April 11, 2024 • 16 mins
It’s time to sound off on a Celtics loss to the Knicks that featured an uninspiring performance from the top of the rotation, and an uplifting ending from the Stay Ready Group. Boston trailed by 31 points to the New York Knicks heading into the fourth quarter before storming back to make it a nine-point game at the final horn. We’re diving into some of the struggles from Jayson Tatum and Co., Payton Pritchard and Co. saving the day when it comes to net rating, the Celtics tying a season high in blocked shots, Jalen Brunson looking like a top-six MVP candidate, and why these last two games shouldn’t impact your view of the Celtics as the postseason nears.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Sound off with me loloves on a final dress rehearsal
gone wrong for the Boston Celtics. Boston went with its
top eight playoff rotation for basically all of the first
three quarters Thursday Night against New York, and they played hard,
they just didn't play well. And listen, this might sound
like an excuse, but I think it's more of a
(00:27):
legitimate reason. The Celtics had nothing to play for in
this game. The Knicks had everything to play for in
this game, and it looked it on both sides. New
York played an excellent basketball game both sides of the ball.
Jalen Brunson looked all the part of a top five
(00:48):
or six MVP candidate, which he should be this season.
There's no question about that. He scored thirty nine points,
didn't even play during the third quarter. He was cooking
from everywhere, six of eleven from distance four or four
on mid range shots outside of the paint, and was
excellent inside the paint as well. And a couple things
(01:10):
that stand out from this game is, you know, Joe
Missoula has emphasized all season shot differential. Shot differential is
a key metric that he and his staff look at
in the basketball operation staff as a whole.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Look at as.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
A stat you need to win far more often than not,
and tonight New York dominated in that department. They had
seventeen offensive rebounds in this game, and that led to
them taking thirteen more shots in the game than Boston.
But it was much worse than that when this game
(01:47):
really got away. I think at one point, I believe,
if I remember correctly looking at the box score and
seeing where these two teams stood, I believe at one
point New York had a shot advantage of twenty one
more shots than the Celtics. And listen, facts are facts.
It's tough to win when you're on Boston's end of
(02:08):
that scenario. You just can't win a basketball game when
the other team is taking twenty plus more shots and you.
The only way is if you shoot an ultra high
percentage from three point range and you take far, far,
far more free throw attempts. And neither of those things
were the case tonight for the Celtics, and that is
(02:28):
why they weren't able to win this game. But getting
back to it, the Celtics are navigating a tough stretch
right now. I mean, it's easier said than done. For
a team to stay locked in for nearly two weeks
at the end of the regular season when every game
has no real meaning to their standings. Boston has had
things locked up for what I believe, by the end
(02:49):
of this season, it's going to be eleven or twelve
days since the time when they played a game that
had any impact on their standing, either in the East
or in the league. So you know, we can walk
out here and say, hey, these guys should be playing
at their highest level every night, no matter what. But
I really do think that that's easier said than done.
(03:11):
The Celtics have been great with mental concentration and really
taking it to the court with everything that they've got
for the entire season. It just hasn't looked at in
these last couple of games. And that's okay, Like, it's
one thing if this happens in the playoffs against teams
that they're competing against to win a championship. It's another
thing if it's happening in games at the end of
(03:33):
the regular season when you just don't have any meeting
behind these games. So let's not read into it too much. Again,
the Celtics real games are gonna start a week and
a half from now. That's when things matter. This wasn't
an excuse. This is more of a reason. This game
just did not matter a lot to the Boston Celtics.
(03:53):
A couple of positives to take out of this game, though,
I mean that fourth quarter was played at a high
level by Boston's reserve. Joe Missoula pulled his starters with
a couple minutes left in the third quarter, and the
reserves came in and played really well during the fourth.
I mean Peyton Pritchard another great performance, sixteen points, six assists,
another game with no turnovers, and he did all of
(04:15):
this in less than twenty one minutes of action. So
he continues to cook. And as we said time and
time again, it is a good thing for the Boston
Celtics to have Peyton Pritchard feeling good as a head
into the postseason. Doc Rivers back in the day when
he was here, he always used to pull aside a
couple of guys on the bench and say, at some
point during this playoff run, you are going to win
(04:37):
us a game. I believe that Peyton Pritchard and Sam
Houser are two of those guys for the Celtics this season.
