April 17, 2025 • 23 mins
It was a big week of headlines for the Celtics, as Kristaps Porzingis made his return, Payton Pritchard set multiple NBA records and the team collected its 11th straight playoff berth. Meghan Ottolini and Drew Carter dive into the Plays of the Week and are joined by Taylor Snow for a Taylor Made Stats segment, highlighting Jrue Holiday’s recent success and Baylor Scheierman’s big night. Assistant GM Austin Ainge joins us to talk all things college basketball, from scouting future talent, to memorable tournament moments from the current Celtics roster. We go behind the scenes with the players for a fun Inside Access segment, before finally wrapping up with Future Focus, where we look ahead to a six-game trip out West.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on this edition of Celtics Weekly, Christophe Sporzingis
returns to action. We have the top plays of the
week and we go court side with Austin Ahe on
March Madness. All that and more. Now welcome into Celtic's Weekly,
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where we cover everything from the eighteen banner raising champs.
What a show we have for you this week, Mega
Ottolini with NBC Sports Boston Drew Carter. We have Austin
Age tucking' March Madness. A little later in the show,
we have Chief Dork Officer Taylor Snow with his tailor
made Stats.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Big promotion for Taylor the Yeah, he's in the.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
C suite now. But it was a very newsy week.
So we're going to try a new segment here. We're
gonna rip through some headlines. Let's kick it off with
the return of christophs Porzingis. KP was back in action
against Brooklyn Saturday after missing eight games prior with what
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he called a viral illness. He dropped twenty four points
and posted a block in his first game against the Nets.
Guard Peyton Pritchard made NBA history over the weekend, breaking
Wayne Ellington's record for most threes made off the bench
in a single NBA season, with two eighteen, passing Ellington's
previous record of two seventeen. He surpassed that record with
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his four to three against the Nets Saturday, but had
twenty two points on five three pointers in that game overall.
So congrats Peyton Pritchard and the Celtics officially punched their
ticket to the playoffs Friday against the Heat, clinching a
postseason appearance for the eleventh straight season. Boston has now
made the playoffs in seventeen of their last eighteen seasons.
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That's enough for me. Let's get to the plays of
the week, all the highlights from your Boston Celtics, and
where can we start at number ten? But Peyton Frichard
with his record breaking three this is two eighteen against
the Nets.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Three pointers off the bench. No one's ever hit more
than Peyton Fritchard is sterling season continues.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's one check market in the record. Maybe another check
mark getting the trop Eagle.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
See number nine. We've got everybody getting a piece a
little hot potato here, but it ends with Jalen going
left in a two hands plant.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The Celtics can bend the defense stretch the defense in
so many ways, even the best defense in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
When you end up with.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Chad Holingrin trying to defend Jalen Brown, bad things will happen.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
For your details. Number eight Celtics able to escape the
trap mid court and find KP for a game ending
lu Love Christops.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know what he has against the Borough of Brooklyn,
but man, he played well against the Nets in his
return these last couple of games, which is really fun
to say.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Number seven JB in the paint again Brooklyn, trying to
find any which way he finds MENI down.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Low first plan that was saucy.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
When Jalen Brown gets in the pain, you get on
two feet, he can kind of slow things down. He's
never in a hurry. Use his strength, draw to find
Tata for the easy stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's good offense.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Number six Miami, We've got logo Derek from Deep but
watch what happens after Eas stinks this. Three Ian Horford,
find yourself a hype guy like Ian Horford? Can you
be this guy for me?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I'll get you water, I'll get your towels, and
you know, I just want to say something about that.
Three it's late shot clock. Some NBA logos are so
big that the logo three doesn't really mean anything anymore
that one does.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
He hit that from really far away.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Number five Chet trying to go one on one with
Derek White. Derek White, SWAT's it right out, get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Shit be White the most blocked by a guard in
the last ten years and he only came into the
league eight years ago. He's got a knack for it,
the timing and obviously just taken the risk of getting
dunk on he does it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Number four we got JB It's okay. Se again pulls
up a little short Luke.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
With the follow Yes, Luke, shout out to the Australians.
Luke Cornett has worked so hard to improve his athleticism
and even one or two percent takes you so far.
He has really reshaped his game since he got in
the NBA and he's a huge contributor for the Soffice.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Number three Miami Again. We talked about Prichard's three point shooting.
We can talk about it all through the postseason, but
look at this step through ripseeds. Dude, I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
We got to get in inch that was so pretty
I mean Peyton Pritchard. It's like he's at the public
park right there, just cooking dudes in the post. This
is what you see from pro amp. We talked about
his three point shooting earlier, but he can get in
the landing spot again.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Number two, This is from Tuesday night. Baylor Sherman gets
a shot at the buzzer. Beater doesn't count, makes it.
It's just a dress reheurcle because he gets another opportunity
for Chris tops Porzingas here and boom. That's money.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Cool and he didn't even bank it in this time.
Didn't have to call bank load that thing up again.
That's not a fireball, that's a shire ball, dude, Dude.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Number one, christavs Porzingis is back because Jason Tatum gets
the rebound here finds Porzingis down low. Man, gotta be
happy he's healthy.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
This was after he missed two threes on this one possession.
