¶ NBA Pre-Season and Championship Odds
Just two Murph's talking hoops . The journey to June . It continues into the pre-season . That's right , folks . We have made it to the NBA pre-season . This is our pre-season pod Coach basketballs are bouncing in practice right now all over the NBA . The Murph's are back . How's it going , man we're back baby .
What am wearing Podcast Paul ? ? You're looking pretty cool , looking cool , I'm always pretty cool . But what am I wearing on my face ? Shades , why am I ?
wearing shades ? I don't know . You have to tell me , man . Because the future is so bright , it's so bright .
We have the floor manager and also I have my daylight , my light , therapy light on . It's wicked bright , so it's just bright lights .
You know you get up and shade .
Future is bright for the green and we got drew holiday Electricity .
we have the floor general we do as Celtics fans . We are very , very excited and we have just a lot to talk about because , again , this is the pre-season . But , coach , before we jump in , it's all good things , hoops mind if we do just a quick little bit of house cleaning .
It's a pretty good thing . Right , you are pod guestball . Oh man , I love cleaning . Who house cleaning ? I love tidying up . It feels good after I clean , not right in the beginning . Oh , I got to clean and then you feel great after , don't you ? Definitely .
So let's clean some stuff up . It is season two , of course . We started this thing out right in July when we found about the initial trades , got excited . Then we had our good friend Caden on our last pod .
Oh , I'm proud of you , caden , a big seat .
That's going to be a fun journey to watch . For those that haven't heard that pod , go check it out . We're going to be hearing from Caden later in the year and he's going to be part of this journey , our last pod .
Yeah , beautiful pod .
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You know , like we're going to talk , man , we're going to talk .
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that out there . It is preseason . It's a long journey now to June , but this is where we start . This is where we start and before we just go heavy on the green , this is how I want to start it off . Coach , if you're good with this , is asking me if I'm going to highlight something that just came out updated odds , because this is important .
Right , because this is the journey to June . So what teams truly are we going to be talking about in June ? And according to the odds makers out there , this is just hot off the presses , coach , right now , the Milwaukee Bucks and the Celtics are tied for the best odds , and then right underneath them are the defending champions .
What type of respect are they getting ? They're not even their number three tied . I think they're tied , too with the sons . So you got Celtics , bucks , sons , nuggets . So let's start there . Let's start .
You want to talk about being a power ranking first .
No , no , no , Just with these top four that the odds makers are saying I want to start there , because all the noise is last week and you just hit on it . That's what we're really excited about is with the Bucks getting Dame Lillard , which is a huge move .
That was the first dongle , Hola , Hola , Hola , Dame , Dame , Dame , Dame . I love that man .
And suddenly , because the Celtics , I think . Actually let me take it back . They were not favored . There was just a . I think the nuggets were favored .
There was a bunch of teams kind of in the mix behind them and then boom , the Dame Lillard trade comes Suddenly , the Bucks are the favorite and then , right behind it , the true holiday trade from Portland to the Celtics . And now everybody's hyping it up . Man , they're hyping it up , so let's just talk and we'll hit on both teams . What now ?
Of course we're leaning heavy green , everybody knows this . But let's give the Bucks some due first . What's your take on the Milwaukee Bucks with Dala Dala Dame in the Greek and that team in general ? Like I know , it's tough because we're Celtics' heavy year and we're biased . But how are you feeling about that team ?
Do you feel like they're earning the right to have the best odds with the Celtics to win the championship ? No , I don't like it . Wow , just straight out . No , yeah , tell me why , man .
I don't like it . It's fine ,
¶ NBA Playoff Seedings and Key Players
I just don't . Well , first of all , let's go back in time . Okay , we're gonna go into the quarantine time machine . Remember that Boom , that's what I'm doing . It's a Weeds World man . That's boring . That's ours , that's mine , by the way . So let's go back in time to simply last season , Last year .
What happened , and who was the number one seed in the playoffs in the East ? The Bucks Exactly . And who beat them and what seed were they ?
The only reason I'm hesitating on this . They lost to an eight seed .
