¶ Two Murph's Talkin Hoops
Just two Murph's talking hoops . The journey to June , it continues . We are here , march 2nd , getting really really close to the end of the season . Coach , how are you ? How are you doing ? It's been a while , man , how are you doing ? Oh , great , we're back baby .
Just two Murph's we're back .
Not only are we back . Not only are we back . Coach , I have a little announcement for you .
What do you got going on , you like an announcement .
To just start off the pod with Please surprises . Okay it's a big one . Oh , and it's something you've been waiting for , because you've been talking about a few times in the last few episodes .
Don't tell me , do you want to ?
guess , or should I just tell you ? Don't tell me , we're going video , are we ? We're going video ? Oh , that's right , folks , the handsome faces are on , we're on baby .
I always say these on radio faces , baby , let's go Just two Murph's talking hoops has a YouTube channel .
So for all you people out there that you know some of us , actually that's how we listen to our podcasts . We don't even go on Apple or Spotify or whatever your player of choice is . We usually everybody kind of goes to YouTube . And I don't know about you , coach , I find myself finding little .
You do almost daily yeah .
I find video clips of you know the ticket and the truth and JJ Redick , they're on fire . Well , it's my guy , Jason Timp . Well , now we're joining the masses . Man , we're out there .
Let's go oh yeah , this is news to me . This is crazy . I'm in like shock . Yes , this is another step forward in the journey .
So it's out there now . Subscribe for all you YouTube fans out there . We'll have the audio out there . So if you just want to listen to us on the audio and YouTube , we're going to play around with the video . I'm sure we'll put up the whole pod , but we'll have clips , too , of the highlights of all this fun .
But it's just another piece of the journey , right ? Just the journey that everybody's on with us to June . We're so glad everybody's here with us . We're here to have fun and , man , are we feeling great ? In fact , we're feeling so great . I had to put on an old shirt , coach . I had to bring out a championship shirt 2008 . 2008 . That is how bullish .
I know I've used that term before , but now I really don't have to explain who's wearing it anymore , because now we're on video .
This is how bullish I am on your 2024 Boston Celtics man Eight game lead 10 games in a row . They've won 10 out of the last 12 , I believe they are just rolling to the finish line . No stop in this train .
There isn't . The only thing stopping us is injury . Man , I'm telling you that's all , that's all the way to say it . Yeah , it is , it's just , let's just say it , to squash it . You know , no fear , no fear of injury , so much fear of injury and all that , but there's no stopping them .
If they continue this that's period , they can be anybody in seven games . I was watching Zingas dominate Luca . You couldn't , luca couldn't guard him , he was just working him . And Luca , man , he's on the run , that's right .
As we're on right now . They played the Dallas Mavericks in the garden last night on March 1st , and yeah , I mean it's . What can you say about this team , coach , like we try to nitpick . I think we got to stop with this because we are nitpicking . I mean , there is no holes in this team , even when you .
The problem is , we just have this , all this pent right , all this baggage with this team . We just we're waiting for the wheels to come off , because that's usually what they do . Last night was a perfect example . Right , they're looking like they're letting go with a rope . We've heard that term before .
They don't let go of the rope anymore , they grab that rope .
And they go forward . Remember our third quarters were the worst back in the day . Now they're the best . It's like they flipped their whole different identities . So yeah , there is that just waiting for something to happen , like we're waiting for tons of then let all go , let's let let's on this pod right now . Let's do this right now .
Let's let all of that go . You hear we get different here Hashtag , different here . This is for the green nation . We bleed green .
Let's let the past go right now it should , because this is season two on the journey to June . Cause season one ended Coach was not on board with the green . That is the past . That is so far in the past .
That's a different man . That was a different man . He's dead and buried . I'm a reborn dude . Happy March for everybody out there . Coach Murphy or podcast Paul those two merge talking hoops . The journey to June .
Hey , by the way , coach , if they're watching us on video , they can just see our names on the screen . Now , how great is that . You don't even need to announce it anymore , do you ?
see those two . I'm not just a coach , a player . They see the buys too . I'm hitting the gym . I'm feeling great .
You asked board folks .
My nutrition is on point , my mental health , my everything's just coming together in our , in our , in my life . Really , I feel and I'm very thankful , grateful , full of a lot of humility We'll get into the send off . I have something special planned Awesome . I have a couple of surprises for you too , so not just surprise for me . We're on video now .
We got a couple of things going on , so where do you want to go ?
We have a lot to talk about because we did folks sorry . We were a real monthly pod . It happens every once in a while . We missed one month , it was just . It was the leap year thing . The leap year threw us off that one day .
No big deal , but I don't know if you want to talk too much about this .
Yeah , because we were going to get on at the all star break . You know that's not any a lot of fun really to talk about . I mean , the all star game is not what it used to be .
I mean it's , we can go over that quickly If you want .
Let's talk about it real quick .
Where it was in Indiana .
Yeah , that was cool , and now we like yeah good story on that . Yeah no-transcript , because of course we talk Celtics , as you can see , green law .
Everything's related . Six degrees of separation .
I had no idea that Jason Tatum what eight years in the league now ? Has never been in a room alone and had a conversation with Larry Bird .
Oh yeah , that's it , baby the bird . You can see in the back . Usa number seven Larry the legend , the dream team . Let's just go right into the bird . So they had a luncheon , the All-Star , the day before in Indiana and they , if you saw that he was the head speaker , they presented him with an award , I believe , larry .
He was like the mayor of the All-Star game .
Yeah , because it's Indiana . He's the man from French Licks . So what does he say ? Just long story short of the whole , what did he say in his speech ?
It was something about they better try hard in the game . There you go it's we've come to see .
