The Celtics secured a staggering 51-point triumph with a scoreline of 155-104 against the Indiana Pacers, marking the highest point tally for Boston since 1959 and maintaining their perfect start at 4-0. The question on everyone's mind now is, when will the Celtics face their first defeat? CLNS Media analysts Bobby Manning and Josue Pavon delve into the discussion of just how extensive the Celtics' winning streak might become.
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00:05 Hey, Bobby Manning here.
00:08 Welcome to the Garden Report after the Celtics.
00:11 Beat the brakes off the Pacers, damn it.
00:14 155-104.
00:15 We talked about it a little bit on postgame, we talked about it after the game as Geno
00:19 Thompson started playing and all the rest.
00:21 This was the first time, as much as the comparison's been a little overplayed, almost cliche to
00:26 this point.
00:27 This was a 2008 kind of night where you were just miles ahead of this team that's pretty
00:32 good in the Pacers, even without Tyrese Halliburton.
00:36 The game's over halfway through the third quarter and the bench guys are racing up and
00:41 down the floor scoring.
00:43 It's just absolute domination.
00:45 This is the kind of team we're looking at right now.
00:46 A starting lineup that's, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but over 30 points
00:51 for 100 possessions, better than their opponents, and a dominant win margin through four games.
00:58 Yeah, I certainly had that vibe.
01:00 You talked about that in the fourth quarter.
01:01 You're like, "Oh, so is this what it was like?"
01:03 I'm like, "Something like that."
01:04 The starters watching from the fourth quarter on and cheering on the bench crew.
01:08 That's exactly what you saw in this game, right?
01:10 Especially in the last six minutes.
01:12 These guys are on their feet as if it's a two-point game, especially Al Horford just
01:15 cheering on, what was this, Hauser's three-pointers.
01:18 He almost caught that ridiculous reverse, which would have been crazy.
01:22 He certainly would have made it a sports center if he converted.
01:25 That's what you want to see.
01:26 That's what a team looks like, especially a team that's competing at a high level and
01:31 is on pace to potentially win a championship.
01:34 These are the beginning stages.
01:36 At the same time, yes, you don't want to get too excited.
01:38 It's week two of the regular season.
01:40 There are four in all.
01:42 They still got, what, 78 more games to go.
01:44 You see what this offense looks like compared to what it was last year.
01:49 It's like night and day.
01:51 It's easy to get excited.
01:52 It's easy to look ahead and say, "Which team is going to hand this Celtics team their first
01:57 L?"
01:58 But like Joe Mazzuola did after this game, right?
02:00 Brought everyone back down to earth in a sense of saying, "It's still a long way to go."
02:03 Finding that consistency and seeing what happened tonight is obviously a step in the right direction,
02:09 but it goes way beyond that.
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02:29 I feel like they've answered so many questions, too.
02:30 Are they going to post up more, create more flexibility in the offense?
02:33 And they've done that.
02:34 A bunch of that tonight as well.
02:36 Mid-range shots.
02:38 They're finding the mismatches.
02:39 The passing's been great.
02:40 They've used the point guards in late game offense, and they've been great in the clutch,
02:44 which obviously didn't happen tonight.
02:45 It wasn't necessary, but they've done it pretty much all.
02:49 Defensively, they're sharp.
02:50 Through the first three quarters, it's 27 or less each quarter here.
02:54 They held the pacers to 17 in the third.
02:56 So they're checking every box.
02:58 And you see the opponents coming up.
03:00 It's the Nets and the Sixers a couple of times who just offloaded James Harden.
03:05 It's tough to imagine a loss coming any time soon.
03:08 Obviously, they started 21-5 last year.
03:11 This could be, keep tossing around 2008, but this could be a 2009-style start here where
03:16 they were something in two, right?
03:18 Yeah, I mean, what was it?
03:19 19-3, I think it was?
03:21 Maybe it was 21-4, something like that.
03:23 I might be a little off.
03:24 Actually, I want to say it was even, but I might be confusing myself with the '09 team,
03:29 which believe it or not-
03:30 The '09 team we're talking about.
03:31 Oh, you're talking about the championship.
03:32 Okay, gotcha.
03:33 They got off to a better start than the championship team in the rest of its history.
03:37 Kevin Garnett got hurt.
03:38 So what's going to challenge this team?
03:39 What's going to push their back against the wall and actually force them to overcome some
03:44 adversity here?
03:45 Well, Philadelphia is an interesting one.
03:47 You think about what NB does and the sort of problems that he presents for his Celtics
03:52 team, but I can't wait to see what they look like.
03:53 I mean, preseason is a completely different sense of where this team is and then where
03:59 they are now.
04:00 I can't wait for that matchup.
04:01 But to answer your question, I can see them going down a similar path, whether it's compared
04:05 to last year with that quick start or even something better than that because of how
04:10 explosive this offense is.
04:11 I mean, it's just really hard to defend and I can't even on paper envision some of these
04:16 what, next four or five teams getting the best out of the Celtics.
04:21 Yeah, Minnesota's mixed in there too.
04:22 Philly is the one I want to see too.
04:24 Philly's the most interesting one.
04:25 Because indeed against Porzingis, the Celtics keep playing small.
04:28 It looks like they're going to stay that way.
04:29 Maxi is off to a great start on the season, but he tends to struggle against the Celtics
04:32 often.
04:33 So you wonder what that's going to look like.
04:34 But yeah, I mean, look, you wonder what that looks like because of the D&B factor.
04:38 But I mean, if you're seeing what we've been watching the last couple of weeks, you're
04:41 also thinking about, well, how is their backcourt going to handle Derek White and Drew Holliday?
04:45 I mean, it's just a completely different looking backcourt, even though Derek White was part
04:50 of this team last season.
04:51 He's just on a whole nother level in terms of his focus and what he's doing offensively.
04:55 Celtics win this one by 51, a ridiculous sum here.
04:59 A dominant performance, one of the most dominant I've seen on the beat.
05:03 This one blew me away.
05:04 I agree.
05:05 Same.
05:06 The adversity or just short-handed lineup could come as soon as Saturday, though.
05:08 Derek White expecting a child at some point over the next week or so here.
05:12 So maybe he's out Saturday.
05:14 Maybe he's not out at all.
05:15 A couple off days here.
05:16 Practice as well tomorrow.
05:17 And we'll have coverage of that.
05:18 We'll be in New York, Joe Sway and I. I don't know if we'll have a similar man on the street
05:22 type situation at Barclays Center.
05:24 We'll see what Brooklyn's like.
05:25 We'll see what it looks like.
05:26 Philly, certainly, heading down there for the second half.
05:29 Sixers fans won't disappoint.
05:31 Yeah, I'm going to-- yeah, we'll be ready for that.
05:33 All right, Joe Sway for Bowling Body Manning Celtics.
05:36 Unload on the Pacers here.
05:38 155-104.
05:39 And we'll have more coverage of this one on Celtics All Access, CNS Media, before we check
05:44 out the postgame show tonight.
05:46 Saturday, next game against the Nets.
05:48 Talk to you then.
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