The Celtics doing a great job on the offensive last
given KP a chance to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Those are your plays of the week. Let's go over
to Taylor Maade Stats. Taylor Made Stats is when we
crunch some numbers with Taylor Snow of Celtics dot Com. So, Taylor,
what numbers have you cooked up for us this week?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Began?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I know you mentioned at the top of the show
how Paydon broke that NBA record freeze off the bench
for this two hundred and eighteenth. Well, he also helped
set another NBA record right before that, when he made
his two hundred and fifteenth he joined Jason Tatum Derek
White to become the first trio of teammates in NBA
history to make at least two undred and fifteen threes
a piece in the same season. Step Curry, Klay Thomas,
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and Jordan Poole. They held that record at two hundred
and fourteen before this, and all three are on pace
for over two hundred and sixty. So they're gonna smash
that record.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Now, Taylor, I a casual NBA fan, have a question
for you. Sure everyone's shooting a bunch of threes?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
This isn't that impressive. It's all just three point inflation, Right,
How do you response to that?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
So they rank fourth, fifth, and sixth in the league
until three point makes No other team has more than
one in the top fifteen.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Wow, So that's context. Meg that's important.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I love it and I love those guys. But do
you have some true holiday sad for us now that
he's back in act.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
So Drew recently returned from that right mallet pinky injury,
debuted a new celebration, the Doctor Evil pinky to the
mouth celebration, and he had plenty of opportunities to use
that celebration in this past weekend. Had a great back
to back Friday in Miami, scored a season high twenty
five points. Not only was it a season high, but
that's the most he has had in a regular season
game since joining the Celtics. Following night in Brooklyn, season
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high twelve assists ties the most that he has had
since coming to the Celtics. And most impressive part is
he's just returning from this injury. He has a splint
on his shooting hand, and he's still found a way
to make it work.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know this isn't social snapshot, which we sometimes do
over here at the Big Board. I would just love
for anybody on social media to maybe put out a
gift of that celebration, you know, because I think that
might be the mallet finger that he heard that he's
celebrating with so I would love a gift of that,
which is the right way that you pronounced that.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I believe my here's hurt when you pronounced it incorrectly
like that. I think it's fitting that he had the
twelve assists against Brooklyn because to me, one of the
best jay Z songs is called Reminder, and he says,
I think I need to give you a reminder here.
It is sometimes Drew Holliday just gives us a reminder
of how good he really is.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
A lot of the time will fade into.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
The background offensively as the fourth or fifth option in
the starting lineup, but sometimes he just reminds you that
this is a two time champion and a future Hall
of Famers. When a couple of gold medals and he
can really score a.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Dish when he needs to, just a couple of gold medals,
what do we have to round out here?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
And then last night we haven't seen a lot of
baylor shiremen this season yet, but he gave us a
glimpse of what he could do.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Scored a season high twenty points, made six three pointers,
six of seven from three, and that is tied for
the second most by a Celtics rookie six smart he
held the record or he still holds the record with seven.
The name that stood out to me was JR. Bremer
on this list. Jarre Bremer held this record for twelve
years with six threes. Wow, Macy, Peyton, Pritchard's done it
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twice and now Baylor.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Awesome night for Baylor Sharman. Hopefully we get more moments
like that down the stretch as these guys deeper on
the bench get a little more opportunity with the playoffs
on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Thanks Taylor.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Don't go anywhere because after the break we sit down
with Austin h to talk March madness.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Datam go to work about Um, Yes, that's.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
A mass spots up.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's crazy sick Tom. Also, baby baby, let's get it.
Let's get it. Leaps it up.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Time for one of the most coveted times of our game.
So I'm just enjoying the overall experience, just having a
good time.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Welcome Mack.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It's the most wonderful time of the year if you're
a college basketball fan. So who better to talk to
from a Celtics perspective than assistant general manager of the
Celtics Austin age and he joins us here courtside on
Celtics Weekly. Austin, thank you so much for taking the time.
And my first question is it's Thursday, it's twelve fifteen,
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the first round of March Madness is just getting kicked off.
What is the scene like here around the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So we take all of our scouts in front office
that we're all over the world normally, and we bring
them all and we have our meetings kind of right
now these few days before the tournament about what we've
seen everything, and then boom, we all get in a room.
We've all got our brackets.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We do a bracket.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
We do a ten man which is the leading scorers
for the tournament. So you got to pick the best
players on the teams that'll go far. And those are
the two things we do. And we talk a bunch
of trash and order some pizza and have some fun.
So we do some serious meetings about all the prospects
and then we get to relax a little.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So how many people would you say are a part
of this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
We're looking at twelve to fifteen okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And you're making a you're doing a bracket pool, I
thought you were just scouting the games.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh no, no, we well so we do.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I mean there are how many brackets have you been
invited to? I mean, but we've got Yeah, there's a lot.
And so we have some with just basketball ops, we
have some with the whole Celtics organization. Then we have
other random little side action going on.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's fun.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And you say, there's some trash talking going on? Is
there anyone that you want to name check? Here? Are
you perhaps the top trash talker? Is there someone else
in the book?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It's is ever you know making good picks is usually
the one talking. So it changes year to year, and
then it's always like, you know, somebody's ten year old
son that ends up winning. You know, all the experts
in the room, and it's you know, whoever picked on
colors wins.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
When you are actually acting as a scout and the department,
how much weight do these tournament games hold when you've
been looking at these guys all year, if not years
and years beforehand.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah, so it's really boring kind of being a front
office person a scout. You try to take all your
emotion out of it. Everything's in context, everything's big picture.
