Hello and welcome to the Hoot Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Sunday evening.

Joining us from San Jose, California, where he's out seeing some family, Tim Bontems.

Hello, everybody.

Join us from Dallas, Texas, where he'll be for a few more minutes before he flies off to Oklahoma City tonight for a Monday's game against the Thunder Nuggets is Van McMahon.

Howdy, partners?

76 degrees in Omaha today.

I bet the Tiki could be pretty nice.

Well, taking the last flight out tonight and I got get up on Tuesday morning.

So I'll have to, you know, I'll wave as I walk by.

Okay, FY, we did this podcast in two parts to accommodate various things.

So the back half of it will be from later.

But the reason we waited to do this is because we really wanted to watch the two afternoon games that were on ABC,

starting off with the Celtics and Jason Tatum going into Cleveland. It was Donna of the Mitchell return for the calves.

Jared Allen was out with knee bruise. He banged knees the other night. I thought he might be back by today because

he had four days off, but he wasn't ready. But that's not here nor there. Guys, I really didn't get

to see Tatum play that much on Friday because I was traveling. Today was the first time I got to

watch him live. And so I settled in for that first quarter. And Bontemps, he scored 12 points in the first quarter. And I was like, oh, okay. And I mean,

maybe if you, like, used a, you know, a magnifying glass and knew some of the way the defensive

assignments and stuff were, maybe you could have argued

that he was a little bit rusty, maybe the Celtics would argue timing or whatever.

And he didn't have a quote unquote great overall game. He ended up just six of 16. But considering

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