 Celtics have numbers if they push. Houser waits, shoots, holiday tries it. Worked for another offensive rebound. Pritchard says, why not? Just by Houser. Celtics fans on their feet here in Charlotte. Light the tears. Rock goes! What a possession for Boston. And Steve Clifford is seen enough. And the Celtic fans here in the building love it. And there were a lot of Celtics fans in that building. Welcome in here to Celtics Post Game Live, presented by your New England four-dealers. I'm Abby Chin. He's Eddie House and the Celtics get their 59th win of the season final score, 118-104, over the lowly Charlotte Hornets. Eddie, I don't know how much we should celebrate, but the Celtics close out this road trip, the season-long road trip at four and two and look like themselves for stretches of tonight. Yeah, they did. And we're going to celebrate because it's a victory. We celebrate all victories, you know, and no matter how we get them done, we get them done and we celebrate those. You're right. I should be more excited. I'm sorry. Here we go. I'm ready. I'm feeling you where you at. You know, it's like, whatever, but still it's a good victory because every victory, a good victory is better than loss. Ain't it? Yes, sir. It's winning and misery. We know that. But I think we took care of the pain, right? And at first it was the Hornets were going to get whatever they wanted in the paint, 34 points in the paint in the first half. That's ridiculous. And then Sam Houser, this Sam Houser game, he just was on fire and Fuego from behind the three point line. And, you know, I think everybody else, you know, kind of felt that. I mean, Jason Tatum, he has 16 in the first half. He could have been looking for more shots been trying to get going more. But I felt like the team scene that Sam Houser had it going, they found him. He was able to knock down shots and we took care of the paint. It all starts with defense for me. I'll always look at that because that's what's going to win you the championship. It's not going to be the offensive end. It's going to be the stops that leads to the offensive end. No question. They short up the paint in the second half, but you're right. This one all about the howitzer. Drew and Scow caught up with Sam Houser after the game in Charlotte. All right, Celtics beat the Hornets, Sam Houser, another magnificent game. So we're now joined by the howitzer himself down on the floor. Sam, for those of us who can't shoot anything like you, can you just tell us what it feels like when you're in a groove like that? It feels pretty good, you know? That's all I got to say. Yeah, so I want to talk about one play in particular. You filled the corner. It seemed like you were drifting away. It was that far baseline. And if you feel like, if you get your feet set, at that point, it's just let it go. Yeah, pretty much. If I can get my feet down underneath me and explode up, I think it has a good chance of going in. How many times are you constantly having to read your team and what they're going to do? Are you, if Payton drives baseline, are you sprinting to those corners? Yeah, I'm sprinting to the corner. And then if he starts to snake dribble to the middle, I'm going to try to fill back up. And I think throughout this year, I've kind of gotten a feel to playing with him, playing with DUI, playing with Drew, see what they like to do. When you go on a long road trip like this, and you feel like we've been gone for two weeks or whatever, going into this game, do you have a different mentality? Yeah, I mean, you know, some guys out, there's more opportunity to play. And I'm just trying to take advantage of it and show it out so I can bring it to the table. You're excited to get back to Boston? Yeah, can't wait. Are they starting to get warm? Some golf in your future soon, but that'll be after. Yeah, we got to get a ring first. One more for me. We've been going back and forth with this game in the Iowa LSU game. You're a big fan of Caitlin Clark. I mean, it seems like everybody is. But will you go back and watch this game? I know you get sucked into your vortex of the NBA, but how much March Madness, women's or men's, do you get a chance to catch up on? Yeah, we've been watching a pretty decent amount so far. It's been an exciting tournament. Both tournaments have been well. And Caitlin Clark has been exciting. And see if she can keep it rolling. Hope you didn't watch the UVA men in the first four. Thanks. All right, Sam, thanks, man. Congrats. