Zach Lowe

And I think the minutes, the minutes matter.

Um, the fact that he's played more games and Kawhi still has to finish.

I think Kawhi has to play every game to just hit the seat.

Maybe you can miss one more.

Uh, I can't remember that that matters too.

Um,

And the other thing that happened last night in that Miami win is that the Celtics are almost locked into number two.

They're like an 80 to 90 percent lock on number two, which makes the race for the three seed interesting, which puts them on the opposite side of the bracket from the Pistons, who just shout out to the Pistons.

They're really, really good.

I said last week that if you divided up the sort of pie over who would win the East, I would have the Celtics first and the Knicks second.

We're going to talk about the Knicks because, my God, just every fucking day is a saga with the Knicks.

But that all the pie slices, to use group chat terminology, were like fairly close to 25% among the top four teams, like plus or minus 3%, 4% here.

And the Pistons just are like, we want more pie.

We're taking another slice of the pie.

Cade Cunningham's out.

Oh, you think he's our whole offense?

We don't function without him.

Here comes Dennis Jenkins.

Why can't Dennis Jenkins be the most improved player, Michael Pena?

He played 23 minutes the entirety of last year, I think, and is now the starting point guard on a team that keeps winning.