Celtics Schedule Release Reaction | Still Poddable
Jay King and Brian Robb break down the Celtics full regular season schedule release including the most anticipated matchups and why the schedule could be favorable for Kristaps Porzingis recovery
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00:47Welcome back to Still Potable, the greatest Celtics podcast ever.
00:51I'm Jay King from The Athletic, here with Brian Robb from MassLive.com
00:56to break down the Celtics' scheduled release.
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01:03It's coming again, B-Robb.
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01:35Today we got scheduled talk.
01:39I'm here for it, Jay. I'm here for it.
01:44I want you to check your beautiful mic there right after we get into it here.
01:48The thing I'm most excited about when I see this schedule, Jay,
01:52beyond the opening, obviously opening night we knew about,
01:55October 22nd against the Knicks at TD Garden.
02:00But the fact of the matter is the Golden State Warriors and Steve Kerr
02:05are coming to town, Jay, on November 6th,
02:08just two weeks into the year.
02:11And that's one that everyone in my head was going to have circled anyway,
02:14but to get that one out of the way that quickly,
02:17that for me is going to be exciting because I expect that to be,
02:20that could just be the best crowd of the year period, even including ring night.
02:24Steve Kerr is going to be a hated man now in Boston.
02:29Oh yeah.
02:31I wouldn't have expected that going into the Olympics,
02:34but now the crowd is going to let him have it.
02:37It's too bad Jason Tatum is not a vindictive guy.
02:40It's too bad he's not into stirring up drama because if he were,
02:46and if he were honest about how he probably felt about his DMPs
02:52and his limited playing time in the Olympic run,
02:55then that would be an even juicier game.
02:58But instead, Tatum usually takes the high road,
03:01almost always stays drama free,
03:04and he probably won't say anything about his personal feelings
03:08about Steve Kerr in that whole situation.
03:10We'll just kind of have to guess that he's probably a little mad
03:14and who knows, maybe he'll go out and try to have 60.
03:18If he goes nuts in that game,
03:22do you expect him to take any type of a jab at Kerr?
03:27And even coming off of last season,
03:31the treatment they gave Jaylen Brown in that game,
03:34when they didn't even guard him,
03:36and the Suffolks just ripped apart the Warriors.
03:39That was always going to be an intriguing game anyway,
03:41but now you factor in the Tatum part of it,
03:43with the Jaylen aspect of it of last year
03:45and him obviously not being on Team USA.
03:48That's not a Steve Kerr decision, the roster-wise there,
03:51but I'm sure that we'll just pile on there.
03:54Is this the most anticipated game of the year to you on this schedule?
04:00Probably? Yeah, I would say yeah.
04:05None of the playoff series were long enough or grueling enough
04:09or competitive enough to really create a new rivalry.
04:15I don't think there will be a lot of animosity for a Mavericks game,
04:20let's say, even though they met in the finals.
04:23It was a quick series. It was not a very competitive series.
04:27It's not like those teams had bad blood throughout that round.
04:34So I think the Steve Kerr storyline is probably the best one.
04:41And the wild card to me is how does Joe Mizzoula handle it?
04:47Yeah.
04:49Does he say Steve Kerr was crazy?
04:52Does he say that Tatum should have had tons of minutes?
04:57Does he go out of his way to back Tatum there?
05:01Or does he just minimize it?
05:03I don't know. Joe, he'll probably minimize it would be my guess,
05:06but you never really know with Joe Mizzoula.
05:09And then also, does Jalen Brown say so?
05:13I think it's more likely that one of the other players
05:16says something about Steve Kerr.
05:18Maybe Jalen would be, because Jalen can be outspoken at times,
05:22and he could lump in the way that the Warriors guarded him last season
05:28and be like, look, this idiot decided not to guard me at the three-point arc,
05:33and I just let them up, and we won by 9,000 points.
05:36And then later in the summer decided Jason Tatum
05:39was not worthy of minutes in the Olympics.
05:42So yeah, the Warriors-Celdics game is the one for me.
05:47There's going to be a lot of other games that will be exciting,
05:51a lot of other stretches that will be great.