You know, we try to eat Celtics games. Everything is
just we don't overreact. We don't overreact. That's kind of
what you're trained to do. You can't act emotionally. You know,
you have to trade a player, but you really like
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them as a person, you have to you just have
to become a robot. And so it's it's really kind
of boring that way. But the NCA tournament, we do
allow ourselves to be fans a little bit as a group,
and it's fun and it's fun, but evaluating, I would
say it's not a huge thing. Innsaate tournament is really random,
kind of weird matchups and crazy things happen. I would
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say the week before the conference tournaments, we all just
went out and scouted. Those are really important. Those are
more like NBA playoffs. Everyone knows your strengths and weaknesses,
everyone has scouted you, and can you still perform in
that situation? Those are Those are actually I find them
really really helpful.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Think about a guy like Peyton Pritchard, who's obviously a
savage competitor, much like Brian Scalabrini, which we saw over
the weekend in New York. Can you identify a lot
about a player's personality just from watching them, or do
you need to talk to them before you can figure
that out. Like with Peyton, did you know he's crazy
before you even spoke to him?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, you know. I'm sure Peyton would appreciate this. My
dad always called him a sociopath when we're talking about him. Yeah,
in a good way, in a good way, a great way, right, Siko,
this is no We knew Peyton was an ultra competitor.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You could just see it.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
But also a big part of our job is to
talk to everyone around them, right, So we can't talk
to the players until they declare for the draft, but
they're assistant coach, their video guy, the head team manager,
and the trainer. Talked to all these people and they
tell us their competitive makeup and their habits. And Peyton
has been intense and the hardest working guy since he
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was probably fifteen.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Absolutely, are there any other members of the current Celtics
that you can recall moments from the tournament or you're
pre scouting ahead of the tournament, like you're describing where
there's like something more a mental note that you make
and you see that later on as they're a member
of the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, Baylor.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I remember his sophomore year at South Dakota State. They
made the tournament and he had a good tournament game.
I remember watching him before that, but that was that
was a big moment for him, you know, in a
small school. And he obviously transferred to Creyton and had
more good moments in the tournament as well, But that
was a fun That was a fun one.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I remember Jalen Brown having a really tough tournament game
and us being kind of like happy about that because
we liked Jalen and sometimes you want them to.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You already decided, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Mean, well we didn't decide for sure, but the guys
you like sometimes you're rooting against, you don't want them
to You don't want them to show too well so
they might slide to you in the draft. We ended
up having a high enough pick where it didn't matter,
but you never know where you're gonna end up.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Now you mentioned Baylor, he's coming off his best game
as a pro so far. Twenty points.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I get two on Baylor Shireman because the Age family
is famous for like multi sport athletes, right, So Baylor
was a great high school quarterback. Yep, did that play
into you drafting him at all? And then two, how
gratifying is it to see him score twenty points in
an NBA game when you put so much faith in him?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Super happy for him.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I mean, he he worked so hard, and he he
had a tough preseason and that kind of I'm sure
was jarring for him. And then he's worked so hard,
He's played great in the G League. He's had very
limited opportunity with our team, understandably, and so you just
you're just so happy to see the guys that work
hard and get their moment. And that was a really
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fun moment. For moments, he had a lot of tough
shots that no dip three he made.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It was ridiculous, ridiculous, like Lefty Sam House are out
there just with some more tattoos.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And then the quarterback thing.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, i mean, look, it's fun, it's nice. It shows
a little bit of athleticism. But you know, it wasn't
a huge fact, but it is cool.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
It is cool.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I'm trying to think of other tournament moments. Jason Tatum
had a kind of a rough start to his freshman
year and then got better and better as he got
healthier and he had a good conference tournament. They won
and then they lost I think in the second round
of South Carolina ended up going to the final four.
That was a good former Celtic PJ. Doscher was on
that team and beat them. But probably the best part
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of that game was Emil Jefferson, current Celtics assistant coach,
outplayed Jason in that game. I think he had fifteen
rebounds and he was great.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
All right, Auestin, thank you so much for taking the time,
such a great time of year and looking forward to
what you guys do this summer, but we had to
turn our attention back to the current Celtics team for
Inside Access.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
This week.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
On Inside Access, we're getting some expertise outside of basketball
from our Celtics team. The guys were asked what they're
an expert on outside of basketball. Let's hear from them.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I'm the team expert.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Let's say, let's say soccer.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
There the NFL out of I think it's like me,
me and Derek know the most about the NFL and
Drew Peterson not sure.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
I would say being the dad has five kids, so
I mean I have three of my own, so I'm
in that category. Where like if you need some family advice, I.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Would say I'm the best on the team at bank Bong.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I'm not sure about that coffee.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I think I'm the biggest like coffee enthusiast on the team.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I don't think I'm an expert in anything some other things,
but I don't keep that to myself.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Warrior mentality, I'd say I'm the team expert on like
high school musical. Probably don't care about the approval, but
don't care about the criticism either. Just marcit own drum
and get the job done big.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I'm just a big high school musical fan.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
It's probably like my favorite movies ground out, but no excuses.
