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Join Jay King and Brian Robb as they dive into the highlights of the Boston Celtics' thrilling 107-100 preseason victory over the Denver Nuggets in Abu Dhabi! In this episode of Still Poddable, they break down standout performances from players like Payton Pritchard, who led the team in scoring with his impressive shooting range, and Derrick White, whose aggressive play helped shift the momentum.  They also discuss the impact of Al Horford's rest day and the promising contributions from Luke Kornet and Xavier Tillman, who stepped up in the center position. With roster spots on the line, we analyze the competition among Jaden Springer, Jordan Walsh, and Baylor Scheierman as they vie for minutes. Tune in for insights on player dynamics and what this means for the Celtics as they gear up for the regular season!  0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Celtics preseason opener 3:00 - Impressive Tillman performance 5:00 - Deep center rotation 6:34 - Impressive performances 8:21 - Derrick White's aggression 11:03 - White's competitive edge 12:54 - Nuggets' three-point strategy 16:23 - Pritchard's preseason performance 19:07 - Springer and Walsh compete 22:43 - Baylor Scheierman's struggles 25:15 - Lonnie Walker's role 26:51 - Lonnie's tough climb 30:16 - Game's sloppy moments 31:53 - Jaden Springer's debut 33:40 - New challenge rule 36:03 - JD's alley-oop skills   CLNS Media is Powered by:   Prize Picks - https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS Download the app today and use Code CLNS when you sign up & Get $50 instantly when you play $5!   Gametime - https://gametime.co Take the guesswork out of buying MLB tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code CLNS for $20 off your first purchase. Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Terms apply.  Elevate your style game on and off the course with the PXG Spring Summer 2024 collection. Head over to https://PXG.com/GARDENREPORT and save 10% on all apparel.  Nutrafol Men! Take the first step to visibly thicker, healthier hair. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to https://Nutrafol.com/MEN and enter the promo code GARDEN!   #celtics #NBA #BostonCeltics The CLNS Media Network is the leading provider for video/audio content. CLNS is a fully credentialed member of the media with access to all NFL/NBA/NHL/MLB teams & venues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  CLNS' rebuilt their YouTube community in less than 12 months, during a pandemic that attacked sports. Wondering how? Find out here (and support our channel) - https://www.tubebuddy.com/clnsmedia  Visit the Official Home of CLNS Sports Coverage -  https://clnsmedia.com  Twitter - https://twitter.com/CLNSMedia Celtics - https://twitter.com/celticsclns Patriots - https://twitter.com/patriotsclns Bruins - https://twitter.com/bruinsclns

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00:40Oh yeah

00:42I just had to go to a bathroom

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00:48What's up?

00:50We're back with another episode of

00:52Still Possible

00:54and they're back, the Celtics are

00:56after their preseason opener

00:58a 107-103 win

01:00against the Denver Nuggets

01:02there was a time there in the fourth quarter

01:04when I'm not sure anyone really knew the exact score

01:06maybe you guys on the court

01:08realized it was wrong on the scoreboard

01:10I thought the Nuggets

01:12went ahead, they didn't really

01:14go ahead, they actually pulled

01:16themselves within one, it was weird

01:18but that doesn't really matter

01:20because what really matters is how

01:22the Celtics played, the developments

01:24the Celtics showed

01:26and I thought

01:28even though they didn't play well

01:30it was still a promising start

01:32It definitely was

01:34and this is, we should say

01:36this is the free episode

01:38of Still Possible here, so you can catch this

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01:42and we're brought to you by PrizePix

01:44and GameTime, but yeah

01:46I guess

01:48to be honest Jay

01:50do you want to start with the starters?

01:52What are the order of operations you want to go through here?

