The Resilience and Rise of the Celtics

Just two Murph's talking hoops . The journey to June has arrived . Folks , that's right . June is here , the coach is here . Podcast Paul is here . We've made it . How are you coach ?

I'm fantastic , I feel fresh in my new official jb jersey . Let's go .

Okay , I got we got to talk about this jersey , but before we do that , I got to kick off the pod this way . This has been our second year , second season , of doing this journey to june . Right , rebranding the pod just tumors , talking hoops .

We have made it to june coach we've made it it's eight years , paul first of all , paul's , engulfed in the logo , his face is in his mug . Ha ha , ha ha . We just started the background stuff , feeling a little like .

Paul .

Welcome folks . We call our fans , folks , welcome . I got boss in the background . Podcast P's got the Celtics logo . I'm Coach Murph , the younger brother of Podcast Paul , aka Prophetic P . Prediction P , podcast P , coiction P , podcast P , cozy P , we like to say , because we've got to keep it cozy right , this is going to be such a cozy pod .

Let's just start with present .

I guess you're so good at taking the reins . I'm going to do my best to not interrupt but interject . That's what I've been figuring out . I can interject but not interrupt .

And I'm going to do my best to stay professional . Okay , and you go out . Where are we going ? We are going to get to the . I said we're going to get to the journey jersey next , but we're going to get there next after this , wherever you want to go . So back to this journey yes we've been waiting a long time .

Boom .

Authentic , so that's awesome by the way anyways , I want to take that conversation in a second on the jays , because that's important so we , that's perfect .

That's why I brought the . So what would paul podcast ? Paul saying I'm this trusty sidekick knew that already that he's gonna like I have to rep what he was saying . I have to rep jb . And that's why I got the jersey , because I had a feeling you did . You knew I was .

I love this podcast and and I want to talk about his growth , because it's a huge piece of this , especially when you go back to where he was after game seven jb man well , okay , let's do this , but but I I do want to get to another theme that's very important to me with with where we are in the finals and why I'm feeling so confident right now on this

Let's get that out of the way . We just got a big dub and it was a statement W-2 .

I know we have so much to talk about . We are getting on here after Game 1 just happened

They've grown so much Like all right , just .

Jalen . Talk about Jalen . Yes , they've grown so much .

Just Jalen . Talk about Jalen . Yes , jalen , that's why I own it $304 million . There's another reason why I'm wearing this jersey . Where was he when he found out from his agents that , when he got the biggest contract of all time in NBA history and he's the highest paid player , do you know where he ?

was . Where was he ? I think he was at the boys and girls club or no , no , no , even better .

Paul , because that's great , because , yes , he's a huge part of our community man diversity , education . What he's going to do with this money . They're like what are you going to do with that money ? Jb , at a press conference he's like good question .

Wait , wait , wait . Hold , that thought I know that's a whole other topic , he dunks on everybody , he catches bodies .

He's a beast . He's progressed as a player . He's not dribbling off the speed anymore , and it's just . They've grown .

What about his defense ?

Yes , yes , they were last game . We're only as good as our last game , right and the whole team so .

I'll just stop there , so before we get into probably the most exciting part of game one sorry .

Last thing I want to say Andy got snubbed . I'm the all-star , this is him . There's no JT without JB and vice versa . God willing , we're going to get the ring and they're going to get that monkey off the back of the Jays .

Let's go Well , you know what Wait , now that you said that there's , you know they're , they're different players and there's no . Jt without JP . I actually was listening to something last night online and I loved it . You know we all talk about the team with the player player right , dallas has got luca right .

They're better this right , yeah oh yeah , they've embraced their relationship . I feel like they , oh man , they're like break up the jays and I'm like no adversity , baby . They stuck together . We grow , man . It's like family , it is family right ?

well , we can thank brad for that . We're going to get into the biggest part of the game in a second , but this is what I wanted to talk about , yeah off the jump here , um , the celtics path right , and you think about last year . They just weren't mentally ready .

That was fun to watch .

That's fantastic in the regular season , but we know from our own Celtics back in 2018 , when the Jays were young and fresh , they went far in the playoffs . But they were little young kids , they weren't battle-tested . And Minnesota God love them they took out the champs . I can't believe it , but I feel like that was the hugest win here .

You made that metaphor when we talked about that was the hugest win for our green this year is Denver .

In my mind , and I know you agree , we all kind of picked them like we're going to face Dan . We've been talking about it all year and we didn't really like that matchup . We saw them play him twice in the regular season for whatever reason , even as even when chris stops was healthy we just didn't match up well with denver .