They are going to win the Celtics a game by
the way that they play individually. And Houser came off
the bench, scored fifteen points and made three of his
five to three pointers tonight. So those two guys in
(04:58):
a good shooting rhythm. That's good to see and it
was nice to see that group along with some other reserves.
Jaden Springer was out there, Spemahi Luke was out there,
Xavier Tillman as well some Luke Cornett. Those guys cut
into the lead. I mean, this game winds up that
Boston was down by thirty one at one point, believe
that was what the margin was heading into the fourth quarter.
(05:20):
They only wind up losing by nine. So pretty good
job by those guys to get this game a little
bit closer. Another thing to take out of this game,
Boston surprisingly tied at season high for blocks in a
game twelve blocks during this game. I believe it's the
fourth time that they have done that this season, either
the third or the fourth time that they've done that
this season. I'm just gonna go down the box score here.
(05:42):
We've got I think it was four players on the
team block two shots Jalen Brown block two, Chris tas
Porzingis block two, Drew Holliday block two. Al Horford came
off the bench in block two. He only played fifteen
plus minutes, So the Celtics were active defensively, they just
didn't grab a lot of those rebound off of those
block shots and then off of the other misses throughout
(06:03):
the game. So there's a couple of small things to
take out of this game as small positives in a
game that otherwise was not very positive. There's no ifsens
and butts around that for the Boston Celtics. Now one
last thing to keep an eye out for as the
Celtics head into another matchup at TD Garden on Friday,
that is tomorrow. The Celtics have not lost three consecutive
(06:25):
games all season long. This game marks two straight losses.
Tuesday night, they lost to the Bucks out in Milwaukee.
Tonight on Thursday, they lose to the Knicks at home.
So tomorrow's matchup against Charlotte here at TD Garden matters
from that perspective. If they want to go the entire
season without losing three consecutive games, tomorrow is the answer.
(06:48):
They have to win that game to be able to
secure that. If they win tomorrow, then they coast into
the postseason knowing that they finished the entire eighty two
game season without ever losing three straight game. So keep
an eye out for that tomorrow, guessing that game is
going to be mostly reserves. You know, all eight of
the top players in the rotation, including the five starters,
(07:10):
all played tonight, some of them inch inched up around
thirty minutes. I don't know if we'll see them on
the second night of a back to back tomorrow against
the Charlotte Hornets, but we'll have to wait and see
what Joe Missoula decides. Let's get into some comments from
the fans. Unbiased Celtics fan comments on what he's thinking
heading into tomorrow against the Charlotte Hornets, and then Celtics
(07:32):
karma is thankful to the bench.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Group for a very particular reason.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So let's get into it. Here's our first comment from
unbiased Celtics fan. All right, unbiased Celtics fan on what
he's thinking heading into tomorrow. He says, nothing, if anything
has changed for anyone after eighty something games. You shouldn't
watch the NBA. All right, What he's saying here is
(07:58):
that the Celtics have what is it, sixty two wins
on the season. They are sixty two and eighteen on
the season. They are by far the best team in
the NBA. They have one of the top point differentials
in NBA history. So what unbiased Celtics fan is saying
(08:21):
right now is that if you're allowing these two games
that don't matter at all for the Celtics to change
what you think about these Boston Celtics, then you shouldn't
be watching the NBA. This is a thought process that
(08:42):
seems very sound from unbiased Celtics fan. I am proud
of you, UnBias Celtics fan, because this does not happen often.
Someone who can come to a game, come to the
postgame after a game like tonight with positive thinking, with
sound thinking. This makes sense. We have eighty games of
(09:06):
evidence for the Boston Celtics, and as I already touched on,
the Celtics have gone eighty games without ever losing three
straight this season. Had these last twopen clunkers, absolutely, but
should this impact your thought process about this team heading
into postseason? Not at all, Not at all. You've got
(09:31):
seventy eight games before that of evidence to tell you
that there's nothing to worry about. Do you remember what
everyone was thinking after those two straight losses to the
Hawks down in Atlanta? The world was ending. The Celtics
have given it up. They're struggling heading into the postseason.
(09:56):
They won five straight after that, everyone forgot about it.
