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In this episode, we dive deep into the thrilling matchup between the Bucks and the Celtics. We discuss Khris Middleton's impactful return and the dynamics of the Bucks' team without Porzingis. Despite some initial worries, we remain confident in the Celtics' ability to win the series. We analyze the shooting stats, highlighting the Celtics' reliance on three-pointers and the challenges faced when shots aren't falling.

We also explore the intense rivalry between the Celtics and the Bucks, fueled by on-court tensions and personal rivalries, particularly between Jalen Brown and Giannis Antetokounmpo. The episode captures the heated moments, technical fouls, and the emotional rollercoaster of the game.

Beyond the game, we delve into the broader NBA landscape, discussing the implosion of other teams and coaches, including critical takes on Steve Kerr and JJ Reddick. We reflect on the importance of team dynamics, leadership, and the role of coaches in maintaining team morale.

We also touch on personal stories, such as Deuce's birthday celebrations and the camaraderie within the Celtics team. The episode wraps up with a reflection on the power of positivity, the importance of sticking to principles, and the anticipation of future games.

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Hey.  

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Now we're recording.  

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Okay.   How's it going?  

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Good. Thoughts on the first half? Bucks, Celtics?  

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The Bucks have turned up the heat,   and they're figuring it out. Khris Middleton's first date first came back.   It looks good.  

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Previously, you've said you were not worried about the Bucks.   Worried at all? Still not worried? I'm worried.   You're worried? Oh, you're officially worried?  

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I'm worried, but I'm ultimately not worried.   Like,   we might lose this game kind of worried,   but   I don't think we're gonna lose   a series against them.  

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Yeah. No Porzingis' game either, which I think makes a big difference because they're massive.   Yeah. They're a big strong team for sure. Yeah. They're huge. It would help to have them. Mhmm.  

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I think in the beginning, they just, like, didn't know   they just didn't play very well together. Even though they played last season together, it just kinda feels like they were still   at odds a little bit,   and they're figuring it out. Working out the Kings still, plus Middleton first game back? I feel like he's a little bit of, like, a glue   type of thing.  

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Yeah. And when things aren't going so well, he's a pretty reliable score.   Definitely good on the offensive end, so I think that helps a lot. I mean, also, first half,   we took 28 threes. They took 13 threes. We both scored 7.   Yeah. O of 12.   3rd, 2nd quarter, first time that's happened all season that we haven't scored a 3.  

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Yeah.   Oh,   in and out for Al.  

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In and out and out again for Al.  

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Yeah. So I'm definitely, like, a little worried about it, but at the same time, I just   I don't know. For me, Giannis just isn't the best team player out there.  

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No. He is good, though. He's an absolute beast. Certainly,  

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extremely good at basketball.   I just think that that was the downfall   earlier in the season, and I'm feeling like they're getting it together a little bit. So, yeah, it's a little worrisome,   but I do think that we're gonna win a series against them.  

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Yeah. And, I mean, if Dame's gonna shoot, like, 70% and you're not gonna hit your threes, it's gonna be tough.   For sure. Dame's going off.  

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We're a 3 point team   most of the time.  

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Off the time?  

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What's the we're look at it. Excuse me. I wanna edit that out.  

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Yeah. We'll edit that out. We'll edit that out. What's the  

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the latest and the greatest oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Jalen just got a tech.  

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Yeah. Jalen just did the point. Jalen's just about to get thrown out of the game. Jalen just did the point, which means you know he was upset. When he does the finger point It's Giannis. Yeah. When he does the finger point, that's when you know he's mad. Let's see what happened. He did absolutely just cook Giannis too, and Giannis smacked him. Yeah. But then there's something happened going up. Oh, then Giannis did an elbow.  

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Yana should've got a tech. Are you joking me? They missed that, though. But, yes They did. But they did miss that. Well, I don't care. I'm   I don't   Jalen to me can do no wrong.   I really don't care.  

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Yeah. I'm fine with the tech too. Because that was Oh, he hit the too small. Jalen hit the too small.   Still doesn't still you can't throw the elbow. Cannot do any wrong to me, but  

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he cannot throw his elbow. Are you joking me? That's the shit that he does that drives me crazy. I just think that he's   he just you know,   he is Giannis,   and he is,   you know, top 5.  

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But he thinks who the fuck he is. He thinks that he can just throw an elbow, and it's fine. It's not. Oh, wow. Giannis love gamesmanship because he's saying you should challenge it, and they absolutely should challenge it because it went right off his knee.  

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Is that gamesmanship, or is he just being   a little   scavut?   We didn't challenge that. That was a 100% out on him. I don't know. The replay, I couldn't tell. So went right off his hand. Jill, Drew, just about to get it on our own basket or their own basket.  

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What's going on? This has turned into a football game.  

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I don't really know, but   we need to gather get it together. I feel like I need Jalen to just, like, shake it off a little bit.   I love that he doesn't like Giannis because I don't like Giannis.   We're both Scorpios. We both know what's good and what's not good,   and Giannis is like, I'm just glad he's not on our team. I don't care how good good he is. I don't want him.   Typically, when teams when games get chippy too, we do better. So I think this could be good for us. I would say that has not always been the case. Good job, Al. We needed that we needed that 3, and he just got a 3.   Because Sean likes to say that Al gets us points whenever we don't need them,   and that's it where I disagree.  

I mean, Giannis just getting every single ball game. Be a brawl at the end of this game.   I hope so. There might be. Because I don't think that there's a single He took 7 steps. I don't think there's a single player on our team that likes a single player on their team, except that's not true.   I think that people like Khris Middleton.  

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Yeah. I'm sure guys are fine with Khris Middleton.  

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And   people are probably fine   with Dame to an extent.  

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Yeah. It seems like we have a chip on our shoulder against Dame, but I don't think there's, like, real hesitation there. Like, the rivalry.  

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Forget the heat.   Forget the heat. This is this is the rivalry.  

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For there to be a rivalry, you have to be good, and the heat are not good enough for there to be 1. Well, yeah. The Bucs are. It's over. Yeah. The heat rivalry is over.  

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I think that this is pretty legit because   Al has been,   you know, known   to stop Giannis, has he? I'm just making that up. Yeah. He's an Embiid stopper. Is he Giannis stopper? He's definitely good at stopping the big guys' who get teams problems. Lost a step, but he's still in it. And I feel like   they're not   alike they're they're not a likable team to me. I mean, there's some teams that   I   do kinda like, but this is not one of them. And I feel like this is the perfect rivalry for us, and I hope   that we win this game.   But if we don't, we're gonna win the next one   for sure.  



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Tomorrow or against the Bucks?  

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No. Against the Bucks. No. And tomorrow, but against the Bucks   is what I'm trying to say.   Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. We're gonna beat them. Well, I hope so. We're gonna beat them tonight.   My patient would tell me that I can't hope.   Hope means nothing. We are gonna beat them.  

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Yeah. Hope is kinda worthless. I need Jaylen to not force, though. I need him to go hard, but I need him to definitely not force. Well, that was quite a pass he just made, but d y is not really hitting him tonight. No one is hitting him. Made that up. I don't really know what the stats are. Just seems to me oh.  

