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Hello and welcome to Group Chat. I am Justin Varyer joining me today. Rob Mahoney in back after his weeklong hiatus podcast superstar, Stordenair. Big Waz. What's up buddy?

I'm good. I'm I'm feeling much much better this week. Last week was just I don't know it was just kind of crazy. My voice was cooked. I'm coughing up along. I'm I'm feeling tired. But now I'm back with vigor.

Was a book club last week just a little too intense. Yeah, that is exactly what it was book club. You know maybe too much camera mile T who knows.

Right. All right. Well, today we're going to get into some teams that aren't fairing as well. We took kind of a snapshot of the week last week.

Now there are some teams are kind of on the verge of falling into panic mode. We're calling this our early season panic meter. We're going to talk about the pelicans. Of course can't do a podcast without talking about the pelicans.

We're going to talk about the blazers, the net, some other teams, but first let's start with your Boston Celtics was definitely at the top of the list of teams that I think a lot of people are eyeing and wondering.

Go south pretty quickly. Just in general, what's your takeaway of the Boston Celtics now what seven games into their season.

Talking to the boss man yesterday on his podcast, which I think everybody should listen to like specifically for the Celtics portion right.

It just doesn't feel like there's any cohesion or rhyme or reason to what they're doing out there.

And so much so much focus gets placed on what Brown and Tatum are doing offensively and you know kind of rightfully so they have to be the folk from the focal point of what they do and they both scoring pretty efficiently.

And that pretty high clips both of them scoring that career high rates right. But you know and Bill mentioned this on the show yesterday last in the NBA defense.

And then the season Lee has a great level of defensive talent when you think about big out theoretically the time Lord Brown and Tatum and of course Marcus smart who in the past people have talked about his potential defensive player of the year type of candidate right and for that team to be dead last in the league and defense is absurd to me.

The time Lord he's definitely more official.

I always thought it was the time.

More actually.

Or game with drones villain like the night king like he's the time.

So I just I just don't understand how Marcus smart to me you supposed to be some type of team leader and you'd like the fifth best offensive player on the team and your critique of the team with the worst defense in the NBA is that the shot distribution is out of whack.

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