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00:00Celtics Wednesday here on Jones and Keefe which means it's time for our

00:04Celtics Minute with Terp. You can dial us up 617-779-7937

00:10You got questions for Terp? It's a good time to get in with some good Celtics

00:13questions if you want to dial it up. Terp, you excited for the big show

00:17outing after the program? I can't wait. I didn't know it was gonna be a bunch of

00:20puzzles. I didn't really know what to expect. I haven't stretched yet. I gotta

00:24get on that. So the Celtics fortunately are not in the NBA Cup because if they

00:27were you might have been on the sidelines. You might have had split

00:30responsibilities. They wouldn't have played tonight. Well maybe could have been. They wouldn't play in the

00:34Knicks tonight had they made it. So look at that. There you go.

00:37You know what? It all worked out. Let's go back to the weekend for the

00:43Celtics. Buck's win was pretty entertaining. Then you get the Grizzlies

00:46loss where Drew Holiday is left all alone to shoot 17 threes. He made four of

00:51them. Is that an approach that'll be effective against the Celtics going

00:55forward? Should other teams copy it? What did you think of Memphis's approach the

00:58other night? Yeah it was interesting and it's something I'm certainly gonna keep

01:01an eye on to see if other teams do it. The problem is it's just so hard with

01:05this team because they're just such great three-point shooters and the NBA

01:09tracks this kind of stuff. So on Saturday with Drew Holiday 14 of his 17

01:15three-point attempts were considered wide open which means the closest

01:18defender is six feet away. If you're looking down the list of Celtics on

01:22those wide open attempts, Tatum shoots 54%, Sam Hauser 42%, Al Horford 41%, Peyton

01:30Pritchard 40%. They're all above league average or at league average. So some

01:34nights it's gonna work. Even Holiday's league average on the wide

01:37open? He's 34% even after that that stinker. But he was last year the best

01:41corner three-point shooter in the league. Shot right around a career-high I believe

01:45from percentage standpoint. So some days it's gonna work and other days it's not.

01:49But the way I'm kind of looking at it with this team is is it sustainable over

01:53a seven-game series? Is it gonna work four games out of seven? I just don't

01:56think so because of how well they shoot the ball. Yeah cuz we saw the Warriors

02:00try it with Jalen Brown right and they're like you go ahead and take

02:03him and he's like making them all go all right well this and then they had to

02:05just real quick yeah too late yeah that didn't work but I don't think it's worth

02:09a shot but I guess I they're all too good like overall but that was a bad

02:13night for him I think holiday first career so why does it matter why does it

02:17matter what everybody else shoots if you're staying on everybody else and

02:19leaving holiday open then it only matters what holiday shoots right well

02:22the thing is with the Celtics offense is it's literally designed to just create

02:25open shots so in there all the players heads as they're driving in the room

02:28whatever it is there's a million reads going on they work on this in practice

02:32all the time is making the right reads and all it is is just trying to find the

02:35open shot so if you're giving the Celtics an open shot they're gonna take

02:38it that's how their offense that's what makes Missoula ball so hard to defend is

02:42because they all spaced the floor so well in their great three-point shooters

02:45so it kind of played into it in a way but obviously the shots weren't falling

02:49that night yeah like if you have Rondo or Ben Simmons like obviously it makes

02:53sense you sag way off them they're like what do we do now are you playing

02:56against a man's zone like what is this but with these guys I think more often

02:59than not they'll probably out shoot it my questions more about just drew holiday

03:03in general like not just that game where you know he wasn't hitting his threes

03:07but he's the one guy when me and Jones were talking about the team this year

03:11versus last year and I'm like I think they're better this year part of it is

03:14Peyton Pritchard sort of emergence but drew holiday and part of it's his age

03:18clearly is on the other side of his career how do you think he's been

03:23overall I know he's a guy that might be saving some of it for the postseason he

03:27was in the Olympics played a lot of basketball but he might be the one guy

03:31that's actually not better than he was a year ago what do you make of his season

03:35so far yeah I'm with you he's definitely the one guy that hasn't really taken a

03:38step forward I think for the most part across the board everyone's kind of

03:41improved a little bit Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown averaging career highs in

03:44assist Derek White shooting a career high in percentage percentage wise also

03:48averaging career high points Al Horford from three Peyton Pritchard obviously

03:51he should be in the conversation for most improved and then there's true

03:54holiday who really hasn't really taken that step and part of that I think is

