Are the Boston Celtics suffering from a mid-season slump or is there a deeper malaise at play? Favorite Marcus Smart moments. Two free NBA picks against the spread for Monday Feb 5th.
Are the Boston Celtics suffering from a mid-season slump or is there a deeper malaise at play? Favorite Marcus Smart moments. Two free NBA picks against the spread for Monday Feb 5th.
All right, a couple of picks for you before we start the pod today. Like Cleveland, given four and a half against Sacramento, Cleveland's one of the best teams in the NBA. Over the last two weeks I think it's like 12 or 13 is something they've won. They've struggled against Sacramento in the past, but I just don't think this is the same King's team as last year. I think they're kind of soft and the way that Cleveland has been going at home, heading towards the All-Star break, I think they probably see an opportunity within beat being out to continue to move up in the standings, and this tends to be a pretty big game for them all of a sudden. So I really like them here at this spot.
Jim Quigley:Four and a half the other thing, the other game I really kind of like is Golden State. They're getting one and a half, some places two points against the Nets. I think this is a Brooklyn team that is limping into the All-Star break. I think this is NBA trade deadline week and I think there are guys on that team that's going to have one eye on what's going on and one eye on the court and there's going to be a lack of focus. I don't think Golden State is kind of living in the same world. I don't think they have a ton of guys in danger of being traded because of their contract situation there. So I see this as and Golden State is going to be pissed off after a pretty difficult loss the other night. So I like the Warriors. You know, Curry had 60 and lost in overtime the other night. I think he's going to be ready to go and I don't think this one's going to be all that close. So I like the Warriors getting to and I like Cleveland giving four and a half.
Mike Quigley:You're listening to. They're going to call it a heartfelt. They're going to call it a heartfelt Offering in-depth analysis on all things Boston Celtics With your hosts Jim and Mike Wigley.
Jim Quigley:All right, here we are coming off the heels of Marcus Smats, return to the Gauden last night, unfortunately not playing, but a sweet night all the way around. Great tribute from the Celtics, great job of the Celtics fans. The hero amongst us was a really nice touch last night. And we will get into Marcus Smats and you know we do questions at the end of the show. We'll be Marcus Smats centered to just kind of, you know, throw a cherry on top of what was a nice night last night for a guy that deserved the reception he got.
Jim Quigley:But, mike, there's other things to talk about and you know I don't think we can really get much out of last night's victory against Memphis. Memphis had I don't know 11 players out. You know something ridiculous like that from their regulars. They played four or five guys on 10 day contracts, so they're barely a real NBA team. So I don't know what you take away other than you know it was nice to get the starters out after three quarters and Jaylen Brown didn't have to dress.
Jim Quigley:But there is plenty to talk about in terms of how the Celtics have been playing on this home stand and they certainly look like a team to me for the most part, mike, that just wants the all-stop break to get here, and you know that Lakers game was kind of the tipping point on that and you know they have been, and then I'm going to give it to you for the majority of the season. One of the top defensive rebounding teams in the league. It's been an area that they've been really good at and then over the course of this home stand, especially over the last three plus games, it's really been porous to terrible and to me that's a team that isn't as engaged as we've seen them in the past and you know there could be a lot of reasons for that. But the problem once you get into bad habits is sometimes they kind of, you know, grow and really become a problem. So, mike, I'll give it to you and here we go.
Mike Quigley:I agree. I agree with Charles Barkley's assessment and Gary Walshburn's assessment that this team isn't in a place to not show up and pick up bad habits. They're just not. They're a team that has allowed bad habits to hurt them in the playoffs and in big moments. And I also agree that when they lose, it's not about talent, it's about execution, because they're the most talented team in the NBA. And when we were on our last pod, we were talking about how the storyline is going to be about the LA Lakers and how they're falling apart and what's going to happen to LeBron and AD.
Mike Quigley:It was the Celtics who were on every national news show after that, not after that. I don't even want to call it a performance. They didn't show up to play, they didn't care, they didn't try against the Lakers, they disrespected their opponent. They got their asses kicked by the likes of Jackson Hayes, who just outworked Poor Zingis, who just outworked whoever was on the floor against them. That's all it was. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't. It wasn't Jackson Hayes playing all worldly, he was just playing hotter.