The most amazing players have come together in the world . Let's have a competitive game . That's all what we want and it's all . Everything's goes to Kobe , kobe , kobe , kobe , kobe Kobe , because he made it that way . It wouldn't have been competitive in the modern day All-Star game without Kobe's attitude in some of these games , and we'll get into that .
I feel like just a few years ago . They changed the format though , where at least in the fourth quarter there was defense and people were really trying . Did you see the score ?
Yeah , it was like 200 . Yeah , it was garbage . It was garbage , whack , whack , whack . We can talk about the other stuff you want I do because that's really where I was disappointed .
Game is not even a game .
It's just a layup line . Like Jaylen Brown said , that last year was a layup line . It just does this whack . So let's move on from the game . Well , the game . So they disrespected Larry . It's like come on , listen to Larry , Listen to Larry , Respect .
Let's say , Kobe's shaking his head right now and having right now looking down shaking his head , Mamba doesn't like it . I know it was .
As a kid , though , even though you just said it with Larry and Kobe , and even when we were even younger , it wasn't really about the game . For me , it was Saturday , the three point contest the dunks it was so fun .
Remember all the dunks Dominique and Jordan and I know I'm missing a few Larry Nantz I remember Larry Nantz had the two basketballs or something .
It was like . It was like Saturday morning cartoons . It was magical . It was special , not just for kids , for adults . Spudweb , yes , 80s , 90s , 80s and 90s , forget about it . Three point competition , slam dunk competition . Why aren't the best dunkers in the slam dunk competition so boring , so boring and should be obligated ? Best three point shooters ?
All of you , all of you put in there All the stars , all the super stars . Why aren't you all in there and why aren't you doing the dunk competition ? Jalen tried . He failed with the D Brown , but at least he got in there . He represented a young man that passed away from Boston and there was some cool stuff about it . They brought Mackin .
You know that Mackin McClung . I was singing his praise , I don't remember back in the day , in the beginning of the pot . I was like watch out for this kid . He was in college .
I know he looks good out there , but still he doesn't even play in the league , though I know Well he's in the league .
He's in the D league , he's in the third league . I know they should give him a chance . He can ball . They should give him a chance . He's exciting . He's a exciting young player , little white kid that can jump out the roof . It's fun for the NBA . Throw him in there . Throw him in on a team .
Can we be done with everybody bringing out Shaq and dunking over Shaq ?
Often a week . Life is so unoriginal nowadays so anyway , no , but it was . They had game lights . Everybody's hating on Dame . I don't hate on Dame too much . I like that . He won the three-point competition . That was fun and it was nice . He got the time back , the Dame time back .
Good point , though it took it away from Halliburton .
Halliburton took his time .
It was time His wristwatch away .
He got his wristwatch back Game time and that was cool . And then everybody was talking about the best thing that was was Steph and Sabrina . So on this one , Hold on , hold on .
Before you go there , back to what you just said about the three-pointers , though , and not the best players that were in . I was just thinking about the dunks , yeah , but yeah . Dame was great , but why wasn't Steph part of that ? You could see he didn't get Sabrina , he was better .
That was a brand new thing . So there's your originality points . I like that . And you know what ? We're all frowning on the All Star game . So I'm slipping around and we're turning it up and we're going to do the All Star Quiz . Let's go , are you ready ?
All right , we're going to do a quiz .
Cue the music podcast box . Cue the music .
Here we go . How you won't hear on video , but anyway Are you ready for the All Star ? Listen to the
¶ NBA All Star Quiz and Season
audio .
It's a short All Star K2M's NBA All Star Quiz , question one there's not many . When and where was the first NBA All Star game ? Can you even ?
go there , when and where , when and where I'm going to go with 1958 . Ooh .
You were in the right year , decade 56 .
You were in the right decade One more . One more down 1955 .
Not one more down .
Oh , 1959 . 1951 .
Whoa , and very , very synchronistic March 2 , which is right now Boom , ding , ding ding . I know special , the special things happen on J2M's when you do research . So on March 2 , 1951 , that's exactly how many years Now , I can't have to break out the calculator 2024 minus 1951 . 73 exact years ago was the All Star game , where Madison Square Garden .
What , what Greenlaw , greenlaw .
Wow , ding , ding , ding , ding , ding the garden .
The garden , nice Isn't that cool . There you go . You didn't ask a little quiz for you folks . There's just one question there . And now we're going on to the list of NBA All Star , all Stars Most consecutive well , not consecutive most bits . How many do you want to go ? I'll do 10 . It's a huge list .
The most times you've been elected to the NBA All Star game . Who is number one ? We'll do the top 10 . I went through the list . It's huge .
But we're going to just do it to the top 10 . We're going to talk about it more on this pod , but LeBron James is number one . We are Ding ding ding , ding ding ding , they wouldn't shut up about that .
Ding ding , ding , ding , ding ding ding . A new song . There you go . Hockets Falls always does well in the quiz . How many has he had Selections 18 . 2005 to 2024 . 18 . 20 . 2-0 . Oh , I thought . I was going to say that 20 times . So on you , no more . I have no more hate for Bron , none , none , zero .
I used to hate him big time because of his longevity . What he did in his comeback 21 point deficit the other night you saw that the comeback victory versus the Clippers , that was all him . It's awesome what he's doing at 39 . It's awesome .
So , bam , lebron , you're the king , and you know what he's kind of humble about it , man , in a way he has his swagger in his comments , which you have to have . You've got to have the alter ego . You get like the black mamba with Kobe . So who's the next ?
one , one last piece on that .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , couple more , and then we'll done it with the quiz .
I'm looking at the NBA app as we're doing our odd . He literally has his own tab LeBron's 40,000 point chase Because today playing the nuggets he needs nine points , but it's whatever . It's all good .
He can do whatever he wants .
Yeah , so 40,000 points he's going to hit today . No players ever done that .
