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00:07 Hey, Bobby Manning here. Welcome to another Garden Report after the Celtics beat the Cavs in game
00:13 three of this Eastern Conference semifinals matchup. Josue Pavone,
00:16 Noe Del is out here again. Bobby, that wasn't one of your strongest hays, I'm going to be honest.
00:19 It was some dude, it was some dude. Yeah, I mean, I get it. We landed in Cleveland.
00:24 It was 1.30am here. Yeah, we landed in Cleveland this morning exactly. Look what time it is.
00:28 Been up for 36 hours. That's just something I noticed, you know, but hey, it's been a productive night.
00:32 We're fighting third, just like the Celtics tonight. Not their best night.
00:34 For real. But, how was that? Much better.
00:39 Jalen Brown, pushing them, halftime. He's talking to them, he's in their ears, he's saying rebound,
00:45 he's saying defend. And it continues from this commentary out after game two that it was
00:49 unacceptable, especially the defensive side of the ball that they played there. I saw that as,
00:53 is Jalen Brown becoming this team's vocal leader? The guy who's just going to speak out and kind of
00:59 set the tone vocally for them? I think he has been all year. I mean,
01:03 you know, it's hard to know because I think leadership comes in so many forms and we see
01:06 a snippet of it. We see like what they say in the postgame pressers and we see maybe snippets of the
01:10 Mike Don segments on ESPN. But all year, he's been the one that's talked about himself being a leader.
01:16 I think he's named that many times. I think that's how he wants to be perceived. And certainly he's
01:20 the one that takes the most accountability and is the most kind of vocally disappointed, frustrated,
01:25 calling things out after a loss. And that's a leadership style I'll maintain. I don't think
01:29 it's the only leadership style, but I think certainly he's positioned himself as the team's
01:32 leader. Yeah. His team needs that, Derek, this way too. Someone has to do it. I think he has a
01:36 distinct voice. I do think he's one of the leaders in that locker room. And yeah, Noah, I think this
01:40 year is he's taken it to another level. People will talk about the contract extension, people
01:45 talk about the pressure, but he's coasted through it with just working hard, really just evolving as
01:52 a defender. I think that's a huge part of his game this year. That's reached new heights. And I love
01:58 what he's had to say about Joe Mazzuola and vice versa. I think those two are really connected in
02:04 a way that's kind of let Jalen just be himself. I always say this year was great because of not
02:09 only the contract, but his role, I think is much more defined. People talk about the pressure that
02:15 comes with that contract, but I look at it, it's twofold. It's also a level of trust from the
02:21 organization. And it's kind of freeing too. Yeah, absolutely. You're not playing for that contract
02:24 anymore. Right. And you know, this is my home. Not to say that Jalen was thinking, "These guys
02:29 are going to trade me," but it's just that insurance, that commitment, that recommitment
02:33 that I think really meant a lot to Jalen. Not that he was holding back, but you get to see
02:40 really who he is and doing the dunk contest and how every dunk was with a dedication or symbol
02:47 or representation of his life or his personality. I love all that because Jalen's not afraid to be
02:53 himself. I don't think he's ever hesitated since his first entry in the league, but he's sort of
02:58 like, it's been like he's blossomed little by little, right? Like year after year. You sound
03:02 like a proud father. I mean, I just, man, like I just look back at Jalen's career and I think about
03:07 like the Kyrie years, how he was injured, he came back, he lost his starting spot and it was like,
03:12 "Oh, Hayward's ready to go now. So Jalen, you got to take a step back." Jalen's like, "Well,
03:15 wait a minute, but I've been consistent." And then he just like continued to work. He didn't
03:19 get frustrated, didn't pout or whatever. And I just think, it speaks a lot to who he is as a
03:26 person. And of course, as a basketball player, he gets better year after year.
03:30 Yeah. Great one-liner here too, after the game, about the message you sent to the team coming
03:35 into tonight. I'm just trying to take all of it. I think that's what we need. I think we just need
03:42 everybody to be on the same page and everybody to come out with the right effort. And that's
03:46 85% of the battle right there. We come out and we play hard and we're on the same page and the rest
03:52 will take care of itself. We've got enough talent in the locker room to beat teams. But if we're not
03:58 on the same page and we're not playing hard, those are when we get ourselves in trouble. So making
04:03 sure before the game, we're feeling this shit around, talking to everybody, touching everybody,
04:07 letting everybody know like, "Hey, we're not here to play around. We didn't come to Cleveland for
04:12 the weather. So let's go." Thank you, Phil. Thanks, Shayla.
04:17 So it wasn't Joe Keen Noah, but it was a good one on Cleveland. This is great stuff. I love all the
04:25 vocal stuff. I love the leadership. The weather hasn't been great either, but yeah.
04:28 I think that's exactly what he was talking about. It was brutal. I think all that stuff's great,
04:33 but his play is also there right now. He's leading the offense and scoring all the ways.
04:37 We talked in our last video about Tatum, what's his job, what's he need to do for this team.
04:42 I think it's very clear with Jalen. It's funny because we had more questions about him coming
04:46 into the year about what his role would be. It's the defense, it's the scoring, it's that
04:50 transition attack. And that's, I think, one of the defining differences in this series so far is,
04:55 even in a game like this tonight, there wasn't a lot of transition play. Jalen just stole it.
05:00 Even if guys were back and set, he would just force his way through them. There were three
05:05 great transition buckets from him in this game. I feel like it made a big difference. So his play
05:09 was there too, as well as the vocal side of things. And I think that needs to be the case.
05:14 You can't just be the guy barking at everyone's ears about what they need to do if you're not
05:17 bringing a tune. He's bringing it every night. - Yeah. I mean, I loved everything he did
05:21 offensively tonight. Finishing 13 of 17 is really difficult to do in the NBA, to not ever
05:27 stray to the point where you're taking shots that are heat check shots, that are bad shots.
05:30 - He's great at that too. - Yeah. And Joe talked about this
05:33 post game. Yeah. And Joe's mentioned that a couple of times this year, but the idea that even if he's
05:37 hit seven consecutive points, he's still making the right play. And we saw that tonight. I think
05:41 he was really feeling it in the second half, drove to the basket. We had a better angle today than
05:46 where I usually sit, where you could really see the rim reads. And he threw a beautiful pass to
05:50 Derek White for an open three pointer who hadn't really been shooting well. And so that trust
05:54 doesn't waver. He's still making the right play, still making the right pass. I thought this was
05:57 one of the most impressive games we've seen from him in a really long time. And he's had a really
06:00 good season. Just stood out in so many ways. - Big game from Jalen Brown tonight. Definitely
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07:10 for tonight. Celtics win. Good night. - What's going on everyone? It's Josue Pavone
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