Mike Quigley:And you give some teams some life and suddenly they can hit threes and you saw what happened. Russell and Austin Reeves probably hit the most of them. I'm as I remember it. But at the end of the day, the Celtics book always concerns me about the Celtics is Are they going to be ready in these big moments, and are the habits that they pick up because they don't show up going to hurt them at the end of the year like it has in the past? That was really disappointing to see that kind of effort from this team. I was pissed off. I still am pissed off when I think about that, because then it carried over from the Indiana game too, the second half against the Indiana game, outside of a few moments in the fourth quarter and a really awesome moment by Jayden.
Jim Quigley:I would throw in the first half too, mike. I know they scored 82 points, but they kept. Indiana in there because they couldn't get a defensive rebound.
Mike Quigley:What's really discouraging is Tatum's playing hard and nobody else is following suit. The second half against the Lakers he dived on the ground for the ball and woke up the crowd a little bit. Then you have the start of that fourth quarter. The start of that fourth quarter was fucking disgraceful, Jimmy. Three or fours well, they had the layup to end the third quarter and then three straight layups that were all uncontested.
Jim Quigley:Off and makes too Off and makes too. So they went off and misses, what you understand. Sometimes long rebounds come out and those things happen, but those are off and makes the Southing school consecutively to start the fourth quarter. They should have cut into the leap but they didn't get back on defense. They were off and makes. Yeah, no, it's been troubling.
Jim Quigley:The game is like the Lakers game. It is harder at times when you hear two players are out to get yourself up for a game. I get it. You can lose games like that. Teams can shoot ridiculously well and you can lose. They may have lost anyways if they showed up to play the way Reeves and Russell shot they think Vanderbilt was in a corner three they may have lost anyway.
Jim Quigley:It would have been somewhat of the same narrative, but on this pod we would have been honest about it. We would have talked about the Lakers making shots and the Celtics, you know. It just wasn't their night and over the course of 82 that happens. They didn't show up and they didn't show up through the first six, seven minutes and then they played the last three minutes of the first quarter. The second quarter was up and down. The third quarter I thought was okay, and then I thought the first quarter was a mess.
Jim Quigley:And, like you said, you give teams energy when you don't box out. You know, when there's two Lakers on the offensive glass and there's one Celtic, you know we want to put the blame on the big for not getting the rebound. But when the other guy's not contributing at all it's two against one or three against two the Lakers aren't on your side on the defensive glass. Like, how does that happen? You know, part of the reason that happens is because the gods are going to beat, and they're going to beat off the dribble because their ball pressure sucks and so the big has to help. And so the offensive big is now just free to fly to the glass to get the rebound because the guy didn't do his job. Or you turn in the ball over and you're in rotation already. So when the miss happens because you turn the ball over and you're not set on the defense, no one's in position to box out.
Jim Quigley:It all carries over in the effort. Everything carries over. Once you let the hand off the rope on one end on one possession, it's going to carry over to the next defensive possession and then it's going to carry over to the defensive rebounding and the next thing you know a team's in it and they let the Pacers in the game early on in this home stand. They absolutely gave the Lakers life. Some of the Celtics did something well in that game. They would make a mistake like we've talked about and give the Lakers life. And then they're actually you know they're hitting a three offense and offense rebound and credit again those guys. They get paid to play. It was their opportunity. The Lakers players deserve a lot of credit. I don't want to take it away from them because they could have still lost even with a half ass effort from the Celtics. So kudos to those players.
Jim Quigley:But the Celtics, you know, did not show up and you started again at last night a bit in the first quarter. Again, memphis is not a real NBA team, so there was nothing really to take away from that effort. But you know, I hope it's just got their eye on the all-stop break and need a break and I hope it's not. What your concern is and what Washburn and Barclays' concern is that these are going to be bad habits that creep up. I hope it's just a tired team and this is the malaise of February that you see in the NBA sometimes a lot of times, most of the time. But you guys are right in your concern that you know the Celtics seem to hold onto their bad habits in the past and not let go of them, and whether it's been walking the lead up late or letting teams go on huge runs without doing anything about it and there were times last year in the playoffs where rebounding was a concern. So they have the talent in the skill to clean this up. It's a question of we'll look at it.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, sorry, mike.
Jim Quigley:I interrupted you.
