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A highlight from Part 1: USAs World Cup Collapse, Basebrawls, Jets Optimism, Life in The G-League and The OC 20 Years Later | with Gabe York and Zoe Simmons
"Coming up, an unexpected two -part podcast cameo from me. It's next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where we turned over Sean Fennesey and Amanda Dobbins' big picture feed to Brian Raftery. It's a narrative podcast called, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. You can find it on the big picture starting on Tuesday. And it is an idea I'm really excited about because it came from a class that I did as a senior in college in 1992. Me and my friend Horgs talked a movies professor into doing a special Vietnam War movies class where we watched basically every Vietnam War movie that had been made up to 1992 and then tried to write a big picture term paper about it. And the thing that was really fascinating about that class and something that stuck with me was just that whole concept of Hollywood reinventing the entire Vietnam experience under the premise of, Did We Get to Win This Time? So we got Brian involved and he turned the idea into an awesome, awesome podcast. I even went and dug up the term paper that I wrote 31 years ago. I thought it was gonna be horrendous. It wasn't bad. I was kind of proud of myself, retroactively 31 years later. Anyway, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. It is gonna be in the big picture podcast starting on Tuesday. So that's one piece of business. Second, new rewatchables on Monday night. It is the 300th movie that we've done. It's a special one. We're doing National Lampoon's Vacation. It was time. Meet Chris Ryan, Van Lathan. Yeah, and Van was pushing for it because we wanted to do Christmas Vacation during the holidays and you can't do Christmas Vacation. If we do National Lampoon's Vacation, super fun. Can't wait for you to listen to it. And we'll be running the video at some point on the YouTube channel, youtube .com slash Bill Simmons, where we put up a whole bunch of rewatchables podcasts in case you missed it. Boogie Nights is up there now. Goodfellas, Independence Day, just a slew of them. So if you're bored and you wanna throw on some rewatchables and watch us make fun of each other, there you go. Last but not least, I don't wanna say this is the most important, but it's certainly the thing I spent the most time on. Our documentary that we did about the G League with Religion of Sports and Ringer Films, we combined, and it is premiering on Tuesday, August 8th. It is called Destination NBA, A G League Odyssey. It's really good. We immersed ourselves into the G League season. We followed Scoot Henderson, Gabe York, Ryan Terrell, Mason Jones, and Denzel Valentine. And the big question was, what is this world like? What's it like to be in the G League? And I am really proud of where we landed with it. And we even have, much later in this podcast, Gabe York is gonna come on. He's one of the five that we followed, and he's gonna tell us what it's like as you're holding on to your dream in your late 20s. We try not to spoil the doc too much with Gabe, but I really liked him. He's probably the guy that jumps out of the doc in the most sympathetic way. So look forward for you to watch it. It is prime video, Tuesday, August 8th, Destination NBA. A G League Odyssey. You love basketball, just watch it, it's good. So there you go. This is gonna be part one of a two -part podcast. Gabe is coming up later. My daughter Zoe Simmons is coming up later because we did a whole bunch of OC stuff on the Prestige TV podcast. I was even on two of the episodes. But I ended up watching season one of the OC. And my daughter was watching with us and loved the show. And she was born a year and a half after it premiered. So me and her broke down season one from the perspective of what is it like when somebody 18 watches the OC, a show that is now two decades old. The anniversary was actually August 6th. And what she liked, what she didn't like, what people aren't doing anymore for her kind of audience. And we just dove into it. So that is much later. First, coming out of the gate, I'm gonna open a six -pack because we have a lot to discuss over the past three weeks, all the stuff I missed. So that's gonna be part one. And then part two, which is gonna go up later on Sunday night, me and Rossello doing this evergreen idea that we've always wanted to do. And this seemed like the perfect time because nothing's happening in basketball. So that's gonna be part two later tonight. Part one coming up. First, our friends from ProJax. What's up? All right, I'm taping this. It is Sunday afternoon Pacific time. And I'm gonna open a six -pack. There's a bunch of stories in sports and culture that happened over the last three weeks. I was just writing stuff down, things that would have been fun for podcast segments. I was just like, man, I wish I could have given my thoughts on that. Just gonna rip through them. So I have six and then maybe a couple bonus ones at the end. The first one, the biggest one, was the US women's soccer team, which lost today in penalty kicks to Sweden, scored zero goals in the last two games, scored one goal in the last three games, and that was off a corner kick. You could feel from the beginning that something was off with this team. It was all the ways. You knew in a checklist of what are the red flags? There were just red flags galore. And the only person who was really calling it out in time over and over again was Carli Lloyd, who was doing the Fox studio show. And she was the one person in the horror movie who knows the house is haunted. And everyone's like, shut up. You're not being patriotic. You just wish you were still on the team. She was right. She was right from the get -go. This team, you could see it before the Vietnam game when it was like, look at the new Nike suits. Look at these new suits. And they're all like styling as they head into the locker room. And they're running commercials. And every player has a commercial. There's players who've never done anything of that commercials. And the vibe was just off. They only beat Vietnam three -nothing in a bracket where goal differential was gonna be super -duper important. And that was a huge red flag. And we did the usual thing that we've been doing since 2019, 2015 of, oh, well, they almost scored a bunch of times. Oh, well, if that had gone in or some bad luck. There was just an arrogance to this team. Like they were carrying themselves like the defending champs, the same way like the Denver Nuggets would go into next NBA season. Like we're the champs. I was like, yeah, you are the champs because the season just happened. The World Cup happened four years ago. Everyone's four years older or wasn't on the team. And you could see they wanted to build the team instead of around the identity of, here are these new up and coming awesome stars that are gonna be in your life. They were really latching on to Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. Alex Morgan's 34, Megan Rapinoe's 37. I think one of the differences between the discourse with women's sports and men's sports is that in men's sports, we grasp for angles. And if somebody is disappointing in some way, we really go nuts. Like think of how James Harden's been treated over the last 12 years. So he's one of the 35 best players ever and has taken just an incredible amount of shit. Oh my God, the playoffs, look at his game log. Oh, he choked again. Alex Morgan, who scored twice in her first two games in the World Cup in 2011, she scored once in 2015 in seven games. She scored six times in 2019, five against Thailand in a game that was 13 to nothing, one in the other six, and then scored nothing in the four games this time around. If you take away that Thailand game, she has scored two goals in the last 17 World Cup games. This is the striker. This is the one who's supposed to be the most dangerous player in the field, who's supposed to produce goals. And she hasn't produced goals since the mid 2010s on the national level. And yet it's Alex Morgan. She was supposed to be the next one. We got to keep propping her up and pretending she's a superstar. She's not a superstar. She's really honestly never been a superstar. She certainly hasn't been as impactful as somebody like Abby Wambach was. So you have the team built around her. She's got to play. They play her the entire game, game two, the entire game, game three. She plays like 95 minutes in this game today, and they don't score goals. And the announcers just won't talk about it. It's like being on an AYSO team that your kid's on, and the coach is playing somebody at striker, and everyone's like, why don't they play Sally at striker instead of the coach's daughter? It's like, oh, you know, the coach's daughter. She's got to play there. So you have that, and then you have Rapinoe, who's 37 years old, who's just, unfortunately, great career, legendary, true legend, huge big time player. And when you hit your late 30s in soccer, it's a wrap. She looked like Yudana Rapinoe, not big Rapinoe, and comes out for the last 25 minutes of this game and can't do anything, and then misses the penalty kick. That's the thing. If you're beholden to past performance, you can't expect to succeed in the moment. And I did feel like, what were this team's strengths? Speed. They had Sophia Smith, who really was bad the last three games on the left wing. Like, she just, she couldn't even connect passes. Trinity Rodman, who's a beast. Lynn Williams, who's super fast and athletic and had some really nice moments the last two games. And then Alyssa Thompson, who's the prodigy, who's the, you know, potential tiger or LeBron of this team. 18 years old, best high school player I've ever had. They won't even throw her out there. But this was not a team that could connect passes. They weren't, like, especially creative. The coaching was just bizarre, and we'll never see that guy again. But it was like, the one thing they did have was speed, especially the forwards, and they just threw that away. And Alex, you know, couldn't do anything. So now they're out. It's the most disappointing finish of the last 25 years for the women's team. And it reminds me in a lot of ways that 2004 Olympic basketball team that we had, the USA team. And I tweeted this, I think after the second game, because that was a team that was between eras, like this one was, where all the best players on that 2014, the ones in their primes, weren't that good, except for Duncan. And Duncan was completely banged up. He'd played so many NBA games the last couple of years. I think his knee was hurt. But, you know, it was Iverson and Marbury. The talent, it just was a between eras. And you had guys on the bench, like LeBron and Carmelo and Wade, who were four years away. Kobe wasn't on the team. And it just felt generationally, like we caught that team in the wrong time. The style was wrong. And we learned all these lessons and we moved on. 2008, we win. There's a documentary about it. But this team felt like it was between eras. The Alex Morgan, Rapinoe era, which was basically done. And then you have this era coming up with Rodman and Sophia Smith and Alyssa. And, you know, it's just four years from now, we'll probably be fine. But they need to re -imagine this. And I think if you're gonna learn any lesson from this, it doesn't matter what happened four years ago. It's the World Cup. It matters what's happening now. So that's one thing. Second thing. So Jaylen Brown gets this huge contract, $304 million. Some people seem surprised that it was that much money. Chris Ryan even took a shot at it when we did our library watchables. Hurt my feelings a tiny bit. Mainly because I didn't really have a comeback. Rosella did something on his podcast about how this actually makes sense. This amount of money, when you think of how the salary cap has climbed just since 2015, and it's gonna keep climbing. And there's this world you can go into where you think about just how much everything is gonna cost in the NBA four or five years from now, that Jaylen Brown at $70 million isn't actually gonna be that intimidating. The same way we feel about Tobias Harris for $40 million now, or Klay Thompson, $40 million now. Yeah, you don't really wanna pay $40 million for Klay Thompson, but you can survive it. And I think that's gonna be where the Celtics land with Jaylen. Here's why they had to do it. They're the favorites on FanDuel right now. They're plus 470. The thing that made them the most special and has made them the most special for the last five, six years is the Jaylen Brown -Jason Tatum combo. They've been incredibly successful. The team itself has made five conference finals in the last seven years. They came super close to making the finals last year. I have now gone into the what if zone with that Celtics team where what if Tatum doesn't hurt his ankle on the first play? Do we beat Miami? They were close is the point. And when you're that close, you can't fuck around. This is not Bradley Beal resigning with Washington for 50 million a year when everybody knows you can't get past the eight seed with Bradley Beal. This is different. You're trying to win a title. You're trying to keep all your optionality open. The thing that's a little scary about it, nobody seems to totally know if he wants to be in Boston. This is something we've discussed on this pod. It's been floating out there. The fact that he wasn't happy about landing in the Kevin Durant trade rumors a couple years ago. And just in general, where the league is now, where as Woj called it, the transfer portal, where people get their contract first and then they decide what they want to do. And I think for the Celtics, they