Speaker 1: Well, well, well, if it isn't, my dear friend, the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics that have already qualified for the finals.
Speaker 2: Qualified technically on a technicality.
Speaker 1: On a technicality, just merely because they won the best
Speaker 1: of seven series. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Does that mean?
Speaker 1: All right? Look enough of that, But look, meanwhile, the Timberwolves,
Speaker 1: we're actually able to extend the series in game four.
Speaker 1: As we head into tonight's Game five, backum Minnesota. We'll
Speaker 1: get into all of that and plenty more with podcaster
Speaker 1: Warren Shaw in today's episode. I'm Miles Gray.
Speaker 2: And I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is Miles Post three.
Speaker 2: Got it?
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Speaker 1: driving spinning.
Speaker 2: From black Scott up with five?
Speaker 1: Is gonna try another three, mister.
Speaker 2: James, to be honest with.
Speaker 1: You, be honest, orn Shaw, Shoot to the show, co
Speaker 1: host of The Baseline NBA podcast, host of Dope Interviews,
Speaker 1: co owner of nineteen.
Speaker 2: Media Group, and Celtics fan, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining me.
Speaker 1: Well, well, well, if it wasn't time for you to
Speaker 1: truly sip on our tiars, dine on our sadness, what
Speaker 1: better time to have picked. I mean, at least at
Speaker 1: least it's before the final, so we can at least
Speaker 1: pretend maybe there's a chance that the Celtics don't win
Speaker 1: an eighteenth championship. But hey, a boy can dream. Kenny,
Speaker 1: how you been man?
Speaker 3: Listen, it's very big of the both of you to
Speaker 3: invite me on this platform, you know, at this time
Speaker 3: of the year, after we have clinched our second finals
Speaker 3: in the last three years and sixth conference finals in
Speaker 3: the last seven years. I do appreciate that. I think
Speaker 3: that's very, very big of the two of you. So
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to an exciting conversation with us.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, you sound like you sound like the Celtics
Speaker 2: subreddit right now. Something subreddit is disgusting right now, so
Speaker 2: they're just like, you know what, what's going to be
Speaker 2: the sweetest part? I think it's going to the freedoms
Speaker 2: tatum where in the NBA finals MVP ring probably haters.
Speaker 1: Wow, Like there's a finals MVP ring ye for this example, Yes,
Speaker 1: yes there are, but yeah, yeah, we will get into
Speaker 1: that for sure. There's a lot happening also. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, on earlier this week or over the weekend,
Speaker 1: we lost a legend.
Speaker 2: Bill Walts, the Great Bill Walton passed away at seventy one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: far too far, too soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not realize that he was battling cancer,
Speaker 1: so that had any as a bit of a surprise.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the great commentators too. I still
Speaker 1: think throw down big Man, still like one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: One of the most unique, one of the great commentators.
Speaker 2: My dad was friendly with him. My dad coached in
Speaker 2: the league and I once overheard them talking to each other.
Speaker 2: My grandfather was also really close to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, said he was one of the greatest human beings.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But my dad was greeting him and was like,
Speaker 2: how have you been billed? And he was like a
Speaker 2: terrible I'm horrible at my job about commentating. I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: you're like one of the one of the best. What
Speaker 2: are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yes, and one of my fellow Bruins. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, rest in peace to Bill Walton. You will
Speaker 1: be greatly missed.
Speaker 2: A lot of great quotes, yeah, a lot of great
Speaker 2: quotes from him circulating online too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. But I guess let's not waste anytime, huh.
Speaker 1: Shall we just dive into.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing wrong with wasting a little time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about something else, man, Or what's your thought?
Speaker 1: Which which supper.
Speaker 2: League is coming up?
Speaker 1: Who you got who makes your favorite barbecue sauce? I'll
Speaker 1: go first. I like blood cells mild. That's just me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but any anything else beside besides the Eastern Conference from.
Speaker 2: Doug McCain favorite Bill Walton quote a California, if the
Speaker 2: Pilgrims landed here, the East coast would still be wilderness.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love a little shade, intercoastal shade.
Speaker 2: I'm an East Coast person, but yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 2: at said for California. Anyways, I think that's the episode.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1: But man, that was that was a sweep.
Speaker 2: Uh that was the sweep. That was like a very
Speaker 2: entertaining sweep. Though like Game one was wild, one.
Speaker 1: Was wild gave me a bit of false hope, I
Speaker 1: must say. I was like, man, maybe no no, no.
Speaker 2: No no no, no, Like how are you as a
Speaker 2: sound like what's it like Warren to root for this team?
Speaker 2: Like was that in doubt for you? Because for me,
Speaker 2: as Halliburt was like looking at his hands like smiling
Speaker 2: like we we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I was like, poor, poor, unfortunate soul.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and then they just like gave the ball
Speaker 2: to the Celtics repeatedly, like they were like there was
Speaker 2: a witch's curse on them. Did you have a feeling
Speaker 2: that was coming?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 4: No, who's going to predict that.
Speaker 3: I think obviously younger team fine, but them losing their
Speaker 3: composure the way they did in Game one and then
Speaker 3: ultimately again in Game three and again in Game four
Speaker 3: like it's and I guess maybe by that time we
Speaker 3: should have expected it, and I think the Celtics themselves
Speaker 3: obviously did, especially by Game four. But that first game,
Speaker 3: you know, I was on edge, you know, like everybody else.
Speaker 3: And the Celtics make a lot of people nervous, especially
Speaker 3: their own fan base because I have a lot of
Speaker 3: bad habits that they can't always get out of their
Speaker 3: own way from. But in and is a good team,
Speaker 3: so I'm not trying taking anything away from them. But
Speaker 3: talent wise, the talent disparity was was fairly vast, and
Speaker 3: that was the experience factor, and I think that's where
Speaker 3: Boston was able to kind of get through there, especially
Speaker 3: you know in that first game as Indiana just kind
Speaker 3: of coughed the ball up every single position on the stretch.
