Speaker 1: The postseason is just within reach, but we still have
Speaker 1: active playoff teams making shocking moves. The Rockets have hit
Speaker 1: a group, but we will see if today's guest is
Speaker 1: a believer during our Contender Verse, Pretender or Chicken Tender segment,
Speaker 1: and of course we'll get into the state of the
Speaker 1: Celtics with NBA analysts and podcaster Warren Shaw.
Speaker 2: On today's episode. Me, I'm Miles break.
Speaker 3: Wait what's that you say?
Speaker 2: Oh well, I'm JABORI Davis's.
Speaker 4: Jack and this is Miles Yet look a hitch.
Speaker 2: Okay, you be driving spinny.
Speaker 5: Number that's been secure, the sultic your NBA champions over
Speaker 5: the cop.
Speaker 6: Teams, be honestly, Gitar, Yes.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: Warren Shaw, owner of nineteen Media Group, co host of
Speaker 5: the Baseline NBA podcast, and host of Dope Interviews, thank
Speaker 5: you for coming back to Miles from Jabari he got.
Speaker 2: Bad Boosti's so many things to.
Speaker 5: Talk about and we will get into them, but first
Speaker 5: we got to do a little bit of our homework.
Speaker 2: We got to catch up.
Speaker 5: We had games of the Week that we said, hey,
Speaker 5: do your homework because we're going to be talking about this.
Speaker 5: The first one Friday's matchup Nuggets at Warriors.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm trying.
Speaker 5: This is getting so petty already.
Speaker 2: Oh huh what happened there?
Speaker 3: Did anything happen as a result or I mean there, what.
Speaker 2: Is put up? Thirty three to twelve nine? I mean yeah,
Speaker 2: seventeen from the floor. Okay, okay, Steph Curry looked.
Speaker 5: Man, I'm worried about he. That's he looks like a
Speaker 5: problem again, like he always tends to. But yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean obviously that lended in what maybe ten point loss?
Speaker 3: Was this sixteen fourteen or so?
Speaker 2: Fourteen ten to fourteen points? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that did
Speaker 2: not end great.
Speaker 5: I mean the other thing too, Every single player had
Speaker 5: a negative plus minus.
Speaker 3: That's sough. That's so. I mean, that's not just an
Speaker 3: indicator of, like, you know, one thing going wrong. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like just across the board.
Speaker 5: Maybe sounds like systemic.
Speaker 3: Really, I think they agree with you.
Speaker 2: That a systemic issue.
Speaker 5: That seems it's just me, Uh, Warren, what did you did?
Speaker 7: You catch that game a little bit a little bit,
Speaker 7: But I'm not in the same vibe in mode as
Speaker 7: you are.
Speaker 2: That's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 5: I mean you had a wonderful stretch of March into
Speaker 5: early April, and we'll get to that.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I think only two l's taken. Yikes.
Speaker 5: But see, I think that's the thing. Before I have
Speaker 5: to confront the inevitability of the domination of the Celtics,
Speaker 5: I have to micro does a little bit a hater ade,
Speaker 5: you know, and just watch the Nuggets because they've had
Speaker 5: our number, but recently we've had theirs. And then also
Speaker 5: the other game we were watching Lakers at OKC on
Speaker 5: NBA TV. Now that that was interesting. That was I
Speaker 5: thoroughly enjoyed that. I thoroughly enjoyed our shot making. I
Speaker 5: thoroughly enjoyed just the deef everything. It was a wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 5: wonderful result, I would say, I would say.
Speaker 3: So my question for Warren is, obviously, you know where
Speaker 3: we land on the Lakers. You know, a game like that,
Speaker 3: it's going to restore some hope. You know, they out
Speaker 3: rebounded them, they defended well, they actually defended the three
Speaker 3: point line. You know, you got people in, you know,
Speaker 3: around the Lakers, you're in the around the fan base
Speaker 3: at least talking about, you know, making a run from
Speaker 3: the outside looking in. If you think that's a blip
Speaker 3: on the radar or are these Lakers of you know,
Speaker 3: live dog this year.
Speaker 7: No, there's a lot of healthy respect for this Lakers
Speaker 7: team in there should be, especially when you have two
Speaker 7: generational literally generational players playing at the same time.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what part of Lebron generation we're in.
Speaker 2: He's still out.
Speaker 7: Here rocking and rolling and like they scared the but
Speaker 7: Jesus Oude of me, you know, as a Celtics and
Speaker 7: to just know that they can have some semblance of success.
Speaker 7: And the way they handled Okac that night, that afternoon
Speaker 7: rather was was pretty damn impressive. So you know, I
Speaker 7: don't want to write nobody off. I'm I'm I'm a
Speaker 7: little nervous. I'm a little uneasy. And before you even
Speaker 7: asked me, the best thing for me is, y'all have
Speaker 7: to get the warriors of the first round and one
Speaker 7: of y'all.
Speaker 3: Got to die.
Speaker 5: I think that everybody, every a lot of us are
Speaker 5: just being like, I just need this first round to
Speaker 5: work out for me personally, and that would Yeah, that's
Speaker 5: what you want to see. You're like, Yeah, can the
Speaker 5: two monsters I'm scared of just fight it out and
Speaker 5: then whatever whatever ends up surviving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take that one.
Speaker 3: I'll take that one.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the Nuggets do we I think that that
Speaker 5: Minnesota game happened after right we recorded last week? Oh
Speaker 5: lordy lord, so my goodness, that double ot loss. I remember,
Speaker 5: I think you texted me and you're like, hey, Yoki
Speaker 5: is putting up but he's having a sixty point triple
Speaker 5: double in what I'm pretty sure is about to be
Speaker 5: an overtime loss. And but that ending was surreal. Just
Speaker 5: have fun, Oh Russell that to to not finish at
Speaker 5: one end of the court and then give up that
Speaker 5: foul to send him to the line, it was it
Speaker 5: made my like I was having like because we I
Speaker 5: think know deeply the chaos that Russell Westbrook can bring.
Speaker 5: I even felt it deeply in my bones. And did
Speaker 5: you see that one? People isolated the angle of the
Speaker 5: Timberwolves bench right in that last stretch from them like
Speaker 5: putting hands on foreheads after he missed that layup to
Speaker 5: then the foul, and people truly like melting. I was like,
Speaker 5: oh this, I was like, this is this is?
Speaker 2: This one hurts even watch to be.
