Celtics survive Game 1, Redick has Riley-level potential, Knicks roster | NBA | THE HERD

Celtics survive Game 1, Redick has Riley-level potential, Knicks roster | NBA | THE HERD

I do not like how I’m being positioned Rachel on this show but I I I will say I I said this to start the show is the Celtics are nothing if not a little strange historically yes they are a kind of almost a well by their standards a bad home playoff team eight of the last 11 losses they’ve had have been at home okay um I I don’t know if they’re well coached although the staff is better Tatum has moments where he disappears um and I don’t love Al Horford taking 123 so sometimes Charles Barkley’s touched on this what is that offense you know I said this a year ago I thought Denver could be a dynasty still could be but I but I knew what they were well coached run through joic good defensively great at home Murray a late game shot maker yep I still don’t know what the Celtics are in the fourth quarter I mean they’re gonna look different when Chris porzingis no especially defensively he can help 100% here’s the thing about last night there’s no doubt the Pacers choked away that game no question boneheaded decision after boneheaded decision Rick Carell came out and said after the loss he said oh this is my fault and people kind of were like oh he’s just covering for his players no no no he’s right because they were up when he did not call a timeout to inbound the ball where he could have advanced it and then there is no Jaylen Brown shot there’s none of that that happens and you foul someone and you get two shots and you’re up by three and it doesn’t matter so there was just boneheaded stuff all the way around however just because the Pacers choked their chance away doesn’t mean I hate this narrative they handed it to the Celtics there is nothing about the way the Celtics have played in the biggest moments at the end of games they gave people oh that’s an automatic that’s just faith we have criticized them over and over again even though their clutch numbers are generally pretty good situationally when it’s comes to when it really counts they’ve been a bit discombobulated and that didn’t happen you talk about this Jaylen Brown shot yeah Jaylen is a 22% shooter on Corner threes this playoffs that was not a gimme yeah right and and you look at Jason Tatum who made that shot that you guys are talking about with one minute to go in overtime he didn’t make those shots throughout most of that game and yet there he was at the end so I I just think when you look at them and you say who what is this offense who is this team they’re obviously still figuring it out but I have to give them credit for figuring out more last night after not playing a very good regular you know in regulation game that they actually came together and did what they keep saying they are which is an elite team and I I just think that we’re starting to see it um Chris Finch talked about this um I’m old enough in the 70s it was a lot of good teams Sixers Blazers Sonics Warriors at the time Washington Bullets Elvin Hayes and uh you know Wes unseld and Kevin gevy um a lot of good teams no great ones um I feel like the talent now because of the international Surplus is the best it’s ever been but it’s all spread out and and part of this I think Rachel I’ll throw this at you when I travel overseas I know I’m a guest I stay where I stay I everything’s planned I don’t get distracted I stay on when Internationals players come over here they don’t move around a lot they pick a team they’re loyal you don’t get this hey let’s join the country club let’s join the super team right that’s kind of a domestic Player thing they feel like this is ours I I feel like that International Players Giannis can threaten get me Dame but he’s still a buck and I think the good news for the league is that creates parody yep his players are Luca wants to stay in Dallas forever and off season he’s going to go do his thing so is joic they have a full life over there but I I do think the League’s more talented but I think it’s all I think it’s an all-time high for parody absolutely I don’t think there’s any question you know we talk about Bill Russell and all the titles he won and when we got to the Michael Jordan era there was no one who thought man Michael should have won 11 right the league was so different the number of teams was different the amount of parody was different Michael Jordan won six titles I do not think that anyone else following behind him one now that we’ve reached this stage can win six titles I don’t think it’s available because as you say the international players have raised the level of the game it’s kind of like integrating baseball when you know you have a much you have an influx of guys who are very good coming into the league the ground rules are going to change right and we have had this you know look at look at the last MVPs look at the finalists for MVP this year none of them are American and I’m not saying we’re never going to get another American MVP I think you know there’s there’s some candidates who are going to be playing tonight who who could end up there but I I just I I don’t think anyone can win six anymore and that parody makes it more exciting for all of us yeah the um the t-wolves Mavs it is Dallas deserves credit twofold they took a big swing on Kyrie bumpy early but now it works and they took a big swing at the trade deadline big and we have said for years aggressive mostly wins in sports even if the Russell Wilson thing fails because you get such a surplus of draft talent in football can Rec very quickly if you find the right guy but um a year ago I didn’t like Brunson is taken over New York right Kyrie’s being Kyrie they can’t defend the rim I don’t know I think Dallas matches up pretty well with Minnesota yeah I I think it’s going to be a fantastic series I mean this is definitely the series of the playoffs at this point and when you look at what Dallas is done I don’t think there was a comfort level with Kyrie and Luca he came so late in the season and there were injures and I just don’t think they ever got there where they knew who was going to go when and there was a lot of my turn your turn and all of that stuff and Kyrie did look around a little bit over the summer when he was a free agent but the Mavs made it clear from the minute he walked in the door you are our guy we traded for you and gave up a bunch of stuff for you even though you have an expiring contract that’s how much faith we have in you Jason kid who has been Kyrie’s Idol for so long Kyrie Irving went to Jason kids Hall of Fame induction not because at that point they had a special relationship just because he was like this is my favorite player and I want to see him in the Hall of Fame I mean Jason didn’t invite him he just showed up so it’s work so the fact that this has worked for them has been so great and they did take a huge swing at the trade deadline because they mortgaged a lot for these guys and so far they have come through my