Perkins reacts to Porzingis, White lead Celtics to shake off eactsHawks 125-117 for a win at Garden

Perkins reacts to Porzingis, White lead Celtics to shake off eactsHawks 125-117 for a win at Garden

The win against his Atlanta Hawks team 125 to 117 and really this Celtics team they had to grind out a win against the Hawks Eddie how were the Celtics able to get it done I think we just we just overmatched them you know we’re just a better team

Overall so we just kept putting pressure on them um offensively and and defensively we got timely stops at the times we needed to get those stops to create runs for ourselves to kind of extend uh to get away from them and once we got away from them yeah they

All right still working on Eddie’s connection right there well let’s s out to Abby chin who caught up with Derek white after the win Derek what came over you in the fourth hit four threes help to put this thing away I’m just getting Great Looks um obviously a lot of tension to everybody

Else and uh I got wide open looks I got to knock him down that starting unit had 29 assists in this game how fun is it when the ball is moving like like that yeah it’s a lot of fun um we got so many weapons I mean obviously Drew is out

Tonight but Al stepped up huge made so many winning plays for us and uh it’s a lot of fun playing that way this is in the Atlanta Hawks one of the better offenses in the league how are you guys able to hold them off just enough yeah I

Mean still 117 is a lot I mean they’re a great offense obviously Trey does a lot for them and they tough to slow down but sure Joe’s going to get H Us in the locker room about it and we got to learn from him get better from him that being

Said how much do you enjoy how much did you enjoy the spry Al Horford get him some time off he looks so fresh out there tonight that was amazing um that’s all you can really say about Al he does so many things for us on the court off

The court that just help us win games and he’s amazing Derek thank you congratulations appreciate [Applause] it inside of TV Garden also a big fourth quarter for Derek white Scout joining us live right now courts Scout derck white with four May threes in the fourth quarter just what level does Derek white

Go to when the game is on the line it was crazy the shot he made in front of the Atlanta Hawk bench it was almost as if he was fading out of bounds kind of like that sea Elliott back in the day probably you weren’t even born

When that happened Mina Smith but he had his tiptoes on and he was letting it fly I I just thought that shot right there got him going and it’s almost at this and tell me if I’m wrong with you guys when and it’s the fourth quarter and

Derek white gets to open three I’ll be shocked if he misses any of those so Derek white kind of opened this game up for us gave us that cushion and I talk about this a lot with the Celtic team we got a lot of ways to win we got a big

Margin of error in the first half we didn’t shoot the ball well from three but we got inside second half it was all about the three and sports quarter definitely about the three and Dereck White’s play and what way though also did Derek white step up in the absence of Drew holiday tonight

So that’s a great question I mean there is a point where you know Drew holiday likes to work that low dunker I know a lot of people don’t know that spot that’s like underneath the basket well it it switches things up so you don’t have to play five out a lot of guys

Don’t want to make that sacrifice Derek why has no problem he stretches to floor and then there are times in possessions where he’s going down and working that dunker your spacing is so much better guys like porzingis get a wide open look Brown and Tatum have more driving Lanes

So he takes the the sacrifice of off offensively of like you know what I’ll sacrifice some of my stuff and go down here and work it and remember that Al Horford play when he drove to the middle and Derek white relocated on the Baseline well that’s a usual Drew

Holiday spot and defensively he was great like Derek white never stopped pursuing the ball he was relentless at trying to get two screens on Trey young he took that challenge and you if you kind of look at it Trey young was asked to be an Allstar today and it look like

Derek white took that personal to commissioner um Adam Silver end up picking Trey young and now Derek white kind of made it known like even though you got Trey Young and the fan boat I’m the real Allstar here in this game and also you mentioned alh for 14 points eight

Rebounds eight assists also four blocks in tonight gay Scout it looked like Al Horford turned back the hands of time the knees still work the body looks good the days of rest have done him well what was his impact in this game I think you called it if you look

At the you know the grueling month of January where those games are coming at you rapid fire and you know you’re trying to get your footing on you and I thought Al Horford had you know a decent January but you could tell so you had

Two days off a game two days off and now you’re playing Atlanta and that made a big difference like the Celtics just looked completely different out there they look fresh and Al Horford in particular just he was reacting really well the shot was coming off his hands

Really well I mean Bes I think at one point he was four for six from three miss his last three but I mean come on when Al Horford’s playing like that and he’s stretching the floor he’s making defensive plays and we weren’t great as a team defensively but Al Horford was

Great defensively for us all right C before you go we were talking about this in the commercial break in the pregame show is Usher a superstar I I want everyone to know what you think about this is he a superstar yeah pop star he’s just not iconic he’s not icon he’s

Iconic he’s no iconic is different that’s that’s a big a different level he is but I will say this he is a he is a pop star who happens to not be current but hey Amina when I was in college I used to put the CD in and listen to

Usher and uh that’s how I did my homework and it’s and he gave me a few assists along the way so I’m not not mad at Usher y also don’t like him to Bruno Mar so I’m still mad about that but I I’ll let you go on that not all right

Thanks so much y let’s take a breaker selting postgame KN a look at that final score 125 to 117 coming up we hear from from head coach Joe Missoula stay with us I mean the name to know when the drains don’t flow and Derek white he had

It flowing in the fourth quarter step back three right here big shot for Derek white he was five of 10 from Beyond The Arc in this win against the Atlanta Hawks Chris forsburg we got Eddie House back here with us Amina Smith here with you too when we talked about Derek white

And how much he means to the Celtics team 21.6 rebounds and seven assist and of course he’s got a steal and a block as well Eddie I’ll start with you just how was Derek White able to impact this game in all the ways you just named you

