Celtics Dominate Game 1 of the NBA Finals
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht is joined by Celtics beat writer Jay King and Mavericks beat writer Tim Cato to discuss Game 1 of the NBA Finals. How did the Celtics dominate the Mavericks? How did they take away the corner 3s and lobs from the Mavericks? We discuss all this and more on today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:33.6 | Welcome to a finals edition of the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm your host, Andrew Schlect, with me. |
| 0:42.5 | I've got the guys on the beat. |
| 0:44.0 | I've got Jay King and I've got Tim Cato. |
| 0:47.0 | Here to talk about the 107-89 victory from the Boston Celtics in Boston for game one. |
| 0:52.9 | The major storyline going into this one was the return of Christophe's Porzingis. |
| 0:57.3 | How is he going to look? |
| 0:58.9 | We learned a few minutes prior to tip that he was going to come off the bench. |
| 1:02.9 | And boy, did he look great coming off the bench, 20 points, six rebounds, three blocks, |
| 1:09.4 | two of four from three. |
| 1:11.2 | Jay King, what did you see from Porzingis tonight? |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, so first of all, I had no clue what he was going to look like. |
| 1:20.1 | He kind of ropedopo-doped in his press conference earlier this week, |
| 1:24.4 | just did not commit at all to being a good health. |
| 1:28.7 | Listening to him, I kind of thought, uh-oh, this guy might still not be right physically. |
| 1:34.9 | When they decided to bring him off the bench, which he hadn't done since 2017, that was another |
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