05:55But that one, and just to see all the layers of it.
06:02Does Tatum go out and just gun
06:05and just try to prove to Kerr he was a moron?
06:09Is he yapping at the bench? That would be so unlike Jason Tatum.
06:13But I think it's also something he's never experienced before
06:17where a coach didn't really have full faith in him
06:21and didn't consider him part of the plan.
06:24So maybe it'll bring up mad Jason Tatum.
06:28I feel like Jalen Brown unearthed a new side of his personality this past season.
06:34After the loss to Miami, he just turned like he was just a psychotic competitor this year.
06:41And he's always been tough. He's always been hardworking.
06:44He's always been about the right stuff.
06:47But this year just took everything to another level.
06:50And maybe we'll get a new side of Jason Tatum
06:53where he's just vindictive, out to destroy Steve Kerr.
06:58And then Draymond will probably be chirping at Steve Kerr, too, on the bench.
07:02Draymond!
07:04What an amazing...
07:07I still can't believe he just chirps his own coach, his own NBA coach.
07:12You need to get the eyes in the ears in the podcasting world,
07:16and that's certainly a way to do it.
07:18But I just love the fact, Jay, that this is...
07:21Because if this game was in January or February,
07:24it would be like, OK, time has passed.
07:27It would be intriguing, but the fact that...
07:31It wouldn't be so fresh.
07:33But the fact we get it so early in the year,
07:35where this is one that everyone's going to circle outside opening night there
07:40and wounds are still probably fresher for everyone involved,
07:45that makes it just great.
07:47Great. On the top of the fact,
07:48the Warriors coming into town is always a big story, regardless.
07:52But, yeah, I look forward to Jaylen Brown just saying,
07:54you know, taking a backhanded jab at Steve Kerr,
07:58saying, you know, Steph Curry led him all these titles,
08:02and Steve Kerr just longed for the right.
08:04I look forward to one of those comments coming out.
08:06I need something.
08:08Because this whole last season was drama-free.
08:14There was not a single extracurricular headline
08:21that we were able to write about basically the entire year, I would say.
08:26There was nothing.
08:27There was not...
08:30It was an incredibly efficient, ruthless run through the NBA by the Celtics,
08:36and they had no time for the extra stuff.
08:38I don't expect that to change.
08:40The personalities they have, including Jason Tatum,
08:43most of all Jason Tatum,
08:46are just kind of robotic, approach every day the same.
08:51Jaylen's one of the ones who's not always like that.
08:55He can speak his mind a little bit more than certainly Tatum does.
09:01But I need the beef.
09:05I need Tatum to go at Steve Kerr.
09:07I need Steve Kerr to say a weak explanation
09:11for why he benched Jason Tatum in the Olympics.
09:14I need someone to chat with Draymond
09:18and get his unfiltered thoughts about that
09:23and how he thinks it impacted Tatum.
09:26It's going to be beautiful.
09:29And also because the Warriors,
09:31now that the Celtics have won the title,
09:34a rematch against the Warriors doesn't have as much juice as it used to.
09:39And also because the Warriors just aren't the same as they used to be.
09:45So we needed that game to have a little more luster,
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11:11What else stood out to you about this schedule,
11:16whether it's a game, a stretch, whatever?
11:21Yeah, I think just looking at the early part of the Season J,
11:25I think this one is kind of a little bit of a break here
11:28because we know Kristos Porzingis is going to be out through November
11:32and probably into December as well.
11:35And the Celtics schedule in the first six to eight weeks here,
11:39it's just very manageable, it seems like.
11:41You have the Knicks on opening night,
11:43you have a couple home games against the Bucs and the Warriors and stuff,
11:49but by and large, no tough road trips,
11:53barely any tough road games, period.
11:56And so that, I think, is pretty big, potentially,
12:00in terms of helping them manage the life of Al Porzingis
12:03for the first couple months and be where they want to be in the standings
12:06while also not having to lean too heavily on Al and company in the front court.