You know what dude ? I'm rooting for him , for the goat over over MJ now . Whoa , I know I know this is a crazy thing for me to feel , but I'm like MJ was not doing what he's doing at his age . Yeah , here comes somebody , surprise guest . Wow , out of nowhere . Check it out , kaden are you ? There .
Yeah .
There he is . We're kids .
Awesome . The quiz is paused . That's what's so much fun about this podcast . We have a good time . We never know when a guest is going to pop in . Holy moly surprise guest , Although I don't know how I wouldn't say surprise anymore , because Kaden is a big , big part of our journey . Now he's coming on .
He was on last pod and we knew he was going to be on this one .
So good to see you , man , there he is Stud , let's go right into it , yeah .
Introduce yourself .
Introduce yourself . We were just doing an NBA quiz for the All Star game . We'll finish that later . Kaden , tell us who you are , your full name , let's hear it for the first time listeners .
I'm Kaden Neves . I used to live in Boston but I go to Granville . I live in Granville , michigan , now , and I play basketball .
Basketball .
Oops , we're playing basketball . Tell more , what else is going on ? Man , come on .
Our season ended short .
Really no playoffs .
Oh no , we lost the first game of playoffs .
Oh you already were in playoffs . My bad , I didn't even know .
Way to the playoffs start .
It started . District started last Monday and we played our first game and we lost to a team we beat twice by 30 .
Yowzer . How did that happen ? What do you think is the reason ? If you beat them by 30 points , maybe that's the hard thing . You're playing them the third time , right ?
I think it was just , honestly , they were actually playing good and , like the past few games , like we haven't really been playing our best . So I kind of was like they were hitting their shots we couldn't really find anything . And they were playing good defense too . So it was like they were playing a lot of like energy and momentum .
So that's where they really got us . I mean they only beat us by one , but I mean we definitely should have had that game from the beginning .
Oh , one point and it's just like college basketball in the tournament . Right one and done , yeah . Yeah , that's tough man .
¶ Basketball Growth and Future Goals
I met Kayden in Marshfield , Massachusetts . We started training together and it's been such a .
That was almost two years ago .
Two years ago now . Yeah , it seems like a lifetime , but we've developed an awesome relationship . I get to , he keeps me young . He's . I'm telling you guys he's still . This is his junior year . He was honorable mention right For conference .
Yeah , I was one vote away for getting all conference .
All conference honorable mentions Sweet , he's got some big games this year . I just saw the West Michigan baller shot out video that reel and I see this beautiful shot . We got the nice .
The last time we were on was probably mid-January , so I'm sure you had a number of games after that . Maybe update us on the last time you were on , like some of the games you had .
Yep , I think I was there on the pod . It was our . We were halfway through , so like our 11th game .
Yeah .
And so I don't really . There's like a couple of games where , like , my shot was off but I mean I was doing other stuff like rebound and pass and finding somebody that's over playing defense . So on that aspect I was playing good with my scoring was kind of off . But I mean there's other games like I've spent . I've been chilling for a while .
I've been averaging like 10 ever since the first half , first half of the season , and then there was one game I had 20 , but we lost by 40 .
So that was kind of bad it's funny that the link that I sent you the title and you're kind of hitting on this is finding other ways to win and you just nailed it . It's not always about scoring , it's all the other stuff you do that you were bringing to the team that made you a better player , right ? That's awesome , man , Sounds like you've grown .
Yeah , because , like what Murph used to say , like I always stress about , like missed shots or whatever but you really told me it's not really all about that , like you got to play hard because you can still contribute something Even if you're a pro . It's just not about scoring .
We're all going to have the shots , it's just exactly . Yeah , man , it's how we respond to that . You know the defense , crazy offense , but it's all like my favorite stats protecting the ball . No turnovers , as much at least as post games , Rebounds and the rebounds bro . You're a big body in there , man , and just ripping boards , but you've grown .
I've seen it on video . You can tell right now I can see you've grown and he's got a . Next year is going to be a big year for you , Even this year , this summer . What about you ?
I think I'm going to get on the circuit . So either UAF3SB , but I'm not sure yet . I got to talk to my coach about that , Like spring ball , yeah for AU . So I mean either team is a good option for me , but I'll probably tell you more about that later .
Yeah , we'll talk about that later , but he's going to grow tremendously from now to next year . Wait until . Do you know that right ? Yeah , I can feel it . Yeah , you can feel it , you can see it , but you just got there too . That's the thing . He was brand new to this whole town , this whole place right , granville , the whole team , you guys .
It took that season to adjust . Yes , you're losing camp . They have a center . He's a star , and where's he going now ?
He's going to Grand Valley . They're about to be D1 next year , yeah .
And he was all conference right . Yeah , yeah , yeah , and Kaden's right there . Kaden , you're right there . Well , you know that , you know that .
It sounds like it was a fun season . Obviously , you're coming off this tough playoff loss and that's what you're thinking about . But you look at the entirety of the season it sounds like it was fun .
Yeah , it was fun for the most part , but I feel like some of the games we lost , like we should have won , like I feel like there was probably two or three games where we should have won , but I think it was kind of like an off night for everybody , like nobody could really get something going , because we played Grand Rapids Christian and nobody was going to
anything going . Like I'm trying to get something going , my shots are in and out , but I think that's really kind of what happens when we lost . Like the UK game we lost by 40 . 40 was crazy . Like at least I would have been a farmer with a 10 point loss , but we literally couldn't get anything going .
And it can't be anybody Just besides Cam , everybody else has got to .
How many seniors are graduating ? Are you graduating ?
Seven . So I mean some of them don't even play . I'd probably say three or four of them play . So we basically started the same team , three returning starters .
Oh , that's huge , Three returning starters .
What's tougher a 40 point loss or this last loss , one point ?
