want to say this is an easy road for Boston
37:44 I you know weird things happen. So I an injuries happen as is happening elsewhere
37:49 So I take nothing for granted but right now if you are the Boston Celtics and if you are healthy
37:54 You have to feel good about what's happening around you in the East and and the potential
38:00 inevitability of a
38:02 Showdown with you know, yo kitchen the nuggets on the other side in the NBA finals
38:06 It's what people want and maybe people don't want to face Denver because that's scary as hell
38:11 But it's what you know the NBA I'm sure would love to see and I what do you make of what you've seen so far?
38:17 Not so far. But what what exists right now in the Eastern standings and whether
38:22 Is there a team glass that you look at and just say all right
38:27 That's the biggest threat to Boston, especially when you now consider the injury to Giannis
38:33 Sure, you guys have done this before like Miami, right? You can't rule out Miami
38:37 Yeah, but that's but but can you or can't you like it's you can't rule out Miami because of PTSD
38:43 But if you remove that
38:45 Can you rule out Miami?
38:48 All right, I think they're good. I think they've got they've got enough. They got enough there to make it
38:52 I'm not saying that they're gonna
38:54 Stomp all over the Celtics and do it to him buck style. It could happen to the Bucs couple
38:59 Here I am. I say that and they had a 3-0 lead in last year's conference finals. I respect Spolstra. I respect
39:06 Butler and not just Butler but what Butler has
39:09 injected into
39:12 that team in their belief and it's kind of like it's got a I
39:16 Like how Evan brought up the Max truce example like they can just plug and play dudes in there and they think oh look Max
39:23 Truce did that or Caleb Martin did that then?
39:25 Give another guy a shot and like Terry Rozier gets a chance at some redemption on a contending team
39:30 Cleveland I thought going back to last year
39:34 I know Boston played them back in December and took a two-game home series away from them on a Tuesday and Thursday
39:40 I think but Donovan Mitchell. I don't know if he wants to be there
39:42 Damian Lillard's had some stuff a SI had an article on him and he feels lonely like that's kind of a
39:50 If the fact that Giannis has won one and I know Doc's won one back from 08
39:56 but does that Bucs team have any shot to be like the I
40:00 Can't I think it was the year of the lock not the lockout
40:03 But the shortened season where the Celtics were with Garnett Pierce and Allen
40:08 They were like hovering around
40:09 500 then they got in got a good draw
40:11 I think Philly had an injury or something at the top of the league when they had a good dollar and
40:14 The Celtics went all the way to the conference final. I don't know if it was the year they went to the finals
40:19 in
40:21 2000-2010
40:22 But anyway, like do the Bucs have that in them because they have won it before at least Giannis has Lopez
40:27 Middleton Bobby Portis like I
40:31 I'm reaching I'm reaching to answer your question
40:36 Orlando's got nothing to lose. I think that's a great year for them and some of the length they have along their front line can
40:44 be
40:45 Problematic. I'm curious to see how poor Zingas looks in a playoff series and playing every night and game planning against the same team
40:51 I'm not too worried about
40:54 Tatum from just from this standpoint of like game planning for the same team every night in a playoff series
40:58 The only guy I really haven't seen do that is poor Zingas because he hasn't been on many winning teams
41:03 yeah, I think I guess he won some games when he was in Dallas, but
41:05 Miami I don't worry about Philly all that - all that much because I don't think it's gonna be I think in bead
41:14 His style of play is great for the regular season. I don't know if it exactly translates. However, I do like Nick nurse as a coach
41:20 the Nick nurse fun fact was a G League coach in the Raptors organization and worked his way up and he's uh
41:25 He plays his guys a lot of minutes. It's got like a Thibodeau feel to him
41:30 But uh, they play hard every night and I think they're they're maximizing what that roster is with the Tobias Harris contract and whatnot
41:38 So and the Knicks Jalen Brunson's a good story the Villanova guys. They've they've put together
41:42 They they've got a culture, but I don't think talent wise they're there
41:46 they almost remind me of IT and the Celtics like Brunson's just having this unreal season and they're just riding his coattails and we'll see