They lost to Ted's Miami , so you know I always don't care about these seeds and arrays . I care nothing for this stuff , man . We lost to the eight seed as well . Yeah , oh , we're down . O3 came back Like ugh , so I'm bringing us back here . But who was injured didn't even play in two of the games ? The Greek , that's right .
So if you have a healthy Greek with Dame and a healthy Militant just a Militant I wish I could get my hands on you , brother , because I need you to be hot . I don't know why you're getting injured so much . Bro , like you can do float therapy , we can do some hot and cold . What do you need ? I wanna help you . And he's a Celtic killer .
That's a powerful three . They're just a great team . But with a healthy Greek , oh yeah , that's a dangerous team . But guess what ? They're never gonna be healthy . In my opinion , they never are . That's it done .
And being Celtics fans that we are , that we just pick apart , even when the team looks great . The thing now is , even though they have the top six best players as far as the roster , it's all about yeah , but they don't have the depth . Now that they don't have the depth , it's like wait a second . Everybody's like who's gonna stop Milwaukee with Dame ?
Look at how thin they are . You just nailed it . You just nailed it . Yeah , you got Dame Daller . We all know he's great . He can shoot the three . It's all off , knock it down . And they got the Greek . That's two guys . Well , guess what ? I just read . Brueglopas . Okay , they got Brueglopas . There's three , but I just read just this morning Four .
Guess who's got a ? Oh my knee , he goes bad , but it's okay , it'll be better soon .
It's Middleton , his knee's all hurting him and can't begin . I guess he's coming off his surgery .
So that's what they're saying . Oh , he's coming off his surgery .
He's always injured , man , Everybody's always injured . It's crazy man .
So they're thin to your point . It just takes one or two to go down . I like .
Malik . Malik Beezley is nice , he's nice .
Is that he's on ? Oh , he's on Milwaukee . Okay , all right . Is there anybody else that sticks out for them ?
He got to get up to Coach Merz again . Baby , I didn't even know I'm all NBA right now . I've been going deep in the last couple of days . All right , but it's just strange to me .
It's like Dame Lillard . As much as I love the guy , I've seen him play because I'm up here in Seattle , so I've seen him in person . Dude's great , but this isn't Steph Curry , this isn't Kevin Durant , this isn't even Jason Tatum . It's a sniper dude . He's great , but he's one guy . Yonis is one guy and here we go . I tried to .
You went right into it and I wanted to wait . But we can talk about this great trade for Porzingis , we can talk about Drew Holiday , and we're going to , because I feel like he is that missing piece , that missing , not even missing piece that ingredient that we needed .
But we're all forgetting . Dude , special sauce ingredient Like the orange sauce we used to get . That's the orange sauce , baby in the Mexican . What the heck that stuff was so good , bro . That's Drew Holiday , bro . What are you saying ? Keep going .
Well , I was just going to say so . We talked about those three players that really stuck out with Milwaukee Lillard , Yonis , Brooke Lopez . How about the Celtics ? We didn't even talk about Jason Tatum yet . Hello , One of the best players in the NBA .
Humbley the best player Right .
Jason Tatum , Jalen Brown , Derek White , who was one of the best defenders as a guard in the NBA last year .
Who else is one ?
of the best defenders Drew Holiday . Who is the best defender ?
Who else is one of the best defenders in the league Holiday ? Yeah , we have the best defensive backcourt in the NBA . That's why I'm beaming coaches wearing a sail . Oh , shane's going back on . Woo , let's go , dude .
All right , I never held down .
I was . I was like these guys are never going to do it .
This is hot take , drew , hot take .
I said early Hot take . I needed the J-R-U-E . It's a holiday , early , it's early Christmas .
Well , you needed Jays . You knew we had the Jays , but you needed three Jays .
Now we got three . Three Jays , yeah .
All right , hot take .
Early hot take .
Oh , we got hot take , hot take , hot take . All right , check it out . So hey , ted , this is for you . So this summer last time the coach and I were on well , not the last time .
The last time we were talking NBA last time was with Kaden , which we talked about earlier , but we had just gotten poor Zingas , a lot of news in the NBA , all this stuff was going down , but at that time they hadn't even signed Shailin Brown . So we're waiting on that .
But the big news early in the summer on the NBA was Dame Lillard saying I won out of Portland , and not only do I won out , I want to go to Miami Wholesome . I got to go to the Heat and it was like this big deal , where , that's where he wants to go . And then he got Pat Riley going .
