We had to begin today off talking about the Boston Celtics and specifically Jason Tatum.

I don't know if you're aware of this. Zero's back. Yeah.

Zero's back. Call him by his nickname, man. Zero's back. Caduce. Caduce. Cadoose. Step back.

Back. Caduce. Come on, man. We have now seen two games of Jason Tatum since coming back from his Achilles injury in 10 months. Absolutely outstanding. The fact that we see him now in this season, let alone like playing it all is crazy. We've already crossed that bridge mentally, though. I think we all knew he was coming back. Now he's here. And now you, like I said, you've seen two games of him playing. How are we feeling about them? Celtics. All in calves, by the way. Stinky.

They didn't have to. coming back. Now he's here. And now, like I said, you've seen two games of him playing. How are we feeling about them, Celtics?

All in Cavs, by the way.

Stinky. They didn't have Jared Allen, man. What are you talking about? They needed someone to get those offensive revokes and nobody. Exactly. I guess. So let's talk about how we feel about Jason Tatum coming back, how he looked in his first two games, how that affects our outlook now for the Boston Celtics,

who are already the two-seat without him,

now they have him,

how his level of play impacts the ceiling,

all of it. Where do you want to start? I'm not going to lie. I think the whole entire Eastern conferences got fucking shook, right? I think everyone needs to reevaluate their expectations and look themselves in the mirror, like the New York Knicks, like the Detroit Pistons who are on like a

what losing street for the first time the entirety of the year to have Tatum come back and you look

yourself in the mirror and be like holy fuck like we need to lock in now because Tatum although

he shot like what 40 sub 40% from the field or the last two games since he played bro he

looks like good legitimately of course like the

scoring has been up and down but when it comes to all the other things that he's good at just being

that big being a rebounding presence while also being another distributor distributor on the

floor to just add so much adds another layer of just like stardom to this team that's been needed for throughout

the entirety of the year. Meanwhile, of course, they still have Derek White. They've developed all

their young talent. Jeline Brown's still playing like at a top 10 player level still throughout

everything that all like the mainstream media has been pushing. This team is scary as fuck.

And now throughout these two games, you can call it no reaction. But I think they may be the team to come out the east. That's not an overreaction at all. We've been saying this for months now that if Jason Tatum comes back, this team should probably be the favorite. You know, that was something we talked about in like December. and when it was first cute up, we were like, okay, that's cute to say. We'll see what he looks like, right? It's easy to say that if Jason Tidman comes back and he looks good, they can be the favorites. That's fun to say when we hear he's coming back in March, but we got to see it because the Pistons deserve so much respect, because we know what the Knicks are, which maybe that's having a good thing these days. We can get to that later in the show. But it was thrown in the air a few months ago and slowly as more time has gone on and we've seen the Celtics maintain this two C level. We've seen all the flaws in the other Eastern Conference teams. I think it started to get more and more believable in recent months that, wow, this Celtics really can win in their gap year. Now that I've seen him on the court, not even looking 100%, I think I've gone from, yeah, that's possible.

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