GET UP | “Boston is a fake candidate” – Tim Legler reacts to Celtics’ confusing loss to Cavaliers

GET UP | “Boston is a fake candidate” – Tim Legler reacts to Celtics’ confusing loss to Cavaliers

Tonight let’s start with KD he had 35 Suns beat the Nuggets in overtime is Phoenix a team we should be paying attention to they’re dangerous they got talent um when you got a guy like that Kevin Durant who’s capable of scoring on anywhere of the floor obviously they’re

Missing Devon Booker as well with those two when you have Kevin and Devin surrounded by the role play that they have Eric Gordon Grayson Allen is having a career year Royce O’Neal has been a good pickup for them nage uh they’re talented we haven’t seen it consistently

And that’s a warry so that’s what we got to look out for I I I think the suns are a team to pay close attention to down the stretch meanwhile what are the right things to say about Victor wanyama right now oh well listen he got 45 drops on

Him last night so I don’t want to give too much praise for him last night but seven Blocks he’s been you know marvelous all season I think the Spurs really are under pressure this summer to surround him with a decent point guard uh he’s played this well without one you

Only imagine if you put someone next to him that could tea him up to get some easy points how good he can be sometimes I watch him with the ball it looks like he is a decent point guard you do it all man it’s frightening and then we open

The show with the Cavaliers coming back again in case you didn’t see this Cavs led by that guy dwade and by that I mean dean Wade came from 22 down in the fourth quarter to beat a Boston team that hadn’t lost in over a month so I

Don’t want to overstate this one loss for the Celtics it happens right I mean you just took your foot off the gas in the fourth quarter they got a questionable call at the end and it happens but I want to hear your take on something I talked about with legler

Yesterday okay I’m watching your day team right now in no I’m watching them knock off the clippers the other night without Giannis and Dame starting to cook a little bit Y and I feel like the momentum is starting to move in the right direction and I don’t know maybe

I’ve been burned too many times by believing in this group of Celtics I know they’ve added a piece or two I really believe the Bucks are not they’re not just the biggest threat to the Celtics which I think is an easy thing to say yeah I think they are a

Legitimate threat I think it is a twoh horse race not a one horse race in the East I agree with you um I think this was hard to see and say you know a month ago and obviously when uh doc first got there yeah you know the Daman Giannis

Thing hadn’t really worked they had a lot of turmoil a lot of stuff happened during the season obviously Dame for Drew is a big big big transaction and you know Dame’s a totally different player than Drew so I was going to take some time but you’re starting to see

This team now play with a little chip on their shoulder they added Pat Beverly who’s been marvelous for them he’s added uh a little bit of just toughness to the perimeter defense they still I think need more perimeter defense but I mean listen man this team’s rolling right now

And if we talk about who could contend and who could compete against Boston Milwaukee is absolutely right there with a healthy New York Knicks right behind him people keep talking about the Knicks if they get healthy first of all I mean it’s such a shame what has happened

Because as one who’s lived here pretty much all my life I mean they’ve finally become a fun team for the fans to root for and now they’re just decimated by injury but at the end of the day with all I mean Jaylen Brunson has had a magnificent season balling but if if

You’re going to get a seven game series with those Celtics I will take Giannis and I will take Dame and I will take my chances you know the the biggest thing for me is now Giannis has a closer you know Dame has been one of the best

Clutch players that we’ve seen in the past 10 years he now has a guy that can help him close games Giannis is a lot of things but he’s one guy that can’t really shoot so when the playoffs happen and that game shrinks and he can’t

Really get to the basket you need a guy like this so now that they have that Middleton’s getting healthy uh again Beasley’s having a career year ptis is starting to find his rhythm you’re starting to see this team fall into place and be what we thought they could

Be when DNE first got there and that is a contending team absolutely I’m planting my flag on this the buck the Bucks and the Celtics if they meet in the NBA in the Eastern Conference Finals which I think is where this ultimately is all I give Milwaukee an ex much more

Than just a squ is in effect great to have Austin here and I speak for us all when I say great to have RC back my God all right you had me worried for a minute there okay oh Louis rck is also up early with us this morning tons of

Football today but Austin you got to explain what happened to the Celtics last night comeback of the year in the NBA in Cleveland Celtics came in having won 11 straight Kelsey brothers are there it’s their bobble head Knight Jason Tatum having fun this bucket puts

Them up 22 in the fourth quarter yeah I mean this is what we see from Boston all the time they just hate him being aggressive getting to the basket getting to the line uh The Duel was what I see is the best du in the NBA Jason tat but

Then it was vintage dwade and by that I mean dean Dade someone someone named Dean Wade went crazy last night me vintage Cav that that one cut it to three with four minutes left remember it was a 22-point lead then how about George Nang in the corner the Cavs

Are in it can’t leave him open shooter they call him the minivan knocks it down it’s a 25 to six run that ties the game now final 23 seconds Cavs down oh dwade again Cavs Take the Lead they’re up by one now here’s your ball game Jason Tatum working working probing remember they’re

Down by one he gets the whistle but wait there’s more they’d look at it again was it or was it not a foul Austin I’m going foul you believe he should have gotten the foul I know he kicked out but people got to understand a fade away that is a

Natural motion of a shooter is to kick out your legs a little bit he also got him on the chest but I don’t mind the no call you can’t give up a 20-point lead man that that that can’t happen so let’s explain exactly what happened the

Celtics blow the lead of 22 points in the fourth quarter our analytics say they had a 99.9% chance to win the Celtics as an organization had won 364 consecutive games when leading by 20 at any point in the fourth quarter but in case it wasn’t clear as we went

Through it there they actually blew the whistle on the play with Tatum reviewed it and decided to resend the foul no foul game ends there so once again Austin do you believe that should have stood as a foul this is a 50 call man this is really close uh I think

Sometimes when you’re at home this is one of those calls that go your way right uh especially when you come back down from 20 you had the whole crowd the momentum like yall said it was Travis Kelce the Kelsey were in the house everything was going for the Cavs you

Know sometimes you got to give the crowd what they want I mean you look at you look at the Cleveland Cavaliers right you have the Max stru uh fourth quarter where he goes for 15 and you win the game on the halfcourt shot and now Dean Wade has an excellent game and you

Finish against the Boston Celtics the only thing to me is if you call the file the the file should stand I think on I think once you review it now you’re starting to critique it and look at it in a different way if live in that

Moment that seems like a fou to you you heard Austin say that’s the natural motion of a fadeaway and it’s also sort of the Finish through by Darius garland that causes that foul I think it should have but if you’re the Boston Celtics that’s not what Joe moula is talking about when

They getting me oh absolutely first of all Tatum pushes off clearly with the elbow at the beginning of the play but that’s not what they review they called the foul on Garland and then overturned it they decided there was indisputable Visual Evidence that it wasn’t a foul that’s a very very puzzling decision

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GET UP | “Boston is a fake candidate” – Tim Legler reacts to Celtics’ confusing loss to Cavaliers