know they bought themselves a year with Jalen and they are still one of the favorites to win the title. And a lot of it's going to depend on health and Porzingis. You could also, I don't want to make the case, but you might be able to make the case that Brown had a fucked up hand last year. Cause he did. Cause he sliced his hand open. It was bleeding even during the Philly series. And maybe that was why his ball handling went sideways. Listen, you got to do the contract. It just breaks your brain. I remember a million years ago, Sports Illustrated and Inside Sports say every year they would have like a salary issue. And they would talk about these guys are making $1 million a year. And it seemed like so much money. And now where we're heading with the money, plus the NBA is the meteorites deal. The moment any of these guys becomes unhappy, what do you do? Because you're paying Jalen, let's say you're paying him 55 million a year. Plus he is the trade kicker, which the team has to pay. Right? So if he decides after a year, you know what? I'm tired of being the scapegoat. Everybody loves Jason. I'm like the middle brother of this team. I want my own team. I want to go to Houston or Atlanta. You got to trade me. What are the Celtics going to do? On top of who would want out, you don't have a lot of options and you turn into what the situation Portland's in with Deem. And then on top of it, it's so much money. It's impossible to get any sort of a fair trade for the guy. So they had to do it. And optionality the that comes out of it is frightening. I remember in the early 2000s, when the first time the contracts kind of went nuts and you would see that people get signing like six -year, $100 million deals, seven -year, $110 million deals. And the Celtics really, really stupidly traded for Vin Baker. One of the worst trades of the last 30 years for Boston Sports. A trade so bad, you knew it instantaneously. And I wrote a piece that you can probably find somewhere in the ESPN archives about it, where I compared it to the end of Thelma Louise when Harvey Keitel is running toward the cliff trying to stop the car from going off the cliff. That's how I thought about the Vin Baker trade when it happened. Then it happens and you just had this salary albatross. It's a salary cap league. And you're like, wow, we just threw away 20 % of our salary cap on this trade. There's going to be a couple of those that are just franchise killers. And whether that leads to them bringing back the amnesty clause, who knows? I wish, I've made this, I've had this idea before. I wish that they had a rule in there that if you drafted a guy, every year that he stays in the team, you get rewarded in some way from a salary cap luxury tax type thing, right? So Jaylen was 2016 draft, this would be his eighth year. Maybe like after the seventh year, because that's usually like the third contract. The guy stays in the team, maybe each year after that, he doesn't count for 2 % of the luxury tax, up to like 30%, something like that. The point is the Warriors should be rewarded for keeping Draymond and Klay and Curry from a tax standpoint, that they were that smart to draft those guys, keep those guys together. They should be incentivized, the players, to want to stay with them because there's some luxury tax stuff that the team gets. And the team should want to be incentivized to take care of those guys because it's also beneficial to them. I just wish they figured out some version of that rule. Anyway, Jaylen was always signing for $304 million. Talk to me in a year, I'll keep my fingers crossed. Next thing, I missed the running back pity party. This was crazy. The running backs all got together and they were really upset about how much money they made. And I don't know what to tell you. There's too many running backs and not enough running back spots. And I don't know if you're trying to build a responsible salary cap team in a collectively bargained era, why would you spend $30 million over two years on a running back unless the running back was awesome? Nobody even wants to spend more than $11 million on running back. So I knew that this was crazy when Damien Harris, who was on the Patriots, who I thought was really good. He's maybe not an elite running back, but a good running back, right? Somebody that if he had been on the Chiefs, he easily could have started for the Chiefs. And he signed with the Bills for like one year, 2 million. And when that happened, combined with Pacheco on the Chiefs' seventh round pick, they won the Super Bowl with him. It's just, this position's devalued. I work on this player, I've been actually working on it the last couple of weeks where I try to rank the players for blue chippers, red chippers, pink chippers, honorable mention, and have this whole point system. And so quarterbacks, Mahomes, who's the alpha of that position, he's worth 10 points. And you could even see this in the point spread. If Mahomes gets hurt, the Chiefs are 10 points, nine points, whatever, less than what they would be as a favorite. They'd switch to an underdog. And you go on down the line. Jalen Hurts, I had him as an eight. I had Joe Burrow as a nine. And you go on, you keep going down, and it's like, Geno Smith's probably a two. But then you look at some of the other positions and you have to value them the same way the salary cap values them and teams value them. Guards, they aren't worth that much. Running backs, sorry, they're not worth that much. My top running back was three points because ultimately running backs don't really matter that much. In the last like five, six years, I would say Derrick Henry was the only running back that you could definitively say, this guy almost won the Super Bowl. Like he was that good. Other than that, you know, it's plug and play, quarterbacks, it's receivers. It's much harder to find the number one receiver. Every team needs one. It's much more tangible if you don't have the number one receiver. And it's much easier to just kind of scrap together the running back position. And yet people went nuts about this. We ironically had this in the NBA with centers. You know, Vucevic, who's a really good offensive player, he signed for 60 million for three years, 20 million a year. And Jaylen Brown's going to make $52 million a year. Is Jaylen Brown two and a half times better than Vucevic? No, it's just, he plays a way more important position. You can only play one center at a time. You can patch together the center position. You could have like Isaiah Hartenstein for $8 million. You could, you know, get Robert Williams for 16. You don't need to spend what Phoenix did on Eaton where they're paying $8 and $30 million a year at center. And you don't really need to do that. You kind of feel obligated if you don't want to lose the asset. But I think the NBA is going to go this way eventually where unless it is Jokic or Embiid, the center or Bam Adebayo, it's a bonus. You could argue that was already an overpay. They gave him a huge extension. The Lakers just gave Anthony Davis $60 million a year as an extension. I would argue that's a little frightening. I feel like you could patch together the center position. What really matters in basketball is having the creator. And this was the argument five years ago with Luka versus Eaton for the number one pick. And I made this argument. It was like, go look at who wins the NBA title every year. It's always the people who have the creator. There's somebody who's on the perimeter of the ball in their hands. Even Jokic, who wins the title this year, he was a creator. He's not a typical center, right? He's basically their point guard on offense who could post up. So this happened in the NBA. Nobody went nuts. And this is happening in football. And is this where football is. If you want to make the most amount of money playing in the NFL, I don't know why you would be a running back. I would be a cornerback. I would be a wide receiver. I'd be an edge rusher. But if you're a running back, you know your shelf life's probably like five, six years. You know the money is not totally gonna be there. Now they're in this, like you have people like JK Dobbins, like, I might hold out. It's like, really? You didn't barely even play in the field. Barkley said he was gonna hold out. And then, you know, probably looked at it. And the money for Barkley is like 10, 11 million. That's unfortunately the market. So you can't fix this. They collectively bargained it. And until we get to the next CBA, I don't know how you fix it. I thought it was really weird. It felt like people had nothing to talk about. And it was like, ah, let's feel bad for running backs. All right, let's take a break. And then I'm gonna finish the rest of the six pack. All right, picking up on the six pack. We're gonna talk a little more football. I talked about the running back pity party. This is a different kind of party. The Jets optimism, which has just been stunning to me over the course of July. I have Jets fans in my life. These are people that usually have no hope and are very reminiscent of the pre -2004 Red Sox fans, just assuming the worst at all times. Why does God hate us? All that stuff. And now they have this crazy optimism based on the fact that they brought in Aaron Rodgers, who I did not think was very good last year, just throwing that out there. I wouldn't say he was bad, but for Rodgers, he was bad. I mean, we thought Rodgers was, he was the reigning MVP and we thought he was still one of the five or six most impactful players in the league. And I don't wanna read stats to you for the next six minutes, but deep balls, he was bad. Turnovers, he was bad. Leadership, he was bad. And the case for Rodgers coming back would be, well, he's gonna be rejuvenated. The Jets, New York City. This is his team. He got away from Green Bay. He's got Hackett back. I get it, but he's also at an age where we've really only seen Tom Brady succeed at a high, high level at the age that Rodgers is at. I was trying to figure it out. I have my QB ratings and I had, you know, the top tier is Mahomes and Burrow and Allen and Herbert and Hertz. Those have to be the top five. Then it drops off and it's Lamar Jackson and Lawrence. And then Rodgers, probably a hair underneath him with a chance to play himself up with those guys. But from what we saw last year, I'm not ready to put him there. So he's the 10th best quarterback in the league, probably. 10th or ninth best quarterback in the league, probably. Well, they have no offensive line. And I don't understand why people keep glossing over this where it's like, hey, Rodgers and Garrett Wilson, he's one of the best receivers in the league and Breece Hall's going to come back and the defense is really good. And it's like, yeah, the offensive line is terrible. Beckton and Dwayne Brown, sure tackles again. And then you have Robert Salah as the coach, who I cannot say I thought that Jets were crisply coached last year. Whatever he was doing with Zach Wilson was insane. No idea if that guy's even a decent coach. So I'm already worried about your offensive line, the age of your quarterback, and the competency of your coach. And that's before we get into the hard knocks curse, because for some reason they're doing hard knocks, the incredible Super Bowl hype already. And then we have the schedule, which is the AFC East has just got screwed by the schedules this year. The Jets, just for quarterbacks in 17 games, they got to play Josh Allen twice, they got to play Mahomes, Herbert, Hertz, Dak Prescott, and Deshaun Watson. And then they also have to play Miami twice. We'll see what we get out of two this year. And then a really good Pats defense. And then Denver, who knows, they might be rejuvenated. So Danny Dimes, they have to play him. It is a brutal schedule, so you have that. And then on top of everything else, you're the Jets. I was there with the Red Sox before 2004, and this is probably just as bad, where you just think the worst possible things can happen is all the time. You're not allowed to have optimism when you're Jets fans. You can be cautiously optimistic. There was an entire Curb Your Enthusiasm episode once, season 10, episode seven, about being a Jets fan. And it was called, I think, the ugly section. Nick Kroll was the maitre d'. And part of the episode was about, he would put these people in different sections of the restaurant, depending on how attractive they were. But there was this other plot, Larry's buddy who loved the Jets, kills himself. And Larry becomes convinced it was because of the Jets, that the Jets killed his friend. This was only a couple of years ago. So now they get Aaron Rodgers, and everything's good. And they're gonna win the Super Bowl. I don't see it, guys. I don't wanna step on my football stuff too much, but I'd be shocked. And Lombardi points out the defense that everybody's ready to compare to the 85 Bears. Lombardi said they had two turnovers over the last eight games last season. So that means something too. I am dubious, to say the least. If you're gonna tell me a tortured franchise actually turns it around this year, I want a tortured franchise that doesn't have expectations. Because the Lions are another one. Everybody's ready to put them in the Super Bowl or close. And the only case for them is just pretty explosive offense. They couldn't stop anybody last year. And the NFC is terrible. But that's another one where is that a fan base that should be super excited and have a ton of hype? The one that's kind of lurking that fits in this group is the Browns. Because the Browns are actually super talented. They're in a winnable division. Burroughs already hurt. And I think they're four to one to win the AFC North on FanDuel, something like that. Their over -under is, I think it climbed up.
