Boston Celtics w/ Jared Weiss: Tatum’s Improvement, Biggest Playoff Issues, Grading the Season

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jared Weiss of the Athletic to grade the Boston Celtics’ season. Who were the biggest surprises? Is Jayson Tatum’s improvement sustainable? What are their issues going into the playoffs? Who would he pick in a Boston/Toronto series? Who was the team MVP? And how have their young players come along? Note that COVID Daily News is now a separate pod. Please subscribe to that show on its own feed via Apple, Spotify or RSS Feed, or by searching “Nate Duncan” in your podcast player. You can subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player. And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux. Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0	Sunday night edition of the pod and you may have noticed our new Sunday tradition here is bringing in a local expert to talk about their team and
0:09.0	Do a little season review and if applicable as it certainly is in this case look ahead to a
0:15.0	Potential playoffs for that team and we're bringing Jared Weiss of the athletic and the
0:21.8	Boston Celtics man at least in my opinion for this show, so let's let's talk about it here
0:27.7	Jared, how you doing man good? I prepared a bunch of notes about the coronavirus. I guess I must have been prepping for the wrong podcast
0:35.9	Man, I these discussions are always a nice escape
0:40.5	To be sure um, so when we last talked it was
0:45.1	We had a number of topics to discuss. I think it's pretty clear to me that the Celtics that have exceeded my
0:53.0	Expectations for the season. I think I had them at like 48 wins. They were well on pace to exceed that
0:59.7	So at least to date what would your grade be overall for the Celtic season compared to your expectations coming up?
1:07.5	I'd say a minus I guess I'd have them in an a compared to our
1:13.0	Expectations before the season, but I'll give them any minus just because you can't give a team an A when they're not the Milwaukee bucks
1:19.0	So on that scale you've been a minus. I mean, they're fifth and offensive rating fourth and defensive rating
1:24.9	Which I think is the biggest surprise considering what they lost this off season and Steven figures it out every single year
1:32.4	I don't know how but he somehow figures out how to get a great defensive scheme going. It's seemingly regardless of who he has for personnel
1:39.6	But they they've been cohesive. They've been potent
1:43.6	I mean, they've been kind of everything that they weren't last season and they were on pace for about
1:49.1	57-58 wins
1:50.0	So I think I think I had them at 52 wins this year and that was
1:54.0	That wasn't necessarily modest. That was the like the front office the ownership
1:58.8	Basically saying that this year was supposed to be a bridge year to contention next season and they're already right there in contention this year
2:06.2	They're obviously not on the same plane as the top to your teams
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