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Celtics lose to the Indiana Pacers who have won three games in a row. And, you know, not really, like, I know they're last.

I know that they've been kind of a joke.

I know, but they've also played the Celtics tough.

And this, this is a little bit

closer to what the Pacers, like the Pacers were never supposed to be the, the single digit win

team at the bottom of the standings. I know they don't have Halliburton and I know they got

Miles Turner was playing in Milwaukee and all of that stuff, but they

weren't supposed to be this bad. And look, they've had a bunch of injuries. They're starting to get

back to a little bit of who they are. So this isn't exactly the like, oh my God, I can't believe the

Celtics lost to what was the last place team in the NBA.

This is, they still should have won.

They still should have won this game.

They had plenty of opportunities to win this game.

Later on, we'll get into, once again, the officials, three losses and four nights for the Celtics.

And once again, all three losses, the officials take center stage.

Once again, Joe Azula with the illegal screen.

That's coming up in the third segment.

We'll talk about individual performances and all of that when we get to the second segment.

But look, another clutch loss for the Celtics is, this is tough, right?

We just talked about the clutch crisis in yesterday's show.

And I know, again, no Jalen Brown, but the Celtics still had opportunities to win this game.

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