What stands in the way of the Celtics?

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00:00Keeps rolling.

00:00They are.

00:01Who would have thought we'd be sitting here in early December

00:04and they'd be 15-9 on pace to win 51 games.

00:07So it's funny.

00:08Things have kind of leveled out a little bit.

00:09Not us.

00:10No, I didn't think that.

00:12But, you know, the Raptors for a little while were kind of hanging on

00:15to like the second best record in the East.

00:17You're like, I don't know how long that's going to last.

00:18And that has helped by the Celtics.

00:20That has kind of fallen back into place.

00:22The Knicks have played better.

00:23So now when you look at the East, it goes Pistons, Knicks, Celtics, Magic.

00:28I'm still a little surprised the Cavs aren't in that mix.

00:30But overall, I think that's a little bit more what we anticipated the East

00:33to look like.

00:34Yeah, it's still a little too early to look into the standings

00:36and really take them for what it is right now.

00:38And Joe Mazzullo pointed that out after Sunday's win.

00:40He was like, well, it really means nothing.

00:42But that could be true.

00:43And right, it's not even December yet.

00:44Last year at this time, Orlando was the third team in the East.

00:47And it didn't really work out well for them in the long term.

00:49So, yeah, he is on to something.

00:51But how they've gotten there is what's impressive.

00:54And guys like Derek White and Peyton Pritchard really figuring out their roles.

00:57Jalen Brown, we've been talking about it ad nauseum here.

00:59He's playing at an all-NBA level.

01:01The developments of the young guys, Jordan Walsh, Namish Kata, Josh Minot,

01:05like those guys showing up and stepping up.

01:07It's just, it feels like everything's clicking at the right time for this team.

01:11And it's made for quite an interesting run here.

01:14So, outside of the Thunder, who never lose, they've won 15 straight.

01:17They're 23-1.

01:18Jeez.

01:19Outside of OKC, the Celtics have the longest win streak in the NBA.

01:23They've won five straight.

01:24They've won eight out of ten.

01:25They're 15-9.

01:26They're No. 3 in the East.

01:27I don't think it's too early to look at the standings.

01:29We look at them every time you're in, and I think there's something to draw out of it.

01:33How high can they go?

01:35Like, they're No. 3 right now.

01:36They're two games back in the Knicks.

01:37They're four games back in Detroit.

01:39They beat both those teams.

01:40They're a little in front of, not a ton of margin for error.

01:42Orlando, who they beat.

01:44Toronto, who they beat.

01:45They dropped two out of three to Philly, who's right behind them.

01:47They've taken two from Cleveland, who's the seventh seed.

01:49Like, how high can they go in the East?

01:50I mean, you mentioned it.

01:51Like, you just mentioned a couple of Eastern Conference teams there.

01:54They're 8-5 against the top eight teams in the Eastern Conference, and they have a winning

01:57record against every one of those teams except for Philadelphia.

02:00And both of those games came down to the wire.

02:02In fact, they probably should have won the second one that they lost when Jordan Walsh shut down.

02:05They should have won opening night.

02:06They should have won the first game on opening night, too.

02:08So they should have won those games.

02:09And Philadelphia is starting to drop off a little bit.

02:11So just looking at the state of the Eastern Conference, like, there's really no team that

02:15they can't compete with.

02:16And that's more indicative of how bad the conference is.

02:18Like, the East is really, really bad.

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