WEBVTT - Blue Checkmarks Of Boston Are Waking Up 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:05.040 Come Home, Come Home. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:19.440 On this episode of the Heat Check dysfunction function, what's 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:20.360 your function? 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.160 I mean, I feel like we do this every six months. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.960 Maybe Boston Celtics, it's time for another deep dive. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.320 You're still We talked about. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.400 It on Monday briefly, but oh boy, more stuff has 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.400 come out and another embarrassing loss on their record to 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.640 the Minnesota Go Gos. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.600 So I mean, like that's where we're at. So, yes, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.920 Boston fans, if you thought that a new coach and 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.360 a new front office was. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.919 Going to fix things, I mean no, like you're sadly mistaken. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.000 We also check in with our favorite franchise are how 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.200 would I put it, our friend in need, the Sacramento Kings, 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.440 Like we just want to wellness check them every now 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.920 and again, and like you always know, oh they're not 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.440 doing great. So just another check in on the Sacramento 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.000 Kings with Alvin Gentry, who is now at You're thirty 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.920 five in the league giving zero fox. They are spiraling 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:14.520 into a complete breakdown. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.440 Fun stuff. Brockdu is a favor in drop that month. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:32.000 Come on, it's happening, It's happening. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:33.280 It's finally happening. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.440 I've been waiting for this moment for a while, because 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.920 I feel like it's just been me and maybe a 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.000 couple of others silently, well not so silently, but in 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:49.240 a room alone, screaming out into the void. Something's wrong, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.040 something's wrong, something's wrong. This team's not right, this team's 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.320 not right. That's not gonna fix it. Nope, that doesn't 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.280 make sense. And everybody just hates me for it. They've 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:04.160 been shit talking me. But now Boston fans, NBA fans, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.760 and most importantly those with credibility blue check mark brigade, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.240 they have seen the lights. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.560 So good. Congratulations, You're a year late, but you're here. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.440 So we're here. We're all here now, we're on the 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:18.040 same page. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.400 I hope this Celtics team, the Celtics team has issues. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.919 It does. We talked on it Monday, briefly. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.640 We've talked on it last year multiple times when I 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.680 had lots of things to say that people didn't like, 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.600 breaking down the Christmas game on Monday, you know, you 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.600 know the game where they had a thirteen point lead 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.760 five minutes left, they choked on their own meat, you know, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.840 like that one they lost by four, that one just 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.400 like clockwork, and so It's not just the coach. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.400 It's not just the GM that's not working. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:55.239 It's not just the delusional fans that have these astronomically 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.520 high expectations that a team could never fulfill year after 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.320 year after year. Hell, when they had a dynasty, they 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.440 could only win one ring? 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:05.520 How many? 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:10.640 I mean, I Kevin Garnett, Ray, Jean Rondo, Ray, Allen 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.920 Paul Pierce and still could only squeak out one measly 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:21.000 ring out of those four insanely talented stars. What do 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.640 you think this little ramshackle team's gonna do? Absolutely nothing? 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:29.640 It's everything though, it's everything mostly though, truthfully though, it's 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:34.679 the roster. It's not just Dennis Schreuder it is it is. Yeah, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.880 and I know we'd blame Dennis Shruter, but he's actually 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:37.880 the only bright. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:42.760 Spot on this team. It's the Jays. Let's be real. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.480 I hate to say it, and I don't think anybody 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.160 likes this cold truth like it. I don't want to 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.600 say it. I like them, I do. I like Jalen Brown, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:58.960 I like Jason Tatum. But sh don't tell anyone it's 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.520 not working. It's not gonna it's never gonna work. No 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.040 amount of players excoriating them publicly is going to make 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.040 it work. No amount of coddling these two team two players, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.440 telling them how good they could be together if they 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.960 just played like brothers is going to fix it. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.559 Share your food, guys, like, let Jalen have the ball. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.720 This happened last year, like Kemba Walker went on record 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.479 and was like, hey, guys don't have chemistry. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.600 We need to make sure that. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.839 We don't put our egos in front of the team. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.240 Marcus Smart went on record earlier this year about chemistry 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.080 and egos playing with pride. He also said earlier this 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.400 year is Jalen Jason, can you guys share a fucking 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.680 ball with anyone other than y'all? 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:48.760 Like this is stupid? 