00:00Do any of the potential first-round playoff matchups for the Celtics give you pause for concern, Maz?
00:05This one, a little bit.
00:06Yeah?
00:06Yeah, a little bit.
00:07Really?
00:07Look, I think the Celtics will win, but Charlotte has played offensively.
00:11They've played really well here in the last, you know, few months of the season.
00:14Now, the last time they played, I thought the Celtics went to the rim pretty much at will against Charlotte.
00:20I think that's where the weakness is.
00:21I think they'll beat Charlotte, but I could see the games, you know, I could see the series stretching out
00:26a little bit
00:27because I think that, look, you know, the Celtics ultimately, to me, will be done in by a team
00:33that's going to sort of play physically with them and knock them around a little bit.
00:36I don't think Charlotte's going to do that, but they can score.
00:40And so, now again, I think the Celtics will play run and gun with Charlotte all night, and they'll beat
00:44them,
00:45especially with Tatum and Brown starting to gel the way they are.
00:50But, you know, I could see Charlotte stealing a game or two if the Celtics get stupid and take too
00:54many threes.
00:55Well, that game here, a couple weeks ago, Charlotte looked tremendous.
01:00Like, I don't know.
01:00Yeah, you mean, yeah, yeah.
01:02Here, in Boston.
01:02Yeah, I'm talking about the one in Charlotte.
01:04Right, I know.
01:04That was the more recent one, yeah.
01:05The more recent one, the Celts then went down to Charlotte and avenged it, quote-unquote,
01:10and took it to Charlotte.
01:12But the game here, I remember, like, even Scal saying, I got to rethink the Charlotte team.
01:17Yeah, Tatum wasn't back yet, if I remember, though.
01:20He was back, I don't know if he played, but I think it was after he had returned.
01:24I might be mistaken.
01:25Okay, I'll check.
01:26Anyway, go ahead.
01:26Well, so the thing that I remember last year, that first-round series against Orlando,
01:30was tougher than a lot of people expected.
01:32It went five games, but they defended them on the perimeter really well.
01:35And I was of the mind that that series, because it was so tough defensively for the Celtics
01:40and frustrated them, they kept forcing those threes.
01:44They, that took a chunk out of them.
01:46And I think that was part of the reason they ended up losing that next series against the Knicks.
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