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Paul Pierce to Glow

about his Celtics sweeping those Pacers

to return to the NBA finals it's also

time for me to gloat about winning yet

another dinner from Paul Pierce who gave

me the Pacers plus

10 because he and Kean thought the

Pacers were already mentally on vacation

no no no Pacers were up nine with 8 and

1 half minutes to go they're up four

with 333 to play yet the Pacers failed

to score a point from that point went on

had two more terrible

turnovers finally lost by three 105 102

still for the third time in four games

the Pacers easily could have won another

game man you have to wonder if the

Pacers would have won the last two at

Indiana if they'd had their point guard

their best player Tyrese halberton who

of course missed the second straight

game with some kind of hamstring injury

so Paul Pierce any concern at all about

how close these games were

you are laughing at hey look look is

this a look of a concern oo cuz this is

what the Indiana Pac is doing they got

their shades on with their feet up in

Cancun right now you think they're

already in can already the crazy thing

in your lead when you said that we

thought they would already be on

vacation I said it was a lot of American

Express charges last night that's the

first thing I thought they getting them

tickets and private jets or however they

get there but they are on vacation man

you know what no concern skip I actually

enjoyed that these games were close for

for the simple fact that when you look

at how we played in the regular season

with the average margin of Victory being

11 and you know people expecting us to

win Mighty handily for us to

endure comebacks in three of the four

games and this could have easily been a

series when you look back at it we swept

it this could have easily been a series

where we could be talking today being

down 3-1 you could but we're not but

you're not and the reality of it is

we're on to the NBA

finals this team showed me a lot you

know I I wonder if they will be

challenging you know people are going to

say yeah they had the easiest

Road uh in round one no Jimmy Butler no

Donovan Mitchell but sometimes these are

the most difficult teams to play against

SK and I'm G tell you why Indiana had a

lot of success versus the Celtics for

one when you go to a series you get you

get your scout report you be like all

right this is the head of the snake we

need to cut this off we need to stop

this and stop that which is hbert now

you take halberton out of the equation

now what's The Scouting Report now you

got a lot of

unpredictability you know you got guys

that's going to step up they're going to

move into roles that you don't expect

and that's why you see guys like n Smith

and n

n nimart you know these

yeah they outperform what they

originally supposed to do because in The

Scouting Report it it gets unpredictable

when you're saying all right these are

the stars we have to face this is what

we have to do this is the game plan yeah

and so when it doesn't happen that way

and you have the stars out it's like

oh the unpredictability sets in and

that's why Indiana was successful but

for the simple fact that we were down by

five in game one and the fourth we were

down by nine in game three and the

fourth and we were down by nine in game

four and the fourth and won all those

games that shows me we can play in tight

games that shows me we can play down and

that shows me that we have the ability

to come back now I don't care about the

talent you're going to say oh it's not

Luca and Kyrie it's not Ant-Man doesn't

matter when you have the knowhow and

when you been through them type of

experiences it comes back to you when

you get in those moments again and so

I'm glad they played these

games uh they did what they were

supposed to do four R they've only lost

two games they're 12-2 in the playoffs

and hopefully they get porzingis back

because they're going to need him if

they have to play Minnesota or Dallas

you still making a case for

Minnesota you know you can never count

on you know and did say he want to go

out make he was never making a case for

never Cas Dallas Dallas Dallas I mean we

know it's probably most likely but in

case somebody decides they want to make

history okay we'll be ready for them and

so I I'm I'm excited with the way

and and our nuclear weapons we're going

to get to them a little later M you no

no no concern skip close games I think I

think it's good for them I honestly do

because they've been through some

heartache and pain as a young tandem

they have they've gone to the final and

lost they've gone to the Eastern

Conference Finals and lost and so

there's something about getting there

and getting punched around before you

actually do something about it and I

think in this situation they they showed

me they could do something about it you

you go to like Paul was talking about

you go to game one they they paac is Led

with about a buck 50 on the clock by

five they take it in overtime with a big

shot in the corner by Jaylen Brown now

they get that when they Ste it they keep

it moving then they just basically

cruising game two all right they it

wasn't it wasn't quite the blowout but

it was convincing win no no it was

Jaylen Brown special it it was a

convincing win then you get in the game

three and they was down as much as 18 at

once upon a time and then closed the gap

down to eight again and they finally won

the game then you get to game four with

eight led by the Pacers LED with about

six minutes to go by eight then they

closed that Gap and then they you know

wied from the corner knocks that thing

down and the Pacers from an offensive

standpoint didn't score another bucket

for about 333 into the game last four

you know last four minutes or so so when

you start to put it all together it it's

like when I I hate they showing you all