Speaker 7: Honest, listen from the outside looking and you know, just
Speaker 7: looking from basketball plays, you see something like that happens,
Speaker 7: and I mean, and it to a to a nicer
Speaker 7: guy or to the best guy, depending on your on
Speaker 7: your your viewpoints, so to speak. But in historic story,
Speaker 7: triple double from you just for that to kind of
Speaker 7: go to waste, and then a couple of nights later,
Speaker 7: I don't want to get too far ahead, he puts
Speaker 7: up another thing against Indiana and they lose again. Like, well, Miles,
Speaker 7: you're gonna be micro dosa for a little while, brother.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got to make sure I'm not
Speaker 5: it's not a macro.
Speaker 3: But just to be clear that because obviously this is
Speaker 3: gonna come across as like, oh, we're dancing on Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 3: I don't. I still don't have a problem with Westbrook.
Speaker 3: I only dislike his fans that made it seem as
Speaker 3: though the Lakers ruined him, and it was, you know,
Speaker 3: it was all good once he went to the Clippers,
Speaker 3: and then it wasn't and it was all good once
Speaker 3: he went to the Nuggets, and now it's not again,
Speaker 3: and it was It's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I think, well, because the ups and downs, especially in
Speaker 5: the last few years of his career, has been a
Speaker 5: mix of like I.
Speaker 2: Want you to do well, man, I was then he.
Speaker 5: Gets on your team and you're like Russell no, uh
Speaker 5: and if it becomes very frustrating. But yeah, which brings
Speaker 5: us to our next story, because what's his record with
Speaker 5: coaches getting fired after he's played on their team. It's like,
Speaker 5: what it happened in Houston? Yeah, it happened in La
Speaker 5: Tyler obviously safe.
Speaker 3: Wait wasn't wasn't Scott Brooks the coach in Washington that year?
Speaker 3: Or was that after?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Might have been. I feel like he did play for me.
Speaker 5: All I'm saying is it's not to say one's connected
Speaker 5: to the other, but it might be ominous when you
Speaker 5: do sign him of.
Speaker 2: Something that might be happening on the team.
Speaker 5: But either way, that brings us to the fact that
Speaker 5: now Mike Malone and the GM Calvin Booth are both
Speaker 5: out in Denver.
Speaker 2: Just there's games to play.
Speaker 3: Still, I don't understand this, and it please jump in here.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the timing of it.
Speaker 5: What what is like, I'm this is the biggest question
Speaker 5: mark have you must win games coming up? And you're
Speaker 5: like not blogging. Lets you see where this thing goes. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm just like I'm not. Obviously I'm the last person
Speaker 5: to be a Mike Malone defender, but I am very
Speaker 5: I'm this is where I am ignorant, and I do
Speaker 5: not understand what the cronkeys are thinking, unless it relates
Speaker 5: to Arsenal Football Club, in which case they're doing fine.
Speaker 2: But what, Warren, what what?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 7: Nobody has any clue at this stage, and anybody who
Speaker 7: would tell you that they do would be lying. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, you would have to talk to the Nuggets
Speaker 7: ownership specifically to get real insight into what's happening here.
Speaker 7: I just want to say, for me, this is going
Speaker 7: down as one of the more bizarre seasons of mav
Speaker 7: of my generation, like by by far and away. And
Speaker 7: I'm not one for I perblee and you know, over exaggerations,
Speaker 7: but there's just been some weird issue that has happened,
Speaker 7: especially the second half of the season, since the turn
Speaker 7: of the year of twenty twenty five. And to do
Speaker 7: this with a team that is basically a year or
Speaker 7: a year and change removed from an NBA championship is
Speaker 7: just effing bananas. And if you're the Nuggets fan base,
Speaker 7: you're just the here scratch in your head. Yeah he
Speaker 7: graded on people, and yeah he yelled.
Speaker 2: And so forth and so forth.
Speaker 7: But as you're alluding to three games before you get
Speaker 7: into what is supposed to be another playoff run with
Speaker 7: the best player in basketball with your kitch on your roster, like,
Speaker 7: I don't know, brothers.
Speaker 5: I don't know, because one version here is like, well,
Speaker 5: you know, Booth and Malone they didn't get along. They
Speaker 5: were they were talking trash behind each other's backs constantly,
Speaker 5: and there's a lot of conflict. Other people were like,
Speaker 5: well he he's both strategy around drafting was was was
Speaker 5: not really uh it didn't really reconcile that with Malone
Speaker 5: wanting to have veterans around and things like that. But like,
Speaker 5: there were just so many errors, like they let players
Speaker 5: go that they didn't replace, you're putting people on like
Speaker 5: max style contracts for that. It just there was just,
Speaker 5: I don't know, a lot of mistakes and it's hard
Speaker 5: to even say, like, yeah, you got to do that.
Speaker 5: Although the fans seemed to be calling for blood by
Speaker 5: the time of that Pacers loss, Yeah, they were like
Speaker 5: some's gotta have some something needs to change the.
Speaker 3: Way you just laid that out and you know, and
Speaker 3: bear with me here, this was a lost reference. It
Speaker 3: reminds me of that episode of It reminds me of
Speaker 3: that episode of Asourage, that episode of Ontage where the
Speaker 3: Sklar brothers ended up having to get fired because they
Speaker 3: simply can't, you know, they can't coexist, Like that's it
Speaker 3: for whatever. You know, that's just crazy to me. Like
Speaker 3: if it happened at the end of the year, open
Speaker 3: find like that's you know, that's fine, But like to
Speaker 3: go into the postseason and say, nah, we're fine, stay
Speaker 3: at the house.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but but I mean, I think to you,
Speaker 7: to both your points, it's it's usually one or the
Speaker 7: other ownership governorship. Sorry, they usually pick a side, right
Speaker 7: like you know, like both of the y'audit. That sends
Speaker 7: the organization to even further chaos and dissension, especially if
Speaker 7: you're players in that locker room. I cannot wait, like
Speaker 7: I happened, I said, just getting home. Haven't dove into it.
Speaker 7: I don't know what the players are going to say
Speaker 7: and what their real thoughts are. You know, k is
Speaker 7: not He's gonna not give you much. But there will
Speaker 7: be some guys who might be a little bit more
Speaker 7: of a boast, and some of the younger guys are
Speaker 7: gonna be like, Yo, what the hell just happened here?
