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Transcript

00:00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:00:05 Can you say hard hats, folks?

00:00:07 Hard hats, munch pails, steel tool boots.

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

00:00:11 Look at this boomer right here.

00:00:13 You've just got so much talent here.

00:00:16 Somebody's saying we need to apologize for Jaylen.

00:00:18 Can I pull the John?

00:00:19 What are we apologizing for?

00:00:20 What did we say?

00:00:21 What did we do?

00:00:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:00:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:00:30 Yeah.

00:00:32 Jimmy, I will allow it.

00:00:34 Hard hat.

00:00:35 Hard hat.

00:00:36 Hard hats.

00:00:37 Here we go, folks.

00:00:40 New job site coming.

00:00:42 New job site coming for the Celtics.

00:00:44 Came to work tonight, punched the clock.

00:00:45 All they had to do, Sherrod, was punch the clock.

00:00:47 But he couldn't even punch in tonight.

00:00:49 They couldn't even feel--

00:00:50 No, they got punched out.

00:00:52 They got punched out.

00:00:53 That's what happened.

00:00:53 They couldn't punch in, but they got punched out.

00:00:55 The Celtics punched the clock.

00:00:56 Absolutely.

00:00:57 Hard hats all night long.

00:00:58 Derek White showed up again in this one.

00:01:00 Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, the usual suspect,

00:01:03 showed up to work.

00:01:04 And the Celtics move on to the second round.

00:01:06 In five games, a gentlemen sweep.

00:01:08 It's not a gentleman sweep.

00:01:09 It's not a gentleman sweep.

00:01:10 John, correct him, John.

00:01:12 Correct him, John.

00:01:12 Check him.

00:01:14 Check him, John.

00:01:14 Go ahead, do it.

00:01:15 It's not a gentleman sweep.

00:01:17 I'm just thinking of more punch puns

00:01:19 that we can throw out for the rest of the show.

00:01:21 Oh, there will be more.

00:01:24 There will be more.

00:01:25 Yes, feeling punchy already.

00:01:27 We're early in the show.

00:01:28 And that's it.

00:01:29 Ding dong, it was a head.

00:01:32 Never a doubt.

00:01:33 Never a doubt.

00:01:35 It really wasn't, even though there was some consternation.

00:01:39 And again, any concern anyone had over the Celtics this series

00:01:43 had nothing to do with winning this series.

00:01:45 It had to do with, can we get serious here and focus

00:01:49 on the fact that you're in the playoffs and let's lock in.

00:01:52 Let's lock in.

00:01:52 So yes, hard hat effort tonight.

00:01:54 And again, Miami had to show up knowing that they were just

00:01:57 dead, dead, dead.

00:01:59 Because--

00:02:00 They had HR.

00:02:00 HR was just waiting for them when they showed up today.

00:02:03 Yeah, exactly.

00:02:04 Like, please step into my office.

00:02:07 It was one of those days.

00:02:09 Yeah, it's not going to go well for you.

00:02:11 It's not going to go well.

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00:02:54 But let's talk about the game itself.

00:02:57 And again, how much to analyze this game?

00:03:01 Really, it was what you expected it to be.

00:03:05 And that was a freaking blowout.

00:03:07 And now the Celtics are going to play the winner of the Cavs

00:03:10 Magic Series in round two.

00:03:13 We'll talk about that, preview those matchups.

00:03:15 Which one do you prefer?

00:03:17 If you have a preference or not, does it even matter?

00:03:20 Chris F. Porzingis updates.

00:03:21 Not really updates, but we'll talk about KP.

00:03:24 We'll talk about your second center.

00:03:27 How good is that?

00:03:31 He's your second center.

00:03:32 Oh, Dick, can we just not--

00:03:33 He will be your center.

00:03:35 The most audacious thing that happened tonight

00:03:37 is Bobby Manning tweets about Luke's plus minus.

00:03:41 Luke being a plus 20 while scoring zero points

00:03:44 and riding the coattails of a Jason Tatum, Sam Hauser

00:03:48 barrage of the Heat's G League second unit team.

00:03:52 I would have been a plus 20.

00:03:53 Right out of there.

00:03:55 Exactly.

00:03:55 But he set some great screens, John.

00:03:57 The screens were great.

00:03:59 I know.

00:03:59 He's a great screen setter.

00:04:01 Bobby's going to make me say bad things about Luke,

00:04:04 and I don't want to.

00:04:05 We're glad it worked out the way it did.

00:04:07 But Bobby's going to bring that out in me.

00:04:09 I'm just letting you know.

00:04:10 Let's wait, because we're going to have

00:04:11 to talk about him later tonight.

00:04:12 We've already said too much.

00:04:14 It's not possible.

00:04:14 And we'll be making an appearance in this show.

00:04:18 Cornette Kim.

00:04:19 It's not personal.

00:04:20 So we talk about this--

00:04:23 I feel like we've talked about every game.

00:04:26 What matters is not what happened tonight.

00:04:28 It's what matters the next night.

00:04:30 And I think that's very apropos just for this series,

00:04:33 because it really was a one-on-one-off sort of night.

00:04:36 I think masked in game four, the blowout,

00:04:41 because the Heat were just brutal,

00:04:42 was that Celtics didn't play a clean game there either.

00:04:45 And you wanted to see them play with a little bit more

00:04:47 dog in them, a little bit more aggressive.

00:04:49 Sherrod, overall, did you like it, or just the shots fall?

00:04:53 Was this better?

00:04:54 Was this cleaner?

00:04:54 Were the executors more focused?

00:04:58 This was the best game of the series.

00:05:00 It was-- to me, it was as close as I've

00:05:02 seen them play at both ends of the floor,

00:05:05 close to their potential.

00:05:06 They could definitely play better than they did tonight.

00:05:08 And again, look at the previous games they've won.

00:05:12 They're beating the snot out of Miami by 20 points

00:05:14 and playing C, C-minus basketball.

00:05:17 This was more B-minus for the Celtics.

00:05:20 Because again, I still--

00:05:22 Jalen Brown, I thought, had a great game offensively,

00:05:24 really efficient, four turnovers, one assist,

00:05:27 did not like that.

00:05:28 Tatum didn't shoot the ball particularly well,

00:05:30 but he was a beast on the board.

00:05:31 So I would have put his fourth double-double in five games.

00:05:34 Derek White had it going on.

00:05:36 Sam Hauser made big shots.

00:05:39 They got-- they're moving in the right direction.

00:05:42 But this team still has room to grow and play better

00:05:46 going forward.

00:05:47 But to me, that's the thing that makes this team so special.

00:05:50 They did not have a good series that they

00:05:52 won it in five games.

00:05:54 I don't know if there are a lot of teams in the NBA that

00:05:57 can play below their average level of play

00:06:00 and put a team away in five games.

00:06:03 Yeah, they cut against the heat.

00:06:04 And that was the one thing that I think a lot of us

00:06:06 said, Sherrod, before the series,

00:06:07 was that Celtics can get away with making

00:06:09 mistakes against the heat.

00:06:11 So again, they were kind of damned if they do,

00:06:13 damned if they don't.

00:06:14 They beat the heat fairly easily.

00:06:17 And we say, well, of course they beat the heat.

00:06:19 The Heat shot 10% from three-point range.

00:06:22 Anybody's going to beat the Heat.

00:06:24 But if they lose to the Heat, we're

00:06:25 saying, what's wrong with this team?

00:06:27 These guys can't beat a team like the Heat.

00:06:30 So they were kind of screwed either way in this series.

00:06:32 I think at the end of the day, it ended--

00:06:37 they beat them in five games.

00:06:38 However which way they do it, I think we all kind of expected

00:06:41 four or five games.

00:06:42 A couple of us here I won't name.

00:06:44 Thought maybe it would go six.

00:06:45 But regardless, I'm happy with this one

00:06:49 because I always criticize them.

00:06:52 Not always, but oftentimes, probably always criticize them

00:06:55 for not having that killer instinct.

00:06:57 When you see your prey flopping around on the ground,

00:07:02 just go in for the kill.

00:07:03 Just go in for the kill.

00:07:04 So tonight they did that.

00:07:05 They win by whatever it is, 34.

00:07:08 34, 44?

00:07:09 I'm not going to do that math.

00:07:10 34.

00:07:11 It's 34, homeschool.

00:07:12 12 wins away.

00:07:13 12 wins away.

00:07:14 There we go.

00:07:15 12 wins away.

00:07:16 You get the one, two, and then you carry the one,

00:07:18 and then you put it--

00:07:21 Yeah.

00:07:22 So--

00:07:23 They won by a lot.

00:07:24 To your point, answering your question, John, yeah.

00:07:26 You're happy with this win.

00:07:29 Again, all that.

00:07:30 It's a hard-hat win.

00:07:32 And listen, we understand that he'd had Joe Schmo playing.

00:07:36 I mean, literally, I mean, even--

00:07:39 you know, Hac-- what's his--

00:07:41 That's the lone right to you, Jimmy.

00:07:44 Who's the guy that sat tonight?

00:07:46 No, we're not telling you.

00:07:47 Hacquez?

00:07:48 Hacquez?

00:07:49 How do you say his name?

00:07:50 With UCLA.

00:07:51 Oh, Jimmy.

00:07:52 Yeah, that dude.

00:07:53 Anyways, with Butler, Rozier, everybody out,

00:07:56 they still took care of business.

00:07:58 Yeah.

00:07:59 They did not play down to the competition.

00:08:02 And they didn't let the competition get comfortable

00:08:04 or get into any kind of rhythm or anything like that.

00:08:07 And that's what you're supposed to do if you're the number one

00:08:09 seed.

00:08:10 You're not supposed to laugh.

00:08:11 Hacquell.

00:08:12 Sorry.

00:08:13 Sorry.

00:08:14 Beverly Hills Club.

00:08:17 Hacquell is here to see you.

00:08:20 That's what I was trying to think of when he was struggling

00:08:22 with Hacquez.

00:08:23 I was thinking of "Bronx Within Show."

00:08:25 I knew what I was--

00:08:26 Hacquell.

00:08:27 Hacquell.

00:08:28 Axel.

00:08:30 Jacquez.

00:08:30 Foley is here to see you.

00:08:32 Yes.

00:08:32 Oh, gosh.

00:08:35 "Bronx Within Show" should have been in more.

00:08:37 I'm just saying that.

00:08:38 Anyway, so Jimmy--

00:08:41 If you hang in next time, you can't think of a name.

00:08:44 Hacquez.

00:08:46 Like your own name.

00:08:47 You're getting up there.

00:08:48 I'm going to wait.

00:08:48 It'll happen.

00:08:49 [LAUGHTER]

00:08:51 I love it.

00:08:52 [LAUGHTER]

00:08:55 Jimmy, do you kick old man down the street, Jimmy?

00:08:58 Hey, welcome to the show.

00:09:00 You kick old man across the street?

00:09:01 Do you clip him?

00:09:02 This must be his first episode.

00:09:03 The thing is, Jimmy doesn't even work here.

00:09:06 We just-- he just shows up.

00:09:07 I just found the link.

00:09:09 I just find the link, dude.

00:09:12 He's Milton from "Office Space."

00:09:13 Like, we fired him like seven years ago.

00:09:16 But like, there was a glitch in the payroll,

00:09:18 and he just keeps showing up.

00:09:20 If Nick decides to audit the company like the Red Sox

00:09:22 are about to do--

00:09:23 [LAUGHTER]

00:09:24 I have a feeling I'm out of here, folks.

00:09:27 Yeah.

00:09:28 Yeah.

00:09:29 It is exactly right.

00:09:30 He's like, oh my god, I have been paying this guy, right?

00:09:33 The hard cat.

00:09:35 Hard hat is best--

00:09:36 You can't fire me.

00:09:37 I don't even work here.

00:09:38 Yeah.

