The Annual Boston Celtics Awards Show (and a quick East Play-In recap)

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The Boston Celtics 2023-2024 regular season has come to an end, and it's time to hand out some of the industry's most prestigious awards. Who will win the Blake Griffin Award for "Most Vibiest Player"? What about the coveted Marcus Smart "No, No, Yes!" Award? These awards can absolutely cement a player's Hall of Fame eligibility, so there's a lot on the line!   0:00 Intro 1:00 Play-In Recap 12:50 Celtics Awards show  Please LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE to the channel!   Check out this week's underrated plays vid: https://youtu.be/aiSOMrMsX1k ️Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/first-to-the-floor-a-boston-celtics-podcast/id1351038879 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firsttothefloor18/ Watch live Celtics games with us: https://playback.tv/celticsblog Check out Spooney's latest column on CelticsBlog: https://bit.ly/3UCITHv  JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER: https://discord.gg/H75UWjmtya Buy our MERCH, Support the show!: https://bit.ly/fttfmerch  #bostonceltics #celtics #postgame #firsttothefloor #jaysontatum #jaylenbrown #nba

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00:00 [Music]

00:22 Welcome in to another episode of First to the Floor. Ben Ballas here. Thank you for joining us.

00:26 Hope you're doing well. The sixth-ish Boston Celtics annual awards show is coming up in about

00:31 five or ten minutes, but first we would be remiss not to discuss all the play in action of the past

00:36 24 hours. Wayne Spooney and Jake Eisenberger joining me to do just that. How's it going,

00:41 guys? Welcome. Living the dream, dude. Playing basketball. What's better than that? Just

00:48 touching wood. Things are looking good. If I was going to say myself. Rhyming out of the

00:54 f*cking building. I know. Great start. Things are looking good though. Things have broken

00:59 so far. Touch wood. The way of the Celtics in that the Sixers, they beat the Miami Heat. The Heat

01:07 lose in a kind of surprising fashion because it was a dog's breakfast of a game to begin with

01:12 Spooney. I do believe maybe we could start here. We've got a clip from the playback of you guys

01:17 reacting to one Tobias Harris. Let's kick off with this one. Come on, cook him. It's a nice move.

01:26 You got Tobias? Big boy. Oh, you're kidding. You're kidding.

01:31 Anyway, the Sixers going to win that game. That display from Tobias Harris.

01:45 And then obviously Jimmy Butler with the MCL injury. He's going to be out for at least a

01:49 couple of weeks here, which makes things interesting for this next play in game and

01:54 what happens next for the Celtics round one opponent. So guys, just general takeaways

01:59 from this game before we get into the awards. Dog shit. Yeah, disgusting. It's like one of

02:05 the most disgusting games I've seen. All the other play in games were like normal basketball games

02:10 and unsurprisingly the devil Miami Heat turned the 76ers who had won eight games in a row

02:16 into like CTE ball, like maxi worst game he's had in a month. Embiid who's looked good.

02:24 They completely just reverted him to all the bad habits and we were like, okay, well, it's like,

02:30 this is actually good. We kind of changed our minds throughout the game several times. Like,

02:34 okay, maybe if this is what the Sixers look like, this is who we want. And then the Sixers did

02:39 figure it out like in the second half. I'm like, no, I think we actually do want the heat. If you

02:43 can just like repel the magic for a little bit, there's only so much they can damage. They can

02:48 really do. And then, I mean, you never want to see injuries, but you know, Jimmy Butler, then

02:56 the heat losing and then Jimmy Butler's being injured as I fall into the eight seed play in

03:05 game. I mean, it's tough to say. Yeah. So look, if the heat had a good coach,

03:13 they would have taken them out of the zone after Philly figured it out in the second half.

03:17 You know, Joe Missoula haters take note, even the best coach in the league sometimes just has

03:23 absolutely no answers. But good God, that was horrible, terrible, disgusting basketball.

03:31 But that's what the heat do to people. They do it to everyone. They can't score and they junky up.