We would beat anybody that we face in the finals .

I just think and I got to be careful here , folks it's only one win .

Look at how they played .

But the NBA is all about matchups . And this matchup for the Celtics . Wow , did we score ?

Yeah , they have to . Kyra didn't show up . There's so much on him to score Him , and Luke Luka and him have to have games to beat us , that's right . And we have more weapons than the Nugs .

So I'm going to like not well , I got another one for you on the Dallas .

But I've never seen the garden , heard the garden , felt the garden like that . I don't care who you're facing , it was stratospheric Mars . They were in Mars . When Zingas came in , it was next level zonal .

We're going to get there .

Who the team was nuggets matchups or nothing . We were going to destroy them .

No no hold on hold , on hold on . We're going to get the Chris Stapps in three seconds .

Yeah , I'm just saying it doesn't matter who you were , we were beating you , Doesn't matter who you are .

But here's the thing . Did you see the ?

game . You know what I'm talking about .

I know , but I'm the first one to admit this I didn't watch all of Dallas's games in the Western Conference Finals . I actually was really into Denver , Minnesota and Minnesota in general , but I feel like Minnesota ran out of gas . But the reason why Dallas won these games .

No zing , no ring coined here J two M's We've set up first . We'll make the t-shirts one day , absolutely not . Well , I've never wow . I've never wow . We love him and I want to give you a big . I guess they listened to the last thought .

it was incredible that was , and like you said , he's great , we sprinkled him .

We didn't need to play him the whole game dude .

obviously the offense was great . Back to defense Nine blocks .

We had nine to their one , the Boston block party . But the big stat that I sent you was the differential . What was it ? It was the assists ?

Yeah , one assist , but that's back to the lob game . All the assists are these lobs . We're taking away the lobs and guess what , unless they have a huge adjustment and we're getting on this pod after game one . So it's the finals . This is the way it's going to be .

Wow .

We , you know .

I was hoping he'd look good , but this we went through the whole playoffs without having won . And when he came in there I was like you know me , rarely two for words , I had no words , I was silent , silent coach . It was incredible 20 to their five assists , we had 20 . They had five .

Kyrie after the game .

I thank God , I didn't . What did he say ?

So he's all fresh and clean . He's holding the basketball and they go . So how was that crowd he's like ? Actually , I didn't think that they were that loud . Oh , he's just playing .

He can't help himself . No , that's just part of the game . That's good , it's all . Here After this , I have the privilege and honor to warm up my Pembroke boys . They're incredible . And what do you think I'm doing ? I'm prepping their minds . We're getting ready . We're getting our joints ready .

year was that that was the 22 finals .

Paul's beautiful . I was like all right , I was at the time . I was like beautiful aka for Derek White Trade of Destiny and they're close

It's the same right . We don't need to over . Like you said , have fun . And the other thing about this we've all watched . Everybody listening to this pod is sports fans . We've been sports fans a long time . We've been waiting for this team to break through . This is their fifth Eastern Conference Finals , right ? Am I doing the math ? Right ? 2018 , 2020 , 2021 .

no , Is that eight years 22, ?

23 . Right Five , yeah five Eastern Conference finals , one finals . Here's the key . Back to Todd . Yeah , that was his first finals . That was JT's first finals . They were nervous , dude . Oh yeah , they were not ready . They played the Warriors . These guys have played in the finals . None of these guys except Kyrie have .

it was incredible . Yeah , let's , let's hold it down .

I think they're going to play better . They have to . The others will play better .

Oh yeah , they did in the second half . Second half they made some adjustments . It was there was no , it didn't matter who you were , it was us , it was on a whole nother level . The energy , the chemistry , and that's what we have can we talk about something ? Back to the crowd yes , okay , you just pumped up our crowd .

They were great . The energy , hey , this is . This is a shout out to boston fans and who's going to game two , green , especially game two , because I know what I'm doing . It . Congratulations , good guys , listen to what we're saying , relax it's enjoy the moment . This team is good . We've seen all year . We saw last series . They can go down . They can .

We're still up eight points .

Yeah , we're still up eight points . It was fine .

And then boom , JB started locking down . I was not in the ward at all , I didn't have . But yeah , just keep the energy going in the arena .

Can we talk about Jason Tatum but ?

you're like you said you're the moment man . It's moment . I'd like to talk about jason tatum now all right , jt let's go so back to paul cozy p oh dude , we're in june .

