Sixringsofsteel: Outsider’s View of Celtics and Joe Mazzulla’s Wild Quotes | How ‘Bout Them Celtics
These guys are ridiculous these guys are ridiculous now how about them damn Celtics and we are back with another episode of how about them Celtics Sam here recording Wednesday February 21st with some Celtics talk as you’re listening to this the Celtics take on the Bulls tonight Celtics basketball is
Back baby back I’m very excited sitting here watching highlights all week now we’re gonna actually game far too long but it’s not going to be just us today we had a guest on the show six rings of Steel uh YouTuber his name is Matt great guy I’ve watched his videos for years
Since I was in high school um he does rebuilds does 2K videos has another Channel called Sr which six rings of Steel um where he gives his takes on NBA plays quiz games like he’s awesome uh we followed each other on Twitter for a
Little bit so I asked him to be on the Pod he said yeah so he came on had a great discussion it was a good time uh yeah we’re gon to get into that interview now and then you’ll catch up with us after that for the rest of the show
All right it’s my pleasure to welcome in Matt six rings of Steel you may know him from YouTube you may know him from Twitter know I’m all over the NBA sphere Matt thank you for joining how about them Celtics how are you doing today I’m good man thanks Jack thanks Sam for
Having me on I’m excited to talk about uh your guys in Celtics today I feel like it’ll be different point of view from what I usually talk about and uh I’m interested to see what you guys have to complain about the best team in the
NBA Matt I got to say this is weird because I have been watching your videos for like years like since I was in high school so like this is very weird for me to like like be speaking to you right now cuz I usually just like listen to
You through the screen so uh thank you for jumping on the show we appreciate it very much uh and that’s dope and I know you just went to YouTube fulltime recently I saw your video on that so uh congrats how’s that been going having fun you know obviously six rings of
Steal is right on the screen but like how’s that been yeah thanks man I appreciate that a lot um and it’s crazy because I I recently just hit like my 10th year on YouTube and it’s kind of weird makes me feel old a little bit because I started like 2014 but it’s
Been good I think like the best part uh has just been kind of like making my own schedule and kind of working my own hours and it’s cool to like kind of devote everything and like we all have to talk about NBA so it’s pretty cool to
Like talk about that on a more consistent basis honestly hell yeah me Jack you understand that yeah making your schedule I do freelance writing for living so it’s not quite as cool as all the MBA stuff that you get to do but I try my best we’ll get there one day you
Know we’re work we’re working towards it but um I figure we can start pretty General uh the Celtics obviously 43 and 12 going into the break as I pull up the standings to make sure I didn’t mess up the record of the team that I cover 43
And 12 heading into the break General thoughts on the team obviously they’ve been the best team in the east at the very least by a wide margin they have a four um game lead up on the timber rolls for best record in the NBA from an Outsiders perspective what’s impressed
You about the Celtics if anything what do you think there there to be concerned about Boston s are pretty harsh but from your perspective what are you liking about the team what are your thoughts yeah I think like straight out of the gate I’m sure like I guess this is old
News to you guys but just being able to watch Drew holiday and Dereck white defensively in the back part I mean I was just kind of going back to like the beginning of the year being able to watch them and I know when they played the Knicks like I’ll follow that closely
As a Knicks fan and you have to worry about one insane point of attack defender in Drew holiday and then pairing him up with Derek white specifically has been honestly like super fun to watch and then obviously you’re getting your your typical production from the Jays um I guess
Maybe nothing has changed too much like from year over year from Tatum and brown specifically but they’re still both playing a completely high level and then just adding chrisop porzingis into that fold as well just someone that’s been sometimes I feel like an elite rim protector this year and then also being
A consistent three-point shooter and then I know he’s dealt with some injuries this year at least kind of sometime off but relatively healthy I mean it’s not like been too scary um anything out of there and just having five borderline Allstar guys out there at the same time in the closing Five has
To be so much fun to watch and I feel like you can rally behind that five and it’s the best probably fiveman group you can have out there in the NBA and I know a question I want to ask you guys like later uh in this but I do Wonder like
It’s probably the Celtics Eastern Conference at the end of the day um obviously playoffs are different Beast um rotations kind of get limited guys will be played off the floor and I guess the big uh weakness for the Celtics has been their depth this year but I guess
You have to feel as good as any other year I know it’s been same old story with the Celtics kind of like not being able to get it done obviously got very close in 22 but you never had Chris Al inas into holiday with this course so
I’m very intrigued to see what it looks like in uh it was funny you mentioned 22 I think about 22 often yesterday I was getting coffee I was just sitting there thinking about it it’s an Jack I texted you what four months ago just like midnight I was
Like I can’t believe that like I can’t believe that they lost the game like July on right it’s it’s that’s usually when I think about it the most I’m just like wow like that that’s what happened this week Allstar break I don’t have anything going on and I’m just like damn
They they should have won they should have the job yeah for me I can’t really KS like the Knicks haven’t had much success but like the Celtics are going to be here for a little bit and they have been but like my comparison to that
Is like I’m a Mets fan in 2015 they lost the world series of the Royals and never got back and I always think about it and it’s just like they were’re so close to getting it done and it’s painful but at least your core is still very young at
Least so this I think should be here for a little bit they better yeah they got some time for sure last year built you up just to kill you at the end last year’s was I know Sam talks about it all the time so we didn’t start doing like daily
Videos on the channel till like after the playoff run but there was a point in the playoffs last year was after the Celtics lost game five to Philly and it looked like they were cooked that we got into such a big fight because we were
Both so mad after the game that we just like stopped the recording and like didn’t keep going like we were just mad at each other when we really mad at the team and so like I said Boston fans find stuff to complain about and it trickles down through everything and so as an
Outsider I have some topics here okay that Celtics fans have managed to complain about this season whether it be players whether it be part of the team from people who cover other teams and are fans of other teams you look at the Celtics like they’re 43 12 you have
Nothing to they find stuff yeah um and I don’t get it right because top of the list something I’ve seen almost more than anything else people hate Luke cornet and that does like it’s just it you laugh but like you’d be shocked how many people and for third string big he
Might be the most talked about third string big in the league because there’s nothing Celtics fans love more than to uh complain about Luke cor I know he’s in he was in New York for a little bit so you probably to watch him um like as a Knicks fan are you complaining about
Jericho Sims a lot like do you care that much about your third string Pig like like is this a normal thing like I don’t I don’t it doesn’t make sense to us and I’m curious if that is like relevant in any capacity no yeah I think it’s like
An outside guy looking into like your guys’ fan base I think everything has just gone so well from you guys like you got to find something to talk about and it’s not going to be all like sunshin and R throughout the whole season so we got to you’re not going to talk about
Anybody the starting five you’re not gonna talk about maybe a Horford as much or just the team success so you got to talk about luk cornette I mean somebody that’s like he’s a third string Bank he is I mean I guess when uh tomman healthy he’ll probably just kind of eliminate
Him from the rotation or at least dig into those minutes a little bit but cornette is probably not going to play in the playoffs or if he does it’s going to be in very minimal capacity um in maybe round one or round two so I really
Wouldn’t have to worry about him to much specifically um because I guess you’re not really getting much um I don’t know like do you guys think he’s as bad as a Defender as people will talk about no he’s a good def he’s good yeah and I feel like it’s all situational too like
You’re not gonna have to rely on him guarding a beid when it matters or joic or whatever it’s gonna be he’s not gonna be on the floor so it’s very minuscule and people talk about that did you think ask about Luke cornette on this podcast not yeah the way I look at
Cornette and I I say it to Jack all the time is if you don’t notice him it’s great he’s doing his job that’s all supposed to do if you notice him for the right reasons it’s even better very rarely are you like wow Luke cornet is
Really hurting the team it just does not happen he’s not asked to do enough yeah I I agree and I think like I don’t even so I guess yeah like I I’m trying to kind of like looking at the rotational minutes I I can’t see him playing meaningful minutes in the
Playoffs either he’s just to get you through the regular season just another body out there it’s un be shocked yeah like they’ll be here today like comments they’re gonna be like I hate Luke cornette like can’t wait for tomman debut I will never have to watch him
Again I had to do a whole segment on the podcast because we had a comment saying notice how Jack only talks about Luke cornette when he does something good he didn’t do anything tonight no rebounds no points I’m like he played 11 [ __ ] minutes what like what like what do you
Mean I don’t talk about it’s because he didn’t do anything relevant like what it just uh it doesn’t make any sense but yeah no I was going to say too like um I I feel like it’s going to happen with anyone like Tillman’s going to come in
He’s going to take some dumb shots for a big man and you like the whole fan base will probably hate him in three weeks so it’s only people were excited about him because he hasn’t played yet they’ll find something that’s how it goes they always find something um okay this next
