Speaker 1: It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy Boston Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan, appreciate it. I'd like to thank Emily
Speaker 2: Kennedy for joining US earlier. Andrew Giannoers, Well, gonna switch
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Speaker 2: good time, eating a lot of turkey.
Speaker 3: And stuffing, and that's the bottom line. Jackson Tolliver joins US.
Speaker 2: He's from CNLS Media covers the Celtics, covers the Patriots,
Speaker 2: does a great job for them.
Speaker 3: Jackson, what's going on.
Speaker 4: Buddy, mister Tanguy, how are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm see yeah, I'm doing great. Thanks all right. So Porzingis,
Speaker 2: let's get right into it. The Porzingis comes back, he
Speaker 2: gets sixteen points. The Celtics absolutely bury the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Did they bring them back to soon?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean why would they? You know, you're sitting
Speaker 4: at fourteen and three before he comes back into last
Speaker 4: night's game. Second in the Eastern Conference, only behind the
Speaker 4: surging Cleveland Cavaliers. Why would they rush it back. I
Speaker 4: don't see a point too. I mean, you know, obviously
Speaker 4: their main goal with Porzingis is to keep him healthy
Speaker 4: for the playoffs, as healthy as possible. If you remember
Speaker 4: last year's playoff run, they missed him for the entirety
Speaker 4: of the second round in the Eastern Conference Finals, got
Speaker 4: him back for a couple of games in the finals,
Speaker 4: but missed him for a couple games. So they want
Speaker 4: to avoid that as much as possible. The team wants
Speaker 4: Kristaps to be as healthy as possible in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and if bringing him back last night put that in
Speaker 4: jeopardy at all, they wouldn't have done it. He's ready
Speaker 4: to play. It's been five months since his surgery. When
Speaker 4: it's frankly very bizarre ankle injury described as you know,
Speaker 4: pretty freakishly rare. But it's been five months since that surgery.
Speaker 4: He's eager to come back. Like I said, it's not
Speaker 4: like this is a struggling team. They were doing fine
Speaker 4: without him. I don't think that they would rush back
Speaker 4: if he wasn't one hundred percent ready to go.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's just you know, the pessimist in me
Speaker 2: or I'm like, well, you don't really need him, Mike,
Speaker 2: can't he sitting.
Speaker 3: On the show.
Speaker 2: Here's one of the things that I thought of, is
Speaker 2: the guy's going crazy, like Jackson, how do you tell
Speaker 2: the player like you can't play when he.
Speaker 3: Says, look, I'm ready to play.
Speaker 2: I want to play, you kind of you know, the
Speaker 2: guy's going to go loopy, right.
Speaker 4: And he also loves playing for the Celtics. I mean
Speaker 4: that's been evident ever since he was traded here last
Speaker 4: season from the Washington Wizards. He loves being in Boston.
Speaker 4: He's made that very clear. And the fans love him too,
Speaker 4: so he's he's a special player here. And yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: like you said, you don't want to go crazy without playing.
Speaker 4: And it's also that you wanted to get his reps in.
Speaker 4: You want him to, you know, play in a live
Speaker 4: NBA game, because there's only so much you can do
Speaker 4: shooting around in an empty gym or scrimmaging, which he did.
Speaker 4: He actually went up to Maine before he played last night,
Speaker 4: his scrimmage with the G League team up in Maine,
Speaker 4: So you know, you want him to get live five
Speaker 4: on five NBA action and you could tell that he
Speaker 4: was a little rusty last night. Like you said, sixteen points,
Speaker 4: which is you know, pretty solid for your third guy.
Speaker 4: But he wants to be closer to that twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one mark. That's around what he averaged last season, so
Speaker 4: expect him to get closer to there as the games
Speaker 4: go on. Celtics do have three nights off now, which
Speaker 4: will help him out. Maybe you know, played into the
Speaker 4: timing of you know, give him a game, see how
Speaker 4: his ankle respond, see how he feels, and then Friday.
Speaker 4: You know, as far as we know right now, they're
Speaker 4: headed to Chicago and as far as we know, he's
Speaker 4: going to be good to go.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. On the backside, he had plenty
Speaker 2: of time off. Pritcher sixth Man of the Year award.
Speaker 2: Do we need to pump the brakes on that a
Speaker 2: little bit?