Speaker 1: There was crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: Right, there's a shakiness to everybody except the Celtics in
Speaker 2: the in the Eastern Conference, the Knicks. Kind of like
Speaker 2: if the Knicks had been able to not physically fall apart,
Speaker 2: they were a little less shaky than everybody else. But
Speaker 2: the Celtics are just, you know, highly competent. We've said
Speaker 2: since about halfway into this season, that's the Celtics versus
Speaker 2: the field. In my heart, it's always the Celtics versus
Speaker 2: the field. There's only one team that I like consistently
Speaker 2: rooted against it as the Celtics. But this is much Yeah,
Speaker 2: but this is also a historically great team. I feel
Speaker 2: like if another team like beats them, I feel like
Speaker 2: that's a massive upset, right, Like, that's they're like when
Speaker 2: you look at their stats, it's it's kind of bonkers
Speaker 2: how good they've been throughout the season, right, Like.
Speaker 1: Warren, do you have confidence as a fan because you're
Speaker 1: seeing the same thing like, well, objectively statistically like we
Speaker 1: should be winning the championship, But there is there also
Speaker 1: a part of you that doesn't want to fully obviously,
Speaker 1: because anything can happen. But I know one Celtics fan
Speaker 1: personally who is sort of like, I don't know why
Speaker 1: this is a foregone conclusion. Not that they're saying like
Speaker 1: not as aggressively, but they're like, look at the path here, like,
Speaker 1: we're we're just blowing through teams. We're gonna get Chris
Speaker 1: Staffs back, and I just don't see. We're probably our
Speaker 1: own worst enemy. Do you Are you operating from that
Speaker 1: place too? Are you still leaving some objectivity to be like, well, no,
Speaker 1: let's not get ahead of ourselves. Just because we're just
Speaker 1: beating everybody up like it's nothing, doesn't mean it's nothing like.
Speaker 3: That by nature, I'm you know, a little bit softer
Speaker 3: in my approach, you know, and try not to be
Speaker 3: like hopefully aggressive. I think ball is talent wise, they're
Speaker 3: in position that they should win the NBA Championship. However,
Speaker 3: we've seen enough of this team in this organization to
Speaker 3: understand that, hey, sometimes they don't always do the right things.
Speaker 3: They don't always do the things that they want they're
Speaker 3: supposed to do. And I think what a lot of people,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, have been mythed about in addition to
Speaker 3: not liking them just in general, but it's like they
Speaker 3: haven't won with style points, especially in this Eastern Conference finals,
Speaker 3: Like with the.
Speaker 4: Talent is spready being what it was.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like all right, they just you know, beat
Speaker 3: the dog crap out of Indiana, Like there was close games,
Speaker 3: you know, nemhard who most of the NBA public still
Speaker 3: had never heard of many people up for thirty points,
Speaker 3: and it's like, all right, well this is you know,
Speaker 3: this is your king, this is your elite team. So
Speaker 3: I understand why, you know, people are bullish, if you will,
Speaker 3: on their potential championship aspirations. But the talent is there,
Speaker 3: And if I can just be not necessarily nerdy for
Speaker 3: a second, but the biggest thing to me about where
Speaker 3: the Celtics are this season is they actually believe in
Speaker 3: Joe Mozula's message. Like whatever he got, whatever he had
Speaker 3: going on last year, wasn't it that that wasn't the vibe,
Speaker 3: that wasn't the mojo. They are singing his tune and
Speaker 3: they are bought in in a way that I didn't
Speaker 3: expect them to be. But I also want to credit
Speaker 3: guys on the bench like Sam Pasel and Charles Lee.
Speaker 3: They've done a really great job of kind of captaining
Speaker 3: that ship, and everybody's really bought into that.
Speaker 4: So this is why they should win. But fans of
Speaker 4: being Dallas, you know, and you got the Kyrie stuff
Speaker 4: going on there, and that crap never excites me.
Speaker 3: Man, I really don't want to part any of the
Speaker 3: Boston crowd and him going back and forth with them
Speaker 3: as well too. I'd rather avoid that and keep it basketball.
Speaker 3: But there's not a chance to hell that happens.
Speaker 1: Do you think potentially that could work to whose advantage?
Speaker 1: Could that work in? Like in terms of yeah, that
Speaker 1: would just take him to another level?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like why would he not play the villain?
Speaker 3: You know, and that while he's been a great soldier
Speaker 3: this season for the Dallas Mavericks if you will to,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean he has to go out there
Speaker 3: and stop stump on the Leprechaun and that's simply the villain.
Speaker 3: I think it's just like, all right, you know, he'll
Speaker 3: he'll die in on the salty booze of the Celtics
Speaker 3: fan hitting clutch shots, left hand floaters and all that.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, I mean the press conference just like,
Speaker 3: you know, those are things that make me nervous. I think,
Speaker 3: you know, when it comes to the Celtic faithful, the
Speaker 3: team itself should have enough to kind of rack all that.
Speaker 3: But some of this time, when it gets when it
Speaker 3: gets this far, it's it is the intangible and it's
Speaker 3: the little things that can get you over the proverbial hump.
Speaker 3: And I wouldn't want to give Dallas Rocarve specifically any
Speaker 3: extra motivation or advantage, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There were multiple points throughout this series where the
Speaker 2: Pacers was like Nemhart would score and I would be like, wow,
Speaker 2: I can't believe that went in. Surely that is the
Speaker 2: last point that the Pacers for in this game, Like
Speaker 2: it just didn't. I don't know. I was always surprised
Speaker 2: at how close they were able to keep it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Indiana is an exciting team, I think I stand by.
Speaker 2: I think they gave them a better series than we
Speaker 2: would have seen from the Knicks, even though it was
Speaker 2: a sweep. I just I don't know. They had a
Speaker 2: lot of weapons. Some of the losses were really really close,
Speaker 2: and again losing Halliburton some injury luck for the Celtics
Speaker 2: in the sense of, you know, I guess eight of
Speaker 2: the twelve wins they've gotten, the team they're playing has
Speaker 2: been playing without their best player.
Speaker 1: How do you look at that warrant because I feel
Speaker 1: like that's like a narrative that a lot of fans
Speaker 1: are grappled or you know, they're they're like, so what
Speaker 1: like it's because.
