LIVE: Celtics schedule release + Sam Hauser talks running it back | You Got Boston w/ Noa Dalzell
Celtics reporter Noa Dalzell reacts LIVE to the release 2024-25 Celtics schedule, highlighting key games and initial takeaways. Plus, Noa spoke with Sam Hauser this week about Payton Pritchard's wedding, his contract extension, and running it back next year. Tune in to get your questions answered about the Celtics schedule and any other offseason thoughts!
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Transcript
00:00What's up everyone, this is Noah Dalzell for a special edition of You Got Boston live to
00:27react to the new Celtics schedule. At this time of year you got to take what you can get and this
00:33is big news. It is kind of fun to be able to just map out what next year is going to look like.
00:37I'll be on the road for a lot of these games so on a personal level it was fun to kind of
00:42take a look at the schedule and kind of when games will be at and everything like that. So really
00:47excited that the schedule is out. We'll share some of my observations from this year and we'll share
00:53some of my observations from just the last couple hours of poking around and looking at the Celtic
00:58schedule and looking at other teams schedules as well. I'm happy to answer any questions. I'm
01:02sure people have already taken a look at the schedule and made some initial observations.
01:07I'll start off by sharing some of my initial observations and then I also want to talk a
01:13little bit about a conversation that I had with Sam Houser yesterday. So yesterday Sam
01:19Houser was doing a meet and greet event with some fans at the North Shore Mall and I got to
01:24catch up with him. It was the first time that I've spoken with him since the Celtic Women's
01:30Championship. So that was cool and I'll share some of the insights from that conversation
01:35as well as initial reactions and thoughts from this Celtic schedule release. So if that sounds
01:43like a plan I'll start with some initial observations and again I should probably have
01:47started with an introduction but for those of you that aren't familiar with me my name is Noah
01:50Delzel. I cover the Celtics for CLNS Media and for Celtics Blog and then I cover women's basketball
01:57in the WNBA for SB Nation. So I appreciate all of you for tuning in to UGAD Boston and
02:03should have said all this first but this is basically an opportunity over the summer to
02:07just talk about the offseason, talk about next year, reflect towards you know Banner 18 and kind
02:13of the journey that took place to get here. I had my dad on the show yesterday so check out that
02:18episode if you want to hear from him. He's a former professional basketball player that played
02:22overseas for a long time and he shared some of his reflections on Banner 18. But in any case
02:28today is a special episode to discuss the Celtics schedule. So I will start at the top and if
02:36anybody needs to find the Celtics schedule if you want to just follow along it's literally nba.com
02:40slash Celtics. The Celtics official website has the schedule and you can kind of poke through
02:44scroll down the list. Nothing is outstanding about it because it is just the Celtics schedule right.
02:50So it's you know it's only there's only so much that can be different or unique about it but
02:55there are some things that initially I observed. I saw by one metric the Celtics actually got the
03:00fourth easiest schedule in terms of strength of schedule. So there's different formulas and
03:05different ways that that gets computed and so it's not for certain that that's actually the
03:10case and I think you know different things can be weighed like back-to-backs like travel all those
03:15things have their own individual impact on the strength of schedule. But at first glance it
03:20appears that the Celtics got a pretty good a pretty good schedule as far as just where they rank
03:25against the league average. They have 13 back-to-backs which is 1.9 fewer than the league
03:31average. That's so that's also a good thing you obviously don't want back-to-backs especially with
03:37Al Horford knowing that Al Horford is going to be sitting out of back-to-backs and we don't know
03:41exactly when Karasavtsev Porzingis is going to get back. So that always helps to just be able to have
03:46that initial just that initial extra space that extra time. And so that was just one observation
03:52on the back-to-back front. The Celtics obviously open up on October 22nd against New York. That
03:58will be the schedule that will be the banner hanging ring ceremony. I'm sure the tickets
04:05to that are already insane. I was trying to buy some people tickets to that game and I was in the
04:10queue and I saw the price and I said I'll be back and I'll maybe the prices will go down. They probably
04:15won't but I didn't pull the trigger on this on this one. So that was just you know initial
04:20observations October 22nd you start against the Knicks. The first six of the first eight games are
04:25on the road. So you start off a little bit on the road. It does feel I see here it does feel
04:31like the Celtics always open up against the Knicks last year obviously against Madison Square Garden.
