00:00I mean, Tatum looked unbelievable in the first half of that game.
00:02We've said for a while he looks like himself.
00:04He looks ready to go.
00:05Like, there are no excuses for the Celtics not getting out of the East.
00:09If Tatum looks like that, and he does and he has for a while,
00:12he's looked like vintage Jason Tatum.
00:15There's no reason for them not to get out of the East.
00:17And that's before, Keefe, we even saw some of what happened.
00:21The Magic picked off Detroit in Game 1.
00:23Unreal.
00:23Detroit's down on one.
00:25Did not see that coming.
00:25New York lost last night to what we had been calling the corpse of C.J. McCollum.
00:29Oh, McCollum's nice.
00:31Turns out he's real live.
00:32Yeah, yeah.
00:32We get to birdies.
00:33He woke up.
00:34Well, he turned into the corpse at the end of the game.
00:35When he missed two free throws.
00:36Well, it's true.
00:37It's all right, buddy.
00:38But he's like villain number one at MSG in that series, which is always fun.
00:43I think the Hawks can beat him.
00:44And look, I didn't feel that way because of C.J. McCollum,
00:47but I felt like the Hawks could give him a series.
00:50It really couldn't have gone better one game in for the Celtics.
00:53Vintage Tatum.
00:54The Sixers were no problem whatsoever.
00:57And then the other teams are kind of side-eyeing in the East.
01:00How good is Detroit?
01:01They have no playoff experience.
01:03Lost to Orlando in game one.
01:05Could New York push the Celtics in round two?
01:07I don't think the Knicks are afraid of the Celtics.
01:09They beat them last year in the playoffs.
01:10They won three out of four this year.
01:11As Brian Windhorst said, they're built to beat the Celtics
01:14or at minimum give them problems.
01:16Now they're in a dogfight of a series at 1-1.
01:18So it really couldn't have gone much better this weekend.
01:20Now the Pistons thing is a little kind of like out of sight,
01:22out of mind right now because there's no reseeding.
01:24So it's not like if the Magic win, you'd play the Magic.
01:27But I'm with you.
01:27Like that's one team that you thought might be the Eastern Conference Finals.
01:31But now, I mean, the Cavs are up 2-0 in the Raptors.
01:33So maybe it'll just be the Cavs.
01:36And at that point, I know we look at James Harden.
01:38You're like, well, James Harden's not going to win.
01:39But if he wins two series, maybe it's a little bit different by the time they face him.
01:42And they have, in fairness to them, they've looked good.
01:44Like they've had no problem with Toronto.
01:45But I think even if it ends up being the Knicks, I feel like not just simply because it's 1
01:52-1 after two games,
01:53but that was more likely to be a six or seven game series and a bit of a dogfight.
01:57And they're going to have to like really use a lot of energy.
02:00Like they're not going to be playing Ron Harper Jr. at the end of their games, right?
02:05Like I think the Knicks and Hawks are going to be going balls to the wall all series long.
02:08So all of that.
02:09And then this might be another one where Celtics sit around and wait, right?
02:13Like one of the advantages of sweeping and all right, let the guys kind of rest up
02:18and face whoever they get in the next round.
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