Speaker 2: We're a lot of Celtics haters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, but going by what she All said,
Speaker 3: even in the outset, you know, it was they were
Speaker 3: supposed to be here, so how they got here is
Speaker 3: inconsequential really, but I think it's the aspect, well, we
Speaker 3: didn't get to see them sweat enough. And from my
Speaker 3: viewpoint pan or otherwise, the biggest knock on Boston has
Speaker 3: always been their inability to close close clutch games.
Speaker 4: Now, should they not be.
Speaker 3: In a clutch game against the Indiana Pacers with Harra's
Speaker 3: Haliburton out of the lineup, Probably, but nevertheless they were,
Speaker 3: and they found ways and essen they were able to
Speaker 3: kick it out. So that's the biggest knock that's been
Speaker 3: on the team, especially from years past that you've seen
Speaker 3: that maturity and that growth, and obviously Goazak, Drew Holliday
Speaker 3: had been you know immense in being able to turn
Speaker 3: that narrative around in the short time into playoffs. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I get I get Riverboy's coming from. And I agree
Speaker 3: with you Jack. In terms of Indiana, Jalen Brown said
Speaker 3: on multiple occasions, it's like he was like, as if
Speaker 3: they didn't play them five other times in the regular
Speaker 3: season without playing tournament included the pace and you know,
Speaker 3: pun intended, but they were running up and down in
Speaker 3: the floor and yeah, for twenty third or twenty fourth
Speaker 3: in pace this year, it's almost like they weren't prepared
Speaker 3: for Indiana to do that at times, which doesn't make sense,
Speaker 3: but you know, anyway, they were able to get back.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just know if they were physically capable,
Speaker 2: like the I don't know if the human body is
Speaker 2: physically capable of the number of minutes, and then like,
Speaker 2: you know, the number of minutes that everybody's putting in
Speaker 2: across that whole postseason, and then you get into a
Speaker 2: series against the Pacers, a seven game series against the
Speaker 2: Pacers that takes a toll. I would imagine problem people
Speaker 2: not me. I would have been fine because I'm in
Speaker 2: a amazing shape. But so the one thing that is
Speaker 2: giving Celtics haters hope that I think maybe shouldn't at
Speaker 2: this point after watching that series. Is the theory that
Speaker 2: NBA seven game series, playoff series finals series usually goes
Speaker 2: to the best player, the team with the best player
Speaker 2: like that. That's sort of an old kind of rule
Speaker 2: of thumb in the NBA, and I think some people
Speaker 2: I've been guilty of this, been like, well, Luca's better
Speaker 2: than Tatum, so maybe maybe they have a shot. However,
Speaker 2: I think the reason that that has happened in the
Speaker 2: past is because other teams, like you kind of lose
Speaker 2: your confidence down the end, or like you need somebody
Speaker 2: who's just like Alpha, I'm gonna take the big shot
Speaker 2: when things get kind of clogged up in a seven
Speaker 2: game series, you need somebody who's just a bucket, who
Speaker 2: can just get a bucket no matter what. I don't
Speaker 2: see that being a problem for the Celtics. I really don't.
Speaker 2: Like they have so many guys who are a clutch
Speaker 2: and like Tatum could be clutch, but like he has
Speaker 2: been like at various points, but like you know, Derek
Speaker 2: White is clutch, like Jalen Brown is clutch, Like they
Speaker 2: can get buckets down down the stretch. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time. More like, as we get
Speaker 2: closer to a series to the finals, I'm having a
Speaker 2: tough time believing in that theory. But this might be
Speaker 2: me reverse jinxing it and try trying to so.
Speaker 1: I just remember, I think, wasn't it the game one
Speaker 1: text threat or I was like, look.
Speaker 2: At Tatum, he ain't clutched. Yeah, And then he started
Speaker 2: making yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And I was like, see, I'm trying to motivate the
Speaker 1: young man. That's going on, that's right. And then I
Speaker 1: post that like crying face guy with the mask on
Speaker 1: that's smiling and some clutch.
Speaker 4: He did have ten points in that in that in
Speaker 4: that overtime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely absolutely absolutely blew up in my face for sure.
Speaker 2: If I shot that much, I'd have ten points in
Speaker 2: the overtime. That's a spare Jack's there, you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, like, where are you kind
Speaker 1: of with the you know, I see a lot of
Speaker 1: people too saying like for all the talk about you know,
Speaker 1: Mitchell being out or Jimmy being out or Halliburton or whatever,
Speaker 1: like no one's talking about Perzingis being out this whole time,
Speaker 1: Like and that's also a story. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Celtics are just so good that just wasn't necessarily a factor.
Speaker 1: But where do you kind of come down on that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obviously a bonus now because it sounds
Speaker 1: like he's he says he'll be ready for the finals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I would have been severely disappointed and you know, tiki
Speaker 3: torches and whatever, you know, story Boston had they lost,
Speaker 3: you know, in this conference finals or any of the
Speaker 3: part of the playoffs just because they didn't have orzingis
Speaker 3: like that's like he was brought in for the regular season,
Speaker 3: but really to help solidify the championship, but especially with
Speaker 3: these other teams on the industries that they have, he
Speaker 3: was not needed. So I don't think it needs to
Speaker 3: be a story. I understand, you know, I think you know,
Speaker 3: the true Boston faithful if you will are gonna plamp
Speaker 3: on everything that's that's adverse I think to their narrative,
Speaker 3: if you will, I'm just not that.
Speaker 4: Guy, you know, I can't. I can't be that for
Speaker 4: the sake of a podcast either.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I think, you know,
Speaker 3: porzinc Is coming back is a huge huge bonus. But
Speaker 3: you also have to remember, and not that I'm trying
Speaker 3: to qualify it, but he's ever been at the damn
Speaker 3: Finals before. So five weeks off, your first game back
Speaker 3: is NBA Finals, the first time you've ever been there
Speaker 3: at that level of intensity, there's going to be a
Speaker 3: semblance of Russ there. Whoever that is, whether that's Dallas
Speaker 3: or if.
