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Okay, let's break our brand new and then we're taking higher. Oh, we're gonna rock it down too. He let's break it. It's part of my take. There's an about harshness for sports. Welcome to part of my take presented by Cross Country Mortgage. Today is Monday, May 2nd, and the Celtics are dead. Oh, I was gonna say those aren't the nets. Those aren't the nets. No. Bucks are not the nets. Tough break for Hank today. This was a rough way to start the series. Now, I think the next game becomes a must win for you. Yeah, by the way, we're gonna talk NFL draft after Cowboy Joe West. We're gonna do NBA and who's back and talk about the fight at Madison Square Garden that we all were at. But let's start with Celtics Box. Not to be reductive Hank, but turns out being tall matters. Being tall matters, I might have been a little bit overconfident. I probably should have not underestimated Bobby Portis. Dude, crazy eyes. But what that being said, Bobby Portis puts on those tactical glasses. Dude, you look awesome. I saw a tweet during the game. Someone was like, Bobby Portis has had his glasses sitting on like the scorers table or

sheet who's sitting out somewhere for a couple minutes and I'm surprised no one has tried to steal it. And I was like, wait, yeah, why didn't anyone try to steal it? This is the playoffs. Absolutely steal it, throw it into the stands. What is the deal with the glasses? What makes him so much better? as you think he can see is there like a heads up display on it where he's like

it's like virtual reality or like reality augmenting glasses where

his teammates get highlighted in green and the fenders get it highlighted red that would be sick he did get he got poked in the eye in the bull series so it's I think it's preventive or or whatever the word would be it's not prevent yeah I guess it is to get it to get more poked in the eye it's like when when real one has and when when he broke his nose, he put the mask on and then he was like a different dude with the mask. I think Portis just has to keep the glasses.

Even he does have crazy eyes, but yeah Hank turns out height matters It's game one. Let's not overreact but I was I was thinking about it and I was like yeah This it does seem like the box are just way bigger and then I looked at the actual height and they have three starters that are bigger than anyone who plays any minutes on the Celtics. Bobby Portis, Janis and Lopez are all over six, 10 and turns out in basketball. Height matters. Well, if you're going to go up against a team that's running all big, you have to be able to shoot. You have to make your jump shots. Well, they were doing. And so do you guess, guess How many two-point fuel goals the Celtics made? I saw the tweet so I saw Kirk Goldsbury our friend so I don't did anyone not see it and wants to guess. I don't want to just give it away because I also know it. Hank? Ten. Yes. You made exactly ten. You said you didn't. The lowest amount in Celtics history. So Kirk Goldsbury said the Celtics have never as a franchise had less than 14, two point field goals made in the game. They had 10 today. They've played 6,630 total games. So that was what I was going to say like spin zone is I would much rather lose a game where you play like absolute dog shit and play worse than lose a game where you're playing really well. And the other team just beat you like the Celtics played so so bad. Jalen Brown was so bad. Jason Tatum didn't play well. No one was playing well. So like their defensive plan was very, very good. They basically were like she'd go ahead and shoot threes and anytime you get in the paint, we're just going to be taller and bigger than you and make sure that Jason Tatum doesn't have the ball in his hands. Did the Janus pass to himself to that hurt because he basically yonis is so good yet triple double

um... make sure that Jason Tatum doesn't have the ball in his hands. Did the Janus pass to himself to that hurt?

Cause he basically, Janus is so good, he had a triple double. He had that pass off the backboard where it was just an NBA all-star game. He was just, like that was, that was a big brother, little brother. It was a masculating. Yeah. That was, I can do anything I want. Watch me do this cool. I kind of agree with Hank though that if so like the first game of the net series when the Celtics were playing the nets

The nets losing that close game felt like real bad Right. It's like that's a game that you should have won and this one you can like burn the tape and be like that's an Abberation I'm we're gonna be a completely different team and that's that is how the bucks play defense just in general I think they had the most three pointers attempted against them by far.

Yeah, the most broke a franchise record by missing and shooting a million for three pointers. I have a spin zone for you to Hank. I actually think that that was a must-win for the box with Chris Middleton's injury not having home court advantage. Like the box needed that win. If the Celtics went on Tuesday night, I don't think that's, I think this, I already think this series is going seven, so I wouldn't freak out. But

uh, it was the, the pass off the backboard hurt. It was tough. I also think that in a weird way, Marcus Smert gets better the more injured he gets. Yeah. Because he needs to find stuff to like be pissed off about. He's also like, okay, it's me against my own, but He's like the, he had two injuries, right?

Yeah.

He had the shoulder and then he also hurt his leg on the same play.

Like the night in Monty Python, where he's like, it's me against my own, but he's like the, he had two injuries, right? Yeah. He had the shoulder and then he also

hurt his leg on the same play.

Like the night in Monty Python,

where he's like, it's just a flesh wound, I got this. Like he's gonna get fired up because the story's gonna be like, can Marcus Mart overcome this tremendous amount of pain he's gonna have to play through? Right. going to be like fuck yeah I can do this.

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