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by Gorman. A given to the

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playoff picture. In just a minute. I'll

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So let's get to the the first things

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first. The Boston Celtics. When I don't think

3:48

we need to break down that game or

3:50

other, then. It's their sixty

3:52

fourth when of the season. Pain Pritchard

3:54

dropped thirty eight points. He almost had

3:56

a triple double. Really funny that. The.

3:59

last of last season, Peyton Pritchard

4:01

had his first career triple double. This

4:03

game he was one rebound away and

4:05

my favorite part of the game might

4:07

have been the fans at the end

4:10

when the Celtics had the ball. They were waiting

4:12

for somebody to shoot. They wanted somebody to shoot

4:15

so Pritchard could go grab the rebound. He

4:17

had opportunities to grab this rebound and Missoula

4:19

was like telling the

4:21

Knicks, not the Knicks, the Wizards at

4:23

the end, like go shoot go go go and

4:26

I asked him about it after the

4:28

game. He was like no his coach told him

4:31

to go so I was just reiterating like yeah

4:33

right yeah right Joe. He wanted to get Peyton

4:35

that triple double as well but

4:38

alas 38 points

4:40

12 assists 9 rebounds. Ooh now it's not

4:43

a good game. Amazing last

4:45

couple of games for Peyton Pritchard. A great

4:47

game from Shabimah Kyluk. A

4:49

nice recovery game from Sam Hauser who

4:51

started off shooting poorly but did a

4:53

lot of other things. Played you know

4:55

had two steals, had a block, had

4:57

you know five rebounds

4:59

or more than that. He

5:01

did a lot of other things. He moved

5:04

the ball so it wasn't just the shooting. It's

5:06

not just the fine by his shooting. So

5:09

I like the fact that not

5:11

only did he shooting recovery he had a couple of shots

5:13

afterwards but that

5:16

he stuck with it and did other things that

5:18

was big. Mais Kata had

5:20

a nice game there 19 points at six

5:22

block shots so good to

5:24

see Kata doing this

5:26

stuff. The net effect

5:28

of these last two games aside from two

5:31

more wins where the guys all rested the

5:33

top six all rested. The net

5:36

effect is Peyton Pritchard looks good. These

5:39

guys look ready they're ready to step in and contribute

5:41

should they be needed. Now I don't know what they're

5:43

gonna be needed for. I don't know

5:45

how the rotations are gonna look necessarily in the

5:47

playoffs. Kind of depends on the matchup but

5:49

we'll see. So that's that's

5:52

the recap of these two games. That's

5:54

all we need to see. Oh one other

5:56

thing congratulations to Jordan Walsh on getting his

5:59

first start. And shout out to

6:01

Christophe Fersingis, who had one of the funnier

6:03

moments that I've seen. He

6:06

came out of the locker room. He was in the

6:08

back. He came out. Jordan Walsh, who started the game

6:10

first career start, uh, was playing okay. And he's on

6:13

the bench. And then also Fersingis just goes and stands

6:15

right in front of him. And Walsh

6:17

looks at him and gives it a second. He's like, all

6:21

right, rookie, get on up. Go sit

6:23

down on the baseline. Funny

6:25

to see the rank get pulled there.

6:28

Um, all in good fun. But still a

6:30

little cold from Fersingis. It was kind of

6:32

funny there. All right. 64

6:34

wins. Can we just get a

6:36

little bit of perspective here? I know people are worried and

6:38

I see people in the comments and there's always these one-offs.

6:41

I don't think this is the prevailing thought, but there are

6:43

all these people who are like, Oh, I don't even know

6:45

if they're going to get out of the first round. Like,

6:47

yeah, they're going to get out of the first round. 64

6:50

wins team fourth most in team history, 1973, 1986,

6:52

2008 had more wins. Only

6:57

1973, uh, didn't win a championship. And

7:01

that's because John Hablechak had his like shoulder ripped

7:04

out of its socket. So that

7:06

was, uh, that that's the

7:08

only loss. Uh,

7:11

so all of these other teams that had this many, uh,

7:14

wins the 73 team was the best team in the

7:16

NBA at that point. And they had the injury. They

7:18

didn't win 86 one. They're considered

7:21

the best self-exceam of all time. One of the

7:23

best NBA teams of all time. If not the

7:25

best. And 2008, which we all

7:27

celebrate here all the time. So there's

7:29

a lot to you. You look at

7:32

that and you say, damn, that's good company. It

7:34

also puts a little bit of pressure on the

7:36

team for sure. Right. You're, you're on this team. You

7:38

win 64 games. You look around and you're like,

7:42

gotta win it. You gotta win it because

7:44

these other teams want it and you got to

7:46

win it. You gotta, you gotta show that you,

7:49

this wasn't just a regular season thing. You

7:51

want to have that playoff

7:53

success. But 64 wins

7:56

is hard to do. They didn't lose more than

7:58

two games in a row at all. that

8:00

is damn near impossible to do, especially

8:02

in today's era, where guys tend to

8:05

get hurt every once in a while.

