Celtics and WNBA reporter Noa Dalzell goes live to answer all your questions on the evening of Celtics Media Day and in the midst of the WNBA playoffs. Noa will answer questions previewing the Celtics season, and share an update from the Connecticut Sun - Indiana Fever's first-round matchup. Tune in for a Mailbag episode of You got Boston.
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00:00What's up everyone, this is Noah Dalzell with another episode of You Got Boston and really
00:26excited to be joining you all on this Monday evening to answer all questions related to both
00:31the Celtics which is very front of mind, very pressing with Celtics media day coming up tomorrow
00:38but also an opportunity to discuss WNBA playoffs because I also covered the WNBA for SB Nation and
00:44have been on the ground covering the Connecticut Sun-Indiana Fever series and so lots to discuss
00:51on both fronts. Really excited about the fact that the NBA season is resuming after what feels
00:57like a really long break but it really hasn't been that long since the last things that we've heard
01:02and seen and I'll start off by just kind of giving a run of show for what this these next few weeks
01:07are going to look like. So we have Celtics media day tomorrow that'll be beginning at like 10 a.m.
01:14Probably you'll be hearing from literally every single player on the team, Joe Mizzoula, so this
01:19is maybe one of the only times that we'll hear from certain players. One of the things that I
01:23didn't know when I started covering the Celtics is that you know you hear from the same people over
01:27and over again and then there are certain players like O'Shea Bursette that we really only got to
01:31speak with a few times so I'm trying to be mindful about making sure that if there's like a pressing
01:36question to get to any of those people that we get those in right away so feel free to fire off
01:41suggestions or things that you would like asked as well. So yeah so just starting off there that's
01:50media day tomorrow and this is actually my first media day because when I started covering the
01:53Celtics last year I started I started going in person mid-season and so I actually wasn't
01:58ever at a media day before so I'm super excited about that and then yeah I'll also take questions
02:04if there is questions about the WNBA obviously that's not typically the emphasis and focus of
02:10the show but it also feels like at this moment in time there's a lot of buzz and excitement and so
02:15if there are questions on that front I will take them gladly as well and so with that I'm just
02:20going to start this is not really a question but just for just for clarifying purposes so
02:27my podcast You Got Boston I have my own YouTube channel that you can subscribe to to make sure
02:31you don't miss any episodes and then it also streams on CLNS so if you're watching this in
02:36CLNS feel free to also subscribe to my YouTube channel which is called You Got Boston that just
02:42helps because then you won't that's the only thing on my YouTube channel so you won't miss any episodes
02:45or anything and then obviously you can also subscribe to CLNS if you're on my YouTube
02:50channel right now so but both kind of the same thing as far as I'm concerned but yeah so appreciate
02:56everybody for tuning in it's great to have people on and it's great to have we're gonna have so much
03:00to talk about over these next few days I'm excited to talk about Lonnie Walker I'm excited to talk with
03:05everybody kind of how they spent their summers with Olympians excited to talk to you know Drew
03:09Holiday and Derek White and Jason Tatum how John Brown spent his summer like I feel like even
03:14though obviously they won the championship and there's not like that many good questions as far
03:18as like what this team is going to look like there's just a lot of stuff that I've been watching
03:21online and just been curious about so excited about that and yes I will begin right at
03:31the top first of all shout out to Tom Coolidge I feel like you have been very actively supporting
03:35all these episodes which I very much appreciate because this is just the beginning of starting
03:39a podcast and especially I started it like in August which is not the best time to draw
03:43engagement but I figured we just get started and just give people some content in the offseason
03:47and then obviously I think more people will be interested in things as the season progresses
03:51so I appreciate you tuning in I've been thinking about this a lot what are the questions you are
03:55most looking forward to asking at media day tomorrow is Tom's question I think I'm actually
04:01really curious just about like the well this is going to be for people that know me this is not a
04:05surprising answer but I'm curious about just like what life has changed it has been like since
04:09winning the championship and who feels like it has been a emotional like burden you know removed
04:15and just like they feel a certain level of joy that maybe they didn't reach before and who doesn't
04:20really feel that way and I think it's going to be kind of like an even split like I have a feeling
04:23like Joe Mazzuola and Jill and Brown and some people will say like it didn't really change them
04:27that much and I think we're going to maybe hear from like Al Warford, Jason Tatum types
04:30otherwise also curious about just like the most fun things people did over the summer
04:34not to be like a camp counselor but I just I've been seeing stuff on social media and I think I
04:38might try to do a story where I just kind of highlight like what everybody was up to all
04:41summer and just do like a go-around of who had the trophy and things like that so I'll probably
04:46leave the how are we going to survive without forcing these questions to other people because
04:50I just think that that has been that's been I can kind of figure out what they're going to say to
04:53that so but if people have questions they'd love to see answered asked feel free to put them in
04:58the chat because at the end of the day where our job as reporters is to just ask questions that
05:03are interesting to people so feel free to throw some in and then yeah to answer your second
05:12question Tom question about the sun fever game I don't know I'm curious actually people that are
05:17Celtics fans like are also Sun fans or not I know there's like some regional affiliation with the
05:22fact that they're an hour and a half in Boston but also I know a lot of Celtics fans that are
05:26getting in the WNBA might just be following like a certain team that they're excited about