Speaker 4: It ends up being Minnesota.
Speaker 3: They so happened to come back, like you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know how many minutes and how productive he'll be
Speaker 3: even at that point. Well, hopefully by later stages of
Speaker 3: that series, if it goes into later stages, he'd be
Speaker 3: able to contribute in a way that he was brought into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, poor Zing gets revenge. Series is going to take
Speaker 2: it to Dallas for trading him. That's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well look everyone's going to have their own revenge narrative.
Speaker 2: That's my impression of somebody I read it. All right,
Speaker 2: let's uh should we take a break and yeah, turn
Speaker 2: to the left out west, just making it flick turn.
Speaker 2: You're looking at a map, I'm looking I'm facing north.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, no, it actually doesn't really work anyways.
Speaker 5: Uh, we're gonna take a break, We'll be right back,
Speaker 5: and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're what I tell you. I told you these MAVs.
Speaker 2: These MAVs, man, they were they there, they got something
Speaker 2: going on offense right now. Yeah, I was not confident
Speaker 2: in Minnesota's offense coming in, and I think that was
Speaker 2: the correct thing to be where about because they through
Speaker 2: four games. It's it's just you never really feel confident
Speaker 2: like where their offense is gonna come from, Like right,
Speaker 2: and has amazing moments, but it's not there yet where
Speaker 2: he's just like unstoppable. Where's Luca even when his SHOT's
Speaker 2: not going down, he's having twenty eight, fifteen and ten,
Speaker 2: you know, right, it's in the loss. That's it. That's
Speaker 2: the stat line in the one loss. But like Luca's
Speaker 2: been incredible.
Speaker 1: Damn that whole duo. I mean, like, what was it
Speaker 1: that stat there? Kyrie and Luke are the first starting
Speaker 1: backcourt these have at least thirty points in the same
Speaker 1: game three times in a postseason in the last fifty years. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're doing They're doing something. They're doing something. And man,
Speaker 1: Gafford looks fantastic too. I've I I went going in
Speaker 1: look because as a Laker fan. I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: you beat the Nuggets, be my champion now and do damage.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, you can't handle them. You
Speaker 1: can't handle them, like aunt really needs he needs he
Speaker 1: needs help. He needs help beyond what is on that
Speaker 1: that bench and on that court at present. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was interesting too because that game four like sort
Speaker 1: of like everyone was like, well, you know, Kyrie was
Speaker 1: what fourteen and oh at that point and close out
Speaker 1: games and this was his first blemish. And then I
Speaker 1: guess aunt was saying He's like, I did not want
Speaker 1: to be swept. So I took that personally and was
Speaker 1: an assist shy of a triple double.
Speaker 4: So I liked what Minnesota did there.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, Ant was talking, you know, being
Speaker 3: aunt ish as he does, you know before the series,
Speaker 3: like I got Kai that wasn't that wasn't working up
Speaker 3: so right, and they put McDaniels on him, you know,
Speaker 3: and Kay's he struggled, you know, in that game, and
Speaker 3: dal still had a chance to win, and.
Speaker 4: Lucas struggled as well.
Speaker 3: So I think if you're Minnesota, you feel like you
Speaker 3: can at least push just the six, especially going back
Speaker 3: in your home floor although they haven't been amazing on
Speaker 3: their home floor, you know, especially from that against Ednver.
Speaker 4: But ultimately this is this is a spot.
Speaker 3: Where hey, you just got to, as an old cliches,
Speaker 3: go one game at a time. But I think you're
Speaker 3: a thousand percent correct and what you've alluded to, you know,
Speaker 3: with Aunt doesn't have Cat being able to do you know,
Speaker 3: a number two type of things.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 3: And I don't I feel like this was I don't
Speaker 3: know if this is a real thing on on Twitter
Speaker 3: or whatever the case to be, but I damn near
Speaker 3: fell out of my chair when Shaq called Cat mister meow,
Speaker 3: and I was like, is.
Speaker 4: This a real thing?
Speaker 3: And I was searching for it, but I was like, yo,
Speaker 3: he's got he can't be mister meow.
Speaker 4: He's got to be out there, you know.
Speaker 3: With a like a full like roar and and not
Speaker 3: me out and like you know, like like like Kitty
Speaker 3: in the corner.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: So that so they need from Carl Anthony Towns, for
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards to and and and company to push this series,
Speaker 3: you know, to six or seven games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh do we think what do we what do
Speaker 1: we think? Six? Ken?
Speaker 2: I mean that sounds like wishful thinking from a Celtics
Speaker 2: fan that they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Face listen, hold on And going back to that from
Speaker 3: the other side, have the Sics did you see Jason
Speaker 3: Tatum or the ghost of Marcus mart Tanya Hardening, you know,
Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell's legs or Jimmy What.
Speaker 1: Are we talking about here?
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that looks especially like a witch's curse
Speaker 2: at the end of that game one man, so that
Speaker 2: anybody cursed anybody.
Speaker 1: But I'm not saying it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald, but wow,
Speaker 1: where was Jason? Was he in dey Plaza? Yeah? I man,
Speaker 1: six games? Maybe I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's an interesting question because you got MAXI
Speaker 1: Kleeber came back in for his first little bit uh
Speaker 1: in that game five? Was there game four? You think,
Speaker 1: what do you think his impact is going to be
Speaker 1: as compared because I feel like, you know, prising is
Speaker 1: coming back is one thing, and Kleeber could be potentially that,
Speaker 1: but he's been out since May third, so I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why Dallscott has got to get
Speaker 3: this series over with so he can continue to rest
Speaker 3: and rehab whatever. Because he's got like a holster on
Speaker 3: his shoulder right now. I know that's what he heard,
Speaker 3: but that thing looks crazy, yeah, So I can't imagine
Speaker 3: that's comfortable to shoot with. And that's the biggest thing
Speaker 3: that he's out there for right is able to space
Speaker 3: the floor. So he looked hesitant, you know what we
Speaker 3: saw in game four, and then when he did try
Speaker 3: to hoist it up because like he just had no choice,
Speaker 3: was obviously well short. So I applaud him for being
Speaker 3: out there number one, but I think understanding that he's
Speaker 3: going to struggle right now and he needs some more
Speaker 3: rest in essence to be able to get back into
Speaker 3: game shape and be effective in the NBA Finals if
Speaker 3: Dolls were to make it there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dallas has thirty five allups in this playoff successful valubs.
