 Welcome to Celtics post game live Eddie house Amina Smith here with and it's Celtics fall to the Denver Nuggets 102 to 100 the win streak at home inside of TD Garden comes to an end and it was a back-and-forth battle between both of these teams for the entire game Eddie where did the Celtics lose this match up I would say not taking advantage of the offensive rebounds that we got I think right there to close out the first half we have four offensive rebounds that we jacked up three threes right off of a rebound kick out jack up three miss another kick out jack up three miss another kick out kick out jack up three and the same thing happened right there late in the game but also you just got to give credit to the world champions yeah let's not forget that that is the world champions out there that is the defending NBA champions and and they have championship medal and one thing that they're not gonna do is they're not gonna give up they're not gonna and let me apologize apologize what I was saying about Jamal Murray and not being a superstar tonight show me because this is one of those moments this is where it separates and as Cal comes in with his air Pinocchio's this was a this is a night that where he definitely showed me that he is a superstar where he was talking about that earlier but he's a superstar I got it you know what he's not a believer don't hate I wasn't hate yes you were he made me a bit we want to show up here we're gonna talk about that later we gotta give him the whole story air pocket no we gotta give him the whole story can't just do that just drop the shoe on right why not take it off so Murray a superstar come on do you gonna stamp him I'm gonna stamp him because of this reason I tell these guys but in this game though and not not saying moving forward this game made me to believe it in this finals each of Western Conference final not all those this game right here this game right here against the best team in the league yeah yeah right he got who man oh he's a baller he's a baller now he might give you seven against Charlotte that a superstar type I was talking about superstars in the pregame show I'm thinking about okay like if you play in a team like Charlotte baby San Antonio come out you have some that you can't be a superstar some nights and not the other but he's a star though he's a star Jamal Murray is a star and he proved that tonight's gal against itself fourth quarter when Yolkich on the bench he came in everybody knew the ball was gonna go to him and he dominated he came in and got got people in the right position he made those shots going left a little pull-up and it was right online no rim every single time so there's all those stopgaps right when when Yolkich goes to the bench it's a big problem for Denver but if he's doing that they're winning most of those games like I said how many times I don't know this answer I could probably figure it out how many times if Yolkich came in a game up to and lost that game not many not many all right well let's take a look at the fourth quarter and how it went down for this Celtic scene they were down two in this fourth quarter the final minutes of the fourth quarter Celtics trying to make something happen the nuggets up by two you get a double lane violation right here Yolkich and the guys they jump into the lane this leads to a jump ball take a look at it again one more time Chris as poor zingers Jalen Brown they take the bait they get into the lane but Yolkich also in a lane as well jump ball Jason Tatum gets it calls a timeout right here and this part of the first time I've seen a Joe Missoula run for the timeout Derek White makes the inbound and of course Jason Tatum with the fall away shot we've seen it scowl time and time again Tatum taking that shot at the end of the game what did you think about the last sequence of this matchup it didn't look like that like their spacing that didn't look like that that was the play so I don't know why they went to that if you're gonna go to an isolation you want to have guys in different areas I don't know what the plan was for that for that play but that's what the end result was so it didn't work out I don't care what their plan was Eddie what do you think was supposed to happen if that wasn't supposed to happen in the final minutes of this game I think they were trying to get the ball to Jason Tatum but what happened was they had Michael Porter Jr. on the ball Derek White taking it out much more size now the passes offline look at that throws Tatum off of his spot and I think that his internal clock was a lot faster it was I don't think I could see it was a lot faster than what the time actually allow him to have he could have took a little bit of time right there he was sped up because I think because of the past the past was thrown off so then he instantly started getting sped up because he could have took his time it got a lot better shot than that but it you know what it don't really come down to that well but it but but like five four three it's a long time you know hit and then go hey you know it just felt like you he rusted he didn't have to but I think it's because of that past you know and so give Denver their credit but it wasn't lost I think think about the wasted possessions we had when we got offensive rebound at the offensive rebound and it was end up in a three and then we shoot to jack that three up we miss get another offensive rebound kick it out to somebody jack another three miss it get another rebound Jack at some point you said help we got to slow this down a little bit let's get a good possession here we have a good team here we have guys that we trust it doesn't have to play hero ball and I think we got caught up in just the moment of of trying to do something and it's not a bad thing when you have guys that want to step up and make the right play or make the play for your team but at the same time you know it I think we have a high enough basketball IQ on this team to where we should realize that we had seven possessions offensive rebounds and seven looks where we couldn't get it done and you know that that's gonna come back to I gotta act because I was into the game I didn't see why do you think we struggled to execute against the Denver Nuggets they're not like you'll go since go