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 5: I'm it's I'm just scratching my head because I mean,
Speaker 5: Yokic is a malone guy, right like he likes Yeah,
Speaker 5: it seemed like that was fine, but then when you also,
Speaker 5: I felt like for the last few months, we kept
Speaker 5: we kept seeing this thing being hammered in the media
Speaker 5: over and over again, like, yo, he has nobody around
Speaker 5: that's at his level at all, Like, and this feels
Speaker 5: bad that this guy is putting in performances like this
Speaker 5: without any kind of tangible result in terms of a
Speaker 5: winning record or you know, adding wins to the record.
Speaker 5: And then you're like, so, what is it is? Is
Speaker 5: a Yokic's frustration because I feel like after that that
Speaker 5: Blakers loss that I truly believe set off this whole
Speaker 5: down for Spiral, because what's their record against is then
Speaker 5: ten and twelve?
Speaker 2: Since that, great.
Speaker 5: Though they beat us again, but like seeing his Jokic's
Speaker 5: words after that, he's like, we just gotta want it more.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Again, we were also saying is he over his teammates?
Speaker 5: Is he just being a practical sort of leader and
Speaker 5: just being really honest and holding himself to account.
Speaker 2: Does he want.
Speaker 5: Absolutely new people around him? But that's gonna that's a
Speaker 5: complex that's a complex operation when you have one of
Speaker 5: the best players of all time and you're fumbling that bag.
Speaker 3: The only thing that I can see, and again the
Speaker 3: timing is the only thing that doesn't make sense. But
Speaker 3: the only way I can see it is they look
Speaker 3: at the KI and they say, how much how much
Speaker 3: more great you know, how many more years of greatness
Speaker 3: do we have, whether that's three years or five years
Speaker 3: or whatever the case may be. We're not wasting another
Speaker 3: second of it. So if at the end of the
Speaker 3: at the end of this run they did that again,
Speaker 3: I actually would have understood. But you know what, like
Speaker 3: kind of to Warren's point, this has been an absolutely
Speaker 3: crazy year around the league, and I guess this is,
Speaker 3: you know, this just makes sense.
Speaker 2: So what like what is the move here?
Speaker 5: Like if they say, you know what we need to
Speaker 5: put together, we need to win now, we need to
Speaker 5: win yesterday, what is even the most idealized version of
Speaker 5: what this offseason looks like to get there? And is
Speaker 5: one version just saying Yo, we're letting the league know.
Speaker 5: We just can the GM and the head coach. This
Speaker 5: might be just so you know, we we're open to
Speaker 5: some people coming to play with Nikola Jokic, just so
Speaker 5: you know. I don't like, I'm just trying to help
Speaker 5: me make sense more like, what do you think that
Speaker 5: that could mean?
Speaker 2: Or even again, what is the ideal?
Speaker 7: They'm gonna just take us back briefly, I think, you know,
Speaker 7: to the Memphis situation and right where like ownership must
Speaker 7: be thinking like time is of the essence. We have
Speaker 7: some summons of a runway this year to make a
Speaker 7: change effort. Let's just do it. And I think what's
Speaker 7: and I don't want to get all you know, soft
Speaker 7: and sappy where the case be. But there's a real
Speaker 7: psychological aspect to the players who are impacted by the
Speaker 7: voices in the locker room here that I don't think
Speaker 7: is being considered. So that's where I think that they've
Speaker 7: overshot this. Even if they feel like, well, we need
Speaker 7: to do it now because we have an opportunity right now,
Speaker 7: it's kind of bs if you ask me, And if
Speaker 7: they're going to do something long term, obviously you're not
Speaker 7: trading Joker himself. Then you're looking at the larger contracts
Speaker 7: of Murray, which you probably shouldn't have resigned to a
Speaker 7: max anyway, especially with how you looked after the Olympics,
Speaker 7: but they love you. And then the larger contracts on
Speaker 7: Michael Porter Ji, who has been listed in trade rumors
Speaker 7: previous to this, Guys like Aaron Gordon and Christian Brown,
Speaker 7: Like they're like, that's not going to really get you anything,
Speaker 7: and they know that without doing a deep dive into
Speaker 7: what their draft capital is right now, it's some of
Speaker 7: those larger contracts, but I think other teams they will
Speaker 7: find are going to be hesitant, like, no gonna yeah,
Speaker 7: like Murray, Murray has his splashes, Like let's like a
Speaker 7: call spade a spade, like just like he has he
Speaker 7: has issues. And then and Michael Porter Junior has has
Speaker 7: his issues have subsided in terms of those injuries. But
Speaker 7: you're not gonna be able to get top quality or
Speaker 7: top tier draftis with either one of those guys.
Speaker 2: So you're kind of stuck in limbo.
Speaker 7: And that's where I guess where they feel like, well,
Speaker 7: if you can't do anything, well let's change the leadership
Speaker 7: and maybe that will he us to boost in the
Speaker 7: locker room, to propel us forward.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Miles. I mean, it's wild.
Speaker 5: Hey, they got a good piece of Nickeoly. I'd say
Speaker 5: that that's a piece right there. Hey, And I would say,
Speaker 5: you know, bring him home, come on, come on home,
Speaker 5: Come on home, Nicola, come on home. Look I said
Speaker 5: that about Luca jokingly last year. But look, Warren Stranger.
Speaker 5: Things have happened, have happened. But yeah, it's I'm yeah,
Speaker 5: I I just don't know, like even I get that,
Speaker 5: like the other thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the morale question is huge.
Speaker 5: I don't know what this does to these players or
Speaker 5: they're just like, you know what, I man like, we
Speaker 5: weren't really going to go that deep anyway, and maybe
Speaker 5: people stay healthier. I just it's it's very very hard
Speaker 5: to understand, and I just don't I'm not sure what
Speaker 5: they're I just don't understand the calculus of it, because
Speaker 5: you have Jokic who's dying for support. But this doesn't
Speaker 5: seem the best way to sort of arrive at that destination.
Speaker 3: Where you just landed is kind of where you know.
Speaker 3: I was listening to, you know, like as many analysts
Speaker 3: as I could about I'll be honest with you. It
Speaker 3: came in such a shock. I thought, Okay, it's something
Speaker 3: going on that I don't know. I know that they've
Speaker 3: been struggling on defense, but there has to be more.
Speaker 3: Friend of the Show, Jason temp you, no, no big deal.