Speaker 2: The remaining teams combined have twenty I guess not remaining
Speaker 2: anymore because the Pacers are out. So the Wolves have six,
Speaker 2: the Celtics have eight, the MAVs have thirty five.
Speaker 1: There were some what video game esque like lobs and
Speaker 1: like in that Series two, I was like, there can't
Speaker 1: be somebody on the end of this one, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: and just that one last night with Derek Jones, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I was like where did he come?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And Linz Yeah, eyeing.
Speaker 1: Through the air and like seriously it was it was crazy.
Speaker 1: How many so with the Celtics wrapping up their series
Speaker 1: Dallas still being in there is how many days of
Speaker 1: rest potentially the Celtics going to have by the time game.
Speaker 4: One again to being ten nine or ten days?
Speaker 1: Nine or ten days.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a lot of rest. That's basically like next season.
Speaker 2: So who knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what the haters? You can call it rust Maybe
Speaker 3: they get rusty in that time as well too, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, where are you in this rest or? Rust? Jack?
Speaker 1: Are you on rust?
Speaker 2: Oh No, I think it's Yeah, I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: be rusty. I think it's I think it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a mess out there. They're going to be They're going
Speaker 2: to look like they're playing.
Speaker 1: With the Celtics. If the Celtics don't win an eighteenth championship,
Speaker 1: everything's a failure.
Speaker 2: That's all I know.
Speaker 1: That's all I know. You know at this point, that's
Speaker 1: what that's what has to be Like, that's I'm going
Speaker 1: to lean into it that hard now. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I have a feeling the rest will only benefit
Speaker 1: the Celtics at this point.
Speaker 3: Just can I can I ask a real question like
Speaker 3: in this regard so no, is it really just it's
Speaker 3: Celtics lore that that everybody is because when I I'd
Speaker 3: have to think about this a lot, obviously in the
Speaker 3: last few days, and there's not any really bad personalities
Speaker 3: or bad people, like do you do you like? Most
Speaker 3: people love Drew Holliday, Most people love Derek White Tatum
Speaker 3: think maybe but maybe you think they were anointed before
Speaker 3: they should have been, or one of the cases.
Speaker 1: Being no, not even that. Like I actually I like
Speaker 1: I like them, you know what I mean? I like
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown like me, has no left I like that,
Speaker 1: like me, Derek White is losing his hair, embrace the
Speaker 1: bald and now has found superpowers. I like Jason he
Speaker 1: looks like Jason Tatum looks exactly like my cousin I have.
Speaker 1: It's for me personally, it's that I'm in the rat
Speaker 1: race of counting rings as a Laker fan, like a
Speaker 1: lifelong Laker fan. So for me, I'm just fully invested
Speaker 1: in not seeing a number eighteen patch on the back
Speaker 1: of that jersey. That's it's pretty superficial like that, because
Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, like I really like
Speaker 1: I kind of you know, there's nothing against them personally,
Speaker 1: because I actually do like the players and I can
Speaker 1: respect the fact that they're good. But then I have
Speaker 1: to process that through my toxic Laker brain and go,
Speaker 1: that is bad that the men in green are this good.
Speaker 1: We don't like that. That is an existential threat to
Speaker 1: our ego. And that's for me just putting it very
Speaker 1: you know, bluntly. That's that's that's what it For me.
Speaker 1: It all stems from my Laker fandom has really nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the players at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it's personal. It's I didn't like Danny Ainge,
Speaker 2: and then I was like, oh, man, like, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: I'll be okay with the Celtics once Danny Ainge leaves,
Speaker 2: and then I didn't happened. I still really don't like.
Speaker 2: It's also like sick, uh, you know, like with the fact,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a Sixers fan, and like the the
Speaker 2: fact that they could have had Tatum and like traded
Speaker 2: out of the position to have Tatum is just like
Speaker 2: too much for my diseased heart to taste. I just can't.
Speaker 2: It's it's pure vitriol. Like I'm a small, small man
Speaker 2: on this subject. I am a person. How I feel
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 4: Was that Colangelo? Who is who? Who did that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That was Colangelo? And I don't see what everyone thinks.
Speaker 2: The big deal is find a new angle. That was
Speaker 2: a good trade. Normal, It was a normal trade.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what are the what are the reasons? Why?
Speaker 1: Like I because for me, I get just very narrowly
Speaker 1: through my prism of Laker fandom being in LA like
Speaker 1: why we don't like this Soltics? But I'm curious, like
Speaker 1: I guess for the others, it's just I think for
Speaker 1: fans of other teams, they're sort of like why why
Speaker 1: do they get the like why are they exalted so quickly?
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to understand. I'm like, oh, y'all are
Speaker 1: on my team, Like what is it? Because I know
Speaker 1: y'all don't like the Lakers either, So where are you
Speaker 1: coming from exactly here?
Speaker 2: Does America like the Lakers more than the Celtics? Probably right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they like but they also have a
Speaker 1: but also have a ton of haters. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's as because I mean, look at
Speaker 1: how much they people were the people were sea walking
Speaker 1: on our grave, you know what I mean, when when
Speaker 1: the Nuggets just clapped us. So I know that that
Speaker 1: that energy is definitely out there for the Lakers. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, and the Celtics probably like an equal measure.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm curious what everyone, Like, I get why
Speaker 1: people don't like the Lakers. They obviously our fans are arrogant,
Speaker 1: We are not rooted to reality in any kind of way.