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Oh.   Oh, was that?  

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No one is hitting him. Dame? Yeah. It was Dame. Did he get hurt?   I think he's just saying that because he missed the shot. So it's why it was like you're like Ow. My finger.  

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But it seems really fine. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna have just a quick sip here.  

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That's not something you have to broadcast.   I just can't have Al go 1 of 4 to start the Q3 from 3, though. That's what I'm talking about. No.  

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If if Al does it, it's like, if Al's 1 of 4   and if Jalen's 1 of 4, it's like   in your eyes, Al is 1 of a 100.  

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No. Either way I'm yelling, but they're giving out wide open threes. He said 1 of 4. That's not gonna work. On Dan, Drew.  

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Drew,   we kinda talked before we started the pod.   Definitely got a pep in his step against the Bucks.   I like him taking initiative.   He   he needs to go out there and he needs to be Drew Holiday   because I think that he is   taking a little more of a role player role, which is, like, all good. We definitely need him to do that, but   he is a great player.   He can make he can make plays. He can make buckets.   I just would I would like to see him play like this all the time. Yeah. It'd be nice to see him be a little more aggressive.   Yeah.  

The aggression is up tonight.   Maybe these free throws will turn d white's game around.   I just need d white to turn into a little wizard and just go whiz around everyone   and get this party started.   Do you know what I'm saying? Because sometimes I think he has got a wizard hat out there, and he just he just kind of is working his magic.  

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Yeah. This really makes sense how he can do some of the stuff that he does. He doesn't look like he should be able to be that good, and then he just pulls something out of his hat. Yeah.  

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But, yeah, I don't know. He definitely Giannis is just definitely   the Greek freak. If he wasn't Greek, he would have been some sort of other freak because he is   a giant   of a human,   A   a a giant,   strong   human being. He's an absolute force. Yeah. I don't know who this guy who's that guy?   We don't know. Which one? Number 5 on the books.  

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Gary Trent junior, I think.   Kill him.   Kill him, Jaylen.   Oh, nice. Drew the only one hitting threes. I don't know how many he has versus the rest of the team, but the only one hitting a shot.  

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Starts over now. 0. Let's do this. 00 halfway through 3rd, but really 6363.   Okay.   I,   Sean is just running across the room and   doing really  

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crazy things that but he's back now. So don't worry. You got him back. No one resort. It's an audio only medium. Nobody can see what's happening. There's no camera here. You coulda just docked for 10 seconds. No one would've had a clue. To all this.  

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Are you pulling up the things you wanna talk to me about tonight?  

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Well, I got those on here, but I was trying to see what the stats were for   the threes because I feel like Drew has, like, half our threes.  

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He could. But I'm happy for him. I need that out of him.   Anyway,   there's some things that I do wanna discuss.  

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Jiro has 3 threes, and we have   9 total. So he's got a third of them. What did you wanna discuss?  

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I wanna discuss the fact   that it is   one of my favorite people's birthday today.   Deuce.   Yep. He's turning like a number 7,   and I can't believe that.   That's crazy.   I know. I feel like it's getting more appropriate for me   to fangirl over him now that he's getting older.  

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Yeah. Now he's not 3 years old.  

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Looks like he got a lot of presents for   for his birthday.   And, also, I don't know how I didn't realize that his birthday is in December   and that he   shares a birthday month with our son.   That just, you know, gives me some peace.  

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Are they the same sign, or do you not know that? I don't know. You can Google it. No. No. No. I don't know. Sagittarius. That's not for me. Okay. Well, I will. Are not for me. I will. Just to see.  

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Because I don't remember. I'd I just know that I'm the same sign as Jaylen Brown.  

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So one thing I did wanna talk about tonight   was these coaches and these teams are imploding   across the league. Yes. And   I will say I  

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He's a sagg. He's a sagg. Wow. So Talon's gonna be just like deuce.  

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Terrifying.   After seeing these other coaches, I because I'll be the 1st to criticize Joe. After seeing these other coaches and how they behave,   there will be no more Joe slander for me the rest of the year. Mhmm. Regardless regardless. No. I'm done. Are you serious? I'm putting a reminder of this. I'm putting a pause for the It's on   it's on This is being recorded. Yeah. That The rest of the regular season,   their playoffs, I'm gonna get on them again. The rest of the regular season, there's nothing there's no hatred coming from me. Because a 100%. Because these coaches are all super freaking immature,  

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and they're   breeding very immature  

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basketball teams. Yeah. I have 2 examples. And little crybaby. Two examples. Let's hear it.   First up is,   Jazz head coach Will Hardy, who former Celtic assistant, was Mhmm. In line   to become the head coach or was one of the top guys who was being considered.   This is what he had to say after Dalton Knecht dropped 37 points on his team. Seemed  

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like everybody in the gym   knew that Dalton Connect was gonna shoot the next shot with the exception of a few people.   The problem was that those few people were on our team.  

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Our coach would never. My coach  

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my coach would never. No. Because there's just a respect amongst the players and the coaches   between each other, between teammates,   between the coaching staff and them,   and   they would never. I feel like you and I constantly are talking about we see these, like, interview clips on   the gram or whatever, and   players and coaches are just being, like, rude   about their own   team, and I just think that that's crazy.   Because, like, it's like with any relationship, if it's a good relationship, you don't talk crap about the other person to anybody else. You might talk crap to each other, which is perfectly fine and welcomed and important, and we need it. But we don't talk shit to other people. We don't need to air out any laundry   because then   it creates  

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a very messy situation. It's childish behavior. Keep it in house. It's childish behavior to do that.   And, I mean, I love to see it. I love to see these other teams just imploded. For us, I mean, I it's  

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I I don't love to see it, but it's kinda like eye opening. Like, wow.   There   are disasters.   We are not.  

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That's great. Do you want a little more? I have I have not him. I have someone else. Sure. Now JJ Reddick, do you think at this point   he's regretting  

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taking the Lakers job, or you think he still Don't eat it. Enjoying being the Lakers coach? I don't know what to make of the whole situation. It's very confusing to me. It feels like a little bit of a joke.   I   as I speak, I am nervous that someday, JJ Reddick is gonna hear me,   and he's gonna come after me because he's a spiteful, crazy   human being.   So I'm a little scared to talk,   but I do just think that he needs to   figure out what he wants in life, man,   and, like,   grow up and and be nice and not be so   smug. I mean, it's not cute. Yeah. This is,  

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after they lost,   it was by, like, 37 points or something crazy. Oh, 41 points of those by 41 points to the heat the other night. This is what he had to say, and the contradictions  

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throughout are just Let's hear it. Delicious. Let's hear it. It's easy to   not want   the ownership   particularly when   it's embarrassing.   I'm embarrassed, we're all embarrassed,   it's not   a game that I   thought we had,   the right fight, the right professionalism,  

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you know,  

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not sure what was we have to be a professional ourselves. Lost in translation,  

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there has to be some ownership on the court, and I'll take all the ownership in the world. This is my team, and I lead it,  

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and I'm embarrassed In the 3rd quarter.  