04:36I also thought that Philadelphia would be the team. I think there's just a little bit more
04:41of a rivalry a little bit more history with Philadelphia. So I think I would have rathered
04:46Philadelphia be the opener rather than New York. Obviously New York has the potential to be
04:51one you know maybe the second best or one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this year. So
04:55you know with that being said you know it'll be a fun definitely be a fun matchup but I would
04:59have rathered to the Celtics play against more of a rival. So the 76ers someone that they've had
05:04lots of playoff battles within recent years Miami would have been awesome. Even Milwaukee I feel like
05:10at least you have more serious you know recent memory used to point to New York and Boston there
05:14just hasn't been a whole lot and that'll maybe change. But yeah I thought that they could have
05:19had a better opening night game. But New York has the hype of New York and that media market
05:24and everything. So I get where it comes from too. Question here about what game did I circle first.
05:32You know there was a lot of initial observations. I think I hate to add fuel to the fire but I think
05:38the the fact that the Warriors will be in town on November 6th. I'm really curious to see how
05:43Celtics fans respond to that because I do think that right now there's a lot of animosity towards
05:49Steve Kerr because of the benching of Jason Tatum during the Olympics. And also I think just in
05:54general obviously Warriors Celtics is a finals rematch from 2022 and Warriors have Steph Curry
06:00and they're always going to be a fun matchup Draymond Green. So I think I already always look
06:05for when the Warriors are coming to town but with the whole Jason Tatum Steve Kerr thing it'll just
06:10be that you know that you already know that'll be the narrative going into that game. You already
06:14know when starting lineups are introduced typically speaking you know players will get
06:19booed when they're announced and the coach is kind of quiet when they say Steve Kerr after they
06:24announce the Warriors starting lineup. I can guarantee you that it'll be very very loud at TD
06:29Garden just based off what I'm seeing on Twitter alone and I'm not even saying that that's warranted
06:34and I'm sure Tatum will go over there and catch up with Steve Kerr and be friendly with him and
06:39Celtics fans are going to freak out and boo. So that should be fun that should be a good one.
06:43Other things that stood out to me just upon initial review is the beginning of January
06:49looks really difficult so you have games against Minneapolis, Denver, OKC all in a five-day span
06:57on the road and a road trip that also includes Houston. There's a big homestand in December so
07:04you have the Heat, Pistons, Bucs all from you know December 2nd on then you have the NBA Cup
07:10week in mid-December so I don't know if people care about the NBA Cup. I don't know if people
07:15are bought into that at this point but I'll just share my thoughts on the NBA Cup. Celtics are in
07:20East Group C. It's a really weak group so it's Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, and Washington.
07:27The only one of those teams that I think are going to be a playoff team this year is Cleveland. Only
07:31one of those teams that was a playoff team last year is Cleveland and so they should be able to
07:37win that group and advance and maybe they'll be in Vegas this year playing in the Cup. Maybe they
07:42won't. I don't think they're going to take it very seriously as far as like needing to win these
07:46games more than regular games. It didn't seem to me like Joe Mazzuola and the team was bought into
07:51this idea that this was really important although when it came down to point differential against
07:55the Bulls I don't know if people remember they did foul quite a bit to make sure that they would win
08:00by I think it was 22 points so anyways that's Tuesday nights is going to be when that all
08:06happens. It's on you know it's in December and so every Tuesday those games are going to count a
08:13little bit differently. They're going to be just considered Cup games so that's that's kind of the
08:18premise there. Outside of that there wasn't like a whole lot that stood out to me about the schedule
08:23in a good or bad way. It looks like they got a pretty fair shake at things. A couple of longer
08:29road trips. The biggest road trip is in late March. You have Utah, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix, San
08:34Antonio, Memphis in the last 10 days of March so that's like the big road trip of the year. I feel
08:39like there's always one big March road trip so this is the one. You also have a big homestand
08:45earlier in March so from like February 28th to March 12th they're home so you get the big homestand
08:51you get the big road trip. Those are kind of certain things you kind of kind of know and come
08:55to expect. Notice that the Miami matchups and some of the Philadelphia matchups are in the later half
09:00of the season. It does appear just at first glance that the beginning part of the season is a little
09:04bit easier and that's a good thing because if you remember the main thing that they're accounting
09:10for right now as we're thinking about next year is the fact that the Celtics are going to be
09:15without Chris Opspor-Zingas for the first few months at least. That just means you have to go
09:20deeper into your bench. That just means that Al Horford's going to have to play more.