01:54Let's go starters first

01:56because they played

01:58Al Horford sat out

02:00Joe Mazzuolo told reporters

02:02in Abu Dhabi that it was just

02:04managing him

02:06just rest

02:08Good. Which, yeah

02:10Two freezing games

02:12max for him. As small as possible

02:14He's already going to be doing too much with no Chris Dasporzingas

02:16for a while. Luke Cornett

02:18started with the normal four starters

02:20They played the entire fourth quarter

02:22Xavier Tillman subbed in for Luke Cornett

02:24at times, but it was just the starters

02:26early. They played most of the first half

02:30I think

02:32I was impressed by Tillman

02:34man

02:36I was

02:38He had off-season surgery

02:40on his knee

02:42and he talked about how it would swell up on him

02:44last season and how he didn't feel right

02:46He looked to me

02:48like he was more mobile

02:50He fired

02:52a three from above the break

02:54on his first touch and it didn't go in

02:56but he later made two

02:58corner threes, finished two for three

03:00I just liked the way

03:02he was moving. I think

03:04while Porzingis is out, he could be pretty

03:06important for the Celtics

03:08Yeah

03:10I think we never fully knew

03:12Even when they traded for him last year

03:14Jay, he sat out like three or four weeks

03:16because that knee was bothering him

03:18It was just an ongoing struggle

03:20the rest of the year

03:22It feels fine, then it blows up on him

03:24Whatever he got done

03:26we don't know if it's going to sustain

03:28but he looks like a different guy

03:30from a mobility standpoint

03:32A guy that's in his mid-20s again

03:34The Tillman of two or three years ago

03:36was a factor, was a pretty big factor

03:38for that Memphis team

03:40Saw some big minutes in those spots

03:42It's clear now that he's

03:44reserting himself

03:46in that center rotation

03:48behind Cornett out of the gate

03:50It wouldn't surprise me on nights when Al is out

03:52if Tillman is your closing center

03:54if he looks like this

03:56from a mobility standpoint

03:58Like I said, if the three is there

04:00and then defensively the versatility he can present

04:02for his size

04:04on the perimeter

04:06that's a big boon for this team

04:08potentially

04:10I don't trust that the three

04:12will stay

04:14He's always been a bad shooter

04:16throughout his career

04:18He was 9 for 29 for the Celtics

04:20after getting traded there mid-season

04:22Hit a huge one in the finals

04:24but that was it

04:26He was mostly an offensive zero

04:28for them, honestly

04:30Where it matters

04:32can he get to a point where he just

04:34hits enough that he's not a zero

04:36Can he be a little more mobile and finish a little better

04:38Because the defense

04:40even when he wasn't moving that well

04:42has always been great

04:44He had two steals a block today

04:46spent some time credibly guarding Nikola Jokic

04:48He could switch on the guards

04:50It's important

04:52for him to be able to

04:54play well enough offensively

04:56that his defense is allowed to

04:58carry him on the court

05:00I just thought

05:02he looked good

05:04Cornett did too

05:06They have a deep center rotation

05:08which is good because Porzingis

05:10has hurt a lot and Al is 38 years old

05:12but having

05:14Cornett and Tillman as your third

05:16and fourth bigs

05:18it's a luxury in today's NBA

05:20It really is

05:22and Cornett

05:2411 rebounds

05:26I think the only time where things got

05:28ugly for those

05:30guys to say is when Tillman

05:32we got the Mimi Tillman front line to start

05:34the second half

05:36Not sure that's when they'll

05:38play a lot during the regular season

05:40That's why you don't have to worry

05:42You wondered heading into this camp

05:44it's like okay

05:46is he going to push

05:48either of these guys for minutes

05:50and I think the way these things

05:52both played out from a rotation standpoint

05:54in this game and just what we saw

05:56on the floor, the answer is

05:58no. It's a nice guy to have at the end of the bench

06:00but Tillman

06:02and Cornett I think

06:04minimum deals

06:06always look like a bargain and then if they can

06:08give you this in 15-20

06:10minutes per night and more when

06:12called upon

06:14that's just going to be a really

06:16important part of sustaining this team for the long

06:18term and keeping Alan Porzingis

06:20ready to go for when this team needs the most

06:22I wouldn't totally count out

06:24Mimi from

06:26earning minutes at some point

06:28he does have

06:30he produces when he's on the court

06:32and he does have moments where you're like wow

06:34he does some pretty impressive stuff

06:36but I'm with you. Those two guys are just

06:38in Cornett and Tillman they're just

06:40totally dependable and Mimi

06:42is still

06:44from possession to possession

06:46exactly

06:48the start of the game was just so sloppy

06:50it was so preseason

06:52and it makes sense

06:54both teams had to fly

06:5612 hours or at least it was 12 hours

06:58from Boston to Abu Dhabi

07:00and

07:02the practice just started

07:04a week ago

07:06as jet lagged as jet lag could be

07:08it was the furthest away from Boston the Celtics

07:10have ever played. I imagine it was the furthest

07:12from Denver the Nuggets have ever played

07:14so

07:16we were always going to get sloppy basketball

07:18but at the start it was just like

07:20so ugly. Jalen Brown

07:22dribbled like straight into Jamal Murray

07:24and just got stripped

07:26Jason Tatum's first pocket

07:28pass was intercepted

07:30and went the other way

07:34it was just kind of an ugly start but I thought

07:36Derek White kind of snapped the Celtics

07:38out of it a little bit. He was just from the

07:40start just locked in

07:42there was a

07:44play in the

07:46halfway through the first quarter

07:48after he'd already made I think he'd already

07:50stripped Aaron Gordon but there was a play halfway

07:52through the first quarter where the Nuggets had

07:54numbers and he like rotated to

07:56one guy and then rotated to another

07:58and just like single handedly

08:00stopped the Nuggets from producing

08:02a good attempt on that possession

08:04I just thought

08:06and then he brought

08:08the Celtics back to life and I thought after that

08:10that first like five minute stretch

08:12they were much much sharper

08:14even though their starters

08:16didn't win their minutes

08:18Yeah Derek

08:20I liked how just aggressive

08:22he was too. Like he was

08:24when we saw a lot of this last year

08:26when the shots were there he was like alright I'm

08:28taking these

08:30but yeah for as sloppy as it was

08:32Could he reach another level?

08:34It's

08:36I think so right?