Thing something Sam and I have thought about ad nauseum on this podcast before uh is Jason Tatum shot selection as bad to an outsider as it is to some Celtics fans oh to be honest it kind of is to me sometimes it’s it’s I feel like it’s
Very sporadic though when I think about that and I feel like a lot of the Tatum games I do watch is not as close as you guys and it’s probably more nationally televised or maybe it’s like a game that’s specifically on at a certain point but I feel like when he has those
Inefficient games it drives you probably even more crazy and it’s like obviously and like I just feel like it is spaic and it’s it’s a little like unorthodox and it’s like for his skill and how efficient he could be at the rim and I feel like he maybe gets a little three
Happy and he ends up doing that over time so I could see where the frustration would come from at least as an outsider for sure yeah I mean that that’s the angle from us in a nutshell but it’s funny because you know this week there’s been
A ton of talk about should Tatum be the MVP he came out he says he’s the best player in the league um you know there was the athletic piece where you know they talked about him being one of the faces of the league going forward but
Does it feel like he’s had an MVP season because we had this discussion on the weekend and the argument Jack made to me which I think is very fair is I’m watching every single game and I’m nitpicking but there was like a month and a half there where I didn’t think he
Was great like is that the same feel that people are that aren’t dissecting every Celtics game get from the outside yeah I think for me I never considered Tatum to be like maybe in the top three in MVP I guess it’s a little bit more now with like obviously embid completely
Out of the race and I think right like at the end of the day like I I was always someone that was like pretty consistent with it I’m cool with it going to the best player on the best team where they should be a top two team
In their conference and that is the Celtics I guess which would hurt him a little bit is just because of how good the team is overall um but I I think I think he would be probably the like I think he has just a good enough a debate as probably Giannis
I mean just because there’s an eight win like discrepancy between the two teams and I think that should matter at the end of the day um what I say he’s been like the most valuable play to his team this season I guess not um if you look
At what like maybe Shay has done in OKC and yic in Denver um and even Donovan Mitchell in Cleveland so I guess like that could have a pretty good debate as well but I think I’m cool with Tatum also being in the conversation and if he
Won it I honestly wouldn’t be too upset I think there’s some other players like I think I’d actually be less upset if Tatum won it than if Luca won it just because of like the seating I just don’t like MVPs going to six seeds and below I
Was always like BR Harden in I think it was 20 uh it was 2018 when Russ won it or no was it 20 2017 when Russ woned and I was always like I thought Harden should have won it because he was a six seed in
OKC yeah you and Sam same well this is even in one of the things that I was going to ask but you brought it up you seem like you’re a very winning over everything guy which is Sam and toti and I I I agree a lot of the fan base too
Yeah a lot of the fan base my question should the Celtics have had three Allstars uh no I was never on that wave I honestly thought it was gonna be pretty cool oh I honestly think it was tough because I remember talking about it a little bit I think like a month ago
And I was like wondering I was like Jain Brown’s got to get in but then there was a lot of guys that I thought like are On The Fringe and I guess maybe since the Hawks like kind of fell off a cliff it kind of helped Brown’s case over like
Trey young but then Paulo kind of struggled I was like all right Brown’s got to over Paulo I don’t think definitely not off the initial run should they’ve had three All Stars Scotty is the thing where I’m like yeah I would say WIS blow like I know I get
That I guess it’s the getting your first All-Star to the Celtics third and I guess I was okay with Scotty getting it over I would you give it to Derrick White or would you have given it to christops I would have said Derek white and Sam christs so we were both Jack
Jack is all he was all in on the allar campaign I think it was deserved I think the hype was very valid like make no mistake but I’m just sitting here watch watching christops dominate games at times and I’m just like this guy rules
But he he missed a ton of games too so uh that’s fair and I think like Derek white is such like like a like he’s such an important player that like doesn’t always show up in the box score and I think like at the end of the day that’s
Not what the All-Star game is about it’s like the most exciting players so like if you’re talking about like pure talent I think white is more important to like their team than some other guys would be but like for Allstar specifically I was just like points matter people want to
See the most exciting guys I don’t think he was gonna end up ever being an All-Star well my my thing at that point is like from a completely unbiased perspective as I I try to be sometimes uh Scotty getting in over like why did he get in over Jimmy Butler or Kobe
White or like another guy from one of these better teams like I I get like Adam Silver Silver’s probably like all right let’s get Canada involved in the austar game let’s have them pay attention but like I don’t I just I can’t remember the last time a a player
Made it on a team that far below 500 the last thing I I think was close was like voo when he made it with the magic but even they I think they were a little bit better than what this team is now it was
Just it was a little too far off for me to be like yeah sure I’ll let Scotty creep in there yeah no that reminded me of when like I think it was a debate with Bradley Beal in like 2019 maybe around there 30 yeah he was but they
Were so bad like around that time it might have been Beal or I guess maybe that was like last year Trey young I he was yeah right he was in that conversation at one point yeah so bad and yeah your team’s just not as good so
I I I kind of get the Scotty Barnes thing but I guess like at the end of the day I think it’s cool to like a team just get at least one All-Star in instead of like three but I get the reasoning for wanting like you can make
A great argument that wher chrisop deserved it more than Barnes for sure it’s also bias it’s I get bias yeah I I was like can we get OG anobi in there as well just in there Nicks have been NY we have they could have threw him in there
Because he’s he’s got the surgery I know right just and then get another injury right we have a uh we do a pregame show before every game and we have one chatter who is a Die Hard Nicks fan and so it’s got to the point where we have
To have an overlay that just says on the screen not a podcast because we have to like explain to him like we appreciate you I know the Knicks are great but like I don’t know the NFL season is wrapping up and there’s still time to get in on
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Different has this Nicks team been like how much of a joy is have been to watch this version of the Knicks after like I’ll just say it like what you had to go through over the horrible horrible like I got I think I I became a next like 06
They were good in 12 and 13 and that was it and then we had the random year1 but it’s it’s nice that they were like I actually think like last year when Miami beat Milwaukee round one I was like oh my God like there’s a chance there’s a
Chance this team could end up in the Eastern Conference Finals um and I think like I’m I wouldn’t be totally surprised if they that happened this year uh they got to get fully healthy because I think like Randall it’s like up in the air if he wants to get like surgery or anything
Um which would obviously like eliminate any chance at them advancing the playoffs but I don’t know it’s exciting like it’s just the fact that you go through like the top eight or nine guys and it’s very deep and them getting like boam bogdanovich and he’s like the sixth
Most important guy on the team this year definitely gets me excited a little bit and obviously I’ve been um just I I’ve been a fan of some really bad Knicks teams that have shown up in in recent memory or just kind of like on Twitter I’m just seeing like the Alexis chevet
And like the Lua mson and like these horrible lineups that won like 20 games and 25 games and this is like February and I know the season over so it’s very nice that the Knicks are at least going to be competitive and I think like uh adding anobi and adding like boan and
Maybe like just getting Mitchell Robinson back like this team I think like I’m gonna be biased like think that they can go to Toe totoe with anybody but I think that they they’re like top two in the East when the playoffs start no but I do think that there’s a realm
Or a possibility where like they could end up in the finals they could be like this year’s like 2020 heater even last year’s heat but a different seating wise so randle’s good that that’s a point of contention Sam hates Sam hat I don’t hate jul think he’s very
Good spin around and fumble around and I say I can’t believe he puts the ball in the basket dude yeah my my tweets from 21 and just like my videos I I bash the guy so much and he was so bad in the 21 playoffs he was so bad last year the
Only thing that makes it a little bit better now is that Brunson is like the clear one so it’s a little bit easier to watch Randall at times as a number two than he was as a number one because that was a mess um but he’s he’s been good
This year but like he’s not shown up in the playoffs in the Knick’s uniform so I’ll believe it when I see it so we got to see what happens this year danced on the grave to start the season this year I was pumped I was like I was right I
Told you for years and years this guy is not good and then like he slowly but surely came along and we just stopped talking and you’re like how does it go in it just it’s not pretty at the time there’s a winner he had against the Heat last
Year and I was just like I can’t believe that happened like i’ would be devastated if that happened to my team yeah if you like you’ll talk about tatm shot selection his is on another planet of just disgusting like he’s got a top he has to stop taking a lot of Threes at
Times um but he’s a good offensive player in like a vacuum but the dude is not a great defensive player and he doesn’t hustle a lot and now he’s got a bum shoulder so we’ll see what happens yeah tough uh I know it’s like it’s it’s very early in his Nick’s tenure where
Does Brunson rake on your favorite Nick of all time like I know you said you’ve been watching some it’s got to be up there right already like it’s got to be pretty close to like we’re sneaking there yeah no I I’ll talk about this with like my dad or like other Nicks
