00:00The Celtics clinched the playoff spot, and I will say this, that heading into the postseason,
00:06I like where this team is going, especially it looks like Jason Tatum is starting to knock the
00:10rust off a little bit. I know Shyam talked about the Bruins and where they were headed into the
00:15postseason and the way that they've been playing, but I think the Celtics team, as well as the
00:19Bruins, have done a great job, especially down here into the stretch. Jason Tatum starting to
00:24get more and more minutes underneath his belt and starting to knock some of the rust off.
00:29I think this is really excited for, especially not just Bruins fans, but if you're a Celtics
00:34fan as well, that this could be a really good, nice postseason run for both of these teams.
00:41And remind me, we talked about it last week, but nobody really scares you in the East.
00:45Not in the East.
00:46Maybe Detroit.
00:47I don't, because the issue was the Cade Cunningham, he collapsed long when he comes back, and then
00:53even if he comes back, what's he going to look like? So Detroit doesn't scare me at all.
00:58I know you lost with a healthy team last year to New York, but I just look at that like
01:04that was a series that I expected you to win. So yes, in the East, Greg, I would say that
01:09there's no team that really scares me.
01:11I kind of agree. Like, I think I'm a little bit more, I'm a little bit higher on Detroit
01:16than you are. But New York looks like they're spiraling, and it looks like you're going to
01:22at least have the number two seed in the postseason. I'll just say, like, I don't, I'm, I'm, what
01:29the Celtics have done with Brad Stevens, I think is one of the more impressive things that
01:35we don't talk about a ton. We kind of take for granted in sports around here, because
01:40you see somebody like Mike Vrabel come in, and he turns around this back-to-back four-win
01:45team to being some, a team that goes to the Super Bowl in the first year. And it's like,
01:49he's with Drake May, the biggest hero locally. Quietly, Brad Stevens went from being with a
01:57lottery team as a coach to then moving up to the front office and executing year in
02:04and year out. Not perfectly, but definitely at least an A-. And the Celtics have been in
02:11the playoffs every year that he's been part of the organization. Like, I don't know, that
02:16guy just, he is like a silent assassin with whatever he does.
02:20And like, kind of the transition right into the role of, you know, what is he, director
02:27of basketball operations or whatever he is. I think that role and what he's been able
02:33to do, whether it's bring in, when, you know, we talked about it, Drew Holiday, Chris Stapps,
02:37Porzingis, some of those guys, you know, shipping out Marcus Mott, you know, where a lot of people
02:42at the time were like, what are you doing? You're going after a guy like Vucevic this season.
02:48I think he's really done an unbelievable job as a front office guy. And, you know, he's probably
02:54one of the better guys in the NBA when it comes to, you know, when it comes to being a
02:58GM
02:58and making moves.
02:59Is he the most accomplished, modest person in the history of Boston sports?
03:03He is super modest.
03:05He never, I mean, Bill Belichick didn't openly praise himself, but he had six rings. He did
03:12all those NFL film stocks.
03:14He had a boat.
03:15Yeah, the six rings boat. And then now it's got six rings and the other one from the Bridgewater
03:20State cheerleading champs. But like, it's amazing. He does, it's not that he speaks and is modest.
03:27He like runs from attention.
03:29Yeah. He's really humble. He wants to stay. He wants to stay under the radar. He doesn't
03:33want none of the attention. So it's like Andy Ernie Adams, but actually the GM picking the
03:37players in terms of notoriety.
03:40It's also like Glenn Laird, very modest. You know what I mean? All right. So that wiggy
03:46great lead. Thank you.
03:48Jason Tatum had himself a nice little game last night against the Charlotte Hornets. He
03:52went for 32 points, eight assists and five rebounds in the game, a game without Jalen Brown
03:57and Jason Tatum talked about feeling like he might be kind of back after the game. Here
04:03was Jason Tatum. You hit the three in Bridges' face and then you had some words for the fans.
04:08What kind of was, can you describe what you were saying and what you were thinking at that
04:12time? It was just, you know, they went on a run, cut it to nine. The game was just, you
04:18know, super competitive at that point. And, you know, I just was, you know, I was a competitor
04:23in the moment. We could call the time out and we got some stops and made some plays to kind
04:28of like seal the game. It would be crazy to describe that, like saying that you were
04:32back. It was crazy to say, that's kind of what you were thinking when you were talking
04:35to, uh, I mean, no, it wouldn't be crazy to say.
04:42Yeah. I mean, why not? I mean, he's, uh, worked his butt off to get back to where he
04:48is. Right. Um, he ought to celebrate that. Yeah. And I think like, it is impressive for
04:53what he's been able to do. You know, we've talked about this a lot. Megal, you probably
04:58know more than anybody cause you're around the team all the time, but just to be able
05:02to see what he's been able to do coming back and, you know, playing the way he's been able
05:06to play. I mean, you think it's pretty impressive and coming to a team like the Celtics who, you
05:11know, look like they're going to potentially hold onto this two seed and you get a guy like
05:15that back. It's. There was a point in the second half yesterday where Tatum had the step
05:21back three and it was like way step back and he swished it. And I was like, damn, I didn't
05:27think we were going to see that until next year, because when you listen to Kevin Durant
05:30talk about coming back from his Achilles tear and he up to this point has really had the
05:35most successful comeback and he took the most time off. And he said, that's going to be the
05:40toughest thing for Tatum or Tyrese Halliburton coming back, hitting that step back three, having
05:46the lift, having the explosiveness there. And yeah, it may look like a little bit different
05:51mechanically, but to be able to see that from him when he's just over three weeks back
05:56from the return, you, you're, you have all like, maybe not necessarily through these
06:01playoffs, but I don't see why he can't be completely himself again.
06:04Right. Yeah. I mean, I like the one to drive. I always feel like when I see him drive to
06:08the
06:08hole, he had a nice drive to the hole, two hand bang out and goes through contact. Like
06:13I, I, I feel like, all right, that's when you kind of see it, but you know, Katie would
06:18know better than anybody. That's like, you know, he's cause he's got a couple of those
06:21step backs, you know, especially in yesterday's game. So
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