41:52 How far he takes us kind of thing
41:54 But you get my I mean you get Miami if Miami ends up being the
41:59 Because Miami could win in Philly right and be the seven and they could get Milwaukee in the first round and you would you dodge
42:05 Him in the first round, but if you draw Miami, I I know you'd mentioned PTSD, but that's
42:11 Well, I could I could see them knocking off the box again without it
42:15 Yeah, that too if Giannis isn't available or just isn't remotely a hundred percent
42:20 I mean, I wouldn't assume any sort of success from the box
42:25 I mean when he before the injury they haven't been any good and you know, basically since Doc took over
42:30 I know and out of bio to me
42:32 I thought out of bio was fantastic in the bubble year that they went to the finals against but he hasn't
42:38 At least he gets the Celtics out of bio hasn't been really an issue, right? It's been Butler and shooters
42:43 right and Butler and spacing and kicking it to guys and
42:47 So I might probably yeah in the Easter Conference finals and they played him the bubble BAM was a huge problem
42:53 Yeah, it was excellent
42:54 and then I think the Celtics found a they made an adjustment or maybe on a bio is not as good as I think
42:59 I think Rob Williams has been it was a huge help and then now having poor Zingas is a whole different it like
43:05 Rob could hang with with BAM in terms of all the stuff that BAM likes to do
43:10 You know, he takes away BAM as a lob threat. They didn't have Rob
43:14 I just have PTSD of watching all these alley-oops
43:18 To to BAM because they didn't have any rim protection without Rob Williams
43:22 Then you know, they have Rob but you know
43:24 It makes life easier in certain regards and then you know
43:27 But BAM is in a hell of a defensive player can roam all around what's interesting about this version of the Celtics is
43:34 they're able to
43:36 Kind of reel in what BAM can do as a defensive
43:40 playmaker BAM it just wreaks havoc as a guy that can just float around and
43:45 Because poor thing is a
43:48 Capable three-point shooter. He's got a follow for Zingas out of the three-point line. That's what to me is gonna be really cheap
43:53 They play Miami what a spoke come up with what junk zone?
43:58 Does Spoh throw out there to as a latched cuz like we like I wouldn't shock me if Miami were to win the series
44:05 But would have to be with some
44:07 Junk zone that I've never even seen before like he'd have to come up with something really unique and and I I think the world
44:13 of Spoh I think Nick nurse is a similar like cut of a similar cloth of we're gonna be prepared for everything
44:19 Whatever defense we play we've run it in practice in games. No matter what we do. We have confidence in it
44:26 Just Spoh's team seemed to be just slightly better at executing those things
44:30 Throughout a seven game series and I'm just curious to deal with BAM and then like what guy on Miami just goes crazy cuz you know
44:37 So yeah, it's gonna come off the bit like it's gonna be like high Smith, right?
44:41 Hey, what high is was gonna come off the bench and shoot?
44:44 42% from three on seven attempts a game and bury them like Caleb Martin last year
44:49 Then they'll make the finals and you won't hear from that guy ever again
44:51 Like it's just like the most annoying thing
44:54 Yeah, so cough before you jump back in to echo Evans point. I think that's that's a good call-out because I think poor Zingas
45:00 He the Celtics have not in the last five six years
45:03 They haven't had a guy like this who can stretch the floor
45:05 You're gonna have to work hard on both ends against the poor Zingas and I think he's been a very I
45:10 Don't want to say a surprise, but I think we found out he's actually an above-average defender
45:15 And he does present matchup problems on the defensive end, but offensively
45:22 The way he stretches the floor
45:24 They haven't had that piece whereas I'm talking more about the opponent now
45:28 The opponent has to actually work really hard now to come out and guard a big that can shoot so you're in beads
45:32 Giannis on a bio
45:35 And even the guys in Orlando Cleveland Cleveland's got mobile II back and Jared Allen's had a fine year
45:40 That's a that's a different dynamic
45:43 pointers if you let him
45:45 Yeah, or yeah, or you just let him do it and that could be troublesome
45:49 But no, I mean it look we've been talking about this in recent weeks and sure you have cuz what else you put that what else?