08:38Because he was so good last season

08:40but it was also his first season

08:42really

08:44where he was totally trusted

08:46with the Celtics at least where he was like totally

08:48trusted they were like

08:50the end of game minutes

08:52are yours, starting spot is yours

08:54point guard position is yours

08:56and then he went

08:58he's always been a guy who sort of

09:00one of his weaknesses

09:02sort of a strength too but one of his

09:04weaknesses is like he's willing to play

09:06a background role

09:08but then his confidence

09:10just boomed and then he goes

09:12plays well in the Olympics, wins a gold

09:14medal on the Olympic team

09:16I think

09:18that that stuff could catapult him

09:20to even another level

09:22That's a good point and then you look

09:24at the start of this season

09:26and it's like

09:28Porzingis is out

09:30Drew an hour older

09:32and so it's like hey Derek we need you to be

09:34the number three option

09:36and we need you to run with that a lot

09:38and even

09:40from an offensive standpoint

09:42now it's not like oh now you're finding your spots

09:44now it's like no you know you can do

09:46and you're going to get

09:48the open threes but we know you can attack

09:50we know you can set up guys

09:52and we trust you

09:54to do that with

09:56any guard out there in the Eastern

09:58Conference on top of what he can bring from a defensive standpoint

10:00so it is it's like

10:02we'll see like he could have

10:04the opportunities last year like there was all star

10:06buzz we talked about at parts

10:08of last year of like oh can Derek White do it

10:10but then ultimately it's like well no he's like

10:12you're not going to get the opportunities

10:14points wise to do that. I think this year he could

10:16actually have a legitimate shot because the

10:18those chances are going to be there for him now to put up

10:20between 50 to 20 points

10:22a night on a regular basis if he

10:24wants to. Yeah and obviously

10:26the opportunity won't be a ton different than

10:28it was last season although poor Zingas

10:30will probably miss will surely

10:32miss more games than he did a year ago

10:34but I just

10:36do think like for

10:38a guy like Derek White who really

10:40does like kind of take

10:42a backseat sometimes

10:44sometimes that's because he's willing to

10:46do it sometimes it's because the

10:48team put him in put the

10:50ball in somebody else's hands but like

10:52I really do think the confidence

10:54of playing for the Olympics

10:56coming off that year where he was just amazing

10:58from start to finish

11:00could could push him

11:02to another level. I just thought

11:04his compete level for

11:06a preseason game he was flying

11:08around like Michael Porter

11:10Junior when he was dribbling

11:12Derek White was just right there

11:14making sure that he couldn't even

11:16attempt a shot he forced to travel

11:18on one possession where like he

11:20just kept like he was just shadowed

11:22Michael Porter Junior and Mike Porter Junior

11:24tried like some up fakes Derek

11:26White was going nowhere just he

11:28traveled eventually just

11:30just screwed up

11:32I thought Derek White just

11:34brought it he really brought it and

11:36like for for

11:38the first preseason game

11:40for the defending champs game that doesn't

11:42matter in Abu Dhabi. I just thought

11:44I was really impressed by the

11:46the edge that he brought

11:48to the game and I will

11:50say Jay on like white obviously

11:52I don't know the entire both teams

11:54started I think like this was good effort for

11:56a preseason game. Yeah, like both these

11:58might have been they the fact they were playing each other

12:00or where they were but like

12:02this wasn't half-assing it and

12:04the fact that they all knew that they were going to just play

12:06the first half and we got to see a

12:08good like most of them played

12:1018 minutes which is a healthy chunk of time

12:12for a preseason game but they

12:14they you know the game

12:16didn't matter but we saw I think a lot more effort that

12:18we normally wouldn't in the preseason just

12:20based on the circumstances which is

12:22yeah the Celtic the sellers had some awesome

12:24defensive players Jalen's block

12:26of Kanchar was just

12:28a monster block. Yeah

12:30Drew

12:32Holiday

12:34like had some great moments against

12:36Aaron Gordon in the post

12:38Jokic is just so good

12:40like the flip

12:42shots he hits are just insane

12:44and I

12:46thought I was actually impressed by

12:48the Nuggets like

12:50they came into this season saying

12:52they wanted to shoot more threes and they couldn't