00:09:39 Yeah, it's good.

00:09:41 Tatum, does Tatum need a groove back?

00:09:44 What's wrong?

00:09:46 Why does everyone think Tatum--

00:09:47 Tatum only took nine shots today.

00:09:50 But he finished a plus 35.

00:09:54 He's had four double doubles in--

00:09:56 yeah, he's had four double--

00:09:58 he's had one triple double, three

00:09:59 double doubles in five games.

00:10:01 You think he was limited by the ankle tonight

00:10:04 and decided to take it easy?

00:10:06 I think he realized--

00:10:07 Derek Wyatt-- to me, this is what should

00:10:09 have happened in game two.

00:10:11 That Mark and Melody--

00:10:12 When you feel like a guy that--

00:10:13 Sorry.

00:10:15 It's OK.

00:10:15 I like these guys.

00:10:16 I like these guys.

00:10:17 Yeah.

00:10:18 No, I don't think he was--

00:10:19 I don't think he was--

00:10:21 I don't think he was limited.

00:10:22 No.

00:10:23 I just think--

00:10:24 I like Mark and Melody.

00:10:25 Yeah, they like you, John.

00:10:28 And it didn't look like he was being passive.

00:10:30 It just looked like he recognized

00:10:31 other guys had it going.

00:10:33 And he just kind of just played defense, rebounded the ball,

00:10:36 and keep it moving.

00:10:38 Yeah.

00:10:39 I didn't think he was favorite at all,

00:10:41 particularly on defense.

00:10:42 I mean, I didn't think he was getting torched on defense.

00:10:45 It almost seemed at some point that he was just bored.

00:10:47 I thought he was good.

00:10:48 I just don't think he needed to score a ton.

00:10:50 He hit a few shots early.

00:10:51 Just that was it.

00:10:52 And then he did other things.

00:10:53 But again, he's part of that second unit that

00:10:56 drives the game up huge, the Bobby Cornett plus 20 unit.

00:11:00 That was regular season stuff there.

00:11:03 It was him with Hauser, Pritchard, Cornett,

00:11:06 and helped extend it.

00:11:09 And he played a good game.

00:11:10 So he just wasn't crazy aggressive

00:11:16 or trying to find a shot.

00:11:17 But that's fine, right?

00:11:21 I think we can't have it both ways with Tatum.

00:11:23 We've said a lot of times, he doesn't need to be the alpha.

00:11:26 He doesn't need to force.

00:11:27 We always talk about the Celtics giving games what it needs.

00:11:29 I'm not sitting here and criticizing

00:11:32 Tatum's performance tonight.

00:11:33 Nope.

00:11:33 Nothing to do with it.

00:11:35 Clip that.

00:11:37 I'm not going to do it.

00:11:38 I mean, the only thing that I didn't like

00:11:41 was the Frito shooting.

00:11:41 Frito shooting aside, everything else I was cool with.

00:11:44 But I mean, six for nine, he's better than that.

00:11:48 He shouldn't be shooting that bad.

00:11:50 Yeah.

00:11:52 That was the only thing I didn't like.

00:11:54 Yeah.

00:11:54 Where are the Heat fans?

00:11:56 This was-- the biggest audience we had was the one Heat win.

00:11:59 We needed more Heat wins just to jack the CLNS audience.

00:12:03 Because those idiots came in here taking a big ass--

00:12:06 one victory lap, one lap around the track.

00:12:09 And that's all they got.

00:12:11 But man, did they take it.

00:12:13 They were killing you guys in that one game.

00:12:15 They make up some count.

00:12:17 Yeah.

00:12:18 They owned this.

00:12:20 They got under your skin.

00:12:22 They were relentless.

00:12:23 They drove people out of here.

00:12:24 They took it over.

00:12:25 They did.

00:12:28 They kind of knew they had to unload it all in one game,

00:12:32 I think.

00:12:34 Oh, he's here.

00:12:37 Hydro Wilson.

00:12:37 Hey, what's up, Hydro Wilson?

00:12:40 Yeah.

00:12:42 There's some of them.

00:12:43 There's some of them here.

00:12:45 Heat and Six.

00:12:45 But anyway.

00:12:46 Is that like six minutes till they get to the airport

00:12:49 for 1, 2, 3 Cancun?

00:12:50 Oh, man.

00:12:51 What a terrible team this was.

00:12:52 And again, not their fault.

00:12:53 We got a good graphic, don't we?

00:12:56 Of what?

00:12:57 The Cancun?

00:12:58 The Heat.

00:12:58 There it is, guys.

00:13:00 Ta-da.

00:13:02 Ta-da.

00:13:03 Producer boy.

00:13:05 Producer boy.

00:13:06 Bye-bye.

00:13:07 There they are.

00:13:08 There you go, Sherrod.

00:13:09 Sherrod loves Cancun.

00:13:10 The Cancun.

00:13:11 1, 2, 3.

00:13:11 I do.

00:13:13 You know what's funny, though?

00:13:14 There's an actual commercial with Jimmy Butler.

00:13:17 Is that Hassel?

00:13:19 Do you miss the sex bots?

00:13:21 I kind of do.

00:13:22 Oh, God.

00:13:23 I was like, Ahmed, block the sex bots.

00:13:27 Ahmed spent 50% of his time blocking sex bots,

00:13:29 and the other making me graphics.

00:13:31 He's like, I think I got them all.

00:13:35 And then Jimmy would put them on the air.

00:13:37 A couple times.

00:13:38 But you know what the problem is?

00:13:40 It's very-- it's kind of tough.

00:13:43 Sometimes you want to block somebody,

00:13:44 but you end up putting their--

00:13:46 they got to change that with this program.

00:13:48 It's too easy to--

00:13:49 I told you not to tinker with the chat.

00:13:51 Posting and blocking.

00:13:52 I can't help myself.

00:13:53 Yeah.

00:13:54 So we are going to--

00:13:56 we're going to chat here.

00:13:57 We're going to talk.

00:13:58 We're going to hear from these guys.

00:14:01 From the Garden, we have Bobby Manning.

00:14:03 Jose Pavone standing by with Larry Bird.

00:14:05 We'll get to him in a minute.

00:14:06 We'll get to him in 20 minutes.

00:14:12 With Larry Bird, Bill Walt and John Havlicek are all there.

00:14:15 And The Truth, Paul Pierce.

00:14:17 We'll get to Josue later.

00:14:19 Josue, tell those guys to chill.

00:14:21 Tell those guys to hang out.

00:14:23 We're going to get The Truth on this show.

00:14:24 We got to get Pierce on.

00:14:27 With his number being raised and John bashing him.

00:14:33 That was-- you guys can't--

00:14:34 I had to say it.

00:14:35 Sorry.

00:14:38 It wasn't bashing.

00:14:39 I was just setting--

00:14:40 I was just giving my opinion.

00:14:43 We will hear from Joe Mazzullo.

00:14:45 We're going to hear Joe Mazzullo pregame as well.

00:14:46 Getting a little snippy with Bobby.

00:14:49 But I'm not going to get into that.

00:14:52 What?

00:14:53 I'm going to wait for Bobby.

00:14:54 Snippity.

00:14:56 Yeah, I heard all about this.

00:14:58 I can't wait.

00:14:59 Snippy.

00:14:59 You want it now?

00:15:01 Kind of, yeah.

00:15:02 All right, I'll give it to you now.

00:15:04 Now we'll play it later.

00:15:05 So the report earlier in the day, I'm not--

00:15:07 here's what I'm not doing, right?

00:15:10 I am not blaming Joe Mazzullo for anything.

00:15:15 I am simply pointing out that Joe made a comment earlier

00:15:18 in the day about allowing Chris F. Forzingas to continue playing

00:15:22 even after he noticed he was hurt.

00:15:24 That raised some eyebrows and some flags.

00:15:26 I don't think that's uncommon.

00:15:28 Jason Tatum tweaks an angle.

00:15:30 He walks around.

00:15:33 You want to say--

00:15:34 It happens all the time.

00:15:36 It happens.

00:15:37 It happens.

00:15:38 If you want to be on the other side of it and say,

00:15:41 yeah, but it's Chris F. Forzingas.

00:15:43 He's your first center.

00:15:44 He's important.

00:15:46 Maybe immediately run out there and be like, up, up, up, up,

00:15:49 up, up.

00:15:49 Come out, come out, come out, come out.

00:15:51 You could make that claim.

00:15:53 But it's not a strange thing.

00:15:55 But it does seem like Forzingas kind of wanted out.

00:15:57 And Joe was like, you sure?

00:15:59 And he let him go.

00:16:00 And it just kept getting worse and worse.

00:16:01 Whether he exacerbated the injury or not,

00:16:03 I don't know that's necessarily clear.

00:16:05 But Bobby asked about it.

00:16:08 Prior to the game.

00:16:09 As he should.

00:16:11 As he should.

00:16:12 Because I think it was relevant.

00:16:13 So what happened there?

00:16:14 And how do you normally handle that?

00:16:15 And honestly, I think it's pretty easy for Joe to say,

00:16:19 as you said, Sherrod, as we said, happens all the time.

00:16:22 Guys, Tatum did it, blah, blah.

00:16:23 You see players roll things, tweak things all the time.

00:16:26 They walk it off.

00:16:27 And you let them play.

00:16:28 If they're fine, they're fine.

00:16:30 But he chose a different tactic.

00:16:31 Here we go.

00:16:32 Here's Joe.

00:16:34 We'll do this while we wait for Bobby.

00:16:36 Like for Chris Stapps going forward.

00:16:39 I'm not sure.

00:16:39 We're just going to give it a week,

00:16:41 kind of see where he's at.

00:16:43 Kind of see how he responds to the treatment

00:16:44 over the next week.

00:16:45 I know you mentioned he was kind of struggling

00:16:47 out there for a couple of plays before the injury occurred.

00:16:51 What's the balance there?

00:16:52 Obviously, guys are going to play through some stuff.

00:16:54 But when you see him struggling a little bit out there,

00:16:57 is it on him to kind of call out there?

00:17:00 Is it on you guys to kind of identify that?

00:17:03 What's that balance like on a play like that?

00:17:05 I mean, he told me he needed to come out of the game.

00:17:08 He told you that?

00:17:09 Yeah.

00:17:10 And that was the initial--

00:17:11 I don't know.

00:17:12 It was at some point.

00:17:12 It was a long time ago.

00:17:13 It was a long time ago.

00:17:20 Yeah, it was like 1879.

00:17:22 It was a long time ago.

00:17:23 It was 20 hours ago.

00:17:26 It was like freaking a day ago.

00:17:29 Oh, God.

00:17:30 The way he answered it, he's like, I know you are.

00:17:32 But what am I?

00:17:33 And he was just talking.

00:17:34 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:34 And then it was silenced for like 10 seconds,

00:17:37 and nobody followed.

00:17:39 Come on, guys.

00:17:40 Like, wait, what?

00:17:43 I just thought it was complicated.

00:17:44 They left Bobby out to dry.

00:17:45 I am not blaming Joe Mazzuola for the Corsica's injury.

00:17:48 It's just a relevant--

00:17:50 exchange was freaking funny.

00:17:53 It was literally--

00:17:53 It was a legit--

00:17:54 It was two days ago.

00:17:56 It was a good question.

00:17:57 It was a legit question.

00:17:58 It was a totally legit question.

00:18:00 I thought Bobby phrased it perfectly, pointing out--

00:18:03 He even used the word balance, where it's like,

00:18:05 sometimes you just gotta throw the word balance in there

00:18:07 just to make the question make sense.

00:18:09 But then he's like, I let it play.

00:18:10 He's like, so what happened?

00:18:11 He told--

00:18:12 I don't know.

00:18:13 It happened a long time ago.

00:18:14 The only thing is, Porzingis said, I want out.

00:18:16 And Joe's like, nah.