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Celtics lose Jaylen Brown, hold on to beat Sixers 106-99
"The shorthanded Celtics won for the fourth time in 5 games by outlasting the 76ers one O 6 99. Malcolm Brogdon and Derek white each scored 19 points for the seltzer who played without starters Marcus smart, Robert Williams the third and Al Horford, Boston also was without jaylen Brown for the second half after he suffered a facial contusion in a collision with Jayson Tatum. Blake Griffin started and hit 5 three pointers to finish with 15 points. Tatum had a 12 points and 9 assists with 8 rebounds. Joel embiid had 28 points and James Harden 26 for the sixers. I'm Dave ferry
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"robert williams" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"He's traveling with the team, yeah, Boston and Brooklyn's about a shorter trip as you can get in the league. That's an actual trip. That still was, huh, normally you just leave them home and say, just keep rehab and keep rehabbing. We'll see you in game 5. Maybe for game 5, back in Boston. And so yeah, I'm a 100% there. As long as they think he's ready, you get them out there. I don't know that'll be game three. But maybe it is. I mean, I don't know. It would be absolutely bonkers if he played before Ben Simmons. Simmons isn't so game four. Yeah, he came out and said today, yeah, I don't think, you know, all playing game three. So I don't know. I really don't know. This might be one where on both guys, let's see how game three goes. And then maybe we'll make a decision on game four after that, but I mean, at the very least, I would expect at the very least we'll see Robert Williams in game 5. You know, assuming that there is one in the series. Yep. It does seem like that's the way. Hey, I want to address one quick thing on Celtics nets. This was a comment on our last video where the guy was like, I don't think it's making a bad assumption that if Boston goes up three all that the nets will lose the series. And then he maybe the Celtics lose a pliable blah blah blah. No one in NBA history has ever come back from down three zero in a series. Yeah. It wasn't trying to be crazy there, being a Homer or anything. I'd also don't think the sixers are going to lose now up three O on the raptors. Just out of the warriors, aren't either. It was just a little bit of a weird comment to me. So just wanted to address it here on the show as well. It's not like it's not like they're down to one and you're saying, oh, there's something there or winning this series. In 6 or whatever. If the Celtics win game three, it's old. The series is over. Maybe not over in four, but it's over. Yep. Yeah. All right, we did see a coach get let go today. Maybe a little bit of a surprise. So Charlotte hornets, James barrel. I haven't seen any hornets fans who have been upset about this or surprised, but the national response has been largely surprised that this took place. Because I think a lot of people look at what happened with the hornets and they don't say, oh, clearly this is a coaching issue, but obviously the hornets feel like they can find somebody better suited to take this team to the next level. So James berengo is let.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"robert williams" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"That day when we're waiting for we'll analyze the play and match ups and then we'll get into that as we let that process play. Absolutely. All right, we've got an update on Robert Williams. Keith? Race. What's going on there? Yeah, so Robert William, when it's a meniscus tear. There's a lot of different ways these meniscus tears can go. And then repairs, there's a rehab option. There's repair option. And there's a removal option. The repair option is the one that generally takes you out for the longest period of time. It's usually about anywhere from an 8 to 12 week recovery on the short end. Sometimes even longer. Robert Williams did have to have surgery, the Celtics confirmed that the other day. So it was not going to be a rehab or play through its situation. But the surgery he had sounds like it was either the trimming or the removal, which should have him back on the court sometime within the four to 6 weeks. Now, woj reported the four to 6 week timeline timeline this morning. And then said, in his report, there's some optimism that it could be on the shorter end of that. Now, what leads me to believe he's getting that from a really reputable source is this Celtics actual injury update press release says underwent successful surgery. Williams the third is expected to be able to return an approximately four to 6 weeks. So that matches that. And the team's never going to say there's optimism he can return shorter. Because now I'm going to put the pressure on that player. The Lakers do like that. They always underestimate their age. But that's another story. But when you put a timeline instead of the return to play timeline, we'll be discussed as rehab or the wording that you all use in these persons. When you actually put four to 6 weeks, that tells me, yeah, there may be some thought that it could be closer to the four week mark. Now, let's start looking at calendars, right? We have a week and a half left in the regular season. We're about two and a half weeks from the playoffs starting. So if it's four weeks or even 5 weeks, you're talking into the first round, start of the second round that Robert Williams could be back on the floor. And that is absolutely huge for the Celtics. A team we think they have become over the last few months, they should be able to get through the first round. Even without Robert Williams. It's that second round and beyond when you're facing likely some one of the group of Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Miami, maybe Chicago, maybe Toronto. Like that's where you start, maybe Brooklyn. You start to think, all right, well, that's when we need Robert Williams as the matchups get tougher. So this is as good a possible news for Boston as you can get. Yeah. Absolutely. And fantastic news for NBA fans for basketball fans. I don't know, I mean, obviously I'm not obviously not a Celtic sky or anything like that, but I don't care whether Celtic, a clip or whatever. I want guys healthy on the floor and be able to see some high quality basketball. So this is fantastic news. Especially coming in, I'm so fired up for the playoffs. You want to see teams at their best, come play off time. So that's great news for Robert Williams. Unfortunately, some bad news for the Denver Nuggets, Michael Porter junior suffers a setback now. He's not shut down for the season..
A List Podcast with A. Sherrod Blakely and Kwani A. Lunis
"robert williams" Discussed on A List Podcast with A. Sherrod Blakely and Kwani A. Lunis
"Now let's start with this. We have our own games because we love games here. We've talked a little bit about the bench and obviously people are going to need to step up as the season comes to a close and obviously as they head into the postseason. So I'm going to list four players. You tell me who you're picking or why you're rolling with them as the person that needs to step up the most as we end this season off. So we have Derrick white Payton Pritchard, Aaron nee Smith and Daniel tice. The player that needs to step up the most among those four is Payton Pritchard. He's the guy that, frankly, is going to have a role. You know, his role is to be a shot maker. That's literally why you're out there. Don't get crushed offensively and make some shots. And when he does that, we've seen how good they are when he's able to do his job. And Peyton's going to have to continue to do that job because as Gary pointed out and as we've seen just throughout the years, your core guys just starters play significantly fewer minutes, the last week we can have for the regular season. That doesn't mean you've got to stop winning. That doesn't mean you got to stop competing. This is where Peyton comes into play. He's going to get more opportunities to be impactful. And he needs to continue to make the most of those opportunities. Not only to help the team win, but also to keep a good rhythm about the flow of that second unit as they relate to the first unit. And again, to me, he's a guy that I'm looking for that has to continue to play well and continue to step up so that everyone gets a little bit of the action. And this team can keep rolling along, even when they got a core guy like rob out of the mix..