Speaker 3: His opinion on it was it indicates that they just
Speaker 3: don't believe like that. It is clear in that locker
Speaker 3: room and around that organization that the belief in their capabilities,
Speaker 3: you know, to win this year is just not there.
Speaker 3: So if that's it, I mean, and if ultimately that's
Speaker 3: the case, I guess you go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's a you know, crazy crazy.
Speaker 2: But is that a punt tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Is that more or less saying like all right, well
Speaker 7: we don't care, so fire the coach now and whatever
Speaker 7: the morale be danged?
Speaker 3: Apparently, So maybe it was okay, and it's a complete speculation,
Speaker 3: But if it's that toxic, maybe it is like, okay,
Speaker 3: you know what, they can figure you know, like the
Speaker 3: assistant or somebody else can figure this out for now
Speaker 3: and we'll reset in the in the off season because
Speaker 3: we're going to have some sort of blow up, like
Speaker 3: for them to make this decision there. It had to
Speaker 3: have been at that point between.
Speaker 5: Yes, they're exactly and they must truly feel they're like, man,
Speaker 5: Mike will there, Mike Belon cannot get a tune out
Speaker 5: of these guys at all, like at all, and maybe
Speaker 5: that is maybe from their perspective, they're like the second
Speaker 5: this guy's out, these guys will start to breathe again,
Speaker 5: like because they look, I mean the way he's he's like,
Speaker 5: he's ruthless as a coach, and you feel like some
Speaker 5: of those players are shook.
Speaker 2: Trying to be like all miss ling from the coach man.
Speaker 3: I want to play.
Speaker 7: We we need whatever, we need some sort of insider
Speaker 7: man like get us you know, the locker room guy,
Speaker 7: the equipment manager or somebody somebody else, I mean, somebody, what's.
Speaker 2: The what's what's the matter?
Speaker 5: God named Rocky?
Speaker 3: What are you here around around the time?
Speaker 5: And look, and you don't have to use verbal language
Speaker 5: with me. You can just kind of gesture and like
Speaker 5: do drawings and we could do shad. Yeah, I will
Speaker 5: respect canonically that you do not speak, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, But give.
Speaker 2: Us the tea please love it all. Right, let's take
Speaker 2: a quick break. We'll come back and talk about the Celtics.
Speaker 5: Man that because March March was only one loss, right, Okay,
Speaker 5: see feeling good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so he came in there and wiped us up.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know it was one.
Speaker 5: I can remember him because there were only two the
Speaker 5: last month and nearly a half.
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll be right back and talking the.
Speaker 5: State of the Boston Celtics right after this. And we're back.
Speaker 5: So the Boston Celtics. Vegas still thinks the defending champs
Speaker 5: have these second best odds.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 5: I mean like the cab and Boston are still pretty
Speaker 5: much the runaway teams right there in the East.
Speaker 2: Makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 5: This would be the first franchise back to backs in
Speaker 5: sixty eight sixty nine.
Speaker 3: That records there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that record though, that record. I mean this this
Speaker 5: last was this since.
Speaker 2: What beginning of March?
Speaker 5: Two losses, both without Kristaps Perzingis and Jew Holliday at
Speaker 5: least one again, Yeah, think again. I remember a few
Speaker 5: weeks ago we were talking about how the three point
Speaker 5: shooting is so good that we're about to have three
Speaker 5: players break the franchise record with many games to go.
Speaker 5: Has Tatum also broken it already because Derek White and
Speaker 5: Peyton Pritchriard.
Speaker 3: Three away from also breaking it, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Okay, so he needs three more three pointers and then
Speaker 5: he too will out break.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: So the previous very very very very big season, Warren,
Speaker 5: you're looking at this, this is good momentum. Things are
Speaker 5: They're just they're locking in at the right time as
Speaker 5: you get to the business end of things.
Speaker 2: Feeling good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, that's that's the best way to say them.
Speaker 7: I think, really and truly, this team has looked mediocre
Speaker 7: at times. You know, December and specifically was was rough
Speaker 7: in parts of January. But you know, Perzingis took some
Speaker 7: time to get himself back into proverbial shape. They have,
Speaker 7: you know, quietly you know, rested him kind of throughout
Speaker 7: where he probably could have played. Then he had this
Speaker 7: really strange illness. You know in February he was out
Speaker 7: a bunch of games from there too. But when he's
Speaker 7: out there and holidays out there and why days out there,
Speaker 7: and all those guys, well Drew and Perzingis have missed
Speaker 7: the most amount the time. Uh, this team has looked
Speaker 7: like like the defending champions. So where you know, I
Speaker 7: think all all team fan bases get a little worried,
Speaker 7: a little concern, and you know, you want always them
Speaker 7: to optimize. But people who really understood that, I listen, this
Speaker 7: team is kind of coasting. They don't need to win
Speaker 7: sixty six games or whatever it was, like, they don't
Speaker 7: They just don't need that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: While the Cavs came out here like you know, Gangbusters Boston,
Speaker 7: it's been kindly just like getting getting their stuff together.
Speaker 7: And now to be at this point of the season
Speaker 7: where we are where they actually still.
Speaker 2: Technically tie Cleveland. Cleveland still has not somehow clinched the East.
Speaker 7: Yet completely with the number one seed, shows you just
Speaker 7: the depth that Boston has had, especially when they've been
Speaker 7: at the height of their powers. So I credit Joe
Speaker 7: Miszula for just kind of keeping things like, hey, just
Speaker 7: riding the ship as necessary.
Speaker 2: Has it been a great year for.
Speaker 7: Sam Houser and some other other other guys, But this
Speaker 7: Boston team is rolling and they look like the Juggernauts
Speaker 7: that they were last year, Like.
Speaker 3: Do you feel better about them having seen what you
Speaker 3: saw last year? Even though you know that the competition maybe,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe stiffer in this room.
Speaker 7: There's there's a little bit more confidence, right like anything else,
Speaker 7: Like you have to see it one time, you know,
Speaker 7: And this is a team that hadn't gotten over the hump,
Speaker 7: had kind of blown a lot of games and just
Speaker 7: kind of like them, they let things slip through their fingers.
Speaker 7: Now they have the opportunity to understand. So even with
Speaker 7: a stiffer competition in the Eastern Conference with Cleveland and
Speaker 7: New York to a lesser degree as well too, it's like,
Speaker 7: all right, there's a certain level of trust you have
Speaker 7: in this team as long as they can stay healthy.