Speaker 1: I'm just demanding players who technically cannot be signed to
Speaker 1: the Lakers be signed to the Lakers. So I exist
Speaker 1: in a different world, and I get that that is
Speaker 1: annoying to many other people. But then when I'm like
Speaker 1: with the Celtics, I'm like, I don't know, man, like
Speaker 1: they they weren't really you know, it's been a while
Speaker 1: since they were really really like that team.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I would imagine, like like a lot of teams,
Speaker 3: it's the it's the overall fan base that can be
Speaker 3: off putting. And so you know I have that and
Speaker 3: I said, I Celtic cover if you will. But I
Speaker 3: live in South Florida, so me with heat heat fans
Speaker 3: like it's I'm sufferable.
Speaker 4: I just I'm like, I just I'm suffocated, and so
Speaker 4: I can't. I just can't. So and when I watch
Speaker 4: outlets and.
Speaker 3: Things like that too, like no, you're just you're you're
Speaker 3: trying to create a narrative that, oh, nobody cares about Miami,
Speaker 3: and it's just stop it, stop it.
Speaker 4: Like culture gets shoved down my throat every every other day.
Speaker 3: So honestly, it's the fans and some and and for
Speaker 3: some folks it's media. Why there's such these polarizing things
Speaker 3: about the Celtics. But I think, as you alluded to,
Speaker 3: you know with Boston, this iteration of the Celtics, if
Speaker 3: you will, you know, they're mostly decent guys. I mean
Speaker 3: even b Brad Stevens in the front office like he's
Speaker 3: a mom dude, like he.
Speaker 2: Is like a good guy, good smart guy. Question, Warren,
Speaker 2: I don't understand. I don't understand it, Like you know what, personally,
Speaker 2: I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: I think it's because some our houses are so chaotic.
Speaker 1: You look at the person who's like parents are together
Speaker 1: and they're doing like, oh, yeah, I gotta figure out.
Speaker 2: For you.
Speaker 1: But your mom took you in at night, huh.
Speaker 2: While you're under their car cutting their brakes. Yeah, we're
Speaker 2: so happy for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, outside looking at you, outside looking in Brad Stevens
Speaker 3: the GM, or Brad Stevens a coach. No, they haven't
Speaker 3: obviously won anything yet, but you know, he's better that
Speaker 3: you're as Stevens as a GM or Brad Stevens as
Speaker 3: a coach from what you can remember.
Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't a fun conversation for me. Better
Speaker 2: when he's like a great coach or like an even
Speaker 2: better Yeah's like wow, amazing. I mean until this season,
Speaker 2: I would have probably said coach. But this, like this
Speaker 2: is truly like this is like a dream team level,
Speaker 2: like just at the strength of the team across the
Speaker 2: board is incredible, Like it's really I'm viewing this as
Speaker 2: the Olympic Finals when the Dream Team went to the finals.
Speaker 2: And if there's a loss there, I mean I can't
Speaker 2: even imagine. And like the level of embarrassment.
Speaker 1: Don't you guys still have like first round picks still
Speaker 1: he's been punting those picks he punted I think two
Speaker 1: picks to.
Speaker 3: Get Derek White, so you might have I think we
Speaker 3: have a first round pick this year that is our
Speaker 3: own whatever, but anyway, it's going to be late and so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but either way. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: because then like like at the you know, like moving
Speaker 1: Kemba and getting Al Horford and.
Speaker 2: Just how Yeah, that's what's frustrating. There are times when
Speaker 2: like things don't work out. You're like maybe this is
Speaker 2: the fall and yeah, and you're like no, what. Al
Speaker 2: Horford's going out of his mind. He's like Drew Holiday,
Speaker 2: the one Holiday is the one that like I just
Speaker 2: can't because I loved him. I loved like what he
Speaker 2: did in the finals for the Bucks, and you know
Speaker 2: as a Celtics antagonist, I was like, like anyone else,
Speaker 2: like anyone else please? Yeah, he's so perfect for them.
Speaker 2: He's so perfect for basically anyway. I mean, if you'd
Speaker 2: been on the six Ers, I feel like they would
Speaker 2: have been pretty good this year.
Speaker 1: And also like I know that there's stuff behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: There's a like doctor Lori Santos who's like this like
Speaker 1: happiness psychologist person, like she was working like with Brad Stevens,
Speaker 1: Like he's like can you come talk to us? Like
Speaker 1: the layers of thought that go into this is also
Speaker 1: like pretty impressive, like having intellectuals. I know, Jack, Look,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what am I going to do? Man? I
Speaker 1: still guys, I still have to call it as I
Speaker 1: see it. This is better.
Speaker 4: And I.
Speaker 1: Hate it. So Yeah, I hope this energizes Warren. I
Speaker 1: hope you're able to live for like sixty more years
Speaker 1: off the strength of our pain.
Speaker 3: Can it's I am. I am on cloud nine right now.
Speaker 3: I know they can't see me, but I am floating.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 2: The machines are gonna love you guys. You guys are
Speaker 2: gonna make such good batteries once the machines take over,
Speaker 2: because you're just so so blowing positive energy.
Speaker 1: I like that in your world. Jack. The happy ending
Speaker 1: to this is that we fall to a matrix style
Speaker 1: of dystopia and yeah, yeah, it's like, well, the Celtic
Speaker 1: Expands will probably be the best batteries and then.
Speaker 2: Get this thing out of here. Yeah, I'm all right. Anyway,
Speaker 2: should we take a break and come back and do
Speaker 2: the fastest segment of podcasting? Yeah, it's true. Here we go.
Speaker 1: And we're back Warren shot, so, well, well, I think
Speaker 1: you're maybe you're you're you're my favorite Celtics fan. I
Speaker 1: gotta say, you know, because because.
Speaker 2: Not tough competition. Man. Love.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think you're my favorite child and my
Speaker 3: only child.
Speaker 2: You or Donnie Wahlberg.
Speaker 1: Wasn't Donnie at the game the other night?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But anyway, it is time for
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter rapid fire round of questioning. This is
Speaker 1: the fastest question answer segment in all sports podcasting history. Warren,
Speaker 1: you've done this before. We're going to ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Just reply quickly, give us a sinct answer. Don't nothing
Speaker 1: too long because we're trying to maintain our titles the
Speaker 1: fastest question answer segment and populastnstry And if you take
Speaker 1: too long, we will be rude to you and we
Speaker 1: will take our anger out as Sixers and Lakers fans
Speaker 1: on you in a way that is disproportionate and maybe inappropriate.