Mike Quigley:No, you didn't, I interrupted you. You were still going, actually. But some of it too, for me like it wasn't as if LeBron and AD announced like 20 minutes before the game they weren't playing. Like the Celtics knew for like five or six hours that those guys weren't going to play. And so when I think about a game plan, and how are you going to attack a team? Why are you launched in 53s against the LA Lakers when they're starting centers Jackson Hayes? Why isn't the game plan to post guys up to attack the basket and get your threes made off of rhythm, get your threes made off of? You know Porzingis, living in the paint, porzingis shot seven threes and I think only like five to two against the Lakers and that lineup, to me all of it, was just poor. And I do really worry that the Celtics are way too analytically driven and don't always have a feel for how to play the right way.
Mike Quigley:Well, I tell you, Mike, as far as like the amount of threes that they're taking. I am starting to take issue that this team because their losses, their losses, if you look at all of them. They're not shooting well from three, and so I know they've crafted a roster to be to give them more options on how to win, but they're not necessarily taking advantage of it when the threes not there, and so the first couple months of the season they were you saw on stat last night and Scales brought it up they're going to the basket last during the month of January and we're seeing, I think, three games in a row here in February where they shot like 47 to 53s. I think that's too many attempts, jim.
Jim Quigley:It could be and you know I saw Scales stat I didn't think that the drop off was really even noteworthy. It was like one or two shots a game. So like one and a half shots I think it's. You know it's the way they play and you know they've had a lot more success than they've had failure with it this season. They have the best record in basketball and there's been games where the three hasn't gone and it's hurt them and there's certainly been opportunities to play a different way. I don't think that game was about the three though. I just thought it was about effort and it was about the attention to detail.
Jim Quigley:Scales brought up a good point in the telecast and we've seen this a lot in the homestand actually is where this team is struggling and we'll go four or five possessions without Jason Tatum touching the ball. Like what is up with that? Like your team is struggling, you've got one of the top 10 offensive players in the world on the court and a guy that will go downhill consistently In worst case usually as he gets doubled and he's going to find the open man and he's not touching the basketball. Like that to me is bizarre. It's bizarre and in the second quarter. That means he's usually on the court with Peyton Pritchett and Sam Hauser and, like Nemez Cata, like how is he not touching the ball? That's happened way, way too much.
Mike Quigley:Whereas I think he's been on this homestand.
Jim Quigley:He's been, at times, the only guy that has showed up in the starting five.
Mike Quigley:What's your? Oh, go ahead.
Jim Quigley:I have nothing else. You know how much can I sit here and talk about how badly they've sucked.
Mike Quigley:I don't know, especially when they have the best record in the league. But I think for me it's more about this is they're gonna win their games in the regular season, but they have to be able to win other ways come post season time, and hopefully they are able to because their roster they generated certainly allows them to. It's a matter of playing that way. Yeah, it wasn't great against the league because I mean, you think you only shot what seven free throws and Jaylen Brown didn't have any free throw attempts and all those turnovers.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, yeah.
Mike Quigley:Any concern level at all with just like the offensive inconsistency, inconsistency and really the defensive inconsistency of holiday.
Jim Quigley:I don't think holiday's defense has been in system. I think it's been pretty good for the most part. I think sometimes he gets beat by quicker guards, but that's that's what I mean, yeah.
Jim Quigley:That's been his MO his entire career, so you knew what you were getting there. I think offensively it's been tougher for him because he's been, you know, the primary option throughout his entire career. Now he's what? The fourth or fifth option at best. So that has to be an adjustment and I think he's handled it, you know, from a character perspective, as well as you could ever imagine. I don't think he takes a ton of stupid shots. I think he takes opportunities that are there for him. Because there isn't a ton. It might behoove the Celtics, during this stretch of bad teams, to maybe run some offense through him to try to get him in rhythm and kind of experiment with some different things with some of these guys. But you know he's been good. He's not. Maybe our expectations of him were just too high coming in because you know he isn't a primary option, you know, should he be, I don't know what your thoughts are.
Mike Quigley:I think he's bringing up a good point because against Atlanta, I definitely think it's an opportunity to post him up against Trey Enzo For us Atlanta to react to that and it's gonna open up shooters. Yeah, it's just interesting from watching him because there's some games where he looks like he just doesn't have any legs. I wonder if they want to watch his minutes here in the second half, because I guess my only concern would be him having these games in the playoffs where you know he's just so bad offensively that you know can you have him up there or not.
