 All right, Celtics post-game live. Tom Zile, Scow back here in Boston. We got Drew Carter and Eddie House still in Atlanta. Celtics fall in this one, 1-23 to 1-22 in overtime. Scow, I'll just start with you real quick. What did you think about the late game, the management at the end there, the late game execution from the Celtics as they fall just short on this one? I mean, I didn't love regulation, but I was fine with the way that they executed it. And over time, I think they had an idea of going to Porzingas, he made the right basketball, played Jim Brown, made a tough shot. What did you guys think down in Atlanta, Eddie, of the Celtics and the way they kind of drew things up at the end of regulation and over time? Well, I thought at the end of the fourth quarter, I thought that they were just stagnant. They were just waiting for somebody to get a shot, playing one-on-one basketball, got totally away from the way that they play. And then I thought just defensively, their attention to detail, too many offensive rebounds. I know this team crashes the glass. If you know that, you have to make sure you find a body, put a body on somebody, and go close out that possession with the rebound. You know, I think the Celtics did take advantage of Atlanta's aggressiveness on the offensive glass in transition. You probably want to find a happy medium between doing that and allowing them to get whatever, 18 offensive rebounds and a bunch of second chance points, both Donovan just three to tie the game. That was often offensive rebound, which was kind of the story of the game. And then frustrating at the end there with that last possession of regulation. They had the entire shot clock, and it was four dudes standing around, and one guy taking a pretty bad shot. Yeah. And meanwhile, the other side of this is that Dejante Murray goes for 44 points, and he had 11 and over time, we saw different guys defend him. You saw a good possession from Derrick White. True holiday, had a nice possession in there as well. But in the end, Dejante Murray just able to make the shot was at just the clutchness of Dejante Murray in this situation. I mean, I think Eddie talked about just the lack of defensive intensity to start the game, and then he got it going. And it's really, at that point, he's a really good player. Like a lot of people think Dejante Murray is a star on a lot of different teams. He could be a lead guy and to shut that off later on, it's tough. And I give him a lot of credit. Like they played three games in four nights, and he's on a back to back, and it looks like he had the most energy out there. Eddie, what do you think of Dejante Murray's performance down the stretch? I thought that they hunted out for Zingas matchup, and we didn't make the adjustment until late there when we was forcing the guard to go over the top and trail instead of switching. They were hunting that switch, that switching matchup the whole time, and he was able to get to where he wanted. We didn't make the adjustment. And sometimes you got to just say, hey, you know what, let's get the ball out of his hands and let's rotate out of that. But you know, you got to tip your cap off to Dejante Murray. He came out and he was chirping from the beginning. So this game meant a lot for him. I think Skal makes a good point too about how much he's played three and four nights back to back. Who's questionable coming in? Played 47 minutes tonight and got 44 shots up, scored all 11 of their points in overtime. And yeah, you're right, Eddie. He was talking that talk all the way back to Monday, and he backed it up tonight, even though it did take him a million shots to get there. He was the reason they won. Think about it. We're obviously upset, Giles, but if he doesn't make a really tough shot with 0.1 left, the Celtics walk out here with a win. But that was solid, Dejante, but he already had it going. We gave him too many looks and too many easy looks where he was comfortable. We didn't really make him uncomfortable until there in the overtime where Drew Holiday was getting into him, and he has a couple tough shots. But besides that, I thought that he had a masterful game being out there, being in control, and had the most energy in three games and four nights. You go back to regulation. The Celtics were up by three under 30 seconds to go. It was an offensive rebound that led to a boy on Bogdanovich, three-pointer, and that was kind of one of the big themes in this one was the second chance points. 28 of those for Atlanta in this game. So I'll tie in the second chance points with the defense because a lot of times when you get cracked on the glass, you're giving up, triple penetration, the biggest coming over, and the guy is getting offensive rebounds. So rebounding and poor defense in this game is tied in together. And I just thought Atlanta liked the more aggressive team, the team that was quicker to the ball. You know, I didn't love our defense throughout. We had 40 points in the paint in the first half. That was, had to be close to a season high. On the year, we gave up 60 today, but that's because they started knocking down threes in the second half. So 28 second chance points, you know, sometimes this game, on the contrary, like people get caught up in execution and shots made and, you know, do we take too many threes? You know, we're usually a great rebounding team. We're a great defensive team. And we've kind of lost that identity. You saw some of the stats throughout the game about where we were and where we've been in our last four games. Well, today is not going to help that either. So right now, you know, our defense is definitely slipping. We're, you know, a top five team in both categories. Our defense is the reason why we're, like, the odds-on favorite to win an NBA championship. And if you're not going to defend the ball and you're not going to rebound the ball, then you're in an uphill battle. And, you know, we still could have won this game. Jalen Brown makes an excellent shot to put us up. But when you look back, the lesson learned is you've got to play right from the start. You can't allow what happened in the first half. And you have to have those, you have to have a battle and a mindset to battle on the glass. Because