00:18:18 And he let him--

00:18:19 but he said he wanted out.

00:18:20 At that point, there's no balance at that point.

00:18:23 He said he wants out.

00:18:24 Get him out of there, man.

00:18:25 You know, it was your night, though.

00:18:30 He needed the somber voice.

00:18:32 That was a pretty somber voice from Bobby, honestly.

00:18:36 Pretty somber.

00:18:37 That was--

00:18:38 It was.

00:18:39 That was somber.

00:18:40 That was somber voice.

00:18:42 Somber voice.

00:18:43 Maybe that's the thing.

00:18:43 I think when--

00:18:44 I don't know.

00:18:45 It was so long ago.

00:18:47 When you go somber voice with Mizzoula,

00:18:50 I think he sees it as a sign of weakness.

00:18:53 It's a threat.

00:18:53 It's attacks.

00:18:54 Yeah.

00:18:55 You gotta go in hard.

00:18:57 You gotta go in hard.

00:18:57 You're like, Joe, that all happened out there.

00:19:00 Why'd you let Porzingis run around on one leg?

00:19:03 Then you gotta kind of go fire for fire.

00:19:06 You don't want to come in like puppy dog eyes.

00:19:10 Like, Joe, Porzingis was basically crawling around

00:19:14 out there begging to come out.

00:19:16 Why didn't you take him out earlier?

00:19:18 That's the question.

00:19:18 Done.

00:19:20 He's dragging his leg up and down.

00:19:21 Sorry, Bob.

00:19:22 I don't remember.

00:19:24 Yeah.

00:19:24 He was almost amputated in the back of the play.

00:19:30 All of a sudden, he's like, I don't want

00:19:32 to talk about this anymore.

00:19:33 I don't-- it was so long ago.

00:19:34 I'm done.

00:19:36 It almost felt like if he had long hair,

00:19:37 he would have brushed it back.

00:19:39 [LAUGHTER]

00:19:39 Yeah.

00:19:40 Yeah.

00:19:41 [LAUGHTER]

00:19:43 Can we play that again?

00:19:44 All that was missing--

00:19:45 --was his hair.

00:19:46 --was missing was obligatory next question.

00:19:49 Yeah.

00:19:50 Right.

00:19:51 Whatever, shut up.

00:19:51 You're stinking.

00:19:52 Next.

00:19:53 I'm looking at his nail on that.

00:19:54 Gary, what do you got?

00:19:55 Gary, what do you got?

00:19:57 That would have been perfect.

00:19:59 He would have rather--

00:20:00 Gary, you got any questions, Gary?

00:20:01 He would have rather talked about three--

00:20:03 But the room bailed him out.

00:20:04 I might have--

00:20:05 For secondary assists.

00:20:07 I might have followed there.

00:20:08 Joe, just the timeline.

00:20:10 Do you really not remember when he asked out?

00:20:12 Was it early or late?

00:20:13 And like, you know, it's just funny.

00:20:15 The whole thing was pretty funny.

00:20:17 [LAUGHTER]

00:20:19 It was good stuff.

00:20:20 Anyway, going through tonight again,

00:20:23 look at the performances.

00:20:24 I know some people are talking about Tatum,

00:20:25 but you have to talk about--

00:20:28 hold on, is there more?

00:20:29 You got something for me?

00:20:30 We have something from Joe Postgame.

00:20:31 We'll talk about it.

00:20:32 We're going to get into Derek White--

00:20:33 By the way, guys--

00:20:34 --as well.

00:20:36 Impossible not to talk about White at this point

00:20:38 because he might be--

00:20:43 He might be him.

00:20:44 He might be the X Factor now.

00:20:46 He might be him.

00:20:46 What Porzingis out, he is.

00:20:48 What Porzingis out, he is.

00:20:50 He might be him.

00:20:51 You might be relying on him to do things.

00:20:54 And again, another lights out shooting performance.

00:20:57 Just absolutely phenomenal, phenomenal play from him.

00:21:04 It really is.

00:21:05 The problem for teams that--

00:21:08 the problem for teams that try to shift more attention

00:21:11 to Derek is that because he's a perimeter player,

00:21:14 that's going to open up things for Tatum and Brown more

00:21:16 if you start shifting your attention.

00:21:18 And whereas Porzingis, you can continue

00:21:20 to do whatever you're trying to do with Jalen and Jason

00:21:22 and shift some attention to Porzingis

00:21:24 because the two aren't necessarily directly related.

00:21:27 But with Derek out there, you can't start all of a sudden

00:21:30 double teaming him and tilting for him and blitzing him

00:21:33 because that means Tatum is going to-- or Jalen

00:21:35 is going to have a very favorable matchup.

00:21:38 So the better Derek White plays, the more it kind of

00:21:41 screws your defense up because you can't--

00:21:43 you almost have to just hope that he just misses

00:21:45 and hope that he just doesn't get hot.

00:21:48 Because I think teams are more comfortable with him

00:21:50 going off for 30 than Tatum.

00:21:52 But the scary part for teams is that now, Derek,

00:21:55 you know he can do that.

00:21:57 And you know that he's comfortable going at you.

00:22:00 I mean, Derek, I mean, he's doing chin-ups

00:22:02 on the damn rim out here.

00:22:03 How many times-- I mean, Derek has had like three or four

00:22:05 dunks in the last couple of games.

00:22:06 He might have went all season with maybe four dunks.

00:22:09 And he's got like two or three in the last couple of games.

00:22:12 Yeah, he's getting up there.

00:22:14 He's a problem now.

00:22:15 He is a problem for Cleveland, Orlando,

00:22:17 whoever's next on the docket.

00:22:19 He's going to be a major problem for them.

00:22:21 It's great.

00:22:22 We always theorize like what--

00:22:25 if you lived in a universe where Derek White was clearly

00:22:27 like the number two option on a team,

00:22:29 would this be a normal occurrence?

00:22:31 25, 26, 28?

00:22:32 You know, you do wonder.

00:22:34 You wonder how much he's getting because the attention given

00:22:37 to the other guys.

00:22:38 I think that's fair to talk about.

00:22:40 But also, I honestly think he's just--

00:22:43 I mean, he's borderline perfect.

00:22:48 Like in the sense of like he just

00:22:50 does the right thing or the well-intentioned thing

00:22:54 all the time.

00:22:55 Sometimes there'll be a physical execution issue.

00:22:57 Like I was a second late on that pass, or I went for the block

00:23:01 and I missed it, or whatever.

00:23:03 And like it's not-- you can't make every play.

00:23:05 But it's almost always kind of the right read on what

00:23:09 he should be doing at all times.

00:23:11 When he attacks, he attacks at the right moment.

00:23:13 When he pulls up at a shot, he's doing it

00:23:16 with just the right amount of space

00:23:18 before someone takes that space away.

00:23:20 Just moving the ball and getting things going.

00:23:23 And obviously, defensively, he's so good.

00:23:25 He just does almost everything right all the time.

00:23:29 And I feel like the more you put on his plate,

00:23:31 the more you do it.

00:23:32 And yes, it is weird.

00:23:34 But it's crazy.

00:23:35 Like I mean, there are people who

00:23:38 will tell you the first three months of the Derek White era

00:23:41 looked exactly like this, except shots didn't fall.

00:23:44 But that's-- but they know ball and we don't.

00:23:48 Right, right.

00:23:49 This is-- he's different.

00:23:54 He keeps getting--

00:23:56 I mean, price is going up.

00:24:01 Well, we said after the 38--

00:24:04 yeah, after that 38-point game, Sherrod, I thought--

00:24:07 Sherrod, I thought-- we thought you were going to jump on,

00:24:09 do everything in your power to jump on this show,

00:24:11 even though I know you were teaching.

00:24:12 Because you know how I love Derek White.

00:24:14 You know how I love me some Derek.

00:24:16 And I wrote about him in my sub stack after the game.

00:24:20 And I went back to a conversation

00:24:21 I had with Will Hart, our assistant here,

00:24:24 was with Derek in San Antonio.

00:24:26 And how Will was real bullish on what Derek could do here.

00:24:30 Perfect fit was how he described him.

00:24:32 And I thought he was just going to BS to me,

00:24:33 because that was his guy.

00:24:35 But then you start watching Derek play, and it's like, wow.

00:24:39 He's like the perfect complement to these guys

00:24:41 in almost every sense of the word--

00:24:44 offensively, defensively, moving the ball,

00:24:47 being a help side defender, being a guy that you don't

00:24:51 have to call plays for.

00:24:52 He can still get you points, get you buckets.

00:24:55 He's been so much better than I think the Celtics even

00:24:58 envisioned him being.

00:24:59 I think they felt he could be a guy that can help them.

00:25:02 But I don't think they saw him as a borderline all-star

00:25:05 caliber guy.

00:25:06 And to your point, John, you're right.

00:25:08 The price has gone up significantly.

00:25:09 I mean, he's entering that near-max salary zone

00:25:15 when you look at all the things he can do.

00:25:17 At least holiday range, right?

00:25:18 Like, you know, he's--

00:25:19 At least holiday range.

00:25:22 And over.

00:25:23 It's scary.

00:25:24 If they can get that--

00:25:25 If he-- if he can--

00:25:26 if he takes the holiday-type deal, I think--

00:25:30 So lucky.

00:25:31 Yes.

00:25:32 Yeah.

00:25:32 So lucky.

00:25:33 Yeah.

00:25:34 Which is crazy to think about this.

00:25:37 Yeah, it was.

00:25:38 And again, I think--

00:25:41 we don't like doing this--

00:25:42 You think he's getting that much, huh?

00:25:43 You guys think he's going to cash in at--

00:25:44 I think he's going to have the opportunity.

00:25:46 He may take it home.

00:25:48 $40 million.

00:25:49 $30-something million.

00:25:50 He may take less just to stay in Boston

00:25:52 because it's a great situation for him.

00:25:54 No, he's not.

00:25:55 He's not going to do that, Sherrod.

00:25:57 I am a firm believer that he's not taking any team discount.

00:26:02 Shut up, Jimmy.

00:26:03 OK.

00:26:04 This is his big deal.

00:26:04 OK.

00:26:04 This is his big contract.

00:26:05 This is his big contract.

00:26:06 He hasn't cashed in on a big one like Holiday.

00:26:09 Holiday's got two of those now.

00:26:11 Whatever, Jimmy.

00:26:13 I'm just saying, I think he's--

00:26:15 Let me sleep, Jimmy.

00:26:16 Can I just sleep this one through, Jimmy?

00:26:17 Just let me sleep this one through, OK?

00:26:19 Don't wake me up anymore, all right?

00:26:22 We're going to hear it.

00:26:23 Can I just dream?

00:26:24 You can dream, my bad.

00:26:25 I think he will.

00:26:26 You don't need to talk about it.

00:26:28 It's not going to be a discount as much as it's going to be,

00:26:32 we'll work together on this.

00:26:36 He's going to--

00:26:36 I don't think he's squeezing every last penny.

00:26:39 I think he's going to want to get paid.

00:26:41 He's not taking significantly less.

00:26:43 But I do believe the desire is going to be there to stay.

00:26:46 Anyway, but who knows?

00:26:47 It seems like--

00:26:48 It's down the road, and it's not the thing now.

00:26:50 But the way he's playing now is insane.

00:26:52 We're going to hear from Joe.

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00:30:23 - Yeah, you see all the good stuff

00:30:25 and you can absolutely do that.

00:30:27 As we talked about earlier, Cavs Magic.

00:30:29 I think I know who I wanna see less.

00:30:32 Do you have a pick, Jimmy?

00:30:36 Like who would you rather play here?

00:30:38 - Star Power is on Cleveland.

00:30:42 You know, get Donovan Mitchell.

00:30:43 I actually think Orlando is sneaky good,

00:30:46 but they may not even beat Cleveland.

00:30:48 So I guess I'm wrong about that.