Well , yep , you want to come , you want to play with us , you want to be Heat culture ? Well , we'll give you , you know , portland , we'll give you Tyler Hero , and you better want that because we're the Miami Heat . Well , little do we know this , folks , I forget the name of the GM . You might have to look it up as I'm doing my ran here coach .
What , what ? The GM of who the ?
GM for the Portland Trail Blazers , please , oh sure I shouldn't have said that . So this guy who's trying to get the young guy . I think it's like Joe Cronin . See , if I got that right , it wasn't even a coach's quiz , I got it . I'm going to say Joe Cronin . Anyway , look it up , ooh , oh .
Oh , you're a good boy , I was right Ding . That's like a pre-point , that's a point , that's a coach's corner point . Let's go , dude . Joe Cronin .
So you got Pat Riley , who's been around the NBA for 80 years now , thinking he's going to fleece this young GM , joe Cronin , with the Trail Blazers , like , listen , your superstar wants out , he wants to come Miami , this is where you're going to get and take it .
Well , little did we know , folks , that Joe Cronin and a man named Brad are really really good friends .
Really good friends .
Inside info and I just feel like something was going on there right from the get-go when they said Joe Cronin said how dare you , pat Riley , I will show you . We will wait because we don't have to do anything . We don't have to do anything with Dame right now . So we're going to wait till this pre-season starts . We're going to hold out .
We're going to hold out . Hey , brad , how about we do this ? How about I trade ? I trade him to Milwaukee . I get Drew Holiday , I get . You know , I got to get Phoenix in here too , I got to get a 13 . Let me get Deadrin Aitin . I messed up his first name . You know the guy I'm talking about Aitin . We'll get Aitin up here .
And then from there you and I can play a little game . Little Robert Williams , little Malcolm Brogdon , maybe a couple of picks . Next thing , you know this , joe Cronin's a genius dude . The guy got like four first round picks Milwaukee's , you know , picked from .
You know , two years from now he got Robert Williams , the third , which we're going to talk about in a second , how we feel about that Malcolm Brogdon . He got Aitin , who I think is underrated . He went from saying you deal him with Pat Riley saying no , you deal with me and you get Tyler Hero , because he breaks people's hearts and he would take him .
He went from that to getting like five first round picks Robert Williams , malcolm , all this stuff . But really what it was all about was a man named Brad and his relationship with Joe and him saying Joe , you got to find out a way because I wanted this Drew holiday Ever since I've been with the Celtics . Let's make it happen . Rad , god , his guy , ted .
I'm sorry , I'm sorry you had to be part of this . In fact , your boy , jimmy , even had to get dressed up like Halloween for media day Because he's emo , oh , I'm emo . That's just I'm . He was all emotional . Jamie was getting on Twitter saying you know , brah you out there tampering , I know about you , you're really he's very , very upset .
So I know we talk about he'd Celtics sensitive in this world , dude , I'm super like sensitive and like empathetic and awesome . I'm sorry , through that last thing , they're awesome because it's true , but Stop it , just stop it , just just stop . I've had enough of the nicey Nicey that's your coin by podcast , paul . No , this is nicey Nicey , this is war baby .
Kobe Bryant just flashes through my head on up . Do you know that he this is like it's not even off the top , I'm ranting , but he would listen to Michael Myers Halloween music . He would listen to the , the theme song of Halloween , and he like it was a beautiful interview . I'm just like . Why , though ? Why would he say I never said this before ? Why ?
Because I need to be emotionless , I need to play a role . I'm playing a part here , like Hollywood , and he's Michael Myers is emotionless , straight killer , you know , and that's what he said about stuff . He's just calm all the time , not high , not low , not caring about next point . This point is in the moment .
That's a killer , though , so enough of these baby emotions .
So I again , I I don't want to be rude because , listen , I would be great to have heat Celtics , for I'm kind of getting into this myself .
We have no redemption , the sweet thing we want .
Do you really see that coming heat Celtics for .
We're seeing the heat .
October . Wow , so you're still giving some respect to the heat with everything that's going on with Jimmy buckets owns us .