Speaker 1: But you're a brave person. You're stand up man, so
Speaker 1: we expect nothing less from you. Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Lets it get it popping right, start the clock.
Speaker 1: Don't do any easy ones, Jack, but we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta make Warren look, I'm.
Speaker 2: Crossing the ones out right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good ones. Pull up, pull up his phone records,
Speaker 1: pull up his phone records to that one. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: ones from June twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, old Warren.
Speaker 1: Oh you made a lot of calls to this number.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Uh. First question, this is from the Discord and shout
Speaker 1: out to everybody that goes on the discord. What what
Speaker 1: What will the crowd reaction be like in Boston if
Speaker 1: it's Kyrie and the MAVs rolling into town. Will the
Speaker 1: turned up crowd get guys like Luca and Kyrie going,
Speaker 1: Will it be an atmosphere that will just be terrible
Speaker 1: for everyone? What are your what's your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: atmosphere when they come to town?
Speaker 4: Crash negative? So I think no chill, no chill.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be awful. And that's the one part
Speaker 3: I don't want. Any part of Kyrie is gonna rains
Speaker 3: of booze. And I just they don't throw stuff at him,
Speaker 3: That's all I can say. Just it's not a great
Speaker 3: fan base when it comes to Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, sure, And like much of the way that
Speaker 1: you're powered by the tiers of Laker fans. Kyrie is
Speaker 1: powered by the booze of Boston fans, So yeah, that could,
Speaker 1: that could. Yeah, that's a battery for him for sure.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of talk about how the home
Speaker 2: court advantage has gone away. People aren't like doing that
Speaker 2: much better at home, if better at all at home.
Speaker 2: What do you think? What's your theory on that?
Speaker 3: Funny I listening to a show talking about that earlier today,
Speaker 3: and rest has a lot to do with it, you know.
Speaker 3: I think so the visiting team can kind of come
Speaker 3: in and you know, the travel is better, et cetera,
Speaker 3: et cetera. But I just think teams are better proportionately
Speaker 3: matched in general from what we've seen more recently in
Speaker 3: recent years. So I don't think home court avenge is
Speaker 3: what it once was, but you know, I'd still rather
Speaker 3: have it than not, but it doesn't hold the same
Speaker 3: weight that I think it did fifteen ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Also, there's something we've talked about in the past about
Speaker 2: NBA players being sort of SPIKEE fueled and like feeling
Speaker 2: like everybody it's them against the world. I wonder if
Speaker 2: like there's a part of it where like they react
Speaker 2: better to people like hating on them, like, yeah, right, exactly,
Speaker 2: Like a lot of it is like, you know, just
Speaker 2: made up hate, but like you know, you have to
Speaker 2: motivate yourself somehow. But like it when you're on the road,
Speaker 2: you actually get to like hear it and feel it.
Speaker 2: And it's like the type of person who becomes a
Speaker 2: great player these days has to do it in the
Speaker 2: face of just torrents of you know, hate on social media.
Speaker 2: I just wonder if, like, for a modern player, that
Speaker 2: is a more effective way to get going than like
Speaker 2: the adulation of the home crowd is like curing booze
Speaker 2: and anger. Right, that's my that's my loose, uh, soft brained.
Speaker 1: You're like yeah, And then like people like MJ and
Speaker 1: then Kobe kind of really made it that thing where
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, go ahead, I want it and then
Speaker 1: you stick that jaw out and you're like you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: But that was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But like, I feel like the feeling of quieting
Speaker 2: a crowd something that I have a lot of experience
Speaker 2: with in our live shows. I feel like that's got
Speaker 2: to be one of the more powerful feelings that you
Speaker 2: can get.
Speaker 4: I can give you a terrible example, I played intramural.
Speaker 3: Yeah basketball when I did, and we played against those
Speaker 3: frats and yeah, you know, they brought their sorority girls
Speaker 3: out and they and my little pickup team you beat them.
Speaker 4: I felt some type of way.
Speaker 1: That's true motivation.
Speaker 4: So yeah, translates all levels.
Speaker 2: That is the experience of playing against the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 2: by the way, is playing against a fraternity with a
Speaker 2: bunch of thro.
Speaker 1: We're playing siapp baby mine was Pike, so okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh and gammified Beta coming. Don't worry, don't worry, I
Speaker 1: will I'd hit airball or two in that game. All right?
Speaker 1: Was that a question? Or are you getting sure?
Speaker 2: Let's school say that was a question.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was a question. All right. Ward, you can
Speaker 1: go back in time to personally witness any finals matchup
Speaker 1: from history. However, many games the series went, you get
Speaker 1: courtside tickets to each game. What series are you sitting
Speaker 1: court with?
Speaker 2: Heat series are you choosing?
Speaker 4: God, I'd go back into I can't remember what year.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get it wrong, but obviously one of
Speaker 3: the ones Bird beat Magic, so you know, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know if that's four fives. One of those one of
Speaker 4: those years.
Speaker 3: So I was, you know, a fledgling individual at that
Speaker 3: at that time of my life and wasn't really following
Speaker 3: basketball in that but I think just understanding what that
Speaker 3: rivalry was like, not the first, but the most.
Speaker 4: I don't only say how, I want to say this, right.
Speaker 3: One of the more iconic rivalries in NBA history, you know,
Speaker 3: Bird versus Magic and Yeah, for something that I can definitely.
Speaker 1: Relate to, it's the year of my birth nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: For sweet the amount of second an smoke you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to deal with back there though, man.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and Rady and cigars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, saying eighty seven better maybe?
Speaker 1: Why? Okay?
Speaker 2: Places of the NBA for the next five years?
Speaker 4: Uh? Shaye? Aunt Wemby shat Webby?
Speaker 1: Okay, who's Aunt Wemby? That's my aunt Wenby?