We made it back to june , the journey to june . We've arrived . Oh , have we arrived ? Not only we have arrived , jason tatum has arrived . And for all the pundits out here that don't understand basketball , let me explain something to you . It's not about scoring 30 points , because , guess what ? You know who scored 30 points in game ? One , luka Doncic .

I'm so happy . I think I'm the happiest for him because he's one of the longest he has . I think he's tied with stockton or right behind stocks for most postseason like playoff games . He's played bigyear-old doing work , right he was hungry .

He wants the ring . Give it to me .

Give Big Al his seven rebounds 30 minutes , 10 points and three assists 10 points . Jt 16 points , but what did he have ? 11 ?

rebounds , thank you , and like eight assists , I'm going to guess .

Five , but that's fine . Okay , JT , jt . J points , six rebounds , two assists . Derek White 15 , five , two , five assists , two rebounds .

And he had double figures and points .

Everybody had dubs . That's what I'm saying .

There you go , 20 points .

To save the best for last , our guy , welcome back . We love you . Hashtag different here 20 points and Noah says no big deal Because he wasn't playing that much . He only played 20 minutes and had 6 rebounds there it is right there , it's all spread out . Perfectly .

That's exactly what we're looking for . Don't we remember folks ? Are we forgetful here ? All spread out perfectly , exactly . That's exactly what we're looking for , don't we remember folks ? Are we forgetful here ?

We don't want to live in the past , Let me . That was a lot . Let me do the points here . Ready Points 10 , 16 , 22 , 15 , 12 , 20 .

We don't want to live in the past , but we don't want to forget either . And and are we forgetting just in the most recent past , last year , how upset we get when it's just this one-on-one game with JB and JT right ?

And now we're yelling because JT's not scoring too much dude .

He's letting the . The growth in this man . I almost want to cry . It's amazing . He is letting the game come to him , those drive and kicks the rebound . He knows what he needs to do . Last finals 2022 , he did too much on his own . That's why we lost . If you know , if game two I do too much , if game two means he's got to score more , he'll do it .

This is the final night , baby , so we're taping this , we're doing this podcast .

The , the final night baby . So we're taping this , we're doing this podcast . The only thing that's going to get in our way is ourselves . We know this . You know , I mean I think we look is here we exactly . We're in june . This team let go of the rope . In april , in may , when they're playing friggin miami with nobody and cleveland with nobody .

That was the worst wrong of my , my calling out they made . I was like there's no way they're going deep . They showed a lot of heart and he was injured too . But you see these injuries , you see who's out . There's certain injuries that you're having here , but they just we were their major kryptonite . They'll adjust . Gafford didn't do too much .

You know what I learned about PJ Washington ? So all I knew is he was hitting all these threes in the last couple of series , but you know where he hits his threes , but you know where he hits them . Corner threes .

Yeah .

And we took that away . Yeah , we did they can't hit them , they and hit him up top Dude . Okay , that brings up . I want to talk about a couple other players . We'll get there . This is the finals dude .

Yeah , baby , welcome .

I hope you're enjoying this Pod alert .

Wait , wait , wait . We've got pod alert Check it out . I don't know .

Let's go . All right , here we go , here we go I love it , so we have Will .

Oh Will the .

Wise . So Will the yeah , will the Wise

He's not a Doris fan , she's . She's smart man . He does not like Doris , disdaining Doris , but His number one thing . He's a Celtics fan though , so shut up .

His number one throughout the year , all the way up until I talked to him just yesterday . That's why I want to do this oh you had a nice chat with Will . He's always sending these text messages .

Let's get you on soon , will ? Let's get him on Paul .

He's always sending me these text messages of second row Joe . Second row Joe , Just making fun of Joe .

He knows he's going to get you Second row , joe . Joe just stands there , he doesn't do .

Joe just stands there . Well , guess what folks will . Has taken a turn . He is praising coach Joe .

Thank you , everybody , he , they will , they will they will I like I said ? He was , he was , so imagine what he had to soak in for the two years . First of all , he's the most winningest coach of all time .

Can we talk about his record this year right now , 77-20 .

Enough said . Like I said , we're not going to get into what we already talked about before , but everything we were talking about taking away their lobs .

The way Kristaps came off the bench , he's pulling all the light levers .

He's grown in his coaching , he's open to growth . That's all you have to be man , willing and open to listen to your players . And he was like I'd see him . He'd be so focused His eyes man , so focused , man of faith and soaking it all in . And here we are .

Brad , everybody's like get rid of .

Joe Brad's like no , no , no , no . Brad's like no , no , no , no . And then look what happened this year .

