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3:25

White's contract. Let's

3:28

get into playoff stuff at first

3:30

here. I also want to

3:32

before, I'm recording this before the

3:35

main Celtics play their championship

3:38

game. Good luck

3:40

to them against the OKC Blue. I still think it

3:42

would be really fun if it's Boston,

3:45

your main beats OKC in the

3:47

G League championship. Celtics beat OKC

3:49

for the NBA championship. That'd

3:51

be kind of a fun storyline. It's

3:54

possible. Let's get into this playoff stress

3:56

from Paolo who asked, hey

3:58

John, any suggestions on how to manage? play

4:01

off stress. Well look,

4:04

I know people tend to get a little

4:07

worked up, right? You get a little caught

4:11

up in the moment and I'll

4:13

be honest with you, my level

4:15

of stress, it changed because of the

4:18

job that I do, but

4:21

I think the thing to understand is the

4:23

number one thing is no

4:25

matter what happens, it's gonna be okay. It's

4:28

gonna be fine no matter what, so

4:31

just sit back, enjoy

4:34

the process,

4:37

the moment, the,

4:40

you know, just sit back, just

4:43

enjoy, soak it all in because

4:45

there's something there in every

4:48

moment that you should

4:50

enjoy, even if it's in a loss, there

4:54

should be a feeling of,

4:57

you know, hey look, these guys gave me

5:02

eight months of a lot

5:04

of fun and I've

5:06

been on record here as saying I

5:08

expect the Celtics to win a championship, I

5:10

expect them to win a championship. This isn't

5:12

like the last two years or so I'm

5:14

like, I think the Celtics

5:16

can win a championship. This year

5:19

I expect them to win a championship,

5:22

but I'm not saying

5:24

that it's a guarantee though, it's possible

5:26

that they won't. There are other

5:28

teams that are involved, maybe they don't get to the finals,

5:30

maybe they get to the finals and they lose. Either

5:33

way it doesn't negate what they

5:35

did, so just always kind of keep in the back of your

5:37

head. This has been a good season and

5:41

just sit back

5:43

and enjoy the process,

5:45

the moments, and

5:47

you know, a drink or something

5:50

else to help you calm down. Might

5:52

not be a bad thing either, but that's

5:56

how I handle the stress of

5:58

things. It's

6:00

not the end of the world, right?