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And it's easy to   I can't I can't physically   get us organized. I can't physically   be into the basketball. I can't physically talk   and call out reds and physically   call out coverages, and   it's,   you know, I'm not and by the way, I'm not blaming players. That's not I I I own this. I own this. But Sir.   Gonna need some ownership on the court as well. What?  

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How incredible is that? Foot. Gonna need everyone else to own this.  

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Nothing on the player. But But but I need ownership on the court, which I can't go on the court. So who can go on the court? I own it well. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this.   Damn. Take him up. Wow. They just called it off. They just called it off. I don't know what just happened, though, but I just saw people people rioting out there a little bit. I think they said that this was in the act of shooting,   and then they took back that that was in the act of shooting.  

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Well, because   he didn't file him when he was in active active shooting. I'm not even sure he filed him. I'm not even sure either. I need I need I need,   you know, team to get teched up. But I loved how he was screaming at the ref, and Joe was screaming at the ref just as much. Yeah. And then He's right there with him as if he was just on the court as a player. And Doc was also all the way on our side of the  

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the bench Mhmm. Also screaming at the refs.  

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But something's going on because neither team can hit right now at all.   No. The teams are off for sure. Yep. Yep. Yep. No one can hit.  

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And then the other thing so   it's it's not a Steve Kirk clip, but  

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God. I spoke too soon.  

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Tame going off.   It's not a Steve Kerr clip, but   the after one of the games recently,   Steph   was   had some things to say,   and I feel like it was   really some direct shots at Steve Kerr.   It seems like things are not going well there. They had lost 4 in a row. I think they played Minnesota tonight,   so it'd be interesting to see what happens.   But,   things are not going well in Golden State, and I'll be honest. I was very worried about Golden State at one point. Who I was the number one most nervous about. Yeah. So here we go. This is,   Steph Curry voicing concerns over the 13 man rotation. Really you really came prepared tonight. I did some work. I think this has been helpful. I did some work. Yes. Okay.  

So he does a 13 minute rotation in a 48 minute game, but if you'll remember,   he couldn't play more than 10 players in a 40 minute game say how. During the Olympics.   Now it's a little bit long, but I think it's worth it just because I really hate Steve Kerr.  

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Let's do it.   Also, less I have to Less you have to think so. In this league, it's always  

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difficult to predict what's gonna happen.   We have a very unique   circumstance with this team just because we've come in with a strain in numbers philosophy,   and you want it to work, and you want it to prove itself correct.   We're on a 4 game moving streak, so you have to make adjustments,   whatever that means. And A lot of background noise. Everybody has to be ready for what they're asked to do. And if you're not playing, you have to stay sharp. It's hard as hell. Know 2 ways around it.   Moe played 2 minutes tonight. Kyle played   he's having,   like, 3 games ago, Moe had, you know,   under the Brooklyn game, he had a stretch in the first half where he had 15 and   played 4 minutes a second. It's just hard for everybody, so,   the coach's job is to, again, make those tough decisions.  

It's our job to help him.   If you're not playing, you don't bring a lot of doing. Then they now It goes up. It doesn't help anybody, including yourself.   And   hopefully, we turn the ship around and everybody's, you know, happy again. K. Does do you think the rotation  

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needs to shorten? It was 13 tonight in the first 14 minutes or something. The only thing I'll say is it is hard for  

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anybody to   know or try to get a rhythm and know, you know,   what you're gonna be asked to do.   I think the first quarter the Q2, we had we we should have played 13 guys. Yeah.   That's that's tough. That's   we are a unique team. It's a unique situation.   I don't think that's been done in the league probably ever. But   thanks Steve. 2 games get scheduled, and you gotta figure out,   what adjustments need to make. To your question, do we need to shorten it? We probably need to be a little bit more predictable on a night to night basis so guys can get a little bit of a rhythm. Is that short in 1 or 2 guys maybe?  

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Because what is Steve Kerr doing?   He doesn't he's he's a walking contradiction.   I can't stand   him. I can't stand to look at him. What did I say the other night? I don't know. I said something the other night that was quite profound, but I can't think of it just in terms of Steve Kerr and what he does to my   brain when I chemistry when I see a picture of him and him opening his mouth.  

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Yeah. I think people have had enough of Steve Kerr. I think people are trying to get him out of it. Because you know what? Steve Kerr coached  

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Steph Curry,   who is   an incredible player. Of course, they're gonna win with Steph Curry. I'm sorry.   And he had a very good team. If you had sent him to the Pistons, could he have won? Sorry. No offense to the Pistons.   But could he have won 4 or whatever the heck?   He wouldn't have even known what to do. He'd be out of the league. All 13 to 15 players every night.  

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Okay? He'd be out of the league. No. The thing is But if Jason was on his team with the Pistons, he wouldn't play them. The thing is if he put if he coached the Pistons, he would play 7 guys even though they would have 12 that were all about the same, but he has one of the best players   in the world, and he's playing 13 guys.  

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Yeah. What is he doing?   What is he doing? He doesn't know what he's doing. I think he's just trying to prove he's so smart and He's not smart. His own players want him out of there. I don't know. I think it's been a whole a whole,   mirage   with him.  

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Yeah. Well, I mean, he had the best   team ever.  

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But they're not. Yeah. It's not there. It's not real. He doesn't really know what he's going to do.  

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No. He's just sitting there coaching some of the best players of all time. He had Kevin Durant. He's had Steph Curry.  

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Yeah.   Klay.  

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Klay. I mean, Draymond Green, who people don't love, but really changed the game being able to play the center position at 604. Again, like,  

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you have to take responsibility   also for Draymond Green. He has been   getting him he has gotten himself into so much trouble over these years.   He's got no handle,   and and  

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do you think Joe would have stand for that stood for that for one minute? No. Of course not. No. So, actually, to just to really put a little bow on it and wrap it up,   so I just stumbled up. I wasn't even looking for Joe clips at this point. I had   already   gotten these ones. I was just gonna do, you know, a hatred of the other coaches.   These teams are imploding,   and then  

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this just falls into my lap. Call it hard work. Call it I'm just on the beat. I'm working hard. And, you know It feels like we are generally more on the beat tonight for sure. Good things fall into your lap when you're working hard. And so I this was from a while ago, but this is my coach. This is what Mike Tim Thomas was making some tough shots tonight. The whole Nets team was making some tough shots, especially in that Q1. And then combined with what John said about, you know, Sam Houser maybe not making some of the shots he normally does, some of the other guys not making some shots he normally does. How tough is it mentally to stick to the game plan? And is there ever a point in the game where you consider changing it up because they're making something that's not a part of the math system?  

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No. No. It's not that tough.   You gotta live by principle and not by feeling.   Just incredible. That's my coach. Golden. We don't go based on our feelings. We go based on what we talked about beforehand. The game plan.   What got us there over time?   We don't start freaking out. We don't start throwing 13 players in a game. We don't start saying that, I can't call reds on defense,   or my players didn't know who was gonna shoot the ball.   No. We just say, no. We're gonna do the same thing again.   Don't care what you have to say. Yeah.  