I don't want to hear that, Like come in and
do your job.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I'm probably the team's expert on like two K like
video games.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Team expert, not much.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
I am the team expert on dad jokes, and Luke
Cornett is.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Second, the team expert on emotional availability.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Team expert on.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Music, fashion.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
And hot sports takes.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
What's the difference between a well dressed man on a
bicycle and a poorly dressed man on a tricycle? Attire
props to.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
D White on his timing with the dad joke. So
I gotta ask you. I'll tell you what I would say.
If I were a team expert from our little team
in the studio here, my expertise would be gas station
junk food. It's not an expertise that I'm proud of,
but it's one that I can say I have lifelong
research about and through trial and error. If you, whoever
find yourself on a road trip and over at a
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gas station, I'll direct you in the right way. Okay,
so stay away from the hard boiled eggs.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I'll say that you can get those at a gas Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Many gas stations for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So what's yours?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, good thing you're the expert here, because I was
definitely going for the hard boiled eggs, I'd say I'm
the team expert on pretending to be busy walking around
the garden during a game when Abby Chin is calling
the game, or Mike Turico's calling the game, or one
of the national networks. I find a way to pretend
that I'm working, even when I might have a beverage
in hands.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I was going to say, does this involve some props,
like are you somebody who takes the fake photo. Oh y'all,
are you just walking around with the air pods?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It just print out an old copy of my play
by play charts and look at them and study as
I'm walking around, and they go Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
He's like always ready to go. Case of emergency. Drew
is ready to go. Good for you, fooled, you know what.
I know that you had a night off, but you
have a big road trip coming up along with the
rest of the Celtics. So let's get into future bocus
where we preview this road trip, the longest of the
Celtics season so far. Now, to be honest, they're not
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going to be seeing a ton of competition that you're
expecting in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Starting here with Utah, Portland, Sacramento? Those are the first
three and I know destinations that you're very much looking
forward to. Drew. What do you think we could see
from I guess the lower end, beyond the rotation that
we're expecting in the playoffs from these Celtics.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Well, the first thing I'll say is I don't expect
Tatum to miss a lot of these games, especially on
the road. He's talked a lot about how when they
go on the road. He wants to play because you
got people in every city, regardless of where you are,
what day of the week, it is, what channel you're on.
He wants people to be able to see him play
because a lot of the time it could be their
only chance for the season, especially when you go out west.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So I think that's number one. Is I expect Tatum
to play a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
But in terms of guys like toward the end of
the bench, this is a beautiful opportunity for them as
the Celtics give guys rest, keep guys fresh, and fine
tune an experiment with their rotation. We saw what Baylor
Shireman did last night, Like could it be a shiring game,
Could it be a Cada game where he gets twenty
five to thirty minutes? Could d White get twenty twenty
five shots? We've seen what he can do with those,
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obviously Peyton Pritchard. It's a chance for the Celtics to
the guys toward the end of the bench to step up,
to use our favorite term, get the team some wins
down the stretch of the season, but really the wins
are not what's important. It seems like they're pretty much
locked into the two what's important is the development and
giving guys different looks for the playoffs, and.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
The development and fine tuning that you'll be doing with
nicknames puns. Yeah, Baylor, you got a couple others out there.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Now that Baylor is like a real rotation player. I
can actually, you know, we can dust off some stuff
that I've been sitting.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
On all year.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Okay, all right, you've been walking around the garden with
these sheets of nicknames and punds to see them through
these next games. Yeah. We heard from christps Porzingius, who
Christops and Drew have both been able to get back
get healthy. Here's what he had to say about his
expectations for this road trip.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
You guys head out on a season loan six game trip.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
What is a successful trip we'll like for us?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Probably six six and oh no, I would say for us,
but uh, we'll see. I mean, obviously we expect to
win every game. I don't know it was maybe I
don't know a handful of games this season again that
we were not favorites. So I don't know what the
betting odds will say, but probably yeah, trying to win
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every game. And I don't know what our roster rules
have looked like it's not a question. But oh yeah,
six and oh come back home would be perfect?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Six and oh Chris epsporzuingis he's setting the bar there.
He's not exactly dancing around the expectation.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Six and oh, no, I think that'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Be perfect.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
They're gonna be I mean, their favorite at pretty much
every game. They're expected to win every game. I think
it's better to just put that out there and embrace it,
as opposed to the you know, I think contrived and fake.
Oh you know, we don't know, like they're a good
team and blah blah, and the Celtics are still going
to do that. But I actually appreciate the honesty from
KP there. They know the expectation, and they knew it
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last year and they cruised to a championship in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So I appreciate that from KP.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I appreciate it too. I'd say, let's start with three
and zero and let's start with getting you know, this
road trip underway.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's a long one that is very doable. Though.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
For the record, I think six and oh, I mean
the Spurs, they've lost Wemby and Fox for the season.
You know toward the end of the road trip it
could get a little bit tougher. Is not playing great
right now, so I think the Celtics could easily go
six and o on this trip.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I've heard of Drew Carter two six and just echoing
christ out of course.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
No, no, they come home. That would be perfect, that'd
be perfect.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right, Hey, Drew, thank you so much for joining
us this season, because I know you're departing on this rotrat,
but I don't know when we're going to see you again.