03:36 And I mean, yeah, I just like I'm not even sure what we watched like that. Tobias Harris clip

03:43 is like just like uncut, raw Sixers heat play in game right there. That's basically what that

03:51 entire game was like. It was so bad, so terrible. And I'm not scared of either of those teams,

03:57 but it's not going to matter because we're playing the bulls. I called it weeks ago when

04:01 we did Lizard Brain takes. I was like, we are playing the bulls. I've been on that. I like

04:05 that bulls team. They're pretty good. They can actually score unlike the heat. So I just like,

04:12 I don't know, like is Embiid like he looked exhausted like in the first quarter. I mean,

04:19 he was like barely running up and down the court and then Butler's get he was hurt.

04:25 He's going to be hurt. So the heat have basically nothing without Jimmy Butler.

04:30 Bam took nine shots. It's ridiculous in a do or die game. Your other all star takes nine shots.

04:36 Yeah, things are breaking pretty nicely. And I actually would rather play the bulls than the

04:43 heat, even though the heat looked terrible. Yeah. You know, devil. Yeah, I agree.

04:46 I kept doing and throwing on who my preferred matchup would be throughout the game. Like both

04:52 teams took so many turns at looking like absolute dog shit that I continued to change my mind.

04:57 But if it doesn't being the heat, it looks like we're probably getting the lesser healthy of

05:02 those two teams. And obviously that's advantage Celtics in that particular case, as much as we

05:06 don't wish injury upon anyone, including people from the Miami heat, as much as we hate them.

05:11 It's really unfortunate to see that from Jimmy Butler's perspective. But obviously that falls

05:17 into the advantage of the Celtics and that we get a lesser health, a healthy of those two teams.

05:21 But it looks like Caruso, he's going to be back for the bulls who beat the Hawks again yesterday

05:26 in game two of those playing games. The bulls at this stage look like the stronger of the two

05:30 teams with Butler injured. I just want to say it's important to note as well. So where the

05:36 Sixers game turned was they have the promotion for the free chicken. If you use two for free,

05:44 they call it bricking for chicken. And this is very important. Caleb Martin is at the free throw

05:53 line. He misses two free throws and I shit you not, that completely changed the game. The crowd

06:00 was booing the team. The fans had turned on the team. This is what happens in Philly. It's a

06:06 self-fulfilling prophecy. The players are scared. They play scared. They play bad. The fans are

06:12 scared. They start booing that at least the players being more scared. And that's what was

06:15 happening. Caleb Martin bricks two free throws. Crowd goes nuts. Sixers go on a run and then French

06:21 Al Horford or French Derek White goes nuts for the rest of the game. Nicholas Batum, when I was

06:28 watching the Sixers stream afterwards, I actually went back and watched the whole game on the

06:32 Uniball stream because I had to just go through all the emotions with them. And Sam Shee and

06:37 Celtics Twitter guy was like, he's French Al Horford. And all the Sixers people were like,

06:41 no, he can't be French Al Horford because he was so bad for us. We'll accept French Derek White.

06:46 I was just, there's just so many subplots here, but yeah, that's what happens when you make a

06:50 deal with the devil, Caleb Martin and Pat Riley. It comes back to bite you eventually.

06:54 You do have to pay that debt back eventually, but just a wild game of subpar play in basketball

07:02 where none of the four teams looked particularly good. And if you're a Celtics fan or the Celtics

07:07 themselves, you're sitting back feeling pretty good about who the eventual first round matchup

07:12 might be. Now we do have a live podcast coming up with Dan Greenberg, AKA Stool Greenie of Barstool

07:18 Sports, Saturday night live here on YouTube at 8pm East, where we'll be previewing what will

07:23 finally then be the eventuated first round matchup. We'll finally know, but I guess what we're saying

07:27 here is that the Celtics are going to be likely supremely better than whoever they end up facing

07:32 in that first round from what's been on display from this playing tournament so far. Anything

07:37 else from the playing games guys that you want to get to before we get into these awards?

07:40 So can I just say real quick on the Jimmy Butler injury? That's why you avoid the playing game,

07:47 because shit happens when you play extra games as there was a double Jake in there real quick.

07:55 Should I just log out? We'll get two Jakes in here.

