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Come on up on a late night Saturday night. Zaglow Show, Michael Pena is here. Woo!
“Game 7, the two sweetest words in sports.”
We had the first of three of them tonight.
And Mike and I react to the Boston Celtics bowing out at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers by Joellen B. and Tyrese Maxi and Playoff P and V. J. Ed's going rally from 3-1 down, exercise some demons for prior playoff series, including 23 in Boston in a game 7, an awesome, awesome game that featured some interesting strategy from the Celtics to open the game without Jason Tatum, that was the other big headliner.
I will learn more presumably about how he was injured and what his prognosis is, but he didn't play tonight. And the sixers went in and took care of business on the road, and they go on to face the nix. Michael and I talk about the whole game, what happened in the game, how it got close, how
“the sixers pulled away in the end, master piece by Maxi, master piece by M.B.”
against the Celtic team to try everything on defense from Zone to guarding him with small, all kinds of crazy stuff. Talk a bit about Boston's off season, how they got here, what happened in this series, what happened during the regular season was it a mirage was it not a mirage, what about Joe Mizula and Mizula ball.
And then we look ahead a little bit to nix sixers, second round playoff series, a rematch
from a very fun first round series two years ago, and like, is the winner of the favorite to come out of the east at this point, the way the four teams that are playing games sevens are playing right now, no one is really made a convincing case that it's not the nix or not the sixers of the sixers win. So we'll talk a lot about all that stuff coming up on a late night Saturday night
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I don't know if it was pretty, I don't know if it was ugly, I know there was a lot of trash talk and shoves into shoves into shoves and a lot of stuff happened, but they played a memorable game seven, and the Philadelphia 76ers, the star crossed process, Bizarro last 15 years, Philadelphia 76ers, go into Boston, complete the rally from 3-1 down, exercise some demons maybe, it is the sight of perhaps the lowest moment of
Joel and Beats career, a total game seven, no show in the second round in 2023, and he's going to try to get revenge on another postseason defeat next round against the New York Nix, there's a lot to unpack here, a lot of Celtics will picture our stuff to do, but let's just headlines, Micropena, Bizarro's starting five from Joe Mazula, I was like jaw on the floor, what I turned on the game, and saw who was on the court for the Boston
Celtics, at least one of whom Ron Harper Jr. never saw the floor again after the disastrous
start, I'm sure that he would like to have that one back, there were like four Joel and beat injury scares, including one were Jalen Brown pushed off Tyre's Maxi and pushed Tyre's Maxi into Joel and Beats knee, there was an embed technical for a hostile act on Jalen Brown after the buzzer, there was a super exciting Boston rally that began at the end of the third quarter with the Jalen Brown three and a Derek White buzzer beater where
I thought he traveled in real time before he made the shot, and it got to 99, 98 with about four minutes left, and then the Celtics missed five pretty goddamn good shots in a row, Jalen Brown missed a three, Jalen Brown missed a jumper over Vijay Edgcom, Peyton Richard missed a run out corner three, a five on four fast break corner three, where you just know the leprechauns are in the sky, it's Joel and beat the freaking, it's Joel and
beat a night after the same basket in Toronto produced the most heart wrenching bounce of his career, the Kauai letter shot, you know that shot by Peyton pushing is going in, it doesn't go in, then Jalen Brown does the push off F4 mentioned he misses a little jumper,
Sam Houser misses it three, it's game over, we can talk about all that, but l...