Fans like like my friends and like to be honest with you like I vividly like remember Melo like just as like a 12-year-old 13-year-old and they never made it like they made it to round two lost to the Pacers in I think it was 12
Or 13 and I want to say that brunson’s the best Nick I’ve ever seen which is I guess said in a case because like Brunson would be like the ninth or 10th best player you guys have ever seen in Celtics history but like for me he’s up
It’s either him or Melo he’s gonna pass Melo very soon favorite wise he’s probably up there like I always like have like a like a soft spot for like the guys that got me to Nick’s best like Crawford or David will a Robinson which
Is so sad to say like out loud like that is so respect we dove in after they uh traded The Big Three what year did you guys become like I guess like very close Celtics fans like where you’re like all right I’m now die hard right after the big three okay
13 in the playoffs was a lot of fun like the the game where they almost stormed back against the Knicks was really the one that I was like okay this is fantastic okay okay so yeah you guys I guess like I mean the Celtics they wer I
Guess I mean they were still respectable I mean and especially when they got like it and they had smart and Bradley yeah but they yeah they I mean I know like well he’s Brunson pretty much like except brunson’s a little bigger and can play a little bit more defense but like
It’s the same type of like everybody has respect for him as a fan base like they love him to death they truly Embrace him totally and it has a very Isaiah feel to it so no I I could definitely see that um yeah so and then I guess yeah I mean
That trade also like best thing ever for you guys like Just Landing Brown and Tatum throughout it and now you have two superstars so like I don’t know yeah Brunson he’s up there he’s he’s probably in the top three and probably by the end of his next 10 year he’ll be number one
Yeah that makes a ton of sense all right so this is like a transition one Celtics fans [ __ ] hate Joe moula and I don’t get it it doesn’t like I think it’s because there’s this dichotomy of like em odoko took him to the finals and now they had
To get replaced which like I mean Joe mouu was thrown head first into the deep end of a pool he wasn’t ready to swim in yet like what do you expect from him like he had never been on the front line of a bench and then he was the head
Coach of the best team in the NBA and they made game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals like I don’t know maybe give him a little bit of a break but they hate him to this day and I think he’s been really good this year curious to know your thoughts he is
Quite the character yeah I think yeah like you said like he was he’s incredibly young too he’s like in his mid-30s and he won uh what was it 57 games last year like you said game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals pretty good and then a complet new roster kind
Of this year at least with like holiday and um and christops coming in and no longer having like Marcus smarter or Malcolm Brogden like it’s a tough ass and they’re still like chugging along throughout the Eastern Conference over 30 games above 500 I mean I guess like
When you guys watch it like maybe there’s some frustrations with like I don’t know if there’s any frustrations with rotations or anything like that because I know that’s what people can kind of hate about I know a lot of Nicks fans hate that about tib specifically and I’ll hear that about other head
Coaches but I mean from an outsider I think like he’s done fine I don’t think he’s done bad enough where he should get a lot of hate and maybe if you guys were like a round one exit or round two exit I could see that coming from but I don’t
Know I I think he’s you could have a lot worse head coaches in this league I think you can have the Milwaukee Bucks new head coach and you’d be a lot more upset about your team so I think miza is fine um I don’t think would have a
Reason to like like Sound the Alarm like this guy’s gotta go because then like who you replacing him with another like rookie head coach there’s not a lot of good veterans out there yeah right I’m sure you guys would love that they they would love that the ownership group they
The the social team would be Plastering 2008 videos all they would they would roll it out in full force they would get everybody on board they would sell it so hard to everybody yeah because I’m like what yeah what better coaches are there out there and if you go through I guess
Like I don’t know like the NBA there’s a lot of weird coaches and then like obviously it just ends up getting like they’re the number one scapegoat whenever your team is disappointing it’s always the head coach it comes back to but at the end of the day I don’t know
They’re not really the ones out there so like I don’t know I think moua’s been fine and I I don’t think I would really be too upset with him right now I guess you gota at least see the playoffs give him a chance yeah yeah I’ve I’ve always
Been on the lazy take to blame the coach train so yeah no definitely because like like I think you also got to appreciate having like a like some stability as your head coach too because like the Knicks like tibs is I don’t think like an elite head coach but he’s still like
An above average head coach for sure and I think like I’ll just bring it back to Nick sorry about that making it all about the Knicks but um I think when you have a head coach for a couple years it’s nice to have some stability there
And I guess you guys had that for such a long time with Brad Stevens and then there was the thing with Oka so I think like yeah give m a chance and have him like just become more experienced under like under his belt just since he’s so young
Already another thing like going into the the summer we were all like is he going to get fired is he not going to get fired and then they come back from three 0 so they really couldn’t fire him after that but it would have been four
Coaches in Four Seasons with a team of stars that really was ready to compete you can’t keep changing up on him like that you’re absolutely right no definitely I’m trying to look up the timeline I think it I mean it was definitely happened before like obviously I’m sure you guys would have
Liked or the fan basee would have loved like will hardy being like initiated into the head coach but that happened way before right then the whole yes You’ never have known that specifically so I think M has done F job and they brought in new assistant this
Year too right from last year yeah Cel and Charles Le yeah Avengers on the bench now I don’t know how much you’ve paid attention to missoula’s quote game now I’ll give you an example so I’m I’m at the Celtics CS I’m in the press conferences and stuff MH John carrales
Who reads for Boston Sports Journal he also locked on Celtics he he asked something about the team how good they’ve been Joe moula out of nowhere just goes you ever seen Spider-Man into the spiderverse where there’s like 20 different Spider-Man that’s like our team just like it’s random and I’m
Convinced for like three games in a row the players and the coaches were [ __ ] with us because Jason Tatum also brought up Spider-Man and so I think they were just playing a game like here’s a random word you have to slip into the press conference um and then another thing Joe
Missoula out of nowhere he was asked about the refs um and then at the end of the press conference he goes no one’s ever asked me what my favorite scene from the town was his favorite movie is the town by the way and he all like
Obsessed like he watches it all the time he goes I know you guys know I know you guys know that’s my favorite movie none of you ever been curious what my favorite scene is my favorite one is when douge McCrae is getting ready to leave town uh and he skips by the FBI
Car leaves a nice note a wellth thought out handwritten note underneath the antenna and get and then gets out of town that’s my favorite scene and then the funny joke was the note says go [ __ ] yourself and he was talking about the refs so like he he’s just been the
Season so for Celtics blog which is Nation the site that I write for that we both write for I wrote an article and there’s 14 Joe moula quotes and Matt I want you to guess which is real and which are a AI generated I went into an
AI chat bot and I said generate a Joe moula quote for H for some of these and so you’re gonna guess and I’ll have Sam guess too because he hasn’t ready yet so okay here we go ready one that makes me think about how every coaching realm was
Different how the baseball managers wear their jerseys and the then the hockey wear suits football you get get to wear hats like I’d wear a hat and a hoodie on the sidelines but apparently that’s not allowed for whatever reason Matt real or fake Joe boula quote no way he said that
That’s got to be fake that’s real Sam he said that real my question I asked him well I asked him I was like would you ever wear a headband on the sideline because Tatum and Dereck white were wearing when he goes no but that makes me think then just go on the tangent
About like different sports he’s dude he’s a mean he went from onew answers last season to I mean you’ll see as we go on he’s nuts he’s psycho okay number two are you wearing a tie Missoula asked a reporter wow I was going to say seeing
Some of your outfits I didn’t expect a suit in tie Matt real or fake no I’m thinking I’m gonna say fake Sam that was real that was Bob Bobby man he just Bobby mning writes for CS just starts to ask a question and Milla goes are you wearing
A tie and he just like calls him out the whole press conference um okay number three we don’t just shoot threes we practice them we study them and when they fall they’re a testament to our hard work Matt real or fake I might as well just be committed
To the B get these all wrong I’ll say that’s real I don’t know about this but I think it was fake but I this he could have said this so are you guessing F fake I’ll say fake fake quote I’m glad I was wrong on all of
Them it made it better all right number four I told a couple of jokes in the third quarter they were pretty inappropriate but it broke the tension CU we were playing with the expectation of why is this game going the way it’s going instead of just enjoying the fact
That this is a game we should just compete Matt real or fake I’m gonna say real A real one yeah real quote they were losing to the Wizards in the third quarter missou goes yeah I told a couple jokes just everyone’s super mad because they’re losing to the wizard and she’s
Like yeah tell jokes all right next quote uh I told him that if they keep this up I’ll have to sub myself in and trust me nobody wants to see that but on a serious note we regrouped had a good laugh not really fake I don’t think he said
That that’s got to be fake Sam I think I think this one’s also fake fake quote fake quote never said that that’s the one that I think sounds the most real like yeah of all of the fake ones that I think I poked through it I didn’t look