07:59 But like, that's why you want to avoid the playing game. That's why the regular season

08:05 matters. You dick around like Butler plays 50 something games or whatever. They don't

08:09 give a shit for the regular season. We'll just sneak our way into the seven or eight seat. It's

08:13 not a big deal. Well, guess what? You play an extra game. Jimmy Butler gets hurt and your season's

08:17 probably over. So like, that's why it matters. That's why you should try. And that's why you

08:22 should win the conference by 14 games. Easy to. Yeah. Now, I'm pretty sure I haven't checked the

08:30 odds recently, like in the last few hours, but I think that Nick Sixes has opened up. It's pretty

08:34 much a pick them both close to 50/50 odds there. I'm picking the Knicks all day on that one, just

08:41 based alone on how dodgy Joel Embiid's knee looked and his conditioning looked in that first game.

08:48 You don't really anticipate getting any better on that front in the next week or so going up

08:53 against the Knicks team where essentially all their starters are going to be playing 48 minutes

08:57 apiece and just going hardcore at Joel Embiid. You know, Brunson and Mitchell Robinson pick and

09:03 roll. Just put Joel Embiid in that action all night and just exhaust the shit out of him. It

09:08 seems like an obvious approach and will be to the detriment of the Sixers in my opinion. Who are you

09:13 guys picking in that series? Yeah, Jack Simone in front of the pod here about themselves is freaking

09:18 out about the Sixers being favored here. I don't think it's crazy, dude. Like, Jalen Brunson,

09:25 great season, going to win first team All-NBA over Jason Tatum, it looks like, and it's going to be

09:29 an abomination. The gap in the best player in that series, I guess, Embiid didn't look awesome there.

09:35 The Knicks just smell to me like the regular season team really, really badly. Nick Nurse,

09:43 I think if you just cook up a scheme to slow down Brunson for a playoff series,

09:48 I think you can, like, they have no other creation outside of him and that's where you start to miss

09:52 Randall. And I don't know, man, I'm probably going to lean Sixers. The two days off between

09:59 games, a couple of the games, like two days off between that game against the Heat and game one,

10:03 like, there's a chance he just kind of gets stronger as time goes along as well.

10:08 Didn't he have six games off after playing, was it Orlando? It's not like that time did him

10:15 particularly well. Sorry to cut you off, Spoonie, but like in the short term, you know, last couple

10:20 of weeks, it's not like the rest is not in beta any good. He was good in the fourth quarter.

10:24 Just saying that's true. He was good in the fourth quarter. He made some threes, which is like,

10:28 you can kind of do that a little bit tired, but he's looked like pretty good other than the playing

10:33 game. I think that was by far his worst game since he's come back and it's against Miami.

10:39 Like, that's what they do to star players. That's what happens. Like, I don't think the Knicks can

10:43 really do that to them. I so Jake put in check this out on our discord. Jake put in like a bracket

10:49 picker. I have, I think Nixon seven. I think it's going to be a really tight series, but if

10:55 Embiid was like a hundred percent healthy, I think it's six years in a wash. But because he is not,

11:01 I do think the Knicks have the slight advantage, but it being a pick them does not surprise me at

11:05 all. Like the Knicks are the most try hard regular season team we've ever witnessed. Like the

11:11 difference between their half court offense and their total offense is the largest in the league,

11:15 right? So their transition, turn you over offensive rebate, all the that doesn't translate to the

11:20 playoffs is what the Knicks do. They play their starters 40 minutes a night. Other teams will

11:26 finally start doing that in the playoffs. So that advantage is gone. They play harder than everybody

11:30 else. That advantage has gone in the playoffs. So I do think that their ceiling is not really,

11:36 it's not nearly as high as the Sixers, but like, it's like waltzing up the court at times in a do

11:43 or die play in game. Would you want to avoid the Celtics? So he's obviously not got it a hundred

11:47 percent. So I do think the Knicks will win, but I think it's going to be much closer than, than

11:53 our friend, Jack Simone. Thanks. I don't know how many all time Nicholas Batum games. The Sixers

11:58 are going to get in this, this first round series against the Knicks. He's good. He's more than

