1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. This is View from the Raptors today. We're 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: bringing in a man who hails from basketball country life 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: is funny. Okay, go don't go there. Not yet. Well, 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: we talked about it now. The Bust One boys is 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: the crazy story, not actors. The crazy thing. To me, 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: it's like where you came from. Yeah, we're all older 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: than we think. We are always Gold League Gray baby. 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: All right, another week, another episode of You from the Raptors. 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: Behind the scenes with the Boston Celtics. This episode is 10 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit different. We're not necessarily diving 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: into the typical storylines that we have in past episodes, 12 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: but we are diving deep into something, and that is 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: the first half of the NBA season. We're gonna do 14 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: a season rewind. It's myself, Sean Granny, and Abbey Chin 15 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: and we're gonna be sitting right here in the Celtics 16 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: front office in downtown Boston reliving all of the top 17 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: moments from the first half of the season, a little 18 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: bit of all Star talk and a little bit of 19 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: talk about what's to happen the rest of the season 20 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: as the Celtics pursue yet another NBA championship. So we've 21 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: got that coming your way. We also want to remind 22 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: you to rate, subscribe, and review. That's very important to us, 23 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: so please do that, and without further ado, we'll let 24 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: you jump in right into the conversation. It's myself, Sean 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: and Abby rewinding through the first half of the Celtics season. 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: All right, we are here at Celtics headquarters at one 27 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: hundred Causeways Streets. Sean, Grandy, Abby Chin back for another 28 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: episode of You from the Rafters behind the scenes with 29 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics and guys. We're recording this during All Stars, 30 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: so we want everyone out there to know we do 31 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: have a few games to be played before this airs, 32 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: but there is a lot to talk about from the 33 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: season and a lot of good things that we need 34 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: to talk about for this season. Sean, what has stood 35 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: out to you the most about the first What do 36 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: we got fifty nine games that have been played at 37 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: this point, forty two and seventeen tops in the league. 38 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: Can I say, for all the awesome guests that we 39 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: have that it's finally nice to just kick back and 40 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: be us here and we don't have to worry about 41 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: being overly polite to somebody and welcoming somebody in that 42 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: we can just finally stretch our legs out and talk 43 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: about this season, and hey, three seasons in and we 44 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: get to use all of the time to ourselves, which 45 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: I know is in term of the right now, which 46 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: is not ideal, but I think when we and the 47 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: All Star break is useful for the thirty thousand foot 48 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: view right because we never get it day to day. 49 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: You're just out of the next game and out of 50 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: the next flight and out of the next city. The 51 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: amazing thing to me is that if you had said 52 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: in the middle of August that the Celtics would have 53 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: the best record in the league by a half game 54 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: at Jason Tatum would be having this amazing year, that 55 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: the Celtics would be there were the title favorites in 56 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: the middle of August, and they are where they are. 57 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: None of this would be a surprise. But then you 58 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: factor in the three back to back body shots that 59 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: the Celtics took, Gallinari gone, Rob Williams lost for the 60 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: third of the year, and then the unthinkable, essentially on 61 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: the eve of training camp, a coaching change that nobody 62 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: could possibly have imagined happens, and yet the Celtics have 63 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: performed as if none of those three things have happened, 64 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: and that may be the most amazing thing sixty games in. 65 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: And it's not even just that stuff, Abby. I mean, 66 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: we've gone and everyone loved the stat when I centered out, 67 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: But when the Celtics come back from All Star and 68 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: you know, God forbid, at this point, they're going to 69 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: be fully healthy, They're going to have all their guys. 70 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: But heading into All Star, they've only had one game 71 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: this season where all five of their starters started the 72 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: opening tip, which is insane. That they lead the league, 73 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: yet they've had to navigate all of these injuries. Derek 74 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: White to start a fifty one to fifty nine games 75 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: and he's supposed to be a reserve. It's incredible. And 76 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: that even accounts for the amount of minutes that Jason 77 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: Tatum is playing. He has been phenomenal this season. We 78 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: all know an MVP caliber season. But I think what 79 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: stands out to me and Sean you kind of prefaced 80 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: it is that these guys have come back on a 81 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: mission that Emay News could have shaken this group to 82 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: its core, but they instead came together and it's something 83 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: that Brad Stevens pointed out in his press conference talking 84 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: about making Joe Missoula the head coach, taking away the 85 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: interim tag is that he has been able to bring 86 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,799 Speaker 1: this group together. They have their eye on one goal 87 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: and everyone is working towards that, willing to sacrifice do 88 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: whatever it takes to get to that one goal. And 89 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: the message has remained the same from the beginning of 90 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: training camp when there was that dark cloud over everything 91 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: that was happening too now in the All Star Game 92 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: and then coming back from the break, and so to me, 93 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: that's what has stood out is that these guys have 94 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: been unwavering in that mission to get back to the 95 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: NBA Finals and overcome great teams, elite teams imposed their will. 96 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: That's the history of the league. And this is a 97 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: team that was what twenty eight and seven to finish 98 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: last year with a plus fifteen scoring differential. And I've 99 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: been saying absolutely absurd, dominant run and obviously going to 100 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 1: the finals, and yet in O eight the team wins 101 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: the championship. And everybody told them all summer there's gonna 102 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: be a letdown, You're gonna fall back, you can't have 103 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: the dominant season you have and what happened. They started 104 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: twenty seven and two with a nineteen game win streak. 105 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: They imposed their will, and there was an element of that. 106 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: This team wasn't as dominant. This team hasn't been as 107 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: dominant as last year's team was in the second half 108 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: of the year, but there was an element of running 109 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: off to the start they did, sort of running away 110 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: from the league in the historic offensive start. That reminded 111 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: me of that, and that just when everybody said, everybody, 112 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: the experts, quote unquote, the NBA world history, everything we know, 113 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: says there's going to be a fallback, and instead it 114 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: went in the other direction. It reminded me of the 115 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: title defense season and the first thirty games of eight 116 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: o nine. That surprised you though, sure of course it did, 117 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: because nobody knew what to expect. Listen, you guys are there, Listen, Abby, 118 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: you were in the building the first preseason game. That 119 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: was a strange, odd day. It was heavy in the building. 120 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: It felt weird. Media Day it was weird, of course, 121 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: Media Day was it fare right, it was, I mean, 122 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: it was going to have the building where we're sitting. 123 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: It was weird. But what made that especially is that 124 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: there were nineteen thousand people. Because in Boston preseason games 125 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: sell out too. There were nineteen thousand people all participating 126 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: in the weirdness of this strange vibe of what's happening here. 127 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: And Max and I came on and we did our 128 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: our ten minute little thing on what had happened, and 129 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: we wanted to put it in a place because we 130 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: didn't want to just you can't just start the broadcast. 