6:02

It's not the end of the world. So

6:05

just enjoy what's happening, enjoy

6:07

the moment, and you

6:10

won't miss Derek White's putback. You

6:12

know, because you're like, ah, screaming at

6:14

Marcus Smart or whatever happened. Eric

6:19

says, I'm concerned about the beginning

6:21

of these plans. Eric's question here

6:23

is kind of emblematic

6:25

of a lot of questions that came

6:27

in prior to the last

6:29

couple of games. The ones where

6:32

the starters played and kind of relaxed and they

6:35

lost a couple of games in a row. A

6:38

lot of questions came in, and this one kind

6:40

of works for all

6:42

of them. It's Eric's, but

6:44

there are a lot of people who

6:46

said, I'm concerned about the beginning of the

6:48

playoffs, given how the Celtics have been playing, they seem

6:51

lazy and not focused. Are you concerned

6:53

that they don't come out with focus, especially against

6:55

teams like Miami or Philly? I'm

6:57

concerned for an upset, he says. Now,

7:00

the one thing that we shouldn't be concerned about is a first-round

7:03

upset. These Celtics, no matter what you

7:06

think, they haven't been upset in the

7:08

first round. They haven't gotten maybe as

7:11

far as you think they should, but they have

7:13

never been upset in the first round. So

7:16

you have that in mind. I'm

7:19

not concerned. I don't think that

7:24

you can't live and die by the results of

7:26

each game as they happen. Like I've

7:28

been saying all season long, each

7:31

game is not a

7:33

referendum on how

7:36

the team is going to do moving forward. Each

7:38

game is its own thing, and

7:40

the bigger picture, the bigger trends, that's

7:43

what's going to be indicative of what

7:46

we can expect. And the Celtics have had

7:48

a very professional,

7:51

focused season, minus

7:55

a couple of games where seating

7:57

was determined, and they're like, yeah. Not

8:01

entirely their best effort,

8:03

but they just... What

8:06

do you want? Like honestly, what do you want

8:08

from them? They

8:11

they weren't going to try 100%

8:14

because they weren't trying to get hurt. They're just trying to get

8:16

through the last few games

8:18

that meant nothing. And

8:20

you know what? If

8:23

you want a little bit of spin, this is admittedly a little

8:25

bit of spin, but I'll put

8:27

it this way. You

8:29

didn't have Jason or Jalen or any of

8:32

those guys trying to

8:34

go super ISO and put up

8:36

big numbers right to pad stats and

8:38

make a big case for all NBA. They didn't do

8:40

any of that stuff. It wasn't like they stopped trying

8:42

and they were like, you know what? I'm just gonna

8:44

go for 30 and just put up a

8:47

couple of 30 spots and hopefully

8:49

that's that's front of a book. More than the win,

8:51

more than the loss. They didn't even do that. They

8:54

sacrificed their own numbers. They didn't even try

8:56

for their own numbers. So

8:58

that I think is it's not laziness.

9:01

It's not unfocused. They were just like,

9:04

we're done. We're done with the regular season. We're

9:06

not gonna go and put ourselves in a position to get

9:08

hurt. We're just gonna kind of

9:10

get through. We're gonna run up and down. Yeah,

9:12

they tried in spots, but that's all it was.

9:15

So don't don't

9:18

worry about that. Let's see how they come

9:20

out in the playoffs. I have a feeling that

9:22

in the first couple of games, they'll come

9:24

out and they'll play strong and people

9:26

will go, oh Okay.

9:29

Okay. Never mind. So

9:33

relax Kenny asks,

9:35

is O'Shea gonna play in the playoffs? I

9:38

feel a Celtics need to bring in some

9:40

energy like him crashing the glass occasionally. Well

9:45

we have to understand that this is gonna

9:47

be a very short rotation and Tom

9:50

Westerholm and I in a couple weeks ago broke

9:52

down the numbers. The numbers are very simple. If

9:55

everybody gets their normal playoff minutes,

9:58

which basically Jalen Jason,

10:00

Derek White get 40 minutes or

10:03

so. Holiday Porzingis get 35.

10:07

Al Horford gets about 30 to 35. That

10:10

leaves about 20 minutes left for a seventh

10:13

player. And that could be 10

10:16

minutes for one and 10 minutes for a different one. Or

10:19

maybe depending on how the game goes, it could be

10:21

30 minutes. Because they have the game well in hand

10:23

and they don't need to play Tatum or Brown 40

10:25

minutes. So just keep that in

10:28

mind when you

10:31

get into the playoffs. O'Shea probably

10:33

not going to play. If he

10:36

does, it's situational. Right? And

10:38

maybe he does. Maybe there is an energy, a

10:40

need for energy. I would

10:42

be shocked. I would be shocked if

10:44

there's a game where the Celtics are

10:47

completely flat

10:49

and don't have it. And

10:52

it's not impossible. Even in the

10:55

playoffs, it's not impossible. But I

10:57

would be surprised if this team is in that mode. You

11:04

know, I'm sorry. I'm looking at my

11:06

meters here. And I swear that I

11:10

think my... It's

11:14

weird. I'm sorry if things are not...

11:17

My audio is a little off. I'm going

11:19

to try to normalize it as best I can

11:22

after the fact. But if the

11:24

audio... If I'm having audio issues, I

11:26

apologize. So I think

11:30

I'm okay. But I'm

11:32

just... I look down at my meters. It's

11:34

tough when you're producing a show while you're doing it. So

11:37

I just want to apologize for that. But

11:40

my final word is there. It's

11:43

situationally O'Shea. Even

11:46

guys like Peyton

11:49

Pritchard. Sorry. Sam

11:52

Houser. Those guys, even those

11:54

guys are going to be like drastically reduced.