At the answers but I did like look through a little bit okay number six nice to see you’re keeping it casual today I almost warn my pajamas too Matt really quick he said did he say that I I’ll say real Sam I think that one’s fake fake didn’t
Say that I doubl down on the tie thing he didn’t say that I I I think I typed into the H AI bot I was like type something about Missoula talking about uh reporter’s outfit all right number seven I just finished reading a great article that she wrote in 2016 that the
Celtics shot too many threes and they shot 42 and that was seven years ago and they only shot we only shot five more tonight and they lost 121 114 and you blamed the offense but not the defense so what’s your fascination with too many threes for the last seven years Matt
Really or fake oh I was going to say that’s real just because that’s too specific to be AI generated but at the end of it I was like no way he said that uh I’ll just say it’s real it’s real Gary Gary washford of the boss just ask
Him about the reason he goes yeah I read your article I don’t know if it’s like real beef or not but he he will give it to Gary yeah he calls out Gary all the time it’s very funny all right next one uh I was reading this book the other day and
It got me thinking about how we’re all connected in some way it’s like we’re all pieces of a puzzle trying to fit together to make something beautiful kind of like when you’re cooking a meal each ingredient has its own flavor when you put them all together it creates something amazing just like basketball
Right Matt really fake I’ll say it’s fake I think that fake fake yeah I just want to put some long tangent crap on there all right number nine well Everyone’s entitled to their opinion just like how Everyone’s entitled to take a half court shot blindfolded moua said thoughts
Matt real Sam think that’s fake fake yeah okay four more or five more uh 10 well that’s the most original question I’ve heard all day I’ll make sure to go ponder it deeply as I lose sleep tonight in the meantime we’ll focus on bouncing back and who knows maybe it’ll even come
Up with some new plays that really fake I’m gonna say that one’s real S I think that one’s fake too it is fake but they all sound like [ __ ] yeah like I I’m not I wasn’t sure about that one okay 11 I’m a bird brain you know I can’t do
That Missoula said when asked about the injury report thought Matt that’s real Sam that’s real it’s the it’s real he was responding to perk perk said he had a bird in his brand and he next press conference goes sorry I’m a bird brand I can’t all right next one I don’t mind
Getting booed it’s good for you Matt really fake ah real Sam that’s real I think real after Lakers game where they lost to no LeBron no ad I like it yeah disgusting that must have been the best day to be on Celtics order all years after that game people got so mad all
Right two more two more I’ll just call a timeout everyone time every time someone tweets about it Matt real or fake you’re real I hope he said that I think that’s real Too Fake you never said that I got you good it’s is fake all right last one
Moua was asked about the criticism he said I’ve grown to absolutely endear it and love it and I think it’s beautiful Matt thoughts I’ll say he said that I think he said that too he did say that yes he’s he’s been a nut job and I love it
So respect to Joe moula very funny he’s he’s not from Boston right but he’s like near the areas he likee is he that’s where I’m from so I that’s my guy I have to stand stand by him no matter what all right uh we can talk a little general
NBA here so I’ll change the background we got super cool blue for the background for NBA you mentioned it briefly Matt what the [ __ ] is Doc Rivers doing like what like he’s speaking of a quote machine all he’s doing like what it’s just how do you say I told ownership not
To hire me how how do you let that come out of your mouth like it like what I don’t even know and it’s funny because I agree with him too I don’t know why they hired him at that like at that point like he wasn’t gonna say this and like
It’s so hard for a coach to come midseason and do something I do think oh I don’t remember because I’m going to make the comparison did I Luke a mid-season for David Bladen 2016 yes he did so I guess it’s been done before theoretically but Doc Rivers has not had
A good track record I was also reading something basically on it was on Reddit it was like yesterday or or two days ago that basically Rivers did not even coach a good like playoff run when they won it all in um he did and it was all like
Basically the players like kind of going against them or at least like it was all them at the end of the day so his like one thing that he has had a 15year career based off of I feel like wasn’t even that impressive like reading that
So like I don’t even know I wouldn’t have pired him I but I guess I don’t even know they gave him so much money in so many years too it’s not even like they like gave him a one year help us out this year and that was it I don’t
Know I would have either I guess it was so bad with Griffin but I would have kept like Joe perer I don’t even know promoted one of the assistants at that point I mean the best part about Doc is he was on the Bill Simmons podcast trashing the Bucks while he was an
Adviser for the bucks and then he advised the Bucks to get rid of Griffin so they could hire him but then he came out and said I told them not to hire me CRA I do respect that though cuz he’s like listen it’s out of my hands I said
Don’t hire me and then they were like no we’re going to hire you so front office’s fault not my fault I told them I don’t know how to coach he is committed like this is an incredible level of incompetence by the Bucks like I still can’t believe mat I
Assume you saw do you see the clip of Malik Beasley earlier season where he was just like stuck as a traffic cone in Tyrese Halbert and just ran by him like you just sit yeah like controll basically stop yeah and then like Lillard did it like a few games later
The fact that they have two clips of that as their defense this year and then doc is what now like three and seven as their head coach three and something like not good like they are an impressive level of how do you [ __ ] this up that bad this season I don’t even
Know and I guess when it’s like all like it slows down in the playoffs maybe it works out but this team I don’t even know they like don’t look as conf obviously it’s like completely new with Damen loward but their defense does not look great this year and I feel like
Like you’re seeing a little bit of like a step back from like Brook Lopez feel like when I watch him from recent years I don’t know I thought they were gonna make a bigger move at the deadline but I guess getting Pat Bev is Gonna Save
Their season we wanted Pat Bev so bad yeah was devastated on the stream when they made the trade right I guess like um and you would have been able to match what he was making the better at minimum so you could probably match up with whatever that’s the thing like we didn’t
We were like TP months like being like who could they get via trade who could who could they actually like afford to bring in with all the financial stipulations yeah in like a day before Jack was like what about Pat Bev and I was like that is the
Perfect guy because we want him in the summer too he’s he’s just like uh trash talking like the fan base would love him he’s hysterical and it’s sad to see he went to another rival he went to a rival to begin with and he goes to a second one
But doc uh it sucks because I like him doing media yeah too like he’s legitimately good at talking even though his voice is not the best he is despite that at he might sound like he’s tuckered out but I swear to you he is entertaining to
Listen to so to to have us all lose that on top of it is even worse and now I now we all have to trash him because he’s on the box I still like Doc he won a championship here and he was the coach when I was a kid but it doesn’t mean
He’s good anymore I know and he signed through the 27 season which is crazy and then I I think uh Giannis just came out and said like how they’ve been through like multiple ownership groups uh four head coaches like how he counted like Joe pry in there for like a day um and
Then like how the team is look completely different and I don’t know like it definitely feels like Vibes are off there completely from like what it’s been um which is g to make sense when you like kind of trade Drew holiday who’s been a staple for that team and
When they won it all for for Damen Mard I don’t know I I feel like you still gota like maybe it’s like a I actually meant to ask you guys this before as a Celtics fan like are they the team you’re scared of most in the offs or at
The end of the day is it always Miami yeah so yes and yes you have to be and and we talked about this earlier today uh just chatting about it like Milwaukee is a laughing stock right now February 21st 2024 they’re a joke Doc’s a joke but Giannis is still one of the
Best in the world I think Brook Lopez is still solid he may not be like a perfect player but he’s had like random like I think against a this year he had like 30 points or something crazy like that like just for no reason he can still play Dame can
Explode and midleton even though he’s always hurt and then not hurt and then hurt again is still a quality player that’s had Championship experience with this team so they have it in them to be a pain I’m not quivering over here thinking about the Bucks Miami is always
Gonna be like the the zombie heat as Bill Simmons called it last year zombie Heat and I I have no interest not to mention now all of a sudden every time they go down there christops gets hurt yeah they played two games in Miami and he’s had
To go to the locker room in both of them so no thanks yeah yeah and I I mentioned before about like Lopez’s defense I met Middleton but I know Middleton’s dealt with like plenty of injuries this year or at least coming into the season I don’t know yeah like I still think you
Gota like view the Bucks as the biggest threat just because they have like a top three player and then they have Damen loward who’s right up there um and still like a solid Supporting Cast around them but I don’t know I feel like the Bucks are going to shot themselves in the foot
This year and like I know it was towards the end of Ag and Griffin and kind of the beginning of rivers how they like refused to play at times like bamp and Andre Jackson and prioritizing their development and we’ll see like a lot of like Pat hington who’s maybe kind of
Cooked as well out there and I I wonder if the Bucks are going to be like they’re just going to beat themselves in the playoffs and will they even make it like if you guys are on a collision course with them in the Conference Finals will they even make it there or
They get upseted like last year again beforehand um you don’t even have to worry about them yeah I was talking to um Andrew uh GMAC who’s on a uh he a host of Nicks film school I was on their pregame we were talking and he was like um are we sure giannis’s postseason