Speaker 7: I will say that the shining difference here is I
Speaker 7: don't think they can lose Porzingis for an extended period
Speaker 7: like they did last year and have the same results.
Speaker 7: He is really the key to the ultimate level of
Speaker 7: success for Boston. So while they're able to, you know,
Speaker 7: get past Miami and then get past was Atlanta or
Speaker 7: whoever it was, I don't even remember what happened last
Speaker 7: year or whatever, Like you know, it's just like might work.
Speaker 7: Sorry not Atlanta, Cleveland and then ultimately Indiana. That's again
Speaker 7: they will need porzingis a healthy porzingis a healthy Drew
Speaker 7: Holiday in essence, to be the best versions of themselves,
Speaker 7: otherwise the East could be a lot more challenging than
Speaker 7: they saw last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it also feels like, just like you're
Speaker 5: saying that that sort of wobbly run at the end
Speaker 5: of the year, beginning of the year, if that was
Speaker 5: even somewhat normal, like I feel like you guys would have.
Speaker 2: Been even your record would be very close, if not
Speaker 2: better than last season too.
Speaker 5: Like that just and again puts it on into perspective,
Speaker 5: like how still I still feel like there's not much
Speaker 5: has been lost there.
Speaker 2: If anything more is gained because you have KP playing.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm interested from you all standpoint though, right
Speaker 7: because I obviously follow the team fairly close to you,
Speaker 7: and there's there's some people say this is a very
Speaker 7: deep team.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't think they're that deep, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 3: I look its like, well, yeah, I think what people
Speaker 3: mean by that specifically is they have so many different
Speaker 3: guys that can you like, look, there's three point shooting team,
Speaker 3: and they have so many different guys that can you know,
Speaker 3: that could knock that down. So like when you're a
Speaker 3: team like like say the Lakers prior to the last
Speaker 3: couple of years, last year, right, Uh, if you had
Speaker 3: one guy, you were happy about it. Or if he
Speaker 3: had two, yeah, you're feeling real good about it. The
Speaker 3: Celtics can put out an entire lineup of guys that
Speaker 3: can knock it down, so like that that is crazy,
Speaker 3: but in terms but that is an excellent point in
Speaker 3: terms of their ultimate depth. Uh, you know, and and
Speaker 3: of course you're not wishing anything negative upon you know,
Speaker 3: any team at this point, at this point in the
Speaker 3: game especially, but like, yeah, if someone were to go down,
Speaker 3: I would be a little bit worried. I would be
Speaker 3: much more worried for you. So I think that was
Speaker 3: an extullent.
Speaker 7: Jelly Brown only want some nagging knee thing right now
Speaker 7: as well too, So he's got to kind of keep
Speaker 7: an eye on that.
Speaker 3: He's a trooper.
Speaker 7: He's gonna continue to play through things because that's just
Speaker 7: who he is, and he understands the gravity of what
Speaker 7: they are altimately trying to do. But for me, I've
Speaker 7: always been like, well, I wish they would have just
Speaker 7: did a little something else to kind of shure up
Speaker 7: the wing, you know, kind of just just in case,
Speaker 7: and it doesn't need to be like this. You know,
Speaker 7: twenty five point per game guy, because that doesn't exist
Speaker 7: coming off your bench. But just somebody who could give
Speaker 7: you a little bit more wiggle, you know, off that.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's gonna be Tory Craig or even
Speaker 7: a guy like Baylor Shireman, you know, I mean that's
Speaker 7: going deep dive for some folks here.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I don't know if Shireman will even
Speaker 2: make the playoff roster.
Speaker 7: But but I just wish they would have had something
Speaker 7: else there. But because they have so much interchangeability, we
Speaker 7: know through their lineup where Holiday can play up and
Speaker 7: White can even play up if need be, like you know,
Speaker 7: up to the three position, that's where they feel like,
Speaker 7: all right, maybe we don't need all that depth, but
Speaker 7: I just wish they would have had something else.
Speaker 2: But this team is is obviously very very strong.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, to that point. Wasn't Monnie Walker on the
Speaker 3: roster earlier this year? And I'm not calling him a
Speaker 3: savior of any kind, but look, I personally watched him
Speaker 3: have a very solid postseason performance, even if it was
Speaker 3: a singular one. I've watched that happen. So like, you know,
Speaker 3: how come they didn't, you know, why do you think
Speaker 3: they weren't interested in him.
Speaker 7: It was just the numbers game, you know, because Tatum
Speaker 7: and Brown played they also play heavy minutes. So but
Speaker 7: I would like you, I was surprised that, you know,
Speaker 7: they let Lonnie go. He goes overseas, comes back science
Speaker 7: with Philadelphia, you know, and he's doing all right over
Speaker 7: there in Philly, and I think he's like, he's like
Speaker 7: kind of like the perfect guy, you know, for that
Speaker 7: for that last roster spot. You know, they're they're they're
Speaker 7: trying to develop a guy like Tim when they're trying
Speaker 7: to develop Drew Peterson as well too, you know, from
Speaker 7: the main team as well. And sure, sure, right, there's
Speaker 7: nothing like a proven veteran, if you will. And again,
Speaker 7: I think we all kind of like Lonnie Walker, but
Speaker 7: there's some people who like the idea of Lonnie Walker
Speaker 7: and then what like she really is, you know at times,
Speaker 7: and I think I'm in the probably like the idea
Speaker 7: better than maybe what he really provides. But I think
Speaker 7: from a depth standpoint, it could have been a solid
Speaker 7: move to kind of keep somebody like that on this roster,
Speaker 7: especially behind Tatum and Brown.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 5: We had a good run with Lonnie didn't we to
Speaker 5: worry at that one when he was Monnie Walker the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter, the fourth quarter exactly, good times, good time.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad you do that. Cheer four an organization
Speaker 3: where we would really have to hold onto that. But yes,
Speaker 3: that was a fun one.
Speaker 5: He also has the most consistent smile in a roster feed,
Speaker 5: to the point that I'm wondering if they are just
Speaker 5: photoshopping different jerseys on Yeah, like photo this one between
Speaker 5: these two from the Celtics to the Sixers.
Speaker 2: I'm like, the same.