12:12So the fact that they don't have the long West Coast trip
12:15to start the year in November or December,
12:17which they sometimes do have, those come later,
12:20I think that should bode well for them, I would think.
12:23What's your read on that?
12:26So, I'm almost the other way.
12:31Like, they showed enough with Al Porzingis this season,
12:35including during the playoffs when they just rolled everybody
12:37while he missed most of the playoffs,
12:40that I wouldn't be worried if I were them entering the season
12:44with a center rotation of Horford, Cornett, Tillman, Nemi.
12:52I think they'll be fine in those games.
12:56The portion of the season that could get dicey for me
13:00is when he comes back.
13:02I think it could be tough to reincorporate him.
13:04And I think, obviously, they play a different style when he plays,
13:09and not being able to work on that throughout the preseason,
13:14not being able to work on that in training camp,
13:16not being able to work on that in the early part of the regular season.
13:18Once you have to reincorporate the post-ups,
13:21once you have to just involve him,
13:24he's probably going to be coming off the bench,
13:26probably going to be on a minutes restriction when he first comes back.
13:29So, I think the worst they play,
13:33or not necessarily the worst they'll play,
13:35but there will be more challenges to bringing Kristaps back,
13:40at least initially, than having him gone early in the season.
13:44So, if I were them, I would have wanted that smooth sailing
13:49after he comes back.
13:51I think that's really interesting.
13:53Because you're right,
13:55there will be no worse time on the schedule for him to come back than January,
13:59which is just an absolute bloodbath of a month of a schedule
14:04with two long road trips,
14:07and pretty much all the Western Conference contenders
14:12being faced on those trips like that.
14:14It's weird to have the two long road trips in a month span.
14:19That's just brutal, no matter how you slice it, that's brutal.
14:22To have two trips like that, period, in a month,
14:24and to have it...
14:26You go pretty much the central, middle of the country,
14:30Western Conference road trip,
14:32and then follow that up with four games and six nights
14:35against the Warriors, Lakers, Clippers, and Mavs.
14:38That's just some tough sledding right there.
14:41Like you said, if Porzingis is coming back during that stretch,
14:44figuring out how to integrate him
14:47while also trying to navigate that
14:49will be certainly a challenge to say the least.
14:52Yeah, and certainly sitting him some nights.
14:57How they navigate the Horford thing this season
15:02is going to be interesting
15:04because this past year, part of it was that they had Porzingis.
15:10Part of it was that they just had...
15:14I don't want to call it an easy year
15:16because it's hard to be as good as the Celtics were,
15:18but they were good enough.
15:20They were able to just kind of pace things.
15:23But kind of minimizing Al Horford's role,
15:27or not stretching him out too often,
15:30I thought was a big part of last season.
15:33And just making sure that you don't put too much on his shoulders,
15:39which I thought the previous season they had to,
15:42and they did when Robert Williams was out.
15:46So how do you get Al Horford rest?
15:48How much do you play Al Horford when Chris stops his out?
15:52How many times do you give him just a night off on back-to-back?
15:56And what do you do when he does?
15:58Is it just Cornette starts,
16:00and Nemi or Tillman come off the bench?
16:04Do you play smaller?
16:07How does Joe Mizzoula navigate all of that?
16:11I don't think it's the worst issue to have.
16:14Obviously, they played great basketball without Porzingis.
16:18But it's just like it's going to be,
16:22like you have to keep things light on Al Horford.
16:25He's only getting older.
16:27You need him in the playoffs.
16:29He is every single year in the postseason.
16:31He is absolutely crucial.
16:33And we saw this past postseason just how crucial he is,
16:36because you cannot trust Christoph Porzingis to be on the court
16:39for two straight months in the playoffs.
16:43You just can't.
16:44You cannot trust him to get through that physically the whole way through.
16:49When he's out there, he'll help.
16:50When he's out there, he'll be great.
16:52But if you expect him to play 25 or 30 games in a two-month span,
16:59I think you'll be disappointed.
17:02I think he'll probably deal with something.
17:04Even if he plays every game, I think he'll be dealing with something
17:07just because historically that's how it's been.
