Now it's time to talk. Celtics. Blocked by Jalen Brown. This is the Sports Hub Celtics show. Over the shoulder. Pass for out, Horford, the two-hand slam. With Gasper and Murray on 985, the Sports Hub. The idea before was to get Jaylon Brown going to the rim, but there were two guys waiting for. So the Celtics do not have a timeout. Derek White will have to get it in here with Horford, Tatum, Janlon, and Grant Williams on the floor. Derek White has a five-second count again. It's in safety of Tatum. Six seconds to go. Boston down one. Tatum against Jeremy Grant, switches to the right hand, elevates 18 feet, jumper, no good. Rebound, and the ball game is over and the Detroit

Pistons 12 and 45 are the ones who come to Boston and snap the Celtics win

streak give them for them they shot the heck out of the basketball they played just

enough defense to come through and the thing that

you know in this game late is that you saw Celtics revert back to what we talked about before

ISO basketball and ISO basketball instead of moving it hitting the other guy that's what kind of

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That's a final call here in the sports hub with Sean Grannie and Cedric Maxwell from Wednesday

night with the Pistons, the lowly, awful, arguably the worst team in the NBA, Detroit Pistons, stunning the Celtics 112, 111.

And I think Cedric nailed it there at the end that what happened there, Chris, is that they reverted to lazy ISO hero ball.

And they fell back to who they are at times.

And I feel like who they are at their cores, unfortunately. It's like selfish players who want to be the heroes. And it showed that they'll still melt down when someone punches them in the mouth. And that's what's so frustrating for me personally, too, because I had bought in. After they blew out the 76ers, I said going into it, I'm not going to put an asterisk on this because they don't have James Harden.

The way that Joelle M. Bede has been playing, like if they win tonight, that's a statement game. And they blew the doors off of that team. It wasn't even close, you know, halfway through the first quarter. You know, the nine game winning streak, they look like the best team in the league. the East feels wide open.

I was like, you know what?

Okay.

I'm going to dive in here.

I've looked at them as kind of a... the best team in the league the east feels wide open i was like you know what okay i'm i'm gonna dive

in here i've looked at them as kind of a just a frustrating team to watch i've referred to these last

couple of years as the downward slope the ski slope celtics but it looks like they turn things around

they make the move for derrick white feels like they've played better basketball marcus Smart has figured things out. He feels like the Marcus Smart of four or five years ago. And then they go out like that. That's the final game before the All-Star break. And it looked like every bad loss to a wretched team for the first couple of months of the season. And it's just that doesn't undo the nine-game winning streak, but it was very red flaggy. And I can't get that out of my mind. Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, disappointing way to go into the All-Star break. But I still think, you know, overall, I mean, you look at it. You look at the win streak. You look at where they're at. I mean, this is a team that was 25 and 25 after 50 games. And for the most part, they did what they were supposed to do,

which was capitalized on the bad teams and the banged up teams that they faced.

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