12:02 capable of showing. He's good. He's so underrated, dude. I was reading Mavs Twitter and they were

12:07 in like, as they were watching the game, cause like they had those Clippers series, Mavs Clippers

12:12 and they were like legitimately like, they don't people don't understand that Nick Batum not being

12:17 in this matchup is a really big deal. It's like, okay, I think he's one of those guys that like,

12:21 you don't know until you know. So I guess we'll see. I'm telling you, there's going to be more,

12:30 more Nick Batum games to come. You heard it here. Yeah. All right. Looking forward to seeing that

12:35 and whatever else eventuates in the first round. And meanwhile, the Celtics successfully on the

12:40 other side of the bracket there from the Sixers, but we'll talk more about that. And that first

12:44 round matchup with Greeny in a couple of nights time again, live Saturday night, 8:00 PM here on

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13:03 the CLNS network for presenting this show. All right, guys, let's get into the awards.

13:16 That's right. It's that time of year again. It's time for the sixth annual first of the floor,

13:24 Boston Celtics awards. Thanks to everyone who voted on the awards this year, especially everyone

13:28 in our discord, which if you want to join the links are in the description below, along with

13:32 various other ways you can support the show or become more involved with the first of the floor

13:36 podcast. Now, obviously the outcome of these awards can sway the probability of a player's

13:41 hall of fame eligibility along with their overall prestige of their legacy. So this is really

13:45 important stuff. Jake, Spoonie, any opening thoughts on the awards before we get going?

13:50 I think everybody that was nominated should go home feeling proud. And everybody that wasn't

13:56 nominated should go home feeling proud. Like this is, this is tough to crack these awards. You know,

14:02 Leonardo DiCaprio didn't win, you know, how many Oscars for some incredible films and eventually

14:08 he snuck in for Revenant. So I would just, I would just suggest to all contestants to not feel too

14:12 bad if they don't go home with anything. Yeah. Hey, look, it's award season in basketball,

14:18 and these are by far the most important awards in NBA award season. So yeah, like, look, it's

14:24 going to be a lot of fun. We're going to enjoy it. I'm sorry for the losers. It took Scorsese

14:29 a long time too. But yeah, let's get into it. Well, let's start off. We've got the Avery Bradley

14:37 Award for most improved player, the nominees for which are Peyton Pritchard, Sam Hauser, Derek

14:44 White, and Jalen Brown. And without any further ado, let's announce the winner here. The winner

14:50 of this very prestigious award as I scroll and look for the video is... It's Peyton Pritchard!

14:58 Congratulations Peyton Pritchard as he approaches the stage. He won by a massive amount, getting 58.1%

15:05 of the votes for most improved player and quite an improvement on last season. Plus nine minutes

15:11 per game. He went from 5.6 to 9.6 points per game. Three point accuracy is up. Assists per game are

15:18 up. Rebounds, steals are up. Turnovers down. His net rating, guys, went from plus 1.4 to plus 13.6

15:27 and his assist to turnover ratio went from 1.6 to 4.6 all within the breadth of a single season.

15:34 An incredible MIP and well-worthy MIP award there for Peyton Pritchard, guys.

15:40 I just want to note we had nearly 200 responses for these awards. So firstly, shout out everybody

15:47 that voted. Good call. Good call. Like, I mean, a landslide in how many votes we've had

15:53 in years past, I'm guessing. And so yeah, Peyton Pritchard takes on 58%

15:57 of the vote here. I mean, you can't go wrong with Peyton Pritchard. Not my vote, but yeah,

16:02 Peyton took an obvious leap kind of across the board here. The playmaking was something that I

16:08 didn't quite see coming. He didn't even have an awesome shooting season, which I think speaks to

16:12 how much he actually did improve because, you know, he was below 40% on the year and if you

16:17 would have told me that before the season, I would have said that's actually kind of a disappointing

16:21 season for Pritchard from what we're expecting. But he improved playmaking, shot creation,

16:27 defensively rebounding across the board, just overall impact, confidence. Shout out little P.

