Stephen A. thinks the Celtics ‘PUT THE LEAGUE ON NOTICE!’ vs. Warriors ☘️ | First Take

Stephen A. thinks the Celtics ‘PUT THE LEAGUE ON NOTICE!’ vs. Warriors ☘️ | First Take

In the first take I’m Christine Williamson here for Molly we’ve got Stephen A we’ve got Shannon sharp and my girl Andrea Carter here to start this fine Monday morning off how we feeling everyone feeling good feeling good how yall doing beautiful beautiful beautiful all right let’s start things great let’s

Start things off in the association happy birthday Jason Tatum he had 27 points on his 26th birthday while Jaylen Brown scored 29 Points as the NBA best Boston Celtics posted their third largest winning margin in franchise history demolishing the golden State Warriors 140 to 888 on Sunday Boston led

By a franchise record of 44 points at halftime pushed it to 51 early in the third Jaylen how did that one feel it feels great but at the same time it’s you know it’s always within humility um at any given point you know that could be us and you know we don’t

Take the grain for granted um we didn’t we didn’t come out and mess around um and that’s just how you know we show our respect to the game is that we handle business and take care of it but we don’t do it arrogantly um

We do it with humility and it’s a lot of respect for the Golden State Warriors um but we feel like it’s our time now you flush it down the down the toilet we had a great road trip three in one uh we’ve had a million games um so Boston was

Amazing we weren’t beating them today um and um so we head home and uh get ready for Wednesday so this is now the Celtics third win by 50 points this season setting a new NBA record the wins have been over the Nets the Pacers and now the Warriors last night all three have

Come at home where the Celtics are averaging an NBA best 15 Point margin Victory all right friends Stephen I’m going to start with you on this one what does a win like this say about the Celtics oh they’re putting the league on notice here they come and and that you

Know they’re coming out of the East they’re coming here they’re focused on winning an NBA championship I know that yesterday’s game we’ve seen 50 point losses before Andrea uh Shannon what we haven’t seen is a team being down 45 in the first half there’s only 24 minutes

In the first half it’s only 24 minutes I mean that’s what I was trying to say it wasn’t the fact that they lost by 52 it wasn’t the fact that they were down by damn near 50 before it was over and they ultimately lost by 52 points it was the

Fact that it was a 45o deficit in the first half there’s levels to this and the Boston Celtics AR it they won 11 straight they haven’t lost since February 4th uh they’re 48 489 and 12 um and then you look at them top three defensively top three offensively not

One but two stars one’s a superstar as far as I’m concerned the other tinkerers towards it and Jaylen Brown we know what Tatum and brown brings to the table there was no porzingis yesterday they 7 foot three dude that has been shooting 48% from the field in this winning

Streak and averaging about 23 24 points he wasn’t even playing yesterday it was that kind of romp that kind of annihilation that kind of Beatdown and you just look at the rest of the Eastern Conference and you say my God who can mess with them who can beat them then

You look at the west and you’re saying who can deal with them outside of the Denver Nuggets that’s the question right there and I think that’s what this comes down to Boston recognizes what it’s all about and they had a nationally televised audience Jason Tatum’s birthday and they just put everybody on

Notice this year is a bit different we understand what this is all about and we not getting caught up in the sauce we here to make noise against everybody that we can at every moment we can for me Stephen A I hear you on all of those points but this is a Golden

State Warriors team that we’ve seen struggle all season long on the back end of a long road trip in which they got three wins on the road trip Steph Curry didn’t know if he was going to play pinsky’s out Wiggins is out the rotations are off even in the first half

When You’re missing two players your rotations are off the Warriors looked empty there are different caveats and asterisks to even the first half of the Warriors performance I believe the Celtics the statement that they’re making is the stretch that they’re on but that game against a depleted empty

Warriors team that didn’t even give much in the second half at all is not the statement the statement is the stretch the statement is not the game I I can’t put too much on this game you heard what Steve KR said after the game they’re going to flush it completely Steph

Draymond clay didn’t even play in the second half the main lineup in the second half that was their first time playing together all season long having that specific lineup so I’m not putting too much on this game I will put a lot on the Celtics stretch because it’s been

Phenomenal the way they’ve been able to play but this game I’m not putting anything on this particular game Andre did uh Steph and Draymond play in the first half you say they didn’t play the entire second half but did they play the first half but see I I

