Jones & Keefe: It's too early to talk about tanking for the Celtics

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00:00On the one hand, I'm watching the first three games, and I'm like,

00:02Jason Tatum deserves MVP votes for how bad they look.

00:05But then you're like, well, they also don't have Porzingis, Holiday, or Horford.

00:10So it's not like you just remove Tatum from the team.

00:13Because if there was ever a lineup last year with Sam Houser and Kata and Pritchard

00:19all on the floor together, you're like, oh, they must be up by 20.

00:23Or Horford's not playing on a back-to-back, or Porzingis is hurt, or whatever.

00:27No, this is the best they have.

00:28This is the best they have to offer.

00:30So that's why I would let Pritchard go back to doing what he was so effective as,

00:35as the six-man.

00:36Let him do that.

00:37Simons, to me, is more of a starter than a bench player anyway.

00:40I would make that switch.

00:42The big guys is tough.

00:43I mean, what are you going to do?

00:44Who are you going to play?

00:45Like, if Sam Houser's your starting four, like, forget it.

00:48And I know he did it a few times in like a pinch last year, but it's just not ideal.

00:53First of all, I don't even think he is a four, let alone a starting four.

00:55No, and that was with Tatum and Brown and White and, you know, Drew Holiday.

00:59Right, Holiday, maybe Hauser, sorry, maybe Porzingis, rather, maybe Horford.

01:04Like, you know, I mean, that was with a lot of other talent, and he just happened to be

01:07the fifth starter.

01:08But this is, yeah, it's tough.

01:09This one, you're already starting a likely bench player in Pritchard.

01:13You're already starting a guy who's barely been in your rotation the last couple of years

01:17as you're starting big in Cata, and then you have another one on top of it.

01:21The lineups leave a lot to be desired.

01:22I did like what I saw out of Garza last night.

01:24Popped a couple threes?

01:26He did.

01:26You know, in Missoula like that.

01:27Blew one layup where he owed Pritchard.

01:29But other than that, I like what I saw out of him.

01:31So I would not tank if I were the Celtics.

01:34Same with you, Keith.

01:35Yeah, not yet.

01:36Not yet.

01:36But I think it's on the table.

01:38Like, I wouldn't do it yet.

01:39I'd play hard, and obviously, Jalen Brown and Derek White.

01:42I feel like those two guys are good enough to not be in that bottom group.

01:46Do you have any snappy, slow...

01:47Like, you came up with...

01:49And I guess, according to our guy Ray in Cumberland, I guess it's been co-opted elsewhere.

01:55Hashtag gagging for Gavin.

01:56Gagging for Gavin?

01:57I guess that's been co-opted elsewhere.

01:58People are using that?

02:00Do you have any snappy hashtags for AJ DeBansta, Darren Peterson, Cameron Boozer?

02:07No.

02:08Not yet?

02:09You want to get in the lab?

02:11Yeah, something.

02:11Would it be like dumping for DeBansta?

02:14Yes.

02:15Something like that.

02:15No, that's it.

02:16That's much better than the one I was about to say.

02:18So, yeah.

02:19Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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