to start with. Joel and Beat, Tyre's Maxi and Vijay Edgcom scored 87 of Philadelphia's 109 points. Joel and Beat, 34 points, 12 rebounds, six assists, so I'm going to save another
critical stat for a second from now. Tyre's Maxi, 30 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists,
both of them one turn over a piece, that's the stat I was saving. Tyre's Maxi is that dude, he has that guy, he's been a stud in the playoffs pretty much every time he's gotten into the playoffs, and he beat every single scheme to Celtics through it him in this series. When they were showing nail help, like they do, like Boston loves to do in the first couple of games, he made the right pass to his open shooters. When they stopped doing that and said, we'll play
you two on two, he made pull up threes in their eyes, and when they brought the screener higher, he roasted them for layups, just like he did down the stretch of this game twice to Nimi Eskata. When Boston started icing, picking rolls in the middle of the series toward the side of the floor, Tyre's Maxi said, thank you very much. I'll take that side of the floor and I'll beat you with mid-range jumpers and other stuff. A masterpiece series from a legit flat-out superstar
and joel freaking and beat. All the heartbreak, all the playoff losses, the tears in Toronto,
the injuries, the appendicitis that was like yesterday, basically, comes out in a game seven
in a place where he melted down alongside Japs Hardin, was like a meltdown by association in that game, and puts up 34 points on pretty efficient shooting, good enough defense. All things considered
“one of the most important and best performances of his career, even though it's only the first round,”
hats off to those three, and VG Edgecomme, just like not going to be the headliner, 45, 44 minutes, and just does everything right, completely fearless. What? There's a lot from Boston, but just hat tip to those three guys and the sixers. Awesome game. I can't wait for the next round. Where do you like to start now? I guess we could start with Maxi, who you've already covered a little bit, but I just, the entire series, he was unstoppable. Boston had no solution as you just
outlined, you know, bringing bigs up to touch, blow by for a lay basically every time. Yeah, no chance. You're in a drop. He's going to hit the pull up three. You try to deny. He gives the ball to embed cuts back door. They're given go was was money the entire series. The baseline step back jumper that he just in his bag, basically, the entire series and tonight, and I thought that after Richard missed that corner three that I thought that once I thought that that was the game,
“honestly, I think there was like two minutes to go. There was a one point game that just felt like”
if that went in that Boston was probably going to win the basketball game. And when it didn't Maxi reverse lay up coming down the other end immediately, and then the next position after that, driving lay up past K to I believe on a blowby. And the fact that he still has that he had that burst
and that speed at that point in the game is just amazing. I don't even know what to say about it.
So he was, he was, he's the best player on the team. He was the best player in the series and shout out to him. I can't wait to see what he does in the second round. Unbelievable performance by him. The whole series through. And by the way, stood up much better on defense as the series went on, then I thought he would against jail and Brown adjacent. And that should have been the headline adjacent hit him out tonight with a left leg injury. Joe Mizzula said he was day to day. It doesn't matter.
Anymore, there is no next round to come back for hopefully. And bead was doing the post game interview
“on the floor. He looked like he was in good spirits. I think he had a son out there with them.”
Hopefully that's an indicator that whatever he did is knee. And then he was on the on the floor, like nursing is right side at one point. Hopefully that's all okay. But Maxi was unbelievable. And bead was unbelievable. And just a gritty come back from three one down. The alarm bells for me started actually going off in game three. And I've talked about this already, which the Celtics squeaked out in Philly. And it felt like, oh, no, and bead, that that's a little bit of that.
That was a two heart of a game almost for them. And since that game and bead found his footing. And just what a bizarre game for the Celtics. You know, they kind of, we had some people over last night to watch to watch my silly cameo on your friends and neighbors. We had a little bit of a mini watch party. And one of them was a sixer fan. And he came and he was just giddy. And I was like,
He was still talking about the sequence of around the back, the behind the ba...
Kellyu braid dunks from game six. And I said to him, I was like, it just felt like they magically became the team. Everybody thought that they could be. But no one ever thought that they ever actually
would be. And they never were. And it didn't look like they were ever going to be have time to become
that team. And then instantaneously, they became that team. And it's a stand against tonight. And similarly, Boston kind of became the team that I feared they would be at the start of the season. When I was far too low on them, I took the under on 42 and a half. And my reasons were after giving away like five rotation guys, including your entire proven front court to duck all the aprons and eventually the tax justifiable. They made out well in all those trades. But like,
I don't trust any of the big men on the team. Like none of them have proven that they can do anything an MBA rotation. And without Tatum, I was like, are they deep enough? And they proved me so sillyly wrong
the entire season by being maybe the best story in the NBA. And then they got to the playoffs.
And I mean, Tatum played like an unbelievable game tonight 17 and 12. He had a two quarter back keepers. He had a dunk. Like almost the game of his life. And it was all found money for an offense that needed it. But they kind of became that team. Or it's like, Oh, yeah, there was actually a price to be paid for all these big guys who walked out the door. And obviously Tatum missing the game hurt them. But it was just a weird like like teams like team destiny swap happened in real time. And I don't
“I'm still kind of shell shot from it. Yeah, 100%. I think the player in the series who kind of”
encapsulates that to me is Paul George, who has was fantastic. I think he was like sick coming into tonight's game. And he only finished with 13 points on 10 shots played 42 minutes. And God, by the way, and just I just want to say it's before I forget. God blocked at the rim by jail and brown at the end of the game. I've on a crazy grid spin move around Derek White in the post in a game that had like four crazy blocks at the rim and beat on jail and brown Derek White on Krillian Grimes. Just like
one of just the ton of great plays in the game. But anyway, continue on incredible game. But he was
just an assassin. And they, you know, they would run plays for him out of timeouts that was kind of Nick nurses go to in the series. Either the, you know, his signature Isos on the wing. He had doesn't really matter who was guarding him in those situations, whether it was Derek White to small jail and brown couldn't really handle him. And, you know, they'd run him out of screens. He hit a couple of huge, three is he had a step back three that was just absolutely disgusting.
