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Wiggy asks the question- What has been the NBA storyline of the year? Could it be Celtics dominance even without Tatum? How about Tatum's return? Should Jaylen be the clear cut MVP favorite?
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00:00so i'm gonna ask the group this question and the and the people out there this question
00:07biggest story in the nba this season i'm gonna give you my view on it first and then you go
00:14from there biggest story in the nba has been what the boston celtics have been able to do
00:20with jaylen brown because of everybody's expectations when jason tatum got hurt
00:24would you guys agree disagree i disagree okay all right we'll disagree what do you think it was
00:29jason tatum's comeback okay all right i think on no disrespect to jaylen brown he's blown away all
00:36expectations individually and with the team but jason tatum's comeback after 10 months of achilles
00:41repairs is completely i think it's unprecedented okay i can live with that i can live with that
00:48because it all leads me to one road and that is the road of this year's most valuable player
00:54and so if you want to say jason tatum's comeback i say it that it's the celtics and people saying
01:00this team should tank and they weren't you know they might be a lottery team what's this team
01:05going to look like with jaylen brown and where jaylen brown has been able to play and what he did
01:10last night and the fact that he is still sitting there you know holding down the five spot when it
01:15comes to odds on favorite to win the mvp is an absolute joke because i don't know what people might
01:23say you know across the country but i think going into this nba season it's whether or not okay can
01:29oklahoma city repeat that's a big story you know what victor when bianna might look like coming off
01:35that i think he had a little injury last year so that's a big story but the to me the
01:41biggest story
01:41is the the performance of jaylen brown and what he's been able to do and put this celtics team on
01:47his back and the fact that he's still sitting there at the five spot and he should and he's not
01:53the clear-cut favorite for the mvp it just i don't get it now i think they're saying victor
02:00when bianna i could see if you had like a yokich type of season i mean victor when bianna averages
02:06about 25 a game good 11 rebounds but like three assists you know if you're the joker and you're going
02:12out there and averaging a triple double and you're seven four okay i get it now it's like you know
02:16you look at it and go ah maybe we got to give it to wemby but you consider the whole
02:20of it and what
02:22jaylen brown was able to do with the cast around him yes he ought to be the most valuable yeah
02:27and i
02:27just think like the storyline of the nba season this year and i think that's a big you know that's
02:32a lot of pressure that you know was put on a player and him being able to elevate and when
02:38you
02:38think a most valuable player and what that team would look like or what what the league might look
02:44like yeah if this storyline wasn't there i i think that the jaylen brown situation is by far he should
02:51be the the clear-cut favorite when it comes to winning the mvp but isn't that two different things
02:56like the mvp and the best story don't have to be the same well the i say the story but
03:01then the way
03:02he's performed you think women yama is not more is is less valuable to the spurs than jaylen brown
03:08is to the celtics um i i think that jaylen brown has done more no i'm asking i didn't ask
03:13that well
03:14is the question no i think no i think who's more who's more valuable to their team i i think
03:18they're
03:19both extremely valuable i think the spurs win 12 games without women well they still got the andre
03:24fox yeah the biggest case i like rick fox against women yana is that he plays 29 minutes game
03:30right so it's like yeah when he he's incredible and there's no other player out there like him
03:35right but his his time on the court for his team is so much less than what jaylen brown is
03:42doing
03:42right and we're gonna be fair this is kind of got a pelosi ring to it because wiggy stands to
03:46gain
03:46financially well i do i mean i i do stand to gain financially that is part of it but if
03:52you look
03:52at uh the team around when binyama i would san antonio on paper you know why they're doing this
03:58it's because when binyama is their up-and-coming superstar and jaylen brown's just a really good
04:03player in the nba they have no interest in marketing yeah i i get it i understand why they're doing
04:08it
04:08but i think it's wrong i think that the voters should vote on who the most valuable player is
04:13for their team in the league and to me that's jaylen brown because of what he does on both ends
04:18of the courts and how many minutes he plays the game okay i'm gonna push my lead till after the
04:22break
04:22shine so i'll do that sounds good great if the nba is rigged and i think they have been at
04:27times
04:27why do they always make sure the spurs get these generational talents like it's such an awful
04:32market it's like the 45th market in america i would argue that just shows you in a lot of ways
04:38that the draft is as random as it seems right most of the time because look at the look where
04:44the stars
04:45are denver okc san antonio you want these guys in new york and la and boston and chicago but yokich
04:54though
04:54like he wasn't a lottery guy like so i think that's different like victor wembinyama was a lottery
05:01guy like he was like he was the next guy it was like wait there's this unicorn same with cooper
05:05flag
05:06right so when you start to look at certain players like yokich was like yannis you know middle of the
05:12first round and just turns out to be an unbelievable player but some of those lottery guys you start to
05:18question okay why are you ending up there when it comes to the debate over shortening the season
05:23what do you think of mark cuban's suggestion with regard to actually shortening the games
05:31to 40 minutes to 40 minutes is what he wants to do as opposed to losing games then you still
05:37get the
05:38revenue from the tickets and the game is you don't have to worry about load management all right and
05:45you can't do it because all the like the points per game all those stats are going to be you
05:51know
05:51what i'm saying like if you'd have to have an asterisk next it just would change all it would
05:56i mean i guess if you begin it now and in 100 years it helps it then nobody's going to
06:00remember it but i
06:00feel like shortening the game would not be um but it would be like the three-point line right you
