Jones & Keefe: Do the Celtics NEED Kristaps Porzingis to win the NBA Finals?

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00:00If you feel like you need Porzingis, that's a dangerous way to play.

00:03Right, right, right.

00:03Because I don't know that you're going to have him.

00:05Do you think they need him to win this year?

00:07I still don't think they need him to win this year.

00:09And maybe that speaks to the other teams that are out there.

00:12And we hit on it briefly yesterday when Terp was in.

00:15You know, I like Cleveland.

00:16I don't love Cleveland.

00:17Like, you like New York.

00:18You can't really love New York.

00:19Like, you go through, maybe in the West, maybe that's different.

00:22Maybe if you get a healthy team this year out of the West,

00:23whether it's Oklahoma City or Denver, maybe then you need Porzingis.

00:28But I'm with you.

00:29Every time we talk about this team and project them out,

00:32I never assume you're going to have him.

00:33And then if you do have him, great.

00:36Like, I feel like that's almost like piling on.

00:38Not only are there no excuses, but that's when maybe a six-game series

00:42becomes a five-game series, or a five-game series becomes a sweep.

00:45Like, when you have him, you can see how different they are.

00:49I mean, he's obviously a very unique player himself.

00:51But then when you add and subtract him to the lineup,

00:54they look a lot different.

00:55And that's the best they can be.

00:57I know they've had plenty of games with him where they've lost.

01:00They've had their whole lineup and they've lost.

01:03But when everything's cooking just right, like,

01:05that's the best team that they can have.