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Boston Celtics, Robert Williams Agree to Four-Year, $54M Extension
"Wasn't Urowsky. The Celtics in Santa Robert Williams have agreed to a four year contract extension worth $54 million in the 52 games. He played for the Seas last season. Williams averaged eight points and seven rebounds a game. But health has been an issue for the big man since entering the league. Just last year, he dealt with ankle toe foot knee and hip injuries that kept him out of games. Brian. It's an
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Paul Cain Passed on His Prophetic Mantle to Chris Reed
"Chris read lot that. I want to ask you first of all paul kane. Paul kane is a figure again. Most people probably don't know who he was but boy oh boy I heard about him. I don't know thirty years ago. And he was this man with prophetic gift. That was just astonishing He would say things like come from gonna fly to this town to meet you. I'll be there that day. In the day that i land they'll be an earthquake and then there was an earthquake. I mean that kind of thing. That just is chilling. Gets everybody's attention You knew him. And i guess the story was that everybody would go up to him and say you know paul pray that the lord would give me your mantle quote unquote and he got annoyed by it but in fact he did pray at the end of his life that his mantle would rest on you. Can you talk about that. Yeah the video. That is actually owned my youtube channel where he lays hands on me and and and praise that the very thing. I don't think use the word mantle but he did say however the lord you have used me whatever was there i pass onto my brother so yeah i knew poll. The last year his life he he died in february of twenty nine thousand nine hundred eighty nine years old. He was involved back in the voice of healing era. Even or roberts. William brenham alan those guys and then he went after a number of years after the fifties. He kind of went silent for a number of years then. He reemerged in the eighties with john. Wayne mike big on those guys and People saw at a number of times in places that the gift was real and you know sadly many people only want to know the things the difficult things in bad situations in people's lives. But i want you to know all did have a real gift. I saw in action myself sitting at a dinner table and he was authentic and in his prophetic gift. There's no doubt about it.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"For those big stages, you know, I always talk about what he did is Steph Curry in the in the war just taking some wild shots in the middle of one of, you know, what is Joe? Prichard is Kemba. I mean, he's not as good as Campbell, but he's Kemba, like he's a guy who's he's a shoot-first point guard, he gets to where he wants to go. So when off campus, not being Campbell, if Richard try to be Campbell like it doesn't make sense. They're like you should absolutely okay chemist cold, bring in Prichard and let him friggin run the offense of Jack's of shots. They took the same freaking game offensively a very similar. So I I don't understand why don't we? That picture is much better off the ball. He's one of the best who is a great catch-and-shoot shooter. So you put you down around like To see, they'll try to set him up, more of a 4 open 3. Is cuz, you know, that's the issue that we talked about earlier. They they don't have someone who can set the table for guys. In Marcus Hook is not doing it. Cuz as you pointed out, Pritchard is a great catch-and-shoot would rather you just kind of rubble find him. That's why you start him and Rob have a great connection is a good rapport Rubble. Find him dead. Yeah, here's the thing I get why they're not going to them because we've seen him struggle immensely against the Nets. We've seen him struggle when he goes against starting units and he's small so they can have multiple weapons and defense and versatility out there if they're running those guys. I just look at the second half where they had 4.6 Mark and quarter. They need to start and you're so right. John chemic, couldn't be out there tonight. So you need someone to replicate where chemical. That's what you can do. And that's where you pick it up. He goes, he knocks down a couple of Threes where everybody else is totally changes things. Very strange to not to choose tonight and you don't have another hand. Say It's Not Dead. It's not Romeo, it's not Edwards and not for that. Absolutely no. No way for me to go to chairs down and see Taco, Stand going to go talk with my boss is not the answer this address. What I like about the series is, you can try a variety of things as the Celtics just because the Nets are going to play so small and not care about the interior and size. And frankly, defense. That's what's frustrating me about this one is that you look at the Nets and say, where the Celtics can hit them is on the offensive side of the floor cuz they're not going to guard and tell them go through those droughts that they did. In that third quarter, especially was frustrated because this should be the easiest team to score on imaginable. I wanted this team over Philly because I knew what Philly was going to look like Tatum suffocating against Simmons and getting know looks in the paint and just the amount of defensive power that Philly has just suffocating the Celtics into a sweep here. At least you can play with some free dog. Can try a lot of different guys, you can get open. Looks and to see this game. Be a 37% gain from the field at, not not great..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"How they respond name. One guy out of all those guys, right? Cuz you know, they've heard it. Every once heard the brat Seasons, fire fire, Brad Stevens talkshit that taught started. Essentially, after they were bounced out of the Eastern Conference finals last year, even one says 2019 name. One player on this team that set up a brad Stevens name. One guy who said it's okay. We believe in Arco when did Taylor Brown say that has Jason Tatum said that has anyone many of those guys, especially the essential one that you're Ki Kore as anyone set up a brad, Stevens they stand up for each other, not emphatically, they stayed home Or you know, Marcus Smart Band for his accolades, right? He likes to remind the things of all NBA defense. All right? Marcus, we appreciate that. But are you going to stand up for Brad? Who's standing up for Brad? That's my question that they asked big reason why I think that's going to be conversation that they have. They have to have it. Do we do we still want Brad in this locker room? I think that's something that's accomplishable have in the, in the summertime, for sure know. And that can that can change things, it really sucks. And cuz look at in Atlanta this year they were going to hell and then they fire in a very controversial decision, their coach Lloyd Pierce and they McMillan a bona fide assistant who had success before. Then was able to turn it around and dramatic way. They have plenty of talent there but also a ton of Youth and unproven guys and they've been able to effectively raise them up this year. So I don't think you can completely take moving on from the coaches, the solution here, but I think there are bigger issues beyond that too. That have to be addressed. So it can't just be that and I think you have to address some of those other issues first and maybe give birth. And one more chance here, I would consider that bona fide assistant though. Put some pressure on Brad, bring a different voice in that room. And your shake up that coaches room as a whole. They've missed wallet there and again, Walter back for other reasons. But but but you know who are some other guys who have left us. Another assistant recently as well. I can't think of his name, but God, you know, they Brian Evan Turner, try to play that role and they're huge. I mean, I, I was excuse me. She got the, the college, the college careless. And yeah, mr. They were shedding tears when Mika Shrewsbury Mica was a huge one to before her. Yeah, that's right. Mika, got a job before last season and and, and she got, she make the entire season because she was such a, you know, I love that Ma Bata Tu. Yeah, Stephen said it was it wasn't surprised that you couldn't keep Kara Lawson, so yeah, that's a good point. Bobby. Those are two two significant voices that that aren't birth. Yeah good men..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"You know, if they were going to start all the dead. Guys, to begin these games and then rotate into the seventh or eighth. It's just not going to work now real quick. Before we get out of here, I want to ask you, we've heard Jeff Goodman's, take that. There needs to be a significant change to this team at the end of the year. If you missed that, check it out. He explained that again this week and the Ryan Goodman show, and then their Garden report appearance here on sale. And us, he thinks either Jaylin needs to go for another star like Bradley Beal. You know, our tried has mentioned Karl, Anthony towns being a possibility or you move on from Brad and at this point, believe it or not. I've been thinking about that one for a couple of weeks now, because we're doing a change on this roster, otherwise, you can mix up the bench, you can get aggressive with some of these pics I think and strengthen the depth of this team who talked about the tax to that's going to cost significant amount of money and if you're not championship team, you probably want to go too deep into the tax. So what do you do? Joe sway? You can and Brad. Honestly Bobby. I think it's still I still think it's a, it's a strong possibility, but I don't know if it happens. It's off season. I know it sounds crazy. But again, we talked about this couple of weeks. I don't think it's crazy. I think he gets one more chance. Yeah, I mean, like, I think because of everything we just said, I'm not going to repeat it all cuz we've been staying in every single episode on this thing. It's just, it's a lot 14 to really, you know, life of Team, you know, based off of that. If you're Brad you're saying well I still want to see what it looks like complete full strength. Now with that being said, is that realistically possible next Thursday? I mean, what's coming on? Look like what's the situation with? Jaylin, Robert Williams and it's it's Danny's is up against it. I think he has to seriously consider that. But again, I don't think you make that decision without having a conversation with the players or at least without the players. Essentially coming to you to force a conversation you know. Cuz again that's happens a lot in the NBA and I think Jaylen Brown. Jason Todd. No to All Stars couple Walker, maybe it's part of the conversation, maybe Marcus Smart is maybe those three, right? Taylor Brown smart as well. Be surprised, you know what we don't we need a new voice in here, you know, it's nothing personal time to move on then I think. Yeah, no question. I don't think Danny forces that marriage, right? I don't know. It's not going to, I don't know a week ago, but someone was saying how, like, yeah, but days, like, I walk away from Brad after an extension. Well, if it's players have something to say about that and they saying that it's time for a new guy, then it's time for a new guy, Dan. He's been in this league long enough on both ends of the spectrum, right? Of the player. And as a as someone in the in the, in the office and the front office, he knows that those are. Those are signs that it's time to move on from a head coach. So I'll do that. I think that's the only way to really happens. It's off season, I'll be concerned if that happens because I think it just happened..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"The guys that helped facilitate that guys like Rob guys like Market wage. They don't have the, they don't have the cash Aid to do what they do. Well, and where's one this team, a lot of games and I, it's I struggle with the idea of how I that's so hard to get away from a style of play that you've won with, to go with something different. That why while made more comfortable for your best players, is it when you games like Jason, looks way, more comfortable in ISO situations but is that really the best thing for your team's identity? It's not just, it's not, it's not just for the team. Trust statistically Jayson, Tatum is one of the worst, I so players in basketball. And statistically, when when Jayson Tatum dribbles, more than three times he has, he has among one of the worst scoring efficiencies for four people of his volume in the game. It's historically proven, it's not just your eyes that say oh they dribble2much the stats bear out. When Jalen and Jason put the ball in the floor more than three times their efficiency plummets. Okay. There it's plummets. The answer is obvious. You gotta move the ball. You will get it back. I think they're so afraid. They're never going to get it back that they get it and home volume. 