the finals are tied at one game apiece after the
Warriors took game two in the bay on sunday and
Steph curry led the way with 29 points, six
rebounds and four assists while Jordan Poole added 17 points
off the bench. So sean, what was your
biggest takeaway from the game there last night? I
have a few but let's start on the Celtics side
. I think I was there last night in san
Francisco at chase center and just early on you could
tell it was really the Jaylen Brown jayson tatum show
they were going back and forth, they were scoring
at a high level that first half and Jaylen Brown
got into some foul trouble. But to me they
kind of reverted back to how they were playing early
in the season, taking turns, they didn't get
much production throughout the rest of the supporting cast market
Smart Al Horford both combined to go two for 10
from the field and that's just not gonna cut it
if your boss and you have found an identity of
all these guys playing well together. And I think
they went back to kind of playing, they relied
really heavily on the two big guns in terms of
Jaylen Brown and jayson Tatum and on the other side
in Golden state. Yes, Steph curry was great
Draymond Green, you knew he wasn't gonna have another
, you know, subpar performance, Jordan Poole brought
a spark off the bench. But to me,
the guy that really changed the complexion of the game
was Gary Payton the second, the way he came
in and defended, he's playing, you, you
can tell him kind of a bum left elbow,
but he's gutting it out. He made it three
from the corner, just the way it impacts the
game, from a physicality standpoint, competitiveness, standpoint
, his his presence, although it might not have
shown completely on the stat sheet, it was definitely
palatable being there at the arena last night. I
think two things that stand out to me about this
game is number one is the thing that we talked
about all the time when we talk about the Golden
State Warriors is the fact that they can score and
runs. And and even when boston started to get
a lead early on, you never count the warriors
out and we saw exactly what can happen where as
they start to go into halftime all of a sudden
it's a different game than it was early on the
first quarter, in, midway through the second quarter
. The other thing that comes to mind is Draymond
Green and what he is able to do in terms
of being an agitator and how he plays those mind
games. He looked to me like he had the
Celtics shook just from the way that he was behaving
And I think mentally that does something to you whether
or not it has a legitimate effect on the game
, when that guy is out there playing his little
tricks on everybody, it makes you play differently.
And so I think for the Celtics is a good
time for them to regroup. They have to bring
that energy that we saw, uh, you know
, basically midway until the second quarter, and what
we saw at the end of game one.