Do you remember what everyone was thinking after the Celtics
lost at the last second against the Cleveland Cavaliers back
at the start of March, followed up by a narrow
loss to the Nuggets out in Denver. Do you remember
the world is falling down, The Celtics are no good.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What did they do after that? They won nine straight games.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So the moral of the story here, folks, is that
the Celtics can lose two straight games, particularly when those
games don't matter, which is the case right now, and
bounce back and look like the team that they've seen
that we have seen the entirety of the rest of
the season. So don't get down. This team has shown
(10:47):
you over and over and over again that it is great.
It is not good, it is great, and that is
what all of us should expect come the postseason, not
what we saw in these last two games that literally
have zero impact and meaning on where the Celtics are
(11:08):
in the standings heading into the postseason. All right, next
up our second and final comment of the night. It's
Celtics Karma saying, I think the Stay Ready group did
an amazing job in maintaining our historic point differential. With
a smiley face, I love it, Celtics Karma. I was
(11:29):
thinking the exact same thing. I actually looked over at
our social team at the end of this game as
the Celtics reserves were canning three pointers and slicing this
lead down, as the crowd starting to go wild, and
they were actually feeling energy, positive energy that the team
was moving in the right direction. I said, this is
gonna do great wonders for our net rating, because for
(11:51):
a minute there that wasn't looking so good. We were
gonna take a nice little hit to our historic net
rating tonight. But all of a sudden, Sam Hauser starts
straining threes, Peyton Pritchard starts straining threes, Sphema high Luke
starts straining threes, and all of a sudden, the Celtics
(12:12):
are back within nine and that was the final margin
of this game. I remind you the Celtics were down
by thirty one heading into the fourth quarter. Okay, this
could have been way worse, and a thirty one point
loss is a nice little hit. Just as much as
a thirty one point win does wonders for the net rating,
(12:35):
a thirty one point loss does the opposite to the
net rating. Okay, that thing would drop. But here we
are with the stay ready group coming off the bench
and staying ready to deliver.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
They did it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
They brought the Celtics back into at least respectable territory
at the end of this night.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
A nine point deficit. That doesn't look all too bad.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, so last half full they get the Celtics net
rating staying in a pretty good position after what otherwise
was a pretty ugly night. And really, you do have
to give them credit. Those guys really got it, got
into a groove during the fourth quarter, really started scoring
the ball well, playing well as a team. And I
actually think that finishing the game in that fashion it
(13:25):
actually helps a little bit from a morale standpoint, because
if the Celtics lose by thirty, they go into the
locker room and there's no way around it, like, you
don't feel very good losing by thirty. But when you
get the rest of your team to come in and
kind of pick you up a little bit right during
that fourth quartery, you need them to pick you up,
and they answer the call like that stay Ready group
(13:47):
picked the team up and there was a little bit
of positive momental. You could actually feel it in the arena.
And I'm not making this up, like you could feel
a sense of positivity and relief. Okay, ah man, we
get to leave with that as the most recent taste
of what the Celtics basketball brought to the table tonight.
That was good basketball during the fourth quarter. So I
(14:08):
appreciate what those guys brought to the table. As I said,
the stay Ready group, they did stay ready, and they
delivered some pretty positive basketball that we are all able
to remember as we head into Friday night's matchup against
the Charlotte Hornets again. That game is coming up tomorrow
again from TD Garden. The Boston's final two games will
both be played at TD Garden, and this Friday night
(14:30):
matchup against the Hornets, We're gonna have to wait and
see who plays in this game. All eight of Boston's
top eight players played in this game and played pretty
significant minutes. I don't know what's going to happen, but
it is very possible that either none of those guys
or only a couple of those guys play during this
(14:53):
game on Friday. I just don't there's nothing to gain
really from playing your main players on the second night
of a back to back when your position in the
playoffs is all set in stone.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So we're gonna have to wait and see. Maybe we
get surprised.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
We were surprised tonight when everyone was available, you know,
heading into today, the entire team seemingly was questionable, So
you never know what's gonna happen tomorrow. Maybe some of
those key players play, but I'm leaning toward thinking that
Joe Missoula is gonna rest his top players, get them
some extra rest heading in the postseason, and see what
can happen with the reserves heading into that game. And again,
(15:29):
the Celtics need to win this game to seal in
eighty two game season without losing three straight the entire way. Again,
that game is at seven point thirty tomorrow night. You
can catch it on NBC Sports Boston. And as always,
I appreciate you for sounding off with me, and I
hope that I can sound off with you yet again
tomorrow night after Game eighty one that will be played
(15:51):
at TD Garden.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We'll see you tomorrow night after the game.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Folks, enjoy the game, and we're all hoping that in
Game eighty one, the Boston Celtics log win number sixty three.
