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Celtics season begins TODAY at 3- What exactly are your expectations? CONTENDERS? What are you expecting from Paul George?
How will PG pair with Jayson Tatum? Can Tatum and the Celtics win the East?
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00:00Excuse me, it's the start of the NBA season, and I've been waiting for this.
00:03The storylines are going to be incredible this season as we kind of watch.
00:06Obviously, here in Boston, it's going to be what do the Celtics look like
00:10with just Jason Tatum kind of, you know, staring the ship
00:13without a guy like Jalen Brown to be there to help him out when he needs it.
00:18And what's this Celtics team going to look?
00:20What's Hugo Gonzalez going to look like if there are any truth to the rumors
00:25that the Celtics did not throw him in to get Giannis,
00:30then all eyes are going to be on Hugo all season long.
00:33You look at the 76ers, LeBron, Jalen Brown, the Miami Heat with Giannis down there,
00:39what that's going to look like, and Bam out of Bayou.
00:42We obviously know about the Knicks, the Western Conference, San Antonio,
00:47the Lakers without LeBron James and possibly could be the first all-white
00:51starting five Los Angeles Lakers in God knows how long,
00:54so that'll be an interesting storyline.
00:58Minnesota and Ant-Man and why he is such a talented player
01:02and can't be the face of the league because of his award shows.
01:05Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving down in Dallas.
01:08So, you know, obviously Denver with the Joker.
01:11So this season, man, I'm telling you, it's going to have some fun.
01:13There's a lot, and there's a bunch of other teams in there
01:15that I hadn't talked about, but I'm excited, especially to see the Celtics.
01:19And, you know, I think there'll be a team that'll finish top five
01:22and it'll be about –
01:23Well, that was – I was going to ask.
01:24What is your expectation?
01:26I think it's – you know, I think you're probably a playoff team, top five,
01:31and what do you do in the postseason?
01:32Scal says number one seed.
01:35Oh, wow.
01:35All right.
01:36All right.
01:37I mean, Simulation Station ran a full-season sim,
01:42and they have the Celtics and the Spurs in the NBA Finals.
01:47And they have a higher win total in Vegas than the Sixers.
01:5151.5 is the Celtics win total, right, I think?
01:54I'm not sure.
01:5550 or 51?
01:56They have not won fewer than 56 wins since Joe Mazzula became the head coach
02:01in a regular season.
02:02Sim Station had them with 45 wins, I think, but then getting through the playoffs.
02:08All right.
02:08All the way to the Spurs.
02:10That's the only thing that's going to matter is what they look like in the
02:12postseason.
02:13You know, in the regular season, I think they'll be good.
02:15I think they'll – you know, Tatum will do what Tatum does.
02:19You know, Paul George, if he's healthy, you know, be a solid contributor.
02:23Sorry, 51.5 for the Celtics, 50.5 for the Sixers.
02:28Yeah.
02:28So – but, no, it's going to come down to the postseason.
02:31That's when we'll judge it.
02:32But why are they better than the Sixers?
02:34That makes no sense.
02:35It's because of the way Joe Mazzula coaches, even on nights where guys – his
02:39starters aren't playing.
02:40He, like, he gets the best out of every guy during the regular season.
02:44It's Mazzula ball, Curtis.
02:46So then they're saying that the Sixers are worse than the Celtics with Jalen
02:51Brown, Maxi, Embiid, LeBron.
02:53Oh, because LeBron's going to load manage.
02:55Joel Embiid's probably going to miss time due to injuries.
02:58But the Celtics are load managing 82 games without Jalen Brown.
03:02Yeah.
03:03I think it's stupid.
03:04I think the Sixers, at the end of the day, on paper, right?
03:08And I know that – I don't know what Joel Embiid will be like, but I know LeBron
03:12will play.
03:13I know Jalen will play.
03:14I know Tyrese Maxi will play.
03:16I know Vijay Edgecombe will be out there.
03:18I don't know.
03:19I think that they're going to be a good basketball team.
03:21Do you think SGA is the MVP again?
03:28Tatum?
03:28Probably.
03:29He got, what, like 80 votes last year or something?
03:31If he is, he'd be the first guy to do it three years in a row since Larry Bird did
03:36it in
03:37the 80s.
03:37No, I don't think so because didn't the Joker do it two years in a row and then somebody
03:43else got it.
03:44So I think this will be – all right, SGA got his two.
03:47We'll give it to Wemby.
03:48We'll give it to – yeah, Wemby or somebody else.
03:50Jason Tatum.
03:51Tatum, Luca, whoever the next guy is.
03:53Yeah.
03:54Okay.
03:55All right, Wiggy.
03:55Thank you very much.
03:56Let's get the Paul George shine with Celtics season underway at 3 o'clock today as a part
04:04of the big NBA all day routine.
04:09So Celtics at 3.
04:12Knicks Sixers tonight at 7 or 8, whatever that is.
04:187, I believe it's 7, then I think 9.30 is San Antonio and I'm drawing a blank.
04:25Maybe get back to us later.