10 seconds later, a shot goes up from somewhere and that's what they play. They they have to have some faith in like even if that passion but that ship has sailed right off, doesn't go your way. The next one might you've got to establish the movement in the Rhythm early, the games where they play. Well, you see it. It's whipping around the perimeter, they have one play tonight, that result in a 48-3 where it went bing bing bing bing bing bing around the perimeter and he got it there and it was like, oh look at that. It was gorgeous and it was so normal, it's just regular basketball. You just walk, you just passed the ball faster than the people can get out to the shooters until you rotate it over to somebody who is open and they get a shot. That's what happens. That's what this game is based on. When you read the flourishing, If you got to move the ball you can't. If they're standing there and dribbling you can't get people good. Looks it's so basic and the don't do it. It's it's it's just, it's really baffling years. They're going to be the key to the offseason. We can say it'd be great and it'll run after mrs. That one makes just walks Jayson. Tatum literally takes seven ball seven. I don't want him getting the ball at halfcourt behind the half-court stripe ever. Again is no, not really. I mean, take 7.9 seconds to cross the half-court. Stripe off every time and sometimes it's 8, .5, really close. Its he's on. He literally is Flirting With Disaster every time and it just sets you up for the shity slogan. It's going to be. It's about what he's going to do..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"With Boston, fully healthy and I think the Celtics slide in under them, which is why, before the season I was pretty solid on often being. No better than a five seat unless they overachieved because I really thought I really thought those four teams were clearly better and I thought Miami would be even better than they are. Obviously yeah, yep. Ceiling, but the talent you knew. I thought those the top three plus, Miami were clearly a tier above the Celtics, and they Celtics would be clawing in that second here. You know, fighting the fifth seed with with a few other teams and it turns out there, even a little worse than that, but I think you can try some of that up to injury. It was a long time ago, but I was impressed by that when in Miami way back when I thought Thompson, handled them really well. That obviously came up clutch like a matter of their yeah. It was a great win. I thought, and I think they match up better this year when they suck Thompson in the middle against bam and you know Miami's begged depth behind him as suffering. Now I think they're going to be competitive in this area. I think the garden fans are going to show up for those back-to-back games and if Brown's there, I think that would be tough for Miami to handle again. I just I've watched a decent amount of Miami this year and I'm not all that impressed by them. Like I didn't like the Oladipo move and he's obviously not even on the cord for them at home. Point Butler, like he spent off and on the court for various reasons and you did it. Just is what it is from that sense with them. But some of the guys like dragic like you know they made the move or a reason, some of these veterans, I go iguodala's. They're just getting a little too old and ineffective and I just really don't and heroes had a struggle year after his great freshman or rookie year. I just don't like them much as I did last year. I think there's a reason there as low as the Celtics. And you're going to see a pretty competitive Series. Yeah, I think the butler thing is, is for them. Like, you talk about everyone had to talk about everyone wants to bring Marcus Smart, being the heartbeat. Oh yeah. No, he's not. Jimmy Butler. Is the heartbeat of the of the of the heat, you know? Like because of the year to that they've had, he hasn't been completely healthy. So the place and makes another goes, the heat go. It's very, it's very clear. You know, what else happens to everyone commits on defense, like the Miami Heat are scary. Turns them around. Yeah. The expenses and embody what he is dead. Out when he's on the floor and that doesn't happen and new lib resonate with the cell. So worried. Yeah. Those batteries that you mentioned Bobby, those are more like the the reinforcers, right? They're not the ones that had sort of keep everyone in line cuz everyone is sort of on the same page. They saw, you know, we saw what they did last year. Obviously that's carried over to a certain extent, but Jimmy Butler's been. That been the guy on both ends for that for that team, able to get the Zone again? No, it is older. And look, when these guys get out in transition, man. That's what they sometimes get exposed. Like their transition defense against a team like this, especially if they start stacking on files, especially if they're a couple of stuff too late. Closing out on three point. It could be a long just to be a really long night and again, without Jayla Browne in the in the in the mix. That's what drives me crazy about the Celtics team than anything else. All the offensive potential that they have completely wasted. There's been very few stretches all season long where they've looked like a great defense and many times where they've looked like one of the worst in the league wage..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"And so, going back to the thing that you always talk about Bobby, like, it's unfair to put so much of it on Tatum or this or that long, okay. You walk onto the court tonight without Jaylen Brown who are your leaders? Tatum councilmember play Tatum and smart didn't. So yes, you're going to look at Jason Tatum and say you absolutely just shit the bed in a night that they needed you badly badly badly. So yes. This is why, and, and this is how you can criticize a person who is in the last 15 days, scored. 53 and 60 points, you know, in separate games. It's those are great and it was great and that was awesome. You just can't have these, you just can't have them. You can't be the leader of the team and come out here on Thursday where they need you to do a little extra something and just kind of decide, I don't know if I'm really going to play in this one tonight, just can't do it. It's it's on. It's on the leaders to lead this bad moments. Again, everything you say is true because there's been plenty of losses that have come as a result of that this year tonight. I think was just a recipe of the Celtics not knowing what they were doing in terms of a game. My end because of the roster situation they had in place and the bulls having their full cast being fully connected and playing really good up to their potential. You know, Levine was amazing, bucevic was Awesome Sauce Williams. I'm so impressed by, so this is a legit team. You just look at the impact. Even on that group of having, so many young guys, like every time I watch Billy Donovan, I feel like his head spinning at some of the stuff they do because of who they have to rely on and turn and they're not going to the playoffs this year because of some of the injuries and weird stuff that they've had going on along with that youth. Then we'll send a similar position of Austin in that sense great player at the top off some real good depth and awesome starters. If they're fully loaded, when they get to the Denzel Valentine's and those kind of guys that gets really shaky there. And again I think a lot of a lot more teams have half years like the Celtics and you guys realized I this post, they're just not going to the playoffs and if you look at that roster, that's almost inexcusable from Chicago standpoint. After the vucevic trade, it is surprising that it kind of went dead. 915. So is it? How long was Levine out for two weeks or so? Yeah, that hurt them. I mean they weren't playing great. How about him? He just woke up at the right time, she's closed doors. He was good last year to he's a matchup problem. I mean, because of his ability to get to the rim, shoot, the mid-range. Now we can move all, I mean, His official, this year's off to charge his. I mean, you know, he actually we talked about another. He's another handling guy. We talked about how good Jalen's been look at Levine's numbers across the board. His his percentage is 2.3 point percentage of bit earlier. Matic shots like Kobe white again..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"This you just knew this was going to be a disaster coming in when Brown and rubber on you hate to just chalk it up to that. But that's where this rosters at the bench. Just doesn't give them enough in terms of religion production. It's not even just the grants and the Siamese of the world we've seen when Pritchard is had to jump into the starting lineup when the Smith has had to take on a bigger role. The competition ramps up a ton, you know, even robbed to some degree. I think he probably handled it the best of anybody jumping into that main role because we're 11:00 and 2 when he started, you think they think that's what they were a few games to where even the competition of those main starting lineup A couple again, we're going to criticize RAV4, getting punked by MB that one game and we'll, we're okay. Which is where the red. I'm super glad nine points against the Bulls, like guys have bad games. You know, like, Williams was outstanding in the start, he didn't just adapt, okay. That he literally made them a better team and it wasn't it wasn't a significant impact. As anyone coming off the bench, bad games, but bad effort should not be allowed. Yeah, that's what it is. That's what this team is consistently doing more of than, than I think you should expect from a team that has won the way they have their effort is just so damn all over the map is inexcusable. Yeah, it's it is, I just don't think Jayson Tatum is that kind of score where he's in a space where he has to take 734, put it this way, almost half of his shots came from behind the yard and the others were off and damn near the entire game. You know, trailing and how many, how many times you get the line a few times he likes here before. I don't even throwing four times. Three or four, right? Yeah. I just I just don't like wage. I don't like those. He's not seeking high percentage, that's that's not when Tatum is at his best. When he's, when he's got a little stories, I know well, with like this game because this could, this could be a 30 million dollar saving game right home. Oh, wow, Dave potato man, he went real talk. Yeah, make the all-nba, you don't want to making that 13 Mile NBA pack, is Randall Go-Go Julius? Don't want it. Go Go Zach. LaVine baby quick affected, his boys like you do not want you cuz you don't want it. The Celtics don't want to 25% of the cat versus 30% of the cap is better..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"All right, Sunday afternoon. We're going to promise to keep this as short one. We may not even come out and do anything for the first 12 minutes. Family and the Celtics and they'll show and just stare at each other. Okay, I guarantee wage. I guarantee we're going to put more effort into this. In the Celtics, put into the show, put into the game today. I think we've had, yeah, this was so bad. This is the one team that you knew for a fact. If you did not give a decent amount of effort, you're going to get your ass kicked. In Charlotte has been playing like this all season long. That's why they've been a top-five top-six team in the Eastern Conference because what they may lack and overall Elite Talent, they more than make up for in competitive Spirit, the ability to compete and consistent effort. And our good friends scared. Was among the many bodies, that was just absolutely killing them, the Celtics. And every way, shape or for both ends of the floor, Right. Absolutely. And I think the stuff is trying to get into like a shootout with these guys like, no, that's not what, that's not what you do against this team. You play hard gritty defense and try to Rattle them. And I thought it took literally about 2 and 1/2 quarters before they really tried or at least, maybe a little spurts a bit here and there. But for the most part it was like, oh wait, okay now we can we can come back again. You know we can do what we've been doing before. I guess this team is like no that's not going to happen, yeah, Bartlet. When everyone riled up, what was it three or four players through Charlotte guys already in double figures by halftime. These guys are ready to go. They're ready to cook. You know, the stuff that's needed to get back to that that greedy defense and slow them down him in the mouth defensively. It felt like they were too cool for school out there on defense. I didn't get at least in the first quarter. That's what it looked at that plane were. Take were Tatum just nonchalantly throws the ball back and tear off like picks it off for the laughs in the first quarter. You mean was the game? Two Notch. It all fell apart. Yeah, that's obviously. That's honestly might be the play. You remember from the season. Absolutely suck. If you make it, we didn't realize at that might be that that was going to be the game in a nutshell. Right there. The signature that might be the signature. Player-of-the-season Jimmy doesn't think so. Like off of the who gives a shag just the worst ever and and you're in a former teammate of yours who left. I got rid of his like, there's symbolic, they was or how I want to make it with those floaters on my odd man..