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Look at Sam Houser, 7 of 11 from three tonight. Eddie, from one shooter to another. What goes through your mind when you're watching Sam shoot? Well, his confidence, his confidence level. When you see a couple go in, and then when you're moving and your guys are finding you, that gives you more confidence. You already have confidence when you're coming in. And you see a couple go in. OK, it's like, oh, it could be one of these nights. And then when your teammates are leaning on you and they're finding you, and you're being able to relocate. Like he said, he's just reading the game. Whether it is, I like that one the most. That's my favorite shot. That was your favorite? Yeah, it wasn't a three because they ran him off the three. Like, he couldn't do anything else but shoot the three. And he showed that I could make you pay for the mid-range. So I like that as well. But him being able to read the game, if it's baseline drive, baseline drift, like that clip right there. Or like he said, if it's a snake dribble, I'm going to relocate to the wing. So I give my teammate passing lane to find me in a lane to find me. And I'll be ready to shoot it. And like he said, if he gets his feet set underneath him, it's going up. And he gots the utmost confidence to knock that shot down. No question about that. My favorite one was when he sprinted down the sideline and got the ball and just threw it up there. No hesitation. But Eddie, the question was Sam. And it's something that came up in the playoffs last year. How sustainable is that in the post-season? Well, it just has to be not not. It doesn't have to be sustainable to where the point is like you're leaning on him because that's not going to be his role in the playoffs. It's totally different in the playoffs. But you are going to have to deliver when your number is called. OK, and you just have to be ready for that. And so just be prepared to whenever your number is called and understand that some games that it might not be called as much as other games, but always have the mentality of like, I'll be ready. I'll be ready. I'll be ready. I can't wait to get out there because when it does come my way, I'm going to make this other team pay. And I'm also on shoulder to coach that, man, you could depend on me. I might get some more minutes if you throw me out there, man. I got some shots for you to knock down. So I feel that that's the more important thing is just stay ready so you ain't got to get ready. And that's exactly what that Stay Ready crew has done so far this season as we bring back in Drew and Skal and Charlotte. Real quick, I want to close this conversation on Sam. Skal, that was my question to Eddie. Do you think have you seen enough for carry over into the postseason when it comes to Sam Houser and the three he's got? You have to put him out there. You've got to give him a chance if you never know if you're going to get four threes in a quarter or something like that. But I don't think he's going to get off the rip. I don't think he gets DMPs. I think he gets a chance to go out there and play. It's such a weapon. He really connects well with Jason Tatum when he's out there with the Stay Ready group, as you mentioned. So I think Houser will be a rotational player that can earn his minutes. All right. Do you guys have any other thoughts on the game tonight? Because otherwise, I'd just like to focus on Drew. Go ahead, you can focus on Drew. There's nothing like, well, OK. Drew Holiday or Drew. Drew Carter first season as the play by play man for the Boston Celtics. And this is the game of the season. This is my final game of the season, indeed, because only one road game left in the regular season. It's only on national TV. So yeah, Milwaukee. And then, of course, but no, I mean, Abby, thank you. But nobody wants to talk about me. Let's focus on the fact that Mike's got a few more games. Let's send him down to the G League. It's funny. It's funny. I know I'm about to. I know I'm going to get some tweets when I'm calling those G League games. Stay down there. You never should have told me all about that. Don't come back. Put him on a two-way. I just wanted to go to Maine. Maine is lovely. Maine is lovely. It's the food there is good, man. But I like the fact that you got to sit down the last couple of days. I guess I'm about to find out how the food is in Kissemi, Florida. There you go. The Osceola magic, the one seed. But Drew, what are your takeaways? Your first season, how was it? What was your favorite moment? Oh, it's been a blast, you know. You got any music for this? I was texting you, Abby, during the Backstreet Boys single on here. I do think, you know, a top five moment for me is probably when we were all singing that in Dallas. That was fun. That was a lot of fun. And you could see Abby walking back to the table and be like, lock eyes, we're both singing. That was really fun. Stuff like that, you know, of course, there have been a lot of great moments from the team. I feel really lucky, of course, to have the job but also to join this year when the team is so good. So it's just been a blast working with all you guys. It's great.