Let's go out to Brian Rob, I feel bad. B. Rob's the MVP of the sports hub for the last couple months. Tireless worker, doing great things out in Vegas now. He's half drunk, smoking cigarettes and playing the slots as he joins us. Hasn't gone to bed yet? Yeah, because he's been up breaking down film with the Summer League. Be Rob, how are you doing today? What a treat to wake up to guys. 98 mile from Dan Roach this morning. Beautiful, actually. This is just... It's been a vast or anything more right now. How's the air out there, fresh? Oh, yeah, just another beautiful 105-degree day to wake up to. It's probably like 98 now, so it's nice. Still preferable to Salt Lake City, though, I imagine. Yes, yeah, the 93 in Salt Lake City was far too cool. So this steps it up. All right, so what's it been like, you know, back here, Hurl said it best, we find ourselves on a Saturday night watching Lanzo Ball and Jason Tatum and the Celtics and the Lakers.

You were at that show.

What was that like?

What's the whole summer league been like as far as your concern from what you've seen in the summer of the NBA?

Yeah, guys, it's nuts.

I mean, I never thought I'd see the day where, number one, not only Summer League, that game was sold

out on Saturday night between the Lakers and the Celtics, but the tickets were going for

five or six times face value on, you know, online ticket resellers. So, again, Lakers fans really,

like, you know, sold that place out. It's usually 80 or 90 percent. There's, you know, Kobe jerseys everywhere and other great Lakers of the past because there's really not many good Lakers now. But, you know, there's a great atmosphere. The Celtics, you know, got into a big hole in that game. But the guys, you know, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, and the rest of this team, I've been looking good all summer long here, and they took that game down and really got, you know, as close as you can get and can get to a regular season environment, you know, in the summer liquor, which is, you know, I don't think you'll ever see that again. Yeah, that was, I mean, that was legitimately raucous at times, and they fall behind 10-0, I think, early on. They were getting, it looked like they were going to get run out of the gym, and then slowly but surely they climbed back in, and obviously it's Summer League. You know, the second unit of these teams does a lot to decide the outcome of the game, but did they talk after the game about the experience about playing in a place like that? Because that's way more than you probably anticipate getting in a summer league game. Yeah, no question about it. I mean, playing in Utah, you're playing in front of a road crowd there when you play the jazz, but there's only, you know, six, seven, eight thousand, even in Utah for those games. So to be able to, you know, get a taste of that early, again, all these guys played in break programs in college anyway, so they, you know, they've had a taste of playing in front of the hostile crowds, but it is something where, you know, you don't expect that. This is it supposed to be just literally kind of like a spring train-type matchup in the summer for these guys. And a lot of times it just happens in an empty gym in different parts of the country. But this time around, you know, you got 15,000 people in a, you know, a standard NBA arena here. And it was, again, I had never seen anything like it. I'm not sure, you know, this might be the apex summer league out there because it's just, you know, the Loso Ball feeder that's out here. What's your take on Tatum, Biropp? Tatum's legit, Dan. I mean, if you just look at where he's is for, I think you've had three double doubles already. The shot making is ready to help right now for the Celtics Avi at this level.

I thought it would take a little bit longer for Tadam to get adjusted, you know, better defenders,

the three-point line going back in the NBA.

But his isolation game is ready to go right now.

Those, you know, his turnaround, the one-footed stuff, he's got a strong first step to the hoop,

and I'm really curious to see what he looks like when he's got two or three other

capable offenses, offensive players around him, because right now teams are already

keying on him, they're doubling him in the post. There, you know, he's obviously, you know,

the best natural offensive player on the Celtics right now.

So you pair him up with a guy like Isaiah Thomas and a guy like Gordon Hayward

and that, you know, where teams can afford to put less attention on him

and I think he's just a guy who's going to get, you know, score buckets off the bench all year long.

What about Zizich?

We've been talking about him and how just from TV TV, it looks like you can mentally see the mechanisms processing in his brain and he's been a step behind. In person, is it along those same lines? I know last night was better, but for the most part over the past four or five games. Yeah, Zizich, it's going to be an adjustment period for him. He really, you know, there's a lot of hype coming in, you know, scouts are saying, hey, this could have been in a top ten pick potentially in this draft. But, you know, like you said, Mike, the eye test here shows that he's got a lot of work to do. The speed at the NBA level is a lot. I feel like he looks like, you know, you know, an older center, 10 or 15 years in his career the way he, you know, goes down the floor right now at his foot speed, which is, which is good in some ways. I mean, he sets like mean picks and he, you know, he hits the glass hard and the fundamentals are there, but, you know, they're going to have to, he's a guy that, you know, in today's small ball NBA, it's going to be a bit of adjustment for him just to be able to stick with guys. And when other teams do go fully small and just go, you know, four or five permanent players out there, you know, Celtics really aren't going to be able to have him out there. So again, at this point, he might be someone who could help in the rotation at some point during the air, hope if injuries come around. But for now, I think he's more of a depth piece, and he might be, you know, end up playing in a pinch. But the guy they just signed yesterday, Aaron Baines, that's the guy who's going to be helping him more right away. I have two questions final for you, and then we'll let you go here, B. Rob. One is who down the end of the bench, end of the roster, maybe has a chance to stick in your mind, whether it be Nate or whether it be O'Jale, some of those guys that we're seeing now, and how do you think that'll shake down to the back end? Yeah, I think, I mean, I feel O'Jale should feel safe about his roster spot. You know, you draft the guy who potentially could have gone to the end of the first round there, and he's stepped up to the plate already. He's become a real big, you know, weapon in the pick and pop. It took, you know, nine three-pointers during the game yesterday.

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