Resume is even that good like yeah they got the title there were injuries that year you know the suns were whatever like he played incredible in the finals yes but like look at everything other than that like bounced round one bounced by the Celtics bounced by this like
Again they have dealt with injuries too but like outside of that one run which yes Fair did end a title like are we sure that it’s like this but I I still have them one we we did this rankings on a recent show I think I had bucks one
Nicks two heat 3 in terms of like who could potentially be the biggest Celtics but I think we both agreed like the biggest enemy of the Celtics is the Celtics it’s like if if they get in their own way at this point yeah I think
Is where we’re at yeah and I no I was actually thinking about that too funny enough we because I remember after they won it all in 21 I was like this could loky be sort of like a dynasty like I just thought nobody was better than Giannis they had a good enough
Supporting Cast they like some I guess like booser was always going to like it was a ticking time uh coock with him there but yeah they’ve they’ve been kind of disappointing and I guess it’s both been injuries because um they played you guys in 22 without Middleton right or it
Was towards if I remember yeah yeah I’m sure they yeah yeah so like I remember that and then I guess last year like Giannis was hurt but like at the end of the day like everybody’s hurt come April and May like you kind of have to get through it
And they’ve been disappointing for sure canceled them game yeah very handsome love Big Al um all right so Matt we on this show we have a section of the podcast that is called the rat list now I’ll will explain here so this is Matt The Rat not after you ironically
Enough I think of that chat named him or maybe we named him but this is our section where we don’t have to talk about basketball and we can just complain about stuff often Topics in the rat list is traffic in Boston uh the t uh my brother who loves to play pickup
Basketball like he is Dennis Rodman in the 90s um fall asleep a lot basically any he does fall asleep a lot uh he has Arpy that’s mean uh we like to complain so I can start so I have an example but this is like if you have any
Frustrations anything just we we say rat list this and then we can just complain it’s always a fun way to end with guest so I will rat list this guy we were playing uh I was in a men’s league game last night and this guy who probably
Like 63 64 a little bit taller than me me right he’s a big guy clearly knows how to play basketball uh he’s posting me up a decent amount because we were playing Zone and I was playing the middle he comes down he puts it up every
Time he goes up and he either misses or makes whatever he’s just like that’s the foul and I turn to him I go you know I’m allowed to jump when you play defense right like I don’t just have to stand there and he just he doesn’t say [ __ ]
The whole game but every call I’m like dude do you know how defense works like you you don’t just get a free like walk to the Lane and so I just started like backing up way deep in the post and letting him take mid-range shots he shot
Like one for five and you can tell he’s getting really mad like just like stop complaining it’s it’s first of all it’s Tuesday men’s league 6 p.m. on on a weekday get over yourself you’re not in the league and two like learn the [ __ ] rules like shut up like stop stop bitching so
That’s my rat list um this Matt what do you got we’ll go around the horn here all right something to complain about I’m trying to think of just like the last time I complained like what what what it was We complain a lot here it’s staple the traffic’s a good one because
Yeah I feel like any like I live in Philadelphia the traffic’s okay here but when I drive home to New York like there’s a a Parkway called the Belt Parkway I’m like 18 miles from being home and it’s like minimum 90 minutes every time it’s the worst thing in my
Life it’s insane because it combines basically Jersey and New York and it’s like over the a bridge called of Verizon it’s a mess and like Queens is involved I don’t know I guess I don’t know what I want to complain about I would complain about um start times in the NBA but I
Don’t I don’t know if I want to keep it basketball related talk about basketball anything you want it’s it’s the worst like it’s terrible you watch Sunday football gam start at one o’clock you watch baseball maybe it’s a little bit after start time but for the NBA it’s crazy how it’s like
Sometimes it reaches up to 15 minutes and it’s not even like like there’s a set time like it’s like okay it’s always 10 minutes after it’s always it could be eight it could be 11 it could be 16 minutes after depending on the network of the broadcasting group it is the
Worst thing and obviously it was the thing with the All-Star game that people were complaining about it but I wonder if that’ll ever get fixed because it’s I don’t get it because it’s all network based but it’s also it’s either if it’s a national televised game or if it’s
Like a NBC Sports Boston or if it’s a like an MSG for New York it’s always never like on time which is the worst thing ever never yeah at least in baseball they list like 707 first pitch it’s never seven o’clock first pitch they never like gotcha no like they
Actually put the minutes on on the schedule the NBA is like strap in and watch the super cool pregame interview with scow and we’ll be ready for you in a minute yeah it’s it’s rat list people who will not say the full word of things so this is like a
Recurring pet peeve of mine and I finally remembered to bring it up on the rat list you ever have like this friend that’s like talking like let’s order zah just say pizza pizza like is it really like you’re saving a syllable it’s not like you have to type out the word just
Say pizza I hate when people say Ys like instead of coming up I’ve never just say it say the word yeah we us to say like High School play like Ys instead of playoffs it’s crazy like we’re saying it now and you grow out of it and you
Become an adult said you know you know neither one of us lives away from home but that doesn’t matter that’s not there I will say the entire word abbreviations are different yeah if if you have an acronym different say the word say it say the full thing good spise that it oh
It grinds my gear I have one friend he does it for any opportunity he can get you want to add him on the show you want want to say I tell the story about uh when we were playing the card game and he got called lazy this guy no okay I’ll do it
I’ll do it quick so we’re playing this card game it’s called stir the pot the way you play stir the pot is uh you sit in a circle the person next to you and you will take a card you’ll look at it and you’ll decide which person the circle this applies to the
Most when you attribute that to the person you flip a coin if it lands on one side everybody else gets to see the card and that person does not see it if it lands on the other side everybody hears it including the person so anyways
We pick him as the lazy one because long story short everybody around the table is busy like they’re doing work it’s not a group where you’re going to be called lazy just because you’re lazy it’s just it happens like you’re just the least busy but he was none too pleased and
Then later in the night he gets one that he is the Brest of the group but he does not get to see this one and he’s flipping out because he’s still residually pissed from the first one as everybody is reading the card that says he’s the brattiest and we’re
All like oh yeah we made the right choice F I love that uh I don’t know if I have any more Els today I I oh we were at so Matt do you know what put Shack is I don’t know if it’s like a national thing it’s basically just like mini golf
But like games like yeah yeah I’ve heard of okay so we were at pack today and I’m going to rat lless people they were nice but it’s just awkward so there’s this group of people in front of us rat lless people who like like to make haha joke
Funny small talk with you like oh small talk with all due respect I don’t know you and this this lady turns around so the way putt Shack works the first hole was like you putt it up a slope and there’s like two Hazard holes and there’s one like green hole you get
Bonus points and then the holes in here and she’s like look at that you know that’s how you do it boys and we’re just like haha like yeah yeah you don’t know what to say and she she she’s like yeah what when a girl tells you to put it in
In the weird hole make sure you do it and we’re like excuse me like I don’t know who you are one and two she goes wait I didn’t mean to and then she just walked out you’re with your kids lady why are you why you like why you it was
It’s uncomfortable why do you got to say I don’t know very odd very odd um yeah that’s that’s the rat list if you have any more about or if you have any if you ever want to complain just say hey I would like to join the ress and we’ll have you
Always have a spot to complain here with usus at hbtc I thought that was gonna be completely different I thought you were gonna have like like a rat person specifically and it’s just like a Celtic player nerves or or somebody like that that it’s just like rat list saying he
Might not do a retirement retirement tour he’s gonna do a retirement tour absolutely minus 10 million odds he does a retirement struggles with praise yeah okay buddy has chest oh man all right well Matt thank you for joining how about them Celtics we appreciate you for tuning in would
You mind letting the audience uh know where to find you if I mean if you have if you haven’t found six steal yet I don’t know what you’re talking about but like let them know just because I always mess up how to pronounce things even
Though I doubt I could do it but please yeah yeah sixing steal on Twitter uh YouTube kind of talking General NBA most of the time um I it’s funny because I’ll get people that ask me because in my Twitter bio it says I’m in Philadelphia like trashing this six and I’ll get like
DM saying like your Sixers suck and I’m like not even a Sixers S I just don’t T about the mick as much anymore it’s funny but yeah just Sixers deal basically on everything and thank you sorry like I should have said like thank you guys for having me on this was super
Fun and hoping hoping the best for you guys this year with obligatory thank you no no respect respect no I should you guys love me on your podcast and um it was super fun to talk on Hoops with you guys for like the last hour and hoping
For the best of your Celtics um unless you guys meet with the Knicks in the playoffs and all I was goingon to say I I hope we we see the Knicks in the ECF and I hope it with all due respect I hope the worst for I want every single
Game by a lot of points this spring I don’t need to stress I was physically sick last year and I just don’t need that I took beating last year I like fell to my knees in game six when Derek white hit the shot oh my God I literally had to