What happened , I don't know as you were talking , I just started feeling really cozy and kind of zingy Anyway .

Let's go , and I just wanted to . I'm looking at the stats . Last game I said 20 to 5 . I'm just doing corrections , coaches , corrections 23 . It was 23 , 9 after I sent you that before the game was over , but but 23 . I'm just looking at the cysts , though , man . I'm looking at these stats . We , we beat them on the boards barely .

You know , it's not , it's not that big a deal can I talk about an underrated thing that happened in the game .

Turnovers , what Probably one of my favorites .

I was going to actually text you before the finals started to say this is going to be my unsung hero . And he did absolutely nothing last series , like literally nothing . It was embarrassing , but man , was I so proud of little Sam Hauser .

Dude , he's back . He's back .

We never went , when we do , he's no , he couldn't hit a three to save his life last year . Yeah , he had a couple , I know , but he's no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no no no , no , that was like new , this game , the D where he rose up and played better D .

It's like whoa , sammy , let's go . And Pritchard Luke got a little time in there , I think Shvi got a little time in there and we didn't talk about it . We didn't see . We did talk about X-Men , x-men coming in , but we didn't see that yet . We didn't really need it .

We don't need it but .

We didn't really need it . We don't need it . We'd like to see we have the bench .

We had a little Luke in garbage time .

We did , we did .

What we're saying about . We had Geno time in game one , jason Kidd throwing the white flag .

Your Brissette , your O'Shea . He is a player , he's a body . I guess X-Men didn't even .

I don't think we're gonna see a lot of those guys . It's a finals dude . It's all he didn't even dress up , dude , in fact , did you notice ? Yeah every time there was so many substitutions in the game . I don't know if you noticed that back to coach . Joe back to coach joe every time kairi went out holiday went out out Every time Irving went back in .

How strong did he ?

play . Oh , and let's talk about that , drew .

Wait , wait , wait . Let's talk about Coach Joe again .

Another coach ? No , another Coach , joe . So in the beginning it was Jalen on Luka , and Luka , or Jalen , was playing great . Remember he picked his pocket and had to dunk right , oh yeah , I remember his pocket and had to dunk right , oh yeah . But then lucas started getting going . That's why it got down to eight points .

Oh , he's a dog . You see , he wasn't he letting the full dog out . He's out . He was out , he want he's . He was bossing up thank you those vets dude him in big alice betting up . You seen it , you seen it .

The vets play , oh yeah , tomorrow night talk about brad out of june 8th saturday . This is where can we talk about brad out of nowhere ?

it's 5 pm . Western boys and girls and folks . It's 8 pm for us eastern . He's he's got the pacific , so it's 8 pm for us Eastern he's got the Pacific , so it's 8 pm for us out here in the Green Nation , paul's repping Northwest big time .

Thank you for repping . We have some Brad talk .

Please Want to talk a little . Brad Stevens , can we go back ?

This is a story of a journey , guys . We finally arrived .

Let's get funky and just make it a Brad Stevens quiz Go .

Go , go , right ahead . You're going to answer the questions .

You started answering the questions before they even happened . Anyway , that was my quiz . I have one quiz and that was the backup one . Maybe I was going to do that's the major one we're doing .

So let's just go right into it All right , let's do it .

Brad Stevens quiz . Do we know how old Brad Stevens is ?

I'm gonna guess on this one 42 .

Oh , he's not that young brother . He's one year older than you , trusty sidekick . He's 47 . I turned 46 in july , october 22nd 1976 . Where was the man born um ?

well , he , uh , what was the green law ? Green law ? Oh , he was born in massachusetts .

No , no , no , no no , no green law as in larry law oh , indiana , all right , because butler , of course , indiana . Yeah , do you know what college he went to ? Did he go to butler too ? He did . He went to depaul and like he was a guard and he did work , but you know about where he coached , that's also where he went to . Butler .

Let's give him 10 years .

Listen to this . He started as an assistant at Butler .

I'm not doing well on this quiz .

I know , but it's okay . You're going to know we need to do a refresher about Joe 2001, . He started as assistant at Butler and stayed there all the way until 2013 . He was there for 12 years and then became head coach .

Oh , excuse me , the actual title would be president of basketball operations .

Yes .

Did I get it Ding ding ?

And what did he win this year ? For a war as an executive Executive of the year , boom .

Let's go , man , All right 200 . He's making moves , well well okay , I'm almost done , we can keep going .

You can talk about it while I do this .

I was going to say with that executive of the year once we're done with the quiz . That's where I want to get to ?

