They're Gonna Call It A Hard Foul?!

The Boston Celtics Are a Wagon

March 04, 2024 James Quigley and Mike Quigley Season 4 Episode 28
The Boston Celtics Are a Wagon
They're Gonna Call It A Hard Foul?!
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They're Gonna Call It A Hard Foul?!
The Boston Celtics Are a Wagon
Mar 04, 2024 Season 4 Episode 28
James Quigley and Mike Quigley

Unlock the secrets to smart NBA betting and join us as we share our top picks for tonight's games—you won't want to miss why we're putting our chips on the Clippers against the Bucks, even with the dreaded back-to-back. 

Then, we'll take you through a play-by-play of the Celtics' massacre over the Warriors, showcasing their 11-game winning streak. We dive into how Warriors disrespectful defensive approach ignited Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics. 

We'll debate the resilience of the Celctics, pondering how they might fare should adversity strike key players. We dive into Jayson Tatum's excellence and what the upcoming playoff run means for his legacy.

We also look ahead to Thursday's possible NBA Finals preview vs Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.

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Unlock the secrets to smart NBA betting and join us as we share our top picks for tonight's games—you won't want to miss why we're putting our chips on the Clippers against the Bucks, even with the dreaded back-to-back. 

Then, we'll take you through a play-by-play of the Celtics' massacre over the Warriors, showcasing their 11-game winning streak. We dive into how Warriors disrespectful defensive approach ignited Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics. 

We'll debate the resilience of the Celctics, pondering how they might fare should adversity strike key players. We dive into Jayson Tatum's excellence and what the upcoming playoff run means for his legacy.

We also look ahead to Thursday's possible NBA Finals preview vs Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.

Support the Show.

Jim Quigley:

All right, two games for tonight.

Mike Quigley:

One.

Jim Quigley:

I really like the Clippers getting five and a half. I expect the Bucks to win this game but I know the Clippers are on the back to back. I know the Bucks have really played very, very well, coming out of the breaks, starting them with that win against Minnesota and just continuing to roll since then. But I think the Bucks don't match up great against this Clippers team, particularly, you know, kwa and Paul George. If they both play those wings are gonna cause them the Bucks problems. Really don't have the person on the elder matchup. So even though it's a back-to-back game, I think the Bucks, you know, will win the game, but the Clippers coming off a hot fought win against the Timbers. I think they have enough to keep this close. I think five and a half points is too much. So Bucks win but Clippers cover the five and a half. The other game. I like the heavy favorites and I know they're not a great team.

Jim Quigley:

The Brooklyn Nets give a nine but they stand to play a little bit better under their new coach. Mikhail Bridges seems like he might be coming to life. He had 38 in the last game against the Hawks. They beat Memphis recently in a blowout. Memphis really doesn't have anyone other than Simon doing anything right now. Sorry, not Simon's, just in general they don't really have anyone doing anything, and I think this is a game that Brooklyn should win going away. So that's my pick. Memphis played Saturday night, lost a double overtime game to Portland, so they have had a day off, but I just I don't see this one as a good spot for them and I think Brooklyn wins going away.

Mike Quigley:

You're listening too. They're gonna call it a hard sell.

Jim Quigley:

They're gonna call it a hard sell.

Mike Quigley:

Offering in-depth analysis on all things Boston Celtics With your hosts Jim and Mike Wigley. Okay, all right.

Jim Quigley:

Hey everyone, mike and Jim here. The Celtics just continue to roll. What a performance yesterday against the Golden State Warriors. And Mike to set the scene of that game. It had every sense of a big game leading in and I know the worry situation is they're playing for a play-in right now. I think they're even the ninth attempt to see it out West, but they've won eight to 10. They've been very, very good of late. Christoph Bozingus is out. It's a national TV game.

Jim Quigley:

Steph Curry, pre-game walking through the arena, just had a sense of a big game field. Clay Thompson was making trick shots a half hour before the game and then even at tip-off. It just felt like we're gonna, it's gonna be one of those back and forth games and it was. It was 22-22 through the first quarter and that's when all hell broke loose and the Celtics just rolled them. I would score them by 50 points over the next 30 minutes and particularly control the first and second half. Second quarter.