12:54nearly keep pace with the Celtic who shot

12:5635 in the first half 61 for the games

12:58they were just a record most in the game

13:00yeah most

13:02they've ever taken

13:04and but

13:06like Denver got them up too

13:08and I think that's really important for

13:10them because their three-point attempt

13:12rate was so far behind the

13:14other contenders and the other great

13:16offenses that it could

13:18be a huge thing for them especially if like

13:20Strother hits or

13:22like one of their

13:24other young guys hits like

13:26and starts to make a difference and Porter

13:28Junior starts getting up more threes and

13:30Hunter Tyson maybe who knows

13:32if he can play

13:34but he looked pretty good

13:36Russell Westbrook

13:38don't expect that to continue but

13:40I did

13:42I was impressed by just their

13:44willingness to let it fly

13:46especially Jokic didn't

13:48even take one but everybody else was just getting

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14:56yeah it seems

14:58and it is and still with them doing that

15:00they still almost took

15:0250% of what the C's took

15:04and so they're like catching up

15:06on that front and the C's were just at

15:08warp speed at that amount because

15:10we haven't

15:12gone to the bench yet

15:14but Peyton Pritchard

15:1613 field goal attempts

15:1812 threes. Just a preseason legend

15:20just eating it up

15:22eating it up up there

15:24preseason legend

15:26he came in and immediately took

15:28a three from like 29 feet

15:30a bunch of his

15:32shots were like from that deep obviously

15:34he just kind of does that

15:36that's his range. The one-two

15:38he took

15:40he created a lot of space with like his shoulder

15:42kind of did like a TJ McConnell drive

15:44and then airballed it

15:46like didn't even come close

15:48I kind of enjoyed that

15:50given that the rest of his game was just splashing

15:52threes

15:54I thought the bench, I wasn't surprised

15:56that the bench looked good

15:58based on

16:00the comments Al said

16:02about Pritchard sort of setting the tone

16:04for the Celtics in the

16:06in like

16:08practices before practices

16:10start so

16:12and we know he's just a gamer

16:14it doesn't matter to him that it's preseason

16:16if he's on the court he's going to be going warp speed

16:18and so

16:20he

16:22he's a preseason legend

16:24he was third on the team in scoring last year

16:26I think it was just Jalen and Jason

16:28and led the team

16:30in scoring during the preseason

16:32opener

16:34he did miss a heave though

16:36he missed a heave

16:38inexcusable

16:40totally inexcusable

16:42but he got the first

16:44half heave

16:46he got it

16:48it was a really really tough one

16:50he wasn't able to create a lot of separation on it

16:52they didn't really put him in a good spot

16:54but the heave

16:56he did hit one at the end of the first quarter though

16:58the long

17:00hold for one though so we'll give him credit

17:02for that one

17:04six assists for him too

17:06for all the shooting he is there

17:08you like the creation

17:10I feel like he was really pushing the ball

17:12we know that they want to play faster this year

17:14and it seemed like it was a track meet

17:16in that first half

17:18both sides were just grabbing it off

17:20rebound a lot of misses and then just going

17:22he was kind of front and center for a lot of that

17:24so still a sloppy

17:26three turnovers

17:28but you talk about Derek

17:30White's next level

17:32Payton Pritchard's next level is interesting to me too

17:34we know

17:36depending on if they want to go

17:38with some of these smaller lineup looks

17:40when Porzingis and Horford

17:42are out of games

17:44just going three guards with Pritchard

17:46at spots

17:48in a half might be

17:50an appealing option in

17:52crunch time situations but just a situation

17:54where he could be pushing

17:5620-25 minutes in those games

17:58because he's just the best player

18:00coming off the bench if he's outplaying Hauser

18:02at that point. One of the questions

18:04coming into the preseason was how

18:06the Celtics would sort of handle

18:08the O'Shea Brissett role

18:10which he sort of sees toward

18:12the end of the last year

18:14he was kind of the guy

18:16who played if they needed a perimeter guy

18:18behind

18:20Pritchard and Hauser

18:22and obviously

18:24he didn't stay in Boston

18:26still looking for a home

18:28but

18:30who fills that role

18:32tonight it was

18:34Jaden Springer and Jordan Walsh

18:36playing

18:38they started the second quarter

18:40they played with

18:42the regular rotation guys

18:44during the first half