Speaker 8: Photo, the same photo. Shout out to photos out the
Speaker 8: jersey on them, right, Okay. I was like, if this
Speaker 8: man is able to hit the angle so accurately with
Speaker 8: the same expression, sign him up for modelings. I don't
Speaker 8: know what it is, but sign him up. Okay, just
Speaker 8: looking at this this postseason run, is there any kind
Speaker 8: of nightmare scenario for y'all? Is there someone you are
Speaker 8: shooketh by or someone you're like rather not? Obviously you
Speaker 8: have all the confidence in the world defending champions, but
Speaker 8: is there What's what's the nightmare scenario and what's the
Speaker 8: ideal scenario?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: Well, listen, the Celtics have kind of exercised some demons
Speaker 7: against this Orlando team.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't love it. No, listen, I'm not afraid.
Speaker 2: I just don't love.
Speaker 7: It because we've we've had we've had some trouble with
Speaker 7: you know, their size.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: Then you got guys get Isaac and Ben Carrow and
Speaker 7: Wad like said, they're just all very very rangy. You're
Speaker 7: kind of across and the Celtics have struggled with those
Speaker 7: types of things. So it could be a harder first
Speaker 7: series potentially, h then they would potentially want to be
Speaker 7: dealing with. But the rest of the acism really figured
Speaker 7: out in any way capacity as well too. Atlanta beat
Speaker 7: Boston twice this year as well. So I mean, like
Speaker 7: those first round matches again, not scared, you're just like
Speaker 7: a I mean, but.
Speaker 5: There's no getting around it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And the last thing I'll say about it, like
Speaker 7: it comes from the first round because they're really no
Speaker 7: great options, Uh, get another series with Miami. There's just
Speaker 7: the lore of Miami that annoys Boston people to no end.
Speaker 7: So those three potential matchups in the first round, I
Speaker 7: was like, again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well should beat them? Should not?
Speaker 7: You know, not be much of a series, but it
Speaker 7: could be like a hard five games, do you know
Speaker 7: what I mean as approached to like, hey, we just
Speaker 7: you know, running through them one way the then you
Speaker 7: look at the rest of the East. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: they've handled the Knicks very very well, so not really
Speaker 7: concerned about what the Knicks bring to the table there.
Speaker 7: But Indiana also gives Boston a lot of our problems.
Speaker 7: Beat us twice again well two, they just run and
Speaker 7: race up and down the floor. So to me, it's
Speaker 7: like if you end up in some semblance of that,
Speaker 7: Indiana cannot climb up, you know, to get into that
Speaker 7: second round, so you wouldn't see them until a conference
Speaker 7: finals potentially. But ultimately I think, you know, if you
Speaker 7: have to knick somehow, you know, don't do well in
Speaker 7: their first round. Again, I think even what what Detroit
Speaker 7: Detroit brings to a lesser degree make the series harder,
Speaker 7: not again, I want to reiterate, not something that's going
Speaker 7: to threat, but just makes it harder. But you feel
Speaker 7: like against the Detroit team if they are somehow to
Speaker 7: upset the Knicks, Detroit is just like so inexperienced. But ultimately,
Speaker 7: for me, you know, the biggest nightmares one of those
Speaker 7: first round teams with all the history that Boston has
Speaker 7: with all three of them in terms of Orlando, Atlanta, Miami,
Speaker 7: all three of those could be it could be problematic
Speaker 7: in the first round.
Speaker 3: Heard it here, first focus. What that means. What that
Speaker 3: means is if you were an anti Boston guy, if
Speaker 3: you're the local on the show, you know, shout out
Speaker 3: to you, Jack, and you want to see the Celtis
Speaker 3: go down. It's probably not going to happen, like in
Speaker 3: a shocking sense, but it's got to be death by
Speaker 3: a thousand cuts. So yeah, stiff, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: stiff competition throughout getting every round, get to get to
Speaker 3: the finals, and the Lakers go ahead and take y'all out.
Speaker 5: I understand. There you go, and we tied it up.
Speaker 5: We tie it up. Oh no, no, we're still we
Speaker 5: got we got.
Speaker 3: Work to do it. No, no, no, we would be tired
Speaker 3: at that point.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, because it's seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: Has been brought to you, buddy.
Speaker 5: And then we signed Nicolie Okis in the offseason. Baby,
Speaker 5: you couldn't write a better script for me to go
Speaker 5: to Fantasy town. Man, all Right, let's move on, because Warren,
Speaker 5: we do respect your acumen and looking at basketball teams,
Speaker 5: looking at the horizon, looking at.
Speaker 2: The teams out there.
Speaker 5: We've been doing a segment the last couple of weeks
Speaker 5: contender verse pretender and in some cases chicken tender if
Speaker 5: you feel that contender or pretender doesn't fit. And maybe
Speaker 5: this is more better described as a crispy, delicious, umptuous
Speaker 5: piece of chicken meat. Uh And there's no right there.
Speaker 5: The chicken tender is a noble piece of food, no disrespect.
Speaker 5: But it rhymes also, and that's why we did it.
Speaker 5: So contender vers pretender, We've had the following the Calves contenders, Clippers,
Speaker 5: chicken tenders, Pacers, Dino Nuggies.
Speaker 2: Nuggets, burnt.
Speaker 5: Okay, Wolves pretenders, doves contenders but with a side.
Speaker 2: Of your favorite dipping sauce.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for that, Jabari. But let's take
Speaker 5: a look now at some obvious ones and some hopeful
Speaker 5: just to get your assessment here, Warrenshaw, Boston and.
Speaker 9: Tender Yeah okay, okay, just wanted to make sure just
Speaker 9: listen and keep it a butt Yeah okay, contender, what
Speaker 9: about the no sorry, the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Pretender I'm not going, I ain't going, ain't going nugget them.
Speaker 7: But but okay, they're they're yeah, they're they're not ready.
Speaker 3: Fifteen to two over the last seventeen doesn't count.
Speaker 7: They need more season than my guy, Like, they need
Speaker 7: to get get those get those playoffs bruises as you
Speaker 7: all were talking about, Like I just I got to
Speaker 7: see it to believe.
Speaker 2: But again, they're gonna be hard out Yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they had Look that's that's they had
Speaker 5: a pretty easy run. Well I don't know, no disrespect,
Speaker 5: but that wasn't the most difficult running games, was it?
Speaker 7: The Warriors begrudgingly oh oh nah nah, I'm standing on
Speaker 7: business pretender.
Speaker 3: I don't believe this, oh.
Speaker 2: Warren, I don't. I don't think.