131 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: Here's the first game of the year, and up coach 132 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: Joe Massoula calls time out. I'm sorry, what who so 133 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: you had to and wait time out? That didn't happen. 134 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: The Celtics, by the way, had like the best offensive 135 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: rating out of timeouts. People don't acknowledge that. Right. Well, 136 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: now he has to call more now because he had 137 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: the best offensive rating out of timeouts. I think that 138 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: I'll always remember that day when you when you go 139 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: to your office where you've been well, I guess they 140 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: told us about two thousand times at Max and I 141 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: haven't done it. When you go to your office two 142 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: thousand times and then the one thousand, nine hundred and 143 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: eighty first time you go, it feels completely different than 144 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: the one nine hundred and eighty that came before. You're 145 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: going to remember that day, and here we are. Everyone 146 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: just played through it. Everyone just did their jobs, and 147 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: pretty soon it was back to work and everybody was 148 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: focused on what it is they had to do. And 149 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: two months later you look up and you're twenty one 150 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: and five with the best offense in the history of ever. Yeah, 151 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: and that's what's been so remarkable about it to me. 152 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: And this is we're on the outside, We're not inside 153 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: that locker room. And I think that that was something 154 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: really important for Joe to do from the beginning, was 155 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: to allow those guys to feel the pain of I mean, 156 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: basically losing someone who they were very close to an 157 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: emay and not that he is gone gone, but he 158 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: is not an everyday fixture in their life. But it 159 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: does feel like nothing has changed. I mean, not that 160 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: much is different. The Celtics went and practiced and followed 161 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: the practice planned that they were going to practice from 162 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: day one anyway, And I know the players have felt 163 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: a little bit more emotional and have been vocal about that. 164 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: But for us on the outside, what I'm trying to 165 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: say is it just feels like the ship keeps rolling. 166 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: There's nothing it doesn't feel that different after that first 167 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: preseason game, once everything was addressed, it was handled after 168 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: the press conferences were done, but moved on and it's 169 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: been all about basketball ever since. The three things I 170 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: mentioned he made, the Gallanri injury, the Rob Williams injury. 171 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: None of those three things erased the sound that Jason 172 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: Tatum and Jaylen Brown and everybody heard across the hall 173 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: in the locker room after Game six of the Finals 174 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: when another team, only the second team ever to do it, 175 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: the Lakers in eighty five and Golden State last year, 176 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 1: the only team's ever to win the championship in Boston, 177 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: and that sound of them celebrating across the hall was 178 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: a louder noise and something that reverberated more in the 179 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: heads of the guys in the room heard it than 180 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: the three things I talked about that people thought would 181 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: alter their season. That is what is driving their season, 182 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: not those three things. And on top of that, you 183 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: hear the sounds, but you also see the visuals because 184 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 1: I know you two both remember where the press room 185 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: is right that the Celtics have to talk in after 186 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: every single game, including Game six of the NBA Finals, 187 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: in that back hallway. All of the Warriors players with 188 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: their goggles on, with their champagne and hands are passing 189 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: through right by the Celtics media area to go to 190 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: their after party, which was in Big Night Live, which 191 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: is attached to TD Gardens. So the Celtics players in 192 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: the moments after losing the finals had to watch these 193 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: guys walk back. I know I felt it when these 194 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: guys are wearing their goggles. I remember Jordan Pool walking 195 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: by and I'm like, oh my god, why can't we 196 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: be wearing these goggles? But I know they had. Don't 197 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: forget this too. Jannis and the Bucks all heard the 198 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: Celtics celebrating in that same hallway after Game seven two, 199 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're going to take that with them 200 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 1: from the meeting. We know, I mean, we know it's 201 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: it's destined to happen. Yeah, I will say, Miami, the 202 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: locker rooms very separate, I don't think. Right we go 203 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: to hum so you mentioned and you mentioned the kind 204 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: of turnaround there from the Friday where we all find 205 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: out the head coach has suspended. Joe Missoula is coming 206 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: in as the interim coach. And this is the friday 207 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: before training camp in the moment. I remember going out 208 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: to the HOURBIC Center, sitting down. I actually got a 209 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: few moments to talk with Joe that day before his 210 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: press conference, And in my mind, I mean, here's a 211 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: team that's pursuing a championship, coming off of Game six 212 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: of the Finals. The expectations are so high, and in 213 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: my mind, I'm just wondering, is this going to derail everything? 214 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: Because you only had forty eight hours I guess seventy 215 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: two hours before training camp started. I just didn't know 216 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: how a team would be able to recover from that. 217 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: But in hindsight, when I look back, part of me 218 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: thinks that actually might have been a good thing, that 219 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: it was a short amount of time that they had 220 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 1: to turn around, because it forced everyone to mentally dial 221 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: in and like not allow it to derail them. I 222 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: don't know, if you guys roll the pool yeah and 223 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: swim yeah, to compartmentalize too. I think NBA players have 224 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: a unique ability to be able to compartmentalize what is 225 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: important in that moment, and to live in that moment, 226 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: and to be able to perform on the stage in 227 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: that moment. And so I think that you're right, that's 228 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: a good point that they didn't have time to dwell 229 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: on it. They didn't have time to think about what 230 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: is going to be different, what is going to change, 231 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: what's the life going to be like now? And to 232 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: the lament, the moment right like the loss of email. 233 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: Like all these guys were close. They didn't have time 234 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: to be sad or upset or mad or any of that. 235 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: They had to turn the page a job to do. 236 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: But like you said, those first conversations with Joe as 237 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: the head coach to me and I had covered Joe 238 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: in the summer league that he coached two seasons prior, 239 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: and so we were like I knew him, We were closely, 240 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: not that close though, and I didn't know what to 241 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: expect on that first media day, but he was there 242 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: when from my first conversation with him, he was so confident, 243 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: So he didn't He doesn't feel pressure. It doesn't feel 244 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: like he feels pressure in the way that I feel pressure. 245 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: That it makes me nervous and I get edgy and 246 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: I get very anty. Are you nervous right now? No? No? 247 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: Are you sure? I don't think so. Although this is 248 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: the first time I've done this, so yeah, getting used 249 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: to it. Um don't like that knock over. Don't knock 250 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: that mic over either. He was nervous. Yeah, I'm stumbling 251 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: over my words. He was so confident and in control 252 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: and knew exactly what he wanted to say and who 253 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: he wanted to be, And that gave me so much 254 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: confidence in him. After my first conversation with him at 255 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: media day, I said, Oh, it's gonna be fine. The 256 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: remarkable thing about it was how quickly he did it 257 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: with This is what I would say to people from 258 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: the outside when they would say, one on Earth is 259 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: going on? Who's Joe Missoula? Is that Maybe Joe Missoula 260 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: was destined to be the next Eric Spolsure. Maybe he 261 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: was destined in a couple of years to get First 262 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: of all, he was a finalist. Will got the job 263 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: in Utah with Danny, but Joe was right there. Joe 264 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: was right there in the conversation to get that job. 265 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: So maybe Joe was going to be a coach somewhere 266 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: else and he was gonna be the next big thing. 