Jim Quigley:His turnovers in the clutch have been concerning If there's one aspect of his game I think there's been. Turnover is in the fourth quarter, late in games that you know you don't want to see.
Mike Quigley:Yeah. So the Celtics they got five more games here to end this all-star break and then we go into the break and we have the trade deadline on Thursday, jim. So the next five games they get Atlanta here Wednesday, then on the road in Miami and then back to back with Brooklyn, where we'll probably finally see a game against Ben Simmons since he's been traded. I don't think he's played against Boston since he's been traded, not that it matters, he's not like light in the world on fire, but it's an interesting nugget there and I would love to see the Celtics close out when in four or five, you know, but I have the same concern of you as you as, like, are they really locked in or they have their eye on this all-star break? So any thoughts on the trade deadline, and I know you wanted to talk about Marcus Martin.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, so we'll get to Marcus in a minute. But yeah, the schedule is kind of interesting. It's an interest in how Missoula kind of handles it. I think from a fan's perspective you want them to go win four or five or whatever. But does he kind of handle this differently? Does he kind of stagger some days off in here? Does he start experimenting with different things? You've seen the Celtics go to his own. Do we see another type of zone? Do we see different lineups against some of these teams, you know, headed into the all-star break? So I just kind of wonder what type of quality of play we're going to get and you know we saw Jaylen Brown get the night off last night. Are we going to see Hall Day and Tatum as we get to this break, especially Tatum where he's going to be playing in the all-star game and down there in NBA weekend? If we're going to see like some time off for some of these guys and maybe it won't be the best quality of basketball of the season, you go into the break depending on what they decide to do. Yeah, and the deadline is Thursday.
Jim Quigley:I think the Celtics could use. I know another big would be nice. That would help on the glass. I know a defensive wing would be good. I know those things are hard to get. I also think some guy would just, you know, a bulldog mentality that can give you good minutes and his versatile might be nice. And I don't know if he's available, mike, but just watching him last night and watching him, you know, throughout this season in just games I had interest with Memphis. David Roddy plays hard, he's got some skill. He's on the perfect contract for what the Celtics are looking for. It's two and a half million this year, four and a half million next and I think he would be an upgrade on their bench when you get beyond, like Hauser and Pritchett I don't know what else more you could really, what else more you're looking for what's available, but I just thought he'd be a nice piece.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, I think those are. Those are the type of deals you're looking for right, and then keeping an eye on the buyout market. There's not a lot the Celtics can do unless they trade their core. So even with that TPE, they don't have a ton of options. There's a chance the Celtics don't do anything right. So I think the main headlines are going to come out of New York City. I expect that the Knicks are going to make another move. I do. That's a team that's in the three seed right now. Joellen beats, you know definitely could be out for the season. Do the Knicks see themselves as a real contender now? Could they beat Milwaukee to get to the Eastern Conference Finals?
Jim Quigley:I think the way Milwaukee doesn't play. They've certainly looked vulnerable.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, the way Milwaukee doesn't defend in the way the Knicks do defend. Same with Cleveland. Cleveland's been playing well. I mean, they just been winning and winning and winning. I would suspect that maybe they're going to try to move Karris Leverts, update their roster, maybe bring in a real small forward to help them, but again, that's really hard to do. So the Knicks and Cleveland are two teams I got my eye on and watch out for Danny Angel in Utah. He's got a ton of picks down there. I wouldn't be surprised if he makes some sort of a move.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, angel could go either way, right, he could say, yeah, why am I going to buy for this team right now, we're just not going anywhere and start selling. Or he could. He could buy if he sees the right deal. So he could definitely go in either direction, I think, and he certainly has pieces that he could sell off. I mean, joellen Clarkson would be a nice pickup for a team that's looking for our offensive punch. You know someone coming off the bench. I think he's someone that instantly would help a basketball team. Yeah, no, it's going to be interesting.