17:11So just get through that and rest Al as much as he needs it.
17:17Be fresh.
17:19It's going to be interesting because the expectations of this past season
17:23of playing as well as they did, like you have to live up to that almost.
17:30Obviously, you're going to get some benefit of the doubt
17:34because you did just win a title and the way you did it.
17:38But if you start to struggle, if you start to lose games,
17:42it's like where's last season's magic?
17:45And I think managing those expectations and knowing
17:52that it probably won't be as easy, it probably won't be as dominant,
17:57will be one of the issues Joe Mazzulla has to tackle.
18:00Yeah, there's going to be some form of adversity.
18:04Probably.
18:05You would have to guess.
18:07You can't have two straight seasons.
18:10They put together another seamless season, but it already is.
18:15It's like you already have Porzingis.
18:17That's already a bigger absence than they had at all last season.
18:21Porzingis is going to miss more games to start the year
18:24than a longer stretch than he had all last year.
18:27Yeah, but I will say the reason we say there was no adversity
18:30is because they were just so dominant no matter what happened.
18:34But it could have been easy to say, like,
18:36Chris Osward Porzingis went out in the playoffs.
18:38That was adversity.
18:39That's true.
18:40That's fair.
18:41He went out in the finals.
18:42That was adversity.
18:43But it's just like we don't look at it that way
18:45because they just blitzed everyone anyway.
18:47Right.
18:48That's a fair point.
18:49So when you look at the big man situation,
18:53will be one to watch from a standpoint of like Cornette played,
18:57had a phenomenal year.
18:58And Tolman didn't need him much, but he had his moments
19:03and he was out there and even need me early in the year.
19:05Like everyone was like, Holy shit.
19:07This guy is coming off two way and giving them service.
19:09Well, minutes off the bench on these nights.
19:11When Alan Christophs were off or whoever,
19:14if one or two of those guys start to fall off,
19:19and then that's when things get a little like trickier.
19:21Then it's small lives with Shireman, baby.
19:24It's Shireman time.
19:26But I think it seems like Joe just and this is something
19:29with like he likes to go like they like to lean
19:32into big over small, particularly in the regular season.
19:35They don't like to play, you know,
19:38Tatum at the five, you know, understandably.
19:41So like you look at the track record,
19:42what's worked for them last year,
19:43like even going double big with Cornette now and stuff like that,
19:47or things like that worked for a lot of the year.
19:50And that's the stuff where it makes Brad Stevens clearly is hoping
19:55that we can just run back that magic this year and everything comes
19:59back into place and everyone knows their role and,
20:01and we can make it work while keeping Alisman's between 20 and 25 per game.
20:06But if, if one of those guys drops off or someone else gets hurt,
20:12that's important.
20:14Then things become a little dicier to manage the schedule wise,
20:18but it is it's they're set up to be able to do it.
20:22And now the fact, I mean,
20:23how much do you expect within this schedule grind, Dave?
20:26Like that they're, they're just going to be
20:32not going to like,
20:33we know that Joe Missoula took his foot off the gas in terms of chasing
20:36the one seed, you know,
20:37and playing guys into the ground more in the regular season last year.
20:41But do they even pull up even more from that this year?
20:46I think you have more competition.
20:48I think you have to.
20:49I think you've proven that it probably doesn't matter whether you're at home
20:53or on the road.
20:55And I don't mean that just the title run.
20:58I mean,
20:59the last few years,
21:00the Celtics have been more than capable of getting playoff wins and big
21:05playoff wins on the road.
21:07It just doesn't matter.
21:09And then after so many of your guys played on the Olympics after Chris
21:15Osborne's Angus got surgery with Al Horford,
21:20nearly 40 years old.
21:22You just have to just slow things down as much as you need to.
21:27I don't think,
21:28I think you need to pace Jason Tatum.
21:30I think you need to pace Derek white,
21:32drew holiday.
21:33Those guys have played a ton of basketball,
21:35just so much basketball.
21:37And,
21:38and Tatum,
21:39like he hates sitting.
21:41He hates not playing.
21:4240 minutes in the game.
