These guys won't stop talking. And you can pretty much do it. So you're in Maz. In perpetuity. Yep. The Sports Hub. Two and a half, great quarters for the Charlotte Hornets tonight, but the Celtics too much down the stretch. The clock hits triple zeros. The Celtics have won 11 of 13. They've reduced the magic number to one for the two seed in the Eastern Conference, and they score yet another

quality win late in the year. The final score, Boston 113, Charlotte 102.

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always welcome everyone's always welcome 617779 0985 we'll just start with the celtics was that a more

useful game for you last night miss yeah yeah it was a little bit anyway i mean i i charlotte

remember you asked me yesterday do i worry about charlotte in the playoffs and i said you yeah

they can score in the first half they did that And then you know what happened, oddly? And this should tell you plenty about Charlotte. The Celtics would be susceptible to the kind of team that does what. And that is, gets in their face, pushes them around, plays physically. You know what happened in the fourth quarter of that game last night? The Celtics played physically and got in Charlotte space and Charlotte crumbled.

So I just don't think the Hornets are tough enough to really beat anybody.

You know, they can put a scare in you or maybe even, you know, win a game or two because they

can score.

But that's it.

I mean, I think they're soft on the interior especially. I think

that played out in the fourth quarter. La Mello balled, did, did he score ultimately in the fourth quarter? I know he had zero with like a minute to go. He disappeared. Okay. So he didn't play for the first six minutes of the quarter, I think, as it was. But, you know, or five minutes or whatever.

But the Celtics will beat the Hornets if they play him in a series. But did I like seeing him pushed a little bit? Yeah. Yeah, I want them to have to fight for some wins. And they kind of fought for the win last, I guess. They did. They did. Yep, absolutely. Yep. They fought in the fourth quarter and had to. They dug in, played some defense.

There was one possession in particular where,

and I'm trying to remember who it was that was pressuring the ball, but Vucevic came out to the top of the key. Whoever it was tried to make an entry pass, and Vucevich jumped up and deflected at the Celtics grab. It went the other way. I thought it was good intensity, good team defense. and to me, you could see Charlotte kind of couldn't handle the pressure at that moment.

And I mean the actual physical ball pressure.

And so I was happy to see it.

And I thought that at the other end, and this has become a recurring pattern, the Celtics go to the rim.

They go to the rim.

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