“Boston is terrorizing the NBA” – Perks on Celtics destroy Thunder 135-100, clinch NBA’s best record

“Boston is terrorizing the NBA” – Perks on Celtics destroy Thunder 135-100, clinch NBA’s best record

Win they rolled 135 100 on over a short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder team they were paced by Chris ABS porzingis 27 points 12 rebounds five blocks by the way there’s seven blocks as a team in the the first half they’re the second most in a half this season by the Boston

Celtics welcome inside our Los Angeles Studio he is Kendrick Perkins he is Brian wior I’m Malika Andrew we just heard Jason Tatum say it 60 wins is great but this is a team that wants to hang a banner when they win when they beat a Oklahoma City Thunder team that

Has been near the top of the West all year long they didn’t have their best player is there anything we can glean from this I don’t you know also on the second night of a back toback and they really kept it close for what at perk about six minutes eight minutes in this

Game um the I will respect that the Celtics are do seem to be focused in this game they could have had a bad game coming back off the road perks said it earlier their season starts April 20th I couldn’t say it better the the one major bright spot is that they want to

Continue to make that a dangerous place to play at right like when teams going Boston or you on the outside looking in you like I don’t want to step foot in that in that building because you know what’s going to happen and with the win they now have secured homec court

Advantage through the entirety of the postseason so that dangerous place that TD Garden is teams are going to have to go through there if they want to defeat and de uh Throne the B Celtics they lost game seven in the Conference Finals at home last year two years ago they won

Game seven of the Conference Finals on the road so you decide whether you think it’s a big deal or not well then I think the Boston Celtics would rather have it than not but that is that is a fair enough point but this is the time of

Year where you have to check every game around the association because standings could be fluctuating back and forth up and down as teams are trying to clinch the postseason as teams are trying to to make some noise in uh their seating here so we’re going to start by checking in

On the Los Angeles Lakers let’s roll the High lights please because the Lakers are wrapping up a six game Road Trip here hey man to your point all right so it’s official there you go Celtics uh best record in the NBA they will have the number one seed no matter who they

Play at any point in time in the NBA Playoffs all right back here on Celtics pregame postgame live now we’re going to send it out to Abby chin standy by with Joe moula here with the current Eastern Conference coach of the month Joe moula and now you guys clinch number one

Record in the NBA how does that feel uh it’s good uh it’s a testament to the guys it’s a hard thing to do throughout the year managing uh staying healthy and tough games and and going through tough things so for our guys to stick together and uh you know accomplish that I think

It’s important for us and so you know we have to be able to be grateful for that uh part of something special the environment we have but at the same time uh understand that you know once the playoffs start everybody’s Zer and zero and it only gets harder from here so we

Just got to find that balance of doing both of those and find ways to stay healthy and get better between now and when that starts Alan Derek this morning is shoot around credited you with keeping these guys focused and keeping them up for every game so far

This season what kind of things were you working on in this one um tonight I mean tonight we treated it as if it was like a game a game four or a game seven where we were up 3 0 and and we didn’t want to extend this for five or six more games

We wanted to kind of put the pressure on ourselves to win this game tonight and treat it almost as if it’s a must- win um and so to create that pressure and create that expectation for ourselves I thought our guys handled it very well and um you know that’s what the

Environment we wanted to create so uh it’s mutual right um You can only be as good as the people around you and uh throughout this season we’ve empowered each other we’ve pushed each other and uh you know we have a great group of guys and a great locker room and a great

Staff is that part of the plan for the rest of the season to put yourselves in scenarios to go out there and execute yeah absolutely um you know we’ll find ways to to keep the pressure on find ways to stay connected obviously we want to be healthy but at the same time we

Got to find ways to uh keep our Edge and keep the um you know just getting better every day whatever that looks like whether it’s film whether it’s practice whether it’s walkthrough we just got to find ways to get better Joe congratulations I know you don’t yep like that but on all

Your many accomplishments this season so far thanks appreciate it all right so interesting there Joe mou letting you know that the the the scenario that they were playing with tonight Eddie was closing out of series as if they’re up three games to none and they certainly took care of business in

That fourth quarter when they went on that huge run and also Jaylen brown big in that fourth quarter but talking about JB uh Eddie he was kind of struggling he was questionable coming into this game game was was struggling through the first three quarters turned it on in the

Fourth but did anything look out of rhythm out of sync to you there I mean he was uh at 0 for five from three had five turnovers going into that fourth quarter before he really ramped it up no nothing looked out of every night is not going to be your night shooting

From the field but he did play solid defense he did rebound the basketball he did you know have some resistance on the defensive end and played hard and uh got some deflections and things like that so like I the fact that you make or Miss shots to me doesn’t determine if you had

A good game or not like nobody takes a shot to miss a shot you taking those shots because you worked on them you believe that you’re going to make them but it’s all the other small things and I thought the small things he did did them pretty well yeah he had five

Turnovers maybe that left hand was bothering him he had it taped up so maybe that was giving him some sort of issue to where it wasn’t the same I mean he missed a easy bunny layup early in the game with the left hand and he took

A look right down at it and you know maybe that that that was part of the reason that so you know well I excuse that because when we needed him not when we needed him because we was up big but he did show up it wasn’t like he was a

Noow and I know everybody wants to nitpick and things like that but he wasn’t a noow Jaylen Brown bought out tonight he just didn’t have the perfect game or didn’t have his best of games but he had a hell of a game no but I think it’s even better that you know

Celtics are up by 10 going into the fourth quarter right Oklahoma City’s put put some pressure on him in the third there chipping away at it and then he goes off in the fourth I mean five of six from the field three of four from three 15 points in that fourth quarter

Uh three rebounds couple assists I he was just he was a different guy but it was it was great to see I guess as the overall point yeah no no doubt I mean it’s not about how you start it’s about how you finish that’s how I’ve been told many of

Times right and he didn’t have the greatest of starts but when you look at the fourth quarter most of the time we’re expecting Jaylen Brown to be our guy he’s the Catal in the first quarter maybe the second quarter where well I I’ve been I’ve been uh starting to learn

That some some nights it’s not going to be the first quarter it might not be the second it might be the third tonight it was the fourth and he handled his business tonight all right and again Jaylen Brown uh making some history tonight as well with the uh the

Performance that he had with those 15 points in the fourth quarter finishes with 23 on the game and because of those 23 he now needs 17 to get to 10,000 and uh taking a look at these numbers here presented by the Massachusetts health Connector losing mass health need health

Insurance for any reason visit the Massachusetts health Connector act now and stay covered at mahealthconnector.org now in 15th Place is Jaylen passed Don Nelson for 15th Place all time in Celtics history for scoring and again just 17 points away from 10,000 whole lot of points on that

Left side oh for sure but that’s a whole lot of points as well man 10K 10,000 yes it is it’s another thing to keep keep an eye on here down the stretch and hopefully get that by Friday all right we’re going to take a quick break we’re back with more fore for for

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“Boston is terrorizing the NBA” – Perks on Celtics destroy Thunder 135-100, clinch NBA’s best record