Bobby Marks on Celtics-Nuggets, Ben Simmons, KAT's injury, and Wembanyama

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Zach and ESPN's Bobby Marks discuss Denver's win over Boston in a potential Finals preview, whether Boston has crunch-time issues, the game's impact on the MVP race, and much more -- the impact of Karl-Anthony Towns injury on Minnesota's playoff chances and big-picture future, Dallas' win over Miami, ankle issues for Steph Curry, Victor Wembanyama, and LeBron James, Ben Simmons being out for the season, and what to make of Wembanyama wanting to win more soon. Then -- a special guest on all things Cavs and tax season. Celtics in crunch time (12:57) You can't double-team Jokic (17:01) The Porzingis matchup for Jokic (24:53) Ben Simmons out for the year (34:16) KAT's injury (38:33) Keeping an eye on the Mavs (51:08) Is there another level for the Kings? (55:02) The Magic are making a charge (1:01:55) The noise around Wembanyama is just that (1:06:03) Cavs forward Dean Wade (1:16:31) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the Low Post.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Low Post podcast early on a Friday morning where we had a game so good, so important, that old man me stayed up till one in the morning to watch
0:16.8	the whole goddamn thing from the start to finish. I knew I was going to be able to sleep until I knew the
0:20.8	result and it lived up to the hype Boston with an improbable late rally to get it just close enough
0:29.4	against the Denver Nuggets in a potential final preview to remind you, yeah, I guess we should
0:35.6	trust the defending champs and the best player in basketball a little bit more down
0:40.6	the stretch than Boston who has now lost two in row how improbable that
0:44.3	both of these teams came into this colossal matchup off a loss the nuggets sweep
0:49.9	the season series against the Celtics both games coming down to
0:53.2	crunch time both games coming down in part to Jason Tatum misses at the end of
0:57.9	games. Yolkich just an absolutely majestic triple double 32 points 11 assist 12
1:06.0	rebounds zero turnovers and Bobby Marks the story of the game is that
1:12.3	Boston like every other team in the NBA, has no answer.
1:16.6	They tried everything.
1:17.8	They tried everybody.
1:19.0	They tried every scheme.
1:20.4	He barbecued chicken, all of it, every single time until the end when they went all the way back to saying okay I guess we got to try poor Zingus on him again and what happened down the stretch when they went all the way back to that scheme
1:31.8	Yolkech put him in the basket with a minute 20 left
1:35.2	to put the nuggets up by five.
1:37.2	And then was gonna put them in the basket again.
1:40.6	The Celtics swarmed a triple team and the crazy no look what did I just see hook
1:47.2	pass to Aaron Gordon it felt like the 19th time that Yolkich found Aaron
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