We see you on every game, We hear you on
every game. I don't know when we'll see you on
Celtics Weekly again, but we will see you next Wednesday.
Coming up on this edition of Celtics Weekly, Christophe Sporzingis
returns to action. We have the top plays of the
week and we go court side with Austin Ahe on
March Madness. All that and more. Now welcome into Celtic's Weekly,
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where we cover everything from the eighteen banner raising champs.
What a show we have for you this week, Mega
Ottolini with NBC Sports Boston Drew Carter. We have Austin
Age tucking' March Madness. A little later in the show,
we have Chief Dork Officer Taylor Snow with his tailor
made Stats.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Big promotion for Taylor the Yeah, he's in the.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
C suite now. But it was a very newsy week.
So we're going to try a new segment here. We're
gonna rip through some headlines. Let's kick it off with
the return of christophs Porzingis. KP was back in action
against Brooklyn Saturday after missing eight games prior with what
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he called a viral illness. He dropped twenty four points
and posted a block in his first game against the Nets.
Guard Peyton Pritchard made NBA history over the weekend, breaking
Wayne Ellington's record for most threes made off the bench
in a single NBA season, with two eighteen, passing Ellington's
previous record of two seventeen. He surpassed that record with
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his four to three against the Nets Saturday, but had
twenty two points on five three pointers in that game overall.
So congrats Peyton Pritchard and the Celtics officially punched their
ticket to the playoffs Friday against the Heat, clinching a
postseason appearance for the eleventh straight season. Boston has now
made the playoffs in seventeen of their last eighteen seasons.
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That's enough for me. Let's get to the plays of
the week, all the highlights from your Boston Celtics, and
where can we start at number ten? But Peyton Frichard
with his record breaking three this is two eighteen against
the Nets.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Three pointers off the bench. No one's ever hit more
than Peyton Fritchard is sterling season continues.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's one check market in the record. Maybe another check
mark getting the trop Eagle.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
See number nine. We've got everybody getting a piece a
little hot potato here, but it ends with Jalen going
left in a two hands plant.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The Celtics can bend the defense stretch the defense in
so many ways, even the best defense in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
When you end up with.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Chad Holingrin trying to defend Jalen Brown, bad things will happen.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
For your details. Number eight Celtics able to escape the
trap mid court and find KP for a game ending
lu Love Christops.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know what he has against the Borough of Brooklyn,
but man, he played well against the Nets in his
return these last couple of games, which is really fun
to say.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Number seven JB in the paint again Brooklyn, trying to
find any which way he finds MENI down.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Low first plan that was saucy.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
When Jalen Brown gets in the pain, you get on
two feet, he can kind of slow things down. He's
never in a hurry. Use his strength, draw to find
Tata for the easy stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's good offense.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Number six Miami, We've got logo Derek from Deep but
watch what happens after Eas stinks this. Three Ian Horford,
find yourself a hype guy like Ian Horford? Can you
be this guy for me?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I'll get you water, I'll get your towels, and
you know, I just want to say something about that.
Three it's late shot clock. Some NBA logos are so
big that the logo three doesn't really mean anything anymore
that one does.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
He hit that from really far away.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Number five Chet trying to go one on one with
Derek White. Derek White, SWAT's it right out, get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Shit be White the most blocked by a guard in
the last ten years and he only came into the
league eight years ago. He's got a knack for it,
the timing and obviously just taken the risk of getting
dunk on he does it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Number four we got JB It's okay. Se again pulls
up a little short Luke.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
With the follow Yes, Luke, shout out to the Australians.
Luke Cornett has worked so hard to improve his athleticism
and even one or two percent takes you so far.
He has really reshaped his game since he got in
the NBA and he's a huge contributor for the Soffice.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Number three Miami Again. We talked about Prichard's three point shooting.
We can talk about it all through the postseason, but
look at this step through ripseeds. Dude, I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
We got to get in inch that was so pretty
I mean Peyton Pritchard. It's like he's at the public
park right there, just cooking dudes in the post. This
is what you see from pro amp. We talked about
his three point shooting earlier, but he can get in
the landing spot again.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Number two, This is from Tuesday night. Baylor Sherman gets
a shot at the buzzer. Beater doesn't count, makes it.
It's just a dress reheurcle because he gets another opportunity
for Chris tops Porzingas here and boom. That's money.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Cool and he didn't even bank it in this time.
Didn't have to call bank load that thing up again.
That's not a fireball, that's a shire ball, dude, Dude.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Number one, christavs Porzingis is back because Jason Tatum gets
the rebound here finds Porzingis down low. Man, gotta be
happy he's healthy.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
This was after he missed two threes on this one possession.
