Welcome back to another episode of The Vertical podcast.

Got a great show for you lined up today.

Bobby Marks, the front office insider over at the vertical, he drops by.

And we cover a lot of ground with Bobby from the Celtics upset win over the calves to the NBA draft coming up to the all NBA selections and what they mean for certain players that went down last week.

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former assistant GM with the Brooklyn Nets. Bobby's a great follow on Twitter. You can follow

them there at Bobby Marks 42. And Bobby, there's a lot I want to get to, but we have to start

with what we saw in Cleveland on Sunday night. And I mean, I think the

spread was like 18. And you had to put, you had to put, to put $1 down to win, you put $1 down

to win 45 or 46 on the Cavaliers. I mean, it was just, everything was lined up against Boston.

They come out and they win. Now, I wouldn't have predicted a Boston win, but I did think that this lineup, I didn't think this lineup was going to get blown out because I've seen this lineup before, and the one thing about it is it's very good defensively. When you put Marcus Smart in there, all of a sudden, you've basically got, you know,

B or higher level defenders at every single position. And when you do that, you can at least cause

some havoc. And I think that combined with, you know, LeBron just kind of shrugging his shoulders

and being indifferent to the game, I think that's what led to the win. Well, and, you know,

as good as Isaiah has been, then, you know, him defensively, you know, let's admit it's not one of their, not one of their best defenders. I thought it kind of leveled things off a little bit, and they were able to play more in control here with, you know, especially smart at point guard. We were able to see what he's able to do. And each guy, their role became more.

I don't know if it was the sense of urgency.

I'm sure it was down, you know, 2-0, basically your backs against the wall. but in the second half, the value of the possessions.

In the first half, it got to a point when Cleveland built that lead where you came,

you had Al Horford coming down, taking a, you know, a quick shot, you know, got Cleveland out and running a little bit with, with Kevin Love as far as the ability to make a three. And I thought once, once they got to a point in the, in the third quarter, it was like enough, you know know we're tired of getting our teeth kicked in here and

I and I thought that the value of the possession started to be uh increased a little bit more there are some

searing hot takes out there bobby about lebron like i mean it's based on social media it's as if

michael jordan never had a bad playoff game, ever. Just based off that. And

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