These guys won't stop touching.

And you can pretty much do it. You're in Pupportuity. Yep. The sports hub. You get about a half dozen regular season games a year, and this was one of them where it's like, oh, that feels like a conference final or an NBA final. The fans were into it. The players were into it. It was very intense. And let's be totally honest. there's three teams that can win the championship.

And the Celtics and the OKC Thunder, you watched two of them last night. The others, the Spurs.

The Lakers don't have the athletes or the defense. The Pistons don't have the offense.

Denver on most nights, way too Yokic reliant. Houston doesn't have a true point guard.

Forget about that.

They're struggling.

And the Knicks are interesting, but they're not as good as Boston.

And frankly, Brunson and Kat are their two best players

and their major defensive liabilities.

You can hunt both in big playoff games.

The Celtics had six guys in double figures. Now that Peyton Pritchard, when Tatum back is going to go to the bench, he's a killer off the bench. So they've got the bench. They don't turn the ball over. I mean, they're very, Joe Missoulus ended up being an unbelievable coach. We didn't, I mean, the first year you're like, I don't know if that guy's a head coach. He's really good. Players totally respond to him. Tatum, whose shot was kind of clunky for several games back. They're now seven and two with Tatum. So their bigs are young. They've moved off some old guys like Horford and Porzingis. Their bigs are young. They're athletic, they're healthier, they've got a real guy on the bench.

There's, this is a real team.

Does that mean if they don't make it?

They came up short.

They're worthy of a little bit of criticism.

I mean, or is it just all upside and there's nothing like?

Well, you know the answer to that one.

So I just need some sort of ground rules. You need some reality? I need some reality. So like they are the best, they should win. And if they don't, then they came up short in some way. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Look, I'll tell you this. If they play like they played the other night in the second half, they should absolutely be in the finals.

Absolutely.

And if that's what they're capable of, the answer is yes. There's one thing I would give concerned about, well, go ahead. No, you go. I'm sorry. I was just saying there's one thing I would have, be concerned about when they face a team like Oklahoma City again. and that is that your role players played well in this game at home.

So if they have home court... a team like Oklahoma City again. And that is that your role players played well in this game at home.

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