09:24Obviously you're going to rely on guys like Xavier Tillman, Yamia Shkeda,
09:28Lou Cornette but you'd rather have some of the more difficult matchups, some of the more
09:32competitive teams in the latter half of the season. It does appear to be the case.
09:37I mentioned that really difficult stretch in early January. If Porzingis is back for
09:42after Christmas break, if he's back for those games that's huge.
09:47The season starts off relatively easy. You have Washington D.C. After the next game you have
09:52Washington D.C., Detroit. You have the Bucks at home, Indianapolis. Then you have two Charlotte
09:58games, Atlanta. It looks like there are some teams that should be a little bit easier teams,
10:03non-playoff teams earlier in the season. Again, we also know that you don't come out of the gates
10:10focused. It's the NBA. Any one of these games could end up being a loss. You never want to
10:17take any of these games for granted but it does seem like it's a little bit of an easier start.
10:22Then January on things get a little bit more challenging and hopefully then you have a full
10:26strength roster. Those are some other thoughts on the schedule so far. One thing that stood out
10:33to me, there's not big holiday games. Usually I feel like the Celtics play every single
10:38holiday and there's always these big matchups. The three holidays they're playing on right now,
10:42you have the 76ers on Christmas Day. They're hosting the Raptors on New Year's Eve. That
10:48seemed kind of random to me. I would have imagined they would get someone a little bit
10:53more exciting. The Raptors are not really in the most exciting spot right now.
10:57Then they're visiting the Warriors on MLK Day. Those are their three holiday matchups.
11:03Then from a national broadcast standpoint, if you're curious about that, and again,
11:08not every national game means you can't watch the game on NBC. I think sometimes people see
11:13national TV and they freak out like, oh, I don't want to hear the national broadcasters call these
11:17games. Not every game is exclusive to TNT or ESPN or whoever it is that's broadcasting.
11:23Some of them are. I don't know off the top of my head exactly how many are exclusive right now,
11:27but the Celtics have 34 national TV games, including NBA TV, which you may or may not
11:33consider national TV games. That's third most in the league. It's tied for third.
11:38The Lakers and the Warriors have the most. If you're wondering why is a play-in team
11:42have the most national TV games in the league? It's the LeBron James, Steph Curry effect. That
11:48will continue to be the case because those players have shown that they have the highest
11:51ratings of any players in the league. They're the top two teams, even though they obviously
11:57weren't playoff, real playoff championship contenders last year, not even close.
12:03If you take out NBA TV, actually the Celtics have the most national TV games.
12:08Certainly reflect the fact that A, just Boston is a big media market and the Celtics have been
12:12competitive for a long time, but obviously coming off of a championship, you're always going to get
12:16a little bit of a boost there. This is certainly a team that people are interested in and people
12:20are interested in watching. Those are some of my initial thoughts on the schedule, just looking
12:24at that. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have on what particular stretches or what
12:30not. Again, if you want to check out the schedule for yourself and just look at it, I can actually
12:34drop a link in the chat just so you can see, but it's just nb.com slash Celtics slash schedule.
12:40Came out at three o'clock Eastern time today. I think the world, the NBA world is excited about
12:46that because from this point forward, there's really not a whole lot of news. I don't think
12:50there's going to be a ton of off season trade news coming up. There's nothing substantive.