06:06know
06:06there were guys that played in an era where there was no three-point line and we kind of like
06:09you know
06:10we still consider them great players as the tick to statistically when we talk about certain numbers
06:14we always say this was before the three-point line this was after you know we talk about larry bird
06:19and the and how the game was different imagine if he went out there and shot 10 three-pointers a
06:23game
06:23i like it greg's a big george miken guy so you'll go from what what are they playing out 28
06:28uh 12 minute
06:29quarters you go to 10 minute quarters i like it i mean i think that i think the game would
06:34be more
06:34interesting right for curtis had a lead about how you know maybe the game's not as interesting
06:39now if you're only playing 10 minutes the games might be a little bit closer a little bit more
06:43interesting so i mean i got no issues with that all right well greg let's begin with uh jalen brown
06:48had 43 points in that celtics win against the heat last night uh but instead took his time to gush
06:54over jason tatum's triple double and uh the amount of rebounds he had here was jalen brown that was
07:00great he almost had 20 boards tonight which is uh exceptional um so now jt's been building up and
07:07that's exactly according to plan like what we what we imagined so heading into the playoffs like a
07:13strong jason tatum uh physical you know him being who he is is gonna help us be a better team
07:21i don't know is the offense working looks pretty good tatum back in the offense does it look off to
07:26everybody they only had 50 you know like this is ridiculous the 80 points in the first quarter
07:33is it i mean in the first half rather is that that good for everybody it looks good to me
07:37whatever the chemistry concern was they seem to have solved it i think i feel like joe mazula is
07:43already a better coach than doc rivers really great take okay wow go on with it well i was i
07:53just feel
07:53bad because i'm not often wrong but i do always take accountability uh created apologies the the
07:59joe mazula has done far more with less than doc rivers ever did and looking at like doc everywhere
08:07else it's like a jv belichick like he's not he's never won anywhere else at a high level and i
08:16just
08:16don't think with doc rivers this team is anywhere near where it is right now would this team be where
08:22it is if ime udoka were still the head coach yes it would okay right new phone okay i like
08:30ime i like
08:30ime a lot the doc rivers thing i agree with curtis because i think doc throughout his career has always
08:36had great teams you know he's one of the clippers for all those years you know you had chris paul
08:41and
08:41blake griffin at a you know relatively good point in times in their careers you've seen his
08:47his kind of coaching career philadelphia uh philadelphia he had some talent on their team so he's
08:52always had like the thing with doc he was you know and i don't want to put him in the
08:57same world
08:58but i'm just going to kind of make a comparison in the football world he was always like the mike
09:02tomlin of basketball like great regular season then get to the postseason and can't get it done
09:08i'll ask this mostly directed at curtis because i think he is maybe the biggest nba skeptic
09:16on the show which i appreciate without a doubt okay do you think that missoula's rep locally like
09:23with fans with just even like casual fans was hurt by how tied he seemed to be to three pointers
09:33early in his career as head coach because there's such a backlash from casual fans about three
09:40pointers in the nba yeah i think that there was it was an easy second guess what was it like
09:45third
09:45row missoula somebody had there was some second row joe was bill simmons nickname for him yeah
09:50boston sports guy from hartford connecticut um so for me i i think that absolutely was the case
09:57it was also we all thought brad stevens was a brilliant coach we all thought that ime udoka
10:03was an even better coach and then missoula comes in and he's just kind of salty and he hadn't done
10:11anything and so i think my guttural reaction at least just speaking for myself was i i could have
10:16james coach the team chuck up 53s and they'd win but in what i've seen this year like jalen's had
10:23a
10:23great year obviously he should be the mvp and he's made himself a a legit number one on any team
10:28in the
10:28nba but missoula's had a better year missoula is better in my view and the nba sort of uh power
10:36rankings as a head coach than the the leap forward you've gotten from jalen brown and i just don't
10:41think that because of how he speaks because of the dunking on turpin because of the cornea scratched
10:47in a game that he had to miss a coaching game because he was playing pickup basketball so
10:51aggressively those were all things that we mocked but the reality is is he's one of the best coaches
10:56in the nba i just one thing really quickly because i think it goes to the three-pointer
11:00uh point is that my my buddy taylor snow who works for celtics.com pointed this out last night
11:07miami made 23 three-pointers last night they were still losing by 18 points so it's not just about
11:17the three-pointers and i understand like how early on people tied missoula to that and the whole idea
11:22of missoula ball but this team does so much more right and he hates the conversation about coach of
11:28the year but this is this is his year just as much as it is jay and i think part
11:33of it is you know
11:34it's it's been the new nba you know i think since kind of like the golden state warriors brought it
11:40to
11:40our attention with the three-point ball and so there are just some teams and and joe missoula is more
11:45of
11:45a guy that says you know what we're going to keep shooting we're going to hawk up threes with they
11:50usually are at the top three in the league when it comes to three-point attempts and that's what they
11:54do and that's a big part of why they win games i think the biggest thing for me with missoula
11:58and in basketball and that with brad stevens we talked about him being a great coach
12:02but how do you handle the egos emay was then able to do do that handle those egos because that's
12:10the
12:10biggest thing joe missoula has been able to do joe missoula has done a great job of guys like
12:14even though we heard jaylen brown in the past talking about okay i understood what my role was i
12:19didn't really agree with it but joe was able to get guys like jaylen to buy into it even when
12:25they weren't cool with it
12:27they weren't cool with it
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