Yeah , it's almost done . Yeah , we're almost done . Keep going , keep going about the executive . I'll go on . No , no , no , no after all right , so we'll just go into the right , like his coaching . Do you remember when he was coaching ? Can you give me the years of salt is coaching people don't remember this stuff tough .

I would say it started , because when was isaiah there and we started doing some stuff ? I would say it started maybe 2014 . Then if he was that butler for 2013 , it was the next year 2014 , 2014 to 2020 or 2019 sorry folks when did my quiz just ?

got , my quiz went bye-bye .

I have to go back to my quiz did brad coach during the , the , the bubble year . Oh yeah , he coached through 21 . Yeah , in 2014 to 2021 .

On July 3rd 2013 , stevens was signed as the head coach of the Boston Celtics Right To coach .

So 2013 , 2014 season .

That's right , you got it . Ding , ding , ding , ding , boom . That's hard . Good for you , he left the post 21 .

Good memory man , because we lost in the first round . Remember we were a playing team that year . But your boy , jalen , coach loving that jersey more and more oh man I got the black so fresh and they're wearing that one .

I get really fresh right now . What ?

you know what's awesome about that Now .

Coach is getting crazy .

They are wearing that Jersey game too , cause they that when they started losing those game twos ? Here's some knowledge for you . You might not know this coach when they lost game two and round one and in gate member round two , one and two they lost game two .

I'm at the practice , I'm warming these kids up . I'm gonna come in just like this son and it's gonna , it's going down , people are gonna . There's a whole show going on , baby . There's a inflamed coach , fully fervent on fire , and that's what we got to be man , you got to be on fire . You got to turn it on , man , you know , and that's it for this quiz .

No , no no , no , it's the Brad Stevens quiz .

All right , never mind , no , alright , nevermind , no , we should have judged it .

never moralize or judge yourself it was an awesome quiz and I'll tell you why you and I wouldn't be sitting here he was a great coach . We wouldn't be sitting here right now if it wasn't for Brad . We would . Who knows if season two would have happened without Brad . And that's getting back to your executive of the year and getting that one right .

He was done with the Jays . I wasn't going to jump ship . I was not .

Because you didn't know what Brad was going to do . You didn't know what Brad was going to do . Look what Brad did Chris stops Porzingis . How did he remember Chris stops Porzingis ? How did he remember ? We were upset at first , though .

A little upset . Even though we were happy , we lost .

Marcus , we lost Marcus .

I was . I was completely everybody's , whatever . I was good about that . I was good with Luke getting Chris steps right away , like I didn't know we were going to get him . Like I was good , I'm not like Ooh , but like I knew that that team was not going in , it was doing it . I knew it , I was and we were going through the heartbreak , heartbreak .

I mean , I , I really don't want this to be a uh one , you know , blame it on marcus mark .

But it's not a blame game , not a blame game , not a blame game no , never .

But it's called an upgrade game , it just is .

Upgrade Chris Stapps and Drew and like the bench , like we are . No , we had to expect those two Without Drew too . Then Don't let the big man shadow Drew .

No , of course . No , that's where I want to go with this . Yeah , how did Brad , how did this happen ? Thank you , milwaukee .

LeBron's got him for peanuts . What did he say ? He said something funny . When he was with Redick , jj had him in his show . He said they got him for like a what was Milwaukee ? Thinking Got him for nothing . We got him for nothing . Got him for nothing , we got him for nothing .

What were they thinking ? I mean , we get back to chips .

We got him for a bag of chips . Think about the growth of this team .

Ron said yeah , we think we talk about how , how mentally strong they are . It's because of drew holiday . Drew's the glue .

Drew's the glue that coined here Folks podcast . Paul drew the glue .

Check it out . And again , I love Marcus . I always love Marcus . This is not a diss on him , it's just this holiday thing . He's a champion dude . He just won the championship .

Do you know what I'm saying ? He was our , he was our missing ingredient Shooting big man , the league , he's overshadowed . He was overshadowed by the Nuggets . It's hard to win back-to-back , it's hard to any team to get back to the finals , man , but we didn't know , that was the habit of Minnesota . That was incredible . That was so cool to see that .

You kind of hit on it earlier as far as the adjustments and all that , but we got to remember all this great stuff we're saying about our team and how confident we are . That being said , two years ago we actually won the first game in Golden State . We were up 1-0 in the finals .

Talk about traumatic stress .

