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Let's go there, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.240 get get his subs up, Gil, Let's get right into it. Tonight, 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:48.040 the Lakers beat the Wizards one t LA approved forty 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.080 four and thirty three, finished the six game road trip 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.880 five and one. The game really shouldn't have been this closed, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.160 but ended up having to put the starters back here 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.040 with about thirty five seconds to go because of what 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.760 a twelve or thirteen point league got cut down the five. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.400 So they're six and five to one on the road trip. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.760 They're currently tied with Sacramento and Phoenix in the lost column, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.680 but two games back no no time in the win column. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.760 With the two games back in the lost column. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.960 Lebron James another magnificent night twenty five seventy nine. Anthony 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.080 Davis was dominant thirty five points on ten of seventeen, 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.800 shooting fifteen to fifteen from the free throw line, eighteen rebounds, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.680 two steals, three blocks, and they hold on to beat 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.320 the Wizards one twenty five to one twenty. As you 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.719 watch the game, not just just let's go all the 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.800 way back and if you can remember the games that 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.039 they played and they played really well on this road trip, Gil, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.160 what have you liked most about what you've seen from 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.120 the Lakers. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:44.800 That they've. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.440 They've beat the teams that they were supposed to beat. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.840 They they they did what they were supposed to do. Yes, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.960 on James has stepped up, Ad has played well. And 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.320 the role players that we were having troubles with, let's 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.760 say around the end of December January, those guys are 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.960 playing more consistent now, right, Yes, you're talking about getting 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.880 to the playoff. It seems like everybody is ramping up 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.440 for the playoff and it's on the same mission here. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.000 Yeah, I like what I saw. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.440 Lebron has been really, really good, and as he mentioned, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.000 he says, look, guys, the last year I had to 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.760 deal with the foot, so basically I was just playing 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.720 the games. I wasn't able to get any on court activity. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.159 I couldn't do, you know, practice, I couldn't do shooting 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.640 rounds or anything of that nature. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.600 Now I come out here before the game. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.160 I'm able to get my shots up before the game, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.160 I'm able to get on the court with the guys 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.279 for shoot around. I'm able to, you know, work on 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.440 my shot and you can tell nine to ten the 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.160 other day, what forty points on seventeen shots comes back? 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:51.640 Last night? 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.600 What was he eight or ten, ten or twelve? Very 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.600 few shots? Again, very very efficient last night against Toronto. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.039 Another fishing night, another fifty percent shooting night tonight. But 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.040 as you said, Gil, we knew this was on the horizon. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.720 Horizon they knew. We knew they were gonna play a 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.880 lot of sub five hundred teams. And if you're trying 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.400 to get to where you ultimately need to be, these 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.680 are the teams that you need to be. These are 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.479 the teams that early in the year that was sub 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.919 five hundred, when they were the November in December, that 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.640 was beating the Lakers, and you're like, what the hell? 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.719 And it's still it's still troubling to me. With Anthony 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.000 Davis playing as well as he is, and he's played 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.560 seventy two games, Lebron is being Lebron, and here we 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.240 are forty four and thirty three and we're in the 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.599 night we're in a nice spot. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.279 Gil, I still can't understand that for the life of you. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.159 You know what, I want to give Prince his credit. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.159 Right at the beginning of the season, right, my my 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.080 complaint with him and Van Do was, you guys are 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.680 sitting in the corner being atmosphere, right, And as of late, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.360 Prince has been diving a lot more, getting into those 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.480 open spaces. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.240 Yeah, the creases. Yeah, he's been. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.800 He's been slashing, diving because the defense didn't expect that. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.160 So he's getting a lot of easy points and keeping 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.520 the defense honest by moving. Just little things like that 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.200 is what makes those guys important. If you're sitting in 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.200 a corner, just be an atmosphere, it's harder for ad 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.080 and Lebron. So the fact that yes, he has played 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.840 this well, Lebron has played this well, and we are struggling. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.040 I will take that to see how we're playing now. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.040 Right. And Plus the thing is d Lo. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.160 D Lo has vastly improved from the end of January, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.000 it's the beginning of February until now. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.160 Dlo has been sensational. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.160 Had he been playing like that all along, the trade 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.440 talks would have never come up. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.240 Yeah. No, You're right, it wouldn't have. It wouldn't have. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.640 And I think because of the trade talks and put 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.760 some urgency into his game, right, And when you when 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.240 you start off a season, you don't want to be traded, right, Well, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.880 we can count the millions, you can count all the 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.200 money in my pocket, But leaving the city that I 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.880 call home to go somewhere else to learn that city, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.200 to learn that players, to learn the routes, the roots. 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.120 Money has no impact on that. You know. If I 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.760 know you from your job, no matter how. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.400 Much you're making, and take it to a whole nother city, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.120 you're gonna have a tough time struggling, especially men death, right. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.600 I think, And I think I don't know if he 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.440 has a wife or significant other. I know he has 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.240 a small child that I see him with from time 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.040 to time after the game. Now you got because it's 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:25.840 just not you. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.040 Yeah, you have to think of other people. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.240 You have to think of your wife or your significant other, 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.240 the kids. And I think he really wanted to be 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.960 back in LA because I'm not so sure he really 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.360 wanted to leave LA in the first place. So he 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.920 looks at it as a second chance. I got a 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:46.120 second opportunity to come back and fulfill or correct the 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.559 wrong that happened before. And so I don't think he 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.000 really wanted to leave LA the first time, and I 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.680 know for certain he doesn't want to leave now because 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.400 he said, I want to be a Laker next year, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.439 and he's playing like he wants to be a Laker 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.400 next Year's shooting the ball extremely well, doing a great 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.439 job of running the offense when he's asked to do so. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.880 But I love the way he's fled Lebron is Lebron 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.319 is Lebron. I mean, it goes without saying, we don't 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.040 the guy shooting fifty four percent from the floor, Anthony 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.200 Davids is giving you twenty five and basically thirteen on 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.120 a nightly basis. Rui has been sensational also, I mean 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.199 he's shooting the ball at a high level. Austin Reeves 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.600 and Michigan sister, you know what you're gonna get. But 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.960 I do think Gil, we're gonna probably need a little 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.439 bit more for our bench. Denwick's gonna have to give 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.960 us a little more. Prince is gonna have to give. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:36.520 Us a little more. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.040 We know what to expect from Jackson Hayes he's an 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.840 evert guy. He's gonna challenge shots at the rim. He's 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.640 gonna run, get you some footbacks, get you some love dunks. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.199 So I don't know, really, I'm not expecting him to 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.560 give us twelve. If he can give us six and eight, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.400 a couple of blocks some time, you know, some solid defense, Okay, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.800 we can live with that. But I think den with it. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.360 I think Tory and Prince, those are our two main 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.240 bench guys. Those guys gonna probably need to be being 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.960 the double figures in order for the Lakers, because you 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.200 can't ask your starters to go out there and score 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.160 one hundred and twenty points every day an night. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.920 No, no, you're gonna need. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.560 About I'll say, in the playoffs, depending on who we 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:20.719 matchup matchup against, twenty twenty twenty five thirty points from 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.760 our bench. And yeah, ninety percent of that is coming 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.160 from Princes friends and did with it and didn't with it, right, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.000 And that's just the way it is. And you know, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.680 just like Miami, you know, Jimmy Butler played very well 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.560 first two rounds and then I think it was Caleb 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.720 Martin right that that almost won the MVP of won 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.600 one of those games and they was chanting his name. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.600 Right, Yeah, those what we need. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.760 We need different players stepping up at the right time 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.439 because it's not expected in the playoffs, and the playoffs 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.160 is GrITT and grind. Right, we're we're we're dial then 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.200 we know the playbook, we know your first option, we 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.080 know your second option. So to really be to really 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.400 be like dominating in the playoffs, you're playing in your 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.680 third option mode for the first time for the first part. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.840 So when guys step out of their body, right, Austin 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.920 Reeves goes for a thirty dlog goals for thirty. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:17.920 Right, Ruby goes for there. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.400 Those are the games that we need in those in 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:22.400 those times. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.439 If you look at last. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:30.040 Year against the Grizzlies, remember that road game, Ruy goes crazy. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.400 They're like, we go, let you shoot the three. Ruis said, okay, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.360 thank you. And the next thing. The next thing, you know, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.440 you go back and you get your split and so 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.720 now and then the next and then you come home. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.000 Ostar Reeves takes over a game, so they're gonna be game. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.520 Look your start you need a D and Lebron to 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.880 be a D N a D. But you also need 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.880 a third guy. Yep, at different points of a game. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.319 It was ruly one game, it was hot and more 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.840 it was oster Reeves another game. And that's what you 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.920 need the because a D and Lebron is gonna be 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.880 a D and Lebron. Can we get another game from 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.280 a Roy where he gives us twenty to twenty five? 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.440 Can we get a game like that from ouster Reefs 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.880 where he gives us twenty to twenty five? Because I'm 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.440 counting on Lebron them to give me somewhere between fifty 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.679 and sixty on a nightly basis. Yep, him and a 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.000 D to give us somewhere between fifty and sixty on 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.320 a nightly basis. Now we get Rouy a game, we 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.800 get Auster Reeve gives us a game to go along 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:26.560 with those guys. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.120 We get d Loo to give us a game. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.760 We get our bench to give us twenty between those 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.160 three guys, but the main contributed will be then Witty 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.840 will be Tory and Prince Jackson Hayes, but the main 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.520 corporates would be those two guys didn't win in Prince 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.520 I liked, I like the Lakers chances, but they're gonna 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.640 have it, and like they have a big lead and 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.120 then they give it away. They run back out to 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.920 another big lead seventeen eighteen points, and they let the 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.720 Wizard to get it all the way back down to two. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.480 Because I don't when Lebron, when Lebron is not taking 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.240 over the game, those guys don't know how to finish 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:05.880 players off. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.960 They don't know how to finish you right. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.000 And I know this is a different league where threes 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:12.720 really help you get. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:13.360 Back into games. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:18.199 Oh, for a twenty point a twenty point a twenty 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.960 point lead can be cut five four shots, right, you know, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.200 you get you know, three, three threes and one and right, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.280 you're right back in the game. And that's what the 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.720 Golden State style was. So you know, sometimes when you 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.360 have your foot on their throat, you just got to 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.079 crush it. Yeah, gotta do it. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.720 I think the thing is also, Gail, is that a 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.080 lot of times when you get up and if you 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.680 get up a certain way, you keep playing that way, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.280 but you keep taking bad shots and when they go in, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.560 you're like, yeah, everybody high five and everybody like key keying. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.280 But all of a sudden, you take a couple of 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.800 those bad shots and they race back to the other end. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.920 Get some easy buckets and the next thing, you know, 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.920 to hit a couple of threes and all of a sudden, 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.800 like you said, your twenty point lead is not down 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:00.480 to and. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:01.560 Maybe even nine. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.160 Now you're like, oh damn, what happened because we just 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.840 watched the Wizards go on a fifteen oh run. So 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.840 if the Wizards can go on a fifteen oh run, 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.880 you know Sacramento can do that. You know Phoenix can 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.600 do that. You know the Nuggets can do that. But 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:18.319 this is old. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.120 But right now, this is this is bad team's best 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.239 time to play basketball. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.080 Yeah, oh this is old. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.360 This is it right now, coach, you can't sub me 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.720 right it is what it is. 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:30.800 Season about to be over. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.080 You're about to be fired, I'm about to be traded 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:34.200 free agency. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.440 So right now is the best time for bad teams. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.720 Because you get no responsibility whatsoever. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.800 And it's basically it's basically summer league basketball for these guys. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.120 So you're gonna have a lot of teams playing a 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.440 spoiler alert. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.920 You know what, Gil, you knew. I knew one thing. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.480 Kyle Cool ain't played of the week, but I know 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.120 he's gonna play against the Lakers. You know what I'm 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.640 saying because he wants to show y'all should have never 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.680 got rid of me and I love the ways playing, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.080 but he wasn't gonna be able to do that with 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.520 a D and Lebron. And that's what he doesn't understand. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.560 I mean, yeah, I mean, look at Bradley Beal. Bradley 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:21.160 Beal average thirty, Bradley bial is a twenty average thirty one. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.880 Year at the high twenties. But he's not gonna get 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:24.600 the shots. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.160 It's hard for a third option to be what he 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.920 was when he was the first option, especially when the 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.880 first two options is Anthony Davidson Lebron. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:37.800 The first two options are. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.960 Booked and KD, KD and book So it's hard for 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.800 Bill to get those You understand that James Worthy, Jay, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.240 it's a Hall of Famer, but you know it was 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.920 going to Koreem magic, Okay, everybody else feeling you. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.600 Know, with Bill, and you know I watched him a lot. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.960 They overpassed. Sometimes there's times where that guy has that 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:06.119 shot and he'll swing swing right. You know, those guys 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:12.440 are okay, playing unselfish sometimes to the point where your 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.600 shot is better than that that that open corner shot 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.480 from that guy, And I think Bill does that a 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.640 lot where he has the shot and he makes the 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.520 extra pass, and there's gonna be times where he could 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.080 average twenty. The shots are there, the ball movement is there. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.360 But I think because they trust each other so much 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.200 that they're willing like he'll he'll pass up a shot 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.240 to pass it to Grayson, Allen or Gordon where. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:39.840 That's sometimes in a situation. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.120 Gil, You're absolutely right, And I noticed that also a 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.360 lot of times when teams have big threes or teams 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.960 just come together. I'm gonna show you that I'm so 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.880 inch selfish. Yeah, I'm gonna fast up this shot right here. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:52.560 I see you right. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.280 It seems like when I did it, I gave up 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.720 this good shot to get a great shot. Bro go ahead, 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:57.080 take that. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:57.600 Take that. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.600 Already already touched. The main two guys hands boom bot, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.040 it came to you. This is when you get to work. 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.720 So making that picture pass sometimes kind of takes away 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.159 from what you do. But they will be dangerous in 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.520 the playoffs, So this is gonna be a bropin on. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:14.840 Yeah. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.720 The Celtics beat the Thunder at the Garden won thirty 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.520 five to one hundred for the first time in fourteen years, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.760 they've clinched the NBA's best record and the home court 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.480 throughout the NBA playoffs. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.160 For as long as they play, they will have home court. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.600 The current record is sixty to sixteen and they have 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.119 six games remaining. Christoph Prazingas led the way with twenty 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.480 seven points, twelve rebounds, fours sists, five blocks, JT. Jason 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:44.200 Tatum twenty four points, seven rebounds, three assists, JB. Jaylen 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.520 Brown twenty three points, seven rebounds, four sis, two blocks. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.000 Al Horford had sixteen points, four rebounds, he was plus 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.720 thirty two Holiday twelve points, seven rebounds, four since Satan 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.679 Pritchet eleven points, four rebounds, eight assists, two still and 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.000 Howser even Chimp then with ten points. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.680 Very ballast. But what did you expect that. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.640 I don't think they had shake Gilgess and I didn't 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.840 see Trett Honker unless he played early in the game. 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.879 I tuned into that game a little late because I 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.239 didn't really expect them to do much because Shay has 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.800 been in and out of the lineup with that quad injury. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.800 But the Celtics are a. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.600 Very balanced team and you're gonna have to play extremely 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.280 well to beat them. Now, the their their achilles heels 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.639 or the the bugaboo is to get him in the 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.919 fourth quarter, to make him execute, because they hit a 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.800 lot of tough, a lot of tough. Those shots gilt 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.520 that go in early in the ball game, and those 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.840 tough that J T bet between between his legs and 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:47.480 side step three, JB THO D threes that go in early. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.679 And the fourth quarter, they're still taking those shots. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.399 They're not going in and they're allowing teams to creep 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.040 back into the ball game and nipplement. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:55.800 To d Yeah. You know. 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:02.760 Uh, the their their struggles is that they consistently rely 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.240 on jump shots. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.120 Yes, right, when you have two guys that are all 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.960 of six A six nine, six ' ten that are athletic. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:18.920 Yes, you guys are the athletic players in your position 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.160 where no one's stopping you from getting to the rim. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:27.280 You're stopping yourself by relying settling for jumpers, right. You know, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.359 if I'm a defender, if Tatum goes for thirty forty 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:32.399 on jump. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.640 Shots, so be it. Right, so be it. But I'd 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:35.120 rather him. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.080 I'd rather that than him putting me in the basket, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.119 putting the team in foul trouble, putting me in foul trouble. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.080