16:32 Yeah, I mean, like, so this is not a maxi MIP candidacy where it's like, hey, he just got more

16:40 shots. He just got more opportunities. He just got more minutes. Like, this is legitimate improvement.

16:45 He got more minutes. He got more shots, but his assist to turnover ratio,

16:49 career high, his assist percentage, second best ever, his rebounding percentage because he's a

16:56 sneaky little rebounder like that's his best ever. So not only did he like get more minutes,

17:02 but everything scaled up with him and improved career high and true shooting percentage.

17:08 Massive, massive Peyton Pritchard season. Welcome, Mary.

17:18 So like he just he just added dimensions to his game, which I think is the important thing. It's

17:24 like skill improvement more than just the stats. Like he just looked a lot more comfortable driving

17:28 to the rim, finishing around the rim, gnashing, making plays, operating the offense and the

17:34 shooting. Yeah, you're you're right, Jake. Like he wasn't shooting lights out over 40 percent,

17:39 but thirty eight and a half percent on some of the threes he takes is very, very good.

17:43 So he's got the shooting weapon. You got to defend him for that. And he uses that as a tool

17:47 to get himself into the paint. And he said some highlights, man. He's saucing people like he

17:52 took Patrick Baldwin's lunch money in that Wizards game with those crossovers and that

17:58 spin move to the layup. So shout out, PP. Great season. We'll always have March and April,

18:04 PP. What an incredible, incredible stretch of the season and keeping us locked in,

18:08 engaged and entertained after everything was well and truly wrapped up as we move on to

18:13 the Jordan Crawford MVP Award, the nominees for which are Jason Tatum, Derek White,

18:19 Chris Stabs, Porzingis and Jaylen Brown. The winner is.

18:23 Congratulations, Jason Tatum, as he approaches the stage to collect the six annual Jordan Crawford

18:38 MVP. He's there. Nick Cage is there. It's a who's who of a first of the floor six this annual

18:46 annual Boston Celtics Awards. Really, what a time to be alive as I try and kill this graphic here,

18:52 guys. Jason Tatum, obvious choice, best player on the best team. But I guess I'll ask you, Spoonie,

18:58 with such a stacked roster, how does one manage to stand out as the MVP across so much talent?

19:05 I don't average twenty seven, eight and five on like a plus true shooting percentage and elite

19:11 defense is a pretty good start, in my opinion, something Jalen Brunson has not done this year.

19:16 Yeah, I'm just picking a name out of a hat, another all star out of a hat, like maybe,

19:20 you know, elite defense probably fucking matters. But who am I to say? But look,

19:25 we solved the Jason Tatum sitting on the bench problem this year. We still had a massive net

19:31 rating when he was on the bench finally for once. But guess what? He still made us about three

19:37 points per 100 possessions better when he was on the court. So like you take a stacked roster

19:42 and then you add him and he makes it even better. He is a floor razor. He is a ceiling razor.

19:48 He is not bad at anything. And he is great about at just about everything in basketball. And that

19:55 is the makings of a superstar. And the three came back. He shot thirty seven and a half percent from

19:59 three man after we were flirting around with like the high thirty fives and stuff like that. The

20:03 pull up came back. He had an awesome season. I think the most important thing for me is he

20:08 understood how good his team was and he was willing to take a little step back and usage and field

20:14 goal attempts just a little bit and let you know and really play the best team basketball of his

20:20 entire career deserving MVP. I don't think there was any choice here, really any other choice.

20:25 Yeah, I'm proud of I'm proud of the voters for this one. Like I understand wanting to maybe go a

20:30 different direction. But when it comes down to it, Tatum is still the guy. And I think on this run,

20:36 we're going to see why he is that guy. And he's been incredible all year long. I thought it was

20:41 easily the best. It's crazy. It was it was easily the best year of his career for me. Like the fact

20:46 that three point shooting came back would have been like very high on our list of things you

20:50 wanted to see. The three point volume was still there. The pull up came back. The decision making,

20:54 though, assists up, turnovers down. Like that is something that's really important going to the

20:59 playoffs. It's like, can you can control what you can control in the playoffs and limiting turnovers

21:06 and making sure teams like someone like the Heat or the Magic or the Bulls that have issues

21:11 scoring the basketball in the half court against an elite defense. If you're not turning the ball

21:15 over, which Tatum's going to have the ball in his hands a lot playing 40 plus minutes.