Probably this last loss , because we know I mean everybody knows we're the better team . I mean that team was we made their season . They were 2 and 20 , before we even played them we lost them . So I mean that was definitely hard because I don't know , we know where everybody knows we're the better team .
Inconsistencies , man , we're always working , it's just a reminder .
Anybody can win on any given night if the ball's bouncing a certain way , or maybe you guys are a little off , like you mentioned . I mean , that's what happens and it's tough when it's a one and done . We're talking NBA where we go into the playoffs .
It's a seven game series , like even the Celtics , as great as they're playing , they're going to have an off game but they get another one to play . You didn't have that , so it's a little tougher .
So now , ken , what now ? Like , for you're now with the team , like do you guys are seasons over ? Then you're not . Now what ? What are you going to ?
do I mean right now ? I've just been , I want to say just been like , just relaxing . For the past week I've been a little bit yeah that's good , turn it off . Yeah , like it's been like a long season . So I'm kind of I'm just like relax here right now and I'm starting to get back into it like working out every day lifting .
I just got to find the right schedule that makes sense . Like I got to find out what I need to focus on more and I need to focus on my dribbling more . So now I need to really start putting it into my day more and really starting to work on it , because right now I'm kind of just doing it whenever I feel like it .
I'm going to start waking up at before school dribble for like 20 , 30 minutes . And then we'll probably dribble again and then see if I can get in the gym and get some shots up . So I'm just trying to get back into it .
You need a mental break first . Right , that's kind of where you're at . That's important . Take a break first before you get back to it .
It was kind of bad because , like we have three , six games a week and two of them are on game days , I was just really tired and trying to keep a positive attitude , knowing you're dead tired , like stuff's not going your way . So it's really been hard this season on that aspect . But I think I just needed some time to just relax and just take a break .
And now I'm starting to get back into it , because I can't take too much time off .
There you go . That's right , man . I love it . I love it . Your head's at where your growth . You have plans and goals to improve your skills . The amount of time that Steph Curry puts into his craft , dude , look it up . Tony Robbins did something really cool recently about the unseen hours and shots he put up in the dribbling drills and he did .
Yeah , like my coach was telling me , he was really just like for me to get where I really want to go . It's just I need to handle the ball better , because he said , my shots are perfect .
It's fine . Yeah , yeah , beautiful . So basically , I'm not drive on those handles . Maybe that's it .
Like I got to just practice dribbling like stationary and moving and then I really got to work on my left hand , Because once I get my left hand down I'm going to scorn really whenever I want , so yeah , nice , I love it .
We're going to break out , bro , seeing years and being incredible , awesome man . You know it . Yeah , he's going to put J2M's on the map . This one right here .
People don't know you . They don't know you . That's right , man .
They still don't know you . You're going to be all over . The highlight Next year is going to be crazy . Going to be fun . I'm ready for it , because he's never given up . He's taking these punches . That's what life's all about in ball .
But even this summer you're going to be doing stuff . It'll be fun to check in on you then too . If you're depending on what your sounds like , you might do like a league or AAU or something . Yeah , oh , yeah , you might want to check in on that as well .
School like summer , yeah , like a summer league for school .
Yeah , he's not giving up baby . Never give up Ludes . You don't learn from the dubs , you learn from the losses . Man , it's all part of it positive , and you're going to . I'm excited to see you . Hopefully we'll see you this summer too . You're going to come up here maybe .
Oh , yeah , yeah , hopefully yeah .
Yeah , but if not , we'll stay connected . We'll get him back on the show .
Oh man .
But thanks for having coming on . You're on , by the way . You're on .
Tell them Paul , tell them yeah this is the debut of our YouTube channel .
You're on baby your video is on . You're live . We didn't want to , I didn't want to tell you , paul cast Paul as like don't tell him . Don't tell him , this is history . This is history , baby . This is going . You're OK with that ? Right ? This is going to the YouTube . Baby , we've got Paul started a new YouTube channel . You good with that ?
Yeah , I'm proud of that , Of course . Look at this face .
Come on , man , it's made for TV . Look at that guy , he's got the whole package .
We'll see how I do it and how I work on those videos . It's a star man , it's the star , the rising star .
Was that the first one we made , paul , with Caden the rising star ? Yeah , yeah , we're stoked to have you on this journey with us , brother .
Yeah , I'm happy to have you guys here too .
Oh , man . Well , we'll see you soon , excited to hear about the next part of your journey , man , it's awesome You're going into your senior year . Man , here we go . Dude , let's do it .
All right , well , thank you for having me . I'll see you guys later .
All right , man Take care Big cut , big cut oh peace .
See you , buddy . There he is , folks , the big cut .
That's what's fun about this pod . If you come in , you have some fun , you join the journey . You don't know what's gonna happen , you know who's gonna pop on , and he's been a nice reoccurring guest for us . It's been fun to watch his journey , man . Just a reminder , too , man , it got me as he was talking .
I'm like , ooh , you know , bringing it back to the Celtics , as we always do , like we're on this high right now with the Celtics . We're up eight games , they're playing great , but once the playoffs start , man , it can be over like that . And that's kind of what happened with the season .
And he was rolling along and rolling and I had a 17 year old too , on Like we have high school ballers listening . Shout out to the West Michigan man and the Grandville they had the tallest team , the tallest starting five in high school in West Michigan and just his journey , man , people don't get it .
Like what he's been through , man , the adversity I know he's going to the NBA , you're gonna go back , we're gonna go back to these shows and like they don't know yet , they saw some flashes people this year .
But going down there , the adjustment to moving from Waymouth , Massachusetts , to Indiana Remember we talked about his Indiana , that was tough for him and then going to West Michigan , yeah , it looks like he's on over .
It's just like he just got there , dude .