12:54It seems like it's in the waiting room. The schedule comes out. Now we have about six weeks
12:59before training camp and everything gets started. That's the big news of the day is that we finally
13:05are able to plan your year. If you're somebody that likes to put everything on your calendar,
13:09you can download that directly from the Celtics website and add it to your calendar. You can
13:13print it out, whatever it is. To me, this is just a fun time because we get to look ahead towards
13:18another season of Celtics games and obviously coming off a championship year, you have to be
13:24excited as a Celtics fan to see the entire roster come back and everybody be in the position to
13:28compete once again. Going through some of these questions, then I'm going to spend a little bit
13:33of time talking about Sam Hauser later too. Question here, how do you think they handle that
13:38tough stretch of games to start 2025? I do think that they're going to have Christoph Porzingis by
13:44then. I saw that he's posted that he's working out, he's in the gym. I know he's going to do
13:50everything he can to be back and be ready. When we caught up with Brad Stevens at Las Vegas for
13:55summer league, he didn't have any concrete timeline, but it does seem like it's going to be well into
14:01December at the earliest. I would all but say November's off the table just from what it sounds
14:06like. Obviously, I don't actually know for certain, but I would say at the earliest, he'll be back
14:10December and it sounds like maybe January is a possibility as well. I'm sure that even if he is
14:16back, whether that's in December or January or whatever, that he will have a very reduced load
14:23at the beginning and maybe throughout the year, honestly. I don't think that we're ever going to
14:26see Porzingis be put in a position where he's playing back-to-back games or playing really
14:31significant minutes. Just seeing how things panned out last year in the playoffs, it was pretty
14:36evident to me that this is someone that they're going to prioritize his rest and his health.
14:41It would be really fun if they're in a position where they're able to get him back for that
14:48tough stretch in January. I don't know if they will, but they have enough to beat these teams
14:55without him. The stretch that I'm referring to is early January. Let me just pull it up here.
15:05You're on the road, Minnesota on January 2nd, Houston January 3rd, the following day,
15:10and they're going to be better this year. Sunday, January 5th, you're at OKC and then
15:15Tuesday, January 7th, you're at Denver. That's probably the toughest stretch of the season,
15:18just at first glance. Certainly, that's one that stands out. I think you're happy if you split
15:24those games. Again, a lot of people freaked out this year because they dropped some of those
15:28road trip games. They lost to the Warriors. They lost to OKC. They lost both games to Denver. I
15:33think you have to remember that during the season, you lose some of these games. It doesn't always
15:37signal a whole lot. You're going to lose in these games. Even if you win 60 games, you still lost 22.
15:44I do imagine that they dropped some of those. One thing that stood out is the California road
15:49trip is a little bit later than usual. Last year, it was around Christmas time. This year,
15:53it's in late January. I'll be covering a lot of these games. That's exciting. I'm really excited
16:02to be able to be there and be on the ground, posting videos for you guys, posting clips from
16:05interviews, all the things that I generally do. My goal is to be at as many of these away games
16:10as possible. I'm just working through all the logistics of that right now. This was fun for
16:14me to get scheduled so I can start planning my life too. This was a fun couple hours to just
16:23poke around and look at the schedule. I do think from just what it looks like, I think the Hellies
16:27got a pretty good shake at things. Sometimes the way that things roll out and it's a lot of AI and
16:32computer generation and some human intervention as well. I'm sure you all of a sudden realize your
16:37team has the most difficult schedule. Right now, it looks like the Hellies have one of the easier
16:41ones, which can always change depending on what teams actually become good. There's always teams
16:48that surprise people. I think people wouldn't have expected OKC, for example, last year to be
16:52one of the best teams in the league, and obviously they were. There's only so much you
16:58can interpret right now at this point, but we'll see. We'll take a quick break right now just to
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18:00continue putting in questions. And if there's some at the end of this, then I'll be able to,
18:03I'll go back and answer some of those questions. But wanted to talk a little bit about Sam Hauser,
18:07because there's not every day right now that we get to hear from players directly.