Speaker 4: I don't think so at all. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: the numbers don't lie right now that he should probably
Speaker 4: be considered the front runner. You have some other guys
Speaker 4: around the league that are also doing very well. You
Speaker 4: got Buddy Heels with the Warriors, who is fitting seamlessly
Speaker 4: into that Klay Thompson role since he departed to Dallas,
Speaker 4: so you got some guys around. But I mean the
Speaker 4: impact that Peyton Pritchard has off the bench. You watch
Speaker 4: so many Celtics games and they come out a little
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, they don't have the energy. You're coming
Speaker 4: off a championship, right so that stuff's gonna happen. You're
Speaker 4: gonna have the championship hangover as they call it. So
Speaker 4: you've got these guys coming out with no energy, looking
Speaker 4: a little slow, and all of a sudden, with about
Speaker 4: six minutes to go in the first quarter, you see
Speaker 4: Peyton Pritcharck come in and the game just completely changes.
Speaker 4: So even beyond just what the box score says and
Speaker 4: the shooting numbers, which are great, and his points for
Speaker 4: game numbers are also great, he just has such an
Speaker 4: inexplicable impact on the energy of the team, on the
Speaker 4: performance of the team. Frankly, he has. I mean last
Speaker 4: night the great example, you know, sticking on that. He
Speaker 4: was fantastic last night. He had a great game. He
Speaker 4: was just in just an immediate impact off the bench.
Speaker 4: Tremendous showing by him. And I think, you know, a
Speaker 4: lot can happen, but the Celtics right now, like I said,
Speaker 4: second best record in the East and the NBA. So
Speaker 4: if they keep up that momentum, those types of awards
Speaker 4: tend to go to teams to perform.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: We saw a Celtics win that award just a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, maclm. Brogden And if you put those
Speaker 4: two their numbers side by side, they're not too far
Speaker 4: off right now. So why he's a great shot at it.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he's worked very hard, okay, because he's
Speaker 2: a better player than he was two years ago. And
Speaker 2: it's not it's yeah, I mean, it's not simply just
Speaker 2: confidence because this kid. Obviously confidence has a lot to
Speaker 2: do with it. But I remember when he wasn't playing. Now,
Speaker 2: we thought that he was a nice player, came in
Speaker 2: as a rookie. Okay, maybe he's an eighth or ninth
Speaker 2: guy right at best.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Then he didn't see the light of day, wasn't really
Speaker 2: fitting into the rotation. And now he comes back and
Speaker 2: they're talking about six minut of the year. Would and
Speaker 2: I understand about the numbers. I never thought that would
Speaker 2: happen with Pritchard.
Speaker 3: Never.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you can't you're right, Jackson, I can't argue
Speaker 2: I mean, the numbers are there.
Speaker 3: I just did not see this coming.
Speaker 4: I think I mentioned Brogen before. I think that a
Speaker 4: lot of his problems is that he's been buried in
Speaker 4: a pretty pretty strong guard group for the Celtics in
Speaker 4: those early years his career, because you remember, they had Smart,
Speaker 4: they had White when they acquired him, they had Brogged
Speaker 4: in right and before that, they had Kemba, and they
Speaker 4: had you know, guys that they consistently had to play well, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot of people did, but Kemball was here for
Speaker 4: a couple of years, right, so you know, he had
Speaker 4: guys ahead of him that were, frankly like you had
Speaker 4: to play them if you're Brad Stevens or Joe Mizzula
Speaker 4: or Emo Udoka. Even so, those guys were ahead of
Speaker 4: him in the rotation. And then when he actually got
Speaker 4: his big time extension right around the time that Malcolm
Speaker 4: Brogg getting got traded and that sort of and then
Speaker 4: Marcus Smart was trained at that time as well. So
Speaker 4: now at that point you look at the depth chart,
Speaker 4: well you've got through Holliday and you've got Derek White,
Speaker 4: but who's your next guard? And he was the clear
Speaker 4: cut next guard. He was the only guy that had,
Speaker 4: and that was such a big knock on the Celtics
Speaker 4: going into last season that well, their bench is pretty
Speaker 4: lousy now they only have Pritchard and Houser and Horford's great.
Speaker 4: But besides Horford, you know, there were a lot of
Speaker 4: question marks around these guys. But he was able to
Speaker 4: prove all those people wrong. And he's been great. He's
Speaker 4: he has so many iconic moments that he's become such
Speaker 4: a franchise favorite. I mean, how many buzzer beaters did
Speaker 4: he have last year? I think it's got to be
Speaker 4: four or five, which is a particulous number, and two
Speaker 4: of those came in the finals. Yeah, So I mean,
Speaker 4: just other worldly stuff that's really made him a fan
Speaker 4: favorite in Boston. And like you said, utmost confidence, ultimate work.
