Hello and welcome to another edition of the NICs Film School pregame show.

My name is Andrew Claudio, aka GMAC, and it's time to preview the Knicks upcoming matchup against the Boston Celtics on Monday night.

The Knicks head up north to take on one of, if not the, best team in the NBA.

As far as far as the numbers are concerned, the Celtics are that.

We'll get to how good the Celtics are in just a second.

Joining me, just a second will be Jack Simone, a returning guest from 10 games ago. He came on to help me preview the

opening night matchup between the Knicks and the Celtics. We get into it. A lot of X's and O's

in this episode. I think you guys will really enjoy what's really been working for the Celtics.

Some of it is

just they're taking a ton of threes. And when they go in, the Celtics are unstoppable. And when they

don't, they have things to pivot to, but you have a chance to beat them. And that's kind of my takeaway

from researching the Celtics for this episode and what they're good at. So your preview of the Celtics,

because I'm not going to go

through the connections between the Knicks and Boston. I think a division rival should be

self-explanatory. So I'm going to trust you guys that you know all the connections to the Knicks

and the Celtics. The Celtics this season are seven and two. Their first in net rating,

their third in offensive rating, and their second seven and two. They're first in net rating.

Their third in offensive rating and their second in defensive rating.

They're the only team in the top three of all three of these categories, which explains why they're first in net rating.

It's fact, they're plus 14 on the season.

Speaking of plus and minus, their starting lineup of Drew Holiday, Derek White, Jason

Tatum, Jalen Brown, and Chrisops Porzingis in 247 possessions is plus 42.4. That's according

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