18:11But I did get to speak with Sam yesterday at Dynasty Sports meet and greet signing with fans
18:17at the North Shore Mall in Peabody. And people drove from all over the place, I talked to some
18:22fans, really excited about the fact that they got to see him, excited fans that were wearing Sam
18:28Hauser jerseys, fans that brought in like miniature Larry O'Brien trophies, fans that had like the
18:352024 Celtics Championship banners that I think they're trying to get all the Celtics players to
18:40sign their banners. So that was a lot of fun to just see all the gratitude that fans had towards
18:46Sam Hauser. And we talked to him after, it was myself and Justin Turpin from WEI, they were
18:52there. And we asked him like, how many fans ended up asking you about next year and winning another
18:57championship when he said like 75% of fans asked me about a banner 19. So certainly, I think it
19:03reflects where Celtics fans are at right now. And that's at this point where they want to see
19:08another championship run. And I think that's the intention. And that's where, you know, Sam Hauser
19:12and the rest of the guys hope to go. Something else that Sam said that stood out to me is, you
19:17know, everybody wanted to be back. He really made that clear that, you know, talking to the other
19:22guys, everybody's really happy that everybody's back. You know, obviously, we've talked about this
19:27a little bit on the show, and it's just been really, really pretty widely discussed just in
19:31general. But the reality is, is that Sam Hauser is one of many players that signed contract
19:37extensions or re-signed with Boston this year. Obviously, Derek White signed his, Jason Tatum
19:43signed a Supermax extension, and then Namias Keita with Cornette and Xavier Tillman all re-signed on
19:48minimum deals. Luke for one year, Keita for three years, and Xavier Tillman for two years. So
19:56to bring everybody back, I didn't anticipate that that was going to be possible. I know for certain
20:01that some of those guys got more money from other teams. So the fact that they chose to come back
20:06reflects on just how much this team wants to get an opportunity to run it back and win all together
20:10again. And Sam talked about how happy he was that they all were able to be in that position,
20:14how grateful he was for the front office. Obviously, he signed a pretty good deal,
20:18four years, $45 million. You can't complain if you're him, and you kind of got that opportunity
20:23after a really good playoff run where he hit 11 threes in the NBA finals and was a really key
20:28piece down the stretch. So that was cool just to be able to hear how he's been enjoying his summer.
20:34Peyton Pritchard got married this past weekend. There were a lot of Celtics players there. He was
20:38there. The Larry O'Brien Trophy was there. Even former Celtics like Lamar Stevens was there.
20:44O'Shea Bursette and Sadie Mihalik, who I think are the two guys that are not going to be back from
20:49last year's team. Sadie Mihalik is officially signed with Utah. He was signed a four-year,
20:54$15 million deal, whereas O'Shea Bursette is still a free agent. So there's a small possibility that
21:01he takes that last spot. I don't anticipate that he'll take that last spot, but it is a possibility.
21:08So Sam talked about how excited and grateful he was for that. He also talked about how the
21:11fact that the Celtics believed in him early on, what it means to be able to stay with one team
21:16for a long stretch of time, considering the fact that they were the ones that, when he was
21:20undrafted, signed him to that two-way. He was wearing a Maine Celtics shirt. So that was cool.
21:26I think he likes wearing that shirt. It kind of pays homage to his roots with this organization
21:31in Portland. Obviously, he was a great G League player. To go from a great G League player in 2021
21:36to now being a key piece of a Finals championship team in 2024 is still a pretty,
21:40pretty sweet turnaround. So we chatted with him about that. I'm trying to think if there's
21:44anything else that I need to cover from that conversation. But just generally speaking,
21:49he seemed to be in really good spirits. He didn't want to get into the details of what the Larry
21:53O'Brien trophy might have experienced at Peyton Pritchard's wedding. I think that we've already
21:58heard. If you've heard, Wick has done an interview about how when Joe Mazzuola had the trophy for a
22:01few days, it came back all dented. I don't know the condition of the trophy right now, but it
22:06is pretty cool that Pritchard got to have his trophy on the cape for his wedding. Because
22:11I remember during the Finals, when the players were at all their different stations on the court,
22:15on media availability days, one of the questions that Pritchard was asked was, do you want to get
22:19the trophy for your wedding? And it was before game one. And so he was like, I don't even want
22:24to think about that right now, but that would be really cool. And so the fact that that panned out
22:28and this won the championship when he was able to bring the Larry O'Brien trophy to his wedding
22:33is pretty cool. And so that was kind of a full circle moment. But just in general,
22:37yeah, he seemed really happy that everybody was locked in. It really was kind of a unique
22:42offseason in the sense that it's super unusual to be able to bring back everybody and run it back
22:47with the literal exact same roster. I mean, the only difference right now is that you have Baylor
22:50Shireman in Seema Hyalik's place. And maybe that 15 roster spot becomes a big, maybe maybe
22:57a straight rush that comes back, maybe they leave it open. I think that's probably the most
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24:56And obviously, we're going to have a lot more to talk about near training camp. I'll be going,
25:00I'll be having a new episode out every single day of training camp after games, practices,
25:04and all that. So join now while we can just, while we're, you know, I'm just home and we're
25:09just reflecting on the season and talking about the year ahead. And then we'll have lots of live
25:13game time coverage during the year. So I thoroughly appreciate all of your support and appreciate
25:18people for tuning in. And yeah, so I'll just do a couple last quick questions here before we wrap up.
