FIRST TAKE | No one can stop Jayson Tatum & Boston Celtics win the East – JJ Redick tells Stephen A.

FIRST TAKE | No one can stop Jayson Tatum & Boston Celtics win the East – JJ Redick tells Stephen A.

The past year now the Doc Rivers Milwaukee era hasn’t exactly gotten off to a hot start as the Bucks they’re currently 3 and seven with him his head coach Doc what’s going on taking a job when you’re about to go on the toughest Road road trip of the

Season is not the smartest decision uh I even told them that can we wait till All-Star break you know it would been a lot nicer it’s it’s been difficult it’s been probably more difficult than I thought it’s hard it’s hard uh this is my this is my fourth

This my fourth coach in the span of six months from coach bad coach Griff Coach Joe then duck you know different philosophy different game plan yeah it’s hard it’s it’s draining you know because I I am a student of the game I try to when somebody asks me to do something

Try to do it in the best of my ability four coaches in the past year the Bucks find themselves eight and a half games back of the first place Celtics as we end enter the second half of the Season Boston they’re the favorites at ESPN bet to win the NBA

Title as well and our ESPN analytics give the Bucks the most difficult remaining schedule in the East interesting I mean looking at this right now the Cav second who would have thought that okay Stephen A are you taking the Celtics or the field right now to win the East the Celtics um I’ve

Said it from the very beginning of this season and I stand by right now they’re the best team in basketball they’ve got a four game advantage over the Minnesota timber wolves a six-game advantage in the East over the Cleveland Cavaliers they’ve been they’ve they ended the

First half of the Season or the allar before the allstar Break by winning six straight right now they’re number one in offensive efficiency number three in defensive efficiency net rating they’re first and that well outscoring opponents by 10.3 points for 100 possessions I’m looking at them right now and I’m saying

Excuse me I’m saying this about the Boston Celtics and JJ I’m not even happy with them because I think they jack up too many damn threes I think it’s like 43 47.3% they lead the league in three-point rate that’s how much they’re jacking up three-point shots for crying out loud I

Think they need to cut that down just a touch and still I’m looking at their personnel I’m looking at porzingis I’m looking at Orford coming off the bench I’m looking at White and holiday as defensive Wizards in the back court I’m looking at Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum

And I’m saying to myself my goodness they’ve got athleticism they’ve got perimeter shooting they defend they can put up buckets they’ve got a star and and a super Superstar on their squad together I’m looking at the Boston Celtics and I’m saying who can I definitively look at in the East and say

You know what they can take them you know I’m loving my Nicks right now orange and blue skies baby orange and blue skies but I am not I’m I don’t need to get drug tested by saying that I think they’re going to beat the Celtics the Celtics are the favorites against

Everybody and by the way just as a reminder that game seven in Miami after they overcame an 03 deficit won three games and game Jason Tatum got hurt easy in Boston they got hurt in game seven it was in Boston right the bottom line is

This we all looked at it and we said damn we kind of wanted Boston simply because we thought Miami was undersized going up against Denver and we knew what the outcome would be obviously we would have felt a little bit differently had that been Boston going against Denver

Instead of Miami this is what I’m looking at right now Boston’s knocking on the door I think Boston’s the best team in basketball I’m going with the Celtics not the field before I before I go into my point Stephen ajj can we stop can can Yan stop pretending oh I’ve had

Four coaches in a year because you wanted them all gone you wanted Jason kid gone you wanted Bud gone you wanted Adrian Griffin gone so please stop this know you talking about I different system they want you to do different things different game plans you want

Shannon Shannon do you feel he’s kind of playing the victim right now he didn’t I’m telling you what he didn’t want going yes yes for the simple fact is he’s a super super duper Star and they’ll do anything they can to keep him they haven’t had a player like him since

One Kareem Abdu Jabar and he ended up leaving going to La the last thing you want to do is to have your two best players they be unhappy and they leave they exit stage and so they’re going to do everything so he didn’t want bud gone

Let me ask you a question did he want bud gone yeah St I listen I’m not JJ’s better equipped to answer that question than me I will tell you this Mike buen hoser was a hell of a coach I think that he went through a lot personally over the last year and

It was a lot that was wearing on him and he wasn’t the same person I don’t think anybody looked at him and questioned his coaching ability he wasn’t the same person but he definitely wanted Adrien Griffin and then he didn’t want him that is true okay D again look here this is what

We know about the uh Milwaukee Bucks the Milwaukee Bucks would have given jiannis anything he wanted even a part of Harley-Davidson and they don’t even own any part of Harley-Davidson but they would have gave him that to keep him happy now to your point Stephen A you make great compelling points the Celtics

Has looked like the best team and now with Joel embiid being hurt I don’t really see a team that’s been consistent enough I did hear Shaq tell Damon Lillard said look if this thing goes sideways you Doc and uh uh Giannis is going to take the blame you need to go

Back grab somebody by the throat and say this is what I need from you and I think that is the only team right now that I look at that could cause them some problem they do have two top 12 players Yiannis is one of the top two or three

Players in all the league and we know what Dame can do but right now they’re underperforming Doc is underperforming coaching three and seven in the last 10 games so unfortunately Stephen A with with uh Joel and beeden being hurt as much as I want to take the field I don’t