We got owned by the heat .
All right .
Oh , through he came back .
They didn't get team Lillard , they didn't get through it was .
So we have been going through it and we are going to win it . Oh , we are top . I want to see the Celtics first , the Nuggets and the finals . I'm just jumping far ahead of everything right now . I think we I don't think I know we have the most salt . We have such a solid five dude . Do we have any in a bench dude ?
There's other people to talk about , just oh , my goodness , yeah , redemption so what's really exciting about the timing of this pod ?
I'm gonna care about rip city either .
Forget about rip city . They're done . The GM failed a , you failed .
Oh , you just heard what I said . The I know I do .
It's all right . It's all righteous and great information , but it's like wait before you know what , before we continue .
Sorry , we just kind of just Glanced over this a little bit in that big rant , that big hot , but . But here's the deal . We've talked a lot about one man meaning a lot to this organization for a long time , and If he's healthy , oh Healthy . Time Lord , and we can't just move on in this podcast . Oh yeah a little love to Robert Williams .
We're gonna miss that love for Marcus smart , goodbye . Love for time Lord , goodbye . I Love this Malcolm , malcolm , malcolm me . No , you need me .
I know he was . Yeah , his feelings hurt . Oh , you don't , dare you try to get angry .
Not here of the idea already feelings . Oh , my feelings the feelings are fleeting dude is . This is the world we live in now . Oh Lord , larry , larry bird .
That was the best .
¶ Discussion on NBA Preseason and Predictions
I mean , obviously getting drew holiday is the ultimate prize , but that we were able to get rid of Brogdon , because it sounds like he was not he did well .
You know he's a great , he was a great he did . And in six man of the year dude he won six man like he earned that and he did great . So yeah , I .
I don't want to come across like , hey , listen , robert Williams is gone now . Now we're gonna talk trash about him . No , the man Healthy in on the court and being Robert Williams , the way we know , is a game changer . Unfortunately , we have not seen that .
Even he was through holidays . A star , robert Williams , is it All right , we have a star like a superstar . I want to say yeah . I want to say stupid , humble , awesome . Floor general . My man , what are the last time his lies numbers ? Last year I'm gonna get into true dude , you know how big a fan and go back . I mean this is such a big , big deal .
We did not talk about this man bro . Well , he was supposed to come on the team .
Oh , Take myself this poster off the wall because all these people are gone . Podcast Marcus smart gone . Grant Williams will talk about him in a second gone . Robert Williams gone . We get so that Pritchard , but I you know we have . We have lots of holidays coming up . I need new poster .
I'll send you a poster , bro , all right . So drew , drew . All right , let me let you love this . So all cliches . I've always wonder like all these , everything happens for a reason . You know one of one of many cliches they're all true and know it's that one's one , not once , not but twice , but three . Third times the charm .
We thought it was Kyrie , oh , then we thought it was Kemba . Third times the charm . Baby , we have floor , general , we need he . This is gonna be so fun to watch him in Jays and we'll throw in a Todd if you want there Todd's trade of destiny , it's . We've been the Paul of corn to Derek White .
And then , in a little al action , oh , kp is Slept on my friend . This is that the prediction of hard prediction I'm giving to everybody .
Here we go .
Prediction but this is a hard there's . A hard take is that we've watched KP . He's been a prominent player in the NBA but he's had two knee injuries and he hasn't healed until now . His last season was his best season met . He had one game , 43 points , and another game at 19 boards . Forget about it .
I already watched film of him booming on the boys and in the in the , in the action right now , practicing . He is going to be a prominent Factor , dude . Look at that . For in throw whoever you want in the five . Like talk I'll . If you want to play bigs or or dark white , kp drew Jays . Forget about it . It's a wrap green , that's it .
Stay healthy , ring Bye .
That's right . That's right . Well , hold on , we'll stay in the east , definitely in the east . But the question is are they better than Denver you ?
That's what I'm saying . We're gonna see them in the yes there's no better no , I didn't say better , like that's it , that's the finals , get through the heat . I wanna see the .
Joker . Wow , so you're still feeling that it really could be heat Celtics Al and K . It could be heat Celtics four . Actually , you know what ? Shout out to Ted , he's always coming up with good takes . He asked a question and this might be a quiz later on . Maybe look it up right now .