05:30um so for those of you that did watch yesterday the sun and the fever played in game one
05:35um it's a best of three series in the first round so it's like somewhere in between an NBA
05:39seven game series and March Madness um and basically what what happened was that the sun
05:45was pretty close the first two quarters and the sun kind of blew them out in the second half
05:48and the sun are the number three seed the fever of the number six seed so the sun are technically
05:52fever to win although I think a lot of people think that if there is an upset in the first
05:55round it would be this one because the fever and Caitlin Clark have been really good since the
05:59Olympic break um and so their record is almost like a little deflated from what it would be if
06:04they just took out the first 10 games where they were really bad and kind of figuring things out
06:08um so I think Connecticut will close it out in game two I don't think it's going to be a 24
06:12point blowout the way that it was in game one um but if they lose that game then the deciding game
06:18three goes back to Indianapolis and then I think they'll lose that game so I think this is kind of
06:22like whoever wins game two wins the whole series so it's a high pressure game I'll be in Mohegan Sun
06:27um so I'm actually yeah I'm a busy week Celtics coverage and then also going to be traveling for
06:31WNBA playoffs so I'll be going live probably from uh training camp too and then also probably from
06:36Mohegan just for those of you that are like interested on the WNBA side too um so yeah it's
06:42great environment though it's a lot of like Haytham Clark fans a lot of Iowa jerseys a lot of
06:46Indiana Fever jerseys but also a lot of like diehard Connecticut Sun fans that have been
06:49following this team for 30 years or not 30 years 20 years um so yeah it's been super cool to kind
06:56of get acclimated in that space and um if you're interested in the WNBA if you're just getting into
07:00it I think a lot of people are like you know that are NBA fans or Celtics fans are just starting to
07:04learn I have all my coverage at SBNation.com slash WNBA so you can read I've been doing features on
07:09different players and you can just kind of follow along I'll be posting stuff on Twitter too if you
07:13follow me on for Celtics reasons you'll see some WNBA stuff too um question here what do you think
07:19of the national media disrespect that we are getting at the moment um interesting question
07:27I'm assuming this is in regards to like player rankings and like people thinking the Celtics
07:32had a bad and a really easy route to the championship uh feel free to correct me in
07:37the chat if I'm wrong um but that that'll be my interpretation of that question um I think that
07:43what's happening with the national media is that you got to make things more interesting than they
07:48actually are sometimes and I can just say this as somebody who for most of my life consumed basketball
07:52in the form of being a fan and then for the last year I've been a member of the media and it was
07:56kind of like a rapid transition of taking off like the fan hat and putting on the media hat
08:01um I really I get I get it I get a lot of the things that bother me about media and I get how
08:05they happen like the constant like fabrication of conflicts like I feel like we I always wonder
08:10like why are they always like fighting and why are they always like criticizing people and like
08:14why is there always a debate going on uh it feels kind of like useless but it drives clicks like I
08:18can tell you as somebody who has access to back end analytics for my articles like when I have a
08:23take that's controversial like more people read that uh which makes sense I guess but I think that
08:28when you're thinking about like national media disrespect I almost don't even take it for real
08:31like I don't even view it as like they actually don't think the Celtics were a great team because
08:35by any metric that you look at this was a historically great team and I almost feel like
08:41if you're if you're a legitimate media member that's saying that this was like a cakewalk
08:45championship run and this is not a serious team and whatever like I just kind of do that as like
08:50an engagement thing and maybe maybe that's obvious to people but I honestly didn't realize it until
08:55I started being deeper in the space of like how much of all of this is just about engagement and
09:00it sucks because like you want to be able to just do good work and my philosophy is like and maybe I
09:04hopefully I never burn out from it but my philosophy is like I'm going to keep writing and
09:08saying the things I want to say and like hopefully people care about it but if they don't I'm not
09:11going to like try to do stuff that's just controversial for for the sake of doing that but
09:15I get how it happens like especially when you're talking about big media companies and like the
09:19idea of like wanting to fabricate conflict so my point being is I don't think that people actually
09:22disrespect the Celtics I think that it's like kind of how the media feels they have to keep things
09:28interesting in the same way with like predicting who's going to win in the finals like I genuinely
09:32am surprised I still have a hard time believing that people actually thought that the Celtics
09:36were like the underdogs or it was very evenly split so I don't know maybe that's just my
09:40perspective on it but yeah we'll see um another question here was Kaitlyn Clark purposely poked
09:50in the eye and this is about yesterday's game between the sun and the fever Dejanay Carrington
09:54got her I think she poked her in the eye with a nail um I don't think so I think that Carrington
09:59is just like a great defender and she's very they're a very aggressive team like they play
10:03very aggressively I tell people all the time to watch the NBA or like the NBA is too soft
10:07tell them watch the WNBA you probably won't feel that way anymore um about basketball if you want
10:11to find a professional league that is very aggressive and not soft I think the WNBA is
10:17really not so sometimes that causes conflict and sometimes that causes um flagrant vowels or things
10:23that become controversial but genuinely like I know Dejanay Carrington I know her as a defender
10:28I have a hard time believing that anybody would like purposely put their fingernail in someone's eye
10:32um but I think that she's an aggressive defender and like there probably should have been I mean
