Brian Scalabrine

And I'm still shocked at how good he looks now.

Sure.

There was a rush, I think to anoint Boston as the favorites in the East.

I think they are the most complete and coherent team in the East, the team that's most certain of their identity on both ends of the floor.

So maybe that makes them the favorites.

I don't know.

I would put them in the Knicks sort of head-to-head, and we can talk about Cleveland and Detroit too later.

But I think he looks tremendous.

This core four that they have of White, Pritchard, Tatum, Brown, you throw Cade out there, that lineup is great.

Hauser is playing well.

They get good minutes off the bench.

I just can't believe how good the Celtics are.

Yeah, and he had one drive early in the game where he had a clear path to the rim.

And I think Hartenstein, he didn't have a clear path to the rim, but he had momentum.

And Hartenstein, I think, was the last line of defense.

And he kind of like went up and I thought, oh, he's going to go through Hartenstein.

He's going to try it.

And then he was like, yeah, I don't know.

And he kind of made this lefty, like awkward sort of like waiter carrying a trade dish to somebody and then kicked it.

So I was like, I think prime Tatum tries to finish that over Hartenstein.