Speaker 7: I think yeah, I think there's a there's a lot
Speaker 7: of juice that Jimmy has obviously brought to this, to this,
Speaker 7: to this organization, and I think Draymond is kind of
Speaker 7: like willing it into existence since the All Star Game
Speaker 7: that we're gonna contend for an NBA championship or whatever.
Speaker 7: But I think, similarly to what we said in the
Speaker 7: kind of the outset is that they're going to end
Speaker 7: up in a first or second round matchup that is
Speaker 7: maybe a little bit above their their punching class.
Speaker 2: And I even if again.
Speaker 7: They get through, they probably get battered and bruised to
Speaker 7: ultimately not get to the to the promised Land.
Speaker 2: I just can't see it with this roster.
Speaker 3: Miles, stop you if you heard this. The Doves are
Speaker 3: as great as Steph is on a given night, and
Speaker 3: that's not shade several recent games he's been dominated, you know,
Speaker 3: fifty two to the other night, thirty seven, thirty six,
Speaker 3: they look incredible. Then he has a stinker against the
Speaker 3: against the Rockets, he shoots one for ten, doesn't ever
Speaker 3: really get you know, make an impact on the game.
Speaker 3: And you know, we see what takes place. Now that's
Speaker 3: to say the hell out of him. They did.
Speaker 2: They blitz like he it was rap city. He had
Speaker 2: no space.
Speaker 7: And yes, that's a young, plucky Rockets team that has
Speaker 7: the horses in essence to do that. But again, as
Speaker 7: you alluded to, if he ain't cooking, then it it's
Speaker 7: rap city.
Speaker 3: For that team.
Speaker 2: It's rap city because his shooting was in the basement.
Speaker 10: Okay, you know, just some light turn of the century.
Speaker 10: I see you like turn of the Century BT references Okay,
Speaker 10: we're gonna have hits from the street on the next.
Speaker 3: Episode, Cameron count his money while he's flowing for you.
Speaker 5: Hits come on this show, baby, we need And finally
Speaker 5: Warren the Lakers just to get your take their temperature
Speaker 5: real quick.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Oh man, I will I will, I will not.
Speaker 2: I will not cave in the way that I would
Speaker 2: order now I want to. I will give you guys
Speaker 2: the nod of contenders here.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, beyond all hell.
Speaker 2: But I think when people y'all got Luca and it
Speaker 2: was it's.
Speaker 7: Gonna take some time, they don't have it, and then
Speaker 7: Mark Williams thing, you know, back the way, so forth
Speaker 7: and so forth, I just think it was overlooking and
Speaker 7: maybe just flat out hate and understanding. These are generational
Speaker 7: geniuses playing together. And yes, the defense can be suspect
Speaker 7: at times. But I think there's there's this aspects of
Speaker 7: situational defense. I talk about a lot of time, like, hey,
Speaker 7: if you can start to clamp up, you know, you
Speaker 7: keep the game close, and you clamp up the last
Speaker 7: six minutes of the fourth quarter or whatever it is,
Speaker 7: you can see a lot of things, especially with Luke
Speaker 7: and Lebron, you know, on your roster, and they make
Speaker 7: jack guys like Jackson Hayes, who you know probably should
Speaker 7: be a journeyman for all intensive purposes.
Speaker 2: You make him look like a viable NBA player, are
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 7: So they said, y'all make me a little bit nervous,
Speaker 7: but you know, I'll get y'all contender route.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 5: Look, that's why, Warren you are our most respected Boston fan.
Speaker 3: You know exactly. That love.
Speaker 2: That's love. That's love.
Speaker 3: I mean, we we only respect one and it's you.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's a small club.
Speaker 3: A jacket.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, shout out Josh Gondleman. Shout out
Speaker 5: Alicia to.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, you know from Boston. Yeah yeah, we
Speaker 2: we have a couple of people, you know. But that's it.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's small club.
Speaker 2: All right, cool, all right.
Speaker 5: Let's take another quick break and we come back. Warren
Speaker 5: Shaw sign for.
Speaker 6: The fourth quarter rapid fire round of questioning right after this,
Speaker 6: and we're back.
Speaker 2: Warren Shaw. You are a respected fan of the Celtics.
Speaker 5: We respect you as a person, as an analyst, but
Speaker 5: now it's time to enter the zone of disrespect. It's
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter round of rapid fire questioning. We're gonna
Speaker 5: ask you a question. Just act quick, don't think, keep it,
Speaker 5: move it. If you hold the segment up, we will
Speaker 5: be rude. And I tried to rap like one of
Speaker 5: those SoundCloud kids that's not really rapping but real talking.
Speaker 5: But we've been away with it. I'm you know, I
Speaker 5: hate to be an older head. We were just talking
Speaker 5: about rap City of the Basement hits from the street.
Speaker 5: But these kids ain't rapid.
Speaker 3: No, I think everybody.
Speaker 5: No, I don't want to I want to speed I do.
Speaker 3: I'm like what okay?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Now you did sound like somebody that I was in too.
Speaker 3: I mean that's like a lot.
Speaker 2: That's a lot.
Speaker 5: Anyway, this is called the Old Head Basketball Wrap Podcast,
Speaker 5: but it's not for the fourth rd question Naing Warrenshaw,
Speaker 5: you know the deal.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Are you ready? It's her Brian, start
Speaker 2: the clock started. This is gonna go quick.
Speaker 5: You want to go first?
Speaker 3: Should I go first? I don't know how you feel
Speaker 3: about it, Warren? Which one of us should go first? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What are you sorry? Okay? Okay, that was quick. That
Speaker 3: was quick.
Speaker 2: And not take that as disrespect.
Speaker 3: I will I will. You know they don't.
Speaker 5: Okay, I see it's on now.
Speaker 3: It's not most or more dominant player Tatum in Bird's
Speaker 3: era or Bird today.
Speaker 2: Bird today, and why that's the answer mentality.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, bird Bird at meantime in the league.
Speaker 5: Give me that, and I know, I just you want
Speaker 5: to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta see that.
Speaker 5: You gotta see it.
Speaker 3: This is guy from some and they used to cry
Speaker 3: actual tears. Same about about Larry Bird.
Speaker 2: Same you're saying, saying actual.
Speaker 3: Tears about how much I but yes, give.
Speaker 2: Me, but you gotta see it, you gotta see And
Speaker 2: an all time trash poker, I mean, come.