And so in the adjustments he's making he's so wise beyond his years and I know that he's gonna grow into a tremendous player senior . And then , like Peyton Pritchard , he grew big time from an organ for senior year senior year first year , first year , second year . Southamptonics , and that's what I see with him .
As long as this kid doesn't give up , it's a young man .
Yeah , no , it's gonna be fun to see where he goes this summer .
Yeah .
You know the type of things he's doing . That takes him right into the next season . We love you see . Thanks again , buddy .
And all the people listening in his corner . You know , share the J2M's journey ? Yeah , and then we grow together , man , that's what I always say . So let's fit back to the quiz . Boom , we're gonna finish it up . All-star Quiz , we're gonna make it real quick . The quiz is basically over , but we were talking about LeBron's 20 selections .
He was number one , all-star . Next we'll do the top five . Who's next after him ? And it's old school 70s , 80s .
¶ NBA All-Star Quiz and Celtics Talk
I'm gonna say Kareem .
That's right , ding Dong , ding Dong , ding Dong . I don't know what that was . Ding Ding , ding , ding , ding Ding . There it is , but 19, . I'm just gonna tell you the number and I guess good job , that's two , you got two . If you go with three for three , I'm gonna have a little episode . Who's the third with 18 ? 98 to 2016 . Years he was playing 18 .
Wait , wait , wait , kareem had 19 selections . But you just gave me a hand From 1998 .
Yeah , 2000 to 2016 .
Oh , Tim Duncan .
Yeah , it was four , so you're still in it . You're still in it . Ding Ding Ding . I'm giving you a Ding Dong , ding Dong 15 . You got 15 selections , that's fourth . Third , if you get it , get it , man , it's heaven you're in . Oh my God , that's sick . This is awesome . So he's gotten Lebron Kareem .
He hasn't got the third one , but he got Duncan at four and then five . I'm sorry it's Kevin Garnett KG with 15 selections . Who is ? Come on man ? Come on man , give me those dates again . Come on , man , I don't have to give you any dates . 94 . You know who it is . Say his name . It's obvious . We always are talking about him . Kobe , let's go .
Kobe , kobe . Kobe's a Celtic in my heart . Kobe is like literally one of my I sound like Tatum . Heroes . Yeah , there he is , people . Thank you , brandon , brother-in-law , for giving me that tee . I haven't stopped wearing it since- .
I mean , he wears that purple wristband on his forearm every once in a while Probably , I think when he plays the Lakers , he's a hero . He's a hero . It goes way beyond sport with Kobe . So there you go . Good job , man . I did good on that you just killed that quick .
I just did ding , ding , ding on all of those . You got it all .
That was amazing , you're like fresh Must be there . That was amazing . I don't want to ruin it .
I will leave it alone , but I want to no , we have to give him his props , because there's no Kobe without there's no Kobe without we just brought him up earlier when people dunking on him , dunking over him , Shaq , mr Shaquille O'Neal with 15 , right Tied with Garnett , tied with Duncan , they all had 15 .
And now , you know , I just keep going because KD's next Kevin Durant with 14 . Mj with 14 . Carmelon . We talked about another foul quiz , last time with Carl . That was funny , and you asked what his nickname was . You didn't even forgot Carl's nickname the mailman , yeah , but you forgot .
I was like what was he going for ? I did yeah , I must have been off that day .
I re-listened just to get some stuff . That's it . We'll stop in the quiz of the All Star . That's the best part of the All Star game , right there . The quiz .
You're welcome . You're a welcome everybody , the quiz exactly .
Just make it right . That's what we do on the show . We flip things Like with the fouls . It's awful , I know the momentum of the game , the calls , the no calls . It's a controversy , but we flipped it , had fun with a foul quiz last episode and that's it there . Man , what else you got ? I got some more stuff for you P . I got cozy P .
You got your tea .
I'd like to talk about , you know , getting back to how people nitpick the green and a big one .
That's out there . Oh yeah , we were nitpicking . We're not doing that anymore .
Well , no , we're not , but a big one that was out there that I haven't heard a lot of chatter on lately and I think is lessening , and lessening is good old coach Joe .
All right now . My heart just grew like the Grinch . I'm glad you said that . Enough hate on Joe who is the most winningest coach of all time in NBA history .
Not all time , but you've been in this 400 game .
Yes , he is , it's all time , no , right now , all time .
The highest winning percentage of all time is Joe , yeah , yeah , yeah , but he's limited , so what ? It's so early in the two years , so what ?
Who's sucking behind him ? Bill Jackson , that's right . Ding ding ding . We know our basketball podcast . Paul knows we're talking who . But he is , he is .
He is currently the most winningest coach , I don't think people are hating as much . I think that chatter is getting less and less and less .
It has to . No , why ? Because he's his personality is so monotone . He is basically a wall and people don't like that . I don't think he doesn't respond to you . He doesn't . He's very , very chill and he's hard to read and break . I was always inexperienced .
There's nobody's doing . The timeouts was a big deal , but he's calling timely timeouts now he's got , he's grown . It was only his first year , I know , I know .
It's what I call . He is very open to learning . That's right .
You see this like here's the two things I've heard are the big criticism , the timeouts which again he's doing those well this year and the second where people get really frustrated and you and I talk about this it's where the league is gone is the three pointers . Now the Celtics do have the highest usage of three pointers .
Also get upset about that .
The best percentage . Right , his philosophy . But here's the thing , back to the nitpick . So I was actually talking to a good friend of the show will the other day and I was the wise . Sotto will the war ? I was trying to think what am I ?
You know , obviously we got to talk playoffs now that the Celtics aren't even gonna lose the one seat , they're up eight .
No , I've never I would looked up . I couldn't remember time in Boston sports history that any team was up eight games in first place .