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No. I mean, Joe's pretty solid. I think   it's like  

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Joe is I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Pretty solid. There's no more Joe slander. It's not pretty solid. Joe, Joe's the best. Is Saul. Point 4 Joe's the best. Even recognize you right now. Hear any I just it just really struck me when I looked at these other coaches,   and you can always nitpick. You can always look at the game. You can always you to do that all the time. Yep. Well, you're such a shit talker.  

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About these guys, sometimes have some perspective.  

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I told you. With Joe maybe I'm not there on the rest of the guys. With Joe,   until we get to the playoffs, there's no criticism coming from me. Okay. It's good vibes only. It's positivity only. Power positivity it here first. You heard it here first. Okay. That's all you're getting from me with Joe.  

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Okay.   I'm a believer. I'm drinking the Kool Aid. Well, I'm not doing Joe slander right now. I'm just speaking of   what we have talked about in the last few weeks or so.   Like, I was so just annoyed with Joe because sometimes I'm just like he's one of those one of those people and personalities that you, like,   they turn into   something that someone tries to be. Do you know what I'm trying to say here? Yeah. A caricature of himself and stuff. He's got Joe isms, and he's, like, he's Joe Missoula.   And he's just so   individual, and he just digs his heels into this Joe Missoula way.  

It's kinda like   I don't know.  

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I think that's how he is. I think other people try to make it the Joe isms, and he's just been saying that same crazy stuff all along. For sure. And I just thought that he was just digging his heels in a little bit too much for me.  

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He was just being annoyed.  

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Agreed. Like you said, I was hating, but then I'd look around at what the other options are. Some of one of the guys who could have been our head coach. Mhmm. I mean, too, we were looking at email the other night, and, you know me, I love it. But he's trying to fight officials on the floor. He's trying to physically  

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And I just think for us, generally,   like,   even though we might you know, we can appreciate the entertainment and all these, like, things that are happening,   we   at the end of the day, even just, like, with how we live our lives, we're just   more   like, we   like the structure and respect   and, like, eyes on the prize.  

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Yeah. It's Not the drama. Like, just We don't need it. We don't want it. It's gotta be based on principles. It's not based on feelings. It's not based on emotions.   Mhmm. Or not getting upset.  

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Plus, we know Joe personally, so we can't.  

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We don't know him personally. But, like, through people   if he saw me on He went to school with him. We went to the same high school. If he saw me on the street and I had a Hendrick sweatshirt on, he wouldn't even look at me. No. He would look the other way. He wouldn't even look   in my direction. And if he happened to, like you said, he would quickly pretend he hadn't seen the Hendricken sweatshirt Mhmm. And he would look on the other side of the street. You know what? Maybe you should wear a Hendrick and sweatshirt to the game tomorrow night. We're going to the game tomorrow night, guys.   Should you do that? Actually, I do have a Hendrick and basketball hoodie now. Shout out to coach Holmes. Let's do it. Let's do it, and we'll rush the court  

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and say, hey. No. No. He'll say, no. No. No. That's my buddy. That's my buddy. Listen. I get 4 beers  

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at the garden tomorrow night and spend a $150   on them. Like, that's the number they not do that. If Sam wants to find his stroke,   which he seems to have a little bit He has been just playing  

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way more confidently. He's loose on her on the floor. He's, like, balling.   He's like,   what are you laughing about?   He's Balling.   Dribbling.   He's   cutting. He's   just she's just making his way. I like it. He's playing more free. He's not just, you know, being the 3 pointer. He's going after it. Also, you know me, power positivity.  

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I know I've been hitting on Al on the offensive end. I've gone to say this 3 times, but I just haven't.   On defense, on Giannis,   he's got him in his pocket.   As much as you can have Giannis in your pocket, he's got him in his pocket. This is one  

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tight game.   I feel that we haven't I mean, this is like neck and neck. If we lose a game that Jaylen Brown has 25 through the Q3, I will cry. Who who is this guy?   Did he just hit that 3? Yeah. He did.   Number 20. When he runs around, like, at this angle and stuff, like, with the hairdo,   it's Larry Bird. He's a little shorter than him.  

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That is   AJ Green. Went to Northern Iowa.   25 years old.  

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I just need us to start making our shots.   They just are not falling.   So what's the what's the,   how many threes do they have when we have   What's that looking like right now?  

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They have,   we have 12 and they have 9, but they've only taken 21, and we've taken 41.   Oh. We've taken just about double theirs. Yeah. They're shooting 43%,   and we're shooting 29%,   so it's a big difference.  

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I wonder what the game plan is here.  

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The game plan is to keep launching. We're not gonna stop. It's Joe. Lives on principles. We're not gonna stop shooting threes, and we're gonna hope that they go in.   Tough.  

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Yeah.   Okay. Well,   I need to know the rest of the Pritchard story.  

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Okay. Yeah. So Pritchard,   Gilbert Gilbert   Arenas had some stuff to say, and I do have that too.   He was going after   him and   your boy,   Pete. Drew Peterson. We call him We called him Pete. We thought his name was Pete for the longest time until we've had out it was Drew Peterson. We're calling him Pete, thinking his first name was Pete. But this is what Gilbert Arenas had to say,   and then I'll go into Pritchard after.  

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Man, go make a layup, dawg. Oh my god. Layup.  

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Yeah. You wanna shoot a layup.   Oh, you track, man. Hey. I see why fans don't wanna watch anymore. This is but I'm seeing the same shit at the youth level too. It's like they don't watch the layup thing. That's how I know the game sucks. There's no way it's fucking hell you can have 11  

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and 13 in the same game.   There's no way you can have these 2 guys play. Look at 13. Look how he walks.   Oh, he walk like score, please, on me so I can sit. My daddy gave me tickets. My dad gave me tickets to the game, and they just let me in. There's no way.  

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That's outright slander.   That's that's crazy to say. That's awful.   That's crazy to say. Now I will say Gilbert Arenas was an incredible player,   but that is absolutely  

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Flagrant.  

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Flagrant, thank you,   to throw out there.   So Payton Pritchard, originally, he threw up, like, he reposted it and hit him with, like, the what do you mean, or why can't we both be on the floor at the same time? Curious. Just curious, which, know, totally honest question. Why can't they be? Because they literally were for the best team in the league,   so it's confusing to me why they can't be.   But then if this will load,   of course, it's gonna die now.   Richard did have some other comments to say after that. And I have not heard this yet. Yeah. This you have not heard. This will be news to me.   And he, of course, he handled it like any true professional.  

He didn't get down in the dirt. He didn't start talking about no one wants to watch these games even though the guys are watching clips of the games.  

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I just don't understand why you wouldn't even say that because they're just not accurate.  

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He said, well, first of all, I really liked Gilbert as a player, and I respected his game. I was a fan growing up. So when you see somebody that you're a fan of growing up and then they make comments like that, it's definitely disappointing talking about something people can't change, the color of their skin. So the work that Drew puts in that I put in, I don't know. You just don't want to see that.   Aw. You know, obviously, he was a little hurt by it. Made me my heartbreak a little bit. It obviously hurt him a little bit, which is sad. It bothered him a little bit. Yeah. That hurt me to hear him say that, and, of course, that bothered him.  