11:56

Luke Cornette, they're going to be drastically reduced.

11:58

So just keep that in mind. Maybe in

12:01

the early rounds, it won't be

12:03

the case and we'll see a more normal rotation.

12:06

If the Celtics can build up a big lead and they

12:08

can kind of get away, you can steal a couple of

12:10

minutes on the bench for Tatum and Brown here or there.

12:12

So you can save their big, big

12:14

minutes for second, third rounds

12:16

and the finals. But

12:19

that's where I feel

12:22

like it's just

12:24

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15:38

says, what's the worst, hardest possible path to winning

15:41

an NBA championship this postseason? I think

15:43

the question came in before we knew the

15:45

potential opponents but I think now we can

15:47

answer that question with some certainty. I

15:50

think the hardest possible one,

15:52

I still think it's

15:54

the Sixers even though the Celtics have the Sixers

15:56

number because Joel indeed is

15:59

the best player. they're going to face. It's

16:01

the Sixers. I'm going to say the

16:03

Cavs because of their experience. Although

16:06

Cavs and Orlando, either

16:08

one is going to be tough. They're

16:10

both big physical teams. But

16:13

I'll say the Cavs. And then

16:15

I'll still say Milwaukee in the conference

16:17

finals, just their experience. It's

16:20

still going to be a tough one. And,

16:22

you know, Giannis, I assume, is going to be healthy at that

16:24

point. So if they

16:26

get to that point, that would be the

16:29

toughest road to the finals. And then Denver in

16:31

the finals. That would be the hardest road to

16:33

a championship. So Philly,

16:36

Cleveland, Milwaukee,

16:38

Denver. Also,

16:41

side note, would not

16:43

be my favorite path city-wise,

16:45

because I don't want to go to Cleveland

16:48

and Milwaukee in back-to-back

16:50

stops. Sorry, people who live in

16:52

Cleveland and Milwaukee. I'd much

16:54

rather go. I mean, Orlando is not bad,

16:56

though. I'd rather go to the nice

16:59

weather. That's kind of

17:01

a toss-up. I'd rather go to New York for a

17:03

conference finals. Just I used to live in New York.

17:05

I like New York. But,

17:07

you know, hey, whatever it is, whatever the path

17:09

is, the path is. Johnny

17:12

B. asked, hey, John, how come Tatum never came

17:14

off the bench this season? Didn't he promise Dee

17:17

White that he'd do that at least once? Hey,

17:20

he did. You know

17:22

what Tatum also promised? Remember when he promised

17:24

to buy Jalen Brown a car because he

17:26

broke his face? I don't think

17:28

he lived up to that promise either. Is

17:31

Jason Tatum a dirty liar?

17:35

Dun, dun, dun. Is

17:38

this going to tear apart the locker room? Dun,

17:41

dun, dun. Yeah, I don't

17:43

know. He was never coming off the bench. But yes, he did promise that.

17:45

Maybe he'll ask about it. Like, hey, didn't you say you were going to

17:48

come off the bench at least once? And

17:50

he didn't. Perfect opportunity. He could

17:52

have done it in one of these last

17:55

two games. Checked in, played two minutes, checked

17:57

back out, be done. Danny.

18:00

asked, hey with the Drew signing for

18:02

four years it brings up the question, what about

18:04

Derek White? Why were everyone else's

18:06

contracts able to be completed except Derek White?