Has there been any team or teams to meet in the Eastern Conference finals four years in a row ? Cause this would be four years in a row and I was thinking back to the 80s . I know the Sixers and Celtics played a lot , but I don't think they played four in a row .
They might have played three times , but that I think he might be onto something there , so that is something to look out for .
So he's played about four times in a row in one Eastern .
Conference . It would be four times in a row that two teams met in the Eastern Conference finals , if it Celtics heats four this year . So there's that , and we kind of both . We all won .
It's great dude . This is like a secret quiz . New , new . We have a new one .
We just started to see . Hey , it's preseason pod , we're getting out the kinks , we're bringing in new features . Dude , this is hard work .
I got some stuff , man , right here . The Miami Heat become third franchise to make four straight NBA finals , and that's 2014, . Man , so I'm looking at do I got a lot going on here ?
No , no , no , they went . No , I'm talking about two teams .
Has any two teams met four times in a row at Eastern Conference ?
finals Right right , I don't think so . Maybe in the 60s ?
No , I'm still going through it . This is stuff . Maybe Celtic Sixers in the 60s right .
But anyway , we'll let you look that up , the timing .
This is so much cool stuff Going on .
The timing of this pod is awesome . Now , of course , we're in our monthly flow , so you're not gonna hear us again till the regular season starts , but the preseason starts tomorrow .
Actually , back it up , back it up . It started two days ago . It's already started .
We're late to the party . Oh yeah , Because we got Minnesota in Dallas . They're in Dubai right , they're overseas in the desert .
Well so .
And they just played two games and Minnesota waxed the Mavericks two games in a row , Swept them Get out of here .
No , just like that . I think it's Minnesota .
It's Minnesota . Another hot take , whoa hello 211 . Pie , it's Minnesota underrated . Actually , where are they rated ? Are they even picked to go to the playoffs ? I think they might be good Ant . What is he in Year three ? Everybody loves that guy , ant .
Oh , that's him , Anthony Edwards . I got nothing on that man Like we gotta wait , so anyway the preseason started two days ago with these two teams internationally .
Over there Tonight we got a big one Lakers Golden State . First time we see the oldest man in the NBA this year , mr LeBron .
Against .
Chris Paul's Golden State Warriors .
This man , all right , this man you have to give him his love and respect . He's 38 years young Dude . He's gonna be in December 39 .
Which guy ? Chris Paul or LeBron ?
I'm the king ? Oh , I don't even know . Oh , I gotta look up Chris Paul's age .
He's probably about the same age .
MJ was not booming and explosive Dude . I just watched a little thing going up . He is still explosive and so athletic Dude , he is in the talk for the top three of all , best of all time . My mom well , no , just flashed my head .
Kobe Kobe's not in the Kobe MJ LeBron , they're another team , though , Like they're picked like right there in the mix , like right underneath that top four , Like the Lakers .
but back to injuries . Mj stunk at 38 .
Back to injuries with the Lakers . We know who's gonna get injured . Oh , like , oh like , a like toe wow . I'm out for like a month . Anthony Davis , hello . He's not gonna stay healthy , Like they're assuming he's staying healthy . I mean , they got the you know .
Second most office on the line , the new darling of the NBA . Austin .
Reeves .
Austin Reeves , but it goes Joker to AD . To me AD is super dominant dude , like they're them too . For me Like , yeah , injuries , when's Joker ever injured ?
But tomorrow's gonna be great Because tomorrow both the Bucks and the Celtics play . We're not playing . We're actually playing Philly . Philly at Boston , chicago at Milwaukee . But it's our first look at Dame Lillard with Giannis . I know it's pretty easy . No , we're gonna see this year .
Yeah , we're gonna see Anthony Edwards doing oh , he's nice , dude , he's real nice . They're two and all in the preseason , but like it doesn't matter , it's preseason , dude , I don't care . But Anthony Edwards is gonna shine this year . You never know , though . They don't have the squad , but he's gonna shine . They don't have it , they have what ?
Carl Anthony Towns , rudy Conley Jr , mikey Leonard really , yeah , they're not gonna do anything , dude . What's not happening ? Green all day .