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He's killing oh, I remember finally   I remember finally what I was gonna talk to you about. And I was like, I'm gonna save it for the pod. It has to do with Richard.   How do you say Giannis' brother's name  

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that was on the team? Oh, man. It's really And Nasus. Oh, yeah. Thanassis. Is it the Yeah. Thank goodness. Because I was never gonna come up with that.  

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Well,   he I don't know whose pod he was on, but he was on a podcast. And he said   they asked him something like, who is one player that you would wanna get rid of or something like that? And gosh. And he said, Payton Pritchard because   if everyone else is off, he's on every time.  

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Like, you'd wanna get rid of against playing him? Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah.  

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And I, like, love that. It could have been anybody, and he chose Bridge.  

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I mean,   the non haters, the real people out there doing it still,   they know. Mhmm. Gilbert,   he's been out of the game for a while. He's trying to be relevant, and he's and he's good at talking, podcasting.   He's definitely good, and his son is nasty.   His son just reclassified   from 2026 to 2025. He's a top five recruit for 2026, and he was like, you know what? I'm gonna leave early. So Well, Tatum knew that was going in. Tatum, if you wanna have a 30 point Q4,  

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please go ahead. We need to just turn up the heat. Can we just close out this game? I'm done with it.   Honestly, I am because it's stressing me out.   I don't wanna be stressed.   I I'm  

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No. This is I mean, this is what this is what makes it great, though. These close games, 4 games. Go  

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in   the gym,   and he needs to practice.   He's practices defense a little bit.  

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I feel like he probably does that. I feel like he probably is in the game pretty consistently doing it. Like him. Just sometimes I'm like, oh, no.  

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And I'm like, oh, you know,   he's probably working really, really hard. I know he is.   And I'm just like, oh god. Oh. Oh. Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Is he okay, though? Yeah. Of course. He's okay. He's doesn't get hurt. No. He's fine.   Wow. That was pretty sick.  

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Yeah. He looks ready to go. I mean, he's gotta show off for deuce's birth though. Well, look at this. Is he gonna get a call or no? He got name on. Oh, he did? Yeah.   Oh. Oh, yeah. Maybe flagrant.   That was tricky, though. But I think because he stepped on his foot, I think you have to slide under the foot. So since he stepped on his foot, he probably doesn't get a flagrant there.   But, again, because they both are above 25, if Jalen and Tatum score over 30 and we lose, I will cry. We will roll this pod until the end, and you will hear me cry on the podcast.  

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No. Thank you.   You won't.  

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If they lose and they're both above 30, I absolutely will.  

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But you won't.  

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No. You're telling.  

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I feel like we need to think about   something we can do, like a   a talent time or a talent talk.   Just a couple couple minutes about about tea during the pod.  

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Or we clip them in. Well, I mean, tonight,   most he's ever done with a ball. Them out clip them in. Yeah. Yeah. We can. Ah, well, the do have some footage. The intro of the podcast is gonna be him   saying go Celtics.   That's gonna be the the beginning.   Yeah. The podcast, they have the little beginning, whatever it is. That's what the beginning of ours is gonna be. Yeah. That'd be cute.  

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But, yeah, he really was into his stuffed   basketball.  

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He was at the top of the stairs  

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shooting a Which is scary. That's why I was barely into basketball. Because I was, like, purposefully,   disassociating   because I thought Yeah. Like, if something goes wrong, it will be entirely uncomfortable. See it. So I that's why I was in another room. Not because I didn't wanna hang out with you guys. I just was, like, purposefully,   I'm out of here. I'm not having anything to do with this.  

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This is no slander whatsoever because   that isn't I'm I'm a Peyton guy now, but he is having a tough game tonight. He's no points, o of 3.   I know. And Doesn't look right. It looks like something's off with him. I don't know what it is, but he just doesn't look quite right. Maybe that comment got in his face, but sometimes in his head. But sometimes, I feel like if things just cannot  

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some maybe he came in a little early or something, and he's just like, I don't know. I feel like   he has not got a stride at all. D White also off tonight. Mhmm.  

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Well, that just goes to show, like Oh, wow. D White's o for 9 tonight. Wow.  

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O for 8 from 3. He's pulling Bobby Porter's numbers too. Just goes to show, like, how at the end of the day, like, Tatum and Brown   are   the best because they're   they have been so consistent.  

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That's why those guys are all stars. That's why those guys are   top players in the league because no matter what the night is, no matter who they're playing,   they are gonna show up. They are gonna have points. They're gonna contribute in some way.   Yeah. They're not just gonna disappear. And the best players too. Like,   there's no way on earth where Jalen or Tatum are having a bad game, and they take 9 shots, and 8 of them are threes. Mhmm. They'll go to the basket. They'll find other ways to make themselves   impact the game. And that's the difference   between role players, no offense, and star players.  



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Do you think that Dame,   mentored Jalen?  

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T boy got some points. T y first field goal.   He does have 6 points because he has 4 free throws, but   that was his first field goal of the game.  

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We still have to get his beer. Is it sold being sold yet?  

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I think so. Forsberg was talking about, you missed it. He was talking about how he went and, like, helped it brew it the other day. Oh, cool. In the brew room. Yeah.   That's cool. Yeah. And he said a little fact I didn't know about Forsberg. He said he knows nothing about basketball, but he knows a lot about   beer. Forsberg knows nothing about basketball? His words, not mine. But I agree. He knows nothing about basketball.  

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And how did he get that job?   And I didn't. I don't know anything about basketball either.  

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Well, he's like a reporter. He's like a writer. He's not a Yeah.  

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I'm not   that either.  

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Yeah. You're not in the writing room. I will say, Tate is in takeover mode. And I'm not knowing anything about basketball.  

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I know people. You know? I know people,   and   I know good versus bad.   And so that's what I can speak on.  

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You know good versus bad. That's incredible. Like I've like I've said Knock it off, guys. Can't stop. Knock it off.  

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They   I I love the Celtics team, and I love the guys,   and I love watching the games.   But, really, also,   this NBA is like a reality show, which I've said for the last few years.   I feel like there's just always   something.   Whether it has to do with us or another team,   there is always something   that   is interesting.  

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Yeah. I mean, I know I talked about a little bit, Ime,   going to fight the guy, but   Tar Eason was climbing into the stands trying to fist fight a fan,   which will happen. I mean, I'm just Sooner than later, that's gonna happen. I'm just glad it's not us,  

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and I   it is unfortunate.   I don't need that,   but that's just the thing. There's something   all the time happening like that.  

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What Celtic player is most likely   to jump into the stands and fight   a fan?  

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Dylan Brown.  

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I do feel like that's true, but I also feel like he would never. But   he is besides them. That's what I'm saying, though. It's no one, but he is the most likely, but he would never do that. Yeah. So just no one on the Celtics would have him. He just wouldn't do it for his own self.  

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Like, not because, like,   he cares about the other person.   He would just be like, I am not gonna stoop that low. He's above that. Yeah. He's not gonna he's not gonna engage.   But yeah. No. There no one else. We're we have a bunch of cutie little softy angels on our team.  

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Speaking of which Some cupcakes.   JD?  

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Yeah.  