Speaker 2: Is it not Luca? Because of how bad his forearm
Speaker 2: tattoo is, Like, that's that's one of the worst professional
Speaker 2: athlete tattoos, right, Like I say, sometimes I'm like, what
Speaker 2: did he smear on there? What is going on with
Speaker 2: Like there's like a you know what I mean, It's
Speaker 2: like kind of what he what's he smearing on it,
Speaker 2: like smeared a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's hard to know, isn't it? Like an
Speaker 1: eye like all seeing eye kind of thing, And I
Speaker 1: think like a hawk flying into the moon.
Speaker 2: Hey, I can't hate, all right, I can't hate. You've
Speaker 2: seen the little sun rise I have at the base
Speaker 2: of my back, so yeah, exactly, I can't. I can't complain.
Speaker 1: I'm oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he does front and back,
Speaker 1: so warrant.
Speaker 2: We've seen teams around my belly button.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rod in the style you got away?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: Reggie? Who is it?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: We got teams like the Grizzlies, thunder Magic taking steps
Speaker 1: you know, to the next level over the last few years.
Speaker 1: Who are Can you give us two teams you think
Speaker 1: we can also expect something similar from that are going
Speaker 1: to be in the conversation that previously wasn't because we're.
Speaker 4: Seeing that is not those teams you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the ones that fully encapsulate what I've just said,
Speaker 1: go outside the bounds and give us a prediction.
Speaker 3: So listen, I think Houston's closer than people want to admit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: coaching is a real situation there, and I love Shanghu,
Speaker 3: and I think jelling green is is going to be
Speaker 3: a dude, So I I'd pick Houston there, you know,
Speaker 3: try and think from an Eastern conference standpoint.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot like.
Speaker 3: Right now you have mentioned, right, so yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I would hope Detroit gets rocked together, but they're nowhere
Speaker 3: near where they be. So I guess I'll go with
Speaker 3: the safe pick care and then in your conference finals
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 4: Guess the Pacers we'll see them again.
Speaker 1: They should be so good, So I mean, man like
Speaker 1: them hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you talked about like you thought he would be
Speaker 4: the last time, me too.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, he's not particularly quick, but he's crafty
Speaker 3: and you know a little half turns doing the smitty
Speaker 3: and you know leanings and decent shot.
Speaker 4: You know, the little goosenack on his threes. Hey, I
Speaker 4: could rock with that. I could rock. I think you're
Speaker 4: a super producers saying the spurs.
Speaker 3: But until they can get some help someone, right, it's
Speaker 3: basically us three run around whether right now, and that's
Speaker 3: that's not going to cut.
Speaker 2: It right over under number of seasons until Wemby is
Speaker 2: top three MVP voter.
Speaker 3: Uh So over under I'm going to say over one,
Speaker 3: but I'd say literally in the year three.
Speaker 2: So wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean and and I mean, that's that's contradicting
Speaker 3: what I just said though in terms of Spurs won't
Speaker 3: be a good basketball team, you know, record wise, but
Speaker 3: I don't know that we'll be able to deny his
Speaker 3: his statistical impact. And if you know, people do say,
Speaker 3: you know what, I want to go play with that guy,
Speaker 3: you know, the Alien or whatever his logo is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, maybe they will be able to rebuild
Speaker 4: a lot faster, but he's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to for somebody to live up to
Speaker 3: the expectations in that first year that that was put
Speaker 3: on him too. And I know, you guys rough a
Speaker 3: summer league and.
Speaker 4: I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't you remember the spectacle that it was, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to watch him out there?
Speaker 1: It was actually was he there? I didn't do you
Speaker 1: remember the how quiet it got in Thomason Max Center.
Speaker 2: This sec he will touch the ball even everyone's like, yo,
Speaker 2: watch yeah.
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh my god, he missed that dunk.
Speaker 1: And I was like, this guy is a way strolls.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it. I'm out on this webby guy.
Speaker 2: And then he almost hit his head on the rim,
Speaker 2: just like walking by, and I was like, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be weird.
Speaker 1: He needs special awareness, uh A Warren. Finally, this summer,
Speaker 1: you know, we're planning on doing a dive into some
Speaker 1: nineties players, some of our favorites of the era. During
Speaker 1: the offseason. We're gonna highlight different players, give us a
Speaker 1: few recommendations of people that you think, you know, especially
Speaker 1: for newer fans, nineties era players that we absolutely they
Speaker 1: need to be familiar with.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I spoke about this maybe the last
Speaker 3: time I was on, but I'm definitely it's an only
Speaker 3: good a bit of goodie for me, the draws and
Speaker 3: Petrovitch nets. So what Derek Holeman as well to d
Speaker 3: C was a problem. He wasn't always motivated, but yeah,
Speaker 3: he was a problem back.
Speaker 4: In the nineties. And then to keep it Boston centric.
Speaker 3: Reggie Lewis, you know, and not to make you know,
Speaker 3: not to be morbid about it in any capacity. Obviously
Speaker 3: he passed on. Uh, but he was a bucket, you know,
Speaker 3: he could he could really hoop. So those are guys
Speaker 3: I think, you know, people would love it should should
Speaker 3: want to learn more about you know, those those those
Speaker 3: three guys.
Speaker 4: If you will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, he kept that four four on him. Uh well,
Speaker 1: warren Shaw, it has been a pleasure and an honor
Speaker 1: having you on Miles and Jack on Matt BOOSTI so
Speaker 1: you could sip on our loser tears this episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd love to have you back on if the
Speaker 2: Celtics don't win the title. Man, we got love to
Speaker 2: We would love to have you back on if they win.
Speaker 2: It's been nice meeting you. Good luck, yeah, good luck
Speaker 2: at your future endeavors.
Speaker 1: But we will not be able to look you in
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Speaker 3: So a lot of fun in this podcasting world. Happy
Speaker 3: to call you guys, colleagues, and I appreciate the platform
Speaker 3: so much.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. That's going to do it for us this week,
Speaker 1: and we shall be back where we will be talking
Speaker 1: inevitably about the NBA Finals twenty twenty four edition. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Bye bye.
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