Baby , I got a couple more things I wanna get to and then we can get into the quizzes , if that's cool .
Oh , who says there's a quiz ?
Oh , this always is . Well , we had the surprise , I'm sure . Come on , you can't have a pod without a coach's quiz Everybody knows this .
Oh God , yeah , let's do that .
Okay , so the first question I got for you . We talked about the top four best odds to get to June . Give me your wild card team . Well , I think you just did with Miami , but I'll ask again who's an underrated ? Wild card team , both out of the East and West , that can really make a run at this thing .
Other than those top four , nick's yeah , man , whoa , I know crazy right All the way to June . Well , no , where's our first game Monday ? No , no , sorry it's not Monday , it's up .
No , that first regular season game .
Wednesday Wednesday's our first .
October 25th , so we got a few weeks out , but it doesn't matter .
It's really the 27th because that's Friday . We see the heat . I want to see that . Ooh , you're already looking at the regular season .
I'm on it , baby , on it Like a lot . So you said , nick's , what about in the West ?
I like the Nick's on the West . Oh , I want to see Dallas . I want to see man .
Well , you know what we're going to talk about this next pod .
We're going to talk about this next pod . Okay , I don't know yet . Okay , I want to think about that .
I like that I'm going to go with mine . Yeah , so on the East , it's not really that much of a pod . What about the Houston ? Because we got E-May , e-may . I was going to go with Oklahoma City Thunder in the rookie of the year , chet Holmgren .
Well , you love him . I think he's going to be a bust , bro . Ooh , yeah , he's the real unicorn , I thought . I always see . I hope he does . Well , that's a better squad now . I like that , let's see . Yeah , but I think he's a bust . He's a bust .
Last thing I got for you , so you just kind of hit on it . Regular season starts October 24th . That's the first October 25th is up .
Well , that's when the Celtics won . Yeah , the Oss is up so regular season right around the corner .
We'll probably be back early November to start talking about it .
Early November for sure , but what's interesting ?
I'm looking at this right here .
Yeah .
Starting in November 3rd , running to December 9th . We haven't talked about this yet . It's called the in season tournament . What the heck is this ?
That's right .
Thank you to bring this up and does anybody ? Is anybody going to care ?
I'll just say it up for next time . Dude , I love this , go ahead , talk about it .
Well , what is it and is anybody going to care ?
We care about the end season turn yeah .
What is it ?
I don't even know . I was like no , I Google .
That's great .
No , I Googled it . I was like what is what's , why and how does it happen ? The end season tournament in the NBA , it's like one on one , it's like the NBAcom all right End season tournament . One on one . Rule is format and how it works .
The inaugural end season tournament will tip off on Friday , november 3rd and culminate with the championship on this Saturday , december 9th . The NBA end season tournament is a new annual competition for all 30 teams that will debut in the 23 , 24 season man . So it's a whole thing , is this ?
just a different way for the commissioner or the leadership in the NBA to say hey guys , stop sitting out games . We need all your stars playing every game , so let's do this anyway .
Oh , I like , yeah , yeah , Well all 30 teams have been randomly drawn to a group of five within their conference based on one loss record just from the 22 , 22 , 23 regular season . Beginning November 3rd and continuing through Tuesday November 28th , each team will play four designated group play games on quote unquote tournament nights .
One game against each opponent in this group , with two games at home and two on the road . Blah , blah , blah , knockout rounds . It's kind of fun , man , you know like if we judge like what is this ? Because we want to change . It's new and the NBA has always done well with change and they did amazing with the bubble .
¶ The Jrue Holiday Quiz
Well , the world can't wait . The world is just , and Tis can't just . Just can't wait for October 24th because the world just does not like baseball anymore .
Everybody just ooh , this is things .
And then even the football fan this thing they're like . You know what they're grasping at . This is how bad football is . Right now , we're celebrating a guy in the college ranks , dion Sanders , where his team's not even good .
It's OK .
It's like they're 500 . It's like hey .
Don't you dare . How dare you ? That's Coach Prime . He's one of my heroes , bud . He's actually done pretty well for what he had with Hannah Tumor-Eithring . He is let's do . I want to do a whole thing on Dion , because that was my childhood and he's . Nobody has done what he's done . Nobody has gone to the World Series Like dude .