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I can't figure him out because every time he's with the Celtics,  

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he absolutely stinks. But Well or he just doesn't play.  

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In Maine, he just it in Maine. He just had a career high 46 points   and averaged 40 points per game the last two games.   Yeah. He killed it in Maine. Bananas We don't get it. In the g league, but then when he comes up, he looks lost. He looks like he can't play. Same for, like, the last 3 years. So what are they doing? What's he doing? I don't know. But What happens now? Like, is it just he gets to just go play in Maine for the rest of his career? Well, no. We haven't signed on a two way deal. I think next year, someone will sign him if we don't to a legit NBA contract.   Because when you're putting up those numbers, some I hope so for him. Team will do that. I hope it's not us,  

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but I hope so for him.  

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He's also   the franchise   leader   for the main Celtics in points and assists.   Good for him. Which, I mean, I don't know how many guys who have been up there, but still.  

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They'll go tall.   I was next to   the green light special guy.  

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Yeah. One of them looks at a monitor all day, and the other one plays professional basketball for a very long time.  

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I really hope we win this game.   Because our shots are not falling, but we are  

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really trying. Yeah. We need to win this game. These are the types of games that we do win now. We used to lose these games all the time previously,   and now these are the types that we kinda have learned how to win. Just next level. He's in take over. This year and tonight.   Next level. MVP of the league.  

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He might. He just might be,   which would be pretty incredible.   I mean, he's all these things that he's ever said that he wanna do, he doesn't.  

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If we're He wants to be MVP in the league, so I do feel it's gonna happen. I just don't know when. If we're the best team and he has this type of season, I don't see how he's not. Drew carrying us from the 3 point line.  

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Is there gonna be no more Drew slander from you either?  

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I'm trying to go power if you can't tell, I'm trying to go power positivity across the board here. Would really appreciate that. Again, you heard it here first. I mean, because why not? Why I could just I was thinking about why would I wanna date the team that I love? Yeah. I just am a critic. I I like to be critical, but see the light. I don't know. When did you see the light? I I think it was honestly the joke clip, which was on the way home from the cross tonight that I saw it. Oh,  

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this is a new development, so let's This is within the last hold your breath, people. 10 hours. Because,   you know,   changes like the wind over here.  

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I do think I'm gonna reserve my real judgment for the playoffs. I I will be a little critical in the playoffs. That's when it really matters. But regular season, I'm just going straight power positivity.   Also, I gotta say, I think Al is now one of 6.   Not say not hating. Just observing. Just observing.   Because you said, I say he never hits someone when we need it. Yeah. And I think that's just a true statement. That's not a hatred. Think that you're just being That's just a true statement. I think that you're just being a hater right now.   Regardless of how it works, I would just can't have Sam Houser covering Giannis. No. He has, like, a few times tonight.  

That hurts my soul a little bit.  

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Anything else you need to talk to me about?  

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Let me see what else I have.   Oh, Jaylen Brown, just a man of many talents these days. Do you know he's been doing Muay Thai?   Yeah. And do you know that he he claims, which   you never know, he I could see him as being someone to bend the truth a little bit, but he says he can hold his breath underwater for 3 minutes. No. Yeah. He's been saying that for a while now. 3 minutes is a long time. That honestly, I don't even wanna talk about it. Next subject  

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is anxiety.  

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Holding your breath underwater for 3 minutes? Yeah. Yeah. I will say drowning   is  

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I think that if you have any listeners, they're turning they're changing the channel because this is too stressful.   Yeah. It's it's definitely a fear that I have. I don't want any parts of that. Okay. Well, if you wanna talk about Jaylen Brown, we could talk about something else. We could talk about how he got fined $25,000.  

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I do wanna talk about that. So   I get   sure   the the, you know, the pulling the thumb across the throat, like, as though you're cutting someone's head off.   I can see why that would be problematic,   but I don't understand   the real difference between that   and when the guys hit the 3   and they point the gun   3 fingers up like a gun in someone's face,   and no one gets fine. No problem.   That's the   Miles Bridges.   That's he originated doing that, but other guys do it too or, like, point at guys after they do it. And, really, I think hitting the too small   because of what it leads to   is right in the same category as that.  

I don't see how that's much different. We saw it just in this game alone. Hits the too small more than any other player. Jalen hit the too small, then he got an elbow in his face, then he pointed, got a text. So I don't get   how you   identify. Okay. This one is  

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bad. They shouldn't even   unless it's, like, next level.   Like, just leave it alone. Let the boys play. Like, they're playing basketball. Yeah. I'm not leave it  

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alone. I'm not saying, like, the gun in the face, none of it bothers me, but I think it's weird how they say, oh, this not allowed. You know, he dunks on the guy and gets excited. Decide how much money and   this, that. Yeah. It's a scam. That's why.  

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What are they?   Poor? Like, why?  

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Yeah. The NBA needs to nickel and dime these guys. It's crazy.  

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It's nuts. Yeah.   But,   I mean,   yeah, he said he got carried away.  

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And for sure, I mean, I'm sure he, like, afterwards would would even say himself, like, okay. That's not me. Like, that's not in my character, but   the league is who I have the problem with. I don't have a problem with Jalen doing it or saying he got carried away or whatever. You're in the middle of the game. Your emotions are high. You dunked on a guy that no one likes.   Mhmm. No one likes him. What's his name? Isaiah Stewart.   No one likes him, and you get a little excited.   Yeah. Did did he actually cut his head off? Did he actually touch him? No. He made a gesture.   I I'm sorry. I grew up when it they said sticks and stones may break my bones. Names will never hurt me. Okay. That's when I grew up.  



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Okay.  

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I mean, you know, take   $25,000 from the guy. It's like criminal behavior.  

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I I don't   I know that you don't really   like them, but I do like the jerseys.   I wonder if people like the jerseys. Yeah. Nobody likes the city. No. I don't know. The biggest not a soul. I don't think that's true. There's no one. It's like I'm a tough critic. I am.  

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You're you could say you're a fashionista, but they're trash. No. They're not trash.  

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Trash. I don't think they are.  

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I think they're cool. The highlighter lime green is just not for me. And with the black, I just really don't like it. I'll take them. That was so nice until you dribble it off your knee. I think it's cool. I like how they did it with the dark green.  

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Mom, I'm into it. I'm into it.   Tatum? I would like to know what everyone else thinks. Tatum? Honestly.  

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He still kind of complains, but he has done it in a different manner this year. It's a little more subdued. I mean, Dame just said challenge it. Dame, you you could get arrested for that in some states. Dame is pretty annoying.   Yeah. He is annoying. Generally.   He's the type of guy who kisses himself in the mirror when he wakes up. He likes himself a little too much. He thinks he's a little too cool. I'm   too much. He thinks he's a little too cool. Oh, man. He for he is not hitting his free throws. What is he? He's missed at least 2 of them. How's he? I feel like he's sneaky.  

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Ben's missing some way.   Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't say that, but I would say that tonight, he is.  

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6 of 8 tonight?  

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Yeah.   That's,   too   too many misses.   So you've got about 5 minutes left. We're down by 3. We just keep trailing them.   We've barely beat   had the lead on them.  