00:30:50 I think maybe Orlando's a year or two away,

00:30:51 but they've got some good young talent, some athleticism.

00:30:54 And then Cleveland's got Donovan Mitchell,

00:30:56 who on any given night can be the frigging

00:30:58 best player in the damn league practically.

00:31:01 So I think you'll probably see Cleveland at this point.

00:31:03 They're up by one.

00:31:04 I originally thought Orlando might steal it,

00:31:06 but I don't know if Orlando has the forces

00:31:09 to make that happen.

00:31:10 - I prefer to see Cleveland.

00:31:14 'Cause I just think Orlando, they're so young

00:31:17 that they don't know they're not supposed

00:31:19 to beat the Celtics, if that makes any sense.

00:31:23 They just, to your point, Jimmy,

00:31:27 I just think they're better.

00:31:28 They have more talent, I think, than Cleveland does.

00:31:31 But Cleveland has the benefit of experience

00:31:33 and wisdom to have been there, done that.

00:31:35 You know, that game five, that was Orlando's moment

00:31:38 to really kind of catapult themselves

00:31:42 into being a legitimate team that isn't seen

00:31:45 as a young team that's on the rise.

00:31:47 They had a chance to be in the mix to win.

00:31:50 I don't think they'll win game six.

00:31:51 I think they'll lose that one.

00:31:53 And, you know, go home for the summer.

00:31:56 They had a good year, they got to the playoffs.

00:31:58 But Cleveland, because of their size,

00:32:01 if you're the Celtics, you want that series to go

00:32:05 as long as it possibly can go,

00:32:07 so that the clock for Porzingis to get back

00:32:11 won't be as long.

00:32:12 - Now, is there a chance they play Sunday?

00:32:14 If Cleveland wraps it up on Friday,

00:32:16 are they coming to Boston Sunday?

00:32:18 Is that how it works?

00:32:19 - Yeah, it would start early.

00:32:21 - I think so.

00:32:23 - Yeah.

00:32:24 - Yeah, that's Greekster, guys.

00:32:27 Just telling you.

00:32:29 - Is it?

00:32:30 - Yeah.

00:32:31 - Is that what that means?

00:32:33 - It's going to be a Nick Gelso-Evan Valenti special.

00:32:36 - Oh boy.

00:32:37 Sunday?

00:32:39 - Yeah.

00:32:39 Are you on?

00:32:40 - Did they say what time it would be Sunday?

00:32:41 It did happen.

00:32:42 - I don't know yet.

00:32:44 - Depends what time the game is.

00:32:46 - I got to roast a whole lamb, Jimmy.

00:32:48 I can't be messing around with post-game shows.

00:32:51 - Could it be a night game or is it definitely a day game?

00:32:53 - 1 p.m.?

00:32:54 Luke says 1.

00:32:55 It's probably a day game.

00:32:56 - I can make it happen, I'm sure.

00:33:02 It's a 1 p.m.

00:33:02 - Okay, good.

00:33:03 I understand Orlando is bigger and longer

00:33:09 and might be challenging in some ways.

00:33:12 I can't see them winning four games against the Celtics

00:33:14 under any circumstances.

00:33:15 I think Cleveland could, won't, but could.

00:33:21 So I don't know.

00:33:22 I'm still kinda figuring it out in my head here.

00:33:27 I wanna dig deeper into the match.

00:33:30 They're two and one against both teams.

00:33:32 That doesn't really mean much.

00:33:33 Again, I think you're trying to factor

00:33:35 how the no Porzingis thing is going to go.

00:33:37 And again, an optimistic assessment today was Porzingis

00:33:42 back for the Eastern Conference Finals.

00:33:47 I've seen two weeks.

00:33:49 I've talked to some people who know some things about Cavs

00:33:53 who think two weeks is insanely optimistic,

00:33:56 even without like-

00:33:57 - Oh, I know a thing or two about Cavs.

00:34:00 - I know, yeah.

00:34:01 - You got a Cav, John, you've got a Cav guy?

00:34:05 - I got a Cav guy.

00:34:06 - Of course you do.

00:34:07 You got a guy for everything.

00:34:09 - I got a Cav guy.

00:34:10 - Get him on.

00:34:11 Get that coward on.

00:34:12 Put a face to that report.

00:34:13 He doesn't think Porzingis is gonna be on the court.

00:34:16 - It's not.

00:34:17 I just think it's saying two weeks seems too...

00:34:20 I was told that two weeks is a little optimistic.

00:34:23 - Who said two weeks?

00:34:24 - That's what you would be to get ready

00:34:28 for the Eastern Conference Finals probably.

00:34:29 You know, that's about that.

00:34:31 Couple of weeks is gonna be a quick turnaround.

00:34:33 - I think what the report said was he would be back

00:34:37 for the Eastern Conference Finals,

00:34:40 but maybe not necessarily game one.

00:34:42 Did he say he was gonna be back

00:34:43 for the start of the Eastern Conference Finals?

00:34:45 - Jimmy, do you have Cavs or no?

00:34:47 - Could be a little...

00:34:48 I've got a couple of Cavs

00:34:49 and I've been working them out too, by the way.

00:34:52 You won't see me going out with a Cav injury.

00:34:54 Not right now.

00:34:55 Peak right now.

00:34:59 Peak Cav game.

00:35:01 - I think Nick Gelso legitimately

00:35:05 is giving away the store right now.

00:35:07 - What's he doing?

00:35:09 Nick, what are you doing?

00:35:10 We talked about this, Nick.

00:35:13 He's actually... - Cornet MVP, no way.

00:35:17 - He's actually giving away the store.

00:35:19 I have no way of knowing

00:35:21 if Nick actually created this promo code.

00:35:23 He's just messing with you guys.

00:35:24 The only way you'll know, go to the merch store.

00:35:27 - I feel like it's legit.

00:35:29 He actually texted it to us too.

00:35:31 - I think it might be legit.

00:35:33 - Cornet MVP.

00:35:34 So you can get...

00:35:35 By the way, guys, this shirt is $25,

00:35:37 but with 20% off, you do the math.

00:35:40 You can only imagine what the...

00:35:41 - It's five bucks off, Jimmy.

00:35:42 - It's five bucks off.

00:35:43 - 20 bucks, just like that.

00:35:45 20 bucks.

00:35:47 Covers your shipping probably.

00:35:50 - This is...

00:35:50 You catch Nick after a series win and 11 vodkas.

00:35:55 - We only do this after series wins, guys.

00:35:58 So there you go.

00:36:00 - There it is, one more time.

00:36:01 - It's gonna be a one night deal here.

00:36:05 - And while you're buying our stuff, I will say,

00:36:10 it really is cool when you like and subscribe,

00:36:14 like the videos and subscribe to our channel.

00:36:19 If you're here and you're hanging out

00:36:20 and you haven't subscribed yet, what is wrong with you?

00:36:23 Okay, what is wrong with you?

00:36:24 - Yeah, seriously, you're just a bad person.

00:36:27 - We love this stuff.

00:36:28 - By the way, guys, I'm gonna be ordering,

00:36:30 I'm gonna say this now, in the spirit of merch,

00:36:31 I'm gonna be ordering some hard hats.

00:36:33 There's gonna be a limited supply of them,

00:36:34 but they will be available soon.

00:36:37 - Yeah.

00:36:39 - I will take suggestions from the chat as well,

00:36:43 what type of stuff, what type of merch you would like to see

00:36:47 'cause we would like to create it.

00:36:49 Would you like a Luke Lemon Square's apron?

00:36:53 It's something we would consider.

00:36:56 Luke Lemon Square's lunchbox, that'd be fun.

00:36:58 A lot of L's in that, a lot of alliteration.

00:37:00 - I'm not sure the Luke merch is,

00:37:03 I don't know if we start with Luke merch.

00:37:06 - He's your third center, you don't think that's great?

00:37:10 - Hey, that code is legit, guys.

00:37:11 That code's legit.

00:37:14 - It's my third T-shirt.

00:37:16 It's my third T-shirt.

00:37:17 - It's my third T-shirt.

00:37:19 (laughing)

00:37:22 - Yeah.

00:37:23 - No, the Nick code is legit.

00:37:25 You go there, you get the 20% off.

00:37:28 - Nick's saying he's gonna do it after,

00:37:30 for every win.

00:37:32 - Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick.

00:37:33 - That's true though.

00:37:34 - Nick.

00:37:35 - He might just be, Nick might be drunk.

00:37:36 - Nick, sleep on it, Nick.

00:37:38 Nick, sleep on it.

00:37:39 - This is what he does.

00:37:40 This is what he does after a win, he goes crazy.

00:37:43 - Sleep on it.

00:37:44 - Starts giving the company away.

00:37:46 Watch out, John.

00:37:47 - Yeah, we'll do--

00:37:49 - Stock tomorrow, we got tomorrow,

00:37:51 the stock torpedoes.

00:37:53 - Sad girls margarita glasses.

00:37:55 You could do that.

00:37:58 That's what you do on Valentine's Day when you're single.

00:38:01 You go, you go have, we're having fun, right?

00:38:04 We're having margaritas.

00:38:05 (laughing)

00:38:08 - Oh boy.

00:38:11 - Sad girls, walk away.

00:38:13 - I'll get 'em to walk away.

00:38:15 - Let's just walk away.

00:38:17 - They come with a box of tissues.

00:38:19 (laughing)

00:38:21 - I'm sorry, sad girls.

00:38:27 My wife wants 11 squares apron,

00:38:30 but it's my third apron, I like that.

00:38:32 (laughing)

00:38:35 - Very good stuff.

00:38:36 Anyway, here's Joe Mazzuola talking about stuff

00:38:40 about the post game.

00:38:42 Huh?

00:38:43 Yeah, as a Celtics fan.

00:38:45 Talked about, I don't know, Ahmed kind of told me.

00:38:50 - Stuff.

00:38:51 - What did he talk about?

00:38:52 - Stuff.

00:38:53 - It's pretty boring.

00:38:55 Oh, they trust each other.

00:38:56 - The trust all around this year with this team is just,

00:39:03 it's way more than, not saying you need to trust each other,

00:39:08 but just the growth.

00:39:09 - Yeah, I mean, the longer you're around each other,

00:39:11 the longer you have the conversations to go about

00:39:13 how you wanna do things,

00:39:14 you're gonna develop that sense of trust.

00:39:16 But I think it starts with the guys.

00:39:17 I think the trust they have in each other,

00:39:19 the way they communicate,

00:39:21 the way they prepare is super important.

00:39:22 So I think it's more about them.

00:39:24 - Thanks.

00:39:28 - Thanks, Joe.

00:39:29 - Boring, Ahmed was right.

00:39:30 - And thank you, Renee.

00:39:34 You think I won't make a pie cookbook?

00:39:35 I'll make a pie cookbook, don't you dare.

00:39:37 - Thank you, Renee.

00:39:38 - Yeah, thanks, man. - Thank you, Reen.

00:39:40 - As much as we like super chats, we also like-

00:39:43 - Criticism.

00:39:45 - Yeah, we also like this type of honest feedback.

00:39:48 Trash.

00:39:50 We're trash.

00:39:51 - Trash.

00:39:52 - Yeah, oh, we do need one of these.

00:39:55 Do you have children?

00:39:57 T-shirts.

00:39:58 - Yeah, that'd be good.

00:39:59 - Well, you know what, actually,

00:40:01 that would be good on a mug.

00:40:03 Just a coffee mug.

00:40:04 Do you have kids?

00:40:05 Just picture a dad drinking it being like,

00:40:09 "Damn it, it's like kids running around crazy

00:40:12 five in the morning."

00:40:13 - Here's the secret.

00:40:16 I'm not really that good at baking pies.

00:40:17 I didn't want to tell everybody.

00:40:19 I'm just starting out.

00:40:21 I'm just getting into it.