Sound off with me loloves on a final dress rehearsal
gone wrong for the Boston Celtics. Boston went with its
top eight playoff rotation for basically all of the first
three quarters Thursday Night against New York, and they played hard,
they just didn't play well. And listen, this might sound
like an excuse, but I think it's more of a
(00:27):
legitimate reason. The Celtics had nothing to play for in
this game. The Knicks had everything to play for in
this game, and it looked it on both sides. New
York played an excellent basketball game both sides of the ball.
Jalen Brunson looked all the part of a top five
(00:48):
or six MVP candidate, which he should be this season.
There's no question about that. He scored thirty nine points,
didn't even play during the third quarter. He was cooking
from everywhere, six of eleven from distance four or four
on mid range shots outside of the paint, and was
excellent inside the paint as well. And a couple things
(01:10):
that stand out from this game is, you know, Joe
Missoula has emphasized all season shot differential. Shot differential is
a key metric that he and his staff look at
in the basketball operation staff as a whole.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Look at as.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
A stat you need to win far more often than not,
and tonight New York dominated in that department. They had
seventeen offensive rebounds in this game, and that led to
them taking thirteen more shots in the game than Boston.
But it was much worse than that when this game
(01:47):
really got away. I think at one point, I believe,
if I remember correctly looking at the box score and
seeing where these two teams stood, I believe at one
point New York had a shot advantage of twenty one
more shots than the Celtics. And listen, facts are facts.
It's tough to win when you're on Boston's end of
(02:08):
that scenario. You just can't win a basketball game when
the other team is taking twenty plus more shots and you.
The only way is if you shoot an ultra high
percentage from three point range and you take far, far,
far more free throw attempts. And neither of those things
were the case tonight for the Celtics, and that is
(02:28):
why they weren't able to win this game. But getting
back to it, the Celtics are navigating a tough stretch
right now. I mean, it's easier said than done. For
a team to stay locked in for nearly two weeks
at the end of the regular season when every game
has no real meaning to their standings. Boston has had
things locked up for what I believe, by the end
(02:49):
of this season, it's going to be eleven or twelve
days since the time when they played a game that
had any impact on their standing, either in the East
or in the league. So you know, we can walk
out here and say, hey, these guys should be playing
at their highest level every night, no matter what. But
I really do think that that's easier said than done.
(03:11):
The Celtics have been great with mental concentration and really
taking it to the court with everything that they've got
for the entire season. It just hasn't looked at in
these last couple of games. And that's okay, Like, it's
one thing if this happens in the playoffs against teams
that they're competing against to win a championship. It's another
thing if it's happening in games at the end of
(03:33):
the regular season when you just don't have any meeting
behind these games. So let's not read into it too much. Again,
the Celtics real games are gonna start a week and
a half from now. That's when things matter. This wasn't
an excuse. This is more of a reason. This game
just did not matter a lot to the Boston Celtics.
(03:53):
A couple of positives to take out of this game, though,
I mean that fourth quarter was played at a high
level by Boston's reserve. Joe Missoula pulled his starters with
a couple minutes left in the third quarter, and the
reserves came in and played really well during the fourth.
I mean Peyton Pritchard another great performance, sixteen points, six assists,
another game with no turnovers, and he did all of
(04:15):
this in less than twenty one minutes of action. So
he continues to cook. And as we said time and
time again, it is a good thing for the Boston
Celtics to have Peyton Pritchard feeling good as a head
into the postseason. Doc Rivers back in the day when
he was here, he always used to pull aside a
couple of guys on the bench and say, at some
point during this playoff run, you are going to win
(04:37):
us a game. I believe that Peyton Pritchard and Sam
Houser are two of those guys for the Celtics this season.
They are going to win the Celtics a game by
the way that they play individually. And Houser came off
the bench, scored fifteen points and made three of his
five to three pointers tonight. So those two guys in
(04:58):
a good shooting rhythm. That's good to see and it
was nice to see that group along with some other reserves.
