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00:00Murray, what are you expecting from this team this year?
00:01As long as Jalen Brown and Derek White remain healthy,
00:04they have enough to remain competitive in an Eastern Conference.
00:07In an Eastern Conference, I don't feel that strong about it.
00:10I don't know how you can.
00:11Like, Cleveland's the prohibitive favorite,
00:12but I don't really think all that much of them in terms of winning a title.
00:15But the Cavs being the favorite, fine.
00:18The Knicks, okay, they're probably better than the Celtics right now,
00:21but not by much.
00:21And from there, Orlando, Detroit, young, plucky teams,
00:25are they better than the Celtics?
00:26I don't necessarily think so.
00:29From there, the Bucs, what's Giannis, how dialed in is he going to be
00:32when it feels like he wants to leave that team?
00:35The Heat, the Hawks, Sixers, they're all beat up.
00:39I'm supposed to believe that Joel Embiid is now healthy.
00:41Like, the Celtics will be in the mix.
00:43They should be, at worst, a four or five seed.
00:46And at best, I could see them being a three seed this year.
00:49McCarthy, the national expectations are way too low for this team.
00:52My expectations are high for them.
00:53You know, high considering they are going to be missing their best player
00:57for the majority of the year,
00:58and who knows what he's going to look like coming back.
01:00But right now, they have the eighth best odds to win the East.
01:03They're probably the fourth best team in the Eastern Conference.
01:06Like, they're right in the middle of that pack.
01:08Their over-under is 41 and a half.
01:10They're significantly better than that.
01:12Like, my expectations are that they will be not the best team in the East,
01:17but certainly right in the middle of the pack,
01:19probably four or five somewhere in there,
01:21and let's see what it looks like when Jason Tatum gets back.
01:24Like, my expectations shouldn't be any lower than that,
01:27and I don't think Celtics fans should have any lower expectations than that.
01:30Like, this team is still good enough in a weak Eastern Conference
01:34to be right in the mix, and that's what I fully expect from them.
01:37And anything less than that is a disappointment.
01:39So you've probably seen, and you have too, Mike,
01:41some of the national hoop heads saying, like,
01:43well, they'll probably be a play-in team.
01:45What am I not seeing?
01:46Me neither.
01:46What am I not getting?
01:47I don't.
01:49And are we collectively overrating?
01:51So is it we're collectively overrating Jalen Brown and what he can be,
01:54and can he be a true number one?
01:55Are we overrating Derek White?
01:56Maybe.
01:57He's my favorite player on the team.
01:58I like the role players.
02:00Like, we think that the coach and coaches in the NBA are probably overrated a bit,
02:03but he does get buy-in from these guys,
02:05and they're battle-tested.
02:07They did win a championship.
02:09Some of this core is still here,
02:10including the most two important parts with Tatum out right now
02:13in Brown and Derek White.
02:14I don't get it.
02:15The talk of them being a play-in team to me is nuts.
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