Speaker 4: E think, I mean, to be six to one in
Speaker 4: the NBA. Uh is no easy feat to be doing
Speaker 4: what he's doing. We've seen that with another guy who's
Speaker 4: even shorter, Isaiah Thomas, when he was around here. Same thing, right,
Speaker 4: Just guys that have to work a little bit harder
Speaker 4: because they don't have the size to say, Jason Tatum
Speaker 4: or Jamien Brown. Of course, Christoph Korzingis and and and
Speaker 4: you know, it's just great to see his work ethic
Speaker 4: being rewarded by how good he's playing right now and
Speaker 4: how he's impacting a championship contender.
Speaker 3: How do you think What do you think of his defense?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, he's he is six to one,
Speaker 4: so that provides an issue if teams are looking to
Speaker 4: switch against you. But I think for his size, he
Speaker 4: has a lot of things on that side of the
Speaker 4: ball pretty well, particularly rebounding. He has a great seal
Speaker 4: for positioning that's really tough to teach, but he can
Speaker 4: get some offensive rebounds and defensive rebounds, so I think
Speaker 4: he can hold up on that. In the floor, you
Speaker 4: obviously have issues in terms of size, but you know,
Speaker 4: he's always pressing guys full court. He definitely doesn't have
Speaker 4: a lack of a motor. He's always gonna try his
Speaker 4: best and sometimes that's really all it takes. Just a
Speaker 4: guy who's not going to tire out there. You're going
Speaker 4: to press you full court the entire time, just make
Speaker 4: things more difficult for you, and he can do that.
Speaker 4: But like I said, you know, switching and switching, but
Speaker 4: it's up to the coaching staff to try to prevent
Speaker 4: that from happening, where teams can exploit his size and
Speaker 4: abuse mismatches like the Celtics do all the time with
Speaker 4: Christops coming m Next.
Speaker 2: With Jackson Tulliver from CLNS Media covering the Celtics. I
Speaker 2: do want to get into the Patriots a little bit
Speaker 2: with him, because he certainly has done his time down
Speaker 2: in Foxborough. But I want to ask him about the genius,
Speaker 2: the man that marches to his own beat, Joe Missoula.
Speaker 3: Next.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Jackson Telliver's our guest here on wb Z covers the
Speaker 2: Celtics and the Patriots for Seal Ins Media. Jackson, I
Speaker 2: want to talk about Missoula here. Last year he seemed
Speaker 2: to be relatively normal. At the beginning of this year,
Speaker 2: seemed to be a little quirky again. What's your read
Speaker 2: on him so far this season?
Speaker 4: That's what happens when you win a championship, you know,
Speaker 4: you can really let the walls down. He's an interesting dude,
Speaker 4: and we've seen that they're right. Like last year at
Speaker 4: the beginning the year, he was pretty normal. The year
Speaker 4: before in his rookie year. But now he's just sort
Speaker 4: of really letting his personality shown, which I think is
Speaker 4: a good thing. I think the players that resonate with
Speaker 4: him clearly something that he's doing is working. Because they
Speaker 4: won a championship and they've been doing so well. I
Speaker 4: think that this guy has the potential to be a
Speaker 4: really really good coach in this league for a really
Speaker 4: really long time. I think his strategy where he has
Speaker 4: heavy emphasis on a three point a shot, uh works well.
Speaker 4: They want a championship off that. You see other teams
Speaker 4: trying to copy what the Celtics are doing, which is
Speaker 4: just we're gonna shoot x amount of threes and if
Speaker 4: x percent go in, you're not gonna beat us. It's impossible.
Speaker 4: So that's great. And yeah, he's a very very interesting
Speaker 4: guy sitting in on some of his you know, pre
Speaker 4: game of postgame interviews. I remember last week, Uh, somebody
Speaker 4: asked him how he felt about the City edition jerseys.