18:46they clearly got the first crack

18:48at that sort of role

18:50we didn't see Baylor Shireman

18:52until much later

18:54in the fourth quarter we didn't see Lonnie Walker

18:56until basically mop up

18:58minutes with total end of the

19:00bench guys late in the fourth quarter

19:02so

19:04as far as we're aware all we've seen is

19:06just one preseason game

19:08Jaden Springer and Jordan Walsh

19:10are in pole position

19:12to compete for

19:14those spare minutes

19:16at the end of the rotation

19:18and I thought both were pretty good

19:20but also

19:22the shooting is

19:24going to be a problem

19:26maybe for both of them

19:28Walsh did hit two but I just thought

19:30they both hesitated

19:32they're both not natural shooters

19:34they both have a history of missing shots

19:36and

19:38so as

19:40impressed as I was with some

19:42of the stuff they did at the same time

19:44it was like

19:46yeah but that could be an issue

19:48yeah

19:50certainly with anything for Jordan Walsh

19:52after summer league is a win

19:54today and that's I think that was the

19:56going in I thought it would be

19:58Shireman and Jaden Springer

20:00kind of fighting for those minutes

20:02for him emerging already

20:04through the start of camp where he's

20:06in the spot with

20:08Baylor a lot of people thought they were to be in

20:10I think that's somewhat of a big deal

20:12because that means I think he's probably at a solid

20:14camp to this point where he is

20:16first in line to get a crack at these minutes in a

20:18preseason game but you're right it's like

20:20if he's out there if both of them are out there

20:22like spacing wise

20:24what defenses are going to do with those guys

20:26like even he took six attempts for Walsh

20:28but he probably turned down like six more

20:30like open looks over the course of the game

20:32corner to like

20:34you can't turn down a corner three in the NBA

20:36but he and Springer

20:38both did it and Springer did it like toward the

20:40end of the shot clock and ended

20:42up with a really poor

20:44opportunity after doing it

20:46sometimes just got to shoot it

20:48but Walsh defensively

20:50had three blocks

20:52and just

20:54I think he was very active on the

20:56offensive glass too so a good

20:58that's the kind of guy like you that's how

21:00you are playing your role

21:02with this team like he just needs to be like an energy

21:04wild card off the bench if he does get a chance like that

21:06and that's we saw a lot of that from him

21:08today and what do you have like 20

21:1025 minutes played the most out of everyone and

21:12it was by no means the perfect

21:14game and still has

21:16plenty of flaws but was certainly a step in the

21:18right direction for him and he has some good passes

21:20too there was one play

21:22where Springer actually

21:24started off the sequence he drove

21:26baseline drew help think

21:28Luke Cornette in the middle Cornette

21:30swung it to the corner where Jordan Walsh

21:32was he drove it

21:34fed it back to Cornette for

21:36an assist Cornette got

21:38the bucket and then

21:40there was another one that was really nice in the

21:42fourth quarter when some

21:44of the like

21:46lesser established guys were in there

21:48and Walsh drove to the

21:50paint turned around and found

21:52JD Davison behind him for

21:54for a three pointer

21:56and so you can sort of see

21:58the outline of Jordan Walsh

22:00where it's like

22:02he's probably going to be

22:04an impactful defender when he's on the court

22:06but if he could be that energy

22:08guy and then sort of be

22:10a connective piece with passing

22:12and a little bit of ball handling

22:14stuff like that then maybe

22:16it would work if he's in the Brissett

22:18role and or maybe you just

22:20use him in that role and he's not

22:22necessarily as impactful as Brissett

22:24last season but you

22:26put up with that because it's the

22:28growing pains of a really young kid

22:30who does have some

22:32significant potential

22:34for the most part I really like the way he played

22:36especially after summer league

22:38like you said it to see him

22:40even in the mix for

22:42a spot in the first half of the

22:44first preseason game

22:46that's promising

22:48I was surprised by that and him

22:50and Springer too wasn't necessarily

22:52surprised by Springer

22:54but

22:56yeah that's a good start

22:58for both of them I think

23:00probably in camp

23:02to earn that

23:04not a good start

23:06for Baylor Shireman

23:08not a good start for Baylor Shireman

23:10What was the low light Jay?

23:12Was it off the backboard

23:14first shot?

23:16Was it the air ball?

