00:00Celtics able to win a game in the last two minutes
00:03that they should have been able to win at halftime last night.
00:07Yeah.
00:08Ain't nobody tripping about that.
00:10What's that?
00:11Ain't nobody tripping about that.
00:12You're not tripping about it?
00:13No, they controlled the game the whole.
00:15They controlled the whole game.
00:17They didn't let them back in there, though.
00:19Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:20They controlled the game when they gave up a 22-point lead?
00:23I mean, like, if you're really tripping about last night's game
00:26without Jason Tatum and against the Milwaukee Bucks team
00:30that you had a 20-point lead that you let them back in the game, like...
00:34Well, I don't know.
00:35What's the definition of tripping?
00:36I mean, I was...
00:37Well, if you're concerned, are you concerned that you just, like...
00:40You're saying it, like, well, the Celtics, like, you were concerned.
00:43Well, how many games would you guess Jason Tatum
00:46is going to need to rest this season?
00:48I would probably...
00:48Tell me that first and foremost.
00:50I would probably say out of the 82 games,
00:53he probably sits about maybe 10, 12, 13 games.
01:00Okay, so in those 12 games,
01:03is it going to be difficult for the others
01:06to beat a team that is coming into the game with one win?
01:10That would be my concern.
01:12I'm not tripping.
01:13No.
01:14Yeah, it sounds like, yeah.
01:15I don't think that they have any issue beating these teams
01:18because they led by 22.
01:20It's the keeping up the effort the entire time,
01:22and I think, I would hope that Joe Missoula,
01:24after a game like that, has a strong talking with them
01:28and says, hey, you can't let this happen.
01:30Like, these guys have the ability to beat these teams.
01:33They showed that on the court last night.
01:35It's the letting them back in that worries me.
01:36Right, but we talked to Ray Bork,
01:38and there are going to be nights when you're, you know,
01:41you go out there as a team, you're up 20,
01:44you're playing against the crappy team,
01:45and maybe you take your foot off the gas
01:47or you're dealing with just, like, you know,
01:49all right, the emotions of, like,
01:51this game doesn't have the same emotion
01:53if you're playing one of the better teams in the NBA.
01:56I mean, Scal was calling them low energy,
01:58and that was personally offensive to me, Curtis.
02:00Yeah.
02:01Oh, boy.
02:02My question is, could you make all the rest days
02:06for Tatum on the road?
02:09Like, I would really hate if I bought tickets.
02:12I understand buying tickets at the end of the season
02:14where maybe you have the playoff spot locked up,
02:17but you spend $1,000 for a couple seats in the park,
02:21and that's the team that you watched last night,
02:23and you don't get to see Jason Tatum.
02:24I would much prefer that Tatum take the day off
02:28when they're flying to a city, let them stay back here,
02:32and then have them join the team
02:33for game two of a road trip.
02:35Yeah, and listen, Jalen Brown missed games last season.
02:40His were, I believe, all injury-related.
02:45I understand that Jason Tatum and others,
02:48and it is the way of today's NBA,
02:50that they're going to require rest.
02:52I get that.
02:54But I think it's a good,
02:56last night was a good test early
02:59on how other guys can do.
03:03And so Paul George certainly is fantastic.
03:07Right.
03:09You know, both sides of the ball, by the way,
03:13the guy is awesome.
03:15Not afraid to drive to the hoop,
03:18which has been somewhat lacking on this basketball team
03:21in years past.
03:22And so, listen, they, as you said, Wiggy,
03:26don't trip over it.
03:27It's a win.
03:27A win is a win is a win.
03:28Right.
03:29I mean, that's what it is.
03:30Prior to the injury, Jason Tatum,
03:33his last four seasons, he played over 70 games.
03:37So, I mean, you're going to,
03:38guys are going to take,
03:40they're going to get rest in the NBA,
03:41especially when you've got a guy
03:42who's coming off a major injury,
03:44an Achilles injury.
03:45And so you're going to,
03:46I'd rather him be ready to go come the playoffs.
03:49I don't subscribe to this.
03:50I was listening to Jones and Keith yesterday,
03:53and you know how the hockey huddle guy called up
03:56and was like, oh, Jason Tatum taking a night off.
04:00And I'm not going to compare the sports,
04:02but Keith, I mean, Jones did make a good point.
04:04Excellent point.
04:05I was listening to our station on the right home.
04:07I heard that also.
04:09Yeah, it's like.
04:10First of all, Jones was pretty certain
04:11that Jason Tatum was going to play last night.
04:15He did not.
04:15But no, no, no.
04:16But the point was,
04:17you're sitting here complaining about a guy
04:20who probably plays about 35, 36, 37 minutes a night,
04:24and he's taking a game off
04:26when the hockey player plays 20 minutes a night
04:31and rests and shifts.