the agre I hate them but I don't I hate

the Celtics not the players the players

are fine it ain't they fault that they

getting checks you hate the brand you

hate the brand the brand I don't like

the brand cuz I I just don't like it but

it's not it's not Tatum and Brown's

fault that they happen to put on that

green and white and when you look at it

you it's almost like you root for them

because I want to see them young guys

win a championship something that

they've been on the edge of doing since

they've been in the league and it's yet

to cash in but now getting to whether

it's Dallas or whether it's going to be

Minnesota with a a crazy comeback they

on a 12 a 12 to2 run that 12 to2 run

that's that's pretty I guess you would

call it dominant in terms of the

playoffs although a lot of teams that

they faced along the way was missing

some pieces to the puzzle but the end of

the day they brought out the broom no

matter what they knocked down the that

was in front of him and that's all you

really could ask for did they knock him

down or just ease them over a little

bit knocked them down yeah I don't know

if they Jay look Jaylen Brown and Tatum

I would argue with people played pretty

good in this series they played pretty

damn good they both average 30 what you

mean pretty good well some of the I

don't you you looking at the points I'm

looking at how they played yeah cuz you

I can shoot the ball 40 times and get 30

points

I mean so I don't I don't look at it

that way how did they play up and down

on both ends of the

floor Paul Pierce yeah talk to I'm here

to tell you talk to your team has not

been fire tested yet no your team has

cak walked through the East it has

played down to the level of competition

that was almost always without its best

player at every step of the way and it

should be concerning to you if not

downright flat out scary to you that

these games kept going down to the wire

because they shouldn't have especially

if you take Tyrese halberton away at

Indiana especially if you're up three to

nothing then you should win by 30 and

you guys both thought it was going to be

a blowout that's what I I thought that

they would win by what did I say

11 well they

didn't did not go home for the holiday

they did not but coach a win is a win is

a win okay it it was and I will give you

this they did fight back three different

times the first time that they needed a

whole lot of help from the other team

and they got it and the truth was they

needed some help last night from the

other team and they got it okay let's

look carefully at what just happened

last night I'm here okay let's look at 8

minutes and 35 seconds left you were

down nine points and little tiny TJ

McConnell gets loose again he has a

knack for getting loose in the Lane

about 5' 5 in tall and here he is and he

gets a sweet little feed from SE how do

you miss that how do you miss that and

we come down to hit a three yeah Jaylen

Brown came right down and went cang

exactly Y and he ripped it as clean as

you can rip it it felt like it kind of

ripped at the hearts of the people in

Indiana because right this was the game

this because that's that's 11 now and I

don't know if you come back from 11 just

psychologically it's like

11 what is that do for Indy it puts him

up 11 instead of come right I'm not even

talking about the score I'm talking

about if they would win the game what

does it do they go back to Bost it and

they lose okay so you want to you want

you want to so you want to pack your

bags they were saying halber probably

would have been able to play in a game

five but you still skip what happened in

game one at Boston what happened won the

game but then they they lose the game we

won but they go back Skip and they roll

out porzingis now okay maybe maybe I'm

just talking about last night I can only

React to what I saw in that little

bubble last night ask what is that going

to do for them okay well now you're

going big picture and I'm I'm staying

little picture and then we had Jaylen

Brown and I pretty sure it wasn't

intentional but but he cold coocked

little TJ McConnell and just knocked him

on his literal tail if we could see this

I thought you just have to call it a

flagrant whether it was intentional or

not but he just called No this wasn't no

flagrant this is play aome went for the

oh God he just po that that's I know

it's open handed that's a cold coock to

me man that you know what that looked

like to me that looked like embiid on

Jaylen Brunson no like I just I'm just

tired right now I'm tired of y'all cuz

that was chippy they was J Brown had

some chippy moments in this game though

now Paul that's that dirty uh

park4 Jaylen Brown would never do that

that might have been accidental it

didn't look he would do that intentional

that was accident it looked accidental

on the replay I mean he you can't call

every play when somebody gets hit a play

git this is playoff basketball but I

thought the r was anything above the

neck it's just a flagrant foul I mean

come on I mean that's just like the way

football is now it's just like man you

touch a go you just cuz you get like

that in football you getting up you

ain't going to lay down on the ground

and act like Paul y' got helmets on got

helmets on we not going to get

conversation he he did get up and he

came soon right back into the game but

he took a double shot cuz he took one

right to the face and and on his

tailbone he hit hard on his tailbone

because he completely lost his legs out

from under him okay did that affect him

down the stretch maybe a little bit he

scored a couple more buckets don't don't

don't do that don't do that that

affected him okay so

333 Pacers still up four seaka makes a

shot and your head coach has to call a

quick timeout I'm thinking God I don't

know almost sent you when we Jason Tatum

too he took Jason Tatum out look at we

were so confident we took Jason Tatum