Jim Quigley:And you look at the sixes like, what decision are they going to make? You know there's unfortunate for them. I don't really feel like there's any real big stars available that they can go after right now to help them stay afloat. So do they try to add with the hope of just staying in contention? But you know the in beat stuff sounds bad. Like you know, the surgery had on a toramaniscus. Usually you don't come back. When you do, you're usually not in a good place, as we saw with Rob. So that that that's not a good situation there and it's. I don't know how they're going to handle it. I don't know who really is the big fish out on the market right now. I obviously Murray is a name to look at.
Mike Quigley:If you could afford them and fit them into your roster, which would be tricky. I feel like the Marge de Rosen's a guy. Is he available? I don't know if he is, but I don't know if he's still.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, but Chicago, like the front office sucks so bad that like are they going for the 10th?
Mike Quigley:seat again.
Jim Quigley:You know, I don't know. I don't know if he's available. Portland obviously has Malcolm Brogdon, which would I think Teams might look at, but I don't know what. Memphis, in terms of the injured players, can they move smart? I think smart would be back at some point. So I don't know, it's a. I feel like the big moves have already been made, but maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm missing somebody here, maybe it is a deros and that gets moved, but we have to see Brooklyn's got to pick a direction and it's not like they got like stars, but they got guys.
Jim Quigley:They got other roster.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, that could certainly help. You know, dallas is desperate to get Finney Smith back. Dallas is just. You see how bad their defense is.
Jim Quigley:What an awful front office Dallas has. What an awful awful. They gave up on Brunson and Przingis. Przingis didn't play well there, but they gave up on both and they've ended up with Cary Like what a step backwards. You know, when you really think about it, you got to wonder like and Brunson played well there too. It wasn't like one of those things where he didn't play well with Luca.
Mike Quigley:He played well there and he didn't even have to pay him a max contract.
Jim Quigley:No, what a disaster of a front office. That is A complete disaster.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, they gave up bomb. They gave a 48 points to Yanis. He was like 20 of 27 from the floor and in the same game. They gave up 30 to Dean, who won 11 for 13.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, yeah. And if you play defense on you know Luca and Kyrie at all, you'll beat them. You know that's kind of the MO yeah Show any hot at all. Then the next night, you know, I think Milwaukee had like what a 14, 15 point lead going into the fourth quarter and got out scored 41 to 12 to Utah. So that's, they didn't fix their problems with their comeback against Dallas, that's for sure, mike. Let's, let's dedicate this last part of the part to Marcus Smart. These are pretty simple questions from me, but I think we don't have to get too complicated there. Your favorite Marcus Smart moment.
Mike Quigley:My favorite, marcus Smart. Moment.
Jim Quigley:Yeah.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, think about that, Jim. Why don't you go first?
Jim Quigley:Yeah, no, for me it was, it's because I love this team. The first round series against Milwaukee he was hurt for a couple of games Comes back. I think it was game three. No, it was game five. I think it was at home Game two, I forget what it was. But very first play out, he's out diving on the floor. He just gets a crowd just going completely mental. And I know he's had other great moments against Houston and you know, and that is when he heard his ankle and came back against Miami. But to me that just you know, showed the type of player he really is. You know, immediately coming back from injury, first thing he does on the floor for a loose ball and collects a turnover and just has a crowd lose in mind. And just you know, winning plays, winning plays, I guess yeah.
Mike Quigley:I guess for me it would probably be game seven against Toronto in the bubble.
Jim Quigley:Good luck yeah.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, I think the Celtics were struggling offensively that game. I want to say how many threes did he hit? Was it seven? Yeah, and that game, seven yeah.
Jim Quigley:But even better than that was that block on Norman Powell in that game.
Mike Quigley:Yeah, that's two. Yeah, yeah, that transition.
Jim Quigley:I mean Toronto had all the momentum and Mac has kind of just teed him up perfectly and I think Powell had gotting a layup on him earlier in a similar situation on this time spot just played it perfect. It was. It was just a great play. What was your initial reaction, mike, when you found out he got traded?
Mike Quigley:My initial reaction was that I didn't like it because I didn't trust Pozingas to play. So my initial reaction was that you traded your starting point guard for a guy when they had Rob Williams on the team too, and I was just like they got two Senes who aren't going to be playing at the playoffs. So that was my initial reaction. I hated it, and obviously things have worked out great, so that's, that's good.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, mine was just disappointing because I, when I heard they wanted Pozingas, I was excited because they needed that element and there was. There wasn't a lot of ways to go get it when I found out. It was smart over Brogdon. When all day we're led to believe that it was going to be Brogdon that was getting out the door. That was. That was gut punch it was. It was just so surprising. I think if I spent the day I would have been able to rationalize it a little bit better when it happened. But I remember it because a trade happened at like one in the morning, you know, like right after midnight or something, and the details started trickling out like 1230 in the morning or whatever, and yeah, so that that was disappointment and I just kind of the.