Jim Quigley:

Mike, the way this team is playing right now, they certainly the cream of the crop in the NBA. They've won 11 straight. The point differential has been plus 20 in this winning streak. It's just been. You know they're playing over 800-basketball for the season. You're running out of superlatives to describe how well they're playing, but it's been amazing to watch. I mean, these games aren't even competitive. You know yesterday wasn't competitive, the second half was, dallas was not competitive, and now you know they have a couple more big games coming up during the stretch that we talked about in the last pod. But they're rolling. So you know you give your initial thoughts. I'm kind of at a loss of what more to say you know about this team.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, I think that Golden State's game plan was just ridiculous. Yeah, they weren't covering guys.

Jim Quigley:

Well, no, not covering one guy.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, it's a particular Gail and Brown, but even like later on in the game, they weren't really helping on Jason Tatum when he was going to the basket. Just let him go. Yeah, I don't know if that was a dream on Green thing or a Steve Carr thing. The Greens interview after the game was a bit bizarre. We didn't come up with our defensive game plan until 15 minutes before the game and I said, sure, let's try it. I don't know if Steve Carr doesn't have his hand on the pulse of that team, I'm not sure, but that was just dumb. I don't think there's any way to defend leaving an all-star wide open and just letting him shoot. I mean, I don't understand. Gail and Brown is not dream on Green. Gail and Brown is a really good player, average in, I think, going into that game over the last four, at least since 27, the game All-in-b-a.

Jim Quigley:

All-in-b-a guy. You leave him wide open.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, I. It was disrespectful. It really was. Yeah, just practice jump shots. What did Brown end up with in the first quarter for points?

Jim Quigley:

19. And then Tatum had 20 in the second.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, so that really got the Celtics going. I mean I don't know how to. I mean they're playing great, jim, they're playing out of their mind, and last night Porzingis wasn't even out there and Al stepped in and looked really good again. Cornette came in and played great defense. The shooting was out of this world, but really the defense was out of this world.

Jim Quigley:

Defense was fantastic.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, I mean Brown was right up in Curry forcing turnovers. I don't know if Curry's knee had anything to do with how he was playing us because he didn't look great, but Brown was turning him over and the shots were contested. Everything at the rim was contested.

Jim Quigley:

Kaminga finally scored to break the like 25 to 2 run, or whatever it was 25 to 1 and the only point was a 3-point I mean a 3-second defensive violation, so a technical foul.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah.

Mike Quigley:

When Kaminga finally scored, that was a contested, fading away jump shot in the paint. It wasn't like a layup or a jump shot off a great possession. Everything was contested, every pass, every drive. You could tell that the game meant a lot to Boston and they even in the fourth quarter with during garbage time, the Celtics were dominating. So it was yeah, they seemed to be locked in and I have a feeling we're going to see more of this on the road trip, even against really good teams.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah, we talked before. So it's a long game win streak but it's kind of two segments right, because we talked before the all-stop break about this team. You know they're winning but it wasn't necessarily great basketball but they played okay before the all-stop break but it was almost. Look, you know we talked about they're going to play one good quarter, dominate a bad team and then kind of close for the other three. And they kind of did that and out of the all-stop break they've just been the second half of this win streak. The last five games have just been a. You know they've been a different team.

Jim Quigley:

This is a team that clearly is on a mission. They look like I think every team they played is a playoff team. And look, I know there's been injuries and whatnot, that they're not playing these teams at full strength, but these games have not been competitive in the second half. They have not been competitive in the fourth quarter. They had just annihilating teams and, mike, you mentioned that it felt like a big game for the Celtics and I think there was a, certainly a. They wanted to send a message and you heard Jaylen Brown say it after the game yesterday that you know what their worry is. They had their time. We want to let them know that this is our time now and you know we'll see. I think we'll see. You know it's a good win, but I don't know how it translates going forward.

Jim Quigley:

Mike, you know they got Cleveland coming up tomorrow, who just lost to the Knicks. You know the lead is now nine and a half, the one seed. I think it's all about wrapped up. They get, and then the big one Thursday night in Denver, as they go out on the road here for kind of a. You know, cleveland, denver, phoenix, portland and then Phoenix. Do you think they have anything left to prove? You know they've gotten over this hump with the Golden State. You know they blew the 17 point lead for some last year. And now how big, I guess to you, are these next couple games as we look at it at this point?

