00:00The other guy in the trade, we told you this yesterday,
00:03the forgotten man, Paul George, ripped his former team.
00:0936 points.
00:10He hit six threes.
00:12He shot six of 11.
00:13He was awesome.
00:15I mean, Paul George has been awesome this year for the Boston Celtics.
00:21Joel Embiid's quote after the game is pathetic and typical,
00:25but he called Paul George Boston's best player.
00:30Saying Paul George is the Celtics best player.
00:33No, he's not.
00:34Okay.
00:34He's not that.
00:35I get it.
00:36You guys in Philadelphia, you can't handle Jason Tatum.
00:39I understand.
00:39You got to go for the troll job and you need the X, you know,
00:43X clicks and you want the attention.
00:45That's what this roster is all about.
00:47And we talked about it yesterday that if things go south in Philadelphia,
00:50it can blow up because of the personalities that they have inside that roster.
00:56When they're winning, everyone's going to be good.
01:00But if they lose and if they get beat by a team like Boston or a team like
01:06OKC or somebody else, if they go on a long losing streak at any point during
01:10this season, Joel Embiid can't help himself.
01:14He just runs his mouth and says all sorts of things are just unnecessary.
01:20LeBron's like, eh, what do I care?
01:22These kids are ridiculous.
01:24My legacy is good.
01:25I'm playing here.
01:26I'm having some fun.
01:27I'm living in New York now.
01:28I love this.
01:29I'm taking helicopters back and forth.
01:30I'm all good.
01:31You guys go figure it out.
01:33Nick nurse.
01:33This is your problem.
01:35Maxi and Edgecombe are unbelievable.
01:37I mean, they're really good.
01:38But if you play a team that hits threes and you're playing three on two, which is what
01:43happened last night.
01:44Boston was hitting threes all over the place and the Sixers are driving and they're scoring
01:49two points and they're still going down, down, down because Boston goes up there and hits
01:53five threes in six possessions.
01:54And all of a sudden you're like, uh, we were down five.
01:58Now we're down 12.
02:00This is not good.
02:01A lead can explode very quickly when you play the Celtics.
02:04Now, has Boston been a surprise?
02:07Well, yes, because Paul George at 36 years of age looks like a guy playing at 26 right
02:13now and he was asked in the post game on NBC and he was in a great mood.
02:19He was asked about the way that Joe Missoula is using him and he said, look, I figured out
02:25that and he goes, this is not a knock to how I was used in Philadelphia, but the higher usage
02:30rate that I have with Boston is agreeing with me and he is.
02:34He's getting more shots.
02:35He's getting more minutes.
02:36He's getting the opportunity to get in a rhythm quicker and he's a bigger part of the offense.
02:41You have Jason Tatum and Paul George.
02:43He's the number two option in the offense and Joe Missoula is using him as a spot up
02:48three point shooter.
02:49And so far, so good.
02:50We talked about it yesterday about the way he's shooting.
02:53He's hitting 42, 43% of his threes.
02:57That's a career high for Paul George.
03:00So while everyone was so caught up with Jason and Jalen, as I talked about yesterday, the forgotten
03:08man was the guy in the trade for Jalen Brown and Paul George and how much Philadelphia celebrated
03:16him being sent out because he only played about 80 games in two years.
03:20He got suspended for the PED.
03:22He got hurt.
03:23All the things that went into Paul George's Philadelphia tenure.
03:26It was not a good fit.
03:28It was a bad match.
03:29And now with Boston, the role fits him.
03:33The organization fits him.
03:35The coaching style fits him.
03:36The front office fits him.
03:38I mean, Brad Stevens wanted Paul George.
03:40They identified him as a better fit for Jason Tatum than Jalen Brown.
03:47Older, more experienced, but a guy who clearly has something to prove this season and worked
03:54very hard.
03:55And he was asked by Vince Carter after the game on NBC, are you going to be able to keep
03:59this up?
04:00I know you've played 10 games so far, you know, you got a bunch of basketball left to go.
04:05Are you going to be able to keep this up and be healthy?
04:08And he said he feels awesome and that he had worked really hard all summer long to get
04:14ready for this season.
04:16So, I mean, I think there's a lot of fun stuff going on right now in that locker room for
04:22Boston.
04:22And I think Paul George has a lot to do with it.
04:25Peyton Pritchard, after the game, talked about the chemistry in the locker room and he didn't
04:30say anything about Jalen Brown, but he talked about the chemistry, about everybody wants everyone
04:35else to do well, that everyone's going to go out there and they want, you know, Jason
04:39Tatum to go kill it.
04:40And they want Paul George to go shine and they want everyone to go and get theirs.
04:45It's not a direct shot at Jalen Brown, but it kind of is because if you remember what
04:49happened last year, Jalen Brown was number one in the NBA in turnovers.
04:55He was a problem.
04:57He, when the ball went, he wanted, it was his team, right?
05:01Remember what he said?
05:01My favorite year was last year when it was my team and Jason Tatum was not there.
05:06That was my favorite year.
05:08I wonder if you ask everybody in that room today about what last year was like and you
05:15told them, Hey, no consequences.
05:16Just go ahead and answer it.
05:17Honestly, I think we all would be amazed at the number of people that would go last year
05:22was all about Jalen Brown.
05:24That was his team.
05:25You know, you know why we blew big leads.
05:27You know why we could, we failed in, in crunch time.
05:29You know why we blew the lead to Philadelphia, all the things that happened.
05:33Well, that was a lot to do with the fact that we just really didn't have it.