“I can't remember who that was over on the left wing. But he's just the fact that he looks like”
Paul George completely changes how people should look at the Philadelphia 76. There's an if he is for real in the next round that's going to be really interesting. But to you're also your point about, you know, Boston's front court and being thin, you know, Vooch taken out of the rotation tonight. When you said if there's a player that symbolizes all of this team destiny, swap a thing that I'm talking about, I thought you were going to say Nikola Vooch of it.
The front court solution that they added it to trade deadline for a player and Anthony Simon's who was actually useful to them in Vooch in the end when it really mattered was not useful to them. No, he was, you know, I don't want to say he's he's washed up and he can't, I don't know, I don't want to, you know, throw dirt on them right now. But he just had a absolutely terrible series. Couldn't move, couldn't guard Maxi. Obviously, he had difficult in the pick and roll,
couldn't guard and be, couldn't rebound. So, didn't play. Wasn't really surprising to me. Luke and guys are starting. Also, cannot guard Joelle and be. And I thought it was really interesting. You know, they go zone at the start of the fourth quarter and that really stifled Philadelphia's offense and, you know, guarding him, they guarded and beed with Ugogan's Hollis. They guarded him
“with Jalen Brown, a ton. They had Jordan Walsh on him for a couple positions. I think like,”
they just didn't have the horses to go, just like a terrible matchup in a situation like this in Kudos to Joelle and beed for capitalizing, Kudos for him to stay upright. I thought he was going to go out of the game multiple times. Like, as you said, and I didn't know if like the appendicitis was acting up. He was clutching his side. He was stretching on the bench there. He had it guys falling into his knees. He was limping. So, just kind of a remarkable gutsy performance by him
on the offensive end for sure. And, you know, I thought Boston was starting to figure things out offensively. Particularly with Jalen Brown who, if Boston won this game, it would be like a capstone performance for him. I know he's won finals MVP, but he played tremendously down the stretch.
They had something hunting, Maxi, I thought, Maxi, you know, he's very physical.
and, you know, picking up fouls, trying to deny entry passes to Jalen and Jalen had a couple and ones on mismatches when they did switch. They were trying to hedge earlier in the game. Didn't really want to switch. But, yeah, just a great chess match, just an awesome physical basketball game. Both teams exhausted everything that they had and super entertaining.
Yeah, I'm not sure, you know, everyone always says it's the playoff's chess, not checkers.
“I'm not sure Joe Mozilla is playing chess tonight. I think he's like, he might have been playing”
boggle. Like, I'm not really sure what board game was being played, but the starting lineup was absolutely bizarre. And yeah, look, you, you like a coach who's willing to make creative adjustments and think ahead of the game. There's some kind of line between that and a team just getting so far out of its character in the biggest game of this season that it seems almost alarming and crazy and zone defense completely out of their character. It kind of worked. It slowed them down a little bit.
Gardening and beat with small is not a completely foreign thing for Boston or even the team that the sixers are about to play. We'll talk about OGN and OB has guarded and beat a little bit in entire matchups before. The lineup, it was just it felt like a team that just lost itself and lost its mind a little bit and yet we're still in the game down one with four minutes left. It just could not make a shot again until the game was over. Let's talk about that, actually,
because, you know, their offensive rating going into this game was 114, which is about league average, down from their number two ranking for the season. And this was a bad offensive game,
“efficiency wise for them. I do feel like, um, and another bad three-point shooting game, right?”
