Howard Beck

Did he need to take 21 shots?

Making nine of them?

The next highest, you know, field goal attempts was Maxie at 14.

Edgecombe at nine.

Like,

I don't know that you're beating the Celtics without Embiid being a presence at both ends.

But I don't know that you're beating them by taking that many shots away from the guys who were kind of keeping things going without you either.

And so that's the part that I think is a little bit troubling.

I'm not an odds guy, but I assume the Celtics were the favorites once the postseason started to come out of the East.

I assume, right?

Yeah, I don't know either.

But I think they were kind of the consensus favorite odds or no odds, just based on chatter, right?

Because most people didn't buy the Pistons.

Very few people gave the Knicks or the Cavaliers much of a chance, right?

The Cavaliers.

You realize we could get Toronto-Orlando second-round series?

That's a possibility.

Yeah, yeah.

I would just add, the premise of the question about him being the plug-and-play superstar, you said that was a 2023 take.

I think it's actually more of a 20-teens take.