18:09

What's the bigger picture here? I might

18:12

have explained this before but the bigger picture is

18:14

that it makes more sense for him to go

18:16

into a free agency very much like the Jaylen

18:18

Brown situation where once he

18:20

became a free agent they signed him to the

18:23

35% Supermax versus

18:25

an extension that would

18:27

have been significantly less. For

18:30

Derek White the extension puts him

18:32

in the 20, I

18:34

want to say 27 million dollars like the most that he can

18:36

get is 27 million dollars

18:38

to start. If

18:40

he wants the Drew holiday contract, if he

18:43

said I will just take the holiday

18:45

contract, the exact carbon copy, you can't do

18:47

that unless he goes into free agency. That's

18:50

the rule, that's just the collective bargaining agreement.

18:52

So that's why Derek White didn't get extended

18:55

because he can make more

18:57

money. If he

18:59

wants to roll a dice he can say look

19:01

I got if they say 27 is

19:03

on the table, okay great I'm gonna

19:06

roll the dice here I'm gonna see if I can go and earn

19:08

a little bit more. And with

19:11

the open market who knows what team

19:13

might step up. The

19:15

Celtics have bird rights so they can sign him

19:17

it doesn't matter it's not like a pool of

19:20

money that they don't have they can sign them

19:22

to whatever. If he says you

19:24

know what I only had a 27 million dollar

19:26

season worst case scenario is that you

19:29

have a 27 million dollar season that contracts there

19:31

you you just take that even

19:33

if it's a little bit less than hey I don't think

19:35

it's gonna be less just knowing his work ethic and his

19:37

ability. So go

19:40

into free agency and give

19:43

it a shot unless he's just perfectly comfortable taking

19:45

the 27 million in which case after

19:47

the season they can get that done. But that's

19:49

that's the biggest reason why that

19:52

didn't get done. Eric says

19:54

hey I've observed that this Celtics team

19:56

did not take many charges anymore at

19:59

least At least not as much as the past years, is

20:01

this the game plan? You

20:03

know, interesting. I looked at

20:06

this, and you know, you know the things

20:08

that you kind of forget? You realize like,

20:10

oh, they didn't

20:12

take as many charges. You're right. You

20:16

get caught up in what is happening, which is blocking

20:18

a lot of shots. The Celtics contested

20:20

a ton of shots. They didn't foul

20:22

much. It's,

20:24

that's the game plan. The game plan is

20:26

to contest without fouling. So

20:29

the charges,

20:31

they took 47 offensive. They

20:34

drew 47 offensive fouls last

20:36

season. Uh, this season they drew

20:38

16. Right. Last

20:41

year, Derek White took 13. This year

20:43

he took seven. Holiday took

20:45

six. The

20:47

biggest difference, and I think this is just the

20:50

stylistic thing. Blake Griffin and

20:52

Marcus Smart drew 26 offensive

20:55

fouls and they're not on the team. So

20:59

those guys were replaced by guys

21:01

who are more contesting

21:04

shots. Like, he's not

21:06

taking charges. Holiday

21:10

can take charges, but he's not taking

21:12

many. He's, he's trying to get in there and

21:14

be disruptive and take steals. Uh,

21:16

White is the guy who used to take a

21:18

bunch of charges and his basically

21:20

got cut almost in half. So,

21:23

but he ended up blocking a ton more

21:25

shots. So it is a stylistic change. It's

21:28

just more, this is what the defense, uh,

21:31

these are, this is what the defensive players are more like.

21:33

So that's what they did.

21:36

They, they just not,

21:38

they're smart, got into position

21:40

and like he, he's the guy who drew

21:42

like the, the crazy ones. Blake

21:44

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24:31

with Andrew who said, on

24:33

the last day of the regular season, the Hawks were plus

24:35

17 on free throws, but lost by 42. How

24:38

is that possible? They

24:40

allowed a hundred shots and

24:42

they allowed 65% shooting. So

24:44

the Indiana Pacers shot 65% from the field.

24:49

They only hit three more three pointers, but they

24:52

shot, they hit 65 baskets. So

24:56

Hawks were terrible defensively.