04:27Yeah.
04:27But in the –
04:29San Antonio, OKC.
04:31Yes.
04:31But let's hear from Paul George if we could.
04:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:36I think, again, when I had an injury and I came back, I think the game slowed down for
04:42me.
04:42I was able to see the game differently.
04:45And I think that's in the position he's in right now, right?
04:48We know how special he is with the ball in his hands, with creating shots for himself.
04:55I think now is how can he manipulate the game, find easy baskets where he doesn't have to
05:00do much.
05:01And, you know, that's kind of what I'm here for.
05:03Any chance I can, you know, let him know like, hey, you don't have to do this as hard
05:08or, you know, you find his body position this way, like look for the ball that way or look
05:12for it over here or, you know, just a little stuff like that to make the game easy for him.
05:16I think that's what I can help with.
05:19He's been saying this a lot, like very similar comments, different ways, and I really love
05:25it.
05:26Like, you got an NBA guy who's played for a while and doesn't seem to have a big ego
05:33when it comes to this role here and is looking at it like I'm here to help facilitate Jason
05:40Tatum being the star and being the alpha and being the better player.
05:44So I love it because he keeps saying it and I love hearing those is real.
05:49And I think that's great.
05:51And I text her earlier.
05:53Curtis was saying that this team, the Celtics, you were asking about the Sixers and Vegas
05:59and favorites and that this the Celtics team is better on paper than the Sixers team.
06:06That was that was what the texter the texter was suggesting.
06:10I don't know.
06:10I don't know how that's called kind of paper.
06:12Well, so they're talking about how you replace.
06:15Basically, if you look at last season Celtics team.
06:18Yep.
06:18You replace Jalen Brown with Jason Tatum.
06:21That's a that's an upgrade.
06:24No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:25You can't do it that way because that's not the right.
06:27That's the wrong way to have Jason Tatum all season long.
06:30So, you know, I mean, yeah, but you got him at the end of the season, but you had Jason
06:34Tatum, Jalen Brown.
06:35OK, so prior to that.
06:36All right.
06:37So let's say you want to.
06:38So who did you replace Jalen Brown with that?
06:42Paul George.
06:43I guess that's not an upgrade.
06:44So right.
06:45Yeah, you got the upgrade in Tatum is what that's the argument.
06:47I'm not saying it's a stupid argument.
06:50Yeah, that is like the dumbest like that's the dumbest thing anybody ever said.
06:54Like, wait, wait, how is that?
06:56I mean, because you can't last year.
06:57How many wins did they have?
06:59No, no, no.
06:59But but we're talking about Jason, like the fact that people want to say, oh, it's a fair
07:04trade Jalen or Paul for Jalen.
07:08That's not what people are saying.
07:10But you didn't let me finish because we get a better Jason doesn't really make sense.
07:15The idea is, is that you're replacing Brown with Tatum.
07:18Right.
07:18That's the that's the concept.
07:20Last year, it was all Jalen Brown.
07:22Jason Tatum only played what the last 10 games?
07:2416 games.
07:25OK, so when you got to the playoffs.
07:27Let's just stop.
07:27How many wins did they have last year?
07:2956, I believe.
07:30OK, so and you had Tatum and we would agree that the Tatum you got at the end of the
07:35year
07:35is an upgrade this year over like the Tatum you have this year.
07:38If you want to put Brown and Tatum, those two combined last year, given Tatum's health
07:43and Jalen Brown, we expect the Tatum this year to be better than both.
07:47Correct?
07:48Yes.
07:49Wait a second.
07:50I don't.
07:50You expect Jason.
07:52You're confusing the ish out of me right now.
07:54How are you?
07:54I don't know how.
07:55Because you you remove Jalen Brown from your team.
08:01We know that.
08:01And who did you replace him with?
08:03Paul George.
08:04Jason Tatum.
08:05They're saying there's OK.
08:07You don't get the people are comparing last season to this.
08:09No, I get that.
08:10That's what we're talking about.
08:11I get the comparison.
08:11But I'm talking about the playoffs.
08:12You had both.
08:13You're not talking about the playoffs.
08:15We're not talking about the playoffs.
08:16You have to, though.
08:16You don't have to argue.
08:17We're talking about the regular season.
08:19But I agree with Wiggy.
08:21Like, I think that that's kind of a stretch.
08:23Like, and maybe that's just because I don't agree.
08:25I don't agree that you're that it makes that we are better because Jalen Brown is out of here.
08:31And Jason Tatum is here.
08:32Like, it was a better team with both of them.
08:34I understand everyone saying we couldn't have both.
08:36In my opinion, I do not necessarily think we went with the right guy.
08:40So I'm OK arguing that point.
08:42I understand the paper point that Greg brought up through the texter.
08:45So just for the purpose of this conversation.
08:47All right.
08:48The regular season.
08:49Just the conversation.
08:50So the Celtics last year had Jalen Brown for the majority of the year without Jason Tatum.
08:57Correct.
08:57And then the Tatum you got.
08:58We believe this Tatum is better than that Tatum because of health.
