Stephen A. & Shannon Sharpe VERY ANIMATED over the Celtics NOT being tested?! | First Take

Stephen A. & Shannon Sharpe VERY ANIMATED over the Celtics NOT being tested?! | First Take

before we move on there’s never been a season where both Conference Finals ended in a sweep but we know that’s what Boston’s going for as well game for the Eastern Conference Finals is tonight in Indie and the seas are hoping to bring out the brooms on the Pacers home floor Boston can punch their ticket to the NBA finals with one more Win Brown averaging 30 points per game in the series while Tatum has 31.7 they’re the second Duo to each averaged 30 points through the first three games of the Conference Division finals all time joining Hall of Famer Jerry and Elgen Baylor who did it three times in the 60s all right Shay you’re up first here mhm are you concerned that the Celtics haven’t been tested enough they’ve been really good well teams have been really bad especially the Indiana Pacers have been really bad in the clutch situation right now honestly Stephen A the Pacers should be up 21 they gave game one away they gave game three away give the Boston Celtics credit for hanging in there and finding ways to make shots down the stretch uh holiday has been holiday when he needed to make a big play defens he’s done he’s done it we’ve seen him in the NBA Finals when he took the ball out of book’s hand we saw him in game one when he forced uh Halle Burton to dribble the ball out of bounds and we saw what he did against Nim hard the other night yeah I they’re not going to be able to get away if you go down 18 to the Dallas Mavericks you’re not coming back you go down eight and the fourth quarter against the Dallas Mavericks with those two outstanding ball handlers now you got a very good defensive back court with holiday and Derek white holiday is going to have his handful with Luca Derek White’s going to have his handful with with Kyrie but I think the thing is for me is that maybe because they’ve been in these situations before Jason Tatum is starting to look like JT yeah Jaylen Brown has been solid throughout the playoffs there I got no GES about the and averaging 31 this series got no gripes about JB the way he’s played now you get Jason Tatum starting to be efficient had a 30 had a 36 12 8 with zero turnovers he’s starting to look like Jason Tatum he’s starting to look like one of the two or three best players in the NBA but I am a little concerned they kind they kind of died some bullets I mean you look at the Knicks got injured you got Joel andb get injured you got Jimmy Butler get injured you get Donovan Mitchell missed the last two games of the series they had no Jared Allen throughout the entirety of the series and now Tyrese halberton goes down so they they’ve kind of had a easy uh easy uh run of this thing but I don’t like the what I’m seeing because they keep falling behind by 15 and relying on on shot making three-point shots to get them back in the ball game I don’t know if they’re going to be able to do this against the Dallas Mavericks I mean me personally I I want to be tested before I get to the finals I want to find out who’s with me I want to know who going to get in that fox hole and when things get tough you going to be right there so you definitely don’t want to get to the finals before you get tested the reason why they’ve gotten the path that they have is just because injuries it’s no fault of their own Le give them credit for walking through the door cuz Indi definitely left It Wide Open they definitely left It Wide Open well let me say this to you when I think about the Celtics I first of all you are tested when you go through some tight games yes all right so Indiana gave them some tight games like game one you’re absolutely right it was theirs they should have won that game I’m not going to give them game three you up by 18 Boston came and took it Boston came and took it you up by eight and the fourth Boston came and took it Boston saw I mean listen Derek white big time three Al Horford big time three Jason Tatum big time three you know JB going to the whole K Boston elevated their level of play and came and they said wait a minute Hal Burton is out plus we had a better team let’s stop playing games with y’all let’s let’s let’s close the TJ McConnell was fantastic them hard was fantastic but they ain’t on our level let enough’s enough and they went and took it game one is the game you blue I don’t I don’t look at game three that way but I will say this Boston concerns me because it’s too much oneon-one UD it’s not JB and JT feeding off of each other it’s your turn my turn your turn my turn okay and I’m looking at it from that standpoint and I’m saying I’m looking at the way Luca and Kyrie are feeding off of one another I’m looking at how they’re feeding the other guys you know PJ Washington you know if he’s making shots the the way he’s been making shots I think Dallas going to win the championship yeah if he listen I picked Minnesota to win the series in seven games I can’t believe what I’m seeing from them but I’m also very very happy you I don’t mind seeing Luka and Kyrie please I ain’t depressed about that I’m just looking at it because I thought Luka was hurt and I thought that as a as a as a playoffs Wayne attrition would kick in because there’s a lot to ask of him but he’s just phenomenal I’m saying about Boston I don’t like what I’m seeing in terms of too much one-on-one play and Dallas’s defense has shown me you’re not going to be able to beat them playing that way Jason kid has shown me he’s too good of a coach to let you take advantage of his team just off of your talent schematically and how you work together cohesively is what will knock off the Dallas Mavericks nothing less and I don’t see that enough from Boston The Bigs from Dallas have played better than I thought they were Gaff and Lively Lively the second Daniel Gafford has done an unbelievable job PJ Washington dere have done a great job of Defending on the perimeter and those two bigs are very very active they do a great job of protecting the rim and so that’s they do a lot of uh uh uh you do you were saying why don’t they put Kyrie and Luca in more action those bigs do a great job of being active once you get past the initial defense they do a great job of that and but they put so much pressure on you on the other end this will be a great matchup the question I have will Kristopher zingis be back and how healthy will he be because he’s the guy that unlock JT and JB okay J I’m coming to you with this I’m coming to you bro okay um you played you’ve been in this league all of these years you know where I’m going when they talk about porzingis sh Shay they don’t talk about just his house they talk about this just like Anthony Edwards you know I mean open that Pandora box there’s a Pandora box that’s automatic Al opened if Boston meets Dallas and that is porzingis in a relationship with donic which ultimately led to him to part with you see Don talking to Anthony Edwards you see him talking to R go now imagine what he’s going to do against it’s going to be person for and the C tied the Boston situation that’s right so I’m just saying it it it’s a lot now don’t we don’t want to be presumptuous but damn it 3030 ain’t nobody come back 154 and0 in NBA history when up three in the confence I mean we the only guy that could made that possible be go we believe you remember he did it 31 was it stop it know what he does go there go any excuse to mentioning a goat in Lebron what he does you what he does I’ve been seeing that for a long time you I could say the only man that could make that possible was God but I should have known he went go James I had a feeling he were going to say that yeah absolutely What What In hey kyri hey look I was on the island by myself I watched everybody I’m the only one that pick the Dallas marage against Minnesota that’s fair but we thought that L ganic was hurt bro you thought that yeah ankle knee everything bro you look healthy to me he right now I know that what they going do about Kito you called it you it we got to leave it 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On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Udonis Haslem join Molly Qerim to discuss the Boston Celtics’ commanding 3-0 series lead over the Indiana Pacers.

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