Do the Celtics Have a Defense Good Enough to Stop the Warriors?
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Can a team that plays the best defense we have seen in years be disciplined enough to slow down and offense that rewrote how the league plays games and the record books as well?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | 30 teams start the NBA season, and most of them fail. |
| 0:10.7 | Most of them fail at the goal that they are trying to achieve, except for Oklahoma City Thunder. |
| 0:16.7 | They have completed their mission, I tell you what. |
| 0:20.4 | Probably five to six teams out of those teams have real championship aspirations. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm not talking about fan bases. |
| 0:28.1 | Like Laker fans have title hopes every single year. |
| 0:30.7 | But we knew real people within the Lakers organization knew titles are not coming this year. No matter how trash they are, |
| 0:41.4 | there's a sobering feeling within the actual organizations themselves. I'm talking about |
| 0:46.7 | discussions in preseason. I'm talking about locker rooms. I'm talking about breaking down film, |
| 0:52.4 | talks between players, free agency, coaching changes. |
| 0:56.7 | Like there are people who know like starting of the season, after Summer League, after |
| 1:02.4 | summer training camp, they know like we've kind of got something. |
| 1:07.6 | We might mess around and really do something here. |
| 1:10.6 | This year I think it was the Bucks, the Sons, the Nets, the Heat. For them, the Warriors and the Sixers. I don't think anyone, including Dallas in the preseason, believed they could end up going to the Western Conference Finals. I don't think they thought we're in the preseason believed they could end up going to the Western Conference Finals. |
| 1:28.9 | I don't think they thought we're in the conversation for a chip. |
| 1:32.2 | They hadn't even gotten out of the first round with Luca yet. |
| 1:35.6 | And with the first year head coach in Boston, |
| 1:38.0 | there is a reason this team was 40 to 1 to win it all before the season began, right? |
| 1:44.2 | So now we have our final set. |
| 1:45.9 | On one side we have the warriors who have recaptured what a lot of people, |
| 1:50.8 | especially their annoying fan base, predicted. |
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