Jaden Springer was out there, Spemahi Luke was out there,
Xavier Tillman as well some Luke Cornett. Those guys cut
into the lead. I mean, this game winds up that
Boston was down by thirty one at one point, believe
that was what the margin was heading into the fourth quarter.
(05:20):
They only wind up losing by nine. So pretty good
job by those guys to get this game a little
bit closer. Another thing to take out of this game,
Boston surprisingly tied at season high for blocks in a
game twelve blocks during this game. I believe it's the
fourth time that they have done that this season, either
the third or the fourth time that they've done that
this season. I'm just gonna go down the box score here.
(05:42):
We've got I think it was four players on the
team block two shots Jalen Brown block two, Chris tas
Porzingis block two, Drew Holliday block two. Al Horford came
off the bench in block two. He only played fifteen
plus minutes, So the Celtics were active defensively, they just
didn't grab a lot of those rebound off of those
block shots and then off of the other misses throughout
(06:03):
the game. So there's a couple of small things to
take out of this game as small positives in a
game that otherwise was not very positive. There's no ifsens
and butts around that for the Boston Celtics. Now one
last thing to keep an eye out for as the
Celtics head into another matchup at TD Garden on Friday,
that is tomorrow. The Celtics have not lost three consecutive
(06:25):
games all season long. This game marks two straight losses.
Tuesday night, they lost to the Bucks out in Milwaukee.
Tonight on Thursday, they lose to the Knicks at home.
So tomorrow's matchup against Charlotte here at TD Garden matters
from that perspective. If they want to go the entire
season without losing three consecutive games, tomorrow is the answer.
(06:48):
They have to win that game to be able to
secure that. If they win tomorrow, then they coast into
the postseason knowing that they finished the entire eighty two
game season without ever losing three straight game. So keep
an eye out for that tomorrow, guessing that game is
going to be mostly reserves. You know, all eight of
the top players in the rotation, including the five starters,
(07:10):
all played tonight, some of them inch inched up around
thirty minutes. I don't know if we'll see them on
the second night of a back to back tomorrow against
the Charlotte Hornets, but we'll have to wait and see
what Joe Missoula decides. Let's get into some comments from
the fans. Unbiased Celtics fan comments on what he's thinking
heading into tomorrow against the Charlotte Hornets, and then Celtics
(07:32):
karma is thankful to the bench.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Group for a very particular reason.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So let's get into it. Here's our first comment from
unbiased Celtics fan. All right, unbiased Celtics fan on what
he's thinking heading into tomorrow. He says, nothing, if anything
has changed for anyone after eighty something games. You shouldn't
watch the NBA. All right, What he's saying here is
(07:58):
that the Celtics have what is it, sixty two wins
on the season. They are sixty two and eighteen on
the season. They are by far the best team in
the NBA. They have one of the top point differentials
in NBA history. So what unbiased Celtics fan is saying
(08:21):
right now is that if you're allowing these two games
that don't matter at all for the Celtics to change
what you think about these Boston Celtics, then you shouldn't
be watching the NBA. This is a thought process that
(08:42):
seems very sound from unbiased Celtics fan. I am proud
of you, UnBias Celtics fan, because this does not happen often.
Someone who can come to a game, come to the
postgame after a game like tonight with positive thinking, with
sound thinking. This makes sense. We have eighty games of
(09:06):
evidence for the Boston Celtics, and as I already touched on,
the Celtics have gone eighty games without ever losing three
straight this season. Had these last twopen clunkers, absolutely, but
should this impact your thought process about this team heading
into postseason? Not at all, Not at all. You've got
(09:31):
seventy eight games before that of evidence to tell you
that there's nothing to worry about. Do you remember what
everyone was thinking after those two straight losses to the
Hawks down in Atlanta? The world was ending. The Celtics
have given it up. They're struggling heading into the postseason.
(09:56):
They won five straight after that, everyone forgot about it.
Do you remember what everyone was thinking after the Celtics
lost at the last second against the Cleveland Cavaliers back
at the start of March, followed up by a narrow
loss to the Nuggets out in Denver. Do you remember
the world is falling down, The Celtics are no good.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What did they do after that? They won nine straight games.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So the moral of the story here, folks, is that
the Celtics can lose two straight games, particularly when those
games don't matter, which is the case right now, and
bounce back and look like the team that they've seen
that we have seen the entirety of the rest of
the season. So don't get down. This team has shown
(10:47):
you over and over and over again that it is great.