8:07

There's a lot of, you know, the

8:09

load management stuff like that. So there's

8:13

plenty of opportunity. And for a good

8:15

team like Boston, there's always

8:17

a chance where you just, ah, we're

8:20

going to cruise a little bit. Other

8:22

teams, fans, people, critics

8:24

of Boston say, well, that team's going to

8:27

beat Boston, that team's going to beat Boston.

8:29

These other teams had more than two losses

8:31

in a row, had longer losing streaks. Denver

8:33

just lost to the San Antonio Spurs. They

8:35

blew like a 20-point lead in the fourth

8:38

quarter and got a five-second call when they

8:40

had a timeout. Denver, that happens

8:42

to Denver too, right? Like that, if

8:45

you watch the rest of the league, you'll

8:47

see the stuff that you complain about with the

8:50

Celtics, you'll see other teams doing that exact same

8:52

stuff, right? So

8:54

the Celtics having no

8:58

losing streak longer than two games, that's how you get to

9:00

64 wins, by whipping

9:03

off a bunch of winning streaks

9:05

after these losses. Their

9:08

top two in offense and

9:10

defense, they continue to

9:13

show that they are powerful, potent, their style

9:15

of play. No matter who's out on the

9:17

floor, the style of play is something that

9:19

can get them a ton of points. And

9:22

if you get the stops, then that's

9:24

something that, that

9:27

combination obviously leads to a lot of success. So

9:30

instead of being

9:32

critical of those few moments where

9:35

they had a

9:37

lapse or a lead that

9:39

fell apart or whatever, I

9:42

think the bigger picture, the bigger story is 64 wins on

9:45

a team, very

9:48

few people, only the most optimistic

9:50

of optimists. But this

9:53

is going to be a 60 win team. I didn't think it was

9:55

going to be a 60 win team. I thought the competition was going

9:58

to be so tough that... It

10:01

was going to be more competitive, more losses.

10:04

I thought Cleveland was going to be better. A

10:07

lot of these teams are going to have more

10:09

success against Boston. The

10:12

moves that Brad Stevens made,

10:15

Porzingis, Holiday, they

10:18

just created this

10:20

atmosphere. It was, I think

10:23

it fixed a couple of flaws. It

10:27

allowed for Joe Mazzula to

10:29

do what he wanted to do more

10:32

freely. It

10:34

created this atmosphere of there are so many

10:37

good players on this team. There are so

10:39

many damn good players on this team that

10:41

you could rest two or three of your

10:44

top six players. The

10:46

next two or three are really

10:48

damn good players. All-stars, one all-NBA

10:50

guy. That's

10:54

a team that depth is quite amazing.

10:56

So as we wrap up the regular

10:58

season, what a year, what

11:00

a year. With

11:04

this week lining up, it's

11:08

a couple of days off for the Celtics.

11:12

Take a second and just be like, man, that's a

11:14

damn good team. Now what does the playoffs

11:16

look like? The playoffs, the picture

11:18

has finally been determined now that the regular season

11:21

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11:23

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get back into this playoff picture.

15:01

We know now it's Philly and

15:03

Miami. Miami's going to

15:05

Philly. So the winner of Philly

15:09

and Miami goes

15:11

to play the New

15:13

York Knicks. How about the New

15:15

York Knicks sneaking into second place? Shout out

15:17

to the New York Knicks for not trying

15:20

to tank and fall into third, not trying

15:22

to get the Pacers. They were like, you

15:24

know what? We'll take it. We'll

15:26

play hard. They went to overtime against

15:29

the Bulls. They went and took that

15:31

second seed. That's good

15:33

for them. Good for you New York

15:35

Knicks. That makes this potential playoff path

15:38

really fun for the Celtics. That would

15:40

be a fun thing to do. Playing

15:43

the Knicks in the conference finals, I would

15:46

sign up for that. Absolutely. And especially

15:49

now that there's no Randall, yeah,

15:51

that could be a good matchup

15:53

for the Celtics. So Philly

15:56

and Miami winner takes

15:58

on the New York Knicks. the

16:00

loser of Philly Miami goes

16:03

and plays the winner of

16:05

Atlanta and Chicago. So the

16:08

9-10 game for people who don't know

16:10

the 9-10 game is

16:13

loser eliminated gone

16:15

by. So Chicago

16:17

and Atlanta the loser is eliminated the

16:20

winner has to go to the the

16:23

loser of the 7-8 game. So

16:26

let's just pretend Philly which is

16:28

seven wins then the loser

16:30

of Atlanta Chicago has to go to Miami

16:33

and the winner of that game plays

16:35

the Boston Celtics that is now the

16:37

eighth seed and game one will be

16:39

Sunday don't know what time on Sunday

16:41

but game one will be on Sunday.