45:54 You're gonna talk about they've had the East locked up. I get it. I get it. Well, not not even just that
45:58 I mean the fact that you know
45:59 Especially now that year one is just about the books in terms of the regular season, you know
46:03 poor Zingas has absolutely exceeded my expectations and I you know came into the year with a
46:09 Reasonable bar for him. So but he is still he's cleared it. He's you know, he's been
46:16 Everything I think they were targeting and more so far. It's but it's the other sort of side of that coin and
46:23 You know, and Evan I would get into this a lot with our buddy Seth on on our group thread
46:29 It's it's never been about the regular season. It's been about the playoff. Yeah, and you know
46:34 what is the impact going to be there and
46:36 Can he handle the physicality of it the grind of it be reliable to be on the floor all these things and that's not I don't
46:43 Bring these up these things up to imply that he can't or won't be an unknown
46:48 It's just we don't know it, you know, we haven't seen it before never mind in Boston period
46:53 We really haven't seen it before and a lot of these guys and this is a credit to the Celtics
46:58 Most of them the impactful ones have been through it. They've been through the ringer. I mean, there's there's no more
47:04 And honestly in my mind this went away a couple of years ago anyway
47:07 But there's no more like pointing at the Jays and saying they're inexperienced or they're too young
47:13 Or they're like no you're there. It's your moment, you know, you fail you fail
47:17 But there's there's there's no built-in excuse anywhere and we've now lost the you know
47:22 I never had this I never played this card because I never believed in it
47:25 but for the rate the many many people that maybe 50% of people that
47:30 scream throughout Marcus smarts career of
47:33 What a you know negative force that he was on this team, you know
47:38 At least on the floor if not off and again Marcus if you're out there listening, I don't buy it
47:44 There's we don't we don't stand you. We were big fans here of Marcus smart, but I'll tell you what
47:51 I mean, there are a lot of people that would point to the the smart excuse and you know, that's gone, too
47:56 Oh, you know Joe. It's not his first year anymore. He's been a damn good coach
48:00 He's gonna be in the coach of the year conversation
48:02 The excuses are gone like everybody
48:05 Horford obviously has met many deep playoff runs with this team and elsewhere, you know, you've had
48:11 White, you know knows what it takes
48:14 Richard, you know Hauser is is maybe for the first time gonna get a real opportunity
48:19 I mean he hasn't I guess if you want to point to him and say he hasn't really had it
48:22 I wish he had last year. I was begging for him to get it last year and he really didn't
48:26 So this is now Hauser's time. But but poor Zingas is
48:30 Something of I don't call him an X Factor that that that's that's too much
48:35 But there's there's definitely you know
48:39 Now his time has come to show that he's who everyone has come to believe that he is and I'm excited for it
48:46 I'm not going in with skepticism or doubt
48:48 I'm just excited to see it and I know that we're all just to kind of put a nice little bow on this from where
48:53 We started I'm excited to get through these next through game three games because that's that's where we're at now
48:58 You know, I I've often said like enjoy the ride don't wish time away all that now
49:03 We're in the get-through portion get through the last three games of the regular season that don't mean anything
49:08 And let's get to the playoffs and find out who they're facing and you know
49:11 Shorten the benches and you get the more predictable
49:15 Rotations and minutes and all that good stuff that you know, I love from a DFS and gambling perspective and this is just gonna be fun
49:22 I hope it's fun, but we need them to stay healthy and that's that's ultimately the bottom line maintain your depth
49:28 That comes through how last thing last thing I'll say is
49:31 I'm sure you've heard this before you guys have talked about this. I'm sure on your shows and other Celtics content you consumed
49:39 So you asked me what team well, it's them. It's themselves, right?
49:42 They the only team they can get in their own way is themselves
49:44 And if I'm sorry when you play a seven game series, whether it's round one, whether it's the conference final
49:49 And more specifically if it's an NBA final, they've had an excellent point differential just over 11 points a game
49:56 I don't there's gonna be a couple games in a seven game series
49:59 If a series goes six, there might only be two there might be one there might be three there could be four
50:04 I just hope they stay the same in that same connectivity on offense and keep running their stuff and go away from it at the
50:11 end of these games and I
50:12 Porzingis thing I I was working at the Sports Hub the night this happened
50:16 But they went to Porzingis a ton in one of those games
50:19 He had 15 shots at halftime and he took two in the fourth quarter and overtime combined in that second Atlanta game
50:25 And I'm like now I liked the play they ran for him
50:27 They threw it into him in the post drew a second defender and then they had Brown come off a curl and he hit the
50:32 Tough contested elbow jumper, but like that's a kind of play where I'm like, okay, that's good