out the game he had five fouls yeah

that's okay but three minutes ago you

can live with that you can live with

your star with that was a bad coaching

move that was a great coaching move all

right here's what happened to the Pacers

from this point forward 333 to close

they score exactly zero points and they

get outscored 7 to zero points and

here's what happened first we got that's

a pretty wide open shot by nouth and he

missed okay TJ shot and he missed it

that's his shot but of course he'd been

cold coocked so rebound then here we go

again and SE yakum goes inside and just

loses okay that's just horrible that's

unforced just lose the ball loses the

ball unforced error and then it okay

like the easiest block okay oh oh now he

can't shoot huh yeah and then now now

can't make a shot now that listen when

when the game get tight listen it's guys

by the way that last shot we saw from

Nim Hart that's to tie with what was it

33 seconds that's how close it came the

game gets tight then you see who the

real players are all right I mean listen

Indiana battle don't take anything away

from him did you think Nim Hart would

come out here and average 30 in the last

two games I mean we didn't see that we

didn't see that coming I mean goes for

what 32 and then 24 he pretty much no

but listen he pretty much gave you with

uh with halber probably would have gave

you so it's like halberton was still

there because Nim hard wasn't playing

like this yeah in the New York series

now they now they see that he can beat a

point and run Pascal seum gave you pass

out Pascal seak numbers the bench TJ

everybody played well what do you expect

everybody expects the Celtics just come

out here and blow everybody out because

there was no halberton no that's not how

this works these this is the playoffs

team schemes teams have game plans and

like I said this was the

unpredictability when you don't have

your star out there now look I think

it's going to be easier to defend

against the Dallas Mavericks for the

simple fact that we know what Luca is we

know what Kyrie is we know what Lively

does like you look at this roster they

got n Smith M Turner Ben Shepard Andrew

NIMH hard Obie we we don't know who's

going to be the guy that night and so we

don't know should we tra them hard all

of a sudden because he's making threes

and coming off the pick and Road looking

like halberton should we get the N Smith

all of a sudden he can he can just make

all these shots all of a sudden I mean

that's the unpredictability when you

don't have your star and that's what

makes you difficult to guard now Dallas

more predictable I think they'll have an

easier time guarding Dallas than they

did Indiana are you sure Dallas will

have both Luca and Kyrie for game one

two three you sure they'll have them

because they always get hurt everybody

you play gets hurt right you sure they

won't both turn their ankle and we hope

they there we hope they there you hope

they are yeah we hope they I hope

Lively's healthy I want everybody to be

healthy for the finals hopefully they

get porzingis back Dallas gets Lively

and cber back let's just see let's put

all the chips out there and see who the

best team in the world is well if Dallas

wins tonight you're both going to have

what is it like 10 days about eight days

eight well it's till Thursday it'd be a

week from Thursday like that for y

though I don't like time off for Boston

because whenever they've had this time

off they come out sluggish in those

first game well it'll be two teams

that'll have time off hopefully Dallas

do what they need to do tonight both

teams can get ready get their Scout

reports ready get their film sessions

together get their coaching schemes

together you agree that get their health

together if Minnesota extends the series

then you probably got a little worry in

your blood no if Minnesota extends the

series

that's gonna be an issue for Dallas

because see I don't think it's gonna be

issue I think it's gonna be good for

Dallas because they rolling well they

still gonna have probably what five days

off or something like that skip

something still they still G to have

some time off but not as much time as

y'all I like going into it kind of hot

opposed to sitting around for nine days

being

cold well listen this gives us a

opportunity to heal some of our wounds

it allows us to like porz were supported

to come back for game four didn't need

him though didn't need him so now we

give him an extra week to be ready you

know and then whatever injuries that

you're dealing with because everybody's

dealing with something right now from

this last series in Indiana we can get

that healed up because right now we

sitting at home like all right we gonna

Scout Dallas we're gonna watch some film

tomorrow we gonna get some shots up take

it easy for the next couple days and

then we going to get into it where we

can go up and down get poringa some reps

and we'll have a few more days to do

that before we ready for game

one I'm just warning you it's going to

be the Dallas Mavericks and it's going

to be a whole another level of

basketball have that we expect that I

mean Dallas Mavericks have beaten what

what was the Clippers record this year

they won 50 games yeah it was 50 40 like

48 I think okay they beat the Clippers

that's that's pretty good test Oklahoma

City young pups pretty number one seed

in the west pretty good test I mean they

to me the only really experienced team

they played was the Clippers OKC didn't

go to the playoffs they beat them and

Minnesota's a young team who's pretty

wet behind the ears yes they are I mean

they pretty young as far as playoff

experience I mean cat towns has been

there for a while but he doesn't have a

lot of playoff experience you know what

I'm saying so to me there's not a really

big difference between Dallas's role and

the Boston Celtics Road when I look at

it when you put it all in perspective