Speaker 4: He said, I like him. They said why, He said,
Speaker 4: because they say the Celtics on him, and that's all
Speaker 4: he said. So he's a very strange guy, but you know,
Speaker 4: not not strange. Didn't like he's you know, a weird
Speaker 4: guy or a bad guy. He just doesn't have time
Speaker 4: for a lot of the you know, media media stuff
Speaker 4: that other coaches are gonna put through. And he is
Speaker 4: a very sarcastic, very funny guy. I can't help but
Speaker 4: laugh at almost every press conference that he has because
Speaker 4: he's very quick and he has a set of humor
Speaker 4: that you kind of have to be born with. It's
Speaker 4: it's not really taught, it's very funny stuff.
Speaker 3: I forgot.
Speaker 2: The Celtics won by two points in the game previous
Speaker 2: to the Clippers game.
Speaker 3: Who did they beat? I forgot?
Speaker 4: Ah, that was timber Wolves.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, that's right, Okay, Timberwolves, right, thank you.
Speaker 2: And in that game, defense, the defense was the key, right.
Speaker 2: They started hot with the three, then they got cold
Speaker 2: with the three. And I know what you're saying about
Speaker 2: how they focus on the three point shot, and that's
Speaker 2: been the design and I also think that's been what.
Speaker 3: Brad Stevens wants to do.
Speaker 2: But I don't look at the Celtics like the Golden
Speaker 2: State Warriors. And I mean this as a compliment, like
Speaker 2: because the other night against the Tea Wolves, where they
Speaker 2: had these bad stretches of shooting, the three. The reason
Speaker 2: they win the game was because of defense. So in
Speaker 2: the past with the Celtics, I always felt, well, if
Speaker 2: they're not shooting threes, they're not going to win. That's
Speaker 2: not the case even without porzingis they are to me
Speaker 2: they are not a dependent three point shooting team, which
Speaker 2: is a good thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think their offense is largely depending on it.
Speaker 4: But you're right, they can still find ways to win
Speaker 4: down the stretch and we saw that in the Minnesota game.
Speaker 4: That's a great example. Another one is the Toronto game
Speaker 4: that happened about a week ago where Jason tam won
Speaker 4: at the buzzer were the three. But that's beside the point.
Speaker 4: They can find ways to win down the stretch if
Speaker 4: they have to. But yeah, you're right, a lot of
Speaker 4: it relies on defense. And when you have Drew Holliday
Speaker 4: and Derek White, which is probably the best defensive backcourt
Speaker 4: in the NBA. Actually not probably, it is the best
Speaker 4: defensive back court in the NBA, those two guys are
Speaker 4: going to make it really hard on the opposing team's guards.
Speaker 4: And most of the stars in this league are guards
Speaker 4: for whatever reason. So Anthony Edwards is a great example.
Speaker 4: If you bring a guy like Anthony Edwards, you know,
Speaker 4: he's still going to get his which is like twenty
Speaker 4: points or whatever. But Drew Holliday or Derek white glowis
Speaker 4: the Seino is going to make it tremendously more difficult
Speaker 4: for him. Drew Holliday is, you know, one of the
Speaker 4: most respected premier defenders in the NBA. He's been that
Speaker 4: way for multiple years. Never won a Defensive Player the
Speaker 4: Year award because that award does usually go to Biggs,
Speaker 4: but he is consistently on the All Defensive team. He's
Speaker 4: very well respected. That's why he was on the Olympic
Speaker 4: team was for his defense. Right, There's much better scores
Speaker 4: than Drew Holliday who are left off that Olympic team,
Speaker 4: but you need him for his defense. There's nobody like him,
Speaker 4: So yeah, you're right, one hundred percent. And Jalen Brown
Speaker 4: also super underrated defender, and Christophforzingis. They missed that rim
Speaker 4: protection ability so much, but you saw it last night.
Speaker 4: Racked up a couple of blocks and did a great
Speaker 4: job against Viata Zubak. He was the Clipper center. He
Speaker 4: did a great job defending him. And you know, obviously
Speaker 4: they did a great job. They held the Clippers to
Speaker 4: I believe it was eighty nine points or something like that.
Speaker 4: It was definitely under a hundred. So you're right. Defense
Speaker 4: wins championships and it helped him a lot last year.
Speaker 4: It's probably gonna help him again as they try to repeat, Oh,
Speaker 4: there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Listen, when Brown wants to shut you down, he can. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean when he wants to do it, he can
Speaker 2: be a great defensive player. I am sick and tired
Speaker 2: of Anthony Edwards though. I mean in the Timberwolves, and
Speaker 2: you know they made the deal with the Knicks, and
Speaker 2: I want to get into that in a minute. But
Speaker 2: everybody's talking about the Wolves. Blah blah blah. Give it Tatum.