25:25Yeah, it was cool to see a lot of the Stay Ready crew at Pritchard's Wedding.
25:29I didn't even know that Blake Griffin was like, whatever you have to be qualified to be an
25:33officiant. So the fact that he was able to do that, and it sounds like he was cracking some
25:36jokes. But it was kind of a full, you know, a cool full circle moment to be able to see him.
25:43And, you know, he's obviously back, but guys that were traded midseason, like Lamar Stevens is back.
25:48And then a lot of obviously current players, Jalen Brown, Yimmy Echeda,
25:52Sevilla, I guess not a current player, Sam Hauser, probably others as well. And so,
25:58yeah, that was pretty cool. And then obviously some of the USA guys were not able to be there,
26:03Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, Drew Holliday, Derek White. So he didn't get the
26:10full group, but I'm sure they'll get plenty of other opportunities to celebrate. And
26:15yeah, and then as far as I see a question here about Sam Hauser and participating in the three
26:19point contest, didn't ask him about that yesterday. I can definitely ask him about that in training
26:24camp if that's something that people are interested in. One of the things that I've noticed about
26:28sorry, about three point contest is just that it doesn't end up being like the sharpshooters that
26:33end up having that position, like the bench player sharpshooters. I feel like they like
26:37to have bigger names and sometimes it's not like the guys with the best three point percentages,
26:41but I would love, this is both on the NBA side and on the WNBA side. I would love to see
26:49the NBA actually select the people with the best three point percentage, even if those aren't guys
26:53that have like the biggest names. And even if those guys aren't like the flashiest people,
26:57just because they feel like it'd be cool. And obviously like if you get Steph Curry and Clay
27:01Thompson and all those guys to play, then like, that's great. But I remember a couple of years
27:04ago, they had Julius Randle on and I was like, let's bring like real shooters, like no disrespect
27:10to Julius Randle, but there's plenty of players that are, you know, that's their thing, it's
27:13three point contest. So it would be cool to see Sam Hauser, it'd be cool to see like a Drew Holliday,
27:18if he's having a great shooting season again, you know, he was great during the Olympics,
27:21obviously, and was actually the team's top three point shooter last year. So that would be great
27:27as well. But yeah, I would love to see that. So I think it'd be a lot of fun, all stars in San
27:32Francisco this year, I'll probably be out there. So be able to kind of provide updates on that
27:37front, but it should be, it should be a lot of fun. And this is the same thing on the WNBA front
27:41too, they didn't have like their best shooters there. And I think part of the tough thing is
27:45that, like you have to have buy in from the players themselves, obviously, like not everybody
27:48wants to do that. It was a whole controversy that Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Inescu weren't in the
27:53three point contest. So you have to make sure the players themselves actually want to do it.
27:56But I'm sure someone like Sam Hauser would love that opportunity. So yeah, I see someone here
28:03said they saw me in Summer League. I love when people come and say hi to me. So if you ever see
28:06me like during like the Celtics championship parade and some of the events around it, a lot
28:11of people came up to me, I think because there was so many diehard Celtics fans and signings
28:15and things. So it's always fun. So always feel free to come say hi. I very much appreciate it.
