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Celtics win G1 vs. PHI, 123-91. Is Tatum 'fully back'? JT seems to have come a long way, since his initial return. Boston the the 'Team to Beat' in the East?
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00:00uh they honestly do they need to play the rest of the series mercy ruled this entire series
00:05even if dwell and bead comes back yeah does anyone think it's gonna make that much of a difference
00:10no you were there i was yeah i was great energy in the building yeah um i was a little
00:15a little
00:16tired yeah from shime's wedding oh oh how was that we gotta oh we gotta get to it it was
00:22great
00:22shime congratulations yeah thanks guys welcome to the club brother unbelievable event it was so
00:30you guys looked fantastic both of you bride was beautiful such a cool dress uh it was uh the the
00:38the food was great the appetizers were great some of the best scallop strapped bacon i've ever had i
00:43think i had five yes i really i only had one you actually split it with lindsey yeah yes i
00:48i i did
00:48try the i wanted to try every appetizer so i tried the stuffed mushrooms shine we're at the
00:54capitol grill where we always are on a pretty nice day to run a marathon like the runners appreciate
00:59the fact that it's not going to get much warmer than 50 today i don't know about the spectators but
01:04um it's coming alive down here and we got a lot to get to on the show this morning after
01:10a bruins loss
01:12last night in disappointing fashion uh had that had that 2-0 lead in the third period and just
01:18can't hang on so you could talk about that all day long here on boston sports original weei
01:24celtics cruise to a win not much you were there mega i was not much controversial to talk about in
01:31that game nothing besides the rest of the eastern conference should be shaking in their boots because
01:36jason tatum looks fully back yeah fully back did he get to the triple double he was close but he
01:43didn't
01:43but the biggest difference just quickly is like the explosiveness looked so much better last night
01:49if you think back to when he came back on march 6th and that rough moment where he couldn't clear
01:54the
01:55rim for a dunk and then last night it was just like easy easy buckets that way the way he
02:00splits that like
02:00he loves that move where like he almost splits the double team and then goes right down the lane but
02:05yeah
02:05you're right he wasn't settling for threes he was going to the hole yeah it's hitting the deck it's
02:10amazing how quick he and where he's playing that he was able to return and play at the level he's
02:18playing at it it is like unbelievable i don't think i've ever seen an athlete have that type of injury
02:24when we're talking about achilles and then be back within less than a year and playing at the level that
02:31they were playing at almost before the injury did they play at all mego the we want boston chant from
02:37philly in the game before like did they do that to rile up the crowd at all did they did
02:41no that was
02:42totally organic yeah no no no i mean the um the fans in philly saying we want boston did anybody
02:49did
02:49the the celtics in-game energy no that's what i'm saying it just it was organic when the fans were
02:54doing
02:54it fans just started trolling my question is why are the celtics so much better than everybody
03:01else no like seriously like if you're the philadelphia 76ers my entire life but this
03:06roster it's been a decade in the making and they are not even in the same stratosphere
03:11like watching that game it was what 20 to 9 off the start like it's their defense and they
03:16knocked down threes what was philly the philly's three uh three point shooting percent is i don't
03:21know what it was but it's their defenses there and joe mazula's got these guys locked in everybody
03:26plays unbelievable defense and i think that's what makes it difficult and then when you have the two
03:32jays i mean they they probably have the best tandem in the nba when you look at the two jays
03:40i don't
03:41think there's a better tandem on and all in the nba and both of those guys play defense yeah no
03:47i mean i i
03:48you end up with the you know you got in maybe you got in a little bit of foul trouble
03:53uh nemias kata
03:55kata had three then got four on him but i you're not they're just they look like they're gonna they're
04:01gonna roll all the way through the east like yeah i'd say the only the only small point of concern
04:06and
04:06this is like such a nitpick because they steamrolled that team yesterday is that you have you have backup
04:13depth for your big man in nemias kata but kata has always found himself just the way he plays
04:19in foul trouble in different spots and vucevic just hasn't looked the same since he came back
04:24from hurting his hand had a nice three yesterday he did he did and like after after the fact mazula
04:31was like hey we don't we're asking him to go out and do a bunch of different stuff it's not
04:34just about
04:34the shooting but one of the reasons that they brought him in was to to be able to hit three
04:39right
04:39and then and then they struck you know because the thing about kata and i think people like he
04:43does a great job of rim protected but the thing i love that he does mego more than anything and
04:47they
04:47lose it when they bring in gaza or they bring in vucevic is they don't have that pick and lob
04:52and that's the thing jason tatum had a nice one then he had a fake one so
04:57you miss that element when you have vucevic or gaza in the game james
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