Don’t let Steve Kerr have it both ways now when they win ball games we can beat anybody and we can challenge for a championship but when you get the break drums beat off you now all of a sudden it was a tough road stretch oh and now

All of a sudden we just flush that one away I’m not going to let you do that and you’re right Stephen A they play without pringus what pringus is he’s like a couple of drops of water in my KAC sha B latier he opens it up he

Allows the whole floor to open up and it expands Jason Tatum it expands Jaylen Brown and even though they didn’t have him yesterday they were still Sensational they made a conscious decision they say you know what Jason Tatum Stephen A he’s their Superstar we’re GNA sag off Jaylen Brown Jaylen

Brown says you know what I’m a professional as a matter of fact I have the highest contract I make $34 million and this is the disrespect y’all going to show me y’all going to Sag off by six to 10 feet go up under screens screens and allow me to shoot wide open

Uncontested threes how disrespect respectful is that and then y’all going to put these little small guys Steph Curry on me really really is that what y’all think I did go back to back to backto back Allstar games you’re right you want to say this game doesn’t mean

Much that beat the Golden State Warriors by 50 but the last five games they won by an average of 30 they’ve won 11 straight 13 of 16 Stephen A we had this conversation last week I and the question was are the Boston Celtics on a tier by themselves I said as we

Currently speak absolutely the playoffs will be a different story they know they must show up show out during the playoffs but as we sit here right now ain’t nobody close to him in the Eastern Conference and the only team that I think that can give them a problem is

What I saw on Saturday night because yoke is the MVP and now you got Murray doing his thing especially in clutch time but the Boston Celtic is a step above everybody and I understand that you’re not pointing to just one game I I totally understand that my only point is

Like Shannon said I brought up the first half I ain’t bring up the game now you’ve watched a lot of basketball you know B we haven’t seen somebody get their ass kicked by 45 points in the first half only 24 minutes it’s only 24 minutes 45 down 45 in the first half I

Mean that is a statement and I think that we can’t ignore that so the first half is a statement and the stretch that the Celtics are on is a statement the game is not a statement the 52 point with 50 point win that’s not the statement first half is a

Great statement the is an even better statement all I brought up was first say anything about none else all I brought up was the first half I I mean my job was my job Andre my job was to watch the game My Andre well you know

What this first T this first tape my dear I mean saying we make the rules up this is what we do you this is what we do and I’m sit there watching this game the rules that’s right I’m watching this game yesterday and I’m like my god oh

Like let me go let me go eat this is unbeliev I couldn’t believe to beat down after halftime it wasn’t even I didn’t even bother watching the second half but go ahead let’s put this let’s put this in context then okay Golden State scores 88 points in the entire game Boston had

82 at the half so even if you want to make it even if you want to make it about let’s just say 26 minutes the Boston Celtics still would have beat the Golden State Warriors had they played the full they played the full 48 minutes it’s still you have Steph Curry you have

Draymond and I understand Andrew Wiggins is dealing with personal problems and he’s back and he’s away from the team and they don’t know when he’s going to come back but to still to allow a team to go on a 61 to 17 run at some point in

Time you got a pinch you got a trip you just call I blow through all my timeouts what they give you Stephen they seven in the game well I’m using five of them in the first half I got two hey guys I got two timeouts the second half so y’all

Got to do something y’all got to stop the bleeding because right now we’re hemorrhaging out here it it was it was bad and I’ve never seen Steph and Draymond look so dejected yes they’ve lost games before but this is a very proud franchise now you talk about a

Team that’s won four championships in the last seven eight years and for them to lose in this fashion it’s not easy to digest you can say oh it’s just another game it’s the beginning of March we’re coming off a long road trip but you remember getting beat by 50 See

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Andraya Carter join Christine Williamson to talk through the Boston Celtics’ clinic against the Golden State Warriors.
0:00 Jaylen Brown’s comments
1:00 Steve Kerr’s press conference
1:45 Stephen A.’s thoughts on the blowout
3:30 Andraya’s thoughts on the Celtics’ win
5:00 Steve Kerr can’t “have it both ways”
7:00 “It’s only 24 minutes!”
9:00 The Warriors were dejected?

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