10:35that should have been called a foul and it wasn't but that was a missed call that's my perspective
10:39on it at least um question here super excited for tomorrow I'm very curious and hearing from
10:46Tilly Springer Walsh and Shireman um yeah I'm really excited about all those people as well
10:52um I also just think that you know the summer league people I spent a lot of time with because
10:56I was in Vegas for the entirety of summer league which was a blast and also just a great experience
11:00to get to know some of those guys a little bit more um there's like the middle ground of players
11:04that weren't at summer league and also don't do a lot of availability like you know I'm trying to
11:08think who that would even be at this point because there's not that many of them I guess like Nemeas
11:12Cato or Nemeas Cato was actually at summer league um like Lonnie Walker is one because he signed
11:17after the fact uh Peyton Pritchard, Sam Houser, Luke Hornet like the bench players um but yeah
11:25if there again if there are any things you're particularly curious about like feel free to
11:29message me and I can see if we can get it answered or asked about um I think Shireman and Watson
11:34in particular like are gonna are gonna be really like interesting to people just because they were
11:39recently drafted and I'm also going to spend a lot of time in Maine over the next few months
11:42like when I have days where I'm not covering Celtics and I'm not covering WNBA and I'm
11:46available to be I'm here in Boston then I'll I'll be heading over to Maine to talk to those guys
11:50because those guys I presume I really do expect that they'll spend the majority of the year in
11:56Maine even though they're both on the older side I would be very surprised if they were like
12:01specifically in Boston the entire time um unless something goes wrong like someone gets injured
12:07obviously then you need additional bodies and you have two guys that I do think are more close to
12:12being NBA ready than the last two draft picks who were J.D. Davison and Jordan Walsh
12:17and I'm curious about Jordan Walsh because I think he had a really rough summer league but
12:20Bobby Manning of CLNS spoke with Al Horford yesterday and he mentioned that Jordan Walsh
12:24looked good I also think Jordan Walsh looked good in Maine so part of the Jordan Walsh thing is
12:30I do think people like have uh you know he had a tough a tough experience on the brightest stage
12:36as far as like he's concerned like more people tune into summer league than to a lot of other
12:40things relating to the Celtics as far as like practices obviously who aren't available and
12:43I think Maine Celtics games I'd actually be curious like how the attendance uh the viewership
12:48between summer league and the Maine Celtics stacks up I would imagine more people are
12:51watching summer league because there's nothing else but um maybe I'm wrong on that I'll fact
12:56check myself on that one um this is in response to me saying nobody will say it didn't change them
13:02this was in regards to the championship um I actually would not be surprised if Missoula
13:07was like I'm exactly the same I think he might have already said some things like that but
13:11I'll be posting clips and quotes as it relates to that topic but I have a feeling that some people
13:15are like are going to downplay the championship in an effort to kind of like move forward um
13:20but yeah question here from Neil thoughts on Alyssa Thomas's triple double so Alyssa Thomas
13:29is one of the greatest players in the WNBA I think also one of the most underrated um and I
13:34could just say like I'm I grew up watching the NBA and watching the Celtics but not necessarily
13:38watching the WNBA and so I had over the last few years like kind of catch up on all the history and
13:44watching all the great players and kind of learning about everybody and Alyssa Thomas is somebody that
13:48I think is super fascinating because she really can't shoot she has two torn labrums that she
13:53never surgically repaired which is kind of wild to think about when you think about like basketball
13:57players and um and you know I think John Moran just tore his labrum and did surgery and obviously
14:03ended the season so she chose not to have those procedures and in turn she can't shoot like from
14:08deep she can't shoot threes anymore even though she used to be able to um and so her shot looks
14:12kind of funky kind of looks like a push shot but she's an incredible defender an incredible passer
14:17um and is a the all-time leading triple double leader in WNBA history both in the playoffs and
14:22in the regular season and she had a triple double yesterday and honestly like I don't even know that
14:26she realized she had one because when uh when she was asked to speak to Holly Rowe for the silent
14:31interview afterwards she mentioned like why me according to the Sun PR woman who tweeted this out
14:36um so um she's yeah Alyssa Thomas is going to be critical of anything the Sun do during this
14:41playoff run um for those of you who are following along there's a couple weeks left you know there's
14:46another game for this first round then there's the semifinals in the finals and Alyssa Thomas is like
14:50one of the top players in the league she I think came in fourth on the MVP ballot or in fifth
14:55actually um so kind of got consensus around that and her thing is really that she's an all-around
15:01player she kind of does it all um and yeah I think someone here said uh just became a Sun fan
15:07I've always been a UConn fan so why not I think that the UConn fan base makes up a lot of the Sun
15:12fans and so um you know if you're in living in that area like it's another it's the only
15:17professional sports game really in the region in the area so it's it's helpful um question here
15:25from or actually a comment here from Celtics digest I'm excited to see how Keita is also gearing up
15:29for training camp in his first full year in the NBA I also want to hear about how great Horford
15:32Summer has been as a champ very well deserved um ditto super excited about both of those topics
15:38um Al Horford I think I posted this on Twitter but he was in the Dominican Republic
15:43um he received like a medal of honor um which was super cool like he it's like the highest level of
15:49honor in his country um it's not something that I had any heads up about I literally just saw
15:53it on social media and he seemed Joe Mazzuolo was there um and assistant coach Tony Dobbins was also
15:58there so that was just really cool to see the two two coaches from the Celtics organization were