And that's the comment denominator. Every time they lose, it's 13 to 49 tonight. They had a 13 15 game earlier. I think it is fair to have a conversation about lazula ball and the playoffs after
the meltdown against the next last year when they just chucked away the first two games. And it's
not just the threes. It's they seem to lapse back into the most predictable versions of themselves on offense, which is difficult to guard because they have two big guys who, yeah, if they go hunting, they can hunt and, and, and, and make mid-range jumpers over smaller guys and all of that. But I've called them team extreme before, and they were team extreme again this year. They were dead last and free throw rate. Dead last and shots at the rim. Take a ton of threes. It took a ton of
mid-range jumpers because they're obsessive about not turning the ball over and they were very good at that. Feel like actually won the turnover battle in this series. Both of the, they couldn't force any
“turnovers because Boston doesn't really do that either. And I just, you know, I think it's going to be”
interesting to see how they come out of this and do they think like, we need to have a little bit more variety, a little bit more, a variety is not even in the right. What you kind of understand what I'm saying. I think this is going to be a little bit of a referendum on maybe this stuff doesn't quite work as well in the postseason. It's saying that they did win an NBA championship. But there's a sandwich around that are some just weird, weird, ugly-ish performances in big moments. I guess
I shouldn't just yaddy out of the championship. They won the championship. They were the best team that year. They made the finals with the Emaidoka previously. The pedigree is there. They've been the most consistent winning team of the 2020s. There's no question about that. But this
is a first round playoff loss to a team that was basically in shambles health-wise the entire season.
Yeah, I think that, obviously, they shot with a shot from behind the three point line, not what you want. I thought a bunch of the threes that they took in this game. I mean, they missed a lot of good shots. They also missed a lot of highly contested late knock threes. Late clock and like quick threes that were also contested and off balance. I thought, you know, starting, Garza, starting, like they're starting line up to me was out of desperation and I
thought that they were going to the game plan was basically we're going to go at Joel and Beat and take like 53s and see what happens. But I think like, you know, and the way credit also to the sixers just to interject before I forget shooting all the threes and going at and beat. I think one of the smartest things the sixers did was not be concerned about Luka Garza shooting above the big threes. So like we're not going to over rotate to this. We know we are trying to do. We'll see if you
make some and he did not, he did not make some. Yeah, I think that one of the keys for Boston starting the series hot and kind of cooling off was just second chance opportunities and pounding the offensive glass that was a hallmark for them this season. Like the differentiated from how they played in the past. And they just didn't grab any offensive. I still offensively
Rebound rate of 17.
which was terrible. And I thought that I saw before coming into this game or coming into going
to game six, they grabbed 40% of their mysteries. And I thought that that was just a huge variable because when they miss it, three, they grab the offensive rebound. They usually kick it out to whoever it may be, Jalen Brown, Payton, Pritcher, Sam Houser, and that shot usually goes in. And you could just see Nick Nurse on the sideline on those situations that was like the I'm pulling my hair out moments for him. And Boston just couldn't attack or couldn't crash the offensive
“glass successfully. And I think that that is kind of the the layer that they added this season.”
If you will strategically, wow, still maintaining pretty good transition defense. And obviously, not turning the ball over, which is a part of that. But yeah, I think like to your point of should they, is this something that they need to kind of deviate from a little bit? I think like it's really interesting that they increase their three point rate in the playoffs more than any other team kind of dramatically. And like Jason Tatum not playing this game matters
I suppose for sure. Obviously he's their best player and a fantastic player. But you would like to see just like they ran a wedge screen action where houses that set a wedge screen for Jalen Brown and he caught it in the paint. And it was like a really nice, I think it was an ATO. They switched to bad play. They didn't switch it because they didn't want to switch Maxi on them to choose Jalen Brown over it and you got to lay up out of it. Right. And just kind of working
“stuff like that in more in the half court would be terrific. Obviously they run a ton of”
stack pick and roll and the sixers like snuff that out. Like they took that out of the series. I thought their defense was tremendous. But yeah, to your to your point could probably stand to not take the bad threes and kind of work. So like get to the free throw line would be nice. But I do think like because of who they had available tonight. Three pointers was probably going to be what decided there's season. I mean, I guess it's they played 80% of the season with
this these guys they had tonight without Tatum. Before we move on to the future, another MP thing. I mentioned the one turn over. And when Boston started putting wings on him Hugo and Jalen Brown and Shireman even had him for a possession or two. Initially he looked like a little cautious and less comfortable than he did against Boston's traditional big guys. And I just started to wonder like we've seen him not want the ball with the same
ferocity that he normally does late in some big playoff games notably against the next two years ago and again, Vengeance series two coming up for him. And it turned out he was just kind of feeling it out. And then once he felt it out, he got very comfortable and just put Jalen Brown
“in the basket multiple times kicked out. I think for a maxi three when they set they started doubling”
it almost tripling at times because they had to and did not look out control once did not throw any wild passes just kept it very basic and very simple. And there was absolutely no stopping him. And in that sense, I thought it was one of the sort of most polished big game performances of his career. There was that stretch in the third quarter where he just completely took over the game. Look, Bill and I are going to talk surely tomorrow night about the the future of the Celtics
beyond just this kind of reckoning after this. And you know, they, they, they're, we'll have access to the mid-level exception to summer assuming they don't bring back Vuchavitch and I don't think that they will. They have a Keta extension possibility. They have a patent Richard extension that they could offer. I don't know that he'd take it. I don't really know how dramatically their can change the steam unless they start looking at very, very big ticket items.
