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Dan Brown out versus Utah Marcus smart lazy trade discussion about him going on again and I have a conversation with locked on jazz host and founder of the network David

Lock about the upcoming jazz game. Sorry about it right now on the locked on Celtics podcast.

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All right let's get to the news for later on segments two and three David lock locked on it's named after him he created the network I talked to him about the Utah jazz game coming up Friday later tonight.

When we get to there he's going to handle things he's going to do the hosting duties because when we have a conversation he handles that so that's coming up in segments two and three fun conversation it's going to be a lot it's fun.

Let me get some housekeeping on here first Jalen Brown out with the hamstring very obvious that he was going to be out in this in the Utah game if you watched any portion of his play on.

What was it Wednesday night that he was not himself he clearly a couple times was hopping around grabbing at the hamstring scale saw it early we all saw it out there so i'm i'm wondering how many games he's going to be not whether he's coming back against Portland I will be surprised if he comes back against Portland so I said in yesterday's podcast I would be shocked if he played in this game he's not playing in this game.

Marcus smart is and there was a column written in the globe which just came out of nowhere and said hey you know it's time to shake things up and it's got to be Marcus smart's got to go and like it felt so mistime like after after a win against Philly where Marcus smart was good and selective with his shots and took a couple of you know it was two of seven but.

Hey you know couple of tough ones there but like generally speaking was in control had a to sis I thought he played well think everyone who's been watching recently has seen a long stretch of Marcus smart playing well kind of playing the way we would want him to play.

And I can tell you I know this is how I know Marcus smart's playing well because the usual trolls in the in the YouTube comments are not even asking for Marcus smart to be traded you might still want to be traded and i'm sure some of you going to chime in and say yeah of course I still want to be traded but haven't heard the Marcus smart vitriol in one of the most vitriolic places on earth YouTube comments.

But if they're not if Marcus smart isn't being if Marcus smart trade demands aren't being made in YouTube comments sections and they probably shouldn't be made in the Boston globe but they were and you know yeah i'm challenging a colleague because I thought the take was kind of like.

A little now really now like you're going to make you're going to make this argument after he's been playing well after the team has kind of picked up its defense after Marcus smart has been at the center of a lot of great defensive plays that's what you want to do i don't see it you want to say he can't be a playmaker after he he had eight assists against Philly when your team shoots 41% that's when you want to say he's not a playmaker after he has a stretch.

Of some of the you know best passing of his career the best sustained passing of his career that let me I know he came in averaging 5.7 assists a game let's let's just casually look up the market smart statistics here because I thought that he's he's been playing really well 5.8 now which is a tick above a career high now he has you started off a little slow the entire team start off a little bit slow.

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5.8 assists building back up to 5.8 assists think that's important hey by the way today shows brought to you by true bill true bill is a new app that helps save you money by helping you identify and stop paying for the subscriptions you do not want or need they can even negotiate better deals on those that you want to keep so.

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