Mike Quigley:

I don't think the Cleveland games a big game because the Celtics have already beaten twice. I think it's a really big game for Cleveland, though, because they haven't beat the Celtics this year. So I expect to see Cleveland's very best effort, and so I'll tune in because that will make it for an electric atmosphere that that place will be into an internationally televised game. But to the Celtics, I think it's more about continuing just to play right and to play well, and if you're not cute in the ball, well, you have a bad night and you lose, but you play the right way. That's what I'm kind of looking for at this point, I think, for the Denver game. I do think that's important. They lost a close one at home, really a game that they should have won. They just shot the ball so poorly in that game. I think that was a big factor, where Mari and Yogi really couldn't be stopped by the Celtics. So I do think there is something, some importance to that to show yourself that not only you can play with this team, that you can beat them, because this is, as I said in the last pod, I think, the team. I think it's going to be Boston and Denver, not to say if they lose both regular season games they can't beat them. But I think there's something too that is psychological advantage and I do think that this team has struggled a little bit on the mental side in some playoff runs here when things haven't gone their way in the past. So I do think that's people have a right to question that side of the Celtics.

Mike Quigley:

The rest of the regular season. I don't think that is at all. I think for me, even against the Milwaukee games I think we know what Milwaukee is, I think we know what Boston is I don't think these two games are going to prove anything. What's going to really prove it is in the playoffs. Let's see who wins that series.

Mike Quigley:

For instance, even in the Denver game, if Porzingis has any questions about his ankles or anything, I'm not playing. If holiday comes to me and says anything doesn't feel right, I'm not playing. If Alice isn't tired, I'm going to say how much time do you need? That's where I'm at and I think that's the way they should handle it. I think the most important thing and I think Richard Jefferson said he else they too he's like I'm really glad they're playing this way right now, but it's important for them to focus on playing like this for the rest of the season playing the right way, going into the playoffs and continuing to have good habits and not falling into any bad habits. So that's Joe's job right now. Winning and losing Winning's great, but I don't think it's a priority as far as health and just playing the right way right now.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah, I think, as far as this demo game goes, I am really, if it presented can go. You know, I know we missed yesterday with the contusion. Doesn't sound serious, but I thought so. He started off right hot Denver, the first game in that first quarter, but was really quiet throughout and I thought Yolkic's size really bothered him and even this when they would get Porter and Gordon on him I thought their strength and size, you know he made him struggle a bit and that's something we haven't really seen. So I want to see how the Celtics Adjusted at if they try to find mismatches, try to go to the screen and roll. You see more of a two-gate man game In this game, you know, against Denver. Then we saw in the last hand whether that's with Brown or Tatum and Przingis. So that's, that's an interesting recall. I just want to see what, how the Celtics adjust, because I thought they you know Przingis was way too quiet for the final three quarters of that, that last game, and you know, going on the road to Denver.

Jim Quigley:

I think this is a good experience. This is probably the team that's gonna come out West. There's no guarantees. Obviously Denver's is tough a place in the league, if not the toughest place in the league to play and not only do they have a great home crowd, but you're the atmosphere conditions there I just you know can be shocking to the body. You see teams wear down as a you know they go later into the game down there. So I think the experience late in the air playing there is probably a good thing. And what's interesting to me is the Celtics up until the second game last year is kind of Kind of owning this matchup against Denver over the last several years.

Jim Quigley:

I thought Denver played just a brilliant game against the Celtics last year late in the season Down there. I didn't wasn't even one of those games where you left it and said the Celtics played poorly, denver just you know they shot amazingly, the defense was really good, yoakich was dominant and and it was one of those games where it felt like it set the tone for the nuggets for the rest of the season and they just kind of took off and went and obviously won the championship and then they really showed championship moxie Somehow finding a way to win in Boston. And the game with the Celtics, I think, had four total turnovers and you know Denver only, I think it was, it was a low score in ballgame, all those things, and and Denver found a way to get a win and really in a game they probably shouldn't have. And so now, going there, how the Celtics are gonna respond to that. You know, denver had their last couple games. Denver had their way with you last year and then Stole one from you. Okay, how are you gonna? How are you gonna respond? So that psychological kind of a game that's being played here and you know, I do think it's important in the sense of I don't think most, I Don't think games really carry over to the playoffs at all, but I think if you come out with a, you know, really good game down there, it's gonna send a message and at least Leave something with Denver to think about the next time you see them.