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In the Light of the Tough Season, The Celtics Still Have a Glimmer of Hope
"Think the way that we have seen Kemba Play Over the month of April, and if he can bring that, if he can be 80% of the camera that we have come to expect, I think that that will be huge for this team going forward. And I am also optimistic like Evan said, the absence of Robert Williams has proven to be dead And even bigger issue than I think anyone had could have predicted just in the fact of what he was doing with that starting unit on offense, he was moving the ball and also not allow defense has to pack the paint because you have to draw Robert out of the paint or else you at least have to account for him cuz he will just come in behind you and dunk on your face. So for that it opens up a lot of things offensively and then defensively just to have a guy who can provide that kind of Rim protection and that kind of communication we hear from the assistant coaches. Just how much Rob has improved in communication job defensively. And so I do think that, that is a huge thing that is missing for this team right now. And then you add in the fact that yes, Evan Fournier is coming off a battle with covideo said, he didn't feel well for a 4 to 5 days and still trying to work his way back. I think there are areas to look to for positivity, but I agree with Evan that it's in this season. The fact that they can be so dead. And hide and look like two completely different teams. It's just frustrating and it and it's frustrating because of the expectations that are on this group and regardless of how many games they lose and how fast they come out over and over again, those expectations remain,
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"What's up. Everybody i wish. I love something as much as joel. Embiid loves playing against the celtics and this one wasn't fair. Boston left themselves shorthanded at center by trading daniel thais at the deadline and then combined with tristan thompson being injured lots a terrible combination with joel. Embiid come into town. They only had one guy who could guard him. And that was young time. Lord robert williams who did a decent job in the first quarter is a one point game after one but williams is known to be a little jumpy. He couldn't stay disciplined long enough. He picked up his third foul right at the end of the first then they had luc. Cornet come in to guard. Joel and beat boston wants to give luc cornet nickname. Let's slow the flow on giving nicknames to just everybody brad stevens left luc cornet out there. On an island with the mvp candidate some soft doubles. That wasn't enough. Went from a one point game to thirteen point game at half the celtics us break glass in case of emergency seven five taco fall and embiid way too late and be loves playing the celtics. Did i say that already. He had thirty five to seventy sixers. Swept the season series from the celtics for the first time in twenty years joel embiid and weighed more. Free throws than the celtics in the season series. Forty seven to forty
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"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"That's a that's a Tuesday night game. Yeah Tuesday night. This is a holler stretch. I think this begins a 9 of 14. They've got Tuesday Wednesday Friday this week. So they're added every day. It's a back-to-back obviously wage, you know, they played them once already, you know, this could really be a snap back to reality game or another potential like statement. We've arrived game. I just I still don't have confidence in the team to show up and do the latter. This is going to be tough game. I mean Utah, top-five team offensive and defensive rating. You got arguably the best defensive player this season and for many seasons it really gaubert wage, you know dominate in. All right, Jonathan Mitchell has played a ridiculously high level this year Quin Snyder hell of a coach my mom with the Celtics, is that job? They'll get too bogged down and would it's comfortable for them. And we'll for them. Comfort is isoball. I don't think this is a team that you can go heavy in isolation and expect to win and I know one of them is really good at that. I mean Tatum you just looking at the numbers. I mean, he has more ISO possessions than than he's a top ten player in the NBA when it comes to ISO possession, which is crazy when you think about and I'm looking this up the other day. He's like ahead of guys like Luke Yiannis and you know chire even and and you know and a nice show with just kind of crazy when you think about it, but God they're going to they're going to need somebody to like a timelord to really step up and be a difference-maker they're going to need they're going to need someone who is not in that big three core of Tatum Brown and Kimba to have a hell of a game. Like if we're talking about Robert Williams having fifteen and fifteen. It means itself is probably one. So really what's going to happen is they're going to play the double big line up for 24 minutes on timer. De ya moves by 6. I hope that but yeah, you're lucky. You're lucky didn't come on after a loss Jerrod. Okay, I'll tell you that. Oh, yeah, I know Stevens needs to get a little creative. I mean, that's one of the reasons why they they you know, all the stuff we heard about Bret Stephens was you know, this great basketball mind and I'm not saying he isn't but gotta gotta get a little bit creative with some of the lineups and the rotations and the matchup basic things. So I think it's a Rob game. You know, what Jimmy it's a little bit easier to get creative in the kitchen when you don't have that many ingredients to work with or or you don't have a whole lot of meat to work with but with all of a sudden you've got the the deli is you've got a deli you don't even have like salesman. You've got a freaking Delhi of of options to choose from getting creative with that you would think would be easier but it's actually harder because you've got more options. You've got more decisions. You have to make that aren't as cut-and-dry, you know, I mean if if you've you know, if if you've got like, you know, Isaiah Thomas do I start him over Marcus Smart or do I come off the bench? That's one decision. You gotta make but what do I do? When I've got Rob Williams Tristan Thompson and sanitized which one do I need more than the others? Right?.
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"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"No, but my Sterling Brown nice player in that sense, it's good to see Rob out play those players something that shows that you know, he he is above that. You know, G League level of basketball shouldn't right. Exactly. But the reason I think why people are so surprised at how well he's playing is because I took so long for Brad to take, you know, the leash off, you know, and let and let him play a little bit, you know, like let him make a mistake and stay in the game don't pull him but I think a lot of people Rob's under the microscope obviously for the way you could leak but it's like people are trying to find reasons for why this guy isn't playing it's like, oh, well, there you go. See that mistake right there. That's why you can't get on the court. That's why I can't stay on the court when in reality. There's there's guys making mistakes dead. To that to that level all over the court all the time on the Celtics. I mean, you know just go down the line and look at some of these, you know boneheaded turnovers and plays that that go on but it's for some reason I felt like Rob was like way more under the microscope, but now it's like you can't deny what he adds to the team what he brings the team out there the the plays and he makes the fact that like John said he does things that literally nobody else can do something like his good things are way better than Tristan Thompson is a good thing because the end of the day Tristan Thompson's a good player, but he's a limited into what that what a good player for him. He'll grab boards whole, you know, put back shots, but like he's a good player is going to give you like 9:00 and 8 every game and like you're going to be like wow is a fine game but Rob's ceiling is so much higher but like you have to live and die with them out there. Sometimes I watch that they flip flop in that Rob was in the starting lineup interest was coming off the bench cuz I like Tristan much better when he's going at Birth. I think he'd be very good and I would love to see Robbie on your first line the physical because he gives you a legitimate rim protector when your guys get beat off the dribble. I mean that yeah. What's interesting to run? Cuz I hear the opposite a lot is so the defense in keeping Rob where he is is he's playing against backups. That's why he's successful. If you if you if you if you move them into the starting rotate starting lineup, you know, things would be different. You know, I want to find out I think it's exactly the opposite. I think actually especially you see like how Tatum's game opens up and burns game opens up, you know with the whole roll gravity thing that everybody freaks out about but like there is a couple of times today where Tatum Tatum has the ball in his hands. He's your most lethal score and the defense is more worried about Rob running a basket because they don't want to get yoked on on an alley-oop and and Tatum just has a clear Lane to the basket and he had those a couple of times when Robson the game. I think what he does there for those guys drawing attention. Himself on the offensive end and just always the threat of the law but the putback it's a huge huge Advantage. I think he I think he do phenomenally. Well playing with the starters. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. How many how many defensive assignments?.
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"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"There's no argument against are playing them, you know your minds me up and and they're they're similar in terms of the kind of freakish athleticism, but I think Rob and you'll love this. I think Rob's a little bit more groundbreaking Javale McGee. He's he has been kind of freakish athleticism at the position that development who by the way folks, I think forgot about this was pretty damn close to being a Celtic to the point where they thought they had a deal and veil in his can't we like timeout we want XYZ and Danny was I can't do that then we have no deal. Amegy think about Javale McGee is one of the most at this point his career. He's still one of the most athletic things I disagree with the athletic, I see people throw DeAndre Jordan out there, which is nuts cuz DeAndre Jordan and again the greatest one of the greatest quotes of all times is Charles Barkley. You could lock the Andre Jordan in a gym overnight telling me can't dunk and he'll wake up in the morning with six points. Okay, but Jordan cannot do anything other than jump. Okay. So I hate that comparison for Rob juice has not just athleticism but hand I he's got fluid. He's just a knucklehead where he could literally just turn around score on the wrong basket which which he has I think let me go ahead and I love that. The veil is one of my favorite players to watch because for simple comedic value he's going to do something that's going to be like the hell was he thinking yeah, Rob Doesn't do that nearly as much like the last couple of weeks as he was doing earlier this year and last season and that to me is what the Celtics need. They need him to be more than just a freakish athletic guy. Who if you get a bucket of two years he has to have a presence at both ends of the floor and I think we're starting to see him slowly but surely get to that point..