What he did as a baseball player and a football player in his career , just he was so awesome . He's the best and he's a man of faith , just like Drew . A man of faith and his wife Listen .
I love the story too , but enough's enough .
It just feels like everybody wants inspiration .
I don't even know why the Sixers have their preseason in Colorado , but the 76ers have been in Colorado and they have Neon Dion Dion's talking to us . So if Dion came in to give us a speech , we're winning the championship . Like I don't know , I'm kind of over it .
It's a lot of hype and whatnot , but he's the real deal . He's a good coach . He's making these men a better man . It's beyond sport and he's just . I have a lot of respect for that man and like his faith and what he's showing and teaching the world , dude . But I know there's all . But hey , man , good for college football right now it's on .
Fuego dude , you know . But what happens in the NFL ? Let's go to the NFL real quick .
No one cares , Everybody wants the NBA season to start , so the real sport can happen , everybody is ready .
We gotta give love to our athletes . They're excited .
No one cares about football , no one cares about baseball . It's all about hoops .
You can't win unless you have a superstar quarterback in the NFL . That's just a fact , stan , I already told you that was done a while ago . I didn't even watch one game , paul .
It's all about hoops baby Hoops , Hoops . I believe , that's right , get this going , man .
Just the journey to June .
I mean , think about where you were coach On that last pod we had at the end of season one . You gotta remember the pod before that . It was all about coming back from 0-3 , got all the way to game seven . Tatum got hurt . You didn't like that . We lost the game . You got on . You were not happy about that roster .
You were not happy about the future of the green . You did not believe . But as you sit here today in , this preseason pod where are you now , coach ?
I didn't lose faith because let me correct myself I was distraught . I was like I know for a fact they won't win a championship , like with just the J's and everything . And I was like so tired of this . It's been so long we haven't won a championship . Oh wait , I just knew it . So it was just so aggravated . But here's another cliche . They're all true .
You never know what the tie's gonna bring in . You never know what's gonna happen tomorrow . I had no idea where we're gonna get Mr Holiday , and on that note , it's the Drew Holiday .
Quiz . There it is Hoops' Quiz Time . That's good .
Great segue . Oh , we're going right into it , man . This is what's made me really happy and amped up the city's electric right now , because we have this man . So are you ready for the Drew Holiday Quiz ? Never been more ready In the coach's corner . Here we go . Do you know how many seasons Mr Drew Holiday has played ? What is his year ?
He's a what year veteran .
I know how old he is , so I'm gonna work off that . Oh , you do know how old is he . Then I'll give you a little point 33 .
33 . Ding , ding , ding , I'll give you one .
so you have any guess . So based on that , so I got a ding ding . Where was he born ? Los , angeles , california , ding ding , ding Two . Where'd ?
he go to college . This is my guy . I'm getting the jersey . Where'd he go to ?
college . You see a leg Ding ding ding . Podcast Paul Nose is nicked . Hey , maybe Podcast Paul got his guy . It's not just Brad getting his guy .
Dude , we've been wanting this guy , you and I talked about it .
Based on that age . I'm gonna go with 11 years in the league , 14 year veteran Wow .
Yeah , wow , oh , yeah exactly .
And an NBA champion , mind you that , thank you . What year did he get the NBA championship ? 2021 . Boom , that is no Ding ding ding . And he was instrumental .
I would say he's like maybe the reason they won Made , yeah , major instrument , made the net . We watched that . It was beautiful .
How many times has he been in NBA ? This is making me feel warm and fuzzy .
Oh , this is true , when I knew when we got drew it was game over Like emergency . Paul , let's go . Everybody real Hooper fan , we know , like floor general , like I don't give floor general to Kyrie or Cambo , I give it to this man . He's a made man . And when was he drafted ? In what round Can you get this ? Ooh , this is tough . When was he ?
What year was he drafted , man ? Come on man .
Oh , so you says 14 years ago . Well , hold on .
Yeah , 14 years ago , there you go .
Genius , let's go 2008 or , come on man , nine , 2009, . Sorry , I can't add .
First round , 17-year-old . Where'd he go ? Where'd he go ? Where'd he go ? First , let's just run through his teens . Boom , it was traded what year To who .
