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We had the first one of the season a week ago today, and I began that show by saying,

I don't know if I can do this after the Celtics had a complete no-show in their first home game

of the season, the night prior last Friday against the Toronto Raptors, a game in which

afterwards their new head coach Ime Adoko was rightfully calling out the team and calling them punks. We got on the one thing I'm, we're going to get it punked out there. He doesn't want to accept that and rightfully so. And since then, I thought that those comments kind of lit a fire under their ass in the subsequent two games, Chris, at Houston, the game in Charlotte, which was very entertaining. It's an entertaining as an entertaining as the opener in the loss to the Knicks.

But this one, they win in overtime.

And it's like, okay, all right.

You know, the defense, still not great.

But, you know, it felt like, okay, there was a little bit more motivation,

a little bit more heart in those two games.

And it felt like they might have righted the ship.

And then there was that game against Washington, the second home game of the year, where,

again, kind of a no-show, especially early, and they try to crawl their ass back into it

in the fourth quarter.

It looked a lot like last year, just like the opener against Toronto did, a lot like

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