21:43He hates it.
21:45Well,
21:46I think you need to find them nights.
21:47I think you need to find nights where you get them 32 minutes.
21:50I think you need to find them nights where you just don't play them at all.
21:53I think you need to get them on board with that just because of how much
21:56basketball he's played.
21:57Or I guess he didn't play that many minutes.
22:00Take care of that though for them.
22:02I'm looking out for you guys.
22:03Maybe Kerr was just doing Joe Missoula,
22:05a solid,
22:06who knows?
22:07But seriously,
22:08like I think with all those factors,
22:10the,
22:11and,
22:12and the championship hangover of just like you won the championship,
22:16you don't have that motivation anymore.
22:18Can you still reach the level you did last season?
22:22Can you still be on the same page after winning a championship where
22:26nothing else matters other than winning?
22:28If the sellers can get there again,
22:30then obviously.
22:33The,
22:34you know,
22:35there is no limit on this team.
22:37They can do whatever they want.
22:38But,
22:39but you have to get there again.
22:41And just because you bring all the same guys back,
22:44doesn't mean it'll be the same mix.
22:46Doesn't mean you'll play exactly the same way.
22:48It doesn't mean the same guys will deserve the same shots and same touches
22:52every year is different.
22:54Hey,
22:55do you know what's fun?
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24:25I do wonder though,
24:27how much,
24:28we talk about the championship hangover and the grind and not like throwing the
24:31Olympics into play here adds an extra element,
24:34but the fact that there really wasn't much adversity at all last year.
24:41And the fact they were able to be on cruise control for essentially the last
24:4520 games of the regular season,
24:47having walked up to one seed and then with a playoff run with no series going
24:51beyond five games.
24:53I wonder if that just does,
24:56you know,
24:57obviously they worked their ass off to get there,
24:59but they aren't coming off of 105 game grind.
25:04Like they probably worked the year,
25:06the last two years before that,
25:07like even like,
25:08you know,
25:09the heat seven games,
25:10like I bet going to seven in every series and that back then,
25:14you know,
25:15you could argue that that was probably coming off a tougher season than last
25:18year.
25:19Now that,
25:20how much does those,
25:21you know,
25:22five or 10 games actually matter in the big picture for going to next year?
25:25Right now,
25:26do I expect this team to get gassed at points?
25:28Probably,
25:29especially given the fact they're starting a week earlier than everyone else
25:32with the,
25:33with their international preseason games against nuggets.
25:36But it is like they did set themselves up here of having,
25:39you know,
25:40maybe the smoother path coming off a title than a team has had in price since
25:44you know,
25:45the 17 warriors or 18 lawyers,
25:49another notable game,
25:51probably the game.
25:52That's most notable in a good way.
25:57December 7th,
25:58Marcus smart comes back and probably plays against the Celtics in Boston for
26:02the first time.
26:03I think that could be a really fun night.
26:05I think the crowd will give smart an awesome ovation.
26:10I'm looking forward to being in TD garden for that one.
26:14Nice.
26:15Eight o'clock start for that one too.
26:16On a Saturday night,
26:17there'll be a,
26:18I hate late starts.
26:20I hate late starts.
26:21There's nothing nice about it.
26:25For the fans.
26:26I want to have an extra drink or two to welcome Marcus back,
26:29but yeah,
26:30not,
26:31not for us.
26:32I do love how much there are a lot of day games for us,
26:34Jay,
26:35that I'm excited about in this schedule.
26:36I didn't even look at the times.
26:37While the one three thirties on Sundays,
26:39give me all of that.
26:40Yes.
26:42The,
26:43the,
26:44the,
26:45the dad train here is going to be very excited about the day.
26:47A lot of ABC one and three thirties and a bunch of sixes too,
26:51which is nice.
26:52Always nice to see those mixed in home and road on here.
26:56Should we go month by month?
26:57Yeah.
26:58So you just took us into November with the,
27:00the Marcus matchup,
27:01but that's like,
27:03it's easy to overlook stuff like that.
27:05Like it's just to forget that.
27:06Oh yeah.