Believe Cleveland can beat Boston in a seven game series I definitely don’t believe your Nick because uh uh uh Divo is going to be ran those guys in the ground they going to be on fumes by the time the first round let alone get to a

Second round or Easter car by the way before before JJ you jump in that game’s uh Celtics are at Nick Saturday on ABC JJ will be calling that game that’ll be a good one okay first first game with Mike and Doris and Lisa excited about

That and I’ll be there JJ all right as a fan yeah as a fan I love it I don’t need to be at that game crew isn’t back yet Randle Robinson on the noi when everybody get back I’ll beat there okay cuz I’m there you’re trying to act like

It’s not a big deal the crew is not there big deal that there miss it’s not a big deal you Nick’s fan go ahead JJ be going be a player to answer the question sorry we got sidetracked there to answer the question I’m absolute absolutely taking

The Celtics right now over the field in the East and that’s not a knock that’s not a knock on any team in the East because I think there’s truth truthfully a handful of really good teams in the Eastern Conference um the reason reason I’m taking the Celtics it’s not because

Of Jason Tatum it’s not because of Jaylen Brown uh if anyone uh knows me and has followed me over the last year and a half it’s not because of Derek white and my love for him it’s because of Chris TOS porzingis this guy is a total differen maker for them he has

Given them a new Dynamic for their offense and he’s providing the same defense essentially that Rob Williams was giving them when you look at the Celtics and how they’re playing right now Stephen A brought up the threes and you know I promised Stephen A our production call this morning I’d try to

Keep the data and the stats to a minimum but you to bring I got to drop this I got to drop this Joe moula at the beginning of the year he talked about wanting to post up mismatches more with Tatum Brown porzingis okay right now the Celtics have essentially tripled their

Frequency in post-ups they are hunting out mismatches when we start talking about late game stuff Chris tops porzingis unlocks their defense you want to to run an after timeout play with 17 seconds to go he unlocks what they can do on the offensive end I said defense

Earlier I’m sorry what what they can do on the offensive end christops porzingis we have 10 years of tracking data he has been he’s having the most efficient season posting up the basketball in the last 10 years that’s over joic that’s over embiid and why is that because he’s

Posting mismatches you go down the list of his most frequent uh uh guys that are guarding him in the post and it’s all perimeter guys he when he rolls in a drop coverage he’s getting behind the defense that two-man action with Jaylen Brown on the on the left side Jaylen

Brown going to his right hand him getting behind the defense it’s great action for the Celtics he has completely changed their team so when we start talking about playoffs and mass and matchups it’s Chris stops porzingis he’s to me he’s the most important third option in the NBA I would probably put

James Harden second you know so christof’s sping is the most important third option in the Eastern Conference and it’s because of his ability to punish switching that’s the reason I have the Celtics as the favorites right now over the field in the Eastern Conference side note real quick no one’s

Going to react to Doc’s audio there we’ve been seven minutes since we showed that audio nobody’s going to react the doc’s audio do you want me to get it for you repat we don’t to repeat it I’ve seen the trend now I’ve seen the trend for years what’s the trend the trend is

Always making excuses get doc we get it taking over a team in the middle of the season is hard it’s hard we get it just like getting traded in the middle of season is hard for a player we get it but it’s always an excuse It’s always

Throwing your team under the bus they lose to Memphis oh it’s his players Memphis was playing g-league guys and two-way guys then you look at his quotes over the weekend now he wants to take credit for the James Harden trade to the Clippers working out he wants credit for

That there’s just no there’s never accountability with that guy there’s never accountability well let me say a couple of things number one that’s a very very serious thing to say and we should take it serious from you because we should take it serious take Serious let me finish we should

Take it seriously because you played for him so for you to say something like that it matters that’s number one number two I’m gonna say this because doc need Doc Rivers needs to hear and I got love for him but he needs to hear this okay just go out there and Coach because

Here’s the deal you were playing an advisor’s role in Milwaukee and all of a sudden now you’re the head coach people haven’t brought that up and the more you talk about how difficult this is the more it brings attention to wait a minute nobody’s trying to hear that you got the

Job go Inn go Inn it’s just that simple because it didn’t happen in La all of those years with the Clippers it didn’t happen didn’t happen in Philadelphia and now this I’ve said this JJ the second he got the job if Doc Rivers doesn’t I’m not talking about this season because he

Came in there halfway through but if Doc Rivers between this year and next season doesn’t win I think it’ll be his last head coaching job in the NBA I don’t think this I think this I think this is last yeah I think this last you can’t

Bring up it was probably it wasn’t the wisest decision to come in a 10 game you know the toughest Road stretch of the season come on bro ain’t nobody trying to hear that they’re really not you got the job you wanted the job because you could have stayed had a nice little cozy

Job right alongside D Doris Burke and Mike Breen now JJ has that job but you could have stayed put you wanted this job and you know what the expectations are but let me ask you guys this JJ Stephen A a healthy Jo andb and Tyrese Maxi with the way Tobias Harris and

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FIRST TAKE | No one can stop Jayson Tatum & Boston Celtics win the East – JJ Redick tells Stephen A.