 Let's get to bringing the heat brought to you by Eastern propane and oil there in your neighborhood. Here's a look at the top seven teams in the Eastern Conference. The sultas continue to lead the pack while their rivals are making moves. The second place bucks replace first year head coach Adrian Griffin with Doc Rivers. Dwellin B did his best. Will Chamberlain impression for the third place sixers while the Knicks, Heat and Pacers have all made trades to improve their rosters over the last few weeks. That leads us right into Forsbergs form Forsberg. I set it up a crazy 48 hours in the NBA. What are we starting with today? So we're gonna have a little fun today. Normally I bombard you with numbers and put you to sleep with talking about net rating. I might still work some of those in there but for this it's rivalry week in the NBA. You just mentioned it. All of the Celtics rivals seem to be doing something to try and close the gap with the best team in the NBA. So I decided to take a little temperature on how we're feeling about each of these rivals. I'm going to give you my most concern. We're going to go least concerning to most concerning four to one of the teams at the top of that list and I'm going to ask you for a little help too. I need to rank where these teams are on the panic meter and we start with the first team on my list number four the Indiana Pacers. So we know the Pacers were already a headache. Before they even added Pascal Siakam recently with a trade they had beat the Celtics in the IST. Every matchup feels a little bit friskier. They have the best offensive rating in the NBA even though it's coming back to earth slightly and so I'm wondering Amin how concerned should we be about this Pacers team? I'll tell you I put them my concern meter is a two. I'd say you know what two is a little low for me. I'd say maybe a four I'd say for this Pacers team because I feel like in some way shape or form with the addition of Pascal Siakam we might be talking about them later on in the year during the playoff. So I'm not that concerned but I bumped that two maybe up to a four. So I'm with you I need to see a little bit more of Siakam on the court with them maybe if they start to find some real chemistry if it just frees up Halliburton to be even more impactful I might raise that number up. I just think right now based on the moves I almost feel unfair to Cleveland and New York who have better net ratings and everything right now and their moves like with OG has been great and Dunham Mitchell has been fantastic but right now just because of how frisky those Pacers have been and how much they showed me in that IST game I got them in that four slot and we'll see if that moves as we go along. Now let's go on to number three on my list and you're gonna be stunned I have him ranked this high. The Philadelphia 76ers and Joel Embiid obviously coming off that 70-point game. He's actually playing maybe even better than last year's MVP season and we're probably going to give that award to Nikola Jokic just as a sorry because he probably should have got it last year but I am eager to see like Maxi's playing good. The Sixers can still potentially make another move and add even more talent but I don't know like it's worked so well with the core they have right now I think that's going to be a delicate balance for them the one thing I come back to Amina and you know the slander's coming it's the Philadelphia 76ers and so they are always primed for a second round exit maybe this year will be a little bit different maybe they'll wait to the conference finals but I just am not scared enough yet of them I've got my panic meter at a five you know it's kind of in the middle there I'm watching what Embiid's doing but I need to see just a little bit more before I'm ready to fully worry about that am I wrong to be this low on the panic meter with the I feel like a worry ward because I'm looking at the Sixers team I'm like maybe like a seven-eight just off of the way that they're playing right now Joy would be playing at an MVP level Tyrese Maxi finding his rhythm out there on the court offensively so I'd say probably a seven or eight with the Sixers but then again I do agree with you in terms of the fact that they haven't been able to get over that home so if that's the one thing that's holding me back with that Sixers team I think you've been listening to a little bit too much of the producers around here who might have to fill it up your ties but moving on to a team that I am genuinely concerned about at number two we have the Milwaukee Bucks so we know like it's a little weird what's going on firing a coach who has the second best record in basketball to bring in Doc Rivers who you know we hear the story his body was an advisor and then they were like well this isn't going quite the way we thought so let's just put them right in as the head coach we all know here what doc can do but he has his own troubles right like every other place he's been with the Clippers and the Sixers he hasn't been able to get over that hump in the playoffs so there's still some question marks about how this will work the one thing I keep coming back to is is doc playing defense because that's what the Milwaukee Bucks need to do in order to get to a new level and certainly whatever Adrian Griffin's message wasn't getting through fully to them and they were there was concern about them underperforming I just don't know how much doc midstream can change that but he will have immediate buy-in because he's been there he's worked with stars he knows how this works I'm just I don't know if he can save them from themselves with the way the defense has played this season I'd say my my concern meter is about a seven with the Milwaukee Bucks I feel like they've made that change at least with them being number two in the east right now because they wanted a more experienced coach especially when you have Dame Lillard and obviously Giannis Hanna de Cumpo on that roster now it changed from okay we want to be a good team this year a bridge year to a team where it's like oh we might have a chance to go to the conference finals and get over that hump as well so I'm a I'm a little worried about that bucks team so I have it at a six I think we're pretty much in lockstep here it's you're adding a little bit of volatility by changing the coach but I'm eager to see all end of the day talent usually wins out but they got to play defense they got to be better right now 21st in defensive rating I don't have a lot of confidence in that in the playoffs if they don't find a way to shore that up now number one maybe you'll be a little bit surprised at this but I'm putting the Miami there they've been frogged in the chris boysburg fear rankings which for the longest time has been in the box in the fear rank but this is what happens when you add scary terry so terry rosier friend of the program if you still love him on celtic's post if we miss you terry he's going to bring a little bit of something on both ends of the court I would go so far amina as to say that this is a better trade for them than the trade potentially over the summer to add damien lillard I know that sounds crazy but they would have to give up a huge haul in order to get him mortgage a little bit of the future in this trade they're only giving up a future first round pick which really if the if the heat remain competitive should just be a late first rounder and you're adding a guy who can actually play on both ends like terry is an underrated defender and we know what he's going to do he's going to infuse a little bit of extra offensive firepower for a team that really needs it and he wants to be there and he's motivated and he's already got a deal and he's not 34 years old or whatever damien lillard is so I do think like this could work out really well for them same deal we got to see it but once jimmy butler wakes up from hibernation and decides to go into playoff mode like this could be real bad news for everybody else in the east this is why they are tops on my panic meter still seven you know still a seven that's really good i'm not gonna get over sounds like it's not really good but we say this every single year in the post season we're like where did the miami heat come from they are our number eight right now on my concern me especially when you add scary terry to the mix i told you didn't i tell you on social media kaolari on following his teammates i just knew i just knew fordberg it was gonna come bust at some point i didn't know it was gonna be like 24 hours later though we all knew that eventually the heat we're gonna do something it's still i can't believe that i will when i saw them thing i'm like oh my god they literally got scary terry this is terrible for us yeah and so i can't wait for thursday night we're gonna talk about that later but it's gonna be a lot of fun seeing him on the other side and adding a little bit to this match up the heat man cockroaches yeah they just never never go away a lot there a lot of things happening around the mba in the last 48 hours