‘CHICKEN CAESAR WRAP IT UP!’ - Jay Williams on Celtics vs. Pacers series | Get Up

jayen brown boy was spectacular last night he was getting involved he was getting his teammates involved Allan Derek White scored 23 last night yes, three balls were falling for the Celtics in this game great ball movement great offensive rebound in this first half but most of Jay Will was all about Jaylen Brown, he was just aggressive and look, this is what you like. Fire and ice. Jason Tatum is ice. Jaylen Brown is the fire for this tea. Celtic's run from 20 to nothing gives them a 12 point lead, but Pascal cakam is easy. We put him in the game without help, look, Al Horford was guarding Pascal Sak and they kept going at him and when you put a smaller player on him he has a chance to go against Dre yakum scored 16 points in the first half, it's a game of six points. in the half and then Allen, here's SE yakum, the Pacers are within two, yeah, every time it looked like the Celtics were going to take over, Pascal Sakam said no, no, we're staying in this and then this happened, just Tyrese Halberton in the postseason. that has been highlighted by so many injuries or Jay has been highlighted, what do we see here?

I'm just talking about awkward movement, the same injury Howland Burton had earlier in the year that kept him out for 10 games, they say it's a sore hamstring and he wouldn't come back. and with that Boston just took a lot more all night Jay from Jaylen Brown, he was spectacular look at him here and he goes the other way, he just did it on the defensive end and look, the reality is that tires Harenberg manages and creates a large part of this team's offense without him on the court Jaylen Brown is going to have a field that 40 points 14 of 27 from the field for Brown Tatum added 23 targets as mentioned 23 The Celtics win the second game and leave 126 110 are up two games to none The Boston Celtics have won 17 championships, they've had so many great teams over the years, but so far this team is in the conversation as the most dominant.

Last night was their sixth 15-point win this postseason, the most in franchise history. He also did it in 84 8886 and 2 and 8 won the title in all three seasons. I know, I know they didn't usually play that many playoff rounds back then, so Bill Russell's teams and others couldn't have done it. There are a lot of them, but the point is that they've been playing this way for half a century and the Celtics are just running Rampage down the field, so Brian I ask him the question that I think everyone in America was wondering when they saw Halberton limp off the field. last night and you saw the Celtics cruising, this feels absolutely over after two games, well we'll have to see, I'm sure Halberton will have an imaging test today to see the severity, if it was a complete new injury or if.

Maybe he could return later in the

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, but this is an absolutely golden opportunity for the Celtics after not having to face Jimmy Butler in the first round, after not having to face Jared Allen in the second round. Donovan Mitchell gets hurt in that Series. he is the driving force behind the Pacers' High Tempo offense without Tyrese Halberton. I just don't think the Pacers can compete in this

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and if that's truly the case and they miss the third or fourth game or even both, this is an opportunity for Boston to close this out, finish the series by Memorial Day and potentially have 10 days off before the final, where they will have the home court and give Cur apps for zingas all that extra time.

This is a golden opportunity. They can't let this go at all, no Monica, I'll jump. Here with us, here, me, the Celtics, look, you play what's in front of you, you win the seed you win, you win the road you win, you win overtime by closing your series, whenever you can, the Celtics, right? Now I feel like they've put this on cruise control after last night which was the green version of the Celtics we all talked about even though it was still a game to some extent in the third quarter, ultimately this was a team who put the clamps on. on both sides of the ball and you saw the ball explode offensively Jaylen Brown Leading the way with 40 points on a day when he doesn't quite understand the entire NBA, I don't think it's a coincidence, but the level of concentration that those who play with the Celtics and I talked about this early in the series, the Celtics guards were going to put the Pacers guards in a tough spot when you look at NIMH trying to protect Brown Derek White Drew hello Jason Tatum all these guys have size that the Pacers really don't have consistently in their defensive positions outside of neith and last night I thought the Celtics played their best basketball as a collective on both sides they look angry I mean the reality is that this series is a

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Caesar End, end without Tyrese Halber playing on the court because he produced so many points for this team, even with a hamstring injury, just finish, finish and the reality is that for the Boston Celtics guys.

I mean, it's like how do you want it? How do you feel? Yeah, that's a Tupac line because they're getting every opportunity. Wendy just went down the list of people Butler doesn't play Jared Allen, he doesn't play Donovan Mitchell with the injury that now has Tyrese Helbert. with the injury poor zingis now you can give him time off to rest if you can close this for Memorial Day 10 days to rest before the NBA Finals there are no more excuses for the Boston Celtics everything is ready for them to win a world championship here it is on an absolutely silver platter for those of you who are at home and wondering if you can move up the start of the NBA Finals, the answer is no, so the finals will begin on Thursday, June 6, no matter what else happens and If the Celtics take care of business in Boston and we are a long way from that happening, but if the Celtics win the next two games which would be on Saturday Monday, they would have those 10 days.

