The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
13 Mar 2025
Russillo starts with another edition of Tales From the Couch following OKC’s win in Boston (0:45). Then, Ceruti comes on to ask Ryen a series of ‘which player would you rather have’ questions (20:01). Next, Willie Colon joins the pod to debate Aaron Rodgers vs. Russell Wilson, share his favorite free agent signings thus far, and reveal his favorite offensive lineman (43:19). Finally, Life Advice with Ceruti and Kyle (79:00) ! Is what I’m doing considered stealing? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Willie Colon Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, Mike Wargon, and Jonathan Frias This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Also, some other nuggets that I have for you. We also do a little Saruti, who would you rather have? We taped this before we saw Cooper Flagg go down with a severe sprained ankle. So, that's the alert. NFL Free Agency. More on what's next for a bunch of different teams. And just talking football with Willie Colon. And life advice where we didn't really answer any questions.
We're going to start with a little Thursday Tales from the Couch. I'm not going to go through the entire schedule of last night because this is a really important game, a potential NBA final. So I don't know if it's Thursday Lobstervations, but we'll come up with some kind of title that I'll probably forget about weeks later and never say it again. So Oklahoma City wins at Boston last night.
A lot of you, I'm sure, you watched that. Thunder without Jalen Williams and the Celtics without Bucs. who last played on February 26th. He's played 32 games this year, obviously injuries, but this illness thing is very strange. So, you know, there's the kind of default whenever Boston loses.
Well, they don't have Przingis because Przingis changes who they are with the five out stuff they can do on offense and the rim protection. We've covered a lot of that stuff. Yeah. And when they're fully formed, Boston feels like the default favorite on FanDuel as of today. Boston's plus 185 for the title. Oklahoma City is now at plus 185. Cleveland's still at plus 500.
I think that has more to do with Boston being in the East necessarily than who FanDuel thinks Cleveland is as a team. When it was at plus 700, I actually bet it because I was like, that just doesn't seem right. That just seems like a massive amount of value. Even if you're just going to hear so many people just look at Boston and go, well, they won it last year. Cleveland's still sort of newish.
Oklahoma City's younger. All the stuff that we've been talking about the last few weeks. But I kind of land on, I think Boston's the third best team in the NBA. Let's go through some of the game. There's score versus feel, which I talk about all the time. The score can be close, but how does the game feel?
It's 33-30 at the end of the first quarter, and it didn't feel like a three-point game at all. Boston took 22 threes in the first quarter. Paint scoring 18-zip. Oklahoma City. Boston took 36 threes at the half, most in any half in NBA history. 63 for the game, third highest total ever, 32%. And that shooting just completely fell apart for them.
So we could get into the variance part of it, a three here, three there. Boston gets the win. Everybody feels a little bit different. Okay, maybe, but I really want to get back to feel. Other than the third quarter stretch where Tatum got it going and Boston was attacking, considering how far away that they start,
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