03:58because 36 years old just played in the Olympics obviously played over the

04:02Celtics played 101 games last year like that's a lot and then they have a

04:05shortened offseason so part of it I think it is kind of ramping him up and

04:09it took him a little while last year to to find his footing offensively remember

04:13it wasn't until that West Coast trip at the end of December where he really

04:17started finding his place within the offense and I think he's gonna get there

04:20eventually and it's obviously hard when you're not hitting your shots and I

04:24think that could be part of tired legs and maybe the Celtics are kind of

04:27looking at that because last week usually a player only sits one game

04:30after when they're kind of resting he sat to he sat the Miami and the Detroit

04:34game so I think it is something they're watching but in the end you can't really

04:38be worried about your holiday because you know how good he is especially in

04:41those clutch situations look at the Milwaukee game on Friday I mean he hit

04:44the go-ahead floater on the three that Al Horford missed on the Giannis

04:47transition three which was absolutely terrible shot the one that got the

04:52rebound found out and that gave a lead so he's gonna make those plays when you

04:55need them so it's amazing Giannis still takes those shots it's so like he's so

05:00good when he wants to be and he can get to the hoop anytime he wants but there's

05:04something in his head he's like I can make these threes it's like you can't

05:07you have a career proof that you cannot hit those and maybe saw Al Horford and

05:12kind of steered away as the Giannis stopper Al Horford still at the right

05:15page 38 he's gone so mixed in with the loss against the Grizzlies was Marcus

05:21smarts return he did not play well in the game but the Grizzlies won that game

05:26what was that that whole experience like it was brief really like the kind of

05:30Marcus smart reunion it was really only when he checked in they got the standing

05:33ovation that was pretty cool I just think the shines kind of off he was

05:37obviously one of the most polarizing players in recent memory in Boston

05:41sports like either loved him or he hated him there was really no in-between but I

05:45think with Chris tops being so well-liked and then winning a

05:48championship it's kind of like whatever now people have kind of moved on a

05:51little bit he'll always be loved he'll always have a special place but nobody's

05:55really complaining about the players seem to like I know they said nice

05:58things Jalen was really hyper mom he watched or I watched the whole interview

06:02Abby chin did where he's still like they were get they were given a lot when

06:07they came in meeting Tatum and Brown where he still sounds like a little

06:10jealous about how much they were given early on in his career like if the

06:13players moved on do they still seem like they miss Marcus all or they just like

06:17out we're in a way better spot I think they still really like they love them

06:20they're there still have that close friendship but I don't think it's

06:24necessarily they miss him on the court because they've just been so much better

06:26like they love playing with Chris Dobbs and obviously drew was the de facto

06:31Marcus replacement so it's hard because they've been so much better but they'll

06:35always love and respect him and even Marcus admitted it at shootaround before

06:39the game he's like it was a great business move I probably would have done

06:41it myself so if he's saying that it says a lot like it was just a no-brainer and

06:45we see that every day what kind of chances do you give Memphis being in the

06:49finals because I feel like we never talk about them but John Moran's having an

06:52awesome year they had a good record a bit hot seems pretty wide open in the

06:56West could we get a Celtics versus Marcus smart finals I mean I wouldn't

07:00rule them out two years ago they were a 51 win team in second in the Western

07:03Conference but last year they set NBA records for the amount of injuries they

07:07had so that's legit team and I think a team that people aren't really

07:11considering out West because obviously the Nuggets have the best player in the

07:14world and Nicola Jokic and then you got the Thunder who that young team really

07:18kind of up-and-coming and they remind me a little bit of like 2022 Celtics a team

07:22that's young really now it's their time to get in and if the Celtics are to see

07:25him I can kind of see it going a similar way where the Celtics have been there

07:28and done that okay C hasn't so Memphis is absolutely a team to watch out West

07:33and I think they have a good collection of athleticism and size and length guys

07:38taking another step like Jaron Jackson jr. has been incredible

07:41obviously John Moran's a superstar when he's on the court so that's definitely a

07:44team that people should have on their radar all right check out his work at

07:48w-e-e-i-n on Twitter at Justin M Turpin Celtics Wednesdays every Wednesday with

07:54Turp we'll get back to your phone call 6 1 7 7 7 9 7 9 3 7 Turp thanks for

07:58popping in get ready guys stretch out the brain stretch out the hammies for a

08:06little show outing after the program tonight

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