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They're huge.   When they have Brook Lopez and Giannis out there, it feels like we're tiny.   Mhmm.   Because Al and Tatum are both 610, but that's tiny compared to those 2 guys. Nice. That was nice.  

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I love it. I love when we just play, like,   we're at the park.   You know what I mean?  

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We're just playing with the bros. We're just hanging out. Yeah. Just having some fun on a Saturday.   Yeah.   Doosan I love that they didn't give them that call. You loser.   Doosan That's a take fall.   Alright. Fine. We're gonna get Nan one. How do we not get Nanwan there?  

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I'm trying to talk to you about Deuce.  

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Sorry. Proceed.  

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All I wanted to say was that Deuce had a Lilo and Stitch balloon.   At the house? For his birthday.   And Tatum put up a video of him   of them rapping a song.  

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What song were they rap was it, like, their own song, or was it No. No.  

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What song was it? I I have no idea.  

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Is this on his Instagram?  

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Yeah.   Pull it up.   It's what I'm doing. It was cute. I mean, I don't know what the song was, but it was cute of Deuce.   How are you doing this?   How about doing what? How are you finding all the clips?  

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I got Instagram pulled up. I've been saving clips and all that stuff. I told you, I've been   doing research. I've been grinding.   I send you stuff. This was on the birthday post?   No. It's on a story. Oh, how am I gonna have that? Is it today?  

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Yeah. Alright. Hold on.  

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You know I'm on it.  

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Yeah.   So   well, that is another thing that is heavy on my mind oh, yeah. What did you say?  

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I'm with a 8 p, the 200 k. It's on me to cross rainbow face.   Ain't no way,   but it ain't okay.  

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The dude just cough and I said say. Never He said nothing to say. Ahead of the game. It's finished. I go ahead of the game.  

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It better be What is this song? Do you know it? I have no idea. Jayson Tatum and I do not listen to the same music. Oh, I'm gonna listen to that song now because   of them.  

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I will Shazam and after this.  

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I just like how Deuce is, like,  

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sickly in the back seat rapping the song with him. Yeah. Deuce was, like, half checked out, half rapping the song.  

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That was funny. I loved it.   They're up by 1. I feel like this game has really been a long game.   This has been a long game. But I feel like there's not been that many time outs. It just feels like they've been   pounding the pavement out there.  

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Yeah. I've been going at it. Yeah. I would love if we could pull away here just a little bit.   Boy, that was scary.   Oh, up.   Yep.   We're just imploding.   We're just gonna implode.  

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I don't know.   I just hope they don't go to overtime.  

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Overtime.  

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I would love overtime. No. I'm a tired girl.  

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It's Friday night.  

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I know. I gotta work tomorrow.   Gonna see one person. Oh, please. You better not.   You guys wanna see us fight.   We're about to.  

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Oh, we already talked about this. Keep it in house.   We're not doing this in public.  

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Okay. Alright. Turn these turn these off. Turn these off right now.  

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And the pod.   I'm going to fire you if you keep doing that.  

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I mean, I think it's been going well.   When are we gonna release these pods?  

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I'm releasing them next week.   I so I gotta listen to the other 2, make sure they're worth putting out. Oh my god.   This may be the first one, or this may be the third one. But either way, they're going out.  

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Alright.   But what are you gonna do? How are you putting them out?  

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They're gonna be able to where you can get a podcast. Are you serious? Yeah.  

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Oh, man.   Well, maybe our friends will listen to a couple minutes of it anyway.   Oh, he went through the basket. He went through the basket. He did. He did. They called it. They called it. They called it. Oh, please. These guys just please. I also I can't wait to hear the post game interviews tonight. Let me tell you. If I was a coach,  

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I would put a ban on did. No. He did. He absolutely did. It's through the I don't  

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know if he did. Let's see.  

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I absolutely did. Yeah. He did. I would put a ban on guys doing the   the finger wave to to do the check because all of them are wrong. They get the ball?   Because they scored her 2 points. It's a goaltending violation.   Two points counted, they get the ball just like another basket.   Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This is the segment called Chelsea doesn't know basketball.  

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Yeah. I was like, well, he didn't get the points, and they got the ball,  

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but we did get the points. Now we got the points, so they get the ball. Okay.  

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Yeah. See? I didn't know that, but now I do.   I don't know a lot of things.  

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Yeah. The postgame, hopefully, we win. The postgame would be electric. Either way, it's gonna be  

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must see TV. Oh, what the heck did he just do?   Oh, you shoulda hit that.  

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Yeah. Did that. If you fake pass to a guy and then you shoot it, you have to hit that.   I will let Giannis shoot a 3 pointer every single time. I'll leave him wide open. No questions asked. Please, god. Al Goen.   Oh, he won when we needed it. No. And the Celtics are up 4.  

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Wow. Sean, that   wow. Well, that's his wifey, I think.   Pretty sure.  

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Is that his daughter then?  

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I don't know. I didn't see that. Oh, there's a little girl sitting right next to her. I would say yes.   I will say, though, I don't like the lime green shamrock   and the I don't like the warm ups. That's for sure.  

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But it's the same thing. No. It's not.   It's the same color. I don't wanna talk about it anymore. It's the same color. It's trash. I don't wanna talk about it anymore. Trash. Oh, how Do you have thoughts on the game tomorrow?   Look at the schedule. Lot of home games.  

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Well but look at all the days off. What are we gonna do with all of our time? No. I don't know. It's gonna be tough. 4 days off, 2 days off, 3 days off.  

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Yeah. It's rough. Well, we just had them 5 times in 7 days. So That's crazy town.   Might be for them, though. You know? Yeah. Give give the boys a little break. Hopefully not hopefully. I'm gonna stop saying that. Get a win tonight. Get a win tomorrow   because I'm with your patient. Hope is worthless.   Hope gets you nothing.  

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Yeah.  

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Nobody loves the teammate hitting the shop more than Tatum.  

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So cute.   I love it.   My thoughts on tomorrow, I'm excited to go. I'm excited to see   Smart out there   because I feel like he's really hit his stride. It makes me feel sad that he doesn't start for Memphis.   I don't know why that bothers me,   but it does feel like he's hit his stride. He's like and the only way that I know that is because of Instagram,   but   he seems like he's happier and everything. Did you see Joe get thrown out? He threw an absolute pussy fit. I know, but same thing. It's like,  

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what did he he didn't direct it at any they also didn't even direct it at any money. It's come. Was a oh, boy.   What are you supposed to do?   Like, these guys can't show any emotion.   It's kinda crazy to me.  

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Yeah.  

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Yeah. Mark is smart last night. In a win against Sacramento,   18 points.   4 of 8 from 3.  

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Yeah. I just wanted to do all that before him.   I miss him.   Well, I'm excited to see him play.  

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Yeah. It'd be nice and get to see poor Zingos play too. Love that he's out tonight.  

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I know. It's like,   I forget that we have him   sometimes   because he's been ahead, been out for so long,   and he's not playing right now.  

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Yeah. It's almost like we just   tick away perfectly without him daughter. His daughter. What is his wife? What do you think his wife is doing on don't know. She's a businesswoman.   With one minute left. His business to attend to. Yeah. She's doing business with people screaming.  