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Boston Celtics vs Houston Rockets Highlights
"Is a cakewalk. This is fun. This is get you get you right feeling about yourself sort of game kind of got the makings of start of one of those tough like this almost felt like that Toronto game right before the break wear like there's no earthly reason why they should wage. Close yet. It was Houston was making everything Celtics D wasn't great a lot of open threes and then literally just Houston just flipped the off switch and that way that was literally off during the second quarter sharrod there like yep work done. And that would be it Celtics run who was over. Yeah. I mean at some point they realized that wait a minute. Where the Houston Rockets right? Yeah, we're not that good. What the hell are we doing here? This is this is screwed up our chances to get a number one pick Let's just kill Pat and just play the way we can play off. I'll say this is what the Celtics I thought the one thing that they did that frustrated the hell out of me from the jump was the two bigs line of and then I'm not taking advantage of that either player wings and beat the crap out of these guys. They use those two bags and beat them to death around the rim and it over as a game progressed. They started training in that direction was great to see but but very outside I was really frustrated at this game because I knew he's multiple clear advantages and they were just like nah, we're just going to just come run around for a little bit and just let them get their shots off and then at some point before half-time we'll figure out where they do better team and play like it. Well, yeah, and so should I tell you I doubt you've you know, I don't know how many of these you've ever watched or gotten any whiff of anything we do, but if you don't stop me, I'm going to talk about Rob Williams for twenty five straight minutes log. It's just it's just what I do. So what was interesting tonight when they did go away from the two big lineup they went to a clearly a one big lineup and that rotation. I'm going to talk about Rob Ad nauseam in a dog cuz he had a near perfect game tonight. And again Houston was totally undermanned. But I don't know that you can do anything better than rub what Rob Williams did it tonight? But it was interesting that Tyce was the guy who was kind of thing on the outside here. There's some games that should happen. Yeah, I think if if you're going to go with the two big line of years is is just a real radical thought how about just plain to Biggs. I think one of the problems that Brad has he's trying to play all three of those guys every night and there's some nights we're ties I think should be out there and maybe less Rob and less trust and sometimes I've been more Tristan sometimes I think more bread has to figure out of those three which to do. I need to have their asses on a core more than not and tonight was a clear example where you have a team that is under man and under talented as a Houston Rockets go with the young fellow wage. You're running for and swipe anything within five feet of the rim, and he did that and it worked out exceptionally. Well, and again Rob Williams, we've always talked about the potential but what we're seeing now is consistency on top of the potential. That's why he's out there playing more and that's why if the Celtics are ever going to break through that top three upper echelon in the East Rob Williams going to be a big part of that. Well, what is interesting. This is the first one in Jimmy. I want your thoughts to this is the first game I came down. I got to go back where Rob had the most minutes now very well could be an asteroid makes a good point. I mean why why playoff games every game cuz we've seen Brad get away from it with at other positions like he goes games without playing semi, he goes games. Playing Nesmith Teague. I am not saying that theis is really like on that Teague level. Obviously, it's not they are talented players to the point where you want to try to get them in but there are games where you gotta ride the hot hand and it's been robbed lately and we need to see more and more and more and and obviously me and John have been banging that drum for What fields Month now but it's starting to see it like Rob's getting in the game more like you should but he's staying in for the reasons that we've seen tonight some of the passes he was making on guys cut into the rim or they're the tip like like that alley-oop to him. That was like a not a great pass like the touch that he has around the rim now the little turns a little floaters like that's why he's staying in the game. It's not just because he can go up a trip down boards and block shots. And I mean even some of the blocks and they were like controlled blocks when he was actually like blocking it and then grabbing it and you know, making the outlet pass
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Kemba Walker Leads the Celtics To an Impressive Win Over the Clippers
"I guess we'll do, he came out scorching and was pretty often throughout this one. I thought those back-to-back threes in the second half where the key moment of this game that gave the Celtics are multiple possession. We that they ultimately had to the rest of the game there. Once they hit those became a rebounding back the rest of the way. I thought the Celtics are pretty Dreadful on the boards for most of this game and show it to you guys. Robert Williams came in and made all the difference there. He was a rebounding machine as he has been for most of the Season change, but on camber, I mean, what are we talking about at this point? I ten games now somewhere between eight to ten games in a row where he is been himself at the very least. Maybe not home. Most exceptional definitely not his lower rung of production somewhere in between. You know, he's been steady. He's been fairly consistent. I'd say double-figure scoring every single game now four or eight straight games his last one was the seven point out against Utah, you know a few nights off in between a few months or games off of those nights off 25-28 32,000 see when he's fresh when he's well-managed at this point. He's going to be able to give you Kimber production.
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"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"You like plus minus cuz you don't like it all the time off. I think that just showed you what happened in the 4th, cuz Rob got nailed in the morning and close it down. Fourth quarter was a mess. I just think the expectations are completely different when we're talking about those two thousand and four Robert Williams. I mean granted entice obviously. He's he was missed in the starting lineup, right? But at the same time when we've seen this from from Robert Williams, it just offers that glimmer of hope that you die hard Rob Williams fans out there have been just hoping to see him play twenty minutes a night or at least be used more often. I mean, I think this opens that window or at least it's it's a it's been open, but now it's dead. Me to to you know, get bigger and bigger for him right now. All these opportunities fortunately for taste like that follow in the second or none of that would have happened know how nice of him to that was great until you give them that look like I got you. I'm just saying I mean we keep saying play Broadmoor play rug more play Rob more, but would you take a minute from Thompson? Sure. Go ahead. I mean at some point we could seat home and I think the general consensus here is Tyson's your most Dependable big man, and he's the one who does the most things most consistently Rob is electric and makes a ton of place. So you gotta find minutes for him. That's really the only conversation being had here. I do think if you started robbing played in 30 minutes a game you would see more of the warts and then you wouldn't want it. So at the end of the day, I think we're kind of falling in between where Jimmy saying don't have those. 91211.11 minute games because you're you're you're missing out on bench guys are at the end of the day supposed to provide spark Robert Williams. Does it almost instantly the second he hits the court. Yep. Single time so I actually like him they're coming in off of thys it was really mainly the the rod vs. Thompson debate here. And I do think that where it gets sticky is when you get Marcus back and you shift out and Thompson goes back to the bench. We saw that already happened before Marcus got hurt and it hurt Rob's minutes right away because all of a sudden you were like, how are we going to play this rotation it took off out of that early action. You weren't seeing him until the second quarter a middle second sometimes and you weren't getting impact from him during that little period of time. That's what I that's what I'd be worried about it and then the larger conversation, whether or not you can live with the rebates and that and that's it. So then the question is is that what you want and everyone you see it a lot in our chats. You see it in the videos. We put up on the YouTube channel. One of the big has to go, you know, like you can't you're not going to be able to play them all particularly if you end up trading for another then certainly you're going to have issues there. Yeah, for sure. I like rub Off the Bench. I guess the other thing fair to talk not fair certainly to talk about tonight. Kemba Walker clearly best game. It helps when Trey young as guarding your certainly but again, you know, perfect start to finish all game long. You consistently the best offensive. He's back Harry..
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Recap: Celtics Beat Hawks in Game 2, Robert Williams Explodes
"To the thing that was more interesting and remarkable off of this game. And again, I think it was I think it's hard to argue. It wasn't robbed fans. He was just so interesting. But I mean that stretch where it's basically like steel block back door make a nice pass dunk l u and like Bobby tweeted about it from the Celtics account, you know, the game went to From mildly competitive to a blowout during those Rob Williams second quarter minutes there and that was basically the ball game, but the guys just so freaking elected. He probably had like eleven fouls tonight. I think he only got called for 4 or so before he got going on the set. You just talked about he wrapped up capella and like one of the first place of the second I Tice took another fellow from him. I'm sure sure you get that and then there was a third player like wrapped up reddish. So by halftime he had six fouls, but they only call three and then by the end of the night he got away with another one. We were going re fellow there. So realistically he realistically at $8,000 I wouldn't do it. So that was the most unfortunate game and the Exact Staffing was at the start of that structure was 33 to 24 and then at the end after all his dunks and layups and Steals and box that was 51 the 37 and that was pretty much the game. Dude was awesome. And it's funny because we always talk about let's just see the Celtics just love it up there. Right just throw it to Rob and let's see what happens and then he does like the most Rob like we knew he was capable of this sort of athleticism incredible man. Like that was caught it tapped. It one-handed in his hand eye coordination is just through the roof. Yeah, like that's the kind of play where you're like, wait a minute. Like if not that it's not one of those. Okay, if he does it every single night as well change everything but like just that open opportunity if he's able to get more comfortable get these reps in man like that. It just opened my eyes to how how explosive this office could truly be when with Rob in the middle of doing what he did. He was doing everything on both ends something like he was somebody tweeted it jokingly just way to your point was like, I wonder what this offense would look like if they just robbed if they just loved it to rub on every possession, you know, it's like legit and we always joke like that but like he made it look so smooth as well. Wait a minute. Why don't we do that more often wage? And also here is you do see the other side though, the ridiculous goaltending all the files were so like absurd and he easily could have ended up taking himself out of this one and having a game. So you do see both sides of the debate here where there's just an enormous level of upside. But also these like just absurd things. He does that you just can't do out there that end up getting them home games and you only had 16 minutes in this one in the end because of all the following and mistakes and miscues. He jumped into a couple of Shooters on the three-point line and it's like you're right John there's more good than bad. But the bad is so bad like just inexcusable stuff.