00:40:22 It's a brand new thing for me.

00:40:24 Baking is new for me.

00:40:25 - Baking is new for you?

00:40:28 - Yes, I'm not a pie wizard.

00:40:29 I just started baking.

00:40:30 That's why I was so proud of them.

00:40:32 I'm like, "Look, they look like actual pies."

00:40:35 But it's not my thing.

00:40:37 Definitely not my thing.

00:40:38 - It might be your thing.

00:40:39 - I'm a fraud.

00:40:40 I'm a fraud.

00:40:40 - I think it's becoming your thing.

00:40:43 - Yeah.

00:40:44 It's fun.

00:40:45 - You're growing into it.

00:40:47 - Yeah.

00:40:48 - I'm growing into it.

00:40:48 - What are you gonna make on Sunday?

00:40:51 - I'm making a pastitsio,

00:40:53 which is like a Greek lasagna.

00:40:55 - What's in it?

00:40:59 - Instead of cheese, it's like a bechamel.

00:41:02 And the ground beef, and it's not heavy.

00:41:04 It's not tomato saucy.

00:41:06 It's a ground beef that has some tomatoes in it,

00:41:08 but it also has different flavors.

00:41:10 There's like nutmeg and cinnamon.

00:41:11 So it has a different kind of flavor profile than lasagna.

00:41:14 And the bechamel is like a thick little layer at the top.

00:41:17 You're using basically like Bucatini style pasta.

00:41:20 So it's like this tubular sort of thing.

00:41:22 And it's great.

00:41:24 The pastitsio is great.

00:41:25 And then-

00:41:26 - A lot of big words.

00:41:27 A lot of words.

00:41:28 I don't know what they mean.

00:41:29 (laughing)

00:41:30 - Bechamel is one of the mother sauces.

00:41:33 - Bechamel?

00:41:34 - Yeah.

00:41:35 - Okay.

00:41:35 - Yeah.

00:41:36 - Okay, and cinnamon?

00:41:37 Just toss a little.

00:41:38 You know, like, it's like a pastitsio.

00:41:39 Like, you know what this needs?

00:41:41 Cinnamon.

00:41:42 - Yeah, it's good.

00:41:43 It's good.

00:41:44 - Like Buddy the Elf or something?

00:41:46 - It's damn good.

00:41:47 I'm telling you.

00:41:48 It's good stuff.

00:41:50 - You can toss some syrup in there too.

00:41:52 - I'm trying to Greek it up a little.

00:41:53 Some roasted potatoes.

00:41:54 Nothing crazy.

00:41:55 It's a small gathering.

00:41:57 But yeah, it's fun.

00:41:58 It's fun.

00:41:59 - Nice.

00:42:00 Well, happy Greek Easter to you.

00:42:01 - Yeah, yeah.

00:42:02 - We might not see you.

00:42:03 We might not see you after that if they don't play.

00:42:07 - Yeah, so we'll see.

00:42:09 But I gotta do it.

00:42:10 Gotta do it once.

00:42:11 And then we do egg wars.

00:42:13 Which I talked about in the show before.

00:42:16 Yeah.

00:42:17 You butt eggs together

00:42:19 and whoever has the pristine egg at the end is the champion.

00:42:21 It's nose to nose and butt to butt.

00:42:23 And you go around and everybody does it.

00:42:26 And it's like, you know,

00:42:27 everybody in your family has one

00:42:28 and you crack eggs.

00:42:29 - You crack eggs?

00:42:30 Are you holding it in your hand?

00:42:32 - Dude, it's so frigging fun.

00:42:33 Yeah.

00:42:34 Not raw eggs.

00:42:35 Hard boiled eggs that are dyed red.

00:42:37 They're awesome.

00:42:39 - Why do you dye them red?

00:42:40 - It just is.

00:42:41 It's just a thing.

00:42:43 Yeah.

00:42:43 - You never asked.

00:42:44 All right, it's time to dye the eggs red, everybody.

00:42:48 - It's a religious thing.

00:42:49 Yeah.

00:42:50 - All right.

00:42:51 Yeah, it makes sense.

00:42:52 It makes sense that it's a religious thing.

00:42:53 Hard boil the eggs,

00:42:54 paint them red and smash them against each other.

00:42:55 It makes, yeah.

00:42:57 - Egg wars.

00:42:58 - I can see that being a religious thing.

00:42:59 - Nick is selling shit.

00:43:00 Nick's like, look, Nick.

00:43:02 - Are people buying it?

00:43:04 - Yeah, they are.

00:43:04 - Am I getting a cut of this stuff?

00:43:06 - Yeah.

00:43:08 The phenomenal t-shirts have already sold out.

00:43:09 They may have been sold out before Nick started promoting.

00:43:11 - Bobby must get a cut of that.

00:43:13 We also have the logo.

00:43:14 We have a good t-shirt of our logo,

00:43:18 which I'm still looking for one.

00:43:20 - Amit, what's this thing with Bobby and Josue?

00:43:25 - Adding, who knows?

00:43:27 Putting something on the screen that I'm in.

00:43:29 - Oh, wow.

00:43:30 Orders are flying in.

00:43:31 - Is this what Bobby did?

00:43:35 - We're gonna sell out.

00:43:36 - Yeah.

00:43:38 Two more.

00:43:39 Orders are coming in.

00:43:41 Nick gave away the store.

00:43:42 - You haven't even put the hard hats up.

00:43:43 You guys, save your money for some hard hats.

00:43:45 I'm telling you, they're coming.

00:43:46 They're coming.

00:43:47 - Nick knows how to hustle.

00:43:49 Nick knows how to sell.

00:43:51 Trust me.

00:43:53 - All it took was 20% off.

00:43:54 Unbelievable.

00:43:55 - All it took was 20% off in a blue cornet.

00:43:58 Small code.

00:43:59 - Yeah.

00:44:02 Yeah.

00:44:03 - Nick's gonna have to order some more shirts.

00:44:04 Get on the horn, Nick.

00:44:06 - You know who's cool?

00:44:07 - Your t-shirt guy.

00:44:09 - You know who's cool as hell?

00:44:10 - Also, if anyone has any cool...

00:44:11 What?

00:44:12 Who's cool as hell?

00:44:13 - This guy.

00:44:14 Look at how cool this guy is right here.

00:44:16 I'm not kidding.

00:44:19 - You guys took this serious.

00:44:20 This is kind of a step forward,

00:44:21 like a graduating from last year.

00:44:23 - Yes.

00:44:24 - I think we still have tests to go through.

00:44:27 - I think he's got the Emmy Awards.

00:44:29 - Especially now.

00:44:30 - Accepted as the producer of the year,

00:44:33 record of the year.

00:44:34 - I think I'm up to the challenge

00:44:37 and I'm excited about that.

00:44:39 So we're graduating.

00:44:41 We haven't graduated yet.

00:44:43 - Come on, you're moving forward.

00:44:44 - Exactly.

00:44:45 Something like that.

00:44:46 - Yeah, 'cause you know, you know,

00:44:50 something like that.

00:44:51 Yeah.

00:44:52 - Yeah.

00:44:53 - Those sunglasses were damn cool.

00:44:56 Yeah, those were cool.

00:44:57 That's, you're allowed to be that cool

00:45:01 when you advance to the next round.

00:45:02 - When you are that cool,

00:45:03 you get to be that cool.

00:45:04 So Jalen is that cool.

00:45:07 You know, you got Bobby sitting there

00:45:09 with a frigging bucket hat and cream cheese

00:45:11 all over his face,

00:45:11 asking him questions.

00:45:13 Jalen's like, "Whatever, Bobby.

00:45:16 I'm hanging out with my shades

00:45:18 and I graduated.

00:45:20 Take me out."

00:45:21 - I'm graduating.

00:45:22 I'm graduating.

00:45:24 Haven't graduated yet.

00:45:25 - I'm great.

00:45:26 He's got, the beard is great.

00:45:27 All of it is great.

00:45:28 Awesome.

00:45:29 Awesome.

00:45:30 Good stuff.

00:45:31 - Everything's up.

00:45:32 - Yeah.

00:45:33 - Wow, the phenomenal t-shirt

00:45:34 is actually officially sold out right now.

00:45:36 - Yep.

00:45:37 - I can't believe it. - I told you.

00:45:38 - Just like that.

00:45:39 - I can.

00:45:41 - So that means the Guardian Report T

00:45:44 is still available, everybody.

00:45:45 That's got all our faces on it.

00:45:49 Including the hard hat.

00:45:49 - Yeah.

00:45:50 - Not bad.

00:45:52 - Yeah.

00:45:52 - Phenomenal bucket hats are still available.

00:45:54 - We have phenomenal bucket hats.

00:45:56 - Believe it or not,

00:45:57 they're still available.

00:45:58 - You guys don't want bucket hats?

00:46:01 (laughing)

00:46:03 - How many of those did Nick buy?

00:46:04 Oh boy, we're gonna be selling those

00:46:05 for the next decade.

00:46:07 - Yeah.

00:46:08 We've got some Brockton WiFi clogs.

00:46:10 (laughing)

00:46:13 Yeah, so, you know,

00:46:18 we got all the high fashion,

00:46:20 if you want.

00:46:22 - Oh, you're graduating.

00:46:24 Graduating.

00:46:25 - A lot of people in the chat saying

00:46:27 they're gonna buy the hard hat

00:46:28 when it becomes available, so.

00:46:29 - Bobby Manning sure has a funny way

00:46:31 of getting on the show quickly, huh?

00:46:33 - He does.

00:46:35 - He certainly does.

00:46:40 We're almost out of stuff to talk about, honestly.

00:46:42 I guess, am I gonna talk about Luke?

00:46:45 No.

00:46:46 How do you think I'll ask you this question?

00:46:48 No, I'm not.

00:46:49 How do you think Al Horford acquitted himself here?

00:46:52 You know, and Bams get a Bam,

00:46:55 and it's gonna be hard.

00:46:56 This is not an easy matchup here.

00:46:59 That's, you know, Bam's get a Bam.

00:47:05 But, you know, Al, nice to keep it to 23 minutes.

00:47:08 Nice to have that little blowout.

00:47:11 Nice to have a little length of time.

00:47:12 If you're gonna be playing Al,

00:47:14 probably 30 minutes a night.

00:47:16 Any race, any space and rest you can give him is great here.

00:47:21 So again, not overusing there.

00:47:24 You know, Cornette acquitted himself fine.

00:47:26 I don't know how much of this just has to do with just,

00:47:29 there wasn't much resistance on the other side.

00:47:32 Miami's not bringing anybody big off the bench there

00:47:34 that's really gonna threaten you.

00:47:36 You can absolutely mirror the non-Bam minutes there,

00:47:40 you know, and get Luke in and not worry about it,

00:47:42 even though he did face off with him as well.

00:47:45 But yeah, I mean, I thought Al did well.

00:47:50 I mean, you're gonna need it.

00:47:51 You're gonna need it from him, you know.

00:47:55 - Well, you know what they did?

00:47:57 - You're gonna need the shooting.

00:47:58 You're gonna need him to knock down some threes.

00:48:00 He's gonna have to contribute.

00:48:01 You know, you can't have Al goose egg games.

00:48:04 He can't just be there.

00:48:05 You know, I think Al's gonna have to be part of this

00:48:07 'cause you're counting on Porzingis

00:48:09 providing a big offensive load.

00:48:11 I definitely don't wanna see those Al games

00:48:13 where you're like, "Oh, he didn't score tonight, huh?"

00:48:15 Like, "Ugh."

00:48:16 - No, no, no.

00:48:17 - So you wanna see him involved.

00:48:19 You wanna see him involved.

00:48:20 - Well, they poked the bear right off the bat.

00:48:22 He took that, he took that basically a foul from Bam

00:48:25 right off the tip.