Call out of work after the Trey young buzzer beater like I would think I was battling a cold but I’m gonna attribute to that and then uh it it was a mess that’s what it does to us man it’s what it does to us thank you Matt we
Appreciate you coming on yeah thanks guys all right we are back thank you once again to Matt six rings of Steel for joining us hope you hopefully you guys enjoyed that we did the rat lless there so you probably won’t get one at the end sorry but yeah we gave you a rat
Lless fix we made sure to bring Matt in on the fun but we do have some Celtic stuff to talk about first of which uh is something you wrote about Sam you wrote yeah about Jason Tatum best player in the league explain to us best player in the league
So Tatum has been a recipient of the allstar break media circle jerk it’s been going on all week lots of talk of Tatum being great deservedly so Tatum has been excellent especially since the New Year turned and uh many are kind of pushing him to be
The MVP the media talk has been around that Tatum also sat down with uh Malik Andrews and they had a chat in part of that chat she said who do you believe is the best player in the league and he was just like myself me it’s me maybe it’s
Me uh but he went on to explain the answer he goes I got a lot of respect for a lot of guys in the league Giannis for sure joic obviously he just won embiid guys that have won the MVPs in the past the list goes on I truly do
Believe every night I step on the floor I’m the best player though so now you you may be watching this and you may be saying I don’t think Tatum’s the best player in the league because that’s what I said when I saw this but I wrote about it and I gave my
Take on Celtics flag if you haven’t seen yet it’s there I’m not going to make you go read it but you might know what I’m gonna say Tatum is definitely like top 10 in the league there’s no debate and that that’s being very loose with it you
Could probably be like he’s top six and get away with it if top five you’re representing the Celtics as a top player in the league like that you better think you’re the best guy in the league that’s the whole point of you being the number
One your whole job is to go out there and play hard and do what you can to put the team in the best position to win and Tatum to his credit has gotten far better at that throughout his career and specifically this season he’s always been able to score
We’ve seen him score we saw the Timberwolves game where he took over we saw the Pistons game where he brought him back from the dead but he’s doing other stuff too he’s done a great job of making better reads he he’s improved his playmaking for the
Last couple Seasons but this year I feel like we’ve seen an even better version of that he talked about that with Jared Weiss as well who also had an interview with Tatum part of the whole media circuit and that went up on the athletic today but he pointed out like I’m seeing
Doubles and when I see a double that means Drew or Derek whiton to get the ball and then they can make the defense pay and if we keep doing that then they’ll have no choice but to leave me alone and he’s really taking advantage of the Celtics having all the guys this
Year they have everybody so they should play like it he’s in on it and we’ve seen him do this we’ve seen him help them win games just as recent as the Miami game he was excellent passing the ball nine assists one turnover and he almost had a triple double he was the
Game’s highest scorer but I remember it the most because he was doing a great job of making everybody else better that’s all people have talked about for years in terms of star players can they make their teammates better how do they affect their teammates well you’re
Seeing Tatum do it guys are stepping up and then defensively he’s been excellent too he talked about it before the season he was like I want to make an all defensive team he’s mentioned it throughout the year he’s like the whole team’s locked in we’re all trying to
Play the best defense and we’ve seen him step it up one of the best and you’re you know about all about this because you pointed it out when it happened his one of his best defensive outings was the game they lost in okay C they were horrid defensively in that
Game the fourth quarter rolls around Tatum’s like I’ve seen enough I’m going to cover Shay Shay goes over of three scores three points in the quarter and the Celtics almost come all the way back from just be seemingly being out of the game because he stepped up and said I’m
Gonna be the guy to play defense I’m gonna use my length to make this difficult so when the playoffs come around when you have that kind of star on your team who has the sacrificial m ality and also thinks he’s the best guy on the planet it’s going to be better
And for what it’s worth and I didn’t put this in the article I should have last year I’m pretty sure he was asked the same thing and he was like yeah it’s Giannis Giannis is the best guy yes he was so now he’s just like I’m the best
Guy look at me respect good for him hell yeah for what it’s worth I think Tatum has a case to being the third best player in the league right now genuinely genuinely I think that is a real conversation I think at worst right now he is six at very worse and I don’t
Think he’s six I think joic is definitively one I think Giannis is who I’d put to and after that I people will say Luka people will say embiid people will say shay I got Tatum Tatum the way he does it on both ends the way he does
It defense I think what what’ you say sorry comment just to what you’re saying on my article today Tatum has been great the last nine games especially with the playmaking however I think he’s been the 11th or 12th best player in the league this year that is [ __ ] insane joic
And beid Luca Giannis Shay Durant Booker Curry halberton and LeBron those guys have all been better [ __ ] you could argue kawhai Brunson and Davis have also been better so far [ __ ] off horrendous just tell me you don’t like it’s ridiculous it’s ridiculous like respect
To Luca I think if I was going to put anybody up over Tatum it would be imid and maybe Shay Luca sure defense tell me like come back give give me another I’m not saying you I’m just in general like defense with all due respect luuk is a ridiculous offensive
Talent he’s amazing defense Shay defense yeah give it to you um embiid defense yes absolutely Tatum’s consistent ability yes he has a great team this year but like his he he averaged 30 for a team that went to the Eastern Conference finals last year 30 like like people
Don’t understand like that was a very good basketball team yes Tatum was by far the best player in that team with all due respect MBI had Harden last year yes Tatum had a good Supporting Cast excuse me but like let’s stop act acting like Tatum’s had I saw thread today let’s
Stop acting like Tatum has had these super teams his whole career his his rookie season everyone was hurt it was him in the playoffs the whole way right like that’s how he became a star yes 19 when the team was supposed to be this ridiculous team Gordon
Hayward wasn’t he was was wasn’t what he was supposed to be Kyrie was like Kyrie that year that was the embodiment of Kyrie Tatum had a little bit of a slump sure next year Kemba comes in he’s great but by the time the playoff comes around
Nick nurse [ __ ] up his knee in the All-Star Game and it had to be Tatum he had to be the guy the year after that they got [ __ ] bad terrible team like two years ago when they went to the finals they were terrible to start the
Year and then they made a run because the defense and who was the best player on that team Tatum it’s not like they had six Allstars Tatum was the best player and then obviously people hold the finals against him that was two years ago last year again it wasn’t he
Like he had a million All Stars yes he’s had great teams of course he’s had good teams you need good teams to win this league I hate the narrative that teams can just you know oh carry the you you don’t win with just one good [ __ ] player show me the team the only
Exception to the rule is Dirk nitzky who went on a miracle run with the 2011 Mavericks every other Champion has had multiple Allstars let’s stop acting like it can be a oneman show and then that’s how you should Define the MVP like I’m not saying he is the MVP but I think he
Is three to five in the league right now and if he wins the title this year I think a lot of people are going to be saying he’s the best so um I hope we get to that point I sure as hell hope we do
As well but oh c next thing we have going to the Bulls game here um savier Tillman could potentially make his debut obviously this is coming out the morning of the Bulls game well if if he gets in the rotation is my point like is he’s
Not the report um Xavier tman no longer listed on the injury report Jaden Springer is still questionable with that ankle uh but we there is a chance we get see both of Boston’s new additions against the Bulls tonight as you’re listening to this I would say Tillman
Has a pretty good chance to play considering they have a great rebounder of all time in Andre Drummond and greatest rebounder not a great rebounder the greatest rebounder of all time that’s kind of what Tilman does but yeah I’m excited I’m very hyped for tman I’m excited too I’m excited to
Finally see what the Celtics brought in at the deadline I really hope Springer gets a chance to be at least on the active roster tomorrow just I mean here Chicago they should blow him out come on regardless of what Joe’s rotations are going to be these new guys should be
Able to make a debut if they’re both healthy I know Springer’s questionable right now with the ankle thing but as far as tman goes I’m thrilled this is a new guy this is somebody that has playoff experience this is somebody that has proven he can play defense and I’m
Excited to see how he’s going to look in a role similar to cornett’s where he doesn’t have much responsibility on the offensive side of the ball and he might be able to thrive in the quick spots Memphis ass this year has not been very good that’s where tman was playing his
Basketball that’s where he was shooting 40% from the field his workload is going to be a little less he’s he’s maybe not GNA have to try and initiate anything everything he’s gonna get is already set up for him so hopefully he’s able to make the most of it and I’m
Actually a little curious to see if Missoula is gonna have him shoot threes or not yeah I’m excited I’m very amped for Tillman I think he has a chance to be a real piece of the puzzle for the Celtics team uh so curious to see what he brings
To the floor especially in his first games because I think it will take him a little while um to get his his feet under him in a new defensive system um yeah we’ll have to see let’s uh let’s jump on over to the email to inop neo
See what the people have to say uh there and spoiler alert we have a winner already we got to start promoting this at the start of the show this is fault like let’s let’s be honest here this is our own fault however today lucky winner Salem Bray get yourself some popcorn