We'd like less than 20 games to go , or like ever yeah up that much . It's not going to lose the one seat . There's not no rates , but last year Milwaukee was the one seed we know what . No , so I would like what they heat , anymore you gotta think about this stuff like what is gonna be absolutely look at the house deal the killing me .
One thing I said to will was the three pointers .
They're different in the playoffs , right ? You just don't hit them as much . Like the defense is tighter and last year , if they didn't remember , it was like if they don't shoot 30 or 40 percent , they're gonna lose . We'll coach . Just the other night the Celtics played Philadelphia , so this is the second . We have no in bead . Right , it doesn't matter .
We shot like 18 percent from three points . We only shot like made five of them and we crushed them because of board because we found another way to win . Rebound this team and just points in the paint and points the other points .
Yeah , no , and guys it might look like .
And yet you said , the numbers show High usage in the league and they're making their threes . But when I see them win games like that , when last year they absolutely would lose them , it shows me this team is complete .
They can win without hitting threes Last year couldn't do that man . Stats of last game . We won 138 to 110 versus the Mavs . Never is saying that that was gonna be trouble for us . They shot 55 percent from field the field you know and they shot the almost 50 percent from three point .
Yeah , they were good with their threes last night .
Yeah but they're third . They were 13 for 13 from the free throw line , bro , 100% . Yep , that's huge . I don't talk about that . Neither I don't . I haven't been talking about that enough . That wins and lose that wins games , loses games after line . We had we out rebound them 47 , 42 , but this is the one I love . What do I love the most ?
The number rebounds , I think , or it rebounds the turnovers as long as we're under 10 . We had nine . That's a lot , but I don't care as long as they're under 10 . There the numbers were incredible . But here's another big number eight blocks . We had eight blocks . That game man , they're blocking machines , that we're not .
I don't think they talk about the blocks enough . And then for you , what you love , the , the player statistics . This is that what they were JT 32 points . Jb 25 points . Zingas 24 . White 13 . Holiday 11 . Horford 12 . Pitcher 10 . All spread out like you , like the 20s 30 , 20 , 20 . That's what we want , dude .
They were playing . If you take out our , to me our best player , jason Tatum , who is playing on another level this year his game , just like Katie said about his game just expanding . However , as amazing as he is , you take him off the floor and you have Horzingus , jalen Brown and I don't know . Put a third person in there .
That is better than any team in the NBA , and we don't even have our best player in there .
I mean actually what you said this is very , very simple folks .
Yeah it's all about health .
Yeah , that's it , that's it .
No no .
Tillman acts the new X-man . You had to drop six points . Yeah , you got in there . He's defensive threat . You love your O'Shea Brasat . He's a making some noise . I love that guy . Yeah , so like . And it's just Sammy , of course , sharp shooter Sam coming off the bench , he's . He's got a little swagger going on . I love my .
So the question is , as we sit here , march 2nd yeah , who are you afraid of in the East ? Let's start there . I'm afraid of no one . Who ? What competition out there makes you feel like the Celtics aren't gonna get out of the East ? What team , what team jumps out ? That kid , that kid I already told what I'm . He did to him last year .
Are we gonna have another ? People are saying the Knicks , oh , the Knicks , we all have .
I call that . That was you . You called the West , I called the East . I know I said you like the Knicks . You said that the Knicks . I Already called them . But they're there . They're fizzling out . I'm telling you they're gonna fizzle out . The calves are too Dude behind us . The calves are over the box .
I get that . I see where they are on the standings , but I the time they're tired . They're tired . Who stands out in the playoffs that you feel like ? Oh , this is gonna be trouble right now as we sit here on March 2nd .
We had trouble with the Sixers without in B Dude . And how do you need a healthy and beat is Trouble .
He's not coming back , dude . I know it's supposedly he is , before I know .
What put this is ? They must be so annoyed .
Philly the box dude , there we go . There's where I want to go , like we we're what .
40 minutes into this podcast , we haven't even brought up the box go watch the Prime Amazon thing on the Greek Whoa , I didn't know , the really good thing so we're in the playoffs right now .
as I talked to you , we're in the playoffs . We're playing the box , yep . What do you think's gonna happen ?
We're gonna beat them . We we are , we have the bucks anyway . But it's gonna be a battle , especially if they have a healthy Middleton , if they have the whole squad healthy with a day you know why ?
I know we're gonna battle .
I can't wait , I want to see it .
You want to know why I know we're gonna beat the bucks and why I'm not worried about them brought this guy up earlier .
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You said , people are hating on him and I don't want to use that word because that's a strong word . But yeah , dame leather , it's a baby . I .
You hate , so you're gonna eat those words .
He's just came out recently .
Going .
I don't know what to do at board . I watch YouTube unboxing and I'm bored and he goes . I thought we were gonna be with Boston is . I thought we're gonna be with Boston , this guy this guy in his sense of entitlement Drives me crazy . Yes , when he was in Portland ?
Did I know time ? Did I did ?
did . I love Dame time I did . He was humble humility . He's going to the playoffs . He's doing his best , he's going up to the against the best in the West but really not doing anything because he didn't have the team behind it . Suddenly , at the just the end of last season , he goes I want to trade , I want out of here . He never talked that way .
He always talked about how he loved Portland . He never wants to leave . It's not about chasing titles and then that all changed this year , saying I got to get out of here and I want to go to Miami .
He's like telling people where he wants to go , all entitled , and then he gets to Milwaukee and it's like it's like the Kings arrived , like who is this guy ? He hasn't even done anything . So I feel like he's walked into this bucks thing like he picked it . Oh , I got Yanis , a best player in the in the game .
Like now that I'm here with my little watch and doing my time . We got this wrong Because the Boston Celtics are maturing before you knew they would and their team is way better than last year . This isn't going to be as easy as you thought , mr Dane , and mr Dane , you gotta play defense bro .
