Jones & Keefe: Now may be the time to start worrying about the Celtics

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00:00Alright guys, they're just bored. It's January, they're bored.

00:02They were used to high stakes games last year in the playoffs and they're bored.

00:05I can subscribe to that for a few.

00:08Like a couple here and there. Like I said, if they had won seven in a row and then lost to the same bad Raptors team,

00:14I would have been like, alright, whatever.

00:15You know, not ideal, but it's a loss, you move on.

00:18But they've alternated wins and losses now for two weeks.

00:21Yeah.

00:22And when it comes to the team, okay fine, maybe they are just bored.

00:26Is that a good quality? Like just stop with that.

00:29It's a good quality that your team got bored?

00:31Yeah.

00:31Like I said before the year, they should go for 66 wins.

00:35They should go for a franchise record and win.

00:3766 meaning what Garnett did, Garnett and Pierce, their first year together in OE.

00:41More wins than they did last year.

00:43They should give themselves an artificial goal like that to stay locked in.

00:47And, I don't know, let's say they are bored.

00:50That's not the best quality.

00:51That is human nature, but that's not the best quality.

00:55And it proves or underscores to me that something is going on.

00:59Can they pull out of it? Maybe.

01:00Can they flip the switch? We'll see.

01:02But in the meantime, something is off.

01:05And boredom, to me, would be problematic.

01:08You've got to find a way to stay locked in.

01:10Yeah, not every team can do that, kind of be bored through the regular season

01:15and then all of a sudden rip it in the playoffs.

01:17And I still think this is going to be the team that breaks the streak

01:21of not winning back-to-back titles in the NBA.

01:24But I'm sure the same conversations were going on the year after the title

01:27in Denver and Milwaukee.

01:28You're like, well, yeah, they're not really kicking ass right now.

01:32Like, Jokic and Giannis were great, but the teams weren't great.

01:35And then you're like, well, they'll just turn it on in the playoffs.

01:37Those teams did not turn it on in the playoffs.

01:39I bet that's exactly what I said.

01:40I bet if you could go back and find any conversation we had about Denver,

01:43I bet I said exactly that about Denver a year ago.

01:46I thought they were going to face Denver in the finals.

01:48And they didn't.

01:50So, let's see with this team.

01:52I also still think they're going to win.

01:54I still think they're the most talented team.

01:55Talent wins out.

01:56But you can't keep playing like this for two or three more months.

02:00They need to nip this in the bud.

02:02You need to straighten things out.

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