16:05made the trip out with Al Horford and his family to the Dominican Republic to celebrate this
16:09championship and Al had a camp over there as well so I'm sure we'll talk to him a little bit more
16:13about that and I'm sure there'll be some articles about his summer and kind of how he celebrated and
16:17he also probably had less you know worked out less than some of the younger guys and
16:22probably focused on preserving his legs and his energy for this coming year but there were a lot
16:26of rumors last year about Al Horford retiring at the end of the season retiring after a championship
16:30run I disputed them all year I was really confident that was not going to happen and it
16:36aged well because I think Al Horford has at least this year left this year he's under contract for
16:40about 10 million and then I would not be surprised if he resigned in some capacity and uh extended
16:45his career so we'll see I think it's different now that he you know this is the last year of
16:49his contract whether or not he continues but if he's healthy and has a similar yield
16:53year to last year um yeah I think that I wouldn't be surprised to see him again
17:03uh this is the question we're kind of going back and forth here WNBA and Celtics so
17:07bear with me and me I probably should have done like first 15 minutes Celtics for
17:11last 15 WNBA maybe maybe the following ones I will do that because I have some um I'm going to do a
17:16couple more of these hybrid episodes because of the fact that they're both kind of concurrently
17:20happening and I'm at both places at once but this is the question about wouldn't it be fair if the
17:25lower ranked team gets the second game at home in a three-game series um yeah so the way that
17:29it works is that like the three seed gets games one and two at home and then if they split those
17:35games then the sixth seed hosts the deciding game three which kind of sucks for both of them because
17:41on one hand like if you're the worst seed you might not even get a playoff game at home and so
17:47think about like cities that are so excited that your team finally made the playoffs now you have
17:52a playoff game and you're actually not even able to bring it back to your home fans um which is
17:57very possible that that will happen in multiple series because you know if you win the first two
18:01games as the better seed like you never even go on the road and on the other hand it's kind of
18:05unfair that if you are the better team like you had the better record now you have to play a
18:10deciding game on the road so the reason that this is the way that it is it was to save money on
18:14travel costs initially and now there's charter flights the league has more revenue so i do think
18:18we might see it change moving forward yeah this is a comment from tom coolidge this is we're back
18:27on the celtics here but um it felt like the media got bored of the celtics last year since it was
18:31such a dominant season and a lot of the hot takes saw this in the celtics felt like the media not
18:35knowing how to cover them i will emphasize this point i think that because journalism is
18:41storytelling a lot of times and it involves conflict and it involves like having drama
18:46right it's hard to write and talk about nothing or like blowouts um and i can just say like i love
18:52the blast they're fun and i love watching the stay ready guys but like if we do a postgame show after
18:56a blowout win versus like an overtime loss like more people are tuning in to the overtime lost
19:01one right so it gets kind of hard from a media standpoint especially when you're thinking about
19:05like you run a company and you like need engagement right it's different for me when
19:08like i'm just doing this as a person but you know i think there's a lot of concern with like how are
19:13we going to make like drive interest when they're just crushing everybody and so then that's where
19:18some of the like fabrication of conflict comes from in my opinion um and probably some of it
19:23is people actually being like they're not that good which is fair um everybody is entitled to
19:26their own opinion but i think it's a combination of the two question here who are you most excited
19:32to see from the stay ready group um let me think i'm well i'm really excited to talk to Lonnie
19:40Walker because he's new obviously and so i've never spoken with him before i'm curious to see
19:45like how this happened i think anything that he says is going to be interesting whether it's that
19:50he has like i'm curious if like this exhibit 10 deal if there's anything more to it that we don't
19:55know there's been a lot of speculation around whether or not he will be staying with the
19:59organization longer term or not and you know anything that he says i think tomorrow will be
20:03revealing in some sense um always nice to see the younger guys like how their first summer and first
20:09training camp is looking up to be you know they've already been working out together for a few weeks
20:13so that's been great to you know i'd love to i'm curious to hear about like how is Baylor
20:17Shireman and Anton Watson's adaptation of the NBA coming um it's funny i keep wanting to say like
20:23Zvi and O'Shea but those two guys are not going to be there this year they're the two losses from
20:27last season um and it's weird because O'Shea is still a free agent and i hope that he finds a
20:32spot in the NBA but it looks like he might have taken a not so great gamble with the not not
20:38opting into the second year of his contract so we'll see but excited to see everybody i guess
20:42uh Keita is one from like a basketball standpoint that i i'm really high on him i've i did my 10
20:47predictions episode on the Celtics and i talked about like what are the main things that i'm
20:51really excited about and my predictions and one of them is that i do think Keita will be
20:56um a big piece of this rotation moving forward i really do think that obviously could be wrong but
21:02i between him Tillman and Cornette i think that he has the highest upside and that or at least
21:07early on there will be some emphasis and effort on on trying to see if there's something there
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22:23So there's a question here about Lonnie Walker. Do you think everybody is sleeping on Lonnie Walker
22:27especially Bobby? I'm assuming this is in reference to the fact that Bobby's not sure if Lonnie is
22:31going to get a regular uh the 15th spot on the roster. I don't know if it's people sleeping on
22:38his abilities because I think I hope that most people in the media like understand recognize