23:18Was it the pass that he

23:20fired at Nemi's head that went

23:22out of bounds when Nemi wasn't expecting

23:24it because why would Nemi be

23:26expecting to get the ball

23:28past him in that spot in transition

23:30yeah

23:32he did have a steal

23:34he did have nearly a

23:36charge taken

23:38he was called for a block instead

23:40I think there will be much

23:42better days for Baylor Shireman

23:44it's not the best sign

23:46that he didn't play until

23:48a few minutes left in the fourth quarter

23:50but we've never

23:52really seen I guess

23:54Joe with

23:56we've definitely never seen him with a first round

23:58pick but we haven't really seen him try to

24:00like

24:02bring a young

24:04guy like that along

24:06like

24:08they wouldn't do that

24:10they definitely didn't do that two years ago

24:12they didn't do it last year

24:14I guess Nemi played some if you want to count Nemi

24:16he was in his third season

24:18Baylor's in a totally different situation where he's a

24:20first round pick in his first year

24:22so we'll see

24:24how that process goes

24:26we'll see if and when he earns minutes

24:28he did not earn himself

24:30any more opportunities

24:32during preseason

24:34over it was so

24:36he got it up

24:38though he got it up

24:40got three up

24:42yeah I mean he was

24:44Drew Pearson was putting him to shame out there

24:46Drew Peterson had a really

24:48good fourth quarter he put the whole fourth quarter

24:50yeah that whole fourth quarter offense kind of centered

24:52around him and he was getting him up

24:54and looked good doing it

24:56again because another guy again coming off the summer

24:58league that he had more

25:00downs and ups in that stretch

25:02but yeah with Baylor

25:04and I don't know for all the

25:06for all the Lonnie Walker

25:08quote unquote buzz we have there in terms of like

25:10where he stands on this

25:12roster right now just coming in for the last

25:14four minutes of the game I think it

25:16kind of tells you of like

25:18I mean and I expect he's

25:20going to play there's going to whether it's

25:22Sunday or next week

25:24there's certainly going to be times where most

25:26slash all the starters are resting and

25:28he'll get his chances but

25:30um I still

25:32I think like as far as you're like oh

25:34could he Lonnie Walker play his way into the rotation

25:36or something like that I like he's

25:38he'll be surprised he plays his way into a

25:40a roster spot at least at the

25:42start of the season at this point it seems like based on

25:44where he's at here and

25:46because of the financial reality he's going to have

25:48to have a good camp a good preseason

25:50to

25:52put himself in the mix really to

25:54to earn a roster spot

25:56it would take like

25:5810 million dollars of luxury tax payments

26:00to keep him around

26:02it would take getting rid of the

26:04flexibility of having one

26:06open roster spot

26:08so he's kind of

26:10up against it

26:12and yeah

26:14it's kind of stunning that he took this deal

26:16knowing those obstacles are there but

26:18maybe he kind of sees it as

26:20like I'm gonna have

26:22to go to the G League anyway probably so like I

26:24want to do if a team that's good I don't know I guess we'll

26:26we'll find out how this plays out but

26:28it is like a it's a tough climb for him

26:30from that standpoint

26:32yeah there's not going to be a lot of opportunity

26:34for him

26:36and I mean he played

26:38with like the main guys

26:40the main Celtics guys

26:42and maybe that's how they envision him

26:44he said the other day

26:46when he spoke to us

26:48that he

26:50was told by Brad Stevens you could spend

26:52some time in the G League that he was told by Brad Stevens

26:54your spot isn't guaranteed

26:56like obviously he's on an Exhibit 10 contract

26:58by nature those aren't guaranteed

27:00but he knows

27:02like his job's in jeopardy

27:04and

27:06not promised and

27:08it certainly looked like that today like given

27:10how they used him

27:12or didn't use him at all

27:14during like any of the

27:16game when they were

27:18using their better players

27:20or their rotation guys

27:22or even like Baylor

27:24Shireman played the first seven

27:26minutes in change of the fourth quarter

27:28and then Lonnie Walker came in

27:30for him I believe and played the rest

