So it turns out this was a gap year after all.

We'll take one more look back before we look forward and try to answer some questions about this roster.

Hey, welcome back to the Lockdown Selfics podcast. I am John Corrales.

And today we're getting one more look back at this Celtics season now that it's over.

And before we take a look forward, later on in the show, we'll start looking forward at some of the questions and how the Celtics are going to start approaching their offseason. This is going to be a lot of what we talk

about as the as the offseason starts to progress. But this really was a gap year. And to talk

about that with me is, of course, our guy, Tom Western. Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm thrilled to be here to discuss once again the utility and usefulness of gap years.

They're good.

It's kind of funny.

So I mentioned this on yesterday's podcast.

I'll throw the analogy out to you that this was like, you those little used car places the little like little lots

that spring up alongside it's like Joe's used car a lot and he's got like 10 cars on there like that's

what this season was that it was that it was that little used car and like when you when you buy it's like

yeah this is kind of like an afford right now and I know it's not great but we're going, we're just going to, it's just going to get me to where I need to go.

Yeah. And you're like, but you know what? I know how to tinker with an engine. So you tinker with the engine a little bit, clean it up, blah, blah. And this starts driving great. you're like, wow, this is actually a better car, man.

You might have gotten a great deal on this car.

This was, you know what?

This is, what a, what a find this was.

This was. this is actually a better car man you might have gotten a great deal on this car this was you know what

this is what a what a find this was this was and like by march you like this you might have gotten

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