50:37 They're still using the do they went out and got to change the spacing and give
50:42 That's where like the Marcus smart thing. I'm like, okay, like you're right. That's gone. If you had problems with it, that's gone
50:51 Keep use everybody like you don't have to just say give it a zero get out of the way or give it a seven get
50:57 out of the way
50:58 Keep playing your game because these games will get tight that is par for the course
51:03 That's how that's how a series goes
51:04 Especially against a respectable opponent like a I don't love the Sixers, but they have seen you before I respect nurse
51:11 They've got guys that have been there before
51:13 Whether they've won a lot is a different question, but they've been in the playoffs before
51:17 You're Miami's your Milwaukee's like you got to
51:19 stay in it and just don't go away from stuff at the end because it's close and you're supposed to clear out and try to
51:25 Make a crazy shot to win a game like keep playing your game. That's right. That's what I would get worried
51:30 But so that's what I mean when I say beat yourselves
51:31 I keep doing what you've been doing for three and a half quarters. I don't respect Philly at all. You lose to Philly
51:36 Yeah, oh, I don't
51:38 Start over you lose to the Sixers. Well, I'll take the
51:42 Buddy, the staff is going to tell them to respect them and respect him be
51:46 Thing I want I want the Celtics to you know
51:51 Respect the Oklahoma City blue like that's
51:55 But respect from them. I don't need to respect them that I have no impact on the way this plays out
52:03 but I think one of the more one of the more it's just to your point like if they get Miami like one of the
52:08 More underrated things about this team the last half decade they smoke like they'd smoke them
52:14 But they can remember the net series when they had to play Durant nerving and everyone's like, oh, no
52:18 They gotta get the Nets in the first round. How worried are you? Are they are they up for it?
52:22 Do you like this draw and they swept them?
52:24 I'll tell you what that's that's about as closely contested a sweep as you'll ever see exactly
52:29 I feel like the Celtics won that series by a total of like ten points
52:33 I that's my point like that. No one gave the Nets a shot. They're
52:37 disgruntled you've got two stars that kind of they met in the they met in the
52:41 Tunnel going back a few years at all-star weekend. Let's put it together and right
52:45 I wouldn't count out like a Milwaukee that's had its issues
52:48 I'm sure but you might get into some grinders here and you got to stay together
52:52 and that's a that's a great example of a Marcus smart game where he made a great cut and made a great finish and
52:57 I'm with you too on Tatum like game six Milwaukee the year they went to the finals
53:01 Philadelphia last year
53:03 He's had some moments where he's had not just the end of the game one specific possession
53:08 But put together a quarter put together a half
53:10 Yeah, those those excuses are yes out out the window
53:14 but use the pieces you went out and got because they're you got a champion in holiday Porzingis is a
53:20 Complimentary piece on a title team, I think
53:23 So yeah, anyway, that's it's all I got and then I think the main Celtics gonna win the championship. I think Thursday night
53:29 That's how I'll wrap it on my end
53:31 Before the you know before the big clubs championship push begins
53:35 We got a championship to crown still in the G League here the main Celtics the Oklahoma City blue
53:41 Thursday night glass should be on the radio broadcast. Are you where can the people find you if they want?
53:46 I don't know. So I think our our mutual friend Evans Boston is gonna have the
53:50 Comrex and he'll be out there because he's also director of public. I know well, you know, it's cheap to G League budget man
53:57 They can't say they gotta travel you out there. I love Evans I do but
54:02 Evans Boston
54:05 Evans called the national championship for Syracuse back in oh three. I was just gonna go there
54:10 He was on the call for that one. Now. He's gonna get to call this. Well now I'm good now
54:14 I'm now I'm even more curious to listen
54:16 Yeah
54:19 Selfishly selfishly if they don't get it done Thursday, we would have game three the deciding game three
54:26 It's the best of three series would be
54:28 Monday night at 9:00 Eastern at the Expo. So cool as it would be to win at home, you know
54:34 No, nobody wants the pressure of a winner to know
54:36 I'll get you know go go out get the job done
54:38 Especially when you're up like you said 28 in in the first half you beat the team by 20
54:44 Just go out porch this club win the title and let's let's have a I don't I don't know
54:49 What's what's the equivalent of a duck boat parade through Portland? I?
54:52 mean
54:55 Brewery tour, that's what we're doing. Yeah a lobster tasting. Yeah, there we go. I love it
55:01 Good stuff. All right for Brendan Glass. Sheen great to have him on. It's been a while for Evan Valente
55:07 I am Adam Kaufman next time it is a preview of the playoffs and what is to come for the Boston Celtics in round one
55:14 Very excited. It's almost here folks. We're into mid-april at this point playoffs are coming and hopefully a parade
55:22 It's only a couple months behind. We'll talk soon
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