down like Michael Porter like they're not they were physical they they were I thought they were physical no question but they should not be but why why did you know I'm gonna hate to bring it up Miami's gonna be physical too like so I'm just why do we why do we struggle to execute today that's what I don't I have to rewatch but to me I feel like we have matchups everywhere and everything we did it was it was rigid it's nothing smooth out there there's very few great possessions for us I don't have an answer for you look in the first half we had 11 fast break points we were getting stops we were keeping them off the glass we were keeping them out of the plant paint we only had two in the second half right points in the paint we were up 22 to 16 points in the paint at half time we only won by four 40 to 36 so we got dominated in the paint in the second half and our sis went down we had where's 15 assist 22 field goals only 21 assists at the end of game on 38 I mean those are the things right there you kind of go away from whatever it was that you were doing and sometimes that happens yeah they took us out of what we normally play like we they took us out of our pace they took us out of you know execution they pushed us off the line like it was it was tough for us to do things today and I was I was a little disappointed in the way that we played like that because I just feel like Denver solid defensively but I feel like we should be able to get into our stuff get our stuff and I just didn't that game didn't feel like we got any of that today in the second half especially in the second half and Nicola Yolkage had 34 points 12 rebounds and nine assists and really Eddie I feel like this something's team didn't really have an answer for the Joker at all when the NBA doesn't right you know they don't have an answer in there I'll say this and this is not going out on no kind of limb it's just saying it's a no hot take or anything if he's playing like this and Jamal Murray is playing the way Jamal Murray is playing this team is extremely tough to beat I don't care how we want to slice and how we want to dice it whatever you want to cut it up and try to make it sound cool no it's not these two guys right here and I don't want to say they're the best duo in basketball because they do so many different things but when we talk about the best duo like two man game two man game they're the best in the league they are the best two man game running the two man game I will give you that they are the best two man game and they read off each other they play off each other they feed off each other I mean there's nothing you could do about that right there and one thing about Yolkage he gonna punish you he doesn't get he's trying to get where to his spot and he'll do it with physicality and one thing I did see that that last bucket he made in the fourth quarter his first actually he made a pass his first step yeah it's a lot faster than what people think it is that first step for a seven-footer to be trying to guard or a big man that's not used to seeing somebody that has the ability and the talents that he had when I seen that for I was like okay that's the difference maker right there that's why he gets so much space that's why he's able to create so much space and Jamal Murray had 35 points eight rebounds and five assists scowl why was Jamal Murray able to have so much success against his Celtic team that's very talented from top to bottom because they still don't got success because like I hate to say it but he's like a hundred percent about that life like he likes big games he likes to you know be on national TV he likes to be in Boston and no one's coming here in one and he I mean that's why they won a championship because he was like I mean he's tough like you'll fade away in the distance there's a good chance that he ain't making the all-star team in the Western Conference and he should it's crazy question that he should know but it's it's crazy you start looking at the guard you're like man he might be on the outside looking in but that's because he doesn't bring it every single night but on nights like this look at this see that was the only thing I'm thinking about Jamal Murray if you don't bring it every single night that you can't really be at least in my opinion in that superstar category I feel like you got to bring it every single night but at least most nights but hold on Amina if we're only if we're talking about winning the championship and he delivers on the biggest stage doesn't that make him a super yeah I say I say he's a superstar superstar gamer game that's exactly about a little bit more specific than calling him a superstar and I say that's a superstar in this league I look at Jason Tatum that's a superstar in this league Jamal Murray he's teetering like right in not it's not May and June he's not but that's and you're right but you know what that's what it matters yeah I was thinking that same thing but tonight he no I punished the tonight he's a he proved to me that he's a super you're gonna pull them out this is what you never a everybody that's back here don't ever have something like that in your class let me tell you let me tell you guys a little story okay a long time ago when Eddie played and I played with probably in 2009 I wore these right and Eddie and I was thinking I was fly like I was to get on some European this and that with my straps and everything like that feeling good Eddie house comes up to me and he's like oh those are nice and right away I can't my radar he about to kill me for this right he goes those are the Jopeto make those either the air Pinocchios right here and today and the air bubble in the back let me tell you ever ever since I see these in my closet sitting there this is over this is almost 20 years I think Eddie house right and I knew he was gonna be here today and I'm facing my demons man so I put these bad boys on I came in here and he jinxed us and I don't care any Jesus he moved on from that he said like you got some you you got off the peloton in these Eddie had been clown and he came in walking with his toes but I tell you what I didn't care like for 15 years I thought Eddie house every time I look to them shoes like we kill me I ain't gonna wear them but today I was wearing them that's it