Jim Quigley:

I and last thing I have to say, mike, is I really do hope this is the preview of the finals. You know the, the other teams out West. There's some really good teams out there. Obviously we talked about the Clippers, the Timberwolves, all those guys, but this is the matchup. I think it's the best matchup for the league. I think these are the two best teams. You know, there's certainly no one in the east that rivals Boston in terms of talent, not even Milwaukee, in my opinion, and so I just I look at this as Premier matchup that I'm hoping we see, and I really do. I think this is going to be a preview and I really hope it is the preview.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, I do too. I do too. I think it's the best matchup in the NBA and I think it's must see TV the way the Clippers play and Minnesota play. They kind of really slow the game down. It's not very entertaining. It's good basketball, but, yeah, I want to see you'll get first versus Celtics too, and that's. That's what we're playing for now and that's we're lucky as fans to be in this position. Hopefully this is the year that Boston's ready to do it, because Everybody's healthy and the team looks like they're firing up at all cylinders and Right now they look like they could be the favorites.

Jim Quigley:

So all right. So this it's Part like this is actually tough when things are going this well because you run out of things to kind of talk about. So the five questions today might Fuse kind of a doomsday scenario. Five questions and I don't believe in jinxes, so if anything happens I'm not taking any fault for this at all. What we're gonna do today is we look at the core six players and with each play we're gonna walk through with the Celtics the position there, and now if they were to lose one of these players, how far do you think they could go? So we're gonna start with I kind of rank them least to last so Al Horford. If we were to lose him, let's just assume the Celtics are gonna be the number one seed in home court throughout. How far can this team go without Al Horford?

Mike Quigley:

I think the team could still make it all the way to the finals and even win it. With the way the starting five has played in play this year, not to say obviously. Al brings a lot to the team. Huge loss Now. He shoots the ball well, he passes the ball well, he defends well. He seems really healthy right now and playing really great. But I think that's probably the reason why they picked up Tilming as Al Horford contingency plan, as Al really fell off in the playoffs last year. This year you have KP and in the playoffs you could ask KP to play 40 minutes a night if you have to, with all the days off that you get. And yeah, it would be a loss. It would certainly hurt you against Milwaukee, if indeed ever came back, which I don't think he is. It could hurt you there, but I would still. The Celtics would be the favorites out east. It would make it hotter to beat Denver, but they certainly could still compete in that series against Denver.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah, I know and I don't want to marginalize this because if you know you lost any of these players and I'm not going to win, it would be very difficult His loss, you know, especially with the way he's been playing a blade. He's been excellent lately, you know. His defense has been extraordinary. He doesn't seem to make any mistakes on offense. It seems like they're finding him on mismatches on the post, more than I'm used to seeing out of Al since his second kind of term here in Boston. But I'm with you, I think they could still win it. I think the margin from error is much smaller, but I think they could still win it. Do you feel the same way if the Celtics lost Drew Holiday For an extended amount of time?

Mike Quigley:

First I want to say that Holiday's been playing just as good, or even better, than Al.

Jim Quigley:

He's been awesome, yeah, he's been awesome.

Mike Quigley:

His shooting has been out of this world, which is something I haven't trusted him with and, pardon me, still doesn't know how much I trust him 45 to 3 on the season.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, yeah, like I know I used to get really annoyed with early three point shots and the shot clock by him. I still don't know if they're great shots, but that doesn't matter. He's playing really well. I feel like, so Al would be healthy. Yeah, I feel like then the Celtics would be in the same position. I still feel like they can win the East. They have a huge loss there defensively, but Pritchard has played really well. I don't know what their starting lineup would look like without Holiday. I think it would probably depend on matchups whether they go double big or they stop Pritchard with white, but I still think they could. They still have Chris Softwoods in hysteric white based on Tatum and Jalen Brown, so I still think they could win the whole thing. Yeah, it would be tough, obviously, be really hard, but I'd still feel like this team could compete to win it all.

Jim Quigley:

All right, I got a lot of noise in my background. I don't know, can you hear it, mike? The work that's being done downstairs, no, oh good. Okay, so you had. I kind of agree with you, but I think the margin gets. You know, the margin becomes even smaller than if Al goes down. I think the way Holiday has played is switchability on defense, the way he's accepted his role. You know, it's very unlike what Marcus Monti last year, where he's taking, you know, shots from within the offense. He's not dominating the ball in any way but at the same time being a really good facilitator, good teammate. You would feel his loss. You would feel his loss. You know Pritchard could step up and do some things, but I would put the sailing at an NBA finals. They still could win it, in my opinion. Do you feel the same way if Derek White goes down?