that's ultimately what the way you win championships, defense, rebounding, taking care of the basketball. But today our defense was poor and our rebounding was very poor. It felt like there was almost a couple of minutes there in the third quarter, like between five and three minutes to go in the third quarter, where there were some good defensive trips where they got some blocks. No, no question. You know, and they're trying to distance themselves from the Hawks and just say, hey, we're the much better team here. But Atlanta just hung around. How much is it also that you let a team kind of hang around and get some confidence that it's gonna be that much more difficult to put them away? Yeah, there's some truth to that. But I think like if people are watching this show right now, they're wondering, is this gonna be something that comes back to buy this, right, in the playoffs? And the only thing I could say is, it seems like when it's a big game against marquee opponents, we seem to handle our business. And for whatever this little stretch is, and it's not just, don't get me wrong, it's not just the Atlanta game. If you go back to the Chicago game, you heard me on the broadcast, the first three quarters, we're like picking and choosing when we wanna defend. And maybe that's natural with the season, being so close to being done with a giant lead, you're gonna conserve your energy, you know, whatever. You're gonna go in there, you're gonna try to get wins by expending as little energy as possible. So if that is the case, and then we should talk about that, but all I hear is building great habits, all I see is coasting to the finish line. So either way, I'm fine because I feel like this is gonna have home court advantage. You guys know where I stand. I don't necessarily believe that there's a carryover. Like if we don't guard Atlanta well, all of a sudden when we get to the playoffs, we're not gonna be able to guard. I don't believe that, I really don't. But it seems like the message coming through is developing good habits. And we'll find out New Orleans is a good basketball team. They play tough. Zion is living at the rim. So we'll find out if we're about that life right from the start, or if we're in this world where we're gonna kind of coast to the finish line, and that's where we're at then, let's just be honest about it and let's submit it. Okay, let's actually look at, because we talked about it a little bit off the top of the post game show, and we talked about it with Drew and Eddie, but we have the video now just taking a look at some of these final possessions, because that's the other thing that everyone's gonna be talking about coming from this game, right? Especially after what we saw on Monday, but Jason Tatum at the end of regulation, especially after the foul on Matthews, that gave the Celtics the ability to take the last shot. All right, so yeah, so in this situation, Tatum has the ball now. I got a problem with the play. I mean, the one thing I will say is Tatum doesn't have a lot of space to work. If you look, I mean, I don't know if we could stop it. Maybe I should go up to the board and break this thing down. You know, in the NBA, you can't go to what you wanna go to. You have to go to space. And when Tatum got the ball, the whole right side of the floor was wide open. There was one guy in the corner, which basically means the whole right side of the floor is open. Holiday set a screen, he peeled out of the screen and now Tatum had not a lot of space to work to his left, but he had to go left. So I look at that. I'm not blaming Jason Tatum. I'm not even blaming Drew Holiday, but I will say it was poor execution by the Celtics because that ball has to find an open space. That ball has to find an area. And the area where Tatum went, he's a big time shot maker, a big time shot creator, but that play right there was never gonna lead to Tatum getting downhill. So I just didn't like our spacing in that final possession. Now you go to the overtime one. Yeah, we got that one as well for us. I'm all good with this. It's poor Zingis with space. He finds Jaylen Brown and he goes to an open spot. So I have no problem with the overtime possession. So the overtime possession, and as you're referencing it, Celtics are down by one. Jaylen Brown is able to give him a one point lead here as it goes into poor Zingis who finds Jaylen Brown cutting towards the elbow here, knocks down the jumper. Yeah, I mean, you saw Jonte Murray shift over. He got rid of the ball and Jaylen Brown got to a spot. We know he's a mid-range assassin. So I got no problem with the way that this play was executed and the spacing of this play. All right, so that gave the Celtics the one point lead. And then you thought, all right, just one stop. They just need one stop with six seconds to go. And Jonte Murray, this seems like pretty good defense from Drew Holliday. Yeah, I mean, he was already cooking at this point. I mean, 44 shot attempts. He made 19 of them right there. Got a little dance, a little shimmy telling everybody, you guys don't know, but I am him. Yup, he told the Celtics bench I am him. And he was talking trash the other game too. So you know what? I got like, from the Hooper side of me, I respect the Jonte Murray and what he does, the way he plays and the fact that he's on a back-to-back and he's going after Boston Celtics. Like he is about that life and I actually really enjoy watching him play during that time. Okay, this is the final shot with point one left. Did that go in? I don't think that went in, it went under. Did it go under? I can't tell because they said it went in. Oh yeah, it did go under. Either way. Yeah. So I'll just explain to the people the thought here. Point one on the clock, the thought is to shoot the ball into the basket. There is no goal tending on side out of bounds. So as that ball is about to drop in the hoop, if you go up and just barely nick the ball, just as it's going through, you can touch the ball, that would be a bucket for you, who wins up by the rim, and it would be a game-winning shot. That's the only play that they have. So that great job by the Celtics, Derek White was just short on it. You gotta go over the rim on that one, but I'm not blaming that on Derek White.