Salem make sure to send us an email hbtc gmail.com with your name and phone number give you a $10 gift card to inpopnito congratulations confetti what is this game three in Philly the confetti happens every time literally I know I I I I noticed I was
Like wow I should made I should have made this joke literally for the last four months every sing sh just Salem make sure to send us an email we’ll get you hooked up with $10 impo gift card but uh let’s go to the email here RJ what’s popping allar break filler
Evening guys while there are a number of Celtics topics we could flog like the proverbial deceased equin making me work here RJ geez I thought I’d take this pause in the season to ask you two to talk about your favorite topic yourselves oh God first off who are your
Favorite writers Sports fiction any genre Jack what are your favorite musicals stage or movie say besides Spider-Man what are your favorite superhero movies or comic books for both of you favorite ethnic food that’s all oh wait turned about is a fair play favorite writers oh he’s answering as
Well favorite writers are Mike Royo Molly H Ians Gail carer and Steven boss musical are singing in the rain and Victor Victor Victoria comic books are comic book movies are the mask Captain America Winter Soldier and the Miss Marvel series comic book is X-Men from the mid-70s uh that Claremont and burn
Collaborated on yes I’m old favorite ethnic food is Indian B well RJ okay Sam let’s start with uh favorite writer Sports fiction any genre anything what you got okay um favorite writers now I do as much reading as the illiterate but I don’t read much either
There’s nobody I read more than Jack so Jack is my favorite writer the [ __ ] out of here because I read more of Jack’s work than anybody else’s and I support Jack fully that’s my guy he’s grinding and he’s got himself to the games so Jack is my favorite writer he did read
All your stuff too he did an excellent piece on the Joe moula thing today which you already heard yes uh so big credit to him great idea Jack is my favorite writer I do read all of your work on Celtics blog too so respect the respect
Is mutual um I read a little bit more I guess than you I read something um mirin fader I’m gon to butcher the first name mirin fader she writes features for I think the ringer still she did like this great one on Greg Odin a while back her
Stuff’s like I that’s the type of future that I want to write so I I find myself reading her work a lot she’s awesome um like I don’t read many books like I don’t read much else like outside of Articles and stuff and I don’t read a
Ton of Articles um past that I’m trying to think what else I’ve I’ve read favorite writer WJ uh yeah I think I’ll go with that I don’t know if I have any like books or series that I I read often I’m not a reader I’m a watcher honorable mention
Is Big Cat who technically used to blog and he he writes tweets so I love to read his tweets his tweets are fantastic that works respect all right um Jack what are your favorite musicals stage or movie I don’t watch a ton of musicals I just did theater like I don’t I don’t
Watch it or consume it a lot um I don’t know like I’ve never even seen Hamilton so I feel like kind of a fraud I saw Lion King on Broadway that was cool I don’t watch movies as much obviously you know what I watch more than anything more than theater I watch
A lot of Esports which I know Sam makes fun of but I do I like valerant I’ll watch that I’ll watch YouTube I watch that a lot um that’s that’s what I watch I don’t really watch other stuff that’s that’s kind of what my my kick has been
Right now so I guess that’s that’s what I got for you sorry Lion King is cool I was in I can tell you musicals I was in I was in anything goes I was in uh into the woods I was in Wizard of Oz and I
Was in susal so there you go that’s what I got for you all right favorite superhero movies or comic books that aren’t Spider-Man well you have to say the Dark Knight trilogy those are good the new Batman is good um I enjoyed all the Iron Man
Movies uh the end of The Avengers Saga was great too that was just a a moment in time really just pulling up to to endgame and the entire movie my movie theater at them all so it’s not attached to the mall it is in the own corner of the whole
Complex all of the parking lot near the movie theater was taken it was backed all the way past the mall it was the most incredible amount of people I’ve seen at my War mall so that has to be one comic books I’ve only read some of the Spider-Man comic books and I’ll tell
You I want to say one of my favorite arcs what the hell was it it was early I’ve only read like The Early stuff I don’t know I I can’t actually speak to that I’m just trying to think quick quick other movies I lik that were comic
Book movies Thor Ragnarok is a good one which you have seen um oh man I feel like I like the Deadpool movies too I think Ryan Reynold’s funny so I’ll leave it at that I’ve seen like two and I like Thor Ragnarok which is what you just said
Like that’s one of the very few that I’ve seen and I liked it so I don’t got much there do you have favorite musical Sam you watch any musical do I have a favorite musical I lowke feel like I should have I you know what I’ve never
Seen it but I like the music from Jersey Boys I can’t I can’t okay sure yeah sure sure sure I like that’s what it’s called right boys I feel like that’s yes Jersey Boys it’s musical yeah yeah can sing like Hamilton like I sang Hamilton at a
Concert at my high school and stuff so Hamilton’s cool too I just Prett sure they have a stranger things play does that count as comic book stuff yeah I feel like it does I guess and then what is it favorite ethnic food uh is yours Tai or
Do you just like that your favorite yeah I figured I gotta go either Mexican or Japanese both are very good I’m a big Sushi guy but like chicken KATU [ __ ] is very good get that well I don’t know think that counts um depends where you’re from I you’re from Canada
Chick-fil-A’s ethnic food not for us it doesn’t count for us thank you RJ we appreciate it good even those are always fun those are fun uh built to last from Phillip hey fellas your content during the break has been a lot of fun many things thanks Phil thank you as much as
I still have nightmares about the multiple iterations of the hospital Celtics this year I can see we are built to L Al it’s back to backs KP has missed a lot our other starters have missed games and yet they’re still the top seed um injuries will impact every team but
When I look at the finals competition I think all the other teams could have more or would have more problems than the Celtics do you agree all the best Phil I think Celtics have done a phenomenal job at holding their team together still have deepr rooted issues
And Trust problems with the Celtics so I hope they can maintain this level of Health um but I can see where you’re coming from with like the Knicks are going through some stuff right now the nuggets have had their problems Clippers obviously um Thunder not really uh same thing with the Wolves they’ve
Been pretty fine but like those are young teams the Bucks maybe but they I mean Middleton I guess yeah so yeah I’ll back it I think the Celtics have done a pretty good job but historically speaking knock on wood please yeah the the other contenders do have like their
Own like little things going on with them yeah with that being said all the V whatever you believe in do it to ensure health for the Celtics we’re no longer asking Jack get the gun always always all right last email of the day RJ what’s Popp in the foundation for the Celtics playoff
Success morning guys love your tribute to KY this morning Wednesday 21 that’s today it reminded me of when I uh of what I think is being the beginning of intentional mindset driven basketball for the Celtics of course I’m talking about the last minute of game one in the
22 playoffs against the Nets uh we know you don’t have to send the clip everything we are seeing this year in the Celtics strategic approach on both defense and offense are on display in this clip the push for the two for one opportunity seamlessly switching on defense coupled with the trusting your
Teammates a commitment to securing the defensive rebound everyone working the ball to advance it quickly up Court attacking to put pressure on the defense to bend and finally passing the ball Chris Le to find the better shot and then the best shot it is some of the most beautiful basketball the Celtics
Have played all year uh that year and this year they are learning to do it more and more uh often from players one through nine if the 22 team was playing speed chess here kp’s presence uh lets them play 3D chess thanks to his verticality and vision on both ends of
The floor one additional note this kind of basketball is more to Jazz Medici or improv comedians knowing how to play off their Partners uh thanks to both skill and knowledge of each other’s Styles it is why I like to see guys like Walsh kada Springer and Tilman get more first
Quarter time with the starters as we head to the playoffs so they have a chance to become familiar with their teammates and vice versa in a way that goes beyond simply running sets looking forward to the stretch Drive be well RJ yeah W that that game was special ending that was special stuff
They make you [ __ ] Sweat I’ll tell you that I will say they were up 15 points going into the fourth quarter that they had no business having that game be that close if you want a two for one good though game hey I give it to
You my favorite game of that run is the game two where they that might be my favorite game ever is game two where they because I was there they come back from 17 down and it was the most like pandemonium type like stuff happening like Durant just dribbled the ball out
Of bounds and lost the handle Kyrie loses at the next possession pton Pritchards hting stepb threes Tatum takes over in the fourth quarter like it had everything it had the atmosphere like you knew it was going to be a fire day because in the warm-ups Kyrie was
Like just doing a layup and he lost the ball off his foot and the place erupted yeah what a day and hey call back to our uh earlier conversation you’re not telling me Lucas locking up KD you like that in a playoff series you can’t convince me not going to convince me
Fat uh thanks RJ thanks Philip appreciate the emails guys um quick couple of NBA things to talk about uh before we wrap up the show again we did the Ratt in that so go check it out there I have some extras I’ll fire off okay perfect perfect so uh let’s skip
The NBA standings checkin because they’re still the same spoiler alert next pod they’ll be different from us but the only NBA thing I put on here uh for postm which I guess we should have done with Matt because it is uh thing to go with his Nicks but um the Mavs just
Absolutely fumbling the Jaylen Brunson contract Jaylen Brunson went on all the smoke and said the Mavs he asked the Mavs for a four-year 55 million contract twice they said no both times what the [ __ ] oh my God devastated dude he’s just sitting there playing with Kyrie this was before he popped off