24:59

They allowed a ton of like, who

25:01

allowed 65% shooting? So

25:04

plus 17 on free throws, who

25:06

cares? It's allowing 65%

25:09

shooting and giving

25:11

up a hundred field goal attempts. Yikes.

25:16

That's how you lose by a lot. Enzo

25:18

says, does the minus K to the upgrade from

25:21

two way contract make Tillman expendable

25:23

as a free agent this upcoming season? No,

25:27

it doesn't because Tillman,

25:30

and I'm not saying it makes him, he

25:32

isn't expendable, but it's not because of the

25:35

K to deal. Tillman is

25:37

a guy that can play

25:39

big in a smaller lineup or

25:43

play next to a big in

25:45

a bigger lineup and be a little

25:47

bit of a switchable kind of guy there.

25:52

I feel like he can

25:54

help more than we've seen him help. So

25:58

I feel like. He's

26:01

he could easily come back. I think he'd

26:03

be a good guy to have come back Give

26:06

him give him a summer to kind of like work on his knee. I

26:08

think his knee is a little bit of an issue So

26:10

but I think I think it was a good pickup I think

26:13

Tillman is a good pickup and it's a

26:15

guy that that should probably stick around I

26:17

mean, I'm a full advocate of running this

26:19

whole thing back. So That

26:22

that would be I know we got a

26:24

question about and I didn't include it. But

26:27

bringing Luke Cornett back I think the Celtics should bring

26:29

Luke Cornett back. I think there's I

26:31

don't think there are tons of upgrades out there so

26:33

maybe they you know, we'll be surprised but and

26:37

I don't think everybody's gonna come back but it'll

26:40

be I Think

26:42

most of these guys can come back and

26:44

tell me I think can be one of them And I think

26:46

it can be a very helpful guy. I don't think Kata Getting

26:50

that contract. Maybe Kata is

26:52

is the replacement for Luke Cornett. It's entirely

26:54

possible if that's the case But

26:57

I don't think he makes Tillman expendable per

26:59

se Hugo says I saw rumors

27:01

that Robert Williams is pushing to be traded back

27:04

to Boston I know that's highly unlikely but it

27:06

would even be possible giving current budget and CBA

27:08

stuff possible sure

27:11

possible then if

27:13

two teams want to Really

27:15

want to make something happen They

27:18

can find a way but it's a matter

27:20

of what are you willing to? Give

27:23

up. I just I want to

27:25

I answer this question To

27:28

say like don't get your hopes up and

27:31

they shouldn't I don't think they should Bring

27:34

Rob back at this point He's

27:37

gone things have worked and Honestly

27:40

to get him Would

27:42

be very difficult here I'm

27:45

gonna look at his his

27:47

contract here. It's Robert

27:51

Williams makes

27:54

why can't I see what Robert Williams makes

27:57

here? Here

28:00

we go, Rob is gonna make 12.4 million.

28:05

And it is gonna be extraordinarily difficult because you

28:07

basically have like one for one trades, but you

28:09

can make a trade. The thing is you can

28:12

make a trade before the season, the official season

28:14

ends. So there's like a

28:16

small window for them to kind of avoid that rule. Bottom

28:19

line is it is extraordinarily

28:21

difficult. And so don't expect

28:23

it. It's probably not gonna happen. And

28:28

it shouldn't happen. Joe asks,

28:30

I was thinking about Jeff Van Gundy. I haven't

28:32

heard anything about his contributions all season. Do

28:35

you have any insider info what he's

28:37

done as a consultant for the team? Well, I

28:39

know that he's basically, he

28:43

crosses different departments. So he's

28:45

been in film sessions with Joe.