You gotta play defense defense .
Champion .
Here he will have to in the defense .
See this happen .
I want to see this happen . They played the Bulls just in no big deal . You don't agree with that ? I agree with it , but I he's a star dude . He'll turn it on in the playoffs but he doesn't defense . He does not . So the Greek scored 46 points versus the Bulls and the low pass at 12 later that 16 .
Portis Beasley , they have a squad dude so and their guys , all this game this year he was clicking with the Greek .
I was watching a man .
Everything we were just saying about the Celtics earlier was about offense . Yeah why they didn't play well in the playoffs last year ? Because a year before that , remember they went to the finals . Why do they go to the finals ? They had this off the charts defense . Yeah , the time Lord , they had no defense last year in the regular season .
It went right into the playoffs . We're not talking about their defense . They're playing great defense .
Yep , yeah , they have been . I love dark white down there Do Zingas man they're . You know they're all were playing great Dude , jason , jason's defense this year . Jaylin , obviously , yeah , that's the name of the game man they're playing , so I'm not too worried about the East is where I was going to take this .
I really mean , yeah , Miami's always a threat out there . Unfortunately , I hate to say it , even though they're lurking , by the way . Again , you know they're , they're in there , they're in the mix but , it's the West man . We still got the champs . Ant man , we got , we got .
And .
I just it's . I just can't see either Denver or the Clippers not being the team to make it out of the West . But you're right , these young teams are not getting respect , right now .
I did not think the Thunder would still be up there . They're in Minnesota .
They're one and two in that's right , and everybody's putting this side , like I was your you called that in the beginning . We man you're , but everybody's putting them to the side right now and just saying , yeah , they're one and two , but Denver and the Clippers one of those teams is going to come out .
In fact , everybody's just talking like Denver is the team to be . But you're right , there's still one and two .
Clippers are clicking .
And then the Lakers are playing better .
Yeah , yeah , I like , I like , I want to see the Warriors and Lakers .
Oh , I was just going to go there , so the we're going to Warrior tomorrow . Dude , this is going to be this pod is going to be old by the time you get it out . But yeah , and I just please , please , celtics .
Raise the cards All the flowers you can get .
Yeah , don't do your Golden Warriors , golden State Warriors thing again .
They love losing to stuff . Please don't do it . It's worse than the heat . It's worse than the heat .
So let's change that tomorrow . Yeah , no they're changed .
We talked about . This is a new team . Now it's all behind us , all right , even that garbage . So they're going to . They're playing the Warriors tomorrow . Big game , that's a big , that's a big turning point . Absolutely , that's been . I have been so annoyed with that .
They get a tough stretch right now .
He turns on the staff and it's just . It's the worst Right .
They show up just for the Celtics . It's weird , but there .
But you know what they're balling right now ? They're kind of the feel I feel like they're clicking LA and the Warriors . They're at 10 , in the ninth spot in the West . They're going to climb up and they're going to . They're going to get past the Pelicans and Kings . I'm telling you that no one .
Warriers will listen to what Lakers and Warriors will be at the seven and eight spot . Dallas is . Dallas is going to be up there too , so it will be . The Pelicans are going to fade , the Kings are going to . I'm telling you , the Warriors and Lakers are battling right now from the nine and 10 . I like the West .
Isn't that like you look at the West right now , and we did . We just talked about it . Oh , the Warriors , the Lakers , the Mavericks , but yet the Pelicans are way ahead of them and we never talk about them .
Yeah , they're six . They I know we don't talk about Zion and I , like you , are To do no , they've been . They just crushed the Pacers , dude . Yesterday they crushed them .
Yeah , I don't know , about the Pacers . That exactly .
I love , albert and , but yeah , but Ingram , nobody talks about Ingram , he's a scores casual 34 points , murphy . The third has been balling dude . He scored 28 . The third of Murphy jersey we get that . He crushed it last night . They've CJ McCollum . You know Zion only had eight but he brought it . They brought it , dude , they crushed the Pacers .
So yeah , you know , is his little teams of calves , the Strauss . They have a young team . Nobody knows the calves , nobody knows who their team is and they have this young squad .
You know so and because of last year , with the heat making it out of the play-in round and going all the way to the finals . You can't poo poo One of my favorite words .
You cannot Term , term , term .
So any of these teams that are in the seven to 10 spot in the east or west because of what Miami did last year , yep . So the moral of the story is yeah , we got 20 games ago . We're in the doldrums here , especially with our green . It's like man , just get us to the finish line Healthy .
Yep .
But it's going to be fun to see where this positioning ends up , and I think what we should do is man , I can't believe I'm saying this already . This journey is just moving along , coach . Yep . Every day it just gets closer and closer , but next time we get on , it's almost playoff time , yep . So we're going to have to get on before the playoffs
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March 2nd Happy .
March , april 18th I think , or something in that range , is when the playoffs start .
We got to make some history . Right now I'm going to make some history on J2M . So you ready , you ready for this ? Is that the YouTube thing ? Oh yeah , that's a big historical day today . This is awesome . We keep forgetting we're on video . You're welcome .
So , anyway , we're going to give a shot of , finally , to the women , to the couple women that we got women listeners . And I have a new player I've been working with . Her name is Mia Marsh . She's a sophomore on the Varsie Norwell High School basketball team and she's a little baller .
You know she's a pure shooter and I'm enjoying my time with her , training her and her family . And I shout out to Mia and Sabrina I want to . I'm a little quiz . I guess we'll quiz this up for podcast . Paul , Do you know anything about Sabrina ? She's the face of the NBA right now . Obviously , you know people probably don't even know her last name .
It is Peterson . Sabrina Ionescu oh , people don't know how to say it Ionescu Again , sabrina Ionescu . Do you know anything about Sabrina ? So we're giving the women some love finally . You know they deserve it with somebody else as well . We're Caitlin Clark .
