Why Nuggets-Celtics is not a shoo-in as an NBA Finals preview | What’s Wright?

Why Nuggets-Celtics is not a shoo-in as an NBA Finals preview | What’s Wright?

Yes so the uh defending champs are playing the best team in the NBA as of now in the Celtics and the Celtics are looking to bounce back after they blew a lead to the Cleveland on Tuesday uh do you think this is a finals preview or what are we watching what are we

Watching for well listen I mean Vegas thinks it’s a finals preview and I think Denver is incredibly likely to end up in the finals on the western side of the bracket uh by the way I just thought of this cuz I was trying think is there a

Scenario where you could get to go to a Finals game so I’ll just make this commitment here uh if the either La team makes it and Boston makes it I’ll get you some bad tickets to one of the games so you can oh yeah the let do it the the

Clippers the Clippers are your better bet to end up making the finals than the Lakers are um but if either one of them are playing yeah yeah what do you think I was talk well I mean how else could we do it how else can they be playing the

Celtics I was saying cuz you’re a Celtics fan I was saying if the and there there’s you live in LA I’m just thinking like how the hell are the Clippers going to face up with the nuggets and how are the Lakers going to we saw how that went last year no right

Well listen that I was thinking that too when I made this multi thousand commitment out of nowhere that is I’m probably not going to have to come through on it but I’m not not saying if it I’ll fly you to Denver I mean there

More likely to make it but if it were to happen I did this for uh man sometimes I get myself in trouble with this one of and then I’ll do the finals preview thing I was very confident that the Knicks were totally cooked last year let

Me see what game it was hold on I want to get this right so we have on the TV show a when I say die hard I’m mean the most DieHard sports fan I’ve ever met I’ve ever met under any circumstances for any team uh that’s

Huge this this when I so this we talk about him on the show sometime this kid’s named Ramsay he’s a great producer I shouldn’t say kid but I I think he’s your your age so he’s kid to me um and he when I say loves the Nick I

Mean I think and he’s such a nice guy gets angry when like I snub one of the Knicks from the PO the NBA medals he used to sit next to me in the office he still sometimes does and I’d glance over and he’s just watching like Obi topping

Highlights from when he was on the team like I mean a true die hard like a legitimate true die hard and I thought the Knicks were cooked in I don’t even know what series play one it no it definitely was the playoffs I’m trying to I I’m trying to remember it doesn’t

Really matter regardless I said kind of flippantly that if the Knicks were in a position to where they had a big playoff home game not like you know they’re going to get swept or something a big playoff home game I was like Ramsey I’ll buy you a ticket

And and I was being dead serious but I also did not think it was going to happen and then the Knicks split the first two in Cleveland and then they had a game three at the Garden I think it I think that’s what it was whatever it is

I know the Knicks won I know I bought the ticket uh and I know Ramsey said it was the greatest sporting event he’d ever been to in his life uh but that was an example so I felt good about it it was it was a cool thing but also

J yeah exactly right but it was also similar to this which is when I said it I didn’t actually think that they were going to get there and then they got there so hey maybe maybe the Celtics will win the East and one of the LA

Teams will be in the finals who get to go to it but now to the topic I here’s my concern about Boston they suck at the end of close games yeah and they have for a couple years and and this is also some of my trepidation about Tatum Tom habber who

Has a substack you got to pay for it but it’s like 60 bucks for the year if you’re a big NBA fan I you know it’s five bucks a month I think it’s worth it he did an article on Tatum yesterday that is ging as far as okay MVP

Candidates and their effective field goal percentage in the clutch this year Shay 62% again effective field goal percentage so incorporates threes worth more than two but just it’s fine joic 61% Giannis 59% Luca 54% Tatum 38% okay is that a outlier tatums effective field goal percentage in the

Clutch two years ago 38 a half% last year 38.3% this year 38% Tatum three-point shooting in the clutch 19% so and this is Po in those moments I notice corre so that is that’s exactly right his shot selection is very poor and this is where um and so just just

For the for the context here of everyone in the league that’s over the last 3 years taken at least 200 clutch shots all right there’s only one two three 11 or 12 guys and here’s who they are number one shout out Daniel yic this effective field goal percentage at 55% number two Steph

53% number three D rozan shout out Demar 52% number four four Fox 51% he just won clutch Player of the Year number five embiid 51% tied with LeBron at 51% number seven Shay 48% number eight Durant 47% nine Trey young 46% 10 Deonte Murray 45% 11 Donovan Mitchell 44% 12 Tatum

38% so of there’s 12 guys that have taken a lot of these shots he’s Last by a lot and you say shot selection Deon that is the problem this is where the idolization of Kobe can bite you a bit Yeah so two things on Kobe one

Is and this is going to end up being a at least a partial compliment Kobe took terrible shots what made him special was he could make them but even Kobe who was as good of a bad shot maker as the league has ever seen was not that efficient because nobody is super

Efficient on the on hard tough shot you know what I mean on tough shots so if we just take Kobe’s Peak right if we take from Kobe’s basically 02 season through his last championship even just that Peak Kobe was a 45% shooter because and 34% from

Three for his career he was around the same actually 40 just under 45% field and just under 33% from three but he was taking impossible shots Tatum is a really really good player and he’s taking similarly impossible shots really good team as well right so that’s the other thing and

The the thing when you take contested jumpers you never get to the line you know at the end of games you’re not and so that’s my concern for Boston is I don’t know they’re going to blow everybody out and if these games are close late do you trust Jimmy Butler in

The heat more I do do you trust Milwaukee more maybe now that they still trust the defense in any situation though they have that going like at the end of the day I mean Miami Miami’s defense isn’t Boston’s defense but but I get what you’re saying like when it

Comes to late games not making mistakes taking the right shot but also Boston is truly they’re not trying to make the finals they’re trying to win the title and Denver their late game execution is the best of the yic gets them a good shot every time hey thanks for watching hit the

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One of the biggest NBA matchups is tonight between the Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics, in what is arguably an NBA Finals preview. The Nuggets continue rolling but the Celtics late-game play raises a question about a realistic chance of reaching and winning their 18th championship. Nick Wright previews the marquee matchup and explains what is concerning for Boston, including why he is not as confident in them as he is with Denver.

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