Justin Verrier

But it did feel like it played out exactly how we thought, where he was dominant on the boards.

I think he had 12 there.

And it did really feel like he had an advantage scoring against smaller units because Spoh refuses to play Kal-El Ware all of a sudden.

It's a whole separate issue, but they tried to go small, and he was just a big old boy doing big boy stuff.

And so I did kind of like it from that respect.

Having said that, we are getting the reports that are slowing down the Jason Tatum return, and that does worry me about them kind of hitting that next gear.

I did watch a Shams report where it was just like a bunch of word salad where it was like,

He still needs to get the okay from the medical staff and then also the training staff.

And Malika, the training staff is different than the medical staff.

And it's just like, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Just tell me what's happening.

But it does sound like...

there was a report that like he might not be back the entire year.

It seems like that has been largely debunked or at the very least been poked holes on, but things are taking slower than we expect.

I think we were hoping to see him by now or maybe early March.

And so the Celtics like momentum seems to have seized at this point.

What do you guys feel about if the Celtics don't get Tatum?

Are they even in this race?

He's coming back.

God, that'd be worse.