Jones & Keefe: Should the Celtics still be the title favorites

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00:00I mean, I'm not going to sound the panic alarm going into about February, but in their last,

00:03what, 24 games or 13 and 11, they've won, they haven't won more than three games.

00:13There has to be some sort of acknowledgement of it. Like they have, they have won consecutive

00:18games three times over that stretch. So there has to be some sort of acknowledgement.

00:21Yeah. It's a two-part question. Keith, Keith set this up yesterday. It was a good way of doing it.

00:25Thank you. You can pick any team. You got to name a team. You can pick any

00:29team to win the NBA championship this year. Who are you taking? Still the Celtics. Okay.

00:33Yeah. If you are taking the Celtics or the field, now you don't have to name a team who

00:38beats the Celtics, but you can take the entire field. How would you answer that question?

00:42If I'm like a team just Celtics or the field, it's the same. Oh, I'm not as quick to answer

00:48it that way. That's how Wiggy would answer it. Wiggy was like very adamant that there's

00:51nothing to see here. They're fine. They're still going to win 60 games is what he said.

00:55And he was like, they're fine. I've, I've finally been pushed to the brink now where I'm like,

00:59maybe I will take the field. I'm with Terp. If it's just, you got to, they're all on one team.

01:04I'm picking the Celtics. Celtics should still be the favorite, but now you're like, all right,

01:08you have every other team. So maybe Denver puts it all together and Jokic is having an insane

01:13season and he gets it going or, you know, team shoot lights out or whatever. Like now

01:18it's been enough of a period where they've been talking about the lulls and then they're like,

01:24oh, you guys aren't very consistent. And then they still go out there and lose the game.

01:28Now, because they lost their last game, my guess is they blow doors tonight

01:33and everyone's going to be like, oh yeah, I thought there was a problem with the Celtics.

01:36And then they'll lose to the Pelicans or they'll lose to whoever they play in a couple of,

01:40maybe not Philly, but they'll lose to Cleveland. Like they'll lose one of these games coming up

01:44after the so-called like, oh, see how dumb you were for doubting them game.

01:47That's just the way it's been for two months, two straight months.

01:50And I guess that is a good thing with their ability to bounce back. That means if they

01:53win game one, they'll win every series. They'll go seven this year.

01:57Yeah. All they need to do is win game one, but yeah, they've been terrific and bouncing

02:00backs 13 and one in games following a loss. And they're winning by 22.9 points per game.

02:06Yeah. The only time they lost back-to-back games, the second game was that Christmas game,

02:09which they shouldn't have lost, but they another game that they got lit up from non-shooters like

02:13Joellen bead, let them up. Like obviously Caleb Martin as well.