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s better Just no, that's a quality WP. I'm not hitting the ring with an absolutely great line, but it seems like, first of all, there's the Celtics, that's the only knock we've given them is the fact that they don't finish, that they play with their food now I'm really hungry , but that's what they do, so they can't do those things, but can we also look at the Pacers for a minute and what we do? I saw in the fourth quarter yes, I know Halberton left the game, but this is the Eastern Conference Finals.

I mean, aren't you supposed to see this through to the end no matter what Pascal cakam didn't play in the last 9 minutes in 25? seconds of this game, I understand that they were double figures, but we have seen it in this year's playoffs, in fact, the Pacers have not seen any advantage, it is safe, we understand that Pascal Seaka played 31 minutes, scored 28 points, he was unstoppable , 17 shots missed at least four. Online we're saying exactly that while I was passing by a lot of Pacer fans really frustrated by them waving the white flag in that fourth quarter and this is what Rick Carlile said, an explanation for why he left his starters particularly cakam on the bench . to look at some guys I thought needed a look.

I know McDermot U went in there and played well. You know Isaiah Jackson brought a lot of fight to the game. You know Jayen Smith hasn't had many opportunities to play. in the playoffs and you know, I wanted to see where he was at and you know, we weren't, we didn't give up, but it was an opportunity to get some fresh, energetic guys in there to battle the guys that had played. Up until that point, you know Pascal was very tired, you know, Aaron had four fouls, he was, he was tired, I mean, that was it, if you'll excuse me, what the hell is he talking about?

You're trying to see what some of these younger guys do. can bring as this is a game in January, the second game on the road to the Eastern Conference Finals with, in many ways, their season suspended. He's been in the league for about 10 years, we know what Doug Mcder is trying to figure out. What are we doing here? I mean, you can't take what he said word for word. I mean, the reality is that with Pascal Seak committing four fouls, they are coming from game seven against the Knicks and I hear everyone saying to go all out, but the reality without Howen Burton.

I think it changed a lot of the game plan that I think Rick Carlile had. I'm not saying that what he actually said is correct, but the reason behind it, considering the way they have to defend the home court, the minutes that these starters are going to get. to log in for the next two minutes to stay in the ball game I hear what you're saying Alan, you're not wrong, you're not wrong, but this for me Scott commcial calculated the risk for this is the calculated risk, so Monica, I just lived through a series where everyone on this desk complained about Tom Thibo leaving his St on the ground too long in all these games.

I'm not sure what the Goldilocks formula is here, is it too much or too little? What exactly is the right thing to do? The point is that the game didn't seem to have ended the way it needed to and leaving their best player, I mean Halberton again, their best player, Pascal Cakam, on the bench last night for basically the entire fourth quarter, a lot of people were very surprised. Yeah, it was a little strange, it took me by surprise, but I'm with Jay and I immediately thought, "Okay, maybe a strategy like that for the rest of the series is the only logic I could produce to justify this, especially since Pascal Zakum he was really the only guy who could create something for himself and for others.

I think Jaylen Brown said it caught him off guard after the game when he was asked about it, but what we'll learn if I go back to the Nick Series game. game is a different entity and the momentum doesn't necessarily carry over and I think we can all agree if Tyrese Halberton can't go that will have a huge impact and change the course of this series and put a lot more pressure on Cakam and company Sure Eight. minutes of rest I guess I'm not sure what you think of a very flimsy explanation from Ric Carile, especially since Pascal Cakam was absolutely destroying Al Horford, it was his biggest lead of the game in the second quarter after the Celtics had put a great run, I think it was like 17 180 cakam, got them back in the game by making five baskets in a row and you know everything, really, and all you need to know is how Joe Missoula handled this.

Joe Missoula kept the starters on him until the end. In the end, he played Jason Tatum for 42 minutes in this game because he knows that sometimes his team loses focus and blows home games, so I'll react to the way Missoula handled it, and this game wasn't over, he thought. Doug Mcder Doug. mcder played 12 minutes scored two points had plus minus minus three like just no we don't know what it is yeah Dr. Mur has been in the league since I was a kid, I don't even know. What we're talking about here, look, the bottom line is that Rick Caro is a great coach, not a good coach, he's a great coach, he's taken this team further than most coaches probably would have, some One day he will end up in the Hall of Fame. but they gave away the first game and last night they waved the white flag in the second game and that's a very, very strange way for the first two games of this series to have gone.

These are the playoffs where you apply pressure, you always do it even down low. double figures, you apply pressure and just see what happens, you keep fighting because you never know. I also feel like even in blowouts you can see something, you can find something and there's this idea of ​​taking a part away from them as well to move on to the next game. They didn't do any of that, they made it easy for the Celtics and it's incredible that this was the Boston Invitational. Everyone seems to be making it easier for Boston to get to the NBA Finals and this game felt like that in the last five.

For minutes I was watching without interest and I kept saying where is Sakam where is he where is he to bring him back to the game look, the reality is that the two people who can really make points from pick and rolls and mismatches, which is like The plays Boston's Pascal Sakam and Tyrese Hatber, with Hatber not on the court, which puts all the pressure on Pascal to do everything all the time 24/7/365, which will inevitably be the reason they won't win the series. There will be no rest for The tired again play game three tomorrow night, a must win for the Pacers.