09:01Correct?
09:01Yes.
09:02I would believe so.
09:03Yes.
09:03OK.
09:03That's what they appear to be saying.
09:05All right.
09:06Those who are on the team.
09:07So who was the rest of what that text said?
09:09So basically, you then have instead of last year, Jalen Brown didn't have Paul George.
09:13This year, you have Paul George.
09:14You have Derek White.
09:16Derek White.
09:16Pete Pritch.
09:17Robinson.
09:18Hugo Gonzalez.
09:20You got role players that have a year under their belt.
09:23Nemus.
09:24I think it's a stupid thing to do.
09:26But if that's what you're saying based on the regular season, is this year's regular season?
09:30Obviously, we know that this team is not as good with it.
09:33As it currently is compared to Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown being on the same team.
09:37Right.
09:37OK.
09:37We totally get that.
09:38But the version of the team you got last year that didn't have Jason Tatum, this team is better than
09:43that version of the team.
09:44The regular.
09:45All right.
09:45I get that point.
09:47I think it's dumb that we're having this conversation.
09:50I think it's the stupidest conversation to have.
09:52How is it stupid?
09:53Because when I look at this team, I look at what this team is going to look like in the
09:58playoffs.
09:59I can give two craps about the regular season.
10:02Are they going to be good in the regular season?
10:04Yes.
10:04Are they going to be better than last year?
10:06Who knows?
10:07Are they going to...
10:08If they're not...
10:08Well, the reason you don't like it is because it will expose Tatum and it would make Jalen look better
10:13than Tatum.
10:13No, it won't.
10:14Because let's say they finish fourth this year.
10:17I'm not going to judge Tatum to Brown until we get to the postseason.
10:22OK.
10:22So if they lose in the first round of the playoffs, no matter what, you would say that it was
10:26a failure for Tatum?
10:27Exactly.
10:28Yes.
10:28OK.
10:28That's where I'm judging it.
10:29But if you lose in the first round to a team that you're better than and you lose, I will
10:37say this was an absolute failure of a season of what you did.
10:43I just think it's going to be fun over the course of the regular season to talk about how Tatum
10:48looks without Jalen Brown because I believe Jason Tatum is the reason he doesn't have Jalen Brown.
10:55So he can't say, because I don't have Jalen, I'm not playing as well, when he was someone that could
11:00have precluded that deal from being consummated in the first place.
11:03Right.
11:03But I think it'll be interesting to see what Jalen looks like because if Jalen is in Philadelphia, as Courtney
11:07has brought up, and is able to subjugate his ego and play within a system surrounded by other big egos
11:13and superstars, then we kind of think that the problem may not have been Jalen Brown all along.
11:18Right.
11:18But I think they're going to build in the excuse that this is Tatum only played in 16 regular season
11:23games last year.
11:25And this season, this is the season where he knocks off the rust from the injury.
11:29That's going to, that's the excuse that they're going to use.
11:33Well, that's even worse on Tatum then if he's not 100% and he's removing the guy that actually helped
11:38him get to where he is.
11:39I just think Jason Tatum, the point that he's at as a player, and it's an excellent opportunity for him
11:47to show what he is made of.
11:49And I think you secretly, because you don't like, you can't stand the trade.
11:54I think it's horrible, yes.
11:56Correct.
11:56But you can't blame the guy that did it.
11:58You want them to fail this season.
12:01No, I don't want them to fail.
12:03That's the way I feel.
12:04Why would I want them to fail?
12:05I think that.
12:05I would want them to succeed because then it would just, all it would do was strengthening my point of
12:10how Jason Tatum is a much better player than Jalen Brown.
12:13I think it's stupid to trade.
12:15You traded a guy and got nothing back in return.
12:19So no matter what you sell me as an organization, I'm not buying it.
12:23I don't think Paul George is nothing.
12:25Compared to Jalen Brown.
12:27I don't, no, I think you're going to see, he's a guy who's going to play defense.
12:32Like he's a, you know, he's going to get you 18 points a game, 20 points a game.
12:37Hopefully he doesn't get hurt.
12:38You know, what did Jalen Brown average?
12:4028?
12:4128.
12:41Yeah, that's a big, that's a big swing.
12:44In my opinion, I hope that they prove me wrong.
12:47Like I hope that this team goes out there and is amazing.
12:49And I hear what Wiggy's saying about the built-in excuse of Jason Tatum, the rust situation.
12:54I don't think there's any excuses for Jason Tatum this year.
12:57You got exactly what you wanted.
12:58Yep.
12:58So it's time to put, to be the big dog that you are.
13:01Right, but they were already, I even heard somebody talking about this.
13:04They were talking about it.
13:04They should not be talking about it.
13:06On Gilbert Arenas' podcast.
13:08Oh, I love that one.
13:09And these are all former NBA guys.
13:10They're going to say.
13:12Did you ever take a day off from work to stay home and listen to it?
13:15I actually take a day off work to talk about a place I left on my own volition and say
13:18how much I hate it.
13:19Right.
13:19Right.