 Celtics falling to the Atlanta Hawks 120 to 118 a game in which the Celtics led by 30 points in the second quarter Eddie, what did you see in the second half where this thing just got away from them? Well, I think it started getting away from at the end of that second quarter Just a defense. I don't think the attention to detail was there defensively Offensively, you just get laxity. They went up by 30 points. They just thought it was one of those games They were gonna be able to walk through it was gonna be comfortable But remember those those are professionals they get paid the same way you get paid And you know and they have a job that they have to do they have a coach that has to do his job The same way and they never quit that you got to give them credit But I'm gonna tell you second quarter 34 points third quarter 34 points fourth quarter 30 points That's a little bit too much right there Like, you know, you start breaking that down. What's that 98 points in three quarters It's gonna be tough to win basketball games when you're giving up that amount of points and they're making it easy And then you're not doing anything on the other end as well. You just get complacent You're not sharing the ball the way you did in the first half It's one of those games where they're gonna have to learn from this loss But I thought they will be able to learn from a win, but you know, it wasn't in the cars They took they took that L Let's go back to the final minute of this game because again the Celtics They did have the lead still even though they gave up that lead they went back and forth with Atlanta And they were able to take a one-point lead. So you had a minute to go Celtics up one to Jean-Té Murray Just able to get by Al Horford and give Atlanta the lead Yeah, well that was just a clear ISO right there They got the matchup. They wanted the Jean-Té Murray getting to the basket not selling but right here. Just look what what's going on? Forzingus, what are you doing? Okay? You're gonna set a screen. Well, it wasn't really a screen It didn't really do anything. Oh, you get pushed off your line to go set a screen. They switched You really don't get nothing now. Everybody's just standing around looking you know a bad possession and you know that happens within the course of a game, but right here, I Will say this as much as I'm saying like damn offensive rebound you got to make sure you box out and get that rebound It just wasn't You if you look at where Al Horford got pushed underneath the basket a lot of times the the defensive big man Me and the offensive big man has opportunity to get that rebound because of where he got pushed underneath the basket All right Take a look at these numbers presented by the Massachusetts health connector losing mass health need health insurance for any reason visit the Massachusetts health connector act now and stay covered at ma health connector Dot org and you heard Drew mention it towards the end of the broadcast The 30-point lead that they gave up tonight. That is the biggest blown lead since 1996 97 for this Celtics team Let's bring in scowling Drew now and shall start with you because we're just going through some of the highlights there But specifically late in the game Why why is it that we see this team kind of slow down? That's gonna be the question going into tomorrow Why do they slow down and play that kind of iso basketball when moving the ball for them? It seems to work so well earlier in the game So I mean every fourth quarter the game slows down. It's to me. It's it's not that it's Like the lack of force to break open to get a catch You know you're holding the ball You can be holding the ball with your shoulders over your over your toes ready to drive it You know with some force to it to you and go right through guys or you can kind of just like limp into it So like it's you can do the exact same thing But you could do it with no force and it won't work or you can like break open get the ball be aggressive aggressive mindset Get downhill like Jalen Brown. He had an iso late in the game. He had a nice little pull-up The dodge John T Murray had a an iso and and he knocked down a shot or got by Al Horford So I don't need us to I would love for us to fly around but I just think for about 1214 16 18 22 minutes we play with zero force Zero force and that's when the Atlanta Hawkinship the way it got back in the game that pacing Giles also has to do with how you defend Right, it's harder to run off a make than off a miss and the Celtics were defending really well in the first half for the most part And then that kind of stop what the numbers say is they do really slow down as the game goes on 10th and first quarter pace and it's like 20 in the second 20 second in the third and second to last in the fourth quarter But their clutch time stats are really good fifth the net rating So I think that might be a little bit overblown But there were a couple times where it was really slow tonight like Tatum got an eight second violation Yeah, that that was a little bit alarming. So I don't know What never I do never finish a statement with I don't know I don't I mean you're the expert, but I'm I'm just Guess what though scale? I'm gonna pick it up point because I do know this is the problem You know 34 points in the second quarter 34 points in the third quarter 30 points in the fourth quarter, right? You giving up if you're not scoring I understand that and you're not gonna make every shot You're not gonna execute perfect every time down the court But what you can do is least defend and give a little bit of resistance 34 34 30 is no resistant and you said 22 minutes. I think it was a whole second half Okay, and on top of that we didn't move the ball. We didn't share the ball. We had success 17 Sists in the first half only four assists in the second half a lot of ice. So basketball a lot of standing around and And then the guys weren't making shots and once once you open that door, you know this gal It's like miss free throws seem like everybody start missing free throws You start missing these threes that was going in earlier in the game and that's all you're doing is taking them You start missing more of those you start missing assignments defensively. That's where you should be able to say Hey, we're cutting that off We're not gonna miss those because you could control that I just felt like defensively we didn't we weren't on top of our game We felt like the game was over once we went up 30 points Yeah, I did too. I 100% thought this game was over 68 to 38 like how is this game not over and all of a sudden it's just You know, I don't I don't love that style of basketball ever. I don't love It's not so much walking the ball up I just don't love when when players are not attacking and the ball is in poppin How about we might have had to one of the greatest Celtic possession all season? It was a tatum the inside to Horford and went out went all the way around the horn and my high Luke hit the three So like yeah, man, how do you go from that to the other side? And you know it is a weakness is very similar to the Cleveland game in the fourth quarter and they started feeling it But it is definitely if you had to say there was one weakness of this team on a contrary to what big park things Our bench. It's not our bench. It's the ability to take our foot off the gas and it's just like thinking we could just close To the at the end and it's with no Derek White and no Drew Holiday to write the ship a little bit We really miss those guys today All right, just don't get too cool for the radio man. That's all I'm saying don't ever get too cool All right, what do you mean too cool for the radio? What's that mean? Oh, I mean, you know, I'm a Man, I got to explain everything to y'all man Because you know what I'm talking about I'm like in the middle of this one. I don't even know what that means too cool for the radio No, but I'm too cool. I don't even need my song to be played on the radio. I'm too cool for the radio I'm fresh already. We we got it handled right here. That's what that means No, you're not too cool for the radio. You want to get radio play You want to make sure that everybody know what you say? How you doing it and what you doing? That's all I'm trying to say, man