And we lost . So one win is one win . We only have three to go , but we've only got one . We haven't accomplished anything , coach , so talk to me about going forward in this series . What's going to happen ? What do we got to look out for ? How are you feeling ? First of all .

This first game in first blood was a huge statement . Just play your game . It's like do your job with Coach Bill . It's so simple . This play . They don't have to do anything . They just do what they do . Man , I don't have to say anything . Do what you did last game .

That's it in every game I also want to say hold on let me finish .

They , they , they did was one thing that was different . I was like all right , let's see , they've closed the game . Yes , they made , they had a little dip and when they came back , but they played , that was like the most hole I've seen them play .

They look great , complete . It's amazing to think that we hadn't seen Chris Dapps since April 29th . It is June 8th , dude 30 games out , I think . April 29th , we basically played , because he only played the first three games in the playoffs . Yeah , we won all these games and did all of this without him . I almost forgot what it was like with him .

All my good fans . They're

But you know what ? I think it's good that they won . Obviously we needed to win without him and there was rumors he could have come back . That's why I knew he was ready last series . But he is Chris Dobbs . He was smiling , having fun .

He was grooving dude .

This is not to be a downer , because this is more to get us positive . He is Chris Stops . Things can happen in a long series . We can win . Do we want him ? Do we need him ? Yes , of course , but if something happens , we can still win without him . We can still win without him , man . So just remember that .

Fans out there that are nervous every time he jumps , he jumps , he jumps , he jumps .

I know we're all thinking that . Right , he jumps up for a dunk .

We're like no , don't do that , don't jump . I wasn't at all , don't jump , I wasn't at all . It's just a calf strain dude . I used to get him all the time . He's got , he's fine and he's it's stop running . No , no , no . You can't have that mentality at all when you're out . That's what I'm saying .

That is exactly my point . Thank you , coach .

I'm glad we're on the same page , Coach Murph baby .

We got to let the the rest of go . Well , no , that that's the one little critique especially with well , with our fans , let it go enjoy the moment . This team's awesome , feel it . If something happens , something happens . But stop thinking , oh no , I don't want anything to happen , it's . It's like we we're .

It's gonna be tough . He didn't we ? Yeah , he has to , and then everybody else will rise up as well . But those two like like big I think it was bill russell who said it , but it's like you , you let the superstar you don't do .

Oh , luca , do do what he , how about the bill walton thing in the beginning ?

well , there it is , folks , the bill walton quiz . I was gonna save it for bill . You said this is near the end , anyway , right , yeah , yeah , and so I was like he just calls , just went right into it . But we , it's the bill walton quiz . Why are we doing that ?

I want one of those shirts they had , it's cool beautiful bill , with his jubilant spirit , always smiling .

This is , this is for you , bill . That's why the spirit of the pod man , and don't forget the granny in the green , the granny in the green Almost forgot again . No way , I'm not going to forget . We forgot but granny Paul and Coach Merz's mama . She's into the Celtics now . She landed in Seattle right during that miracle win .

What game was that ? Game one . That was game one where Jalen had the three-pointer Of the Eastern Conference . Finals Of course we were glued to the TV when that happened , right , Coach , it was awful , that game we should have lost easily .

And she comes in and it's granny in the green . So we have all this fun stuff going on . But Bill we call it the spirit of the pod His spirit's with us and I'm thinking like , wow , he's here . This is affecting everything in such a good way . So we're going to just talk quickly about Bill . He's amazing . He was a Celtic , of course . Great tribute .

No , that's a new one , that's a fun one for you .

You're welcome , but we just want to give him a little love on may's 27th just recently yeah and uh leaves behind his his beautiful family . And thanks , bill , man , you're being there in spirit , spirit of the pop .

He's making us feel cozy . He's , he's giving the zing more zinginess right giving the zing more zinginess dude so here we go , coach . It is saturday the 8th . In between , it's media day again . They they have a two days off , so they're getting back on for game two on sunday . Game three is wednesday , game four is Friday , and I mean , who knows right ?

Do you think this will be a sweep ? Because I was right about Indiana , right , I was joking and you're like stay in the moment . Stay in the moment , yeah .

We shouldn't predict right , should I ?

just sign us off with the , with the answer , and let's just okay , why not ? Why not ? We're good , you got anything else to talk about ? No , that's it that was a wonderful brotherly time man . We have this pod now . We're in the finals game , one in the books , so we have some good confidence going on . But isn't confidence what it's all about , life ?

She has two Mervs talking hoops . June has arrived . Enjoy the rest of the finals . Maybe we'll see you back for banner 18 . We shall see peace out .