Mike Quigley:

Oh um. Could they win the NBA finals if Derek White gets hurt? I hope so, because I would like to think that Jason, tatum, brown and Porzingis are good enough as a big three to get it done. Jim, I think the Celtics have, like they're, spoiled with riches here. They have so much as a team that they should be able to win when the main piece goes down. But Derek White now we're talking about the cream of the crop here, one of their big four going down. I still think they could win the East. I think, if Tatum and Brown are playing at their highest level in the NBA finals, that the Celtics could still win the NBA finals. But they wouldn't be the favorites, that's for sure.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah.

Jim Quigley:

So I'm with you. I think they could get out of the East. I think if they're playing Denver, denver would be favorites in this situation and if I was picking and White's out, I would probably go with the Nuggets. But they could win it, you know, especially if it's you know, I guess I'm going to get ahead. You're going to know where I stand on Jalen Brown.

Jim Quigley:

Now I feel like if you have Tatum Porzingis neither Brown or White, with everyone else, you got a chance to win a championship. That's kind of my thinking on this. So if you had Tatum Brown White, you could win it. If you had Tatum Porzingis White, you could win it. If you had Tatum Porzingis Brown, you could win it. Although if you lose Brown, the margin even gets smaller than generic White. So you know, even to come out of the East becomes more difficult. So as we move on to Brown as the next guy I think it's pretty much the same boat. I think they could get out of the East. I don't think they would be favorites, I think it would be in the finals. I think it would be even harder to win it, but they'd at least have a shot. See.

Mike Quigley:

I disagree. I think if they lose Brown they don't have a shot, and I think for me it's the defensive side of the ball that he brings to this team that I don't think anybody else brings anymore, as far as in the way he defends on the ball.

Jim Quigley:

How far do you think they go then, if they lost him?

Mike Quigley:

I think they'd have a really hard time beating Milwaukee because they don't have the advantage anymore as far as these two wings who are just going to dominate and really abuse the fact that Milwaukee doesn't have the wings to defend them. I think once Brown's out, milwaukee can throw these young defenses that Jason Tatum they have the size to play with Porzingis and it would really come down to the guard play and put a lot of pressure on Holiday and White to win that series. I still think the Celtics could do it, but I would say I wouldn't be surprised if Jalen Brown wasn't playing at a team like Milwaukee. People.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah, and then the next two guys. I'll just tell you where I am. I think if Tatum ever went down, you're not going to pass the second round. I just think that's how valuable he is. Well, I think they could.

Mike Quigley:

If you look at the standings and what's out there, if they don't play Miami, I think they could make it to the Eastern Conference finals, because it's like the Knicks are they even going to be healthy? Like Philadelphia, are they even going to be healthy? The? Pastes does that translate into the playoffs.

Jim Quigley:

How many games do you think they would have won in this winning streak if they didn't have Jason Tatum? What would their record be?

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, maybe they'd be like seven and four.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah, I mean, how many times has he been the reason they've won, especially in that before the All-Star break. And then you look at like third quarters in the second half of the season, post All-Star break. He's just taken over and like he, I'm at the point where I'm starting to feel like he's underrated around the league on just everything he brings to the game and everything he does well. So maybe you're right, maybe they find a way to get through the second round, but that's as far as they go without him. Yeah, and Pryzingas. I think they can make these finals without Pryzingas.

Jim Quigley:

I think their offense is still that good even without him, especially if Tatum's healthy. And if you have a healthy Tatum, even without Pryzingas, you're sailing could still be the NBA finals. That's how good Jason Tatum is. I mean, it was essentially the team they had last year and they were a game away. Right, I know you had Rob Williams, but he wasn't really Rob Williams in those playoffs last year. So to me, tatum could still get you to the finals even without Pryzingas and you still have Brown. But I think that's kind of where I end on this. Mike is, you can make your ultimate goal if you lose anyone with you know, there's a chance to get there.