Yeah , yeah , I was going to say that's the only person I really know of right now .
So we're going to give them to you , not even in the WNBA .
She's in college . Good for her , yep .
Well , she went to University of Oregon . I'm talking about Sabrina first .
She went to Oregon .
That's right , she's 26 , 26 years old . Yeah , and she , you know , and she's just . It's great for the face of the WNBA . They're getting more noise . They're making more noise . Yeah , it's getting more popular . This is great what they did for the three point competition with .
Look at us on chess tumors talking . Yeah , let's go .
You know we got to do it all , we got to cover the male and the female . So she was , she was she's on the New York Liberty , you know , and she , she , like I said , she played for the Ducks , she was an NCAA all time leader and career triple doubles .
All around baller man and NCAA basketball players recorded 2000 points , 1000 assists , 1000 rebounds of career and she's just a great example , great young lady and she grew up loving . You probably heard of Steph when she was younger , watching him and she got to be mentored by him , you know , went in and there's that , that great relationship they have , you know .
So I just wanted to give a little shot . And then to Caitlin , because you know what's going on with Caitlin right now . Right , yeah .
She shoots from half court every time . Don't hate on Caitlin .
No , I think that's what I hear . She's a 22 year old baller .
Yeah , she brings out the crowds in Iowa .
She's . She's single handedly popularized women's basketball . Anybody , I feel like , who is she about to beat in points , career college points ? She's about to surpass the number one of all time college basketball .
I'm not going to know this .
Oh , you don't . Yes , you do know who he is . No , he has the most points in college .
Oh , oh , oh , oh , oh , I thought we , oh you're talking about on the men's men or women ? Yeah , I chew , she's going for the race In college the most points . Yeah , that's a tough one because you gotta be there four years . Christian Latiner , I don't know .
Oh pistol , pete dude .
Pete Maverick , maverick Maverick .
Maverick .
Yeah , no , I know he's great , I just you know .
But yet you don't know your own maverick . He has huge points he's . I was like 40 points .
Yes .
Like a game in college . Yeah , yeah , oh , that's all come back to you . But she , caitlin Clark , declared for the 2024 WNBA draft ahead of her final postseason run with Iowa . So she's gonna her and Sabrina will be . You know , big faces for the WNBA , but it's just fun watching this girl do what she does .
She's a dominant force out there and just scoring that many points , you know . So it's a . That's a little shot up for the women out there , man , and what they're doing . You know . That's it Bask for all . You know that's it . That's all I got for you , boss .
Man , we expanded our range on this pod . We didn't just talk NBA we want to , we want to get ourselves out of our cell things but we also got a little high school ball with our friend Kayden . Now we went to the women's game . Yeah , Sabrina and Caitlin , this is awesome , man . What a pod . Yeah , what a . What a time to be alive , man .
Dude , she abit again . Last on Clark she averaging like 32.3 points a game . Dude . Eight , almost nine assists , almost eight rebounds . Yeah , it's just fun watching this girl play . She's got a game , man , she can shoot deep and just the swagger and yeah and that's it Boom .
Before we go , though before we go , we're going to do the send off . Yes , sir , we do . We got to do a temperature check . I know I just asked about the Temperature check Because you want to go back and listen , as we say it right here , march 2nd , on this journey to June .
Yeah . With the NBA .
What is your finals matchup ?
right now .
Right today .
What just flashed my head was the green versus the nugs .
I know it's hard not to right .
But no , it just flashed right after . Don't say it the Ant-Man .
Oh , I thought you were going to say the Warriors .
No , no , no , no , no , no they're not no people are saying that . The Lakers are first of all , they're ninth and tenth Lakers in the Warriors . They're fighting for a spot in the playoffs Not happening .
In Miami .
We don't have the depth , neither team , even with the Bronn , what he's doing , they don't have the depth . It's all about depth . You know this . All right , it's all about the second unit , man . Okay , I'm right , it just flashed a wolves Ant-Man versus J-Man , the J-Man .
Wow , okay , there we go . Keep that , I like that .
I mean I'm the first with the nugs and then the Timberwolves flash . So there you go , I got my two . Can I have two ?
Yeah , I took two of that .
What about you ?
I'm going Celtics Denver . That's cool , although I don't really feel strong about that right now the way Jamal Murray is playing , but anyway that can change quickly . You know , you got to remember . These guys won the title last year .
You already saw what they did against us this year . They score like 90 points , crazy yeah .
Yeah , bro , we did it , we did it again .
We did it , man . We'll take you out . Folks , it's March 2nd , saturday . You know , podcast Paul is going to do his little magic , this podcast magic with the editing and the fun , and , you know , get this out for you guys tomorrow , the next day , right , you know , but I just want to see how everybody's doing with their , their New Year's resolutions .
It's still the New Year and then creeps into March and we start to fade . Don't fade , because this is how simple it is . You don't have to have all these crazy resolutions . Think of it . It's just today , man , just today . Today , I'm going to do the best version of myself today .
I'm going to do the best I can and not eat a bunch of garbage , fake food , listen to the fake news and get sucked into this world's problems and issues . I'm going to stay present . I'm going to be free . I'm going to be the best version of myself just today , everybody , just today , be the best you can be . That's just that simple . Love yourself .
We got to learn how to love ourselves . There's so much going on in the world . There'd be complaining about the politics and all this stuff . In reality , what's really ? What's important to you ? To podcast Paul , what's the most important thing ?
Just having the sip of my coffee right now the simple things .
The simple things in life our family time , our faith , our sips of coffee . So peace and the green machine .
See you next time , paul , just two nerves talking hoops . We will see you right before the playoffs . Until then , body , enjoy your sips of coffee Peace .