00:48:27 And I think that gave him a little spark,

00:48:29 you know, that woke him up.

00:48:30 Sometimes that's all it takes to get these guys

00:48:32 going a little bit earlier into the game,

00:48:34 get him in the zone.

00:48:34 And he was aggressive tonight.

00:48:36 He was active on the boards.

00:48:37 He kept some, you know,

00:48:38 second chance opportunities going.

00:48:40 And listen, I mean, we talk about the pressure on,

00:48:45 you know, Tatum and Brown and that and all that stuff,

00:48:48 but Al Horford's looking towards the end of his career here.

00:48:51 And this is probably his best shot at winning a title.

00:48:54 I mean, every, you know, you don't wanna,

00:48:56 you don't wanna be looking at next year

00:48:57 if you're Al Horford.

00:48:58 You're looking at this year.

00:48:59 So he has every reason to leave it all out there

00:49:01 when he plays.

00:49:02 I mean, I'm sure he doesn't wanna have to take on,

00:49:05 you know, too much of a larger role

00:49:07 that he needs to with Porzingis out

00:49:08 for the next couple of weeks, but he will.

00:49:10 Certainly he's, you know, a professional.

00:49:13 He's, he's always ready to play.

00:49:15 For his age, he's been pretty damn healthy, Shurat.

00:49:19 You know, I mean, I think there were some concerns.

00:49:21 There were some concerns years ago

00:49:23 about like his knee and his lower body

00:49:25 and whether or not he's gonna hold up.

00:49:27 I don't think anyone's had those concerns

00:49:29 the last couple of seasons with him.

00:49:30 I mean, yeah, they've taken the proper precautions

00:49:33 on the back to backs and whatnot,

00:49:35 but he's been pretty damn healthy for this team.

00:49:38 - Yeah, I mean, they've done a good job

00:49:40 of keeping him in just enough bubble

00:49:41 where he actually doesn't hurt himself,

00:49:42 but just whipping him out there to help you

00:49:44 when you need him, like times like this.

00:49:46 He's a different kind of player than Porzingis.

00:49:48 I mean, obviously both of those guys

00:49:49 didn't shoot the three.

00:49:50 Porzingis is better, obviously,

00:49:52 but Al gives them the ability to actually post someone up

00:49:56 and who can actually do some work down there.

00:49:58 And because he's such a good passer,

00:50:00 if defenses are reacting to what Al's doing on a block,

00:50:04 he's gonna find an open man.

00:50:05 I thought they did a good job of swinging the ball around,

00:50:08 getting it to Al where he had a significant mismatch.

00:50:11 If he's got a guy like Tyler Hero guarding him

00:50:14 or one of the wing guys,

00:50:17 then Al has the green light to go to work

00:50:20 and try to get something going at the rim.

00:50:23 But he's doing what veterans do.

00:50:27 I mean, what you lack in athleticism at this stage,

00:50:30 you should be able to more than make up for in wisdom

00:50:32 and understanding what you can do to be impactful,

00:50:35 even if your body isn't quite competing

00:50:38 at the level that you're used to.

00:50:39 I thought he did a good job of just doing

00:50:41 Al Horford-like things, knock down a couple shots,

00:50:44 make himself present on the boards,

00:50:46 and just be a guy that's contributing to the win.

00:50:50 - No doubt, no doubt.

00:50:53 Very few teams have this kind of luxury, right?

00:50:58 Like to slide a guy like Al Horford into this role.

00:51:02 So, even if you're not getting,

00:51:04 you're not gonna get Porzingis' contribution here,

00:51:06 but a lot of it comes down to how they play when he's,

00:51:10 it's a different game.

00:51:11 I know Joe, Bobby got all bent out of shape.

00:51:13 And thank you, Rainn, very much for watching.

00:51:15 Thank you for listening, especially if you're--

00:51:17 - Thanks, Rainn.

00:51:18 - If you're listening on your way to work,

00:51:20 I know you're watching tonight, but if you miss it,

00:51:23 you of course can watch the replay at any point in time.

00:51:27 It's up all night.

00:51:28 And I know a lot of people do do that,

00:51:29 or they join late and kind of watch on delay

00:51:32 or watch it the next day.

00:51:33 But the audio version's up by the morning.

00:51:35 So again, you can just kind of jump in and, you know,

00:51:38 goof around and listen to us kind of just knock around

00:51:41 a little bit in the morning

00:51:42 if you're doing any morning commute.

00:51:44 The audio version is available

00:51:46 wherever you get your podcast, so go for it.

00:51:49 People were talking about the pace,

00:51:51 and we did talk about this as well.

00:51:53 You do notice when Porzingis is out there,

00:51:56 they do sometimes play with a little better pace.

00:51:58 Jimmy hasn't thought about basketball or this show

00:52:02 for like 20 minutes.

00:52:03 It's all merch right now.

00:52:05 He's all merch right now.

00:52:06 - I'm looking at the chat.

00:52:07 I'm trying to catch up with the chat right now,

00:52:08 to be honest.

00:52:09 - Yeah, he's just thinking about like,

00:52:11 his head's been off the screen for like-

00:52:13 - I'm looking at the chat.

00:52:14 You were right here.

00:52:15 - Jimmy's been like this.

00:52:17 - I know.

00:52:18 - I was like, "Dude." - I was looking at the camera.

00:52:21 - Sorry for wearing our own merch.

00:52:23 My bad. - Yes, I know.

00:52:25 Yeah.

00:52:25 - My bad.

00:52:26 - Jimmy's like, "Let me send this idea to Nick,

00:52:29 "and he'll give me percentages."

00:52:30 Like, "Just focus on the show."

00:52:33 - I didn't say that.

00:52:34 This is my PXG shirts in the wash.

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00:54:16 Jimmy, have you got it?

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00:54:21 Your head's off the screen again, buddy.

00:54:23 - pxg.com/gardenreport.

00:54:26 - Yeah, your head, your head.

00:54:27 - It's 'cause of the damn helmet, man.

00:54:28 What do you want me to do?

00:54:29 I'm trying to get my shirt in and the helmet in.

00:54:31 You know how difficult it is?

00:54:32 It's because of this three,

00:54:34 it's this camera angle that you've got here.

00:54:36 If you did the other one, I'd have the widescreen.

00:54:39 You can see everything.

00:54:40 - People favor this.

00:54:42 And again, I've asked the chat before,

00:54:44 do you like, when we go four, do you like the slivers?

00:54:47 Do you like the around the horn?

00:54:48 Or do you like the Brady bunch?

00:54:51 - I like this one when it's three.

00:54:53 When it's more, I like the other one.

00:54:55 - Me too, I like the Brady bunch when it's more than three.

00:54:57 I don't like the four.

00:54:59 - I don't like the four, it's too skinny.

00:55:01 Too skinny.

00:55:03 - Yeah.

00:55:05 - Anyways.

00:55:07 - It's too skinny.

00:55:08 - Did you say who you wanted to play, John?

00:55:09 Orlando or Cleveland?

00:55:12 - I'm working through it.

00:55:14 - Well, it's time.

00:55:17 Time to decide right now.

00:55:20 - I'm working through it.

00:55:23 I think I, I guess I'm like a simple caveman

00:55:26 when it comes down to it.

00:55:27 - We know that.

00:55:29 - And I go with the, like, I fear the stars a little bit

00:55:34 more on the Cleveland side of things.

00:55:38 I fear the twin towers a little bit more

00:55:40 with Porzingis out.

00:55:42 I think Cleveland has more ways to beat you.

00:55:43 And again, that one guy who can just win a game

00:55:47 or two by himself, and that's Mitchell on the other side.

00:55:51 I just think they're more dangerous, you know?

00:55:53 I think they can catch you napping a couple of games

00:55:56 if you're not careful.

00:55:58 And I just don't think Orlando's ready yet.

00:56:01 I think they, you know, they don't know who they want to be

00:56:04 when they grow up yet.

00:56:05 Like they're spunky and they're sparky

00:56:07 and every once in a while they'll surprise you

00:56:09 and they are good defensively and they're long.

00:56:11 - I think they're a couple of years away.

00:56:13 - But I don't see it.

00:56:15 So I would prefer to play the Magic.

00:56:17 Cleveland is, I think is a little bit more challenging.

00:56:22 I still expect to win either series without Porzingis.

00:56:27 But I think Cleveland, the prospect of losing is, exists.

00:56:33 But again, I don't see it.

00:56:38 I don't see it.

00:56:39 - You don't think Orlando can just like catch fire

00:56:41 and like little momentum.

00:56:43 - Their offense is dreadful.

00:56:46 - Trag.

00:56:47 - Yeah, it's one of the worst in the playoffs.

00:56:50 Better than Orlando's.

00:56:51 - Orlando can just, I mean, Celtics,

00:56:58 I think the Celtics can play a couple of bad games

00:57:01 and win against Orlando because I think Orlando

00:57:04 is gonna be so offensively challenged.

00:57:06 I think whatever Orlando does to frustrate you defensively,

00:57:09 they might just simply not be able to put up enough offense.

00:57:14 So.

00:57:16 - Yeah, they're not ready.

00:57:17 They're not ready.

00:57:18 Cavs, like I said, Donovan Mitchell,

00:57:21 on any given night, man.

00:57:25 And I love Donovan Mitchell.

00:57:27 He's always been a player that I enjoy watching.

00:57:30 So that kind of adds a little bit to the-

00:57:32 - He's got that thing, right?

00:57:34 Like I know he's not perfect, but he just goes off.

00:57:39 I feel like we see it.

00:57:43 And again, it's one of those things where I bet,

00:57:45 like if you look at the numbers, it's not as big as it seems.

00:57:50 - Nobody who knows ball would correct you for sure.

00:57:55 - I feel like he scores 46 every time he plays the Celtics.

00:57:57 Like it just goes bananas.

00:57:59 - But they've also got, like you said,

00:58:00 they've got some other help there.

00:58:02 Obviously, Allen's a beast in the middle,

00:58:05 but I feel like Garland can give you trouble too.

00:58:09 Those quick guards, right?

00:58:12 On any given night, he can run laps around anybody.

00:58:15 So Cleveland's got some additional help there too.

00:58:19 So I think they're definitely a tougher matchup

00:58:21 for the Celtics.

00:58:22 I think I just have this thing for Orlando.

00:58:24 I just feel like they're like that young enough

00:58:25 up and coming team, but they're just not there yet.

00:58:27 I think that, I don't even think,

00:58:29 be surprised, I guess now thinking about it

00:58:31 if they do beat the Cavs,

00:58:31 but either way the Celtics should be able to handle

00:58:35 either of these teams, Porzingis or not.

00:58:37 I don't, I'm not, I wouldn't say that if you're the Celtics

00:58:41 you're scared of either of them.

00:58:43 And I would say the Celtics would be pretty heavy,

00:58:45 pretty heavy favorite in like the gambling land

00:58:49 for winning that series.

00:58:52 - Yeah. What is interesting just in terms of,

00:58:54 we talk about Orlando being offensively challenged,

00:58:57 Cleveland, and someone put it in the chat here,

00:58:59 Cleveland has broken a hundred,

00:59:01 one a single time in this series.

00:59:03 And that was last game and it was 104.

00:59:07 So their wins have been 97, 83, 96, 86, the losing,

00:59:12 and then they got, and then Orlando had popped off

00:59:16 for two games there, 120, 183, 112, 89,

00:59:19 and Cleveland won that last one, 104, 103.

00:59:23 It's been close. It's been a rock fight.

00:59:25 And again, testament as much to Orlando's defense

00:59:30 as it is like Cleveland's inefficient offense.

00:59:36 But I mean, they're not world beaters by any means,

00:59:39 the Cavs here.

00:59:40 I just think that you have some more dangerous elements

00:59:42 in there offensively than you do with Orlando,

00:59:47 which is just Ben Caro and what, you know?