okay I'm going to give you this the two

series have mirrored each other in that

Dallas keeps coming back and winning

close games on the Timberwolves right

and you kept doing that but I I think

the degree of difficulty has been much

higher for Dallas than it was for you

what makes it more difficult Anthony

Edwards Anthony Edwards three-headed

monster where the three headed monster

where the third

head where's the proba had a rougher not

NE rougher but more challenging playoffs

than I can argue that that that nard

would be the second best player on

Minnesota right now the way he played n

hard's pretty good that's what I'm

saying I can argue that Pascal cakam

will be the second best player on

Minnesota right now so you can't tell me

they haven't been challenged like Dallas

hasn't been challenged

like they haven't been challenged by

Minnesota like Ant-Man hasn't put

together a signature game just talking

about Minnesota I'm talking about the

playoffs the playoffs tell me where tell

me where OKC was did you hear Kyrie on

the court as soon as they closed that

Oklahoma City in Dallas and he said this

was the toughest series I've ever played

in I've ever played in okay see you

think that was that was down to that was

tough for Kyrie in what

way how they defended him

what did you see what did the eye test

tell first coule games Kyrie wasn't even

scoring he wasn't looking to score he

wasn't even scoring he wasn't even

looking to score was he ski no he was

being passive talking about I want to

play defense passive now that Ant-Man

called him out that's what it looked

like Ant-Man woke him up and now he's

like all right let me let the young wh

let me let let me young young fell you

need to calm down with all that and it

and it woke Kyrie up like KC had no

experience no playoff experience as a

group you know they made the playoffs

earlier when they had

CP and you know and that that was just a

brief playoff stand but they had a

player who's played way better than

Anthony Edwards has played in I mean in

uh he played up to his billing his

billing yeah absolutely he did the same

thing in post that he did in the rec he

did he did nothing really changed much

I'm going to give you this you have

added one piece that that I honor at the

highest level and that is Drew holiday

yep he he is the pros Pro and he is

playing at NBA Finals level in the

Conference Finals and I thought he was

crucial in the last two games for you to

win yeah and he made all the big little

plays for you last night including Jason

Tatum missed the dagger three at the end

and if we could see that quickly there's

a big old high bounce offensive rebound

that was kind of a jum let me let me go

over here let me see who and this is

NIMH n let me get that yeah let me go

get this and that's that's ball game

yeah okay oh we we just not going to

talk about the dere white three that's

our back court though by the way this is

our back court our back court is this

guy gets a big rebound tonight the other

night he gets a big stop and then the

other guy over there yeah well let's see

Derek white Derek white he hits the big

three he did he knocked it down he yeah

because this is we got trustworthy

players down the stretch of games first

of all I'mma ask you a question though

Paul why is Tj mcon sitting in the paint

so deep and then you got the guy in the

corner open why is he doing that that's

basketball IQ you left you completely

left Derek White You're supposed to Fan

out I would think right well this is the

thing you don't I don't know what

they're doing you're not supposed to

help from the corner by the way I don't

I don't know what he's doing so Jaylen

Brown has it going though what do you do

when you got a a two-headed monster and

Jaylen Brown driving down the middle of

your lane who's probably dunked on you

guys many a time so he's like all right

let me go help doing let me go help and

so you leave dere white that's that's

the weapons that they have the Indiana

Pacers play little to no defense they

just don't how many wideopen dunks did

you get last night where you said man

what was that well that was easy right

how many times did either Jason or

Jaylen just put their head down and all

of a sudden you're saying oh they're at

the hoop and they just dunked it there's

no defense

s those play you just don't make it to

the Conference Finals skip you just

don't but they the Indiana ran and shot

their way to the Conference Finals

that's what they did man first of all

the Pacers if if if the Knicks was fully

healthy y'all have been playing the

Nicks man highly possible y'all y'all

come on stop let's be honest with each

other if we gonna talk I mean if if if

if where's the if shirt at where's the

if shirt at but you know you say you

just don't make it to the finals or the

Western easn Finals I'm like skip the

Knicks was out there with me and you yep

they were no it they was dropping like

flies oh man interesting Paul the the

Pacers W the backboards last night 47 to

44 how could that be man this this

series showed me that the Celtics can

not play well and still win games

interesting that's so when you throw out

all these stats and you throw out how

they were down fourth quarter and you

throw out they got outrebounded and out

assisted and whatever you want to call

it so Paul the team that lives and dies

by the three your Celtics they were 14

of 44 that's only

31.8% which is why it was still a game

with seconds remaining right all right

okay so you you got to live and die you

got to trust that they're going to make

203 no because Indiana shot 10 for 29

that's okay that's not going to get it

done either at least they had a better

percentage making threes than you guys

did that's all right four r four row

four r four row

okay four r scale of 1 to 10 my

impressed level is probably like a n

like a nine three about a nine

okay thanks for watching Undisputed fans