22:44that he's a very good basketball player and there's a reason why he's averaged almost 10
22:47points a game in his career and he's had really high moments um and I do think the fact that he's
22:52floating around here is not a product of his skills or ability and it's more a product of
22:56the fact that this whole NBA situation right now with the way that new contracts are going there's
23:02a middle class that's kind of been left out and O'Shea Brissett is another one like doesn't have
23:06a contract right there's so many players Markel Foles I just looked at a list of like best free
23:10agents available and I was like jeez like there are a lot of people that I would have for sure
23:15thought that would already be signed by now and maybe some of them not even to minimum contracts
23:18and so I think people are the reason that there's not this like oh Lonnie Walker is going to be this
23:24great bench score on the Celtics is because a lot of people myself included you know are a little
23:29bit incredulous of the fact that they might take this 15th spot and fill it up in September um and
23:34so that's where my hesitation comes from and not because I think you know they should keep a spot
23:41open because they need to for safety reasons it's because I've asked Brad Davis that question and
23:45multiple times we've you know heard him discuss this topic on one hand or another and he has made
23:50very clear that they like keeping that spot open especially for the first few months of the year
23:55and so to me to go into the season and right away fill in that spot like I don't know I just don't
24:01think that that would be that seems a little unlikely to me um then again maybe they're
24:06thinking like we actually got a steal and this is better than anything we could do with this 15th
24:10spot and that actually Lonnie Walker is like a dream pickup and that he's not a he's not a training
24:15camp deal kind of player which I don't think he is so that's where my hesitation comes from it's
24:19nothing reflective on Lonnie Walker it's more about like just the idea of this roster and the
24:23fact that the front office has just really expressed routinely how important it is to keep that spot
24:27open um I'm gonna actually go through these questions first then I'll end with WNBA questions
24:39just so we're not going back and forth um do you think Pritchard has a shot at sixth man of the
24:47year um I don't think he has a great shot um mostly because I do think sixth man of the year needs to
24:53be like a top three or four score on a team for the most part um and Pritchard won't be so to me
25:01like it's a very stat heavy award um and so even if he's really impactful and he has great plus
25:07minus numbers which I think those both of those things are near certainties like if he's averaging
25:12seven eight points a game like he's just not going to be in the conversation for it and there's going
25:16to be guys like Nas Reed who continue to come off the bench and play starter minutes and so it's
25:21hard to compete against those guys but I would like to see him take another jump and I think that
25:24he can make a leap even though he obviously made one heading into last year he's in that category
25:29I put Sam Hauser in this confrontation as well where like they can just go they can continue to
25:33improve year after year I don't think that they've like reached their prime or their peak yet
25:38over under on number of jokes Cornette makes I'm going to use this comment as a plug to shout out
25:44an article that Jack Simone uh wrote for Harden Houdini formerly from Celtics blog um and he
25:50interviewed a bunch of people in Cornette's like life and childhood and upbringing um and not maybe
25:56not upbringing but like high school and former teammates and things about how Cornette has always
26:00been really funny so I will um I will you can google Lou Cornette Harden Houdini or I can find
26:06the link but I'll probably get distracted if I go look for it so um is there a way to follow the
26:13media day live streams on YouTube I'm not sure I would imagine CLNS is doing some things live
26:18streaming um and then I know that there's like live coverage on on TV as well but let me I will
26:25post this on Twitter when I find out um I'll be posting like regular updates and clips I'm assuming
26:30you want to see like the full thing no interruptions um I bet somewhere if not CLNS then
26:36somewhere on TV they'll do it so let me let me confirm that and I will I'll tweet it out when I
26:40learn if the Celtics repeat where do you put them among all-time teams Jordan's Bulls, Jack and
26:46Kobe Lakers, Big Three Heat, Warrior and Spurs Dynasties? Well I think you got to think about
26:52more than one title more than two titles at that point so that's that's all tough conversation and
26:56I think we're talking three-peats here um yeah not yet but I will say like in my lifetime the
27:04only teams that have won multiple championships are the LeBron Warriors or the Big Three Heat I
27:10should say sorry the LeBron Heat or the Warriors um I guess the Spurs kind of but I was young so
27:17to me like this they would become like an all-time great team of my in my lifetime um but you've got
27:22to get more than two rings to be in that kind of conversation long you know big picture um but it
27:28is kind of remarkable that since 2017 we haven't seen a repeat championship winner so I think that
27:32like you have to imagine that if you're a team that just won the championship and the Celtics
27:36obviously are like this is you you're super excited by this concept like the idea that you
27:42might be able to be the first team to go back-to-back in almost a decade like that's a lofty
27:48thing um and it's something that right now like teams can think about and can speculate on but
27:53only the Celtics are actually positioned to go back-to-back and so they've seen a long like a
27:57long list of teams that have not been able to do it between the Nuggets uh the Bucks you know every
28:02team in the last six years has not been able to do it so you know that's motivation I think and
28:07that's part of why I feel really confident in this team is that you know there's going to be
28:11I can already hear the talking points I can already hear their mindset and their perspective
28:14and it's just it's the same as last year as I would imagine just with a different end goal in
28:18mind um and you know obviously like maybe a little bit more buy-in a little bit more faith that they
28:22can get this done. Comment here on O'Shea Burr said I'm so frustrated though she has not signed