16:44

So the Celtics potentially we don't know

16:46

yet will play in the

16:48

first round it's possibly Philly it's possibly

16:50

Miami it's possibly Atlanta it's possibly

16:52

Chicago. That's kind of been the the

16:55

outcome that I've been expecting and

16:58

so be it now here we are. First

17:00

round against Philly I'll

17:02

take that and Bede is still

17:04

not a hundred percent he's hobbled

17:07

he he sat out this

17:09

game the final regular season game

17:11

for knee injury management. I

17:14

don't know how healthy he's going to

17:16

be the Celtics do obviously match

17:18

up well against the Sixers they've had the

17:20

Sixers number I don't think the Sixers are

17:22

going to be I don't think they're good

17:25

enough to beat the Celtics as it is

17:27

anyway and if they meet in the first

17:29

round have no issue with the Celtics dropping

17:32

the Sixers first round exit

17:34

goodbye I'm fine with that.

17:37

I think the team the Celtics the

17:40

players in the locker room I

17:43

don't know about the coaching or whatever or whatever but

17:45

I think the players in the

17:47

locker room I think they want

17:49

to play Miami I think they want to

17:52

go out there and say you know what last

17:54

year was an aberration we owe you

17:56

a playoff SmackDown they want to go to Miami

17:58

they want to lay it on

18:00

on the heat obviously Miami would come to

18:03

Boston for the first two games but I

18:05

think they want to come out here and

18:07

sweep Miami put a beat down on them

18:09

in every game win by 60 if

18:12

they can and just show their dominance

18:14

I think that's what Boston would like

18:16

to do now I have to be

18:18

honest here you can't go in

18:20

there thinking that you can't because then

18:22

you start getting too hyped up and you get

18:25

away from what you're trying to do and you

18:27

kind of psych yourself out it's

18:29

going there with that same mentality

18:31

that same professionalism to say the

18:34

way you beat them by 50 or

18:36

60 is by taking every possession exactly

18:38

the way you did during the regular

18:40

season you approach it by playing

18:42

the right way making the right pass

18:44

making the right play taking the right

18:46

shot being aggressive doing what

18:48

you're whatever the defense is allowing you take it

18:51

and then you see how they react and if

18:53

it means getting to the rim you get to

18:55

the rim if it means kicking it out for

18:57

three you kick it out for three but

18:59

you react and you react accordingly you go

19:01

back you play defense if you score you

19:04

come back you set your defense and you

19:06

get a stop you rebound and you go

19:08

back out and you score again that's how

19:10

you build up big leads so

19:12

that's how they would have to do that the

19:14

only fear I have against playing when it comes

19:16

to playing Miami is that the Celtics would psych

19:19

themselves out a little bit and come

19:21

out too crazy too

19:23

aggressive like a first quarter would be

19:25

like six turnovers

19:28

and you know too much ISO two files

19:30

on Jalen Brown right away and it takes

19:33

like a little while to say okay guys relax

19:36

calm down you know how to do this

19:38

but you got to be methodical you

19:40

can be methodical and ruthless at the same time

19:43

winning a game by 50 or 60 like that

19:46

the only way to do that is by

19:49

being methodical and ruthless that's

19:52

what the Celtics need to be heading into the

19:54

playoffs if they play the Atlanta Hawks then hey

19:56

we can spin that into a storyline of Celtics

19:59

taking the same path is the 0-8 team.

20:01

Start with Atlanta and you move on from

20:03

there. It could be Cleveland in the second

20:05

round. It would be an interesting kind

20:07

of path for Boston but and

20:10

if they play Chicago they play Chicago. I got no storyline

20:12

for Chicago but as far as

20:14

that goes that Cleveland Orlando is the 4-5 so

20:16

one of those

20:19

teams when Boston goes off to the second

20:21

round would be one of those two teams

20:23

and then it's New York

20:26

or the Bucks or the

20:28

Pacers or

20:31

what team am I forgetting?