267 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: But because it happened this way, all of a sudden, 268 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: this is gonna be Who's Joe Massoula? And all of 269 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: a sudden He's promoted to this job. Maybe in a 270 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: year or two. He was going to be an NBA 271 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: head coach somewhere anyway. But the remarkable thing is that 272 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: knowing Joe and listen, we've all known Brad for years, 273 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: and Joe and Brad have I don't. I don't like 274 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: to use the word mindset because Joe's used it enough 275 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: for everybody. It's like you're Joe massoula Bingo card, right, 276 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: is like mindset and spacing and all the you know 277 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: all the above to get your full Joe Bingo card. 278 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: He these guys are all based A lot of us 279 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: are on preparation and how we go about and how 280 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: could he possibly have been prepared? When you're an NBA 281 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: head coach, you're thinking about your team on May sixteenth, 282 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: You're thinking about your team on July eighth, You're thinking 283 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: about your team on August first, and how you're going 284 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: to come. And this is the most remarkable thing about 285 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: it was that offseason of preparation. It goes into being 286 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: a head coach, or the managing a baseball team or 287 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: being an NFL head coach is a year round, twenty 288 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: four seven job, and to have to coach your first 289 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: game essentially hours after becoming the head coach, and then 290 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: just going from there. That is, to me, the most 291 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: remarkable and overlooked part of it was that he did 292 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: not have the ramp up that this didn't happen in June, 293 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: that had happened a couple of days before camp. It's 294 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: a great point because I think the first preseason game 295 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: was like two days after camp. I mean, it was 296 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: right away so abby. We rewind to that Friday, and 297 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: the thing that stood out to me is I didn't 298 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: know what was going to happen with with Joe. I 299 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: didn't know how he was going to react to this situation. 300 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: Then you get to Monday, it's media day. At that point, 301 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: there's still so many questions that I'm wondering in my head. 302 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: I know everyone else's. But then that first day of 303 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: training camp, when he stood in front of all of 304 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: the media and I know you were there, that's when 305 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: I knew this guy has got what it takes, because 306 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: he just didn't seem flustered now at all. I mean, 307 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: that's the first day running an NBA team, and obviously 308 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: he had the history of coach in the summer league team, 309 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: but it's a different animal when you're actually running the 310 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: real team, and he just there were no nerves. He 311 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: answered every question perfectly. And to go through that media 312 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: day days after this whole situation unraveled, and then to 313 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: come to day one of training camp and not say 314 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: a single word that he shouldn't have said. That's when 315 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: I knew. I'm like, Okay, this guy's ready for this 316 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: because I can't comprehend how he did that. He may 317 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: regret talking about that he's still driving his minivan, which 318 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: he is still driving, but that will be used against him. 319 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: I think for a while, the Royal family, it is. 320 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: He wasn't a unique position though as well. Let's not 321 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: get in trouble here, okay about because he had those 322 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: pre existing relationships, I'm not sure. I think everyone kind 323 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: of everyone on the outside said who is Joe Missoula, 324 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: But the players knew who Joe Massoula is. My favorite 325 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: story from last season was Derek White when he arrived 326 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: in that trade and his mind was just all over 327 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: the place because he'd never been traded before in his life, 328 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: and then after coming from San Antonio, where he'd known 329 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: one thing the whole time of his NBA career, they 330 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: sent him to Joe Missoula to learn the offense and 331 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: to get a handle on things. And so these pre 332 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: existing relationships I think enabled Joe to be the coach 333 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: that he is and to garner their respect in the 334 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: locker room that he's been able to and and like 335 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: we have been talking about getting everyone on the same 336 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: page and going towards the same mission of being an 337 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: NBA player, is the work you put in that nobody sees. 338 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: Joe Massoula had lived with these guys for that ninety 339 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: nine percent you mentioned Derek White. Can we segue right 340 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: into that, because Derek White has been the savior in 341 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: my opinion of this team the season. I mean, obviously, 342 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: Jason playing at an an MVP level, He's going to be 343 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: the first player in Celtics history to ever average thirty 344 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: or more points in a season, and it's gonna happen. 345 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, no doubt in my mind. But Derek 346 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 1: White is the guy. Without Derek White, there's no chance 347 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: that the Celtics are where they are, no chance. Fifty 348 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: one starts out of the first fifty nine games, and 349 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: he has been awesome, shooting basically thirty nine percent from 350 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: three doing everything the Celtics need on a nightly basis 351 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: in a multitude of ways, depending on who's missing, right, Like, 352 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: that's who has stood out to me in terms of 353 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: being able to keep this team on track. Shoon plays 354 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: every game in the load management era. He's played every 355 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: game since he was here, you know, every regular season 356 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: game since he's been traded here he has played. And 357 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: I think in the load management era, the teams that 358 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: are going to have success are the teams that have depth, 359 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: that are gonna plug in different guys that you know 360 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: you You started by saying, isn't this amazing that the 361 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: Celtics have done this with the starting five only playing 362 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: one game together. It's not that unusual anymore. That's the 363 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: way it is in the NBA. But the Celtics have 364 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: the best record in the league because they are they 365 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,959 Speaker 1: have the depth, and they are equipped to deal with that. 366 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: The best teams now aren't going to be the teams 367 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: that have the two best players in the regular season 368 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: that there are going to be the teams that are 369 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: go six, seven, eight deep, that can manage their way 370 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: through the inevitable injuries, through the inevitable load management. And 371 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: I want to disrespect Kyrie by using that term. They 372 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: you have to manage what the NBA is now, and 373 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: the Celtics have built a team that, particularly in the backcourt, 374 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: that has the ability to do that. I think that's 375 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: what Derek White epitomizes is just how deep this team is. 376 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: And you ask them, they know, they believe they are 377 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: the deepest team in the NBA. And it has shown 378 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: over that last week going into the All Star break, 379 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: missing Marcus Smart, Jalen Brown, Rob and al In and 380 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: out of the lineup, I mean without four or five starters, 381 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 1: and the Celtics continue to win, continue to get it done. 382 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: It's juda guys like Derek White, we haven't mentioned. We will, 383 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure Malcolm Brogden. But also I mean we got 384 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: to give credit to Brad Stevens for the additions and 385 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: just I won't do that. By the way, picking can't 386 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: you don't like you. It's not just it just pains 387 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: me too much. It's a it's after nine years, it's 388 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: physically I just can't. It was just too much. Why 389 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: he left, that's right, Yeah, we couldn't take it anymore. 