28:28yet also I agree with your namey take I've been high on him since they acquired him um yeah I
28:33feel so bad for O'Shea and honestly like maybe there's something in the works that I don't know
28:36about but it's late September training camps Celtics start tomorrow Nuggets are tomorrow I
28:41don't know if people know this but the Celtics and the Nuggets are playing in Abu Dhabi two
28:44pre-season games so that's why they start a week before everybody else which to me feels like kind
28:49of a big disadvantage of like having less off-season and more miles flying and everything
28:53but I'm sure they agreed to be a part of it for a reason um and but anyways yeah like training
28:58camps around the corner O'Shea Burr said is not yet signed um and I feel I feel for him because
29:04I think that he is an NBA player but I'm realizing the longer I do this and the longer the closer I
29:09pay attention and that like there are a lot of great NBA players that will not be in the NBA
29:13and there's a lot of luck that's involved um I had on the show Dana Altman the coach of Oregon
29:19if you go to my YouTube channel you can find that episode and you can watch that as well if you're
29:24interested um would highly recommend it it was a really good conversation but Dana said to me we're
29:29talking about kind of like luck actually I'm gonna put a link here um we're talking about luck and
29:34just like making it an NBA he coached Peyton Pritchard in college he also coached Kyle Korver
29:38Dylan Brooks and he mentioned like Kyle Korver literally when he was on the 76ers like he
29:45they almost waived him and you know that he almost wasn't in the NBA he almost didn't even have a
29:50career and instead he became an all-star and an all-time three-point leader and just had this
29:54phenomenal career and so not saying that O'Shea Burr said it's going to be a star if he gets a
29:58chance but like the difference between having an NBA career and not having a career at all I think
30:03is a lot of a much more of a fine line than I had ever known and I'd ever imagined um and so
30:09yeah it's a pretty wild thing to consider and O'Shea obviously had the player option so for
30:14those of you that don't know what that means like he had the opportunity to opt into the second year
30:19of his contract and would have been on the Celtics this year but he opted out and said he was a free
30:23agent and he has just been testing the marketplace and um I'm assuming that he hasn't gotten anything
30:29substantial or else he would have taken that and so maybe in hindsight like he should have opted
30:33in maybe there's something that I'm not aware of I don't have I haven't spoken to anybody in his
30:38team or anything like that so um but yeah okay interesting question here from Ben where does
30:45Al Horford rank among starters in the NBA starting centers in NBA I'd probably have to get a full
30:53list but I would I would imagine he's somewhere in the middle somewhere like an average um not
31:00just I don't know if that's going to be construed as an insult or a compliment but I mean there's
31:05obviously the stars there's the yokiches and beads of the world but then there's also centers that I
31:09just wouldn't trust as much as Al so for what Al lacks in in maybe individual scoring or athleticism
31:16at this point in his career I think that he makes up for it in switchability and uh three-point
31:20shooting and just being a smart veteran player so oh and not yeah not a grade of rankings off the
31:26top of my head that if I looked at a list I would I would guess like 16 um and start as far as
31:31starting centers go um yeah this was and this was when I was talking about Pritchard but Celtics
31:38were too stacked for him to win maybe he'll play for another team so again when I did this episode
31:43with uh Dana we had this whole conversation around Pritchard and he said like for him it's a really
31:48good thing to be on the Celtics um and to win and to win a championship like it's more it's better
31:54than and better than anything you could really hope for in the NBA and like you're better off
31:58being there I'm going to link that episode um but obviously like individual athletes like he's
32:04leaving someone on the table here playing for the Celtics so I think what I think will happen with
32:08Pritchard's career is that he's going to have a couple years where he's on the Celtics you know
32:13and then eventually he will find himself on a team where he has a larger role um and then we'll see
32:17we'll see all this conversation around the ceilings that I've been a part of like we will see um
32:23oh thank you CLNS will be live streaming media day this was from a while back but thank you I'm
32:29assuming that's Ahmet um okay yeah this is so true Cornette should start a pod um yeah he would be so
32:39good at anything media related that he does he he commentated on like a main Celtics game for like a
32:44quarter last season I wonder if he'll do more of that I think that he's the kind of guy that maybe
32:48like doesn't have the longest NBA career maybe he fades out at age 33 or something and then he
32:54goes into the media space so I've heard he wants to become a teacher um but I do think that like
32:59media he's meant for it being that funny being that well-spoken obviously knowing a lot about
33:03basketball having the connections he kind of has everything you need um do you think Peyton
33:10Sealing is like a Van Fleet type? Yeah I mean I don't know if Van Fleet was ever that efficient
33:18I'd have to go back to look at his numbers but I guess so I think that's a fair ceiling to give him
33:23um you can probably go a little higher like best case scenario but I think that right now I'm sure
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35:37okay so I'm catching up here on these comments I'm seeing that both CLNS and
35:40NBC Sports Boston will be live streaming media day on YouTube so feel free to tune in to those
35:46I figured that I figured as such but that's good to have that confirmation um and then yeah I'll
35:50have some articles and stories and um I will be going live at some point for the answer questions
35:55from media day probably tomorrow evening um probably around the same time but once I get
35:59the schedule for everything tomorrow I'll have a better sense so we'll do like like today's like
36:04the preview episode and then tomorrow we'll do like a follow-up on like everything that happened
36:08um yeah so so appreciate all those of you who have questions again if you have questions you'd
36:13like to see asked like obviously can't make any promises but feel free to send messages and then