Well , he went to the Pelicans , that's right . And that would say what year ? Maybe 2012 ? Ooh , 2013 .
Boom , then he played for seven years , and then when was he traded to the who ?
Then he was traded to the Bucks , and that would have been the birth of the pod .
It's all connected the birth of the pod , he goes to the Bucks and now we just got him . How many times has it been NBA All-Star ?
Three-time NBA All-Star Ooh twice 2013, .
in last year , brother . He's a three-time NBA All-Defensive First team . This is what I care about a lot . Oh , 2018 , 2021 , 2023 . He's a two-time NBA All-Defensive Second team . This is what I care about and this is what I love too . I know it's corny . It's not corny . I shouldn't even say that . He's a sportsmanship award winner .
He is the people go to him . He is the guy dude . He has a morality , his just humble and mild and just calm nature . He's such the leader we've been waiting for and that's it . Now I want you one more , one more . I want you to get this man .
Hold on , hold on , hold on . Can I just throw something in , because everything you're saying is making me warm and fuzzy . I'm feeling great , I got my guy , but you know what the counter is and we already heard it from the Heat Fan . Oh , I mean , it's more recent C-Bias which we all are in sports . Back to the Milwaukee getting dethroned .
The one C to the eight C . Jimmy Butler went off in that series and guess who ? He torched Drew Holliday .
He torched he torched .
So what I would say to that ? Maybe it was how Milwaukee played him , and that's where I get the excitement going , because I would argue Derek White is right with him on defense . So now it's not just Drew Holliday here .
That's not how we're gonna do this thing .
Yeah , he's a major component , he can play defense and our defense is gonna be back . But don't forget about Derek White , don't forget about Jalen Brown he's gonna be back . His defense wasn't good last year .
And Jason Tatum , well said Well said dude , who then we'll leave with us . I believe he scored . He had numbers . He's had numbers last season , all right , and he averaged 19.3 , 7.4 assists , 5.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game as a lead in the box .
¶ Celtics Players and Team Strength
Who else ? Who's the last Celtics player to have such prolific single season numbers ? Please tell me who .
Oh , it's gotta be this , because you're into the secret city here , isaiah Thomas . Oh , no , it's not oh , because they have the same number . Remember , isaiah worked for four man we love little Isaiah .
No , the man that doesn't get enough love Ray Jean Rondo .
Oh what do you mean doesn't get enough love ? I love Rondo , I love me some Rondo I don't think he does like really as Celtics fans .
He was so prolific as a guard , all right and just because we had the big three and he was a fourth he was a kid Learned from those guys . But that's it , man , like that's it . That's a crazy degree . We got Derek White the back court . I believe it's the best of it's not . I believe I know it's the best defense for the back court in the league .
We're paying Pritchard he's gonna step his game up . He has . He's in better spirits . I know he's gonna do well .
And then we have a look at it to extend the guy and he's gonna get playing time . He was crying about that last year .
He's gonna , so he's a third option with ball handling , and then the weaknesses with the team they don't need to get .
So you're feeling good with Lou Cornette . Is your backup , Lou Cornette ? They don't have any center depth man .
Come on , man , Big Al dude Well besides big Al , we haven't talked about Delano Banton . We'll talk about him next time .
Yeah , yeah , we have plenty of time for that . This is , this is . He is a guard .
He can ball and JD Davidson has come through , like we just had some handlers . But that's it , man . That's it . Quiz over podcast finalized .
Awesome , man . Well , we , we , we'll be back when the regular season starts . It's gonna be exciting , just watching preseason to see all these players we didn't even hit on Phoenix , some of the others Just to see these new teams together as we get ready .
But , like I said , the world's been waiting because everything else in the sports world has been just terribly boring , except Dion . Sorry , yeah , man , why don't you take us out the way you always do , man ?
Let's say man , another great pod , the brothers . Just two mercs talking hoops the journey to June . You know , I'm gonna keep it real simple , because that's what we need to do . Just keep it simple , stay in the moment , fill your life with love and grace and take care of each other . We got the best back home . We got the team .
It's the green , it's the gold and the green .
Just two mercs . The journey to June continues .