Speaker 5: On yeah, yeah yeah, And Warren, I'm about to talk
Speaker 5: to some trash too, because we need to keep this
Speaker 5: thing moving.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: Thanks you for trying to sneak that last comment in
Speaker 5: I'm keeping this going, Warren.
Speaker 2: You can pick any former Celtic yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: You can pick any former Celtics legend to make a
Speaker 5: run with this current squad, except for the aforementioned Larry
Speaker 5: Bird because we already that.
Speaker 2: That's I want to see that too.
Speaker 3: Anybody else KG Yeah, yeah, I mean it's when you.
Speaker 5: Have teams that are that in sact though, but yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, it was like it's only a few teams
Speaker 5: where you like any player and then you just say
Speaker 5: one of their greats and like, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get that one of the best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good I would love to see, man,
Speaker 5: I would love to see KG playing with these dudes
Speaker 5: because it's I I love his commentary about it, Like
Speaker 5: these guys right now. I would love to see that
Speaker 5: energy on the court miked up zoomed in documentary Now, thank.
Speaker 3: You ag hyping up porzingis Oh yeah, taking his chest,
Speaker 3: Oh my heart, that's what your boy would be saying.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh man, all.
Speaker 3: Right, keep it going, keep it going. Seize trivia here
Speaker 3: for you. Who do you think they're all time franchise
Speaker 3: leader in triple double suits triple Holy hell eh Anton
Speaker 3: Walker he's number six on the list with thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's see, I mean you can get Yeah, he's with thirteen.
Speaker 2: He's sick Rondo he is four with twenty two. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, triple doubles.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's all the people you think, number one fifty
Speaker 3: nine of them things.
Speaker 7: Wow, number guy G seven and a half. Is this
Speaker 7: at some point eight and since yeah, yeah. Yeah, so
Speaker 7: that's I guess that's probably more obvious than than I'm
Speaker 7: giving it credit for.
Speaker 3: Number two is someone I have disrespected in your presence
Speaker 3: on several occasions. Pires, No, that's that's just he's.
Speaker 2: Number seven all of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got me.
Speaker 5: I don't know old school go old school old Yeah,
Speaker 5: one hand, one hand on them one hand.
Speaker 2: Who are you talking.
Speaker 3: About, Bob Coosey.
Speaker 2: I didn't know if they were keeping the record back then. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thirty three.
Speaker 3: Cleaning it up, John having a third, thirty one, Yodge
Speaker 3: and Rondo twenty two. Bill Russell was seventeen.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's what sorry, ye learned something today?
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for this bonus. Best guess how many
Speaker 5: times has Larry Bird scored forty or more points?
Speaker 2: Forty two?
Speaker 3: Whoa close? Damn close?
Speaker 5: That was very close the answer forty seven?
Speaker 2: Man Warren, Okay, okay, I wasn't familiar with your game,
Speaker 2: young man.
Speaker 3: Respect you.
Speaker 5: I respect that, I respect that, I respect that. I
Speaker 5: knew you were all right when you were making Rap
Speaker 5: City references.
Speaker 3: Sir, I knew you were good people. What about some
Speaker 3: bonus bonus? Can you?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Are vetus be exactly the bonuses of the Booms. Give
Speaker 3: us how many Tatum.
Speaker 2: Has forty point games?
Speaker 3: Yep. And is it higher or lower?
Speaker 2: I think it's slightly lower.
Speaker 3: It is lower.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Still close twenty nine?
Speaker 2: No, dang, he's not.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was surprised by that, to be honest with Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I scaring like high thirties too.
Speaker 3: Yes, they feel like yeah, yeah, they feel like And
Speaker 3: he's sitting in the fourth quarters of a lot of
Speaker 3: these games over the last couple of years at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's they're feeling like forties.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 7: If you go by this per thirty six, maybe we
Speaker 7: get better exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: Well, Warren Shaw, thank you for joining us. But before
Speaker 5: you go, oh, you have to help us pick the
Speaker 5: game of the week.
Speaker 2: That's the game we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Watch, all the listeners gonna watch, so we can talk
Speaker 5: about it briefly up top of the next show.
Speaker 2: Our options are. Here's what we have on the menu.
Speaker 5: On Thursday, we have the Calves at Pacers on TNT,
Speaker 5: Friday Houston at Lakers on NBA TV, and Sunday Clippers
Speaker 5: at Warriors.
Speaker 2: Are your local or league pass.
Speaker 7: The most important game will probably be Clippers Warriors Sunday,
Speaker 7: honestly just by virtue of where they're all like, they're
Speaker 7: like some sort of crazy five way times I know.
Speaker 2: Right, is it like four through eight?
Speaker 5: So like it could potentially have some kind of weird
Speaker 5: tiebreaker if they had identical records or something.
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 7: I think the Clippers can control their destiny to like
Speaker 7: maintain in that in that five position or get as
Speaker 7: high as four, I think potentially. So yeah, Clippers Warriors
Speaker 7: by far and away of those three and Calves and Pacers.
Speaker 5: No, no, thanks, I'm good, fantastic well, Warrenshaw again, thank
Speaker 5: you so much for joining us on miles and jabarga
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Speaker 2: Get it together?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 7: This is?
Speaker 3: I need to well because I changed it a couple
Speaker 3: of times but didn't win because the league tweets it out.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I need to actually change that back.
Speaker 3: So I think it's Boria Davis and in on Blue
Speaker 3: Sky it's j Bori Davis NBA. For old school sake.
Speaker 5: I will say, I will confirm now you are jabbari
Speaker 5: A Davis over there on Twita and look, you can
Speaker 5: follow the hashtag bad Boosty's BA sd I e s.
Speaker 5: That's your fin show leagues updates, and that's how you
Speaker 5: join the conversation on the discord.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: All of that is very much available if you just search.
Speaker 2: The hashtag mad boosties.
Speaker 5: That is going to do it for us this week.
Speaker 5: We'll be back next week. Oh you get just one
Speaker 5: step closer, baby, the postseason, the business, and maybe all
Speaker 5: my dreams will be fulfilled or I will be a
Speaker 5: crumbling mess of pathetic emotion because I had deluded myself
Speaker 5: into believing that the Lakers were somehow infallible.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned to see.
Speaker 3: Which option we get.
Speaker 2: It will be thrilling. We'll talk to you that Bye
Speaker 2: bye bye