 Celtics, they were cooking last night time now for bringing the heat brought to you by Eastern propane and oil there in your neighborhood. The Celtics were very much bringing the heat against the Kings the last night. The four starters minus Jason Tatum. Each put up big numbers. Some might even call them all star performances. Hint hint, Joe Bazula. Let's bring in Forsberg and Forsberg. Let's go into Forsberg's four and I'm guessing it's all about those guys who are on fire. Yeah. So right now the Celtics are making the pitch that all five of their starters should go to all-star weekend. I'm just gonna bring a little bit of reality. Not five guys from the Celtics are going to all-star weekend. We know that Jason Tatum is gonna be there, right? Like he's gonna probably get voted in as a fan voted starter and then I'm eager to see what happens from there because they could very easily split the vote but I am here to make the case for why each of the other four non Tatum starters ought to be an indie with him and we start with 14.4 and that is the number of assists points created per game by Jalen Brown over Boston's last seven games. Remember when we said Jalen Brown couldn't dribble, couldn't create for others and like we just pigeonholed him as this score-only player even though he was all NBA and clearly had more to his game at that point. Jalen Brown has gone to another level as a passer this season. I think he's been fantastic especially in this stretch. Ever since ESPN posted that little graphic. I was like right after that post it started going up. He called it corny and ever since then he's been picking teams apart and I love it because JB5's motivation and everything. Over the last seven games he has a team best 5.1 assists per game. I just love the vision. There have been plays where he's attacking the basket and just whips it through three guys. Passes that he wasn't making a year ago, two seasons ago. Maybe even at the start of this season it just feels like he is so hell bent on being great as a playmaker and I love it because now you can run offense through him and good things happen. I need more of this JB moving forward. The points will be there. The Southlakes have so much talent there though and I want Jalen to continue to be a great creator. That's why Jalen Brown said it was corny in the comments because he knows what he could do as a playmaker. Duh he knows what his ability is. All right what's the next one? I will say I'm going to now whenever someone makes fun of me on Twitter I'm just going to call them corny because it's a great comeback. Plus 10.5 that is the net rating differential with Derrick White on the court. Okay the easy way to do this. The Southlakes are a team best 13.2 net rating when Derrick is on the floor and it drops to a team worst 2.7 when he's off the court. Here's why that matters. Those are Jason Tatum like numbers in terms of how the Southlakes perform. Like in past years the Southlakes were super great with Tatum and super bad when he was off the court. Now all of a sudden Derrick White putting up those numbers and he's done this to a certain degree throughout his career but this year is even more noticeable. The Southlakes are plus 222 in his time on the court this season. That's fourth best in the NBA right now. I think that's only going to go up as we move forward. Here's the other part. So I told you that number there. Plus 10.5. Here are the other starters. Drew Holiday plus 2.9. Poor Zingas plus 2.1. Jason plus 0.1 which is a mind boggling number because he's to the moon. And Jalen at minus 1.3 which is weird because Jalen has been so good this season. But for me it just comes down. Derrick has been so good at every aspect of the game. Defense. Creating plays. Hustle plays. Just making every right decision out there. And if I had to fill out that bad. I told you two weeks ago people when we did this segment all about Derrick go watch that if you want more Derrick propaganda. I think Derrick White should be an indie and that's no slight on everybody else. But he's just been that good. Yeah. Derrick White definitely takes his Celtics team to an entirely different level when he's out there on the floor. What's the next one? All right. Number three is 1.39. And that is the points per play the Celtics are producing off of post-ups. Celtics post-up by Kristaps Poor Zingas. And so I think when we knew when the Celtics went out and got Poor Zingas this season that you would be getting a guy that could stretch the floor that would give you a presence around the basket. What I didn't know is just how much of a luxury it is when your offense is struggling when you got nothing going on to play. You just lobbed that ball in there to Kristaps and he's going to work a smaller defender. They've done a great job of targeting when he does get a switch onto a small. I mean like these guys have no chance of stopping this. You can't do anything with Kristaps Poor Zingas. His number that 1.39 is the best in the NBA among players with at least two and a half post-ups per game. He's shooting 68% in those situations. And I just think you look at the numbers overall. The Celtics are 16 and 4 when Poor Zingas plays. That's an 800 win percentage. That's like 62 wins and 63 wins. He's really good. He's good at basketball. And we didn't even touch on the defense. I think you can make a strong case for how good Kristaps is better in the difference maker he's been since arriving in Boston. During the off season, I did not realize how big of a component Kristaps Poor Zingas would be for this Celtics team. But looking back on it in hindsight, I'm completely happy that they added to this roster. It was a perfect fit. Last but not least, what do you think about that? And we miss you, Marcus, but like Poor Zingas is just something out there. The last number is minus 7.6. And this is the percent below expected field goal percentage that opponents are shooting inside of 10 feet against Drew Holiday. Okay, we knew Drew Holiday was a great defender. He came in with this reputation, all NBA, all defense type of guy, first team guy, someone who probably should be in that DPOY conversation. What I didn't know is that the versatility that he has, his ability to guard pretty much exclusively bigger players. I can look. Here's among his top 20 most frequent matchups this season. Here's the list. Donovan Mitchell, Julius Randall, Jalen Brunson, Paulo Banquero, Tyrese Maxi, Tyrese Halliburton, Darius Garland, Joellen B, Carl Anthony Towns, Yanis, Pascal Siaka, Miles Turner. Okay, first off, I just gave you a list of what felt like all All-Stars or soon to be All-Stars or whatever the case may be. Some MVPs in there. And I give you guys that are pretty much, we went from 7 foot 2 down to like 6 foot 8. And so Drew's ability to take on these guys. In that game against the Magic, where Paulo had it going in the first quarter, what'd they do? Hey, go take this guy out. I think it's amazing the way that you can deploy Drew Holiday in those situations. It's such a luxury because, I mean, we sit there and obsess about scoring. We obsess about like, you know, all this stuff that is very obvious. When you sit there and just watch Drew Holiday operate, you're like, man, he's so damn good. And so I think we, he's underappreciated for what he's doing and the role that he's taken on in this team. And now three point shots coming around. He's still playmaking. He's giving the game what it needs. The man makes winning plays.