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Now Don, you asked me a question. Yes. You said to me, is part of me as a Celtics fan saying where

was this earlier in the series? Well, I guess proud as you will, let's say they win Saturday.

And they go down and defeat in game seven. You're proud that they were what they would be like

when only the third team ever to force a game seven after being down three games to none.

Wouldn't there be a party to say, God, if you just showed a little of this in the first three

games of the series, we'd be in the final. Yeah, no, I mean, that's a reasonable question.

I think I end up just feeling, it ends up going back to your feelings on Joe Missoula's

ahead coach and why weren't they really ready to play earlier in this series? Now,

I personally am at a point now where because it was so ugly, even though I'd be disappointed,

at this point, pretty greatly disappointed because the last two games have been so emotional

and fun if they lose Saturday. Tell me if you know what I mean. In some ways, I feel like I sort of

have the monkey off my back just that they're that they've made it a great series. Like,

a lot of me just could not stand the idea that they were about to go out and disgrace.

So if they lose a close game Saturday night, I'll be incredibly bummed out, but I'm also already

proud of what they've done the last two games. Here are a couple of those stats that greek

throughout me that are pretty amazing. The Celtics have scored 54 points off turnovers in the last

two games. Down the first play of yesterday's game, I'm not going to say I instantly was like,

that's it. We're winning. But when Marcus smart steals the ball on the first offensive possession

for Miami and then feeds Tatum who goes coast to coast and has that like aggressive Tatum taken

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