Speaker 2: This is the homer in me. Give it Tatum crap
Speaker 2: because he didn't shoot well. But they won the finals,
Speaker 2: but Anthony edwis well, they're eight and eight, okay, and
Speaker 2: then the playoffs last year they were won and done.
Speaker 2: So I'm tired of that talk. And I know it
Speaker 2: was a close game and that's fine, but I'm just
Speaker 2: tired of the two Wolves, like show me something please.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to be fair, it was conference finals and they
Speaker 4: did beat the Nuggets in the.
Speaker 3: Right Listen, don't let the facts get away of a
Speaker 3: good story.
Speaker 4: You're hey, it's my job man, as a reporter, I
Speaker 4: always got to call You're in the finals.
Speaker 3: They were in the conference finals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, conference finals. They a lot of people thought they
Speaker 4: were going to be playing Boston.
Speaker 3: But lost. Okay, yeah, lost in five. Couldn't go five.
Speaker 3: They couldn't even go longer than five. Please, that is true.
Speaker 4: That is true. They were down three to zero. So
Speaker 4: it was a gentleman sweet situation. Yeah. I definitely feel
Speaker 4: that way with Anthony Edwards. I mean, if you remember
Speaker 4: this summer when he was on the Olympic team, he
Speaker 4: was very vocal about saying, I still feel like I'm
Speaker 4: the number one option. I still want to be said
Speaker 4: the ball all the time when you're on a team
Speaker 4: with Lebron James and Kevin Durant and then Anthony Davis
Speaker 4: and Jason Tatum and so on and so forth. So
Speaker 4: he's a very cocky guy, and I think it's sort
Speaker 4: of a double edged sword, because yeah, I can be annoying,
Speaker 4: and you know, Jason Tatum addressed that after the game.
Speaker 4: Because there's a documentary that came out on Netflix starting five,
Speaker 4: and in the documentary they got a clip of Anthony
Speaker 4: Edwards after the game say something like, you know, they
Speaker 4: say he's the best player in the league. I locked
Speaker 4: him up blah blah blah, and you know that's that's
Speaker 4: kind of what he does. But also it's pretty entertaining
Speaker 4: when when a guy is that vocal and you know,
Speaker 4: he's really in your face, and he was doing it
Speaker 4: all throughout the playoffs last year. But you're right, there
Speaker 4: is somewhat of a sense of like back it up, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, they've had one good season since he was drafted,
Speaker 4: which is like last year, and now you're right there
Speaker 4: looks like they're about to be eight to nine as
Speaker 4: I'm speaking. Right now, they're down six to forty seconds
Speaker 4: in overtime against the Rockets, So you're right, relatively rough
Speaker 4: start for them. If it ended today, wouldnt even make
Speaker 4: the plaoff tournament. Ory're playing Turn the Rabbit, So you're right,
Speaker 4: they kind of got to back it up. But I
Speaker 4: do see the entertainment value and somebody likes Anthony Edwards
Speaker 4: and obviously his play when he gets those thunder his dunks.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's had the best dunk in the NBA
Speaker 4: for probably each of the last five seasons, either him
Speaker 4: or Dah Morant. So he's a fun player to watch,
Speaker 4: but you're right, there needs to be more winning before
Speaker 4: he can really start talking the way that he is.
Speaker 3: How about those rockets?
Speaker 4: Huh listen, I you know, whatever the situation was with
Speaker 4: Email Udoka, I thought he was a great coach. I
Speaker 4: thought he was a fantastic coach. Obviously got the Celtics
Speaker 4: to the finals at a time where the future of
Speaker 4: the Celtics was like, we don't really know where this
Speaker 4: is going. Because his season, his only season in charge,
Speaker 4: they started off eight teen and twenty one. I believe
Speaker 4: it was like, oh yeah, I mean record wasn't great.
Speaker 3: Turned it around second.
Speaker 2: Half, Yeah, oh I think we we just lost. Jackson
Speaker 2: just bailed on me. I'll call it right back, don't worry.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing of it is is with Idoka, they turned
Speaker 2: it around on the second half. Udoka can coach. There's
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Yeah, you're back, Sorry about that, kid,
Speaker 2: You're right?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, sorry, no, yeah, what did you hang up
Speaker 4: on me or something?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I would do such a thing.
Speaker 2: No, but he Doka could coach we always I mean, Jackson,
Speaker 2: that was not the issue here.
