00:00The top team in the East, though, is Boston at 41 and 21, doing what it has done so far
00:06this year.
00:07With all the offseason turnover, gone is Porzingis, is Holiday, is Horford, is Cornette.
00:13You obviously don't have Tatum for the first three quarters of the year.
00:16And led by Jalen Brown, his MVP case, and a potential coach of the year in Joe Missoula,
00:20they're, again, doing what they're doing.
00:22With Tatum back now, would this be your team in the East?
00:26Do you expect them to go on an NBA Finals run?
00:30Yeah, that's the million-dollar question.
00:32I think I need to see it first before I make that decision and say that they are back.
00:36Now, I agree with the odds.
00:37If I was laying my money on it, I would probably put it on Boston right now to get to
00:41the NBA Finals.
00:42But I need to see, one, if Jason Tatum is still Jason Tatum, and then, two, Adam,
00:47if the Celtics can actually adapt around being able to kind of adjust Jason Tatum back onto the floor.
00:53Like, this isn't a role player, right, like that's coming back to the team.
00:55It is a star.
00:57It's a guy that is going to require some possessions, a guy that's going to require some usage.
01:01And while he has to get used to how the team's been playing, the team also has to get used
01:06to him
01:06and change a little bit of the things and sacrifices that they have to make to just incorporate him to
01:11get back into land.
01:12So he can be at his best.
01:15So I need to see that first before I can flat out say, hey, they are the number one team
01:20with a bullet.
01:20And the only reason why I need to see it is because it's when it's happening.
01:23We don't have much time for them to figure that out.
01:26Yes, they played before, but this still is a different team.
01:28So we don't have much time to figure that out.
01:29And then you don't want to be figuring that out in the playoffs.
01:32Like, that's not the time you want to be doing that.
01:33So if they could quickly get him back into the mix, get him back acclimated, everything looks good.
01:39I'll feel better about it.
01:40But right now, I'll put my money on it, but I won't say that they will be the team that
01:45I would go to the Eastern Conference representative of the finals.
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