You know, they owe a pick to Portland and they have a pick swap out to San Antonio. But otherwise
they have most of their picks available to trade. I don't know what the answer is. I don't want
to really have that conversation now. But it will be interesting to see how dramatically they pivot or whether the pivot is just sort of a little bit of a stylistic one. But it's going to be an interesting offseason for a Boston team that was one of the best stories in the entire league. The Vegas favorites to make the finals out of the east once the playoffs started fell into this matchup with Philly. That look like a pretty friendly one for them, especially when M. B. had the
appendix thing and now they are out. Let's take a quick break and talk a little bit about the second round of the playoffs, which is actually beginning. The first round will end. We'll talk about the second round after this. All right, really quickly. We got a couple more games seven tomorrow and then the playoffs continue. This is not the end of the playoffs. Even though it seems like this has been
an intermitable, the awesome first round. Nix, sixers, Micropena, early quick thoughts on a series
That is the winner of this now.
all lining up for the nix, man. I mean, like it's it really is all lining up for them. They were my free season pick. But this Philly team playing like this can beat anybody in the east. I mean,
we knew that we knew that they had this in them. We just never thought it would actually emerge
“for a million different reasons. What are your early kind of inklings on this one?”
M. B. It's health is obviously top of mind. I'm really interested to see just how New York deals with it, M. B. is healthy. You know, Carl Anthony Towns is coming off maybe the best playoff series of his career, I thought. And, you know, they had Mitchell Robinson and I want to see how often Mic Brown goes double big there. Just how they deal, you know, you mentioned O. G. and a note be obviously and he's handled him. You know, they'll, if they do that, they're going to double. They're
going to bring a lot of help. And one thing I just want to say real quick, when Boston was doubling, I thought V. J. Edgecomb hitting the threes was a tumungous variable in that game. But sticking with the next, how they deal with M. B. Defensively is as massive. Obviously, you know, talked about Paul George already. If Paul George is playoff P or whatever. And looks as he did
“in the Celtic series and is just a at times dominant, take over the game to wave forward.”
I don't know, I don't know. Like, just thinking of top of mind, like, is it a toss of series at my, am I, should I be favorite? Should the nicks be favored a little bit? I'd be obviously the nicks had a really great matchup against the Atlanta Hawks and a small front court. So it's just a little bit different. But there's just a lot to think about with this series and and kind of who guards who and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it all unfolds. All right, the Dicks should be favored.