20:33

Oh it would be the seventh seed right

20:36

so would be whichever team the seventh you

20:38

know is it Philly is it Miami or

20:40

whoever so one of

20:42

those four teams becomes the conference finalists. I

20:45

feel even better about my prediction way

20:47

back at the first part of the

20:49

season where the Celtics don't face a

20:52

game seven in the

20:54

playoffs at least at the

20:56

very least the Eastern Conference. I think the

20:58

Celtics should get through the Eastern Conference without

21:00

a single game seven. Depending

21:03

on the matchup I'd be pissed off

21:05

if they get to six. That's just bravado.

21:09

Told you have a competitive side. So I think

21:12

this is working out very well for

21:14

the Celtics. There are some potentially fun

21:16

storylines. You know

21:18

Philly, a Philly Orlando

21:20

or Philly Cleveland New York. I

21:22

mean that it's not

21:24

the sexiest second round matchup but it

21:27

would be fun. So whatever

21:30

it is that's the scenario we'll see. We'll find

21:32

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21:34

to figure out who the

21:36

Celtics are playing. Let's

21:38

get to the Mike Gorman

21:40

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21:43

was such a great day just an

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absolute great day here and I

21:48

want to give my shout out to Mike Gordon as

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21:52

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right, it's Mike Gorman day. Sunday,

25:09

officially in the city of Boston, by

25:11

the way, April 14th, as declared by

25:13

the mayor, it's Mike Gorman

25:15

day. Mike Gorman is

25:17

an absolute legend. Mike Gorman destined,

25:21

destined to be a

25:24

broadcaster covering the

25:26

Celtics, being the play-by-play guy,

25:28

I should say, for the Boston Celtics.

25:30

I love the story of Mike Gorman,

25:33

where he was in

25:35

the Navy. He was

25:38

given a microphone because he was comfortable using the

25:40

microphone to kind of like MC,

25:43

for Balocha Vitter term, the minutes of

25:45

meetings between like a couple dozen

25:48

Naval officers and some

25:50

enlisted person in the broadcast industry said, hey,

25:52

you should be on TV. You're pretty natural

25:54

at this. And he comes out and

25:56

he starts pursuing that. And he, you

25:59

know, basically schmoozing. He loses a security

26:01

guard who was also in the military to

26:03

get in with Gil Santos and then he

26:05

gets in with Salty Brine in in Rhode

26:07

Island if you are a Rhode Islander Salty

26:09

Brine is a legend Gil Santos is a

26:11

legend He was a radio play-by-play guy for

26:13

the Patriots Salty Brine

26:15

I grew up in Rhode Island. He was like mr.

26:18

Rhode Island. He was everything in Rhode

26:20

Island So Mike Gorman gets

26:22

a job Mike Gil

26:24

Santos gets him a job in New Bedford Then

26:26

he gets a job in Providence and then a

26:29

sportscaster in Providence leaves and he gets a TV

26:31

job on the weekends and then the other Sportscaster

26:33

at that TV station leaves and he's there Monday

26:35

through, you know, basically seven days a week I

26:38

grew up watching him in Providence.

26:41

I have a podcast where Jake King and

26:43

I Were

26:46

interviewing him many many years ago,

26:48

but he told this story and I you might

26:50

remember me telling the story where I I

26:55

Watched him. I remember I've been I've kind

26:57

of had like a window seat to Mike

26:59

Gorman's career where I remember him at WPRI

27:02

Channel 12 in Providence. I remember

27:04

him going from there Dave Gavitt

27:06

who is a Rhode Islander and

27:09

was the flight director

27:11

at Providence College and they they created

27:13

the Big East Conference and they're like

27:15

we need a broadcaster to Do

27:19

our play-by-play so they got him and So

27:22

we need a color guy. So so Mike calls

27:25

the Celtics. He told the story at halftime at

27:27

this game He calls the

27:29

Celtics. He's like, hey, I like talking Tommy Heinz and they're like

27:31

he just left Here's his home phone number. When

27:33

does that happen? all of

27:35

these things line up for him and

27:38

Tommy to get together and for them

27:40

to do the play-by-play and for them

27:42

to just Become legends

27:44

and for Mike Gorman to become a

27:46

legend 43 years in the business Top-notch

27:49

human being top-notch broadcaster. I

27:53

Say from a personal level how many

27:55

times I've come into this building have seen him.