390 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: That's why as the day, the day it all happened, 391 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: the day he was no longer the head coach whatever. 392 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: I just texted him, I said, listen, if you want 393 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: to get out of the pregame thing, there were other 394 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: ways to do it, just let me know. Yes. But 395 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 1: I mean, that was a brilliant move on his part. 396 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: And the fact that Derek is such a connector and 397 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: a guy who can, like you said, give you exactly 398 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: what you need. If he is playing eight minutes, he 399 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: goes out and he is give the term balls of 400 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: the wall. I mean he can say that. I can 401 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: say that, Um, he plays hard and gives you exactly 402 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: what you need, whether that's on the defensive end or 403 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: the offensive end. And he that's so rare. And I've 404 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: talked about this with scal a lot. The versatility that 405 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: Derek White has, and it's not just a versatility on 406 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: the court playing guarding one through five. It's also the 407 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: versatility of roles that he can come in off the bench, 408 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: he can be a starter, and he can give you 409 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: exactly what you need. Do you win, Mark, You need 410 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: guys who are have reached a point in the NBA 411 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: where they now winning is more important than their own 412 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: individual role. And that was everyone wants to put it 413 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: on Kyrie. But the fundamental flaw of the twenty nineteen 414 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: team that was what it was, was there were too 415 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: many young players that had not established their place in 416 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: the NBA, which the league it almost forces you to 417 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: do it by definition. Can you play in this league? 418 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: Who are you in this league? What is your role? 419 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: Derek White has already done that. We didn't see it 420 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: because it happened in San Antonio. But Derek White got 421 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: his contract, he established who he was in the NBA. 422 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: Now he's here to win. Malcolm Brogden has established who 423 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: he is in the NBA. Now he wants to win. 424 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: Blake Griffin is long since established who he is in 425 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: the NBA. Now he's here and he wants to win. 426 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: That is how you do it in the league. You can't. 427 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: This is why teams that are primarily built on young 428 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: players on that first NBA contract don't have deep playoff success. 429 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: That's a big, big part of it, and it's what 430 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 1: this team had as in it. Again, you cannot say 431 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: Derek White without thinking of that characteristic What is this 432 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: team going to be? When Malcolm Brogden and Derek White 433 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: are coming off the bench. It just blows my mind 434 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: that the Celtics aren't going to have these two guys 435 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: who I think the game before the All Star Break 436 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: they combine for like fifty one points or something like that. 437 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: What do you think this team can be with those 438 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: two guys coming off the bench. It's insanity, what a luxury. 439 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: But also if those two guys are coming off the bench, 440 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: that means that you're starting five is healthy. What's going 441 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: to happen between now and then? And that's the point 442 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: of what we're saying is having these different pieces that 443 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: you can plug in, everybody does the same thing. You're 444 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 1: doing it now, we all do the same thing. Wow, 445 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: imagine when everybody gets here, it's going to be great. 446 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: That's not how life. What life is. What happens right 447 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: when you're busy making other plans. So there's you know, 448 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: something will happen to Boston or Milwaukee or Philadelphia. As 449 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: we're sitting here talking now, something is going to happen 450 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: that we can't will have imagined that we'll alter the 451 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: course of one of those teams futures this year. The 452 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: point is that instead of thinking about man, imagine what 453 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: it'd be like if they were all together? Is knowing 454 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: that you haven't had them all together, and you still 455 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: can win anyway. I have to imagine what it's going 456 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: to be like with them all together. Though, right we're 457 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: three quarters of the way through the season. I have 458 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: to think, cross my fingers everything, knock on wood, kick 459 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: the wood. I'm hoping that we've gotten all of that 460 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: stuff out of the way by this point. Right, There's 461 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 1: only I wouldn't go that far, but I would say 462 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: that that is the whole point of all of this, 463 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: the load management, though being overly cautious with Rob Williams 464 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: when he feels even a tinge in his ankle. I mean, 465 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,959 Speaker 1: he's been the bubble wrap all year. Yes, and keep 466 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: him there, Keep him there, and let's say Jayson Tatum 467 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: for some more minutes too while we're at it. I 468 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: don't know, let's play him flood Marcus Smart take as 469 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: long as he wants with that ankle. Just get to 470 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I think that that's something that I 471 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,360 Speaker 1: had never experienced. A run to the Vinyls. It is long. 472 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: It's two and a half more months of basket, and 473 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: it's not just basketball. It's the most intense basketball that 474 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: you've ever played in your life. And you have to 475 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: do it and bring it and bring that focus every 476 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: single night, and so whatever it takes to get there 477 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: in any modicum of health. I am all four that 478 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: that's a great point Abby made, because when people think 479 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: of the New Big Three era, they think of it 480 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: as a six years right, twenty seven to twenty thirteen, 481 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 1: But really it was seven years because they that team 482 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: played almost a full season of playoff games with the 483 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: two runs to the finals and the conference finals in 484 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. And as Abby just said, those aren't miles 485 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: on your car. Those are uphill all terrain vehicle miles 486 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: that beat you up. So those add a lot of 487 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: you know, that adds a lot to it. It's not 488 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: thirty playoff games, are not thirty regular season games. It's 489 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: it's essentially another full season. And that's why remember when 490 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: Al did what he did last year, which was amazing 491 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: at his age to play all those minutes and go 492 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: to the finals. Remember he had basically had the year off. 493 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: You know, Oksey said, Lesten go home. They like locked 494 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: him out of the practice so he could just take 495 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: the year off. So he was fresh going into it, 496 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,959 Speaker 1: and you're almost the Celtics are trying to do here 497 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: is short of replicate that with al where a couple 498 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: of games who've seen playoff al this year, I'll see 499 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: it against like Milwaukee. But for the most part, the 500 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: only time you want to see playoff al is when 501 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: it's time for playoff al. Which makes the fact that 502 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: this team, again, as we record, this is a top 503 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: the NBA even more important. That they've been able to 504 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: sustain the level of play you mentioned this earlier. They've 505 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 1: sustained winning while getting all of these guys rest throughout 506 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: the season, so that hopefully in the long run, there 507 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: will be more gas in the tank this time around 508 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: than there was last year after they were fighting. I mean, 509 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 1: we talk about the playoffs as an uphill battle. How 510 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: about coming back from that start that they had was 511 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: a seventeen and twenty eighteen and twenty one whatever it 512 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: was that they had the whole second half of the 513 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 1: season and they had to fight up hill just to 514 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: get back to where they wanted to be. And the 515 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: other thing, I don't know, ab if you with me 516 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: on this, because I've started I started talking about him 517 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: in the last telecast before they all start break that 518 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: one of the things about listen home Court advantage is great, 519 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: and you're gonna want it. But there's a second factor 520 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: here with the number one seed in the East, which 521 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: is with the trades that Brooklyn made, if you sort 522 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: of dropped Brooklyn out of the top four, it's starting 523 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: to look like a three headed monster atop the East. 524 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: So therefore that number one seed Boston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, one 525 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: of those teams is going to avoid the other two 526 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: in the second round. And that's where yeah, because sometimes 527 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: in a best case scenario, you think you're gonna have 528 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: your starting five all year, you think you're gonna have 529 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: your microphone for the entire podcast, but you don't. You 530 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: have to work and you have to work around Aby. 531 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: How many times is that Mike fallen onto your lap today? 