They're, they're, they're deeper, their healthier. Um, McElpridge is rediscovered that in, in that humble game six, where I felt like I was hallucinating the whole game against the Hawks. When the score was 60 to 19, I actually texted my wife who doesn't care about the NBA. And I was like, I, I don't really know who, like, I just felt like you needed to know the score. This, this, this game is 60 to 19 and I don't think I've ever seen that before and she, she emoji
it with a, like, exclamation point. So she even was surprised. McElpridge is rediscovered the basket thing is something you're allowed to move towards with the ball and then put the ball into it from close range. But they should be favored. And if, if only because some, a lot of the skepticism about the sixers playoff viability was one series sure, they can beat anybody. Can they stay healthy? Can NBA stay healthy for multiple rounds, particularly now
it's every other day, basically for the rest of the playoffs. Uh, this is a low travel series. Obviously,
that's helpful. Um, and, and so we'll see, uh, I mentioned the vengeance factor. Uh, we've got the Mitchell Robinson, Joelle and bead history, where Joelle kind of grabbed his foot and they're started a whole kerfuffle and there was an ankle injury as a result or maybe as a result, I guess as a result. Um, we got, uh, interested to see who and bead guards. Uh, I assume he will guard Josh Hart to start the series when the nicks had their starting five. Uh, Maxi, I mentioned McElpridge is because
Maxi's a tough cover for this, for this particular. He's a tough cover for everybody. But the super fast water bug guard is a tough cover for the nicks. Like, it's not really what Ian and Obi specializes in, although he's had some shots at Maxi in the past. It's certainly not going to be Jalen Brunson who will be hiding on Kelly Ubrae when the starters are against the starters and Kelly Ubrae's minutes are who played great. He played great. Uh, but the sixers have
leaned and they had him on the floor at the end of this game for his defense. Um, but they've played that line up with Grimes, Edgecom, Maxi, Georgian and bead almost as much in the playoffs as they did
“in the entire regular season and it was gangbusters in Limbe, it was plus I think 17 going into”
tonight and 15 minutes or maybe it's the other way around. Um, but anyway, and it's going to be bridges to start the game. Um, on Maxi and they need him to be like Phoenix bridges defensively and then you'll see pieces of like do submit pride. We'll get some of the job and Ozya Varado is tailor made to do some of that job. Shamet has actually done it a little bit but he's out of the rotation. So that's something I'm watching and then you mentioned a double big. I think this is a good double big series
for the nicks. I think you could put cat on basically on the power forward in any lineup other than
the one I mentioned with the three guards and Paul George. You can put him on Ubrae if Barlow gets in
You can certainly put him on Barlow and put Mitchell Robinson on and bead.
of meat in this in this series. Um, and obviously the sixers will go at Brunson, right? They'll
“try to get Brunson on to Maxi and just get out of the way and let him ISO maybe even. So there's”
there's some interesting levers both of these teams can pull but that series two years ago was a classic and it featured that wild comeback in game two with the controversial non-call on a sixers out of bounds play. It it featured Maxi in game five like single-handedly keeping the
sixers alive in that series and forcing a game six and then Josh Hart hits a million clutch
shots in game six and like what the hell is going on. Um, and and there was what there was one other thing in that series that I wanted to mention. Oh, it featured a couple of games in crunch time where it didn't look like Joelle and bead was super pumped about like having to ball numbers and the responsibility of the last shot and played a little bit of a hoppitate or for a couple
“stretches. So I think it's going to be an awesome series between obviously two of the classic NBA”
franchises. Have we left anything out that you did your interest to them? No, I'm I mentioned
cat a little bit. Um, I am interested to see just when he is at the five who who will guard him
will be Kelly Ubrae, Paul George. How are they going to like how are they going to do that? I mean, it's a baby and bead. I mean, I don't think I think they will start by cross matching and be on heart. But to your point, like yeah, there's not really a um, there's not a prototypical sort of like bigger bulkier four or three point five kind of player to guard cat. Right, and I want to see how cat kind of takes advantage of that because I really liked how the next used cat in that series.
He had a lot of highest systems games just playing through him elbow extended and he many picked
“the Atlanta Hawks apart. I thought that I think like guarding the New York mix when they have”
that flavor in their offense makes them really difficult as as opposed to just more of a, you know, predictable Jalen Browns, Jalen Brunson, dribble dribble or just a bunch of high pick and roll. So I'm interested to see that and if they can kind of keep hitting that, keep pressing that button. That'll be interesting to see. But yeah, otherwise just awesome matchup. You said it already with Maxi. How do you stop Tyrese Maxi is like a big question in these playoffs? Like it would
just be having next kind of figure that one out. But this will be a really fun series. And Anna Nobi, my scene partner, obviously from your friends and neighbors. Of course,
everyone knows him from that first and foremost is playing out of his freaking mind right now.
And, you know, if he plays it even like 90% of the way he played against Atlanta, he's, that's an all star level player. So it should be a really fun series. A lot of Amtrak miles to pile up Celtics out. The Bill Pods are going to be fun tomorrow. Celtics out six years move on. Lots to reckon with for the Celtics. We'll get more into that as the week goes on. Michael Pena, thanks for staying up late, my friend. Thank you, Zach.
All right, that's it for the Zach Low Show. Good night. Sleep well. Two more games. Sevens tomorrow. Thanks to Michael Pena for staying up. Thanks to Mike Billy and Jonathan out production. Also for staying up on a Saturday night. And thanks to you all for listening to and/or watching the Zach Low Show. Be back on Tuesday as normal with a new Zach Low Show episode. And I'll be on Bill's podcast tomorrow. I don't know what kind of mood Bill's going to be and
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