Jim Quigley:You know whether you loved him or hate him, he was kind of the light and rod for the team. He was the one that kind of energized the place and you knew you weren't going to get that. And there's been moments this year where you needed a big play to kind of get the team going. You needed that extra hustle and he would find ways to give it to you in a game like the Lakers, whether or not it paid off at the end was a whole different story, but he would at least try to ignite that, and there's been times we've we've absolutely missed it, mike. Most underrated part of my Kismats game in your mind. Is that what this is?
Mike Quigley:I think people never really took understood, when he was fully healthy, how athletic he was, his ability to block shots, grab offensive redounds, to speak pretty incredible plays in big moments and then, yeah, it was really that and I think his ability when healthy to run the point was something too, that was underrated too. When he was here, when they finally gave him the keys, he was actually a pretty good point guard. Yeah, so I think the point guard thing for me was.
Jim Quigley:They went through you know IT Kyrie Kemba Walker, and then finally he was given an opportunity to be a point guard and he was pretty good at it and he was effective for the most part and I thought there were times in the playoffs he got exposed a little bit, but he did a good job and he deserved the opportunity. I'm not sure if he's going to get that again, depending on where he ends up. Certainly, if he stays in Memphis with Moran, he's not going to be the guy. So you know, I thought that was an underrated element that he had. The last question for me, mike if Marcus Smart wasn't a part of that Pryzinga's trade right, and it was Malcolm Brogdon going up the door Do you think Drew Holiday is a member of the Celtics today? Do you think they trade Marcus Smart for Drew Holiday in the same way they did Brogdon going to Portland?
Mike Quigley:I don't think they do, but that would be disappointing because I think they had to make this deal in order to unleash Derek White, who's a better player than Marcus Smart. I think if Smart was still here, his personality and connection to the franchise would just take up too much space on the roster to allow for what we've seen from Derek White this year. We can't have Derek White not playing in the fourth quarter, obviously, like we did last season. I don't think that Brad Stevens and his love for Marcus Smart would have saw a huge upgrade from Holiday to Smart to be willing to give up a first round pick as well. I think it would have been really hard. I think the way it went down is how it needed to go down to get to the roster, to where it was. As much as I love Smart, I think it was time for him to move on and for the franchise to move on from him.
Jim Quigley:Yeah, I think you're mostly right. I think the Derek White element of this is the biggest thing. To me, that was the silver lining when Smart was traded for Przingis. For me I continue to feel that way. White needed more opportunities. For the most part he's been really good. He has struggled a bit late, but for the most part he's been really good. Clearly he's a better player than both Smart and Holiday at this point in their careers. That's what needed to happen. We'll see. The proof is in the pudding.
Jim Quigley:This team, as constituted, the way they're built, they should win it all. If they don't, then clearly this wasn't just a Marcus Smart problem. They needed an inside red plarum. There's something they probably have to look at longer and hotter. Unless an injury hits, those things happen, mike. Hey, five games to the all-stop break. Trade deadline is Thursday. I think how we'll try to handle this folks is maybe we'll try to get out a pot Thursday morning or Wednesday at some point to talk about the rumors we're hearing and what we'd like to see happen. Then, if the Celtics make any significant move, we'll obviously do another show to recap that, to talk about the trade that's made. If they don't, I don't know if we'll get another show on the board, but that's probably how we handle it, mike, if that works for you.
Mike Quigley:Absolutely, absolutely, jim. Looking forward to the trade deadline, it's always exciting in the NBA to see what moves are happening. We have a pot Wednesday or Thursday, maybe some sort of reaction on Friday or Monday. Everybody enjoyed the Atlanta Hawking. I'm going to say it here before the pot's over I hope the Celtics play with effort against Atlanta, because Atlanta is actually playing really well right now. It's not one of those games you can take lightly or you'll be adding another home loss.