21:18 He's making the right decisions, making the right play, getting off the ball,

21:22 letting the ball come back to him. Really important. I thought just like to quote the

21:26 great Ben Vallis, just a captain's knock all year long, leading, leading from top to bottom.

21:32 Yeah, I couldn't put it better myself. A real captain's knock of a season there for Jason Tatum

21:37 and adding the post-ops to his game. It's like adding a new stroke to your cricket batsman

21:43 repertoire, adding a nice cover drive to the repertoire there. That's right. The post-ops.

21:48 Yes. Spoonie is always in my ear about the cricketing references there. So good to finally

21:52 bring that onto the show. A consummate vibes man, I'll say, like really leading the pack in that

21:57 sense. You guys have kind of covered all of the on the court stuff, but just really a leader on and

22:03 off the court on all fronts and basically becoming a face of the NBA as well, just with his personality

22:09 on and off the court, too. He leads the team and usage rate 31.1 percent. His assist percentage

22:15 is in the 91st percentile league wide defensive rebound, rebounding percentage per cleaning the

22:20 glass in the 94th percentile. And yeah, you guys said it. You said it earlier, Spoonie.

22:25 We did a wish list podcast ahead of the season. And one of my wishes was could Jason Tatum get

22:30 his three point shooting up around that 97 to 98 percent mark? And he got his pull up threes alone

22:37 up to thirty seven point two percent and overall three point shooting again per cleaning the glass

22:40 up to thirty eight percent. I think it was down around thirty four percent last year. So getting

22:44 it up to that level and holding it there for the second half of the season bodes extremely well

22:49 heading into the playoffs as well. So and I would also add that he's one of the better defensive

22:53 players on the team as well, which does segue nicely into the next award, the Cobra Strike

22:59 Depois Award, the nominees for which are Jason Tatum, Derek White, Chris Stavs-Pulzingas,

23:06 Jalen Brown and Drew Holliday. Folks in the chat, let us know who you think is most deserving for

23:11 this award. Who's going to be the winner? Drumroll, please. It is Derek White. Derek White

23:20 is the winner. We do not have a fancy video. Oh, no. Do you have a little sound bite though?

23:25 There we go. Derek White, the winner by a huge margin, got sixty four point two percent of the

23:31 votes. Probably an easy winner of this award, although there are many worthy candidates,

23:37 which is what has made this team so dominant throughout the season, guys. But Derek White,

23:41 one hundredth percentile at his position in block percentage, which is probably a good way to kick

23:46 off the conversation. I close my eyes and see Derek White, you know, trailing a pick and roll

23:50 ball handler and getting up over the top of them and clipping the ball off their hands before they

23:54 get the shot off multiple times per game. He's an amazing person. He's an amazing basketball player.

24:00 And specifically, he is an amazing defender, Jake. He's done it. He's done it. Mr. White,

24:07 we'll send you this clip in the mail here. But it's, you know, great award, the Cobra Strike

24:13 Depoy Award, obviously in memory of Marcus Smart here. And no one quite Cobra Strikes in the same

24:21 way that Marcus Smart does. But, you know, obviously, depending on the interpretation

24:25 of this award, who is the best defender? I try to take it literally here. And Derek White,

24:32 you know, actually was third on the team in steals. Jalen with eighty three steals,

24:37 Tatum with seventy five, Derek with seventy four, Drew with sixty one. But Derek White,

24:42 eighty seven blocks, which is sixteenth in the NBA. That's absurd. Yeah. Yes. Total blocks.