It is not good, it is great, and that is
what all of us should expect come the postseason, not
what we saw in these last two games that literally
have zero impact and meaning on where the Celtics are
(11:08):
in the standings heading into the postseason. All right, next
up our second and final comment of the night. It's
Celtics Karma saying, I think the Stay Ready group did
an amazing job in maintaining our historic point differential. With
a smiley face, I love it, Celtics Karma. I was
(11:29):
thinking the exact same thing. I actually looked over at
our social team at the end of this game as
the Celtics reserves were canning three pointers and slicing this
lead down, as the crowd starting to go wild, and
they were actually feeling energy, positive energy that the team
was moving in the right direction. I said, this is
gonna do great wonders for our net rating, because for
(11:51):
a minute there that wasn't looking so good. We were
gonna take a nice little hit to our historic net
rating tonight. But all of a sudden, Sam Hauser starts
straining threes, Peyton Pritchard starts straining threes, Sphema high Luke
starts straining threes, and all of a sudden, the Celtics
(12:12):
are back within nine and that was the final margin
of this game. I remind you the Celtics were down
by thirty one heading into the fourth quarter. Okay, this
could have been way worse, and a thirty one point
loss is a nice little hit. Just as much as
a thirty one point win does wonders for the net rating,
(12:35):
a thirty one point loss does the opposite to the
net rating. Okay, that thing would drop. But here we
are with the stay ready group coming off the bench
and staying ready to deliver.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
They did it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
They brought the Celtics back into at least respectable territory
at the end of this night.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
A nine point deficit. That doesn't look all too bad.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Okay, so last half full they get the Celtics net
rating staying in a pretty good position after what otherwise
was a pretty ugly night. And really, you do have
to give them credit. Those guys really got it, got
into a groove during the fourth quarter, really started scoring
the ball well, playing well as a team. And I
actually think that finishing the game in that fashion it
(13:25):
actually helps a little bit from a morale standpoint, because
if the Celtics lose by thirty, they go into the
locker room and there's no way around it, like, you
don't feel very good losing by thirty. But when you
get the rest of your team to come in and
kind of pick you up a little bit right during
that fourth quartery, you need them to pick you up,
and they answer the call like that stay Ready group
(13:47):
picked the team up and there was a little bit
of positive momental. You could actually feel it in the arena.
And I'm not making this up, like you could feel
a sense of positivity and relief. Okay, ah man, we
get to leave with that as the most recent taste
of what the Celtics basketball brought to the table tonight.
That was good basketball during the fourth quarter. So I
(14:08):
appreciate what those guys brought to the table. As I said,
the stay Ready group, they did stay ready, and they
delivered some pretty positive basketball that we are all able
to remember as we head into Friday night's matchup against
the Charlotte Hornets again. That game is coming up tomorrow
again from TD Garden. The Boston's final two games will
both be played at TD Garden, and this Friday night
(14:30):
matchup against the Hornets, We're gonna have to wait and
see who plays in this game. All eight of Boston's
top eight players played in this game and played pretty
significant minutes. I don't know what's going to happen, but
it is very possible that either none of those guys
or only a couple of those guys play during this
(14:53):
game on Friday. I just don't there's nothing to gain
really from playing your main players on the second night
of a back to back when your position in the
playoffs is all set in stone.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So we're gonna have to wait and see. Maybe we
get surprised.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
We were surprised tonight when everyone was available, you know,
heading into today, the entire team seemingly was questionable, So
you never know what's gonna happen tomorrow. Maybe some of
those key players play, but I'm leaning toward thinking that
Joe Missoula is gonna rest his top players, get them
some extra rest heading in the postseason, and see what
can happen with the reserves heading into that game. And again,
(15:29):
the Celtics need to win this game to seal in
eighty two game season without losing three straight the entire way. Again,
that game is at seven point thirty tomorrow night. You
can catch it on NBC Sports Boston. And as always,
I appreciate you for sounding off with me, and I
hope that I can sound off with you yet again
tomorrow night after Game eighty one that will be played
(15:51):
at TD Garden.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We'll see you tomorrow night after the game.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Folks, enjoy the game, and we're all hoping that in
Game eighty one, the Boston Celtics log win number sixty three.
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