27:07Marcus hasn't played in the garden yet.
27:08Like there's,
27:09there's so many of those moments that we've,
27:12that kind of flew under the radar last year in midst of their run.
27:15Their run now with allow,
27:16be cool to see that actually come play into play.
27:20And,
27:21and I wonder,
27:22you know,
27:23how he'll handle just talking about,
27:26I mean,
27:27always this team back here after watching them win it.
27:31Yup.
27:32That's going to be a big one.
27:36Philadelphia on Christmas day in Boston.
27:41Good for the writers.
27:42Don't have to travel on Christmas day.
27:44Another one that Wednesday night,
27:47no Wednesday night,
27:48Thanksgiving game to Jay,
27:50which is another big one for us.
27:51That's huge.
27:52They always have a Wednesday.
27:53I didn't even look at that.
27:54That's amazing.
27:55So they only know.
27:58And that's a fun week.
27:59Actually,
28:00they play the wolves November 24th on Sunday,
28:02three 30 game.
28:03Love it.
28:04And then they had the Clippers seven 30 on the Monday and then nothing until
28:08Friday after Thanksgiving in Chicago.
28:10So that's for everyone.
28:13God bless him.
28:15One of the best stretches in Boston is March 2nd.
28:21Nicola Jokic.
28:22Actually.
28:23Yeah.
28:24March 2nd,
28:25Nicola Jokic,
28:26March 8th,
28:27Lakers and LeBron James,
28:28March 12th,
28:29Oklahoma city thunder.
28:31Like that's a powerhouse two weeks in Boston.
28:34And we're all in the sixers on the sixth and the sixers on the sixth.
28:38So,
28:39but,
28:40but the other guys,
28:41you only get one chance to see them.
28:42That's a good point.
28:43Yeah.
28:44The sixers,
28:45they're playing them all the time.
28:48Although this,
28:49this new sixers team,
28:51it'll,
28:52it'll be fun to see how they mesh.
28:55Does Paul George give them a chance to be a legitimate contender for the
28:59first time in Joel Embiid's career?
29:02We will see.
29:03Does Joel Embiid go on a F Steve Kerr tour just like Jason Tatum might
29:08could be,
29:09could be,
29:10I don't know.
29:12I don't know.
29:13Uh,
29:14Web and Yama,
29:15February 12th.
29:17Get your tickets now.
29:20He didn't play in Boston last year,
29:22right?
29:23That,
29:24that would be his first time in Boston playing.
29:25Yeah.
29:26He didn't play that game.
29:28That'll be a big one.
29:29That'll be a big one.
29:31Got to get,
29:32what else?
29:33Chris,
29:34what else you got here?
29:35Yeah.
29:36Well,
29:37Jeremy,
29:38so hand
29:41um,
29:42yeah,
29:43I'm seeing a bunch of,
29:45some interesting
29:48like back to
29:50Jason Tatum only gets to go to Charlotte once back to back November 1st and
29:54second.
29:55And,
29:56uh,
29:57why do they always do the,
29:58the back to backs with,
29:59with Charlotte?
30:00I feel like,
30:01yeah,
30:02that was like home,
30:03home,
30:04back to backs.
30:05Yeah.
30:06I feel like it always happens in Charlotte,
30:08like the last place beat writers want to stay for several days at a time.
30:14Well,
30:15if we get out of there in 48 hours,
30:16um,
30:17I'm really looking forward to,
30:18you know,
30:19we talk about the next opening night,
30:21uh,
30:22the Celtics having a chance to go up against Malcolm Brockton again,
30:24October 24th in Washington.
30:26That is,
30:27uh,
30:28be a nice road opener to see how Malcolm,
30:32he didn't play against the Celtics at all.
30:34I don't think he played against him last year.
30:35No.
30:36So that's another,
30:37they didn't see any of their old guys last year.
30:39Rob Williams.
30:40When,
30:41when,
30:42when does Portland come to town?
30:43I don't know.
30:44I think that's probably during,
30:46that might be during that same trip.
30:47I think in March.
30:48Yeah.