36:17we can kind of follow up on all that tomorrow gonna take a couple more questions here on the
36:24tatum threes um yeah I'm curious I know that they are he's been kind of hinting at them I know
36:32there are some other reporters that are more on the shoe beat than me um so I will also ask them
36:36to see if they have any intel on the on the shoe front um yeah this is the thing so Joe Mazula I'm
36:45sure a lot of you guys have seen this but he was on Locked on Celtics and he did an exclusive
36:50interview with John Corrales where he talked about a bunch of different things very much worth
36:54a listen but also talked about attacking the season instead of defending a championship and
37:00kind of not having this passive mentality going into the season um and I think that it's that
37:06episode and just that season and everything really to me was like a perfect illustration of how the
37:11Celtics are going to enter the season um and it's not going to be like championship hangover I really
37:16don't think we're going to do championship hangover we might see them lose more because
37:19they rest guys and they don't play as well um and that might sound like a championship hangover
37:23but I don't think it's going to have the typical makeup of like they just kind of like partied all
37:27summer and like they showed up and they have a little bit of like uh taking things for granted
37:31and they lose some easy games early on like I don't think so okay I think Joe Mazula is going
37:35to be kind of ingraining within them this mentality of like you are going to look at the season and
37:40forget the championship and restart the habits from square one and Tatum has talked about it
37:45this offseason and so has Joe Mazula um so we'll see I'm sure we'll get a lot more quotes about
37:50attacking this season tomorrow at media day um sure Jalen Brown I mean we talked to Jalen Brown
37:55at summer league this was just a couple weeks after the championship but he was already like
37:58on to the next so there's going to be a number of people on that team that are going to be really
38:04pushing this idea of like you don't need to um we're not like repeating we're not defending we're
38:10like we're going we're starting at square one and like really fighting for this thing and and
38:15there's no reason to be passive because everybody now like history has shown how hard it is to win
38:18back-to-back so I don't think you're going to need to like really convince anybody if that makes sense
38:24um but yeah I think this idea of like the whole league is gunning for the Celtics like that's
38:32what happens when a team wins the championship right and so like last year I think the Nuggets
38:36had it and Jamal Murray talked about being be hunted um instead of hunting and so like the
38:42Nuggets I think to me had like a classic championship hangover last season um where it was so obvious
38:47like that's exactly what it looked like um you know obviously they dealt with injuries and things
38:52too but you know yeah I think like that you you don't want to have this mindset of like we're
38:56defending and everybody is coming out to get us because then you're you're going to be on the
38:59wrong end of a lot of matchups um I think the big thing that everybody's wondering about at least in
39:03the Celtics media world or those of you that are really following everything is how is how was the
39:09team going to fare without Chris Opspor saying it's actually surprised there were no questions
39:12about that in the chat um but yeah I think that there's going to be guys that have to step up and
39:18take an increased role and there's going to be mistakes made as a result so you might see games
39:22where you're like why are they why does the defense look terrible and maybe it's because
39:26Yamil Shakeda and Luke Hornet are sharing the floor or one of those guys is playing a little
39:30out of position so I think there's going to be a a certain margin of error that fans are going to
39:35have to get used to um that's not going to be indicative of low effort or lack of focus but
39:39of the fact that like without Corzines are not going to put the miles an hour for the way they
39:43did in the postseason in the postseason I think like it was all about just getting to the finish
39:48line um but I don't think that'll be the case in this situation so we'll see um what's the
39:56motto for this year I don't know I I've noticed the different that it's different here motto is
40:01gone as far as like it doesn't have the Celtics logo next to it anymore so there's definitely
40:05going to be a new motto um I will let you guys know when it when I hear anything but I'm assuming
40:12it'll just be rolled out by the Celtics organization so um people will probably see it
40:16online but yeah I'm trying to think like there have been it's all about 18 is the one that I
40:20really remember like from being a kid and being like they're going to get this championship and
40:24then it's kind of wild to think that like the whole verbiage around 18 is gone now because it's
40:28all about 19 now which is so hard to think about so um and yeah opening night October 22nd um
40:37if you go on game time I'm like I've been monitoring the prices right now it's like two
40:41two tickets for like $900 as far as like the cheapest get-in prices I don't know if they're
40:46going to go up or down I've been kind of monitoring them because I'm getting my dad and my brother
40:49tickets so we'll see but hopefully it's a it's a good Celtics win um in either case though it's
40:54kind of worthwhile as a fan because you get the you get to watch like the banner celebration and
40:58the ring ceremony everything so like you know you get that regardless of how the game pans out but
41:02obviously it's more fun um but yeah and then thank you I'm going to plug this I had an interview with
41:07my dad and Dana Altman uh my dad played basketball for a long time and uh Dana Altman the coach of
41:14Oregon they were teammates in college at Eastern New Mexico so um it was a fun conversation it was
41:19kind of funny to interview somebody alongside my dad um and you guys can if you tune into that one
41:25you can see where I learned my love of yapping for 40 minutes straight because my dad also does
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41:37um if you're watching this on Twitter or on CLNS like that's where like all my episodes are going
41:42to be and there's going to be like a much bigger frequency of episodes moving forward
41:46as we head into training camp media day and everything um and I'm also going to do some
