Bill Simmons

Um, he's just been really consistent in these games.

And I thought what was interesting about last night, OKC wanted the game.

They had 12 in a row.

They approached it like, we're going to kick these guys' ass.

They came out.

They were up 8, 9, 10, really for the first quarter of the game.

they kind of went gimmicky in the first quarter, which I thought was another kind of weird sign for them.

They basically said, we're going to leave Hauser open.

They're not going to be expecting this.

It's like, why don't you just guard the Celtics straight up?

Like you have the best defense in the league or the second best.

I think for the Celtics, the, the big picture encouraging thing is that they've, they've now played San Antonio and OKC and have just gone at them and really gone toe to toe with them athletically and, and,

I think had a lot of confidence with them.

I wonder the type of teams that they've struggled with are teams that play with a ton of pace, like Minnesota on Sunday without Edwards, just going up and down.

The Celtics want to play a little more deliberately.

And so does OKC.

So those types of teams are really good matchups.

I think the Knicks will potentially fall into that.

But last night you could see the ceiling of the Celtics team, I think, if Tatum can look like Tatum.

He had that great block.