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"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
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Aaron Nesmith Shows Promise as Celtics Beat Nuggets
"Start with tonight. Again. You had a few things going on. The number one again. We could easily run through the most important things that happened the game, but it's really hard not to look at this and say that this was kind of like the irony Smith game and not because he played great. I thought he was pretty okay, but he did he was the first guy off the bench that matter. He played 23 minutes A lot of people were saying maybe he was rewarded for his effort you suck cuz he was running around like crazy. He still looks pretty tentative and lost at times but like he's trying and this is what we talked about. It's not that Arnie Smith and we were arguing about this on our thread all day. He's not that are inducements birth. Then the players out there. You're not better than SAM-e. He's not but you want him to be you gotta give him a shot. You gotta live and learn with a little bit. I'll take an effort like this every single time if he's out there totally imperfect choice at times he disappeared but I mean nothing just nothing but positives off of tonight. I don't think yeah. Definitely I mean, but I'm with you I mean and think he looks amazing out there, but he took a little more comfortable than we've seen them before in the past, right and also think that the rest of his teammates are starting to realize okay like the starting to look for him now more often and I think a lot of that has to do with his effort. I mean you putting effort on the defensive end of the floor or specially in the game against the Denver Nuggets, you know, I think that that went a long way and I think they rewarded him they were looking for him for open shots and credit to him. He wasn't afraid to to take those so much credit to the rookie but I mean is this Thursday? I'm now if this like the the rotation we this is the something just fix it was it is this all it took for everyone to just Panic real quick. And then this other come out here and beat the Nuggets and now all the problems are solved no, come on.
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"robert williams" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"All right suckers. What's going on? Mobile Marine tonight? There will be Boomer Ridge at least in the comments nickel be in the comments. There will be some Boomer range there for sure. There's a bit of Boomer age in all of us. Yeah. Yeah, do you think what do you think he would lead with right now? Let's play that game. What would Nick lead with running? This isn't a show for him. He wow. They've just brought saved his job. Welcome back. Now this is this was a very expected to show for Bobby. Yeah, Bobby's back. This is this is more my speed. So I'm glad I missed a freak out City over the weekend and it was Rock Bottom for this team. It was well deserved criticism for them. But all this talk of the beginning of the end of Brad Stevens and this team demise as a whole premature, you know, there's a lot of issues here. There's a lot of stuff we're going to have to have shown in terms of roster adjustments and everything else but those pieces to work with here and I think this team's closer to needing a few minor adjustments then being a construction will failure from the start and not being able to be redeemed that tonight was another example of that when you get your rotations down in a good way when you log, In defensively as a team did good things are going to happen. So it's a consistency Factor right now, but John all the credit to you, you called out almost every adjustment that they need to make here and predicted all the stuff they were going to see tonight. So I'll give that all you are Ernie Smith and Robert Williams extended run both work fantastic here in the bench was a difference in this game. Yeah. I mean, look, it's a break the key takeaway. Here is Brad Stevens obviously watches this show and number one q's and that's all these lie. All that really have to happen that you know, you play the kids and then you live with it. But yeah, this always happens. It's the post team meeting game. It's supposed Rock Bottom game. It's the post in this case nuggets had no one to place post Danny goes running to the media to You Know cover for his coach and kind of tacitly, you know, call out the players and that's how you call out..
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Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement
"One month before the new york times published. The story of robert williamson. Police officers killed. George floyd we all remember the weeks that followed the protests that broke up around. The country garnered tension around the world. It was so engrossing watching those scenes of civil strife that an otherwise remarkable part of the story went almost entirely on the radar in fifteen cities is the department of homeland. Security deployed planes helicopters and drums to watch over the protesters. The aircraft hovered over protesters in new york philadelphia. Detroit feeding customs and border patrol man centers which streamed the intel to police forces and national guard on the ground in minneapolis and the a secret rc. Twenty-six be reconnaissance. Blaine worked with ops on the ground streaming video feeds to an fbi command center in another instance in the top spending in the ficials ordered helicopters to provide quote persistent presence to disperse crowds. He helicopters flew so low to the ground that the sheer downward pressure from their rotor. Blades ripped the signs off of billions. And of course since protesters running this was something out of science fiction full on military intelligence operation on. Us land in later reporting military and government officials insisted that none of the aircraft deployed on protesters were equipped with fisher recognition capabilities in most cases. The aircraft were so high up that facial recognition would be moot. You can't make out face from a blip from nineteen thousand feet but even if some planes flew close enough to capture individual faces be problematic according to the new york times at least two hundred and seventy hours of protests footage was captured by the aircraft and uploaded to big pipe. Dhs network which can be accessed by other law enforcement agencies around the country for future investigations. Video in big pipe can be stored for up to five years. One potential concern then. Is that if a plane recorded. Good enough video. It wouldn't need real time fisher. Recognition on board an agency like the fbi could access that footage weeks or months later to identify individual protesters. It's entirely possible that this hasn't and won't happen but around the country police have already utilized facial recognition to identify and in some cases arrest individual. Blm protesters the extent of it is unknown. Police have no obligation to report on the run. Your face through a machine or concerns me is there's currently no limits at all none at all and so they can also use it to take a look at everybody who is in a peaceful protest of some sort And then take down their names and Hassle him or arrest them or give them trouble in one way or another or simply file them in a database as person of interest. None of which we want to have happen to us. This is ted claypool a lawyer and an author on legal issues surrounding privacy. And a here's one example of what ted means by no limits. Batanes out you can be arrested and not even know that facial recognition played partnered one. Protester less summer oriana albor knows was arrested for throwing rocks at police line. That's definitely a crime but no point in her processing. Did miami police mentioned in documentation to her lawyer or in any other capacity that the used clearview to identify her as the rock thrower. It took an independent investigation by nbc. News to uncover that information and it's important for mission right maybe arena was guilty but he next arena could be a robert williams.
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Boston Celtics to have nine out, minimum eight players active for game vs. Miami Heat
"Jason Tatum reportedly testing positive for covert 19, he said to be asymptomatic, which is a good sign, but he's still gonna have to quarantine for 10 to 14 days, likely missing 5 to 7 games in that span, Robert Williams, the third also tested positive. Now there's the issue of contact tracing the lights of jail in Brown and Tristin Thompson are in that category. Celtics game with the Heat tonight, scheduled for seven o'clock in the Celtics, just the bare minimum eight players available. NFL wild
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"14 of 27 shots to power the short handed Celtics, who were without Tristin Thompson, Grant Williams and Robert Williams. The trio is sideline and covert 19 Health and safety protocol for the next seven days. Meanwhile, Kemba Walker has been cleared to begin practicing. He hasn't played this season after receiving a stem cell injection in his left knee
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Three Boston Celtics Face 7-Day Quarantine Due To ‘Health & Safety Protocols’
"Players are facing 70 quarantines because of health and safety protocols. WBZ TV reporting. Kristin Thompson, Robert Williams and Grant Williams all evolving, ruled out for tonight's game and face a seven day a quarantine. Robert Williams, among one of the players was three only one to test positive for Coronavirus and has been asymptomatic. The other players are out because of contact tracing.
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Miami Heat face Boston Celtics for first time since eliminating them
"Now on WBZ News radio. The Celtics will wrap up their four game road trip with the 7 30 tip off in Miami. This will be the first time this season played the heat since Miami knocked him out of the postseason last year. Celtics Big man, Robert Williams said today. This is a match up. The team has been looking forward to and leaving the bubble. They had a terrible taste in their mouth. And today,
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Miami Heat face Boston Celtics for first time since eliminating them
"Busy news radio Celtics will wrap up their four game road trip with the 7 30 tip off in Miami. This will be the first time this season played the heat since Miami knocked him out of the postseason last year. Self expect, man, Robert Williams said today This is a match up. The team has been looking forward to and leaving the bubble. They had a terrible taste in their mouth. And today, Clemson quarterback Trevor
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Is Celtics rookie Payton Pritchard the real deal?
"Pritchard. We didn't talk about him off standing. So Erin nice, that's kind of missing in action right now. But pain Pritchard. Well, Jeff teague's been struggling mightily zero shot makes in the last two games comes out and has five straight shots to start this game drilling d3s Hitting off the catch dumps in the lane assisting to the big man. It kind of gets in there under the big trees and dishes a little dumpster Rob and others down they're dead. To be a backup point guard and it's looking like right now. And you sound excited that's not good for any length including to his like these aren't good signs of a contending team because you know, we don't know if this is going to bridge the gap enough for Cambodia that Gap. You know, what though? I'll save me a reason we expect but here's the thing. You gotta pay. Maybe it takes Jeff Teague got a you guys got so excited about Jeff Teague opening night guys who guys who are drafted where Pritchard is drafted where Robert Williams was drafted. You're lucky if they're still in the league in a few years. Okay, the the bus rate is very high there. So to get a serviceable pro at that point in the draft is a massive Victory and Richard is actually a viable backup point guard in the NBA. That's a that's a home run at that point in the draft. Even if Williams Williams tonight played one of his best all Around games in a bit but if Williams is able to give you 15 to 20 minutes as a backup big and you're not terrified to leave them on the court in certain situations. Like they were during the playoffs last year. That's also a huge win. You know, those guys aren't putting over the hump, but you need to hit with some of those so it's good to have those guys too. It's just relying on information Pritchard. This is the second time in three nights. He's led the bench in minutes long. That's kind of scary. He went the team and plus minus tonight. So like, you know, it's twice and three games. He's played more than he's played more minutes than anybody on the