Who’s to Blame for the Celtics’ Underwhelming Season? Plus: LaMarcus Aldridge Starts for the Nets and the Clippers Overhaul Their Culture

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Verno and KOC get into all the league business this Friday, starting with LaMarcus Aldridge heading straight to the starting five for the Brooklyn Nets (0:30) and Miami’s continued high level of play (11:28). Then they get into Aaron Gordon’s fantastic debut games for the Nuggets (33:35) and their win over a full-strength Clippers team that has made some serious culture changes over the past year (38:26). Finally, they talk about what has gone so desperately wrong with the Boston Celtics (49:08), what Patrick Williams could do for the Bulls’ future (1:06:03), and the NCAA Final Four (1:12:20). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On R2C2, CCC sabathea and Ryan Ruko guide listeners through everything going on in the MLB,
0:05.6	NBA, and NFL. They also talk to friends, athletes, and celebrities about the world of sports,
0:10.3	and much more. Check out R2C2 with CCC sabathea and Ryan Ruko on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.1	Welcome to the mismatch I'm Chris Vernon. Joining me is he does every Friday from theRinger.com.
0:35.4	It's Kevin O'Connor, a Kevin O'Bomer, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Candy,
0:40.0	Kevin O'Candy, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Kindness, Kevin O'Connor. What's going on? How you doing?
0:46.4	Well, we are kind of in the middle of the dog days, I guess, you know, where we've gotten past
0:54.7	the trade deadline. They all start breaking, then the trade deadline. And now we have this space for
1:00.4	a couple of weeks before we get to the home stretch and we really start paying attention to the
1:05.6	standings every single day to see who those 10 teams that are at least going to have a shot of
1:11.4	being in the playoffs are in each conference. But there's still interesting stuff that is going on.
1:18.0	We could go, you and I talked about the trade deadline. And we talked about these guys that were
1:24.2	moving teams and also the buyout market. And we kind of covered that on Tuesday. We had a couple
1:31.6	of the debuts last night. We saw Lamarcus Aldridge not only playing for the Nets, but starting
1:38.4	for the Brooklyn Nets last night. Yeah. I mean, look, the revitalization that takes place by
1:46.5	putting on a Nets uniform is truly astounding. Blake Griffin hadn't dunked in two years and all
1:52.4	of a sudden he dunks on his first play as a Brooklyn net. And there seems to be a new lease on life
1:58.3	for Lamarcus Aldridge. His teammates are going crazy on the sideline. You know, they were doing it
2:03.7	without James Harden last night in that game against Charlotte. But the, you know, we talk about
2:10.6	the instant reviews for guys, the instant reviews for Lamarcus Aldridge have to be extremely good
2:17.4	considering he got that start and he performed. You know, it's crazy. Despite the fact he's
2:22.0	missed games the season, he still has more postups than anybody in the league this year. And he's
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