The Celtics doing a great job on the offensive last
given KP a chance to do that.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Those are your plays of the week. Let's go over
to Taylor Maade Stats. Taylor Made Stats is when we
crunch some numbers with Taylor Snow of Celtics dot Com. So, Taylor,
what numbers have you cooked up for us this week?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Began?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I know you mentioned at the top of the show
how Paydon broke that NBA record freeze off the bench
for this two hundred and eighteenth. Well, he also helped
set another NBA record right before that, when he made
his two hundred and fifteenth he joined Jason Tatum Derek
White to become the first trio of teammates in NBA
history to make at least two undred and fifteen threes
a piece in the same season. Step Curry, Klay Thomas,
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and Jordan Poole. They held that record at two hundred
and fourteen before this, and all three are on pace
for over two hundred and sixty. So they're gonna smash
that record.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Now, Taylor, I a casual NBA fan, have a question
for you. Sure everyone's shooting a bunch of threes?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
This isn't that impressive. It's all just three point inflation, Right,
How do you response to that?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
So they rank fourth, fifth, and sixth in the league
until three point makes No other team has more than
one in the top fifteen.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Wow, So that's context. Meg that's important.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I love it and I love those guys. But do
you have some true holiday sad for us now that
he's back in act.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
So Drew recently returned from that right mallet pinky injury,
debuted a new celebration, the Doctor Evil pinky to the
mouth celebration, and he had plenty of opportunities to use
that celebration in this past weekend. Had a great back
to back Friday in Miami, scored a season high twenty
five points. Not only was it a season high, but
that's the most he has had in a regular season
game since joining the Celtics. Following night in Brooklyn, season
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high twelve assists ties the most that he has had
since coming to the Celtics. And most impressive part is
he's just returning from this injury. He has a splint
on his shooting hand, and he's still found a way
to make it work.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know this isn't social snapshot, which we sometimes do
over here at the Big Board. I would just love
for anybody on social media to maybe put out a
gift of that celebration, you know, because I think that
might be the mallet finger that he heard that he's
celebrating with so I would love a gift of that,
which is the right way that you pronounced that.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I believe my here's hurt when you pronounced it incorrectly
like that. I think it's fitting that he had the
twelve assists against Brooklyn because to me, one of the
best jay Z songs is called Reminder, and he says,
I think I need to give you a reminder here.
It is sometimes Drew Holliday just gives us a reminder
of how good he really is.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
A lot of the time will fade into.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
The background offensively as the fourth or fifth option in
the starting lineup, but sometimes he just reminds you that
this is a two time champion and a future Hall
of Famers. When a couple of gold medals and he
can really score a.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Dish when he needs to, just a couple of gold medals,
what do we have to round out here?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
And then last night we haven't seen a lot of
baylor shiremen this season yet, but he gave us a
glimpse of what he could do.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Scored a season high twenty points, made six three pointers,
six of seven from three, and that is tied for
the second most by a Celtics rookie six smart he
held the record or he still holds the record with seven.
The name that stood out to me was JR. Bremer
on this list. Jarre Bremer held this record for twelve
years with six threes. Wow, Macy, Peyton, Pritchard's done it
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twice and now Baylor.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Awesome night for Baylor Sharman. Hopefully we get more moments
like that down the stretch as these guys deeper on
the bench get a little more opportunity with the playoffs
on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Thanks Taylor.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Don't go anywhere because after the break we sit down
with Austin h to talk March madness.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Datam go to work about Um, Yes, that's.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
A mass spots up.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's crazy sick Tom. Also, baby baby, let's get it.
Let's get it. Leaps it up.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Time for one of the most coveted times of our game.
So I'm just enjoying the overall experience, just having a
good time.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Welcome Mack.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It's the most wonderful time of the year if you're
a college basketball fan. So who better to talk to
from a Celtics perspective than assistant general manager of the
Celtics Austin age and he joins us here courtside on
Celtics Weekly. Austin, thank you so much for taking the time.
And my first question is it's Thursday, it's twelve fifteen,
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the first round of March Madness is just getting kicked off.
What is the scene like here around the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So we take all of our scouts in front office
that we're all over the world normally, and we bring
them all and we have our meetings kind of right
now these few days before the tournament about what we've
seen everything, and then boom, we all get in a room.
We've all got our brackets.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We do a bracket.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
We do a ten man which is the leading scorers
for the tournament. So you got to pick the best
players on the teams that'll go far. And those are
the two things we do. And we talk a bunch
of trash and order some pizza and have some fun.
So we do some serious meetings about all the prospects
and then we get to relax a little.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So how many people would you say are a part
of this.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
We're looking at twelve to fifteen okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And you're making a you're doing a bracket pool, I
thought you were just scouting the games.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh no, no, we well so we do.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I mean there are how many brackets have you been
invited to? I mean, but we've got Yeah, there's a lot.
And so we have some with just basketball ops, we
have some with the whole Celtics organization. Then we have
other random little side action going on.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's fun.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And you say, there's some trash talking going on? Is
there anyone that you want to name check? Here? Are
you perhaps the top trash talker? Is there someone else
in the book?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It's is ever you know making good picks is usually
the one talking. So it changes year to year, and
then it's always like, you know, somebody's ten year old
son that ends up winning. You know, all the experts
in the room, and it's you know, whoever picked on
colors wins.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
When you are actually acting as a scout and the department,
how much weight do these tournament games hold when you've
been looking at these guys all year, if not years
and years beforehand.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah, so it's really boring kind of being a front
office person a scout. You try to take all your
emotion out of it. Everything's in context, everything's big picture.