532 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: That's the third that's my fault. Anologize for that we 533 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 1: were missing one of our mic holders. But no, I 534 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,239 Speaker 1: mean it's a great point on and I think that 535 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 1: the Celtics are I mean, obviously they're top of the 536 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: league right now, but they're well positioned to snag that 537 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: top seed, especially if they're able to stay healthy during 538 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: these final twenty three games. I keep saying it, and 539 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: whatever happens with you know, with these playoff matchups happens. 540 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think when the Celtics made the 541 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: choice and it was the obvious choice to make at 542 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: the time to sort of punt the game away in 543 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: Milwaukee and to not play guys in the game before 544 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: the All Star break, that was the obvious choice to you. Well, 545 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: that's maybe being kind. It wasn't the obvious choice to me. 546 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: When that choice was by the staff decided that was 547 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: the obvious choice. I could not help but think from 548 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: a poetry standpoint, from a basketball god standpoint, that the 549 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: Bucks chose to punt the game away on the final 550 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: game of the season last year, and it cost them 551 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: home court advantage in Game seven was in Boston instead 552 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: of in Milwaukee, which it you know, easily could have been. 553 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: I will say bad for the Celtics. Well, that's we 554 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: don't know, but that was again rolland Ice. That's why 555 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: you and I are sitting here doing podcasts and people 556 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: to make decisions, make decisions. We'll see how it all 557 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: plays out. Um, you mentioned that game when when we 558 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: were preparing for this and we were all thinking about 559 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 1: our favorite moments of the game. You prepared the season slightly, 560 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: not much interest. But when I'm thinking back throughout the 561 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: whole season, tons of highs, only a few lows, But 562 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: it stuck out in my head that that game was 563 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: actually my favorite moment of the season. A loss in Milwaukee, 564 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: I did think part of another one because I felt like, yeah, 565 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: I don't think good. I mean, if you're throwing Christmas Day, 566 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: look at the two games against Milwaukee for contrasting reason. Yeah, 567 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: but you look at that game and it just felt 568 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 1: I don't know if if in my fourteen seasons here, 569 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: fifteen seasons, that I've felt that positive I mean for 570 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: a loss ever, because it just felt like everyone on 571 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: this roster was just more proof. Everyone on this roster 572 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: is ready at all times. And when you've got that 573 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 1: type of depth and you've got that type of mindset, 574 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: I think that just shows. I mean, it's one of 575 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: the most important factors that you can take into the 576 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: playoffs because you're going to run into all sorts of 577 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: challenges in friction and whatever you want to call it. 578 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: The fact that they were able to step in and 579 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: play at that high level against what many people believe 580 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: might be the other top challenger in the East, against 581 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: them basically fully healthy without Bobby Porters, but that that 582 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: stood out to me, that was my favorite moment of 583 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: the season. Like I said, I that the feeling in 584 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: the locker room after that game did not feel like 585 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: a loss at all. In talking to guys, and the 586 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: confidence that that gives guys like Jason Tatum and Jaylen 587 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: Brown and Marcus Smart to be able to be comfortable 588 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: in taking those assigned times off, I think is really important. 589 00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: But it also I couldn't I couldn't bring that my 590 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: favorite point because it was a lost. There are no 591 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: moral victories. This is Boston. It's all about winning a championship. 592 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,239 Speaker 1: And it's also we've seen it with the Celtics, and 593 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: that there is a letdown when you find out that 594 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: a team's best players are not playing true and we've 595 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: seen it with the Celtics, and so to me, there 596 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: was no question forty piece from Drew Holiday to win 597 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, but the Bucks rolled out there. I 598 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: mean they were not on top of their game, I 599 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: would say from the jump. And so when they really 600 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: buckled down and took it seriously and understood the challenge 601 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: that actually laid before them, they got it done. But 602 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: I do think that that was that was such a 603 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: fun game. It was cool to see Al back in 604 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: Milwaukee where he is just incredible. Man, Yes at all times, 605 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: and yeah, that game was just really fun to be 606 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: a part of. From the jump, What was your other 607 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: top moment? I think it was the win over Philadelphia 608 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: without every before that. Yeah, I mean, I personally did 609 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: not give the Celtics a chance in that game, knowing 610 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: they were going out up against Joel embat and James 611 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: Harden without Al Horford and and Rob Williams. There's no 612 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: They're starting without their starting front court, and great Williams 613 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: went out and then Jalen went out miss the entire 614 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: second half. To get that win, I think was and 615 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, the Celtics are already in the head of 616 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: the seventy six ers, especially Joe LMBA. We didn't say that, 617 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: and I said that I did, and Marcus Martin, the 618 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: head of James Harden, I also said that. Then. To 619 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: get that win dropping the confetti, I'm just staying quiet 620 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: over here. To get that win in that fashion, I 621 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: think was huge, and especially because Philadelphia came in. They 622 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: were the hottest team in the East at that point. 623 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: They were rolling, had won nine of their last head, Yeah, 624 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty, and for the Celtics to basically shut 625 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 1: them up was pretty gratifying. I don't think Doc enjoyed 626 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: that moment. First of all, Mark, you weren't if you 627 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: that was the the loss you felt best about. You 628 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: definitely weren't here in two thousand and seven when we 629 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: were feeling about losses every single night, because that was 630 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: the idea of looking at Greg Oden and Kevin Durant 631 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: feeling good about losses every single night, and there were 632 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: allot of them to choose from, you know, seven, I 633 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: think back in the first half of the year, it's 634 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: really an amalgam of moments where I could see Jason 635 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: Tatum looking as if he were Neo in the matrix 636 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: and everything was. There were moments when he knew, I'm 637 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: the best player on the floor. I can impact this game. 638 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: I can do whatever I want, whether you know it'd 639 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: be against Charlote. There was a game in Detroit early 640 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: in the year, actually both games in Detroit this year 641 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: where he just he almost like looked around and said, 642 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: I'm the best player on the floor. I can do 643 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: whatever it is I want to do, and it is right, 644 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: and it is you know when you see that this 645 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: was a kid who came in at that you know, 646 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: nineteen years old, and you and I'm still nineteen. You 647 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: and I just marketed the podcast looking back at the 648 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: Philadelphia series. When people get to that the that Jason Tatum, 649 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: you forget the rookie year that he the difference that 650 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: he makes on and off the floor, the numbers are insane. 