30:50Wednesday,
30:51March 5th,
30:52right after yoga comes to town,
30:53Rob Williams,
30:54maybe have a chance to come to take the floor at TD garden.
30:57Add another one to that one.
30:58That's a big stretch.
30:59Yeah.
31:00What a stretch,
31:01but for you in your mind,
31:03which is,
31:04if you have the peg,
31:05what's the toughest road trip or the year right now out of that,
31:08you know,
31:09the early January,
31:11um,
31:12the late January and the West coast.
31:15And then you have this end of March odyssey,
31:19another six game road trip,
31:23um,
31:24through three different time zones.
31:25I think they had something similar last year,
31:28but now this is all against West teams.
31:29Like what's,
31:30what do you expect,
31:32um,
31:33to be if you had to choose one of those to be the toughest one?
31:35What's your,
31:36the longer one is always the toughest one to me.
31:39The more,
31:40the more miles around your body,
31:41the tougher it is.
31:42I remember last year going into last year,
31:45was it December or January when the Celtics just played like game after
31:49game,
31:50after game,
31:51there was no rest and they,
31:54they actually got through it.
31:55Okay.
31:57Um,
31:58but like the rest of the year they had like a 12 net rating and that
32:02month they had like an eight net rating.
32:04And it was like very clear that they were not at their best,
32:08just kind of slogging through it compared to their,
32:10their normal standards.
32:12And it was just kind of like,
32:14actually the schedule is brutal.
32:16Like I think when you watch it on TV,
32:21it's easy to just think,
32:22how can these guys not get up for it?
32:24How can they not just be ready to play 48 minutes,
32:28even if it's a back to back once a day,
32:30once a day,
32:31like,
32:32and then you,
32:33you go through the travel a little bit and it's like,
32:36Oh my God,
32:37like I'm fucking exhausted sitting there watching the fourth game in six
32:42nights.
32:43Like I can barely,
32:44like I have to set like seven alarms to wake up in the morning so that I
32:49don't miss my,
32:50my flight.
32:51And,
32:52and then I'm just crushing like 19 coffees so that I can stay awake for the
32:56game at night.
32:57And then you realize like,
32:59Oh wow,
33:00this,
33:01this travel stuff is really,
33:02really difficult on bodies.
33:04It's really,
33:05really difficult mentally.
33:06And so I'll go with the longer one.
33:09That one's going to be the tough one.
33:11Although the,
33:12the four game trip with Timberwolves,
33:15Rockets,
33:16Thunder,
33:17and Nuggets is a pretty tough one,
33:19especially if the Rockets take a step forward with some of their young
33:23talent.
33:24Yeah.
33:25Yeah.
33:26That could be the three best teams in the West and then a Houston team on
33:29the rise.
33:30Yeah.
33:31But yeah,
33:32it's a,
33:33I'm with you on the March.
33:34Like this,
33:35we'll play one home game.
33:36Jay in a,
33:37in a three and a half week stretch from the end of March,
33:42like from March 13th crazy to April 1st,
33:46they'll play one home game in there and an eight road game.
33:50So there,
33:51there'll be bouncing all over the place,
33:53playing in three different time zones on that trip.
33:55The trip last year,
33:56they at least had,
33:57you know,
33:58they had whatever the,
33:59the five random days in Atlanta with two games spread out,
34:02like over four days in that stretch,
34:05but this time they're,
34:06they're just bouncing around the whole way.
34:08So that will,
34:09that'll be one where ideally you have,
34:13they've taken care of business and the standings at that point in the year,
34:16because they obviously this,
34:17they were trying to win plenty to the end last year,
34:21but they,
34:22they,
34:23the pressure wasn't on,
34:24they had their own firm control for,
34:25you know,
34:26essentially from,
34:27for like five months.
34:28Yeah.
34:29For five,
34:30from the all-star break,
34:31they had locked up,
34:32but so,
34:33so hopefully,
34:34you know,
34:35Joe Mizzou,
34:36it doesn't tear his meniscus again,
34:39after two tough losses on that trip,
34:41like he did against Atlanta last March.