27:57

He'd stop you say hi Give me a little

27:59

fist bump Would ask me like

28:01

so what do you think about tonight? Like I Be

28:05

like I want it in my head. I'm like, why

28:07

do you care what I think you're

28:09

Mike Gordon? You hear

28:11

about me now. I'll tell

28:13

you I'll tell you what

28:16

I think to the point where you're gonna

28:18

regret asking me that question Mike but he

28:20

kept asking me the question and so I

28:23

just love the fact that he would even

28:25

take time on this, you know back when I was blogging

28:28

on Reds Army comm and just

28:30

so kind I think the thing that makes

28:33

him so great is that

28:36

He's like one of us, right? He's just one of

28:38

us. He's one of the dude from Dorchester. He's like

28:41

one of us He doesn't have

28:43

that, you know Perfect voice. He

28:45

doesn't have that Perfect like

28:48

honed delivery. It's just a delivery that

28:50

he has honed and it's perfect for

28:52

him and it becomes perfect because

28:54

it's his and he's just

28:57

a master of the moment a

28:59

master of what the moment needs and I'm

29:02

I'm just so excited to have had any

29:04

interactions with him So

29:06

at this at this game, they you know,

29:09

the halftime was a nice tribute They showed

29:11

a bunch of nice tribute videos. They he

29:13

got like three standing ovations they

29:16

named the Broadcast

29:19

table the Mike Gorman broadcast table So

29:21

it's forever gonna be like next year

29:23

when Drew Carter takes over he's

29:25

gonna be calling games from the Mike Gorman

29:28

broadcast table and that that

29:30

I think is is meaningful that when

29:33

when they name The

29:37

the tool that you're working

29:39

on an element of your

29:41

trade after you That's

29:44

that means a lot that means a lot I'm

29:47

just I'm sad. I'm sad to see that

29:50

he's going I Am

29:52

careful not to talk about him in

29:55

past tense because I don't want this to sound like a

29:57

eulogy Because he is still

29:59

very much you know, alive, he's

30:01

just retiring so he can spend time with

30:03

his granddaughter, which is that's

30:06

what makes him great. He's a family man.

30:08

He's not gonna keep going just because, but

30:10

the best moment was when

30:12

at the end, when

30:15

everything was wrapping up, he says, if I could just say

30:17

to the team, go win this

30:19

thing, will you? Just go win it. It's

30:23

just that phrase,

30:25

the way he said it, it

30:27

was so matter, like

30:30

there was so much wrapped into the way he said

30:32

that because it's

30:35

in that phrase, the way he presented it

30:38

was, you guys are

30:40

good enough. It's not please

30:42

go win it, just go

30:44

win it, will you? It's you've

30:47

had opportunities to do this and you haven't.

30:50

So now you have

30:52

your best chance. Just go win

30:54

it because as fun

30:56

as this ride has been for Mike

30:59

Gorman, there's one more ride for him

31:01

to take and that's on a damn

31:03

duck boat around the city

31:05

with a bunch of Celtics fans celebrating

31:08

a championship. He deserves it

31:10

as much as any player, as much as

31:12

any coach, as much as the ownership, as

31:14

much as the fans. Mike Gorman deserves one

31:16

more ride on the front of that duck

31:19

boat with that title, with the fans screaming

31:21

at him. That would be the

31:24

perfect ending and it's

31:26

been a pretty perfect story for him. It's

31:28

been an amazing story for him. So

31:30

this, it has to

31:32

be how this ends. It has to

31:34

be. It's the only ending

31:37

that makes sense to this movie. This

31:40

is a feel-good story, it needs a

31:42

feel-good ending. So Celtics, just

31:45

go win it and you can and

31:47

I think the playoff picture is lining up for them

31:49

to go do it. I think it's right there for

31:51

them and whoever they play in the finals, I

31:54

think they can win this. Win

31:57

it for Mike on Mike Gorman day. Thank

31:59

you. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much

32:02

to the people who came up to me. I had

32:04

a bunch of people come up to me here. I

32:06

say it on every podcast. If

32:08

you're at the Garden, Section 19, I'm there. I'm

32:12

there before the games. Come

32:14

by and say hi. I love

32:16

it. Thank you so, so much to everybody. I really

32:18

appreciate you. The regular season is over and I just

32:20

have to make sure that I send

32:23

my thanks out to all of you who

32:25

listen, who watch, who read my stuff on

32:27

Boston Sports Journal. It

32:29

is such a great pleasure to

32:31

create something for you every day and

32:34

that you enjoy what I create. You

32:36

enjoy what I say and that maybe

32:39

sometimes you learn, maybe sometimes you disagree,

32:41

maybe sometimes you laugh along with me,

32:44

whatever it is. As long as

32:46

I'm making your ride here as a

32:48

Celtics fan a little bit better, I'm

32:50

just so touched. I had

32:52

a father and a son come by. They

32:54

listened to it on the ride to

32:56

school. Touches my heart. It's

32:59

bonding between family. If I can be

33:01

a part of that, I'm the most blessed

33:04

person in the world. Thank

33:06

you so, so much for all of

33:08

that. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so

33:10

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