651 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: Al his rookie year outled the Celtics and plus minus 652 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: by a small margin. Every other year it's been Tatum 653 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: by a large margin. And the moments that he's had 654 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: this year, we talk about how many times if you 655 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: used the MVP type of year thing that he's having, 656 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: But those come in moments when you look at him 657 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: on the floor and say, there are a lot of 658 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: moments even you know, doing the telecast and I'm thinking it, 659 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: Scal says, what are we watching here? And I'm thinking, 660 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: and I'm going to say it next time he does it, 661 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: Which is what we're seeing is parts of the highlight 662 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: tape we're going to be looking at on Jason Tatum 663 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: day at the Garden in fifteen years. That's what we're 664 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: looking at. We're looking at these moments when he realizes 665 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: that he is one of the best players in the 666 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: world and that he's dominating. But individually, it was a 667 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: separate Jason Tatum moment that is mine only because in 668 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: a year in which, as Abby can attest, it has 669 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: been an unprecedented year of us multitasking. Abby has done it, 670 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: has done it. Obviously, I've been doing it. We've been 671 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: doing him back and forth. You don't, but you sit 672 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: here and you oversee all of us. Do you know? 673 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: I said, Abby and I are jumping back and forth 674 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: TV one night radio the next night, We're going back 675 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: and forth. Was a night at a moment I decided 676 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: to be a cinematographer at the same time I was 677 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: doing play by play and where I was really lucky 678 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: we got I wouldn't been able to do this if 679 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: I have been doing TV, but we got Mike to 680 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: come down to Charlotte and do those games, which allowed 681 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: me to be on radio for those games. And my 682 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: wife and son were at the Martin Luther King game 683 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,239 Speaker 1: when Jason Tatum was going for fifty at the end 684 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: of the game, and my wife and son were sitting 685 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: eight ten rows in front of me, and so I said, 686 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: I can do this because I knew that my son 687 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: was losing his mind where in his Jason Tatum Jersey 688 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: as this was happening, he knew we got a chance 689 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: to see it. So I got my phone out and 690 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: I was shooting video of the two of them while 691 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: I was calling, you know, Tatum up the floor, left 692 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: side going for fifty, because I knew my son was 693 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: going to have sort of an epic reaction to it. 694 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: Now I've got the moment on video of my sons 695 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: seeing it happened, and then you could sort of hear 696 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: me in the background trying to try to call it 697 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,320 Speaker 1: as it happened. So but it was just such pure 698 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 1: joy from Jack, you know, oh excited, You know what 699 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: it's like then, and you know, my son has not 700 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: had the life that most kids have living behind the curtain. 701 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: And you know, my favorite story with my son was, 702 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,800 Speaker 1: I flew back here after Game one last year of 703 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: the Finals, picked him up, flew him back out to 704 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: San Francisco for Game two the Red Sox. And all 705 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: places in all the world, where were the Red Sox 706 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 1: that weekend? They were out there in Oakland. So he 707 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: goes to the Red Sox game in Oakland on Sunday afternoon. 708 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: Then he goes to Game two of the NBA Finals 709 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. We fly back with the families on 710 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: the charter, and so the next morning he I literally 711 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: got him to school on time on Monday morning. And 712 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: when he gets to school and the other kids said, hey, 713 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: did you see the game last night? He go, yep, 714 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: I was there, may or may not have here. Look 715 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: at my phone. See these photos. No one sent these 716 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: to me. But the pure you know what the best 717 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 1: part listen, not going down the road to being a parent, 718 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: but these moments of joy that Celtic fans of all 719 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: experience this year. To watch them through the eyes of 720 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: a kid, and my son's eleven. Now, so there's a 721 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: different Now. He really understands when Jason and Jalen are 722 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: doing this thing. And when he, you know, felt it 723 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: was up. Wasn't up lating enough to see the All 724 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,400 Speaker 1: Star game board. I told him the next morning. You 725 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: didn't let him stay up. He was not with me 726 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,359 Speaker 1: my friend that night. So therefore different rules in different houses. Yeah, 727 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: we stay up late to see historic sports moments, you know, 728 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,359 Speaker 1: and this half of the family. But to be able 729 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,959 Speaker 1: to tell him, oh yeah, by the way your guy 730 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: set an All Star Game record and was the MVP 731 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: of the All Star Game and you just see the eyes. 732 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: This goes back to when I say, this is why 733 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: documenting these moments, having the job I have matters. It 734 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 1: really brings it home when you see your son when 735 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: you're hand in the box score from the playoff game 736 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: the night before with at five years old, when his 737 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: favorite player, Isaiah Thomas, and he looks at the box 738 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: score and goes across to the column and sees fifty 739 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 1: something point and his eyes, just a little five year 740 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: old eyes pop out of his head. That's when you 741 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 1: realize these moments are important and why when the Celtics 742 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: have the best record in the NBA, we shouldn't be 743 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: thinking about three losses on a road of Golden State 744 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: in the finals, or what is ahead of us, or rather, 745 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: if you can't enjoy these moments that many other basketball 746 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: fans and many other cities will never have. There are 747 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,359 Speaker 1: twenty franchises at least maybe more that have never come 748 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 1: close to having a calendar year like the Celtics had 749 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. Forget seventeen championships that forget you know, Charlotte, Sacramento, 750 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,879 Speaker 1: all these other these teams have never had a year 751 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: like that which he won sixty plus games and had 752 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,759 Speaker 1: a double digit scoring diffretchil So whatever is ahead. My 753 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: point about the first half of the season is enjoy 754 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: every single night because when people talk about Bird McHale 755 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,720 Speaker 1: and the original Big Three, they remembering getting to watch 756 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: every night, and it's the same thing in the Jay's 757 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: era or whatever we're gonna end up calling it of Hey, 758 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,439 Speaker 1: what time is the Celtics game on tonight? I want 759 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 1: to watch, want to be there at the Garden to 760 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 1: see these guys play. Well, that's what let's talk about 761 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,919 Speaker 1: the All Star Game because to me, that's what made 762 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 1: it so much fun. It was clear, even in the 763 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: first half with Jalen coming off the bench, that the 764 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,360 Speaker 1: Celtics have two of the best players in the NBA. 765 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: Jason Tatum on the floor. I know Lebron put on 766 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 1: a show in that first half in those minutes he 767 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 1: was on the floor, but Jason was right there with him. 768 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 1: And then any time I mean Jalen checking in with 769 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 1: that mask for the first time, you could tell there 770 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,439 Speaker 1: was some adjustment there. And by the way, with the mask, 771 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know they were allowed to wear a black mask. 772 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:37,959 Speaker 1: Didn't thought wore that. He did, Okay, so it's they're back. 773 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 1: But just those early moments with Jalen after he got 774 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: used to the mask and he was dunking all over 775 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: the place, launching threes, and then what we got to 776 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: see in the second half was so special. And I 777 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 1: know a lot of people asking for defense in the 778 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 1: All Star Game, and I do not care for anything. 