Ding ding.

How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic Podcast Network.

My name is Jared Weiss.

I'm joined by a new friend tonight. Mark Schindler of

basketball news. Mark, welcome to the ding. Thanks for having me, man. I'm psych to be here.

All right. We got some good ones tonight. Brian Smith is our producer, as always on Wednesday morning.

So let's start back in Boston, the game I just got back home from. The Celtics beat the Hawks

10798. Jason Tatum was just dominant in the fourth quarter. Really, just in the second half of this game, after the Hawks were just killing them in the first half. Yeah, it was kind of wild way to start it out. Jalen went down with the ankle injury early on, didn't come back. It looked like Trey was going to be out with an angle injury too. And I tweeted out early

in the game like, oh, this looks like it's going to be ugly for the Hawks. I think it was like six to two, the first four minutes in and flipped on his head real quick. I mean, Boggdon McDonovitch was absolutely on a tear tonight too. Bogie, it's funny you mentioned him because he had a great, great quote after this game via Chris Kircher of the Athletic. Mind you, Hawks were in control of this game. Celtic stampated back, won pretty easily in the end. Bogie after the game said, when you're up 15 and they lose one of the top two guys on the team, and if you're not able to win that game, you're not a good team. And we know this.

The Atlanta Hawks are not a good team.

They, for a little while, seemed like they were. John Collins wasn't playing in this game, but, I mean, the Hawks are just kind of falling apart. And the Celtics just kind of toyed with them in the second half of this game. Yeah. I mean, Jason was awesome, the entire game, honestly. but once you hit the third and fourth quarter, you absolutely turn it on.

He had a play like coming around the corner on the no gallonari went for floater

missed it put back i mean he was absolutely killing tonight and everybody picked it up late in the

second half derrick white was was killer all around is really good game what was really bad about that Tatum putback was that

he's following his own floater that he put through like three defenders. He just

effortlessly tips the ball back in. It wasn't even like a tip. He like grabbed the ball because

nobody was there to even try to rebound it. It was Atlanta just they looked like they kind of let go

with a rope at the end. And you mentioned Derek White. Derek White really went on a tear with that floater game of his. He got like three baskets in a row, I think, late in the third quarter. And he scored again at the end of his sit in the fourth quarter. Celtics started to really push it open from there. They started trapping Tatum. Tatum was kind of toying with Atlanta's defense,

finding Grant Williams for a couple threes in a row. And, you know, the offense was good,

but it was their defense that got it done. I mean, they held Atlanta to was it like 33 points

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