question is can the role players continue to play as well as they did in the last series in this series because you needed Derrick Jones Jr or PJ Washington to tip in at least 19 points a night and PJ had an spectacular end of game six but he was shooting 20s something per before the final minutes so he can’t do that in this game tonight he can’t do that for the series so we’ll see if the role players can play Above their heads again and then Dallas has real shot at it so um there’s a story out there and I don’t think it’s that far-fetched that the Lakers think reck has a Pat Riley Vibe I don’t know man I don’t buy any of it first of all I mean you’re not going to get the godfather look in the Armani suits that you’re not JJ’s a very sharp dresser but I’m just saying uh just in terms of how prepared they are for the league JJ reick is going to be an excellent head coach I I just believe that I think he will be a head coach and I think he will be very good at it however to compare him to Pat Riley who not only when he was in broadcasting he broadcasted locally for the Lakers yeah so he watched that team he played for that team and then he watched that team every night night in and night out he knew the guys super well everybody was very familiar with each other and then he became an assistant coach he was an assistant coach for Two Plus Seasons before he took over that’s the biggest knock on JJ I think everyone knows how good he’s going to be it’s just can you walk into being a head coach of a team with two superstars that needs to win now if you have no experience that was not Pat Riley Pat Riley had experience he was on that bench he was in the locker room he was in the coaches meetings and I I just don’t see the Ono one yeah uh I get that good point the um we’ve said before that it’s because of the mobility of the league Rachel Nichols for our radio audience um it is hard to create a culture so uh Miami did it with dwade and they had Shaq come in and LeBron come in but they maintain their culture I mean they did it with Lonzo morning off the bat right yep and haslum was part of it even even when he in later in his career and then dwade leaves and Pat’s like we gotta we got to go find a dwade type player they get Jimmy Butler right who leans into that sort of tough gritty when the red lights on I’m great so I think the warriors with Steve Kerr started with Mark Jackson but Steve Kerr there was a culture um catch and react it’s it’s a pretty high IQ offense young people could struggle but they did well poaching veterans and getting them to work there’s not another team in the league where I watch them play and think oh that’s a culture more than Nicks M it’s a Villanova thing it’s a tib thing and they sort of feed off each other yep and so I think we realize they need another skill player Julius Randall playoff history is not ideal y but you you can’t screw up the culture well that who they’re going to bring in is going to be so important and I do think they need to bring someone else in and I think they will bring someone else in I see that Devon Booker talk I don’t see Phoenix trading Deon Booker so I I just I don’t think that’s a realistic path to go down M bridges on the other hand talk about culture he is a Villanova guy I mean those guys love each other they play for each other it gives them that feel of that college team I don’t know if you can pry him away but he would be a great fit there so I wouldn’t have to give up as much no no I I I like that move um you know they’ve talked about Demar de rozan I think you got to look around the Bulls roster I think Zack LaVine would be an interesting you know fit there I don’t know for sure that he’s a tibs guy but I do know that he has never been put in the position in Chicago to really be his full potential and I just think it’s been a crummy situation from him for him the entire time he’s been there and I would be interested to see whether he could stand up physically to a tib season and how he would do there because man he’s got height he’s he’s such a shot maker he would space the floor completely differently take some of the pressure off Jaylen brunon you know to be the 40o guy every single night I think there are options for the Knicks that aren’t necessarily the bring down of IM not going to happen bring Deon Booker in don’t see it happening there are guys around the league who you could go out and get who I think would really fit in there and it’s a credit to the front office as you say that they built a team around tibs they knew who they had and they built a team that could be in his character the other thing about the Knicks they’re not devoid of talent brunson’s clearly an A Mitchell Robinson can protect the rim I think I know he was a bounce around the league guy but Dante de venzo has become an excellent catch and shoot three-point guy like really good OG’s a Baler so it’s not like in the East you don’t have to have KD yeah so the male Bridges thing a lot of people will push back and say it’s not enough and my takeaway is it does add to the culture there’s no you with got some size too by the way compared to those Villanova teammates that they with the Knicks right now um Can Indiana make it a series I was saying they’re long they’re deep they’re good offensively and they have a coach with experience and watched that last night I’m like okay I’ve got to stop giving the Celtics this credit and I’m like when you’re such an underdog so the Pacers weren’t a big Underdog with New York but when you’re going in as a huge Underdog kind of loose certainly deep healthy I mean I I I I watched that last night and I thought okay Boston’s going to win the series but oh it could go six right yeah no I I think this series absolutely could go six games and and that won’t be because the Celtics fell apart it will be because the Pacers are a legitimate team a and yes they are an underdog in this series there’s no question about that but the way they play as we saw last night and they kind of gave away last night they were really sloppy really slpp absolutely 100% gave away last night but you heard after the game the Celtics players saying we got to get with that pace we we got to play faster we got to get with that pace that is what the Pacers do to you I mean they play like every player is physically on fire in the middle of a tornado it is hectic it is chaotic it is quick and if you can’t keep up with that you are going to have a problem and the Pacers are younger and and they’ve shown themselves to be durable and they’re they have deep bench so I I think I don’t think this is a walkover but I also think the Celtics win yeah porzingis didn’t feel to me vital going into it and then I watch seak work Al Horford and I’m like they need porzingis yeah to close it out they yeah because remember Indiana is a very good home team y uh Rachel Nicholls as always great seeing you thank you hi everybody it’s me me Uncle Colin subscribe here to get the latest from the herd 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