Speaker 3: Look at I'm just going to tell you like it.
Speaker 3: It was a human resources problem. That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's you're going to know the full story.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and yeah, he was he was a great coach.
Speaker 4: The defense of the self explained that season was great
Speaker 4: and obviously they had that great run, fell just short
Speaker 4: of winning a title back in twenty twenty two. But yeah,
Speaker 4: he's doing great with those rockets right now. They're primed
Speaker 4: to make a play. Layoff appearents this year, you know,
Speaker 4: assuming everybody stays healthy and such. But I like that
Speaker 4: team over there, and they're proving that they're one of
Speaker 4: the best young cores and I think Emo Udoka is
Speaker 4: not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy can coach. I mean, we all knew that.
Speaker 2: It is a surprise. What about Cleveland at seventeen and one?
Speaker 2: Now are they for real?
Speaker 4: You know? I was, I was fully convinced that Cleveland
Speaker 4: was going to beat the Celtics the other night. I was.
Speaker 4: I was fully convinced because the Celtics obviously was struggling
Speaker 4: with rim protection before Christops started last night. They were
Speaker 4: twenty sixth in the entire league in points allowed them
Speaker 4: to pay, which is a crazy statage you stop and
Speaker 4: think about. Okay, they're twenty six, but they're fourteen and
Speaker 4: three and they're, you know, still one of the championship favorites.
Speaker 4: They were really struggling with that. And Cleveland has Evan
Speaker 4: Mobile and Jared Allen who excelled at scoring in the pain.
Speaker 4: So I thought they were going to give them a
Speaker 4: lot of problems, and they did frankly, but they won
Speaker 4: that game because Darius Garland shot three for twenty one.
Speaker 3: Man, he's got to work on that phone, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: And the kid was on a roll.
Speaker 2: He's right, Terius Garland didn't shoot well and the Celtics
Speaker 2: came up with stops at the end. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'm buying into Cleveland. They're certainly better than the
Speaker 2: Knicks in Philadelphia, because we all thought that the Knicks
Speaker 2: of Philadelphia we're going to challenge the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Should we give him another chance? Rob?
Speaker 2: Should we give him another chance? All right, We're gonna
Speaker 2: give you one more chance here, Jackson. We'll see if
Speaker 2: you well, I don't know. We lost him again. He's
Speaker 2: got a phone issue. Is he paid his Bill, poor kid.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, let's see what we can do.
Speaker 2: Should we give him away back? Now, we're gonna be
Speaker 2: one more chance, just one one more question, one more chance.
Speaker 3: Will the Knicks turn it around?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Will the Knicks get the wreck together?
Speaker 4: They already are. I mean, if you if you look
Speaker 4: at their record recently, Yeah, they lost to the Jazz,
Speaker 4: but there, I believe, third in the in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4: They're not, you know, up to the standards of the
Speaker 4: Celtics and the Cavs just yet. But yeah, that roster
Speaker 4: is too good to not be a contender in the East. Frankly.
Speaker 4: I mean they trade that they made for Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 4: Going into the season, they had Julius Rendle was probably
Speaker 4: their starting center and that was a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 4: But Carl Anthony Towns has had a great season so far,
Speaker 4: even in the gains they've lost, he's been really, really consistent.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think that they're just too good to
Speaker 4: not be a contender for the Celtics. They have Michael
Speaker 4: Bridges and og and Nanobi, both of whom were acquired
Speaker 4: to be Celtics stoppers because they can guard Jay the
Speaker 4: Brown and Jason Tatum. So yeah, they're frankly just too
Speaker 4: good to be counted out. I still anticipate that will
Speaker 4: be the Eastern Conference finals between the Boston Celtics and
Speaker 4: the New York Knicks.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope you're right.
Speaker 2: I think so too, and I think if they played
Speaker 2: their potential, they're better than Cleveland. Jackson Toliver c LNS Media.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, my friend, and have a
Speaker 2: great thanks for pleasure.
Speaker 4: You as well, my friend and with the family. Hope
Speaker 4: you get some time off and we'll talk against him.
Speaker 2: All right, We'll see later, Jackson one of the rising
Speaker 2: stars in Boston sports media. Jackson Tolliver here, all right,
Speaker 2: I gotta get serious a little bit, the dark side
Speaker 2: of AI. Anytime I can do a topic that says
Speaker 2: AI sucks, I'm all in. Scott Barredell joins us next
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