You know, we try to eat Celtics games. Everything is
just we don't overreact. We don't overreact. That's kind of
what you're trained to do. You can't act emotionally. You know,
you have to trade a player, but you really like
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them as a person, you have to you just have
to become a robot. And so it's it's really kind
of boring that way. But the NCA tournament, we do
allow ourselves to be fans a little bit as a group,
and it's fun and it's fun, but evaluating, I would
say it's not a huge thing. Innsaate tournament is really random,
kind of weird matchups and crazy things happen. I would
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say the week before the conference tournaments, we all just
went out and scouted. Those are really important. Those are
more like NBA playoffs. Everyone knows your strengths and weaknesses,
everyone has scouted you, and can you still perform in
that situation? Those are Those are actually I find them
really really helpful.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Think about a guy like Peyton Pritchard, who's obviously a
savage competitor, much like Brian Scalabrini, which we saw over
the weekend in New York. Can you identify a lot
about a player's personality just from watching them, or do
you need to talk to them before you can figure
that out. Like with Peyton, did you know he's crazy
before you even spoke to him?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, you know. I'm sure Peyton would appreciate this. My
dad always called him a sociopath when we're talking about him. Yeah,
in a good way, in a good way, a great way, right, Siko,
this is no We knew Peyton was an ultra competitor.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You could just see it.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
But also a big part of our job is to
talk to everyone around them, right, So we can't talk
to the players until they declare for the draft, but
they're assistant coach, their video guy, the head team manager,
and the trainer. Talked to all these people and they
tell us their competitive makeup and their habits. And Peyton
has been intense and the hardest working guy since he
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was probably fifteen.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Absolutely, are there any other members of the current Celtics
that you can recall moments from the tournament or you're
pre scouting ahead of the tournament, like you're describing where
there's like something more a mental note that you make
and you see that later on as they're a member
of the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, Baylor.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I remember his sophomore year at South Dakota State. They
made the tournament and he had a good tournament game.
I remember watching him before that, but that was that
was a big moment for him, you know, in a
small school. And he obviously transferred to Creyton and had
more good moments in the tournament as well, But that
was a fun That was a fun one.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I remember Jalen Brown having a really tough tournament game
and us being kind of like happy about that because
we liked Jalen and sometimes you want them to.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You already decided, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Mean, well we didn't decide for sure, but the guys
you like sometimes you're rooting against, you don't want them
to You don't want them to show too well so
they might slide to you in the draft. We ended
up having a high enough pick where it didn't matter,
but you never know where you're gonna end up.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Now you mentioned Baylor, he's coming off his best game
as a pro so far. Twenty points.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I get two on Baylor Shireman because the Age family
is famous for like multi sport athletes, right, So Baylor
was a great high school quarterback. Yep, did that play
into you drafting him at all? And then two, how
gratifying is it to see him score twenty points in
an NBA game when you put so much faith in him?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Super happy for him.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I mean, he he worked so hard, and he he
had a tough preseason and that kind of I'm sure
was jarring for him. And then he's worked so hard,
He's played great in the G League. He's had very
limited opportunity with our team, understandably, and so you just
you're just so happy to see the guys that work
hard and get their moment. And that was a really
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fun moment. For moments, he had a lot of tough
shots that no dip three he made.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It was ridiculous, ridiculous, like Lefty Sam House are out
there just with some more tattoos.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And then the quarterback thing.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, i mean, look, it's fun, it's nice. It shows
a little bit of athleticism. But you know, it wasn't
a huge fact, but it is cool.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
It is cool.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I'm trying to think of other tournament moments. Jason Tatum
had a kind of a rough start to his freshman
year and then got better and better as he got
healthier and he had a good conference tournament. They won
and then they lost I think in the second round
of South Carolina ended up going to the final four.
That was a good former Celtic PJ. Doscher was on
that team and beat them. But probably the best part
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of that game was Emil Jefferson, current Celtics assistant coach,
outplayed Jason in that game. I think he had fifteen
rebounds and he was great.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
All right, Auestin, thank you so much for taking the time,
such a great time of year and looking forward to
what you guys do this summer, but we had to
turn our attention back to the current Celtics team for
Inside Access.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
This week.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
On Inside Access, we're getting some expertise outside of basketball
from our Celtics team. The guys were asked what they're
an expert on outside of basketball. Let's hear from them.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I'm the team expert.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Let's say, let's say soccer.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
There the NFL out of I think it's like me,
me and Derek know the most about the NFL and
Drew Peterson not sure.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
I would say being the dad has five kids, so
I mean I have three of my own, so I'm
in that category. Where like if you need some family advice, I.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Would say I'm the best on the team at bank Bong.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
I'm not sure about that coffee.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I think I'm the biggest like coffee enthusiast on the team.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I don't think I'm an expert in anything some other things,
but I don't keep that to myself.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Warrior mentality, I'd say I'm the team expert on like
high school musical. Probably don't care about the approval, but
don't care about the criticism either. Just marcit own drum
and get the job done big.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I'm just a big high school musical fan.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
It's probably like my favorite movies ground out, but no excuses.