00:59:50 So.

00:59:53 - Faults, don't forget about faults.

00:59:55 - That guy lost year for him.

00:59:58 Too bad, 'cause I was liking the direction he was going,

01:00:02 but he had a mess of a year here,

01:00:05 missing a ton of games.

01:00:06 I think he played like 20 something games.

01:00:08 So, yeah.

01:00:11 But yeah, Cleveland's not,

01:00:13 Cleveland, they're not world beaters either.

01:00:15 You know, they lighten things up offensively

01:00:17 and they haven't been all season long.

01:00:18 So I mean, both of these teams have to play almost perfect

01:00:22 or the Celtics have to puke all over themselves,

01:00:24 I think, for this to be whatever.

01:00:27 But again, if you talk about one thing

01:00:30 that one team does that's elite, it's Orlando's defense.

01:00:33 If you're worried about that, you know,

01:00:34 like Cleveland's kind of mid, mid.

01:00:36 Orlando has a legit defense.

01:00:38 You know, they do.

01:00:41 - I'll tell you what though.

01:00:42 I'm glad they're not playing the winner of

01:00:44 the Knicks Sixers series.

01:00:48 That's been an unbelievable series.

01:00:50 Both those teams look ready to go.

01:00:53 - Yeah.

01:00:54 That was a ton of fun.

01:00:55 - Thank you.

01:00:56 - I was watching that game and not paying attention.

01:01:01 And I was like, "Oh, I wonder what that Maxi three does."

01:01:03 And I was like, "Oh my God, they tied it."

01:01:05 I thought I was already written it off.

01:01:07 - Crazy shot, yeah.

01:01:08 - That was crazy.

01:01:09 And honestly, Milwaukee, massive gut check there.

01:01:11 You know why Bobby Portis found it insulting

01:01:15 that he was on the trade block for Grant Williams?

01:01:17 'Cause he, you know.

01:01:20 - Yeah.

01:01:21 - Guys, Grant ain't leading a team to a victory here.

01:01:24 I'm gonna give Bobby, what, three more minutes?

01:01:28 Five more minutes?

01:01:29 We'll call it.

01:01:30 - What are they doing?

01:01:31 - We're at an hour.

01:01:32 We're at an hour.

01:01:33 - I know.

01:01:34 - We're at an hour.

01:01:35 - I talk about this all the time.

01:01:36 - We're at an hour.

01:01:37 - They're onto the second round,

01:01:40 not the NBA finals, not the-

01:01:42 - Well, those guys will be up with other members

01:01:45 of the Stay Ready crew in the Garden Post game.

01:01:47 So maybe we'll save Bobby's commentary

01:01:50 for the Garden Report Post-Post game show.

01:01:53 Guys, anything else before we wrap it?

01:01:55 - Should we talk Cornette since we didn't at all?

01:01:57 - No.

01:01:58 - No.

01:01:59 - No.

01:02:00 - No.

01:02:01 - He played.

01:02:02 - He played fine.

01:02:02 It didn't matter.

01:02:03 I was just gonna troll Bobby a little bit.

01:02:04 He had two points, seven rebounds, two assists a block.

01:02:09 - But listen, I said this last game,

01:02:11 he just needs to go in and not hurt them.

01:02:14 And that's exactly what he did.

01:02:15 - Not lose your minutes.

01:02:16 Not lose your minutes.

01:02:16 - Exactly.

01:02:18 I mean, if they can-

01:02:19 - That's what he does.

01:02:21 - I mean, yeah, offensively-wise,

01:02:23 sure, you'd want more than two points,

01:02:24 but if he can go in there and just hold the fort down

01:02:28 as best he can and give Horford a little time to get back

01:02:31 in, oh, he heard the word Cornette and he came running.

01:02:36 - Bobby, I was this close to turning this car around.

01:02:41 - Bobby, you have 30 seconds, final thoughts.

01:02:43 - Yeah, just got out of Jason Tatum

01:02:47 and I'm glad I stuck on in with him

01:02:49 because he had some pretty interesting comments,

01:02:52 which isn't always the case from him.

01:02:54 - Tell us later.

01:02:56 - Talking about their toughness

01:02:58 and how he doesn't agree with the perception

01:03:02 that this team isn't tough.

01:03:04 And he thinks some of the toughness associated

01:03:06 with other teams and I think alluding to the heat

01:03:09 in many ways is that it's not easy to tough the Celtics

01:03:13 just because you're loud and audacious out there

01:03:18 on the court and you make a bigger commotion out there

01:03:21 or you just commit fouls or whatever it might be.

01:03:24 That doesn't align with toughness necessarily, he said.

01:03:27 And the other thing I found interesting, of course,

01:03:30 is that like we said, going into this series,

01:03:33 seeing the heat on the other side

01:03:34 create a greater sense of urgency from the Celtics.

01:03:37 They slept walked through that first round series

01:03:40 against the Hawks last year.

01:03:41 Tatum said literally that they relaxed in that series

01:03:47 and that wasn't gonna be the case here.

01:03:48 And he said, right when the playing tournament

01:03:52 was coming together, he put in his mind

01:03:54 that they were gonna play Miami

01:03:55 and they took care of business here.

01:03:57 I didn't think tonight was gonna be easy.

01:03:58 Obviously, everybody saw my tweet by now.

01:04:01 This ended up being easy.

01:04:04 The heat just didn't have enough in this series.

01:04:06 And I think we were robbed of a great series

01:04:08 in many ways by those injuries on the other side,

01:04:11 but these are the breaks you get

01:04:12 on the way to a championship.

01:04:13 And to go back to Joe Mizzou's commentary before the series,

01:04:17 this is the stuff people forget

01:04:18 when you win a championship.

01:04:20 No one's gonna remember if the Celtics win

01:04:23 three series from now that the heat didn't have anybody.

01:04:26 They'll just be champions.

01:04:27 And every team has gotten those kind of breaks

01:04:29 along the way.

01:04:30 - Who said you can't out-tough the Celtics?

01:04:33 - Tatum.

01:04:35 - Tatum said that?

01:04:37 - No, he said you can't necessarily out-tough.

01:04:42 You know what I mean?

01:04:44 Like, it's not easy to out-tough the Celtics,

01:04:48 as people would say.

01:04:49 - Okay, meaning people say it

01:04:52 and he thinks it's not that easy?

01:04:54 - Yeah.

01:04:55 - He thinks we're wrong.

01:04:56 - He thinks we're wrong?

01:04:57 - Yeah, and great quote from him.

01:05:02 - Yeah.

01:05:03 - You wanna clap back at what the perception is?

01:05:05 Go ahead.

01:05:07 And I think they did that in this series to a large degree.

01:05:10 The heat tried it, John.

01:05:15 - What's that?

01:05:18 - The heat tried in many different circumstances here

01:05:20 and none of it worked.

01:05:22 Whether you wanna say it was mixing up defenses

01:05:24 or getting a little chippy and dirty at times,

01:05:27 it just didn't work.

01:05:28 None of it worked.

01:05:29 - I think the heat could have played six guys

01:05:31 for half the game for this series and still struggled.

01:05:34 Look, an under-man team, the heat at full strength

01:05:39 probably have to resort to gimmicks and tactics

01:05:43 and different things to win.

01:05:45 Zone, Bam's ridiculous, like moving screens

01:05:52 and weird tactics, Caleb Martin's bullshit,

01:05:55 Tyler Herro acting tough.

01:05:57 Yeah, I'm sure there's lots of things there.

01:05:59 And Josue, come to you now or when the guests get here?

01:06:03 Thumbs up?

01:06:04 Now, okay, we're good.

01:06:06 But that's what you have to do, right?

01:06:09 If you're Miami, that's what you have to do

01:06:11 to beat the Celtics.

01:06:14 You gotta try unorthodox things

01:06:16 'cause you're not just gonna go out

01:06:17 and play 'em straight up.

01:06:21 - Yeah, and we're gonna figure that in the next series

01:06:24 because I think those are two teams

01:06:26 that in a similar way to the heat,

01:06:28 obviously with more health to their advantage,

01:06:31 are gonna try to out-tough the Celtics in those series.

01:06:34 Cavs, Magic, especially the Magic

01:06:37 who have to lean all the way in on defense

01:06:40 to compete in that series.

01:06:41 So it's gonna be interesting.

01:06:42 Not much to talk about either of those teams tonight.

01:06:45 Derek just said they're both good.

01:06:47 He left it at that.

01:06:49 So it's gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.

01:06:52 I don't know if I can sit here for five days

01:06:54 waiting for this next series.

01:06:56 So I hope they get it done Friday.

01:06:57 - Selfish, Bobby.

01:07:00 Let the Celtics take their time, man.

01:07:01 They need it.

01:07:02 I mean, they don't need it, but it'd be nice.

01:07:03 - They don't need five days.

01:07:05 - But you're not gonna get that again

01:07:07 the rest of the way here.

01:07:08 So why not?

01:07:09 I don't think it's the worst thing in the world

01:07:10 for these guys.

01:07:11 I mean, they've proven when they were waiting

01:07:12 throughout the playing tournament

01:07:14 that they can quote-unquote stay ready.

01:07:17 So I don't think it makes a difference, honestly.

01:07:18 It's just about ready when the moment,

01:07:20 when the series ready to kick off, you know?

01:07:22 And after what happened to Chris Dasporzinga,

01:07:25 it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world

01:07:26 to get an extra couple of days.

01:07:27 - No, I'd just get it started.

01:07:32 You don't wanna get rusty.

01:07:34 You don't need this extra preparation time.

01:07:35 - Bobby just doesn't wanna sit around.

01:07:38 These guys don't wanna get rusty, man.

01:07:40 - Obviously, like I said, I'm saying,

01:07:41 you don't wanna sit around.

01:07:42 That's my point.

01:07:43 - Yeah.

01:07:44 - We need the main Celtics to reopen their season.

01:07:47 - Yeah, exactly.

01:07:49 - Well, let me tell you, wait, what?

01:07:51 - Maybe I should go to Red Sox, some Red Sox.

01:07:54 - I'm gonna, I'm gonna, you didn't say that.

01:07:56 - Or you could generate cool content

01:07:58 for the Celtics that you cover, you know?

01:08:00 You know, it doesn't always have to be.

01:08:02 - Yeah, you can do other stuff, right?

01:08:05 - I'll take anything.

01:08:06 - Great idea, John, great idea.

01:08:08 - Why don't you pitch me?

01:08:09 - All right, how about, how about right here?

01:08:12 I'll pitch it to you.

01:08:13 - Let's get it.

01:08:14 - Luke Cornett is ready.

01:08:16 - Okay, okay.

01:08:17 - Let's take a break for these extra minutes.

01:08:18 Interrupted, did we talk about it?

01:08:20 - No.

01:08:21 - Did you guys talk about the lemon squares

01:08:22 in the media dining?

01:08:24 - The churrata.

01:08:26 - The lemon squares, yeah.

01:08:27 - Look what you did to Churrata.

01:08:28 Look what you did to Churrata.

01:08:28 - Look what you did to Churrata.

01:08:29 - That's all I needed.

01:08:30 - I'm leaving the hole there, just so you know what you did.

01:08:32 I'm leaving that hole to run back.

01:08:35 - Yeah, he's putting his laptop in his bag right now.

01:08:38 - Okay, here we go.

01:08:38 - Damn, I'm trying to get here.

01:08:39 - Oh, he's back, here we go.

01:08:41 What do you got, Cornett?

01:08:42 - So, I'll say this.

01:08:43 My prediction was he was gonna have

01:08:45 a regular season style Cornett game,

01:08:48 where he's scoring, getting some rebounds.

01:08:50 - He said five dunks.

01:08:51 - One of the higher end games, yeah, like a five dunk game.

01:08:54 We didn't get that, but we got the effective,

01:08:58 rim protecting, energy providing, passing Cornett.