27:32so he was playing with like

27:34just guys that nobody expects to do anything

27:36except go to Maine so

27:38not great start for Lonnie

27:40he might have a tough

27:42climb to

27:44solidify a spot or

27:46earn a spot I guess solidify isn't the

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29:16Um

29:18we can talk about the Tatum shooting

29:20probably for a reason

29:223 for 7. Right down the middle

29:24right down the middle

29:26we knew it was going to happen

29:28we knew it wasn't going to be like a

29:307 for 12 where everyone was like

29:32oh my god he's back

29:34and it wasn't going to be like a 1 for 9

29:36oh my god this guy is falling

29:38just a 3 for 7. He was aggressive hunting

29:40his shot though for sure

29:42I feel like he started the game

29:44looking for guys and then

29:46like you said then he got into looking for

29:48his own shot over the

29:50middle of that first quarter and yeah

29:52transition pull-ups

29:54um was

29:56kind of the only other

29:58rhythm offensively

30:00over the course of this game but

30:02I don't know it's kind of wow

30:0417 turners

30:06that feels like very low

30:08based on 23 for the nugget

30:10it was just a long sloppy

30:12game that

30:14but with

30:16some good effort levels so it was still entertaining

30:18if nothing else

30:20yep and obviously

30:22there was like it was

30:24going to be a super sloppy game

30:26in Abu Dhabi one week after starting

30:28practice if they had played it

30:30at a high level it would have been

30:32totally insane

30:34let's get to just kind of

30:36run through whatever notes we have left

30:38Luke Cornette

30:40tried like a 10 foot tip in

30:42and did

30:44not really come close

30:46I don't know what that was

30:48all about I think he was trying to tip it

30:50but he batted it at the rim from like

30:5210 feet away and it

30:54wasn't even close I don't know why he

30:56tried it it was ambitious he also

30:58had another tip in

31:00was sort of similar

31:02so that was like

31:04only fault I had in his

31:06game was just way too aggressive

31:08on tip ins

31:10Derek White had an

31:12awesome move to score past Jokic on

31:14the fast break like just

31:16just an awesome awesome move

31:18sort of hesitated

31:20went by him

31:22obviously Jokic isn't the best

31:24fast break defender

31:26but just a really really nice play

31:28it's not Celtics

31:30basketball until Drew Holiday

31:32does something totally

31:34indefensible and

31:36he pulled up for a three

31:38that hit the backboard crashed

31:40into the backboard and was

31:42just a wild Drew Holiday shot

31:44like those weird moments

31:46he has I missed it I love those

31:48it was awesome yeah I

31:50missed those too and I was very

31:52happy though not surprised that

31:54we were able to witness one in

31:56the first preseason game

31:58Springer came in and

32:00immediately played point guard

32:02I kind of liked his patience at times

32:04he

32:06there was one drive he didn't make the

32:08shot but he drove

32:10and the

32:12nuggets didn't really send a lot of help

32:14so he couldn't spray it to the perimeter and he

32:16just kind of patiently worked

32:18and muscled his guy and

32:20created like a little seven or eight footer

32:22that's the type of stuff that I think

32:24he can do that's the type of stuff that

32:26will

32:28help him sort of

32:30contribute offensively and so

32:32I liked what I saw

32:34from him from a patient standpoint from

32:36a passing standpoint

32:38the shot still has a long

32:40way to go but there's

32:42a lot to like with Jaden Springer he also like

32:44he got beat by Russell Westbrook a couple

32:46times but when he just moves

32:48his feet it's so hard to screen him

32:50he like stays attached to guys

32:52like there's literally no space between

32:54Jaden Springer and the guy who's guarding a lot of the time

32:56it's wildly impressive how

32:58how well he moves laterally

33:00and to combine it with the strength he does

33:02he has a chance to be such a

33:04great perimeter defender and that's probably

33:06why he's you know

33:08competing for minutes right now

33:10or seemingly competing for minutes right now

33:12yeah and he's so

33:14young from that standpoint

33:16even though this is his fourth year in the league coming up