28:20Yeah, I do think Drew Holliday would be great in the corners, though it is kind of tough. Sometimes
28:25I feel like the three point contest, really good shooters, it's just a little bit different to go
28:29from being a really good shooter, to being a shooter at a three point contest, like it's just
28:33a little bit of a different dynamic, or you're shooting off the rack, you have to practice for
28:37it. So it doesn't always translate perfectly. If you have more of like a jump shot, sometimes that
28:41can be disrupted. If you have a slower, you know, slower release time or whatnot, obviously, that's
28:46hard too. And then I think sometimes those players rush a little bit. And so that ends up hurting
28:51their shot is the fact that they're rushing. So yeah, we'll see. I don't know how we got into
28:56the contest, but it's always fun to see. I don't think we'll see the only other Celtics maybe
29:00Jalen Brown will run it back with a dunk contest, but I don't think he will. He says that he might,
29:05but I don't think that necessarily he will. Question here about Tatum's shooting slump.
29:10I think you have to think about it as a standalone thing. Like he's obviously was a really good
29:17player throughout this postseason and also wasn't shooting well. And the fact that he's able to be
29:22so effective still, despite not shooting well is a great sign for how well rounded of a player he's
29:27become. But you want to see him emerge out of that slump. But I think it's going to take like some
29:31high volume shooting games, he's going to need to see the ball go through the hoop, but that's
29:35going to include free throws, layups, some easy ones, and then some rhythm shots getting to his
29:39spot. And you might have to have some bad shooting games early on. But I do think that he'll work
29:44through it. And I did not think that he was going to work through during the Olympics, because the
29:47Olympics is just not a time to work through shooting slumps when you have such limited shots,
29:52such limited touches, and obviously for him, limited minutes as well. So I wouldn't say I'm
29:57concerned. I will say that if we're seeing in by November, you know, he's had the first couple
30:04weeks of the season, he's still not finding his rhythm. Then I think you have to look at this as
30:07like a broader trend and not just a slump. If you guys know me at all, I always think that people
30:13overreact a little bit to shooting slumps. Like I think, you know, as a shooter, you have to just
30:17know that it comes and goes. And, you know, the great shooters have very minimal slumps, but even
30:22the shooters like Seth Curry, I mean, up until the two final Olympic games, he struggled a lot too. So
30:28it is, it is kind of tough to just see, to just recognize the fact that like, sometimes you just
30:34don't have it and you just have to kind of get out of your own head. And with Jason Tatum, like,
30:39I do think that he's in maybe a little bit more of a slump than a regular slump, just because
30:44it did kind of send throughout the post-season. He was, I believe, 28% from three for the entire
30:48playoff run. So that's pretty severe. Obviously didn't hit jumpers during the Olympic run, but
30:54I also would not be surprised at all if he comes out next year and shooting really well.
30:58So really curious to see how that'll look because obviously I think that the Olympic was a tough
31:02personal experience for him just with his fluctuating role, how much he was in the media,
31:06how much he was in the limelight, all of that. So I hope that he's able to come out of the gates
31:11firing and that he's able to kind of showcase the fact that this was not, this is not a real change
31:17in his shot. His shot does look a little awkward, but I think more than anything, it's confidence.
31:20And I'm sure that he's going to spend some time between now and November workshopping any small
31:25issues, any small changes that there might be that he needs to fix. So if there are no other
31:31questions, I'm going to wrap it up here and just thank you all for joining and feel free to DM me
31:36if you have any other questions about the schedule. Otherwise I'm excited that it's out.
31:41I'm excited that this is real and that we have a championship run that's going to begin again
31:46next year. So in just a couple of weeks, we're going to be talking about, you know, preseason
31:50Olympics begin preseason in Abu Dhabi. So that's exciting. I will not be going to Abu Dhabi, but
31:57you know, that'll be fun with two games against Denver in the preseason. When that first came
32:01out, I was certain that was going to be a finals repeat. And then obviously, you know, the Nuggets
32:06did not make the finals. But yeah, thanks so much everybody for tuning in. Appreciate it. Have a
32:12great rest of your week, a great evening. WNBA play resumes tonight. So if you're really missing
32:16basketball and you're open to tuning into the WNBA, I promise you it's super fun. So you will
32:23enjoy it. So games starting tonight. So feel free to enjoy those as you await the NBA season to
32:28continue. I covered the WNBA full time as well. So I'll be tuning into those games,
32:33enjoying those matchups, and I will see you all soon. Thanks so much.