01:09:03 The complimentary version of Cornett.

01:09:06 And I'll take it.

01:09:07 And yes, John, the plus 20 wasn't all him,

01:09:11 but it's just a credit to him being able

01:09:13 to survive those winnets.

01:09:15 - He definitely lacked a little context.

01:09:17 He'd scored zero points,

01:09:19 and everyone else was like plus a million.

01:09:21 - He got robbed of the alley-oop though.

01:09:23 That was a bad call.

01:09:25 - Okay, he could have had two points.

01:09:29 - Yeah, I don't know if robbed's the right word.

01:09:31 - Damn, John.

01:09:33 Damn, John Hill.

01:09:34 - He's fine.

01:09:35 Just don't make us say bad things, okay?

01:09:38 Luke did it.

01:09:40 - I love the Cornett-corpia of baked goods

01:09:44 in this Cornett cam, it's the best.

01:09:47 - Cornett-copia.

01:09:47 - I love that.

01:09:48 - Cornett-copia.

01:09:50 - Cornett-copia.

01:09:51 Tournament.

01:09:53 - Let's see if we get some matchup stats.

01:09:56 No, we don't, but I thought he was fantastic against Bam.

01:09:59 I thought he held guys out on the floaters.

01:10:02 The defense was great.

01:10:04 This is about all you can ask for from your third center.

01:10:08 It is strange there isn't a lemon square in that graphic.

01:10:10 He's not your third center, Bobby.

01:10:12 Now, so here's the thing.

01:10:13 - He's number two.

01:10:15 - Legit, okay?

01:10:18 Everything changes, right?

01:10:19 - I'm not joking.

01:10:20 - No, I'm not joking.

01:10:22 I'm gonna tell this, I'm gonna say this to you now.

01:10:25 I don't know how to get this off the screen.

01:10:27 I really don't know how.

01:10:28 - Cornett cam?

01:10:29 I'll do it.

01:10:31 I put it on.

01:10:32 - Yeah, Jimmy's probably the one that put it on.

01:10:34 - Okay, so here's the thing, Bobby.

01:10:38 When Luke Cornett goes from being your second center,

01:10:41 your third center to your second center,

01:10:43 the expectations completely change, okay?

01:10:47 Because your second center used to be Al Horford,

01:10:50 and now that's the standard by which you're judged.

01:10:54 Those are the minutes you're theoretically taking there.

01:10:59 So if you're the best third center in the league,

01:11:02 you're the blank second center in the league.

01:11:05 Like, you have to play it, you have to do a lot more

01:11:10 to still like pay out.

01:11:13 And so that's what's gonna be hard is,

01:11:15 for an entire series as the actual second center,

01:11:19 playing against other actual tall people

01:11:22 and being asked to do things like defend the paint

01:11:25 is a little scary, is it not?

01:11:28 Like, Cornett third center minutes, fine.

01:11:30 Cornett second center minutes, I don't know.

01:11:33 I don't know.

01:11:35 I don't think it's scary.

01:11:36 I just think he's been so consistent all year.

01:11:39 And he's stronger. - As a third center.

01:11:41 If he were the second center all year,

01:11:43 it would be different.

01:11:44 He'd be considered poor for a second center.

01:11:48 He's a good third center. - It's fair.

01:11:50 You're gonna get, I think. - As a second center.

01:11:53 If that'd be called from final series,

01:11:54 I don't think it's that terrible.

01:11:55 - It's harder, yeah. - Yeah, it's not ideal.

01:11:57 - I think those are good matches for him, though.

01:12:00 The Cavs played double big,

01:12:02 not a ton of shooting on that team.

01:12:04 In fact, they've put no shooting on the floor

01:12:06 in their series so far.

01:12:07 I think their offensive rating's 98.

01:12:10 So you can drop a center against the Cavs.

01:12:13 The Magic, similar story.

01:12:14 There's not a lot of shooting in their backcourt.

01:12:16 So you can drop a center against the Magic.

01:12:18 I feel really good about him entering this next series.

01:12:21 And I feel good about the Celtics as a whole.

01:12:22 - Either team. - For all the Cornett talk here,

01:12:24 Horford was awesome the night.

01:12:26 Stepped right in, didn't miss a beat.

01:12:28 I thought they almost played with a style.

01:12:31 - Yeah.

01:12:33 - Do you guys have a preference?

01:12:34 Before we wrap it, I'll ask your guys your preference.

01:12:36 Celtics, who do you like?

01:12:38 - Cavs.

01:12:41 - It depends what you're looking for.

01:12:42 - You want your brother to play the Cavs?

01:12:43 - Interest, from an interest perspective.

01:12:46 - No, I mean, matchup-wise,

01:12:47 who gives the Celtics more problems?

01:12:49 - The Magic give you fewer problems.

01:12:51 They can't beat you in a series.

01:12:54 - They can't score.

01:12:55 - Yeah, I mean, the Magic give you fewer problems,

01:12:59 but the Cavs, I just think it'd be a,

01:13:01 it's a better test for the Celtics team.

01:13:04 And I don't think it's a,

01:13:05 I don't think the Cleveland Cavaliers win that series,

01:13:09 honestly, 'cause they still have enough,

01:13:10 even without Chris Dasporzingas,

01:13:12 which we'll most likely not see

01:13:13 throughout that entire series.

01:13:15 - Yeah.

01:13:16 - Yeah, but Cleveland's got a guy

01:13:17 that can win a game for you.

01:13:18 So I prefer Orlando.

01:13:20 - Right, crunch time. - I might.

01:13:23 The defense is tough, but yeah, I might.

01:13:25 Here's that Tatum tough bite.

01:13:26 - Just being honest with ourselves, right?

01:13:30 What are teams, what's their message,

01:13:33 what's their game plan to beat us?

01:13:36 And it's to pick up the pace, the pressure,

01:13:40 be more, crash the glass, do all the intangible things.

01:13:44 So if we know that, why don't we flip the script

01:13:49 and be the tougher team?

01:13:52 Why don't we crash the glass more?

01:13:55 We pick up the pressure on defense,

01:13:58 while still being the talented team that we are.

01:14:01 Be tough to beat us.

01:14:03 - He's right.

01:14:07 He's right.

01:14:08 - Well, I mean, in theory, sure.

01:14:10 That's kind of like what simple-minded people like us say

01:14:15 when you watch a game,

01:14:17 it looks like they're not doing that,

01:14:18 is like, why don't you just play hard?

01:14:21 Make that your thing instead of like,

01:14:24 well, we got the shots we wanted,

01:14:26 we gave them the shots we wanted to give up,

01:14:28 or just crash the glass, die for loose balls,

01:14:33 play hard, fight through screens, move around,

01:14:37 get back on defense, push the ball up and transition off.

01:14:41 Push it up off of makes, doesn't matter.

01:14:43 Play hard, play fast.

01:14:45 I think always when you're putting pressure on people,

01:14:47 that makes you tougher.

01:14:50 You're tougher to defend, you're tougher to deal with.

01:14:52 I don't understand why the Celtics

01:14:54 kind of sometimes make it easy on teams.

01:14:57 You always want to be harder to play against.

01:15:00 And sometimes the standing around

01:15:01 or the giving people space or conceding certain shots,

01:15:05 which is what they did in that loss for sure,

01:15:08 and a couple of times during the series,

01:15:10 that's not tough.

01:15:11 That's kind of like, I'll live with it.

01:15:14 I'll live with the consequences here.

01:15:16 Daring people to shoot isn't tough.

01:15:18 Even if it's smart, it isn't tough.

01:15:22 It's easier to have a tough mentality

01:15:24 if you kind of play that way all the time, right?

01:15:26 - Right.

01:15:29 - Yeah, but he's right.

01:15:31 Like that's-

01:15:32 - I think every series the rest of the way.

01:15:33 - More pressure than yapping, yeah.

01:15:36 - Yeah, I think when we say tough,

01:15:37 we're not talking about- - I think every series

01:15:38 the rest of the way could require that.

01:15:40 - Yeah, I mean, really just the playoffs, right?

01:15:43 That's just what it is.

01:15:44 So that's it.

01:15:46 - When we say tough, I mean physical.

01:15:48 I mean physicality.

01:15:49 - Yeah, but I think all of that,

01:15:52 just playing fast, playing hard is tough.

01:15:54 But what did we say real quick before we wrap it?

01:15:58 Is it if Cleveland wraps it up Friday,

01:16:00 is game one Sunday?

01:16:01 Is that what they said?

01:16:03 - Yes, that's what they said, yeah.

01:16:05 - All right, so we'll see.

01:16:06 We're either back on Sunday

01:16:07 or we are on Tuesday at the Garden for game one,

01:16:11 one team or another.

01:16:12 If one team wins,

01:16:15 maybe we'll do something preview related prior to then,

01:16:18 preview the matchup and get into it.

01:16:20 But other than that, look for us on the Garden Report

01:16:23 on game night, either Sunday, we believe during the day,

01:16:28 or Tuesday night.

01:16:29 We're gonna wrap it.

01:16:30 Hard hats, fellas.

01:16:31 This all goes to win this one, 118-84.

01:16:34 Wrap it up.

01:16:35 Take care of Miami, their nemesis.

01:16:38 - I think that's it for Miami.

01:16:40 We may never see them again.

01:16:42 - They'll fight, you know why you'll see them again?

01:16:44 'Cause it's one of four or five destinations

01:16:48 everybody wants to play for or get traded to.

01:16:51 People are gonna find their way to Miami one way or another.

01:16:54 They're not going anywhere.

01:16:55 As long as Riley's there, as long as Bolster's there,

01:16:57 they're gonna have some magic.

01:16:59 So I wouldn't be done.

01:17:00 But anyway, thank you guys for hanging out.

01:17:02 We are gonna wrap it.

01:17:03 You're on the Garden Report.

01:17:05 Thanks to the guys down there.

01:17:07 Yup.

01:17:07 - Real quick, saw Chris Dasport Ziggins in the hallway.

01:17:10 No walking boot, no security detail.

01:17:15 No one helping him walk it on his own.

01:17:17 So he looked pretty good compared to two nights ago,

01:17:19 for sure.

01:17:20 A lot better.

01:17:21 - Did he have a suit on?

01:17:23 - No suit.

01:17:24 - He clothed.

01:17:25 - That's a great call, Jimmy.

01:17:25 I mean, maybe that's a pregame thing he does,

01:17:27 but he was in much more relaxed clothing,

01:17:30 making his way out of TD Garden.

01:17:32 - If he can dress himself, he's good to go.

01:17:35 That's all we need.

01:17:35 So yes, all things pointing up.

01:17:38 Celtics win the series.

01:17:39 Poor Ziggins clothed and walking around.

01:17:42 Way to go.

01:17:42 Jimmy, how many more wins?

01:17:44 - 12 to go.

01:17:44 - 12 wins.

01:17:45 - Yay!

01:17:47 - That's an easy one.

01:17:48 - A Baker's dozen.

01:17:49 There you go, Jimmy.

01:17:50 - We'll see you guys for...

01:17:51 No, that's 13, Josue.

01:17:52 - That's not a number, Josue.

01:17:53 - A Baker's dozen is 13.

01:17:56 It's 13.

01:17:57 We'll see you guys in the next game.

01:17:58 Bye-bye.

01:17:59 - Wait, Ahmed's got an outro for us, I think.

01:18:01 - No, he doesn't.

01:18:02 - He said he was gonna work on an outro.

01:18:05 - He had a phenomenal game.

01:18:07 - Phenomenal game.

01:18:08 (laughing)

01:18:10 - Poor Firdoud.

01:18:11 I think it's an odd one.

01:18:12 (laughing)

01:18:15 - That did not sound like a chair.

01:18:17 - It was a freaking chair.

01:18:19 It does sound like a chair.

01:18:20 What do you want for your third center?

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