I don't want to hear that, Like come in and
do your job.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I'm probably the team's expert on like two K like
video games.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Team expert, not much.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
I am the team expert on dad jokes, and Luke
Cornett is.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Second, the team expert on emotional availability.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Team expert on.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Music, fashion.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
And hot sports takes.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
What's the difference between a well dressed man on a
bicycle and a poorly dressed man on a tricycle? Attire
props to.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
D White on his timing with the dad joke. So
I gotta ask you. I'll tell you what I would say.
If I were a team expert from our little team
in the studio here, my expertise would be gas station
junk food. It's not an expertise that I'm proud of,
but it's one that I can say I have lifelong
research about and through trial and error. If you, whoever
find yourself on a road trip and over at a
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gas station, I'll direct you in the right way. Okay,
so stay away from the hard boiled eggs.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I'll say that you can get those at a gas Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Many gas stations for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So what's yours?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, good thing you're the expert here, because I was
definitely going for the hard boiled eggs, I'd say I'm
the team expert on pretending to be busy walking around
the garden during a game when Abby Chin is calling
the game, or Mike Turico's calling the game, or one
of the national networks. I find a way to pretend
that I'm working, even when I might have a beverage
in hands.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I was going to say, does this involve some props,
like are you somebody who takes the fake photo. Oh y'all,
are you just walking around with the air pods?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It just print out an old copy of my play
by play charts and look at them and study as
I'm walking around, and they go Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
He's like always ready to go. Case of emergency. Drew
is ready to go. Good for you, fooled, you know what.
I know that you had a night off, but you
have a big road trip coming up along with the
rest of the Celtics. So let's get into future bocus
where we preview this road trip, the longest of the
Celtics season so far. Now, to be honest, they're not
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going to be seeing a ton of competition that you're
expecting in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
How dare you.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Starting here with Utah, Portland, Sacramento? Those are the first
three and I know destinations that you're very much looking
forward to. Drew. What do you think we could see
from I guess the lower end, beyond the rotation that
we're expecting in the playoffs from these Celtics.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Well, the first thing I'll say is I don't expect
Tatum to miss a lot of these games, especially on
the road. He's talked a lot about how when they
go on the road. He wants to play because you
got people in every city, regardless of where you are,
what day of the week, it is, what channel you're on.
He wants people to be able to see him play
because a lot of the time it could be their
only chance for the season, especially when you go out west.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So I think that's number one. Is I expect Tatum
to play a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
But in terms of guys like toward the end of
the bench, this is a beautiful opportunity for them as
the Celtics give guys rest, keep guys fresh, and fine
tune an experiment with their rotation. We saw what Baylor
Shireman did last night, Like could it be a shiring game,
Could it be a Cada game where he gets twenty
five to thirty minutes? Could d White get twenty twenty
five shots? We've seen what he can do with those,
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obviously Peyton Pritchard. It's a chance for the Celtics to
the guys toward the end of the bench to step up,
to use our favorite term, get the team some wins
down the stretch of the season, but really the wins
are not what's important. It seems like they're pretty much
locked into the two what's important is the development and
giving guys different looks for the playoffs, and.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
The development and fine tuning that you'll be doing with
nicknames puns. Yeah, Baylor, you got a couple others out there.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Now that Baylor is like a real rotation player. I
can actually, you know, we can dust off some stuff
that I've been sitting.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
On all year.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Okay, all right, you've been walking around the garden with
these sheets of nicknames and punds to see them through
these next games. Yeah. We heard from christps Porzingius, who
Christops and Drew have both been able to get back
get healthy. Here's what he had to say about his
expectations for this road trip.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
You guys head out on a season loan six game trip.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
What is a successful trip we'll like for us?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Probably six six and oh no, I would say for us,
but uh, we'll see. I mean, obviously we expect to
win every game. I don't know it was maybe I
don't know a handful of games this season again that
we were not favorites. So I don't know what the
betting odds will say, but probably yeah, trying to win
(21:54):
every game. And I don't know what our roster rules
have looked like it's not a question. But oh yeah,
six and oh come back home would be perfect?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Six and oh Chris epsporzuingis he's setting the bar there.
He's not exactly dancing around the expectation.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Six and oh, no, I think that'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Be perfect.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
They're gonna be I mean, their favorite at pretty much
every game. They're expected to win every game. I think
it's better to just put that out there and embrace it,
as opposed to the you know, I think contrived and fake.
Oh you know, we don't know, like they're a good
team and blah blah, and the Celtics are still going
to do that. But I actually appreciate the honesty from
KP there. They know the expectation, and they knew it
(22:34):
last year and they cruised to a championship in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So I appreciate that from KP.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I appreciate it too. I'd say, let's start with three
and zero and let's start with getting you know, this
road trip underway.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's a long one that is very doable. Though.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
For the record, I think six and oh, I mean
the Spurs, they've lost Wemby and Fox for the season.
You know toward the end of the road trip it
could get a little bit tougher. Is not playing great
right now, so I think the Celtics could easily go
six and o on this trip.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I've heard of Drew Carter two six and just echoing
christ out of course.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
No, no, they come home. That would be perfect, that'd
be perfect.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right, Hey, Drew, thank you so much for joining
us this season, because I know you're departing on this rotrat,
but I don't know when we're going to see you again.
We see you on every game, We hear you on
every game. I don't know when we'll see you on
Celtics Weekly again, but we will see you next Wednesday.
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