779 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: No one get hurt that that's the goal. Score as 780 00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 1: many buckets as you want. Let's do lay up lines, 781 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: that's what you want, because that is entertaining as hell. 782 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: And I loved every minute of that, and it just 783 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,720 Speaker 1: showcased the season that Jason and Jalen are having this season, 784 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: and they have been incredible. Sean. Two things, You've got 785 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 1: more of a photographic memory than I do, and that's 786 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,920 Speaker 1: not saying much, but I don't remember. I can tell 787 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: you what the Celtics dating Denver in two thousand and three, 788 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 1: but I don't know where my car keys are, so 789 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 1: I don't know that. That's all. It's important things where 790 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 1: your priorities. So when I was watching Jalen and Jason 791 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,360 Speaker 1: go back and forth, We've seen some iconic moments with 792 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 1: players having individual matchups. M Jane Colby comes to mind. 793 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,440 Speaker 1: I mean Lebron in Coolby going at each other in 794 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: the All Star Game. We've seen it before, We've seen 795 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: teammates go at each other before, but that that was 796 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: like multiple minutes of a game where they were going 797 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 1: back and forth and it just seemed like everyone else 798 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,840 Speaker 1: was standing back and saying, the show. These guys deserve 799 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,880 Speaker 1: their moment. Let's watch the show. And boy did they 800 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,640 Speaker 1: put on a show that was awesome to see. And 801 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 1: I love the fact that Jalen got his moment too, 802 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,799 Speaker 1: because he borderline deserved to be a starter in that game, 803 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 1: didn't quite make it as a starter, but he's having 804 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: an absurd season and that's the best part. I mean, 805 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,439 Speaker 1: getting to watch that number one that was my first point, 806 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 1: was incredible. But I also love the fact that both 807 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: of these guys out of the Jay's have their moments 808 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: where everyone watching the TV can say, Okay, that's that guy, 809 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 1: and then Jalen might take over and everyone watching can say, well, 810 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,720 Speaker 1: that's that guy. And this happened in the NBA Finals, 811 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: now it happened in an NBA All Star game. I 812 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,439 Speaker 1: think it just shows just where this team is set 813 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,120 Speaker 1: up moving forward, that there's two one a's on this team. 814 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: But I also think that this season is different, and 815 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: even the runs starting from the second half of last season, 816 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 1: is that they have been able to play together and 817 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: are thriving on the floor together. I feel like early 818 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: on it was so much your turn, my turn, yea, 819 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,480 Speaker 1: and now figured it out. Yeah, we're seeing it. And 820 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,400 Speaker 1: twenty seven games where they've each scored twenty five plus 821 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: that's never happened before in the NBA before the All 822 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,919 Speaker 1: Star break, and that that's what's scary. What is scary 823 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: for the rest of the league. Mark not not just 824 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,840 Speaker 1: Derek White and Malcolm Bradden coming off the bench, but 825 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,040 Speaker 1: the fact that those two have figured it out and 826 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: how much they are thriving together on the floor has 827 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: been an incredible transformation to the point where even though 828 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 1: things externally are set up to find division and define stories, 829 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,240 Speaker 1: Kobe and Shack won championships and that's arguably the greatest 830 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 1: tandem ever, certainly one of them. However you want to 831 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: phrase it or make those arguments which everybody likes to 832 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: do these days, Kobe and Shack was the thing all 833 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,799 Speaker 1: the time, Kobe and Shack and the rivalry Kobe and Chack, 834 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,920 Speaker 1: and there's no you can't do it here because it 835 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,640 Speaker 1: doesn't exist. And that's really there are I've said a 836 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 1: million times, with everything Jalen Brown accomplishes in his basketball career, 837 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,360 Speaker 1: you're going to be prouder of a Celtics fan years 838 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,880 Speaker 1: from now about what he accomplishes off the floor in 839 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,880 Speaker 1: his life. But let's not overlook how he is dealing 840 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,280 Speaker 1: with this situation now where he is an elite player 841 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,960 Speaker 1: in the world. He would be the best player on 842 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,200 Speaker 1: most teams in the NBA. But Jason, Jason is in 843 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,319 Speaker 1: his time right now where he is a top three 844 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 1: MVP candidate where he's having this moment and there's never 845 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,279 Speaker 1: there's never an issue, there's never a secondary thing that 846 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,080 Speaker 1: comes out of it. Because these guys, again going back 847 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: to being across the hall after Game six, you know 848 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,560 Speaker 1: they just want to win. They know what they want 849 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 1: and it's going to take that All Star Game moment. 850 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,600 Speaker 1: In our job, like Abby and I come to the 851 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: ballpark every night, we might get to document history. Something 852 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,440 Speaker 1: special could happen. There are those rare moments when you 853 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,680 Speaker 1: know it as it's going on, you know, as Jason 854 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,440 Speaker 1: and Jalen are doing that thing. You know years from 855 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,759 Speaker 1: now we'll be talking about that that night in the 856 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,360 Speaker 1: All Star Game, and that again, that's sort of the 857 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,160 Speaker 1: beauty of what we do. Thank God they both made 858 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 1: those shots right, each of them give and given them. 859 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: I just call it out the Peyton Pritchard now or 860 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,560 Speaker 1: that you can roll with that. You brought it up. 861 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:08,919 Speaker 1: This is gonna be the last thing that I gotta 862 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: throw out there is Jason Tatum is a top three 863 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: MVP candidate this season. What do you think he needs 864 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,480 Speaker 1: to do to get up to one? Is it possible? 865 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,240 Speaker 1: I tend to think that it's not going to happen, 866 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,840 Speaker 1: and I think it would require I'll defer to you, Abby, 867 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,400 Speaker 1: but I think the Celtics would have to win the 868 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: NBA regular season by an extraordinary margin. They have to 869 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:37,000 Speaker 1: run away and hide. And I again, ironically, after what 870 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,160 Speaker 1: I just said to me, it occurred to me. There 871 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,920 Speaker 1: were a lot of moments this year where it occurred 872 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,279 Speaker 1: to me. The biggest obstacle to Jason Tatum winning the 873 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 1: MVP is how good Jaylen Brown is. Because he has 874 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 1: a right, because Joel embiid, I forget. I mean, Yokis 875 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 1: just clearly in the driver's seat and he should be. 876 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: And what I said at the beginning of the years, 877 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,719 Speaker 1: he's won twice with Denver being in the middle of 878 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,640 Speaker 1: the pack, they're gonna win the West running away. So 879 00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: I had no problem, unlike a lot of people, Well, 880 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,279 Speaker 1: you can't win three in a row, because that's historic. 881 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,319 Speaker 1: If Yokis is the best player, he deserves to win 882 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,440 Speaker 1: three years in a row. Joel Embiad has sort of 883 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,760 Speaker 1: defined MVP seasons to me, and that you think about 884 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,680 Speaker 1: these games where Joel Embiad has forty and twenty four 885 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,920 Speaker 1: and the Sixers are winning by like three, Yeah, he 886 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,320 Speaker 1: needs to do this for the Sixers to win these games. 887 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,759 Speaker 1: So to me, there's that durant to me, with the 888 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,360 Speaker 1: injury kind of falls out of it regardless of what 889 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,759 Speaker 1: he does in Phoenix, but that to me, I think 890 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 1: the Jalen presence and the fact that if it's not Yoki, 891 00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,600 Speaker 1: voters feel and Bead has been the guy on the 892 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,480 Speaker 1: outside looking in and it's almost like it would be 893 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,640 Speaker 1: his turn. If not Yoki, I think that hurts Tatum, 894 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,879 Speaker 1: and this year puts Tatum in the position of where 895 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: embiad is now almost like it's his turn at some 896 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,399 Speaker 1: point to win it in the future. I also think 897 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,399 Speaker 1: it's a little bit of and we hear this a lot, 898 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,160 Speaker 1: is that the thing that elevates a player to a 899 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,839 Speaker 1: superstar level is that he makes the guys around him better. 