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I don't know. I don't know. Maybe maybe their baby,   because I think they have a younger one too.  

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Yeah. Maybe the baby's up just screaming, crying at the house.   She's like, go to sleep.  

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Go to sleep. We know all about talking to our babies through the phone.  

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I'm just talking about Yeah. Especially at Celtic game.  

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Yeah. Well, I was talking about our old dog Sage.   I thought you asked these. I had to talk to her through the phone.  

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Oh, air ball. No. Get 1 bucket. Seal this thing. Get Oh, man. One bucket. So stressed. Why rep 3?   Yeah. With Damian Lillard on their team. Yeah. Damn. I don't wanna see a damn time.  

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I already said I would call him. Sick.   30 seconds left in this game. Damn. He should've just gone run. Sometimes I don't trust him in these   okay. Shoot the ball. Oh, let's go.   Giroux.   Sometimes I just think that Tatum holds on to the ball for too long. He, like, just, like, panics a little bit a little bit too much in those situations. You know? Well, he always wants to shoot it in those situations. That's why I think he holds on to it too long, and then he realizes, oh, I can't shoot it now, so he had to pass it. Yeah. I think that the place is gonna go crazy if we win.  

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The place is already going crazy. Yeah.   I mean, at this point, they're gonna have to file regardless.   It's gonna be under,   the shot clock by the time they shoot it.  

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I'm excited. I mean, Tatum, did you just, like, watch his feet there? He was just like it was like he was going through mud.   He was pushing so hard to get to the basket.   No. He's just a strong dude.  

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He's a beast. Mhmm. MVP.   MVP.  

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But Drew had a great game. I need this out of him all the time. You don't have to just do this with the Bucks. It's like no one's saying, okay. Yeah. We're playing the Bucks. Like, you're free. No. Do it anytime. You're free all the time.  

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You do it all the time. And I don't even need the game to be that great. I just need him to be that aggressive. Yeah. Just, like, take take  

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take the shot. Take the initiative. Do it. We trust you. We believe in you. It took 14 shots tonight, 4 of 9 from 3, 18 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists. Great.   That's a great game. What does other games usually look like?  

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His average   on the season, he averages   11.7   points per game.   So, I mean, close, but it just seemed like he was way more aggressive tonight.  

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Yeah.   Close, but, like, not that far. It's a lot of No. It's above. It's it's a lot above for sure.  

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It's hard. And more rebounds, more assists.  

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Oh. Oh. Oh.  

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Oh my   this ref hates   Jaylen.   Called the tech on him. Called the fall there.   This hall monitor.   Give this guy a wedgie.   See.   He didn't touch him.   He did they challenged it. He didn't touch him.  

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Oh, boy.   Luke didn't play one second tonight, did he? Not a Luke game.   But it's a game?  

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The athleticism.   With Giannis out there and Brook Lopez, I think he's very athletic. He's gonna bring you out to the 3 point line.   This guy, number 46, is rough. I'd love to get hands on him.  

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Remember you're being positive?  

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Yeah. With the Celtics.   Just not with anyone else? They're definitely not with the referees.   I would love to fist fight a referee.   They're gonna call the hand on the back. It's gonna be so tragic.  

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The hand on the back?  

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Yeah. They're gonna hold uphold this foul call, and it's gonna be because his hand was on his back.  

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I feel like they haven't had many commercials and many breaks.  

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That's because it's not halftime   where they come and they literally talk for 14 seconds and they go to commercial.   Most infuriating thing of all time.  

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Man,   what do you think is gonna happen? 107, 102, Celtics.  

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Celtics win. It's gonna be a foul. He's gonna get 3 free throws. He's bragging to hit all 3. 107, 105, they have to foul.   Otherwise, we could just run the clock out.   We hit our free throws. We won.   But they can play the, like, the hit of 3, hit of 2 game. What I'm interested to see is if we are up 4 if   Joe decides to foul.   Left hand on the body. On the body. This guy.   And he had to say and also grazes his body on the way down.   He had to throw in. He followed them twice.  

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That's sick.   3 free throws.   That's really tough. That's very tough.  

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Miss one, Chris.   Miss Miss one. Miss all of them. Missed the first one.  

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That's tough, though.   Maybe not really worth it, but here we are.  

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What's not worth it? The challenge? I mean, at that point in the game, you have to. What else are you gonna challenge?   Nothing. We got another time out left, so   absolutely worth it.  

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Really?   But wouldn't he have just gotten 2 free throws?  

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Chelsea, do you understand how challenges work? That we challenged the call that they made on the floor. The call they made on the floor was a 3 point shot that he followed upon. Where where do you this is segment number 2. Chelsea doesn't understand  

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basketball. Chelsea doesn't.   Chelsea doesn't.   I don't.   Are we gonna lose this game?  

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Stop. No.  

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Tatum is shooting 2 free throws. The pot has been derailed because I'm worse I'm stressed about this game,   so I've lost my,   conversational   skills.  

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You're just mentally imploding.   Mhmm. Alright. They had to fall to give.  

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Okay.  

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So we're gonna pass it, and, again, they're gonna fall.  

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Okay.   And then we're gonna get 2 points unless   unless they oh, Jaylen. You never know. Definitely don't give it to Jaylen.   You never know. What is this?  

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Trying to waste some time. Great. Run the clock. Run the clock. Run the clock. Run the clock.  

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That was funny.   Turn   on the jets. Yeah. Run.   Alright. We better freaking win this game.   We won this game. I'm downing this one, and   I'm getting that cookie upstairs.   Oh, yeah. We're getting both cookies. You're getting the cookie upstairs. I mean,  

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that's it. Stay down and watch postgame?   Yeah.   They lose, we're shutting it all off. We're not eating any cookies.  

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Oh, man. I thought he missed that. The   the closed captioning on the thing, it really throws me off sometimes.   Yeah. The closed captioning does kinda mess it up. But Well, I need to know. Can we put a poll on the pod?   Can you put a poll on it when you post it?  

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Do you not understand how podcasts work? Do I have to do a segment called Chelsea doesn't understand podcasts? Like You can how about this?   You can put a poll   on the Instagram.   Okay. Well, I would like to know Oh, let's go. Oh. Let's go. Donk that. That's a take.  

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What happened? Oh, they didn't follow him. Oh. Oh, what is he doing? He's just I was like, okay. Yeah. I'll just get a bucket.   Oh, yeah, baby. Oh, yeah, baby.   111105.   We won this game.   I'm having this wine.   This is exactly what I needed because they worked really freaking hard to win this game, and people's shots were not falling. DY did not have a good game. Pritchard did not have a good game. Historically, they do have good games, so   I am proud.   And I'm also even more proud of Tatum and Jealin for doing what they're supposed to do.   And I'm also proud of Drew for stepping it up,   and I'm proud   of Sam   for running, running, running, and just being a being a baller,   And Al for sticking in there.  

And Joe for being Joe.   Shout out to the c's.   That's all I have to say.  

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That's all we got. Like, subscribe,   tell your friends,   pass the word.  

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Yeah. Yeah.   Peace. Peace.