04:32And I get the point.
04:33It's different.
04:33I get it's different,
04:34but let's like stop comparing the sports
04:37on how they do things.
04:39Like it just,
04:40that's how basketball works.
04:41Nowadays, guys will build in rest
04:44and that kind of thing.
04:45Let's not compare it to like,
04:47oh, these guys are in better shape.
04:48These guys are tougher, blah, blah, blah.
04:50Just be like, hey, I'm not a fan of basketball.
04:52Hey, listen, here's a 339 text
04:55on the Subaru of New England text line
04:57that says, I love you, Wiggy.
04:59Good job calling Greg out
05:01on being a whiny old hag.
05:04Whoa.
05:05So maybe I started the show by whining.
05:08I mean, he was whining a little bit.
05:10I mean, but you know.
05:11That's coming for your throat, Greg.
05:12I mean, you.
05:13A hag is really.
05:14Yeah, yeah.
05:14I can go throw that.
05:15Yeah, like old, of course.
05:17Yeah.
05:17Yeah, I won't throw the hag in there,
05:18but he was definitely whining like,
05:20all right, there was a game last night
05:21up by 20 at the court.
05:22And you make a good point.
05:23They probably took their foot
05:24off the gas pedal.
05:25That's the issue.
05:26It's not that they have the talent
05:27to compete with these guys.
05:29They have all the talent in the world.
05:31It's that they took their foot
05:32off the brake, off the gas.
05:33How do you feel about Eddie House
05:35saying that Luca is the best three-pointer
05:37on the basketball team?
05:39Luca Gaza?
05:40Yeah.
05:41Yeah, I mean.
05:42Three-point shooter on the basketball team.
05:44I would probably disagree with him.
05:46I would probably say it's either
05:47like Paul George or Sam Howes or
05:51Peyton Pritchard.
05:51I'm up Peyton Pritchard.
05:52Pritchard's not having a great year right now,
05:54but in years past,
05:56I would say that Pritchard's pretty good
05:57from three-point land.
05:59But just as of right now,
06:02if he's just focused on it right now,
06:03they're not shooting the three-ball great,
06:05but they're able to score in other ways.
06:07That's the thing.
06:08Jason Tatum's not forcing the three-ball.
06:10We talked about this yesterday.
06:11He's a guy that's not forcing it.
06:13He's getting to the rim.
06:14He's getting to the free-throw line.
06:17There was one thing I saw on this game last night
06:19that I felt like it's my lead
06:21that I think the Celtics really need to be looking at
06:24to make their team much better
06:26and answer the question that we've all been asking.
06:29And I would say Joel Embiid looks pretty good
06:32for those Sixers so far.
06:33A little better than LeBron through 10 games.
06:36Big win last night over the Pistons in Detroit
06:38for the Philadelphia 76ers.
06:40That's because JB was on fire.
06:41He had, what, 20 in the first half?
06:43Max, he couldn't throw the ball in the ocean.
06:45Yeah, he ended up at 30.
06:46Yeah, and JB was on fire.
06:48I mean, he did miss a layup on a breakaway.
06:51I did see that.
06:52Oh, yeah, yeah.
06:52He kind of jumped off at the...
06:54But he was on fire.
06:55You can't miss the bunnies.
06:56That's what I was told in high school
06:58coming off the bench.
06:59You don't ever miss a bunny.
07:02No, no.
07:02And don't ever miss a free throw.
07:04It's a free shot, as my old man used to say.
07:06Well, they won that game because of Jalen Brown,
07:08because Joel Embiid was kind of cold early,
07:11and Jalen was the one who put the team
07:13on his back in the first half.
07:14What about the second half?
07:15Second half, I think that, you know,
07:17when you look at it,
07:18then you started to get Maxie involved
07:20in a little bit.
07:20Maxie had two points in the first half,
07:22and he averages 29 a night.
07:24So he had an off night,
07:25and JB was able to hold it up.
07:27And then, you know, everybody does their part.
07:29Vijay Edgecombe had a pretty decent game.
07:31So that's the thing with the Sixers.
07:33They have enough talent
07:34that if somebody's having an off night...
07:36Doesn't matter.
07:37Yeah, they got a number of guys
07:38that can step up and make plays.
07:40All right, Celtics with a win over the Bucs,
07:42and you can talk about that
07:43on this show this morning.
07:46We are going to talk to Bill O'Brien
07:48coming up later this hour,
07:50and that will be interesting,
07:52the head coach of Boston College Football
07:55on the show this morning.
07:56We will talk to Judd Surratt of Nesson
08:00about the Bruins at 8.30
08:02on this morning's show.