41:50WNBA specific things even though I know that right now the majority of my audience is still
41:55you know Celtics um I'm going to just scroll through to see if there are any WNBA questions
42:01that I missed that's an official end of Celtics questions but I also know I said I was going to go
42:06back to some I feel like there was something about Marina Mabry oh yeah I'll just say like the
42:12Celtics have a big acquisition sorry the Sun have made a big acquisition it's very unusual in the
42:17WNBA to make a mid-season trade um and they did they shipped out two veterans for Marina Mabry
42:23who is who was a player on the Chicago Sky who is not like a star but averaged around 15 a night and
42:29was a good three-point shooter and she has just changed the game for Connecticut they were a
42:33really bad three-point shooting team not Celtics vibes very opposite of that um and then now they
42:38have her she's been shooting like 42% from three had 27 points in game one so Marina's great she's
42:44a big Celtics fan big Jason Tatum fan I've spoken to her a couple times um and so if you're trying
42:48to figure out where you fall on the WNBA spectrum tune in to the Connecticut Sun they're big Celtics
42:52fans if nothing else you guys have that in common um but yeah she's just one of those like kind of
42:57snipers that changed the complexion of the team because they weren't really able to create offense
43:01quite as much without her um and now they have the ability to have somebody alongside like their
43:06stars of Dewana Bonner, Alyssa Thomas, Eugenie Carrington like somebody else that could just
43:10self-create so I did a story on her this morning for SB Nation about how she kind of changed the
43:16landscape of the championship battle there's four teams that are on the way to a championship
43:22I think there's four that are in the mix um and I think the Sun are one of them
43:25so the Aces, Las Vegas is another, the New York Liberties another um and the Minnesota Lynx those
43:31are the four that I like could see winning the championship anybody else I'd be very surprised so
43:35we'll see but it should be a really fun couple of weeks in the WNBA playoffs um and again like
43:42Celtics preseason begins at the same time so to me for me this is going to be like the busiest
43:46month of the season so um I know the regular season's not starting yet the finals for the
43:50WNBA and like two days before the Celtics uh season officially begins so um and there was
43:57another question here on the WNBA front I see um how did the Indiana Fever get a win in game two
44:04is it just as simple as Caitlyn shooting better because she had a lot of open looks that didn't go
44:07in um yeah honestly so I think for those of you that have tuned into like my coverage of the
44:14Celtics like I think a lot of times basketball analysis is as simple as like somebody had a
44:19bad shooting game and it's not reflective of like them not being good shooters or even the
44:23defensive coverage being like so great um and this came up a lot like Tatum over this over the spring
44:29it came up with Al Horford earlier in the playoffs when he was struggling um and the reality is I
44:33think Caitlyn Clark is obviously a phenomenal shooter she was saw a lot of different coverages
44:38yesterday she had Dawana Bonner on her points she had um Marina Mabry even D.J. Carrington who was
44:43on the lead defender they were throwing different things at her Dawana Bonner's length I think was
44:47disruptive but at the end of the day like I think she just missed easy shots more than anything and
44:51she talked about a post game she got the black eye you know big stage all that I think above all
44:56those things she just had a bad shooting game um and so to me like that's we're gonna see her bounce
45:02back she's a great player um and I would imagine the game two is closer um even if the sun are on
45:08top I don't think they're gonna win by 24 that's my prediction um but we'll see um and yeah this
45:15is a good comment Nafisa Collier is underrated um maybe some of you don't even know who she is
45:23but she is the star player on the Minnesota Lynx and I do think that she is somebody that
45:28for some reason just like hasn't got national attention yet um and maybe this is the playoff
45:32one what I found with the WNBA and like making people mainstream is that it's a lot of
45:36like when somebody plays Kaitlyn Clark now because that game got a lot of eyes because of Kaitlyn
45:41like now whoever she's playing against also gets a lot of eyes and so and then that person becomes
45:45well known and whoever they play so like it's kind of like this spreading effect almost um and
45:50Nafisa Collier and the Lynx I think have just been flying under the radar of the WNBA and they've been
45:54really good but just haven't won haven't won the kind of hearts and eyes of the nat of the
45:59nation yet and she came second in MVP voting um Asia Wilson and the Aces they've won championships
46:05um and so I think they have a lot of um they have more media coverage for that reason more
46:09name recognition because they've been there you know um and also I think that they're very kind
46:14of like bigger personalities and spokespeople I did a story on Asia Wilson last week um that you
46:19guys can check out as well on SB Nation um okay I'm going to wrap things up unless there are any
46:27like pressing last second questions but I assume there are not um just want to once again plug
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46:38subscribe um there's going to be daily coverage all this week lots of coverage in the preseason
46:43heading into the regular season um and then yeah also we'll be doing some WNBA stuff so I'm going
46:50to try to keep them separate just because I feel like from a like if someone goes back and watches
46:53this they're going to be like WNBA Celtics back and forth so I'm going to try to keep them separate
46:57um so maybe I'll do like a WNBA edition a Celtics edition and whoever tunes in will know at least
47:03what they're tuning in for um but yeah appreciate you all for tuning in uh follow along CLNS for
47:10some live coverage all day tomorrow I know Bobby Manning is hosting a Dallas Celtics preview at
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47:24thank you for the well wishes on my finger it is it's fine um it's just annoying it's
47:29slowing my typing down so that is the only downside um okay cool thanks so much everybody
47:36have a great rest of your night and I will see you all tomorrow at some point I will announce when
47:40that is thanks