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.440 He said that, like basically that publicly, he went public 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.920 with his frustration with Jalen Brown Tatum and their inability 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.279 to share the ball, and then add a private meeting, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.480 players meeting, team meeting in which the only thing out, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.880 the only thing that came out of that meeting was 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:12.039 that nobody agreed like that is what That's what the 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.240 reporting says. Jalen Brown came out. Then the next day, 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.760 the very next day after Mark Smart, Who's supposed to 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.279 be the leader, the soul in the heart of this team. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:26.080 He's like, Yo, these two dudes love them, but they 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.880 need to actually get their shit together and like be 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.520 a team like Jalen Brown's like, yeah, that was an 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.560 unfortunate comment. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.160 What an unfortunate comment. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.719 Then all year, Emai Udoka has brought it up time 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:44.920 after time after time. Compete, compete, act like you playing basketball, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.080 Act like you playing football. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:47.920 Compete share. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:54.000 Come on, boys, move the ball, putball in hoop, move 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.960 without ball, share ball, pootball in hoop. Stop other team 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.240 from putting ball into hoop. Pretty fucking simple. And so 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.279 then what did they do in the game against the 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.840 Wolves just the other night, a game where nobody was playing. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.040 For the Wolves that I've ever heard of in my life. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.200 They shot fifty three percent of their shots from behind 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.039 the arc, just chucked the way, no sharing, just coming up, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:25.159 just in and out, crosscross, tween tween shoot Shoot Shoot. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.480 And now one of the all time legends, Al Horford, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.839 all time Boston legends, beloved within Boston, comes back on 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.400 the team, supposed to be the leader, supposed to be 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.320 the emotional piece of support to bring these young guns 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.960 to some semblance of team, and he had scathing, scathing 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.719 comments as well, why do you ask well after missing, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.080 Like I said, their entire starting lineup, the Minnesota Timberwolves 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.800 had no one. They rolled out gregman Rowe from the 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.920 Washington Go Gos. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.760 I'm not even joking, this is actually true, Nathan. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:08.680 Knight from deep into the rotation, Jalen Noel, which literally 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.520 Greg Munroe said, hey, played the great game. Never heard 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.640 this guy in my life, and he's on this team 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.040 a Jake Lahman Portland Trailblazer legend and a bunch of 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.080 plumbers to try to come in some semblance of competition 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.520 against a fully healthy other than Jason Tatum who's in 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.080 COVID protocol for the a million time. Just him was out, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.200 So it's like, just try to compete. Like, I know 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.280 you guys are no one. I know you guys like 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:37.920 are just coming from off the street. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.360 But like this is. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.400 Jalen Jalen meet Greg, Greg meet blah blah blah, Like 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:43.600 this is our plays. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.120 There's two out of balance. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.960 Plays like just Ramshackle crew and they should have been 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.120 like light work for the seas right, like this is 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:58.240 an easy win. And the Minnesota Ignite just pounded the Celtics, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:06.000 wasn't close, just absolutely embarrassed them. Minnesota Ignite just absolutely 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.160 destroyed the Celtics, like absolutely embarrassed him, to the point 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.119 where I believe this is a turning point. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.200 This is the moment where all. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.640 The blue checks and everybody outside the organization, probably inside 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.920 the organizations, like this is not working. Greg Monroe, my man, 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.360 Greg Monroe from the Washington Go Go, who I just 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.960 saw on fourteenth Street with his little girlfriend that had 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.120 the baby fat sweatsuit, just rocking, like literally in a 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.600 volure sweatsuit. Just the other day, Greg Monroe eleven points, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:44.000 nine rebound, six assists. Robert Williams had time Lord supposed 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.440 to be top five, top five center. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:46.680 In the league. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.960 Couldn't compete with a man who hasn't been able to 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.559 sniff an NBA roster, a guy who's largely fallen off 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.679 of a cliff and gotten pushed out of the NBA 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.960 because the league has passed him by. That man put 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.160 buckets on Robert Williams. That man, he looked utterly lost. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.079 Udoka murdered time Lord after the game because he played 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.439 so bad. He was like, this is just ridiculous, Like 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.600 you can't just jump when he jumps like, we're supposed 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.720 to make this guy shoot jump shots, like he doesn't 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.200 know how to do that. He knows how to dunk 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.680 on your head, which is what he did. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:19.760 Can't be going up with him. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.880 Getting five foulsand because of Gregman Rowe, Jalen Noel. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.040 Okay, honestly, I swear to god, his teammates didn't know 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.640 who he was. I've never heard that name before today. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.360 He had twenty nine points, had eleven points in the 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:37.839 fourth quarter to. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.600 Close out probably one of the more shocking upsets in 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.080 all of the NBA this season, and we've seen some doozies. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.960 So to recap what was going on that night, a 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.240 team missing nine roster players and all five of its 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.360 starters beat the Celtics with a center that just signed 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.560 that morning and with two guys who Combin had played 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.679 less than one hundred total minutes that year. The Wolves 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:09.720 had thirty assists, forty made baskets, and outscored Boston fifty 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.600 to twenty six in the paint and nineteen to three 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:20.720 in transition. Romeo Langford was an atrocious minus thirty two 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.840 and thirty six minutes of play. Here's when I remind 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:29.439 you that my man's from Eugene, Oregon. Trader Danny took 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:34.560 Romeo Langford number fourteen in the twenty nineteen draft, ahead 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.680 of Nikaile, Alexander Walker, Mattie Thaibold, Jordan Poole, Kelden Johnson, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.920 Kevin Porter, Junior Taylor, Horton Tucker, and Terrence Mann. Lou 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.720 Dort wasn't even drafted that year, and he is a 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:45.600 million times. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.080 The player that Romeo Langford is. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.120 Danny Inge gift that keeps on giving folks like just 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.679 that's who he is. So anyway, back to al Horper, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.840 which is where we were that we gave you why 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.280 he said what he said, which was scathing. Here's what 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.080 he said. It all comes from all of us. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:02.560 You know. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.800 Coach does what he has to do, but at the 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.880 end of the day, it has to come from each 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.080 individual player. We need to be held accountable and held 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.440 accountable more individually. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.079 We need to look in the mirror. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.240 I don't know why, but for whatever reason, things are 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.960 not translating for our group. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:26.000 We cannot keep playing like this. We just can't, all right. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.280 So here's where I tell you, folks said, Hey, Jaylen Brown, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.319 did you hear what Al Horford I say, and they 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.240 told him, and could you expand on Al Horford's comments, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:37.040 like what do you think? 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.000 He goes searching, looking in the mirror. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:47.160 No comments, and then he goes on and say, we're 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.000 missing a lot of guys, and you can tell first 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.640 of all, pause, no you're not, but keep going, we're 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.679 missing a lot of guys, and you can tell. Chemistry wise, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.320 it was just out of sync. A lot of those 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.199 turnovers come from miscommunications, and a lot of those defensive 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.600 lapses came from miscommunications. That's what It just comes down to. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.920 Chemistry. Excuse me, did jalen? Excuse me? 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:18.679 Lack of chemistry? You have your entire squad and it's 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:19.160 missing one. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.600 Start. These guys, these guys just met, have more chemistry 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.640 than y'all. They've never met before. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:32.079 They don't even know each other's names, they don't follow each. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.359 Other on social media. You think you're lacking chemistry? 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.160 You can't use that is excuse my dog, like my 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.960 g No, you can't do that. These guys never practice together, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:47.280 they've never learned the place, they don't know anything. They 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.600 just demolished you, like like clowned you out there, like 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.120 clowned you to the point where it was like when 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.920 you clown Portland and you drug a pretend dead Dennis Shooter. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.199 That was how they did you. Only it was a 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.360 full NBA roster. It was Greg ban Roe from the 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.720 Washington Go Go. I think it's time. I think it's 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.600 time for the Boston Celtics to say when Jalen Brown 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.920 says chemistry, I think he needs to say. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.600 The quiet part out loud. This team doesn't like each other. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:21.200 Like sometimes the more time you spend with one another, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:26.000 the more you realize chemistry is not possible. Like chemistry 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.800 is a thing of a dream and a hope and 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:29.640 a wish. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.920 It's not going to exist. It's not possible. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.760 This is a team so many years to develop chemistry, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.160 like they've been with each other since they were drafted. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.560 They've had largely the same core with one another for 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.680 many years, four years. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.439 It's not coming. If you can't bond during an adversity 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.560 time like this, I don't know, Ah, I don't know. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.440 Dog. This Celtics roster, to me, I mean just simply 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.800 needs to be blown up, like all the way up 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.200 before we have an entire year of me saying this the. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.720 World over and over and over and over and over, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.000 me banging. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.640 My head against the wall, going viral, getting hate, getting slander, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.920 telling people, telling me to delete my account. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:10.880 And then all of a sudden. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.320 We see that they don't make the playoffs, or they 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.880 get in the play in tournament, they get bounced, and 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.360 then it's like, oh, that little Twitter bitch was right. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.960 Here's what the blue check marks are saying now, folks. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.280 Best quotes from the media. I felt good compiling them 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.000 because it felt like the thoughts that I've been having 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.800 for the last twelve months came out into the ether. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.440 Gary Washburn, my man of the Globe, Robert Williams must 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.240 take it real personal that he got out played by 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:44.240 Nathan Knight and Greg mcmonroe. It wasn't even close. Another 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.280 awful loss for the hashtag Celtics. Oh, Gary Washburn, learn 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.160 how Twitter works. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:49.960 Keith Smith. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.920 I've been fairly hard on the Pacers and the Blazers 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.320 in that I feel like that they've reached their expiration 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.640 date with the cores and it's. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:14:59.480 Time to break them up. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:05.239 But I've probably been neglectful in overlooking that the Celtics 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.960 might actually be at that same point. Peter Stringer mind 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.359 you used to work for the Celtics, tweeted about the Celtics. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.120 I've loved the hashtag Celtics since I was like five 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:18.760 years old. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.520 This is not how Twitter works. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.840 You don't need the hashtag shit anymore. It's just the 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:23.920 keyword comes up. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:24.680 Anyway. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.680 This season has been the most unenjoyable season I remember 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.440 since the awful end of the Patino era. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.360 This team has been. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:38.440 So far below where they should be, so many uninspired performances. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:40.000 Esh. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:45.640 But of course not everybody is available with reality. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:46.960 We've got ball. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.960 Washers just coming through cannot come to grips with the 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.120 hard truth and the cold reality. And frankly, you guys, 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:00.320 you guys should be ashamed because you're the reason. Then 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.840 you enabling their bad behavior, are allowing them to continue 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.359 with the status quo because you are making up excuses 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.720 for them. It's just praising them, finding things that they're good, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.760 and they're actually not. This was the same thing they 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.040 said last year. If the Celtics all had all starting 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.680 five playing together, as if other teams aren't dealing with COVID, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.440 as if other teams aren't dealing with injuries. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.680 We've got guys like kawilonard out a cl boombom gone, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.240 what are you fucking saying? 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.160 Straw Man arguments abound? And then this year and then 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.240 this gem. This is where you know it's like bad 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.160 because Celtics always when they're wounded, come after and they 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.600 and they shift the attention to another dog shit franchise 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.080 and their dumpster fire didn't the basically full strength Sixers 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.480 just lose at home to the depleted fifteen and eighteen Hawks. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.120 Odd time for Sixers fans to be taking victory laps. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.640 In my opinion, if the. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.320 Celtics lost to the depleted Hawks team with all their 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.200 five guys active, my guess is your commentary would be 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:04.560 different from what you're saying after the Sixers did it pause, Like, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.280 first of all, I would love nothing more than Sixers 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:14.239 Twitter and Celtics Twitter to literally eat one another and 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.000 destroy each other's faces, going to war for the end 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.440 of time. But did you really just compare, my man, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.879 the Celtics losing to Minnesota make a wish foundation with 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.040 the Hawks, who. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.520 Just went to the Eastern Conference finals less than a 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.120 year ago. Is that true? Is that what you just did? 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.680 The Celtics were at full strength and got gentlemen swept. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.199 Could barely even get into the playoffs last year. You 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.159 had to do everything that you could. You were in 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.280 the playing tournament last year. This is not a good team. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.920 You had to fight just to be in the dance. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.760 What are we even talking about? 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:56.280 This is what we. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.560 Have just to encapsulate what's happening. We have a team 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.760 with a lack of urgency, a lack of competitive spirit. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.879 They're publicly arguing in the marketplace about who's to blame, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.280 what's to blame, if there is anything to blame, there's 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:11.880 a lack. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.560 Of chemistry, lack of success. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.920 You've got Celtics Twitter turning on one another, Celtics Twitter 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:21.080 turning on another fan. Basis Celtic's Twitter mad at other 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.679 NBA insiders for pointing out what's true at all. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.840 At least we're on though sixers. It's like, fuck you. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.520 It's a mess. Everything about it is a mess. It 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:33.920 was a mess last year. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:35.240 Uh. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.399 And then they overhauled the whole front office. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.920 They overhauled and got a new coach, moved the coach up, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.440 moved the GM out, and instead of overhauling the whole team, 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.480 it was like, you know, watch these cups I'm gonna 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.520 move this cut that way, this cup that way. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.320 Where's the ball underneath the cup? 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.240 It's like you didn't change the rock that first, that 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.040 middle cup they needed to go, that's still there. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.119 I see it. It's the same roster. 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.800 You just added Dennis fucking Shruder, Like that's it. You 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:02.600 kept Marcus Smart he needed to go. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.360 You extended him. You extended him gross, you extended Robert Williams. 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:11.679 You're extending players. No business extending. So what's coming? 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.360 According to former Sons GM Ryan McDonough, Dennis. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.440 Shooters most likely on the move. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.840 I mean, listen, Underpaying a decent player has its advantages. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.760 It turns out that's one Peyton Pritcher's This is what 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.800 he said. Peyton Pritchard's strong December makes it more likely 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.880 Dennis Shuoter is traded prior to the deadline. Schudder's productivity 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.800 contract make him easier to trade and attractive to contending teams. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.760 Prescher's development is important to the Celtics due to his 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.159 age and rookie scale deal. Then that guy Peter Stringer, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.040 I told you about the one who used to work 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:46.760 for the Celtics. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:47.280 Uh. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:51.200 He said this later on after in that same Twitter thread. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.720 Jalen to me is overrated. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.960 Gasp. But you don't say and Tatum is isn't a leader. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.360 One of them has to go. 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:04.160 I'm afraid. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.000 Originally I felt like it had to be Jalen. Now 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.160 I'm starting to think it could be either one yo. 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.520 This roster has been fucked up, and it's finally obvious 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.840 to everyone, thankfully who watches. Maybe, just maybe, Jason Tatum 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.199 Jalen Brown aren't meshing. I don't give a fuck if 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.960 they're brothers. I don't care how much they like each other. 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.000 That shit does not matter to me. Like Andrew Wiggins 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:31.800 and Karl Anthony Towns were like brothers. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.240 That shit did not work. That's not an excuse. They're 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.760 not in charge. They are the talent. They are not 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:39.399 in charge. 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.760 I have to say this more and more as we 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.880 become a more player empowered league. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.399 These dudes don't know what they're doing at all. You 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:47.840 can't have. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.000 Duplicate players on the roster that get along and don't 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.280 share the ball. And you've got Jalen Brown having seven 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.600 turnovers a game and blaming everything on time Lord and 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.720 the fans and Al Horford and whoever else. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:20:59.640 Some had a. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.439 Tweet the day they're like, oh, they should trade so 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.080 and so for Robert Williams, just so Jalen Brown has 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.320 a new person to blame. Like neither are leaders at 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.520 the moment. Neither are dogs at the moment. Neither to me, 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.880 are particularly critical to this team's future. I don't think 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.240 you need either one. I'm starting to believe that maybe 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.320 they're both valuable enough that you can just start again, 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.639 start new, get some If Brad Stevens is worth his 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.320 salt at evaluating players, maybe he can get a new 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.399 guy in the draft. Maybe you can find some young 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.159 up and comer with a shitload of draft picks and 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.879 probably some pieces the match salary. Like I don't know, 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.040 get rid of one, get rid of both. I don't 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.720 care where them needs to go. Of course people won't 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.959 say it, but another thing that needs to happen, in 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.760 my opinion is Marcus Martin cannot be ever your starting 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.040 point guard. And he gets paid so much money and 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:01.639 that's the role that he wants, and he's like that. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.320 He's like another version of a Dennis Shruder. Like they 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.720 think that they should start, they think that they deserve 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.879