33:18like it is the you can see the entry

33:20you can see why the they're willing to

33:22give up a decent second round pick for him last year

33:24and

33:26now this is clearly a huge

33:28season for him as he

33:30enters free agency

33:32this summer and then clearly the Celtics

33:34have a use for him if he can

33:36he's worthy of those minutes out of the gate

33:38more than his defense

33:40did you have anything else to

33:42in your notes?

33:44I love the

33:46they tested the new rule of the challenge

33:48at the end of the first quarter there

33:50yes they did they sure did

33:52Joe was pissed

33:54as it is it's like

33:56that was like the perfect tour sort of play

33:58to do that on but this is good

34:00that's A plus decision making by

34:02Matt Rounds and

34:04Joe there to go for that because it's like

34:06figure out what they're actually meaning by these

34:08type of calls like what and I guess

34:10I don't know what the defense was for that where it

34:12was clear that White got fouled but maybe they said he was turning

34:14to pass before he got fouled I don't know but that

34:16was fascinating to see that

34:18kind of go into motion

34:20yeah it looked on the replay

34:22like they didn't necessarily have

34:24great angles of White's arm getting

34:26hit while he passed I don't know

34:28that would be my guess for why it wasn't

34:30overturned but Joe was

34:32pissed he was like

34:34and Derek was pissed too

34:36especially at the initial call

34:38Derek just looked so surprised

34:40that there was no foul call

34:42and it was called out of bounds on him

34:46the only other thing I want to know

34:48is there was a

34:50hilarious sequence with Jordan Walsh

34:52where

34:54he missed a three hustled back

34:56and had a great great block at the other

34:58end like scampered back

35:00in transition to make a great block

35:02then caught it in transition

35:04and just bricked another three

35:08alright there's good there's bad

35:10he's still raw

35:12but I really did think

35:14that he played

35:16a pretty impressive game

35:18he did a lot of things well

35:20including

35:22he and Springer both had

35:24some big big offensive rebounds

35:26and

35:28they're the type of physical

35:30or I guess he's not

35:32super physical but

35:34gifted athletically wings

35:36that could help the Celtics

35:38on the glass with corner crashes

35:40if

35:42they're both in the rotation

35:44promising stuff there

35:46scrappy and athletic

35:48scrappy and athletic yeah

35:50that's a nice combination

35:52beyond that Jalen

35:54had that nice dunk

35:56oh yeah we didn't even know that

35:58before probably should have spoken

36:00about that it's kind of like run of the mill

36:02for him at this point but yeah

36:04that's certainly his highlight of the day

36:06and

36:08Drew's highlight obviously

36:1012 minutes for him they kept his the starters

36:12played bigger minutes for his staff like him

36:14them just keeping his minutes down

36:16because he's old and

36:18he played in the Olympics

36:20didn't get a lot of rest yeah

36:22um

36:24and then I thought JD had a pretty decent game

36:26like for

36:28the man can throw an alley

36:30you can throw an alley

36:32throw an alley

36:34like Terry Rozier

36:36should have called

36:38J.D. Davidson for pointers

36:40Terry was probably the worst

36:42alley-oop thrower

36:44I've ever seen for the Celtics especially for a guard

36:46who could throw some nice passes

36:48who just never worked but J.D.

36:50he's aggressive with it

36:52like to the point where sometimes it's

36:54totally insane but

36:56he throws he can really put

36:58it up there where only his guy can

37:00catch it sometimes

37:02are you in or out in Westbrook and Denver?

37:04I'm

37:06out definitely out

37:08I've been out on

37:10Russell Westbrook for a while now

37:12the one thing though that

37:14could work is

37:16he's a good cutter

37:18when he wants to be

37:20um

37:22and I think like

37:24if you can cut

37:26around Jokic

37:28that could work but

37:30they're trying to make more threes

37:32take more threes

37:34just seems like they're going in one direction

37:36he's going in another

37:38I don't know

37:40I'm not convinced

37:42he's going to be helpful but

37:44he's a legend

37:46legend

37:48we're legendary too

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