900 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: And that's a part of Jason's game that has been developing, 901 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 1: continues to develop and is the best it's ever been. 902 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,319 Speaker 1: But once he regular literally starts getting and that's something 903 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 1: that Emio Dooka said early on last season. He believes 904 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 1: that Jason is a player who can be getting racking 905 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,560 Speaker 1: up triple doubles out of regular basis. And I think 906 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,440 Speaker 1: that that's kind of the missing piece for Jason in 907 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:19,160 Speaker 1: that ascension to the ultimate MVP conversation is making his 908 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,520 Speaker 1: teammates better, and he does. He is so good at 909 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,760 Speaker 1: making the right basketball play. And the amount of hockey assists, 910 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,760 Speaker 1: if you accounted for those, I think would be huge. 911 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: But I do think that that is a part of 912 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,040 Speaker 1: it where if you don't watch every single game and 913 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,960 Speaker 1: see the mastery that he has is something that if 914 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,720 Speaker 1: you just look at a box score, you say, oh, 915 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,480 Speaker 1: Jason had five assists last night, you know, to go 916 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,520 Speaker 1: along with his forty points, and he's making the right 917 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,879 Speaker 1: basketball play, but so is everyone else. And I think 918 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,239 Speaker 1: that that's a testament to the Celtics offense and a 919 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,160 Speaker 1: testament to this team. But it's another factor when if 920 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,480 Speaker 1: you're not paying attention, you could miss it. He's also 921 00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:59,799 Speaker 1: he said, he's so good at those things. He's also 922 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,840 Speaker 1: good at being humble. And I know that if he 923 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,799 Speaker 1: does not win it this year, it's no sweat off 924 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,359 Speaker 1: his back, like he's gonna move on and he's gonna say, hey, 925 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,600 Speaker 1: whoever won it deserved to win it. But it's also 926 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,560 Speaker 1: going to give him some motivation in the offseason to 927 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,200 Speaker 1: try to come back and get it the next season. 928 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,520 Speaker 1: And the fact that he's in the conversation at nineteen 929 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,719 Speaker 1: years old, I would imagine that by the time he 930 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,319 Speaker 1: reaches Nudge Kid. But at twenty four, if he's in 931 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,799 Speaker 1: the top three of the MVP voting, you know one 932 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,120 Speaker 1: is coming his way if all things you know, granted 933 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,080 Speaker 1: that he remains healthy, but it's common that's just a 934 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 1: matter of when. Again, one of the things about the 935 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,600 Speaker 1: Celtics historically there are no scoring champions. You know, MVPs 936 00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: is individual things, so people don't care. How about instead 937 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,080 Speaker 1: of baby bigger than Jason Tatum being or not being 938 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,239 Speaker 1: the MVP this year, is the fact that there is 939 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,759 Speaker 1: now you cannot argue against the fact that he has 940 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,719 Speaker 1: put together one of the four or five best resumes 941 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,040 Speaker 1: in the history of the game for players under twenty 942 00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,719 Speaker 1: five years old. That can't be argued. He's climbing that 943 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,520 Speaker 1: oring list. He's the first ever too. He's the youngest 944 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,440 Speaker 1: player to make a thousand threes. And not to mention 945 00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,600 Speaker 1: there are players that put up big numbers like this, 946 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,920 Speaker 1: he is combined putting up these big numbers with a 947 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,680 Speaker 1: trip to the NBA Finals and multiple trips nowt of 948 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:18,160 Speaker 1: the conference finals. So put together, look at the resumes 949 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,759 Speaker 1: of players under twenty five, the elite of the elite, Durant, 950 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,879 Speaker 1: Kobe Shack, Jason Tatum is in the conversation with these guys. 951 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,759 Speaker 1: We don't know what twenty five to thirty to thirty 952 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: to thirty five is going to look like. But among 953 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 1: the all time greatest players in the history of this 954 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 1: game that was in meted by James nay Smith, Jason 955 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: Tatum is one of the best under twenty five players 956 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,239 Speaker 1: to ever play period period. And by the time this 957 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,120 Speaker 1: episode airs, we're gonna be a few days ahead of 958 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:48,080 Speaker 1: his twenty fifth birthday. He will maybe by the time 959 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,959 Speaker 1: this airs are shortly thereafter, he will become the number 960 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,319 Speaker 1: seven scorer of all time in the history of the 961 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,560 Speaker 1: league before the age of twenty five. And think about 962 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,040 Speaker 1: that and a couple of the guys on it, because 963 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,799 Speaker 1: I've been I've been you know, you guys know, I've 964 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,480 Speaker 1: been pipping that list for a while and we've been 965 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:02,600 Speaker 1: running it on TV and whatever. That Some of those 966 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 1: guys on that list are high school guys. Obviously, Johannis 967 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,239 Speaker 1: didn't play the year in college, Devin Booker did, Kevin 968 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,000 Speaker 1: Durant did, but and Shack obviously played at LSU. But 969 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,360 Speaker 1: there are guys on that list, Kobe among them that 970 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,000 Speaker 1: did not play, you know, so among these, I think 971 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,560 Speaker 1: fourth maybe on that list of guys that actually played 972 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 1: in college. Crazy crazy, well, and we gets every single night. 973 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:28,960 Speaker 1: We'll keep doing that the rest of the season. But 974 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,760 Speaker 1: a lot of fun things that we got to rewind 975 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,520 Speaker 1: and look back on so far in the season. I 976 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,120 Speaker 1: have a question for you, what do you got set? 977 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,239 Speaker 1: Because historically it has never happened before. What I talked 978 00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,359 Speaker 1: about would Abbey doing, I'm doing what Max is doing, 979 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,440 Speaker 1: You're watching, you're taking in TV and radio before. This 980 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,080 Speaker 1: is never we talk about player at depth and playing 981 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,719 Speaker 1: multiple positions and positions. Well, this isn't a historic year 982 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,080 Speaker 1: in terms of Celtics broadcasting as far as people being 983 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,759 Speaker 1: I mean, where's that's the most flowers for being able 984 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,359 Speaker 1: to on no notice, jumping from one to the other, 985 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,840 Speaker 1: and you know, where's all that. This is an historic 986 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: part of the season. It wasn't on your little rundown 987 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,960 Speaker 1: sheet this The flowers are happening now to both of 988 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,680 Speaker 1: you carry multiple, multiple roles, bouncing back and forth. It's 989 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,960 Speaker 1: everything you already said. I think you gave the flowers 990 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,080 Speaker 1: out to yourself. Jowers. This is the job TI man, 991 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,560 Speaker 1: tell us where to go and the words. I can 992 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,840 Speaker 1: say this anyone who's watching or listening, if you tune 993 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,200 Speaker 1: into the radio or the TV, you never you're gonna 994 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,680 Speaker 1: hear one no matter what any given night, which you're 995 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,440 Speaker 1: gonna get And hopefully this gives me we need one 996 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,840 Speaker 1: of those Twitter accounts like who's doing the Celtics can tonight? 997 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,399 Speaker 1: Like and then it's just who's announcing. Yeah, it's kind 998 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,520 Speaker 1: of like the Celtics starting lineup. It is very much 999 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,319 Speaker 1: you don't know the rotating door and you ask us, hey, 1000 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 1: who's gonna start toime. We just give you the we'll 1001 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,279 Speaker 1: announce it, give you the Joe one word answer. You'll 1002 00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,399 Speaker 1: find out thirty minutes before we're pre get start, we'll 1003 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,560 Speaker 1: have to show someone out, someone else on TV or 1004 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,560 Speaker 1: radio today. We're gonna we're gonna work her out before 1005 00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,680 Speaker 1: the game, and then we'll make a decision someone out there. 1006 00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,759 Speaker 1: We'll fire up that Twitter account. It's going to happen now. 1007 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,360 Speaker 1: But now this has been great, Let's look forward to 1008 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,560 Speaker 1: the second half of the season, which is really the 1009 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,719 Speaker 1: final twenty three games and hopefully this team makes a 1010 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,120 Speaker 1: long run. So that's episode four, season three of You 1011 00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:13,759 Speaker 1: from the Rappers, and see you guys next week with 1012 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:19,040 Speaker 1: another episode