Know whether it be scoring whether it be rebounding the basketball helping on the defensive end doing the things he need to do getting strips getting steals uh getting block shots he’s always a guy that he he just does the right things he makes all the winning plays he he does

It all the time and some nights It’s Not Gon to be on the scoring end to where you look at the Box scoring you like man you know he filled the box score up with this that and the other sometimes it’s just being a disruptor you know and the

Threat of being a guy that can knock down shots and I think scal said it you know he played around where Drew holiday plays around a lot in that dunker spot with that short Corner area to where you know is you’re not playing Five out all

The time and he’s able to cut and his basketball IQ was so high he’s able to just go out there and and play his game to me he did take just a little bit personal you know understanding that he had opportunity to possibly make the All-Star Game knowing Trey Trey young

Was uh called in to be one of the the the fill-ins you know the reserves a guy that that came in because somebody wasn’t there so I think Derek white is a is a softspoken guy number one you don’t really know he doesn’t wear his emotions

On his sleeve so you don’t know what he’s thinking a lot but his actions on the court let you know exactly what he’s thinking when he goes out there and plays I’ll just say a minute do you think Derek white is Patty oh you know

What and I honestly like I look at Derek white and what he did tonight I’m like this this is typical Derek white to me I can’t tell if he’s doing it because Trey young was you know put on the allstar as a injured replacement as opposed to him

But I feel like this is just a typical night for Dereck white all I know the Celtic’s two best players on the floor tonight were Derek white and Chris porz two players who probably had a little bit of motivation after what Adam Silver came out and announced yesterday and I

Do think they don’t worry about like who’s on the other side or the circumstances around that they just want to go out there and be great on a night toight basis but I do you think there’s something in the back of every athletes mind that’s just a little reminder when

You look across and they’re like they put that guy in there that guy who plays for a team that is scraping to get into play in that guy who was 8 for 25 tonight and Derek’s you know what I’m just going to go out there and take over

The fourth quarter do what I do like I don’t want to disrespect I I don’t want to do the it CU like you know that was it thing King in the fourth but Derek has been really good in fourth quarters this year he needs to be more in there

And he needs some sort of like my time right now now you made the case where now I feel like drick white and Chris D por Zing as they were trying to stick it to the NBA for not being named All Stars up I like being Patty so yeah that’s

Probably what it is Chris porzingis with 31 points three rebounds and an assist as well Eddie how did Chris D porzingis really set the tone for tonight’s matchup well first off they have no interior defense I’m talking about the Atlanta Hawks so what do we do we

Constantly put pressure on that on the rim and especially early on it was early and often especially that first in that first half with Jaylen and uh porzingis they put a lot of pressure on the rim and then they they continu that but then

He was able to stretch out and a lot of people end up you know looking to it and saying like uh you know you just think it’s just Brown and Tatum all the time and that tells me that you’re not watching basketball you’re not watch not watching basketball excuse me you’re not

Watching Celtics basketball because any given night any one of these guys can go off and give you a big huge night and it was two of the guys that OB obviously has something to prove and and had a little I’m quite sure that they had a

Feeling about it like man come on man y’all y’all did me Dusty man you should at least at least been put there forward a little a little bit it does feel like a bit of a sow especially when you see what Chris as porzingis is doing each

And every night for this Celtics team sometimes he is that second option where maybe Jason tatore Jaylen Brown they don’t have it going offensively but then also with the fact that Chris as por porz is able to put this team on his back as well but also on a good team in

The NBA so maybe forsburg there is something there now now the wheels are turning I’m like okay may maybe there’s something there you’re all in I was trying to convince you and now you’re trying to like get me to be reconvince uh does christops look a little

Springier he does did you see how did you see how much higher he was we both audibly gasped because like I remember watching in real time I didn’t think he got that high and he had that dunk this weekend where he got super high and we

Both were talking about it so I don’t know maybe just a couple days off helps get those knees feeling better but I I do think the most important thing we sit here and talk a lot about what they do at the trade deadline game to game but man it’s really important that

Chrisop por healthy at the finish line of the season I think one of the reasons you can be excited that the Celtics went out and got Xavier tman today is that that’s going to be someone that can help Pace him to the finish line of the

Season let him find days off in there and I think this is a good example with both Al and porzingis tonight those couple days off they looked a lot more spry they looked a lot more like I mean Al had that one play where he was racing

Down the court and dereck’s doing little like run on the sideline you had Chris STS being up and Above the Rim and so I love seeing that that a reminder that once the season slows down a little bit especially in the playoffs and sure it’s a grind but if they’re playing like that

And they got that sort of energy in the tank that’s the highest level of this team you just need the Jays who did not have a great night to kick it into overdrive at that point as well that’s what happens when you get just a few

Days of rest all right listen out to Abby tun who’s a Joe Missoula after this win Joe pregame you emphasize shot margin you guys did not come out on top there so how’d you win the game your team has destroyed a tower Your team has destroyed a tower Your team has destroyed a tower Fore foree foree Foree spee spee attack en for Fore forign spech spee our face Tower is under [Laughter] attack am Is under attack spee spee foreign Spe your team has destroyed a Tower your team has destroyed the Tower foree foreign spee middle R Tower is under attack my victory nrow hold our Dragon Lane tower Tower is under Attack our Tower is under attack you know it speech speeech For spee fore foreign Speee our middle Tower is under Attack an enemy has defeated def line has disappeared foree Middle Lane Tower is under attack

Perkins reacts to Porzingis, White lead Celtics to shake off eactsHawks 125-117 for a win at Garden