34:44I also want to see the bucks game.
34:47I want to see whether the bucks can kind of get it together this season with
34:51doc doc in place for a full off season,
34:54a little bit better,
34:57at least rotation with a little more athleticism,
35:01a little more two way talent.
35:02When you have Giannis,
35:05when you have Middleton,
35:06when you have Dame,
35:07like they'd never pieced it together last year,
35:11but I wouldn't count that team out yet.
35:12So I look forward to seeing them.
35:14I think that one's in October 28th,
35:18I believe.
35:19Yeah.
35:20They actually,
35:21you see,
35:22we had three bucks games,
35:23Jay,
35:24before December 7th.
35:26So they're not going to like Porzingis might not see the bucks this year,
35:29period in the regular season.
35:32We'll see when this,
35:33I assume they're going to play him in a fourth game down the line,
35:36but if that's on a back to back or something like that,
35:38which Celtics bucks games have a tradition of being that he might not get a
35:45sniff of them until the playoffs are actually,
35:47they might be done.
35:48They might only play each other three times this year.
35:50That's an interesting little wrinkle there.
35:52Is there any other team from Miami conference?
35:56Yeah,
35:58that's always a competitive game.
36:02Those two teams,
36:03I don't know if dislike is the right word,
36:05but there's enough history there that those teams,
36:08they both bring it and they both want to beat each other quite a bit.
36:13So I'm into that.
36:15Yeah,
36:16there's a lot of like pretty interesting teams,
36:20at least there's a lot of pretty uninteresting teams,
36:25I guess as well.
36:27And it doesn't help that normally every year,
36:30like the teams with the top three or four picks,
36:32you're like,
36:33Ooh,
36:34I can't wait to see that team.
36:35Yeah.
36:36I can't wait to see Victor women Yama.
36:38Like let me,
36:39Oh,
36:40it's going to be cool to see Chet Holmgren in person or whatever.
36:43Now it's like,
36:44eh,
36:45I could do without Alex,
36:46our resource.
36:48Hey,
36:49all these guys like this,
36:51they don't think they're going to do it for me.
36:53Yeah.
36:54I'll take,
36:55take read Shepard,
36:56but I'll be.
36:57Yeah.
36:58Read Shepard.
36:59Give me some read Shepard.
37:00Give me all the read Shepard.
37:01I'm a little intrigued to see the right,
37:05but no,
37:06I'm intrigued to see a little bit like the remade Clippers and Warriors.
37:13Just from a curiosity perspective of like,
37:15are the Clippers is going to be a middling playing team or is the
37:23supporting cast that they brought in going to be able to do enough.
37:26And it's quite going to be able to,
37:27you know,
37:28actually play 60 games for a change and the Warriors too.
37:32Like they made a lot of,
37:33I don't know if they're good changes.
37:35They made a lot of interesting changes after that.
37:37I think the Warriors will be better.
37:38I don't know whether they'll be good enough,
37:39but I think they should definitely be better.
37:41Especially if they get steps forward from Podjemski and Kaminga.
37:47Yeah.
37:48Which I think is possible.
37:49I like Podjemski a lot.
37:51The way he plays Kaminga,
37:53like when he's on,
37:56man,
37:57he looks good.
37:58So,
37:59and then I liked some of their additions too.
38:02Yeah.
38:03Melton,
38:04if he stays healthy,
38:06Kyle Anderson should help.
38:08Like they got the types of players that they need.
38:11Coming off the bench there will be interesting too.
38:14And then we also have got a circle March 10th.
38:18Sve comes back to get his ring at the TD Garden,
38:23hopefully wearing his hat.
38:26Yes,
38:27but that's kind of crazy.
38:29That's going to be one.
38:30There'll only be one guy.
38:31I mean,
38:32I assume O'Shea will sign with someone and be back as well,
38:35but that's nuts.
38:37Two of those nights over the course of the year.
38:40And they'll just be for Sve and O'Shea percent.
38:44Yeah,
38:45that is kind of wild.
38:46They just,
38:47they're just bringing everybody back.
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