28:47

He's talked to Joe Missoula,

28:49

he's talked to Brad Stevens. You

28:52

don't hear about it because it's a

28:54

consultant he's here,

28:57

he's not always here. Sometimes you see him,

29:00

sometimes you don't. It's a

29:03

mix of front office,

29:05

coaching. So

29:07

you're not going to hear, Hey,

29:10

Jeff Van Gundy told me this, he's not

29:12

gonna be front facing. He's never done a

29:14

media session with the Celtics, but

29:16

hey, it's gonna be worth, like

29:19

I said, Brad Stevens is gonna be

29:21

talking to the media in the morning. So

29:25

I could throw him a Jeff Van Gundy question

29:27

and be like, Hey, what's Jeff been doing? What

29:29

has he done all season? I

29:31

see him sometimes I've chatted a little bit

29:33

with Jeff Van Gundy, but curious

29:37

to see how that's gone. But

29:39

it's more just kind of

29:41

being in on different meanings, being in on different

29:43

sides, giving his opinion on certain things. And

29:46

I think more like giving

29:49

his opinion on some of the scouting that he's been

29:51

able to do on

29:53

the team USA level. So that's

29:57

the Jeff Van Gundy thing. I think Jeff is...

30:01

It's an interesting hire and I think

30:03

by all accounts and people that we've talked to, when

30:06

you do ask about him, they're like, oh yeah, he's been

30:08

great. What he's been great at? Who

30:11

knows? And finally, Michael says,

30:13

in the event at the Celtics, knock

30:15

on wood, win the championship, would

30:18

you be able to duck boat in the parade as fans, the

30:20

media is part of the experience and would really be great to

30:22

see, you know, maybe the, you

30:24

know, all of us on a duck boat

30:27

would be a really great celebration. Just wondering how

30:29

that works and if it's a possibility. I

30:32

am wondering that same thing there, Michael.

30:36

I think, I remember the Patriots

30:40

gave the media

30:42

a duck boat, beat

30:45

riders and such. I

30:48

don't remember 08 if

30:51

that was the case. I

30:54

think just from a coverage

30:56

perspective, it would be great

30:59

for me to experience because

31:02

I'm going to be giving you what

31:04

the, you know, the parade experience, right?

31:06

So what better way for me to tell

31:10

you what a parade is like than

31:12

to go on the parade

31:15

and look and experience it and

31:17

feel it. So

31:20

it would be super cool to be on

31:22

a duck boat going down Tremont

31:25

Street and all of that.

31:27

And if I see people and people

31:30

like say like locked on, like that

31:32

would be amazing to me. That

31:34

would be amazing if locked on Celtics

31:36

fans were there and oh my God,

31:38

that would be a

31:41

dream come true. I

31:43

don't know what the situation is. I have

31:45

to cover the parade somehow assuming

31:47

that there's going to be a parade. But

31:51

I don't know if we're

31:54

going to be in the

31:56

parade at all. If we're going to have our own,

31:58

if they're going to allow us to be. kind

32:00

of like watching with

32:02

like hey you know you get to

32:04

be with Namais Kata

32:07

John you get to be with Kata the Boston Globe you

32:09

get to be with Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown I

32:12

don't know maybe maybe that's maybe we get to

32:15

be maybe that's how it goes whatever

32:17

it is if if if

32:20

there is the possibility of being on

32:22

a duck boat and experiencing a parade

32:25

like that I I

32:27

would relish that for the rest of my

32:29

life because you know regardless

32:33

it'd be the coolest thing and I can't

32:35

wait imagine being able

32:37

to write about

32:39

that experience and

32:41

I would be recording a ton of stuff

32:43

I would give you a bonus podcast from

32:47

the boat I would probably

32:49

go live on YouTube from

32:51

the boat so that

32:53

would be just an

32:55

absolute this knocking

32:58

out of the park great content

33:00

thing and

33:02

at the same time we're just I would certainly

33:05

take like a few minutes

33:07

to just stand there

33:09

and look at that sea of people and be like

33:11

damn what a cool experience this is

33:14

so I hope I get to do it if I don't

33:16

I don't but if I do I

33:18

certainly will make the most of it and you

33:20

will certainly get to see in here

33:23

what it's like I will share for you a

33:26

lot of it here so

33:29

root for it thanks for

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