In those playoffs but like damn that’s so tough imagine having all those picks and Brunson instead of Kyrie you’d be you’d be pretty not Kyrie yeah you’d be pretty pleased yeah you’d pretty good you you have no idea what it’s like not to have Kyrie it does wonders for your
Franchise man just such a fumble Jaylen dude Jaylen Brunson I saw somebody on Twitter saying jayen Brunson should be in the MVP race like everyone’s getting the MVP push now which is like everybody everybody’s in the conversation should be in the conversation like we’ve done pods every
Single day for the last nine months sometimes multiple things a day like we have to be attributing like some of the Celtics success to us the fans get themselves fired up every once in a while we do the pregame streams we set the Vibes like we have to be in the MVP
Conv it doesn’t mean we’re gonna win it doesn’t mean we should win but we should be in the conversation it’s the time of year I before we started I think he’ll end up finishing like top 10 but like the point is like dude he’s been disgusting this year like
We asked Matt and he’s like yeah he’s creeping up there my favorite Nick of all time it’s [ __ ] crazy like two like he’s just nasty he he’s he’s there Isaiah I think he’s better than Isaiah was I’m it’s not better or worse it’s just that’s what he yes yeah yeah yeah
Definitely which is cool and it takes a lot for you to say positive about the Knicks I like exactly I also like tibs you see tibs I meant to say this to Matt you see like they were like tibs what did you do for vacation did you go
Anywhere warm and he was like Yeah The Practice Facility is 72 degrees. tis is such a psycho well Missoula said he’d spent the break uh he was going to spend the break plotting which games he could practice [ __ ] in during the second half of the Season Missoula he I know you did like
The fake quote but he should actually like be like 15th roster spot let’s go it would be player coach second one ever is that allowed can you even do that we mean player coach yeah sure you can I mean LeBron basically does it I wonder that that would be very
Funny that’d be be a good time um ask you guys are friends maybe not article and really likes it if he sees it maybe I’ll ask him uh I doubt it though but uh anything any other NBA stuff that I missed I put this together before we did the interview uh NBA stuff
We talked about doc um I don’t think there has been much I’m ready for basketball again I just want the game basketball’s back tonight I think it’s a Full Slate of games oh I have them all in front of me you have Celtics Bulls Nicks Philly magic Cleveland that’ll
Probably be a good one uh Nets Toronto that’ll be close but it won’t be a good one our Pistons are playing the Pacers time to get set the ship right uh Phoenix playing Dallas C ERS OKC that’s going to be a good one that’s not National TV uh Houston Pelicans Wizards
Denver Hornets Jazz Lakers Warriors LeBron not playing but he played the All-Star Game in Spurs Spurs C all right uh in that case let’s go to the rout list here and uh you said you had a couple quick ones you wanted to fire off that you didn’t get
About yeah all right hit me what you got so rat list I slammed my head against the uh the the door frame of my car getting in I went and got gas yesterday after I went to the gym in the morning and I was devastated it’s one of those things like
I when I don’t know comments let let me know if you do this too I don’t think you said you do this but when I hit my head on something I will strike whatever I hit my head on I I’ve done it before yes I do it like I just scratch my hurts
Still but I do it every time that is that is like the signature move it’s a goto I know I’ve been about this one before and it’s nothing special but rat list these [ __ ] slimy [ __ ] at the gym I stretch while also lifting so I’ll
Do my lift of like 10 reps or whatever I’m doing and then I set up right next to the stretching cage it’s like it’s this and if you’re not familiar with the stretching cage it’s this set of like bars it’s a big arch there’s a little platform for your foot you can stretch
All these different ways on it I swear to God these [ __ ] only I am stretching for probably like a minute minute and a half at a time my lifts probably take no more than a minute I’m not lifting for a long time these [ __ ] come sprinting over take it right right between this
One guy like clearly like saw me he’s like can I use it I was like yeah sure you can use it like I’m not gonna be like don’t use it because I want like you know stretch don’t hurt yourself stretch is very important this man took
Mad long to stretch he was on there there for like 10 minutes I’m like what am I doing here I that’s the last time I ever say yes to somebody tough they need to get a second one that’s really the solution they need to get a second delayed you he delay put
You on a delay uh I do have a quick one so I was driving home the way this like it’s a traffic one this the way this merge works it’s like two lanes but then it goes into one lane like it’s not like you have to merge onto the highway but
One lane continues and the left lane has to merge into the right lane right so everyone’s like in both lanes you get up to where the road starts to end and every’s like all right I’ll get in there I get in I’m like all right I’ve waited
Long enough let me get in someone comes [ __ ] speeding by on the left like into the breakdown lane pass where he supposed to go and then he wants to get in [ __ ] you no you got to wait now you’re an [ __ ] you should have gone in when you knew every there’s a bunch
Of [ __ ] signs it’s left lane ends not please keep [ __ ] driving on the grass you’re an [ __ ] is this on 93 [ __ ] off this is this is like right when you get on to go towards like after brain tree yes yes yes yes if you’re if you’re going to Theus
Game and you’re coming from the south I mean I guess technically anywhere in the South but you know south of Boston this is how you get to the game oh no I’m but yeah I’m talking about coming back this happened coming so it’s like the opposite back maybe it’s because they
Shifted the car poool Lane that’s probably why exit four uh no this has been I know what you’re you know exactly what I’m talking about also [ __ ] the H Lane out on the H Lane it does shouldn’t exist because all it does Prett sure they do that to save the planet but go
On [ __ ] off all it does Taylor Swift in her private jet hates the H Lane like Jack probably hates Tesla not the H Lane but the specific part of the H Lane so it’s it’s right after you come out of the tunnel on maybe it’s 93 probably 93 in
Boston you come out of the tunnel you get on 93 going towards quiny and brry coming back all this stuff and then you go you can either go in the hub lane or the main Lane The Hub Lane lasts for like three [ __ ] miles maybe two like
Not not a long H Lane correct all it does is slow down the left lane because all then all these [ __ ] are cutting me off when I’m trying to go fast so like you have to go in like the second from the left lane which is actually the
Left lane at that point because these guys are going like driving their [ __ ] mom Vans which first of all I don’t know if I said this something here I think owning a minivan would be [ __ ] sick I’d love to own a minivan as my car I think it’d be fire fit all
The fellows in the back you kidding come on like we’ll squat up my buddy had a minivan in high school we just all gra like climbed to the back seat went to Sonic Min are sick but [ __ ] you because the H Lane all it does is slow down the
Left lane because then they come in then they’re still driving as fast as they want because they think they’re like center of the [ __ ] Universe get out of my way all right leave me alone right hub out but all right I don’t know if I have anything else you have anything
Else there is nothing more devastating than like you see the H Lane and you’re like wow that would be nice but you don’t have anybody in the car with you see I would never want to go in the hub Lane even with people in the car just
Because it’s so tight you don’t like with the barriers being close by no no no not even that but that it is it is a complete like gamble it’s like a 15 in blackjack like it’s 50/50 you either get behind people who are going to correct speed or you get behind some [ __ ]
[ __ ] going 65 because you can’t pass them in the H Ling I think the only reason that you would take the Hing is if there’s traffic so even if the guy is going like 50 faster than the rest you’d be shocked we were passing people in the H we we’re
We’re passing [ __ ] H yeah it is is rough anyways that’s all I got uh anything else no I don’t have anything else all right I feel like I should have had some thousand but I I don’t remember we talked about stuff with Matt thank you
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Sam and Jack are back with special guest YouTuber Sixringsofsteel for another Boston Celtics podcast. They break down his view of the Celtics as an outsider, his thoughts on Jayson Tatum’s shot selection, and Joe Mazzulla’s wild quotes. Plus, they talk about the New York Knicks, Doc Rivers, and Boston’s biggest threats in the East. Let us know your thoughts, and as always, thanks for listening to How ‘Bout Them Celtics!
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01:14:09 The Rat List (Pt. 2)
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2 Comments
Let's keep it real. Luke is not a 3rd string big, he is definitely playing 2nd string minutes. Especially with the double big moments. Big Al turns into a forward. He doesn't do enough in those minutes. Especially rebound. Pritchard gets more rebounds then Luke at 7'2. That just doesn't make no sense why you guys like him so much, that you think it's funny that someone thinks he sucks. You guys are out of your minds.
It's time to put down the koolaid guys. Here are some sobering facts about our season and Luke Kornet.
First, when one of the starters is out Al moves to the starting lineup and with double bigs if Porzingis is playing.
Second, when Porzingis or Al doesn't play or are starting together, Luke is the first big off the bench.
ok, let's unpack what that resulted in.
First, the Celtics have played 55 games. They are the top seed in the league and favorites to win the championship (aside from Denver depending on who you ask). And Luke Kornet has been the FIRST big off the bench for 23 of those games. Go look at the box scores. I just did for every game.
Second, if Luke had been available, he would have been the first big for 11 more games (it was Queta mostly).
Third, Luke has started 2 games.
Third-string my ACE. That is a major role on a championship team. And there is no way on this planet that Luke should be in that role for 63% of games for a championship team (if he was available every game it would have been 63% of the time). This means he was in the 2nd string role for the majority of our games.