This, have you seen his Instagram? They need this. They don't use Kronka, no. On 985. Yeah, not really. The Sports Hub. We needed this. We're not as good as we think we are. That's really what it comes down to. I think I said in the beginning of the season, the excitement is just done. You know, it's real basketball now, so it's not just about the potential of the team or where we'll

be at the end of the season is right now and taking care of what presently is in front of.

All right, Kyrie Irving, after Celtics lose in Portland on Sunday night to complete a one-and-four road trip

that so easily could have been 0-and-5 as they need a buzzer-beater to eke out one win at the wretched Phoenix Suns for their one-road win in that trip.

One-and-four on the trip trip seven and six on the year seven and

six right now they're like the five or six seed in the east and kai rving says we needed that we're not as good as we think we are maz your thoughts on the seltz i think he's right i have felt this way for a while i i told you they're you know they're going to they think they're just going to walk into the season and coast to the NBA finals that they're not as good on, you know, in paper they looks great, but they're

not as good as they think they are. Now you're hearing, now Stevens has said that, but now

you're hearing Kyrie say it. The question is, who's he saying it to? Oh, I think it's a not

so subtle shot at the guys that you know he's saying it to, like Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, and Terry Rozier.

The young guys. Yeah, I don't know you can take it any other way. It's a young guys. There's a young guy thing on this team that's a problem, and I agree with Kyrie on it. They think they are, they think they have earned more than they have. and so because of the time that they were able to get last year with the injuries,

now they think they have earned more than they have. And so because of the time that they were able to get last year with the injuries, now they think they're superstars. Tatum in particular, I think is worse than Brown is. And I think this is Kyrie's way of saying, hey, you're still a second year player. You're going to learn how to win in this league. Okay, so another indication, Jimmy, play that second cut. another indication, Kyrie's singling out the kids that he says they need a 15 or 14-year vet on this team. What? Looking at this hockey, I'm just, you know, me being in my eighth year and being a quote-unquote veteran as well as Al and Baines. And, you know, right now I think that it would be nice if we had someone that was a 15 year vet 14 year event that could kind of help us brace along the regular season to understand that it's a long marathon rather than just a full on sprint and just you know when you want to play when you want to do what you want to do so okay I think he's talking all over the place because I think Kyrie Irving is diary of the mouth I think he loves to hear himself talk and is all over the place and likes to pontificate him. You all know this about Kyrie Irving. So in that comment, he went in like three different directions. So I don't know exactly what he meant. I just think he was talking to talk as usual. But when he says we need a 15 or 14 year vet, what the hell does that mean so good marie well i just

think again that's a not so subtle shot at that young trio tatam brown and rosier because it sort

of makes no sense when you look at the guys he just mentioned because they're not that young of

a team al horford's been in the league 12 years he just said he's an eight year vet and same with marcus

morris baines in his seventh year it's not like they have a, you know, a flux of rookies, and Robert Williams is getting a lot of minutes. He's talking about those three. He's pissed at the play of Tatum, Brown, and Rosier. So, I mean, he says we need a vet. Here's what I take out of it too. Kyrie doesn't want to be the bad guy. He doesn't want to be what LeBron was in Cleveland.

He doesn't want to be the bad guy.

He doesn't want to be the bad guy. He doesn't want to be what LeBron was in Cleveland.

He doesn't want to be the bad guy.

He doesn't want to be the one to look at Jason Tatum and say, dude, what are you doing? Move the ball. Yes. This is how it works in this league. I'm better than you are. I'm the lead dog. when I ask for the ball, you give it to me.

The offense runs through me.

And when the other guys are on the floor, it runs through them.

And the problem at the moment is that I'm not sure Stevens is going to do it because he's relatively new to this too. So I don't want to call it a leadership problem, but it's a little bit of a leadership problem. There's going to be someone there who wants to be the bad guy that says, no, no, no, no, this is how we're going to do it. Garnett, when he's here, was unafraid to be the bad guy. They need somebody on that roster to say, this is how this team's going to work. It's my team. The rest of you do what I do. And I think that that's what Kyrie's saying there. He doesn't want to be the bad guy. He wants someone else with 15 years of credit come in that he can look up to. Oddly enough, he wants someone like LeBron. That's what I think. Or I think what he wants is someone like a Kendrick Perkins that will grab a jersey and shake the hell out of someone and say, like we're not playing like you idiots exactly someone who'll be the bad guy yeah and so i say someone like a lebron

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