Jim Quigley:

You know, obviously gets harder. It's not likely If you lose anyone. That's not Jason too, and I think everything changes with him and and you I know you've hit on it a lot this is really an opportunity for him. I think these playoffs and I think that's kind of what I'm getting at here to really, you know, cement himself this. I think this put these playoffs are going to be much as about him as as anybody else.

Mike Quigley:

Also him playing healthy too, not just like losing Jason Tatum is one thing, having Jason Tatum not healthy playing is another thing too, and so I feel like these last two post seasons the Celtics have had some bad luck there. Yeah, that wrist was really bothering him two years ago during that championship run in the shoulder.

Mike Quigley:

It was so obvious. Then last year, game seven. I mean I still feel like game seven against Miami, the Celtics win If Tatum doesn't get hurt. I do, that's how I feel. I know Miami shot lights out. Duncan Robinson played out of his fucking mind in game seven, but I still feel like that was such a downer because Brown was so bad Tatum was like the MVP of that series that those, those three, that three game winning streak that they were on was all Jason Tatum. So I just hope for this playoff run. We we got lucky enough to have him healthy the entire time. If they, if they lose poor Zengas, I agree with you, they can still. They can still compete for the same, but he just makes life so much easier.

Mike Quigley:

Yeah, yeah. And he's another one. That Key code. Yeah, it's obvious what he brings on the offense, on the offense event, but the Celtics shop blocking between him and Derek White at the rim, and now Horford. There's nothing like that across the league except in Boston. And now you see Cornette doing it when he comes in the game off the bench Like they're. They're protecting the rim, maybe better than anybody, maybe even better than Milwaukee was. Brooke Lopez and Yannis, like the Celtics, might be the best paint and rim defense. Yeah, you lose KP. I don't know if you are that anymore.

Jim Quigley:

Well, it goes to the defense being on the string so Milwaukee can't cover the perimeter. So if your bigs have to over, help right, and they're out of position, so you get shots at the rim, despite those guys being good rim protectors. You know they're not as good. If your gods can't defend, your wings can't defend, everyone in the Celtics can defend, and whether it's ball pressure or you know they can switch. Everything you don't like this is we haven't even gotten into it, but you didn't see them double Yolkets. I mean, I'm sorry, luca Donkic, in the game Friday night. All that much they didn't have to. They just said you know what, you may score 45, but our defense is good enough that no one else is going to do anything that we have to.

Jim Quigley:

We'll cover KP on and one. We'll be on your shooters, don't worry about it. Now they did double a little bit of Curry at time yesterday, but I think that goes to a lack of just. There's nobody else on Golden State that you exactly.

Jim Quigley:

It's like the ABC defense anybody but Curry, you know, because they just don't have any threats. But the Celtics, if you have a good team and you have some shooters and you have surrounding cast, they can all got the yacht. And it makes a huge, huge difference in your best players. Your best players, tatum and Brown and I know we said Brown has been really good defensively. I think Tatum's better than him defensively. I think Tatum is among the top five or 10 defensive players in the league and doesn't get the credit for it. Now he doesn't do it through 48 and he shouldn't come to the fourth quarter. You can put him on anybody and he's going to make the life of living hell. And so like I just I feel like, I just feel like Brown's a tone setter defensively.

Jim Quigley:

Yeah, oh yeah. And he took on Curry yesterday and did a good job and I'm sure he'll take on. You know, try to take on Jamal Murray and down in the Mitchell these next couple of games. But yeah, he appointed. It all works together in Pozinga some way to bend the beneficiary of you know, really good permitted defense and added up some block shots. It's all in the string and they all do it together and you saw it yesterday. You know, despite Golden State having, you know, limitations with other guys, they have an offense that's tough to defend in the Celtics. They don't have any problem with it whatsoever.

Mike Quigley:

You know, yeah, so looking forward to Tuesday night. Speaking of Donovan Mitchell, he's a guy that typically loves to go off against Boston.

Jim Quigley:

Oh, he does great, yeah, gallant. So we'll see, you know. And Evan Mowbley is healthy, so we'll see how he matches up against Pozinga. So that's interesting.

Mike Quigley:

And if Pozinga's plays.

Jim Quigley:

If Pozinga's plays, yeah. Yeah, which he might not so all right, everyone. Celtics are rolling and we'll keep rolling too, all the way to the playoffs and, hopefully, to a championship. We'll talk to everyone soon.

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