24:50 Absurd. Isaiah Hartenstein, Avica Zubac, Jared Allen, Nerkic, Giannis, Jakob Pertl, Evan Mobley,

24:58 Jonathan Isaac, like Bam Adebayo, Embiid. Those are all players that Derek White had more

25:05 blocks than this year, which are absolutely absurd. And Spoonie, I'll let you go, but I've

25:11 got I've got a couple of my favorite Derek White block moments to run after you. All right. Well,

25:16 I'm not going to I'm not going to make a very good intro into that video because I voted for Drew

25:20 Holiday. Oh, yeah. And the reason I did is because I think he was asked to do a more difficult things

25:27 than Derek White was. Derek White was basically always on the point guard, which he's great at,

25:32 and we should be deploying him in that way. But Holiday, when we went zone was at the center of

25:37 that zone, basically acting like the quarterback. There was times he was guarding Embiid and did a

25:41 really good job. There's times he was guarding. Well, he got smoked by SGA, but everybody did

25:46 other than Tatum. But he just I think Drew Holiday defended a a larger variety of players. And I

25:54 think there's a lot of value to that. And he did a really good job. But obviously, Derek White's

25:58 amazing. He would have been my second pick. And like, yeah, like the lock and trail, like getting

26:04 around screens like the he doesn't miss a switch like he does not ever blow a switch, Derek White.

26:11 And that is so valuable and his stuff like it's hard to see when you're watching the game and

26:15 then you go back and like watch clips or, you know, we do our our underrated plays and it's

26:21 like always Derek White, like pointing and he's just never in the wrong. And that's super valuable

26:26 to have guys who are not only amazing on ball, but incredible off ball. So Derek White, great

26:31 defender. But I did vote for Drew Holiday. But, you know, spoiled for choice, really. Like you

26:37 could have easily voted for KP as well in his rim defense all season. Yeah, Tatum. Absolutely. I just

26:42 said is probably like maybe secretly, quietly the best overall defender on the team just in terms of

26:47 his versatility. Well, interestingly, so Derek White gets 64 percent of the vote here. The next

26:51 closest Jaylen Brown, 15.3 percent. And then Drew Holiday at 13 and Chris Tapps at 5.8 and Tatum at

26:59 1.5 percent here. And I wonder if that's part I wonder if partly is that that's the Cobra strike

27:05 element of of the award is he's not really a Cobra strike type guy. I would actually say he's like a

27:10 very drowsy when it comes to the Cobra strike type maneuvers. Not really. He's not really his forte.

27:16 But yeah, quite an interesting breakdown, I thought, because none of us really mentioned

27:20 Jaylen. I do think maybe and going back to the most improved thing, like he would Jaylen was my

27:25 vote and the defense was a massive part of that. His best defensive season of his career. But I

27:31 still think a very wide gap relative to what Derek White and Drew Holiday give you defensively

27:37 compared to their position. Yeah, maybe if we introduced a defensive MIP award, that's something

27:43 that Jaylen might be able to get up for next year. But yeah, you have me thinking that maybe we should

27:48 share our awards results after the show is done so everyone can get in there and see how close some of

27:53 the votes were and just how much some people ran away with these awards. Look, we've got plenty

27:57 more awards to get to. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Last bit. You want to play this clip? Yeah. Derek

28:03 White blocks. Enjoy this 41 seconds of my two favorite Derek White moments of the season.

28:09 Tatum dribble it off a foot. Nice pass ahead. And O'Neal shot blocked by White. Derek White

28:15 block, hustles back on defense. Don't even know how he got to that as Royce O'Neal tried to go

28:22 backwards to hold on to the wing. Long outlet for Butler. Swatted by White gets up the grabs,

28:31 Adebayo brings it down. Butler rejects it. Derek White the first guy there. Adebayo beats the shot

28:39 clock. Brown may have gotten away with a push off and Adebayo gets it from behind. Here comes Butler

28:45 the other way. Unreal. So I'm working on a full like Derek White blocks of the year video and I

28:58 just spent like all this morning, I watched every block of the season and I just sat there in

29:03 disbelief just shaking my head like how does he do any of this? So beautiful stuff. Chrome dome

29:10 Derek, who knew just how awesome he would be. Now look, we've got plenty more awards to get to but

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31:30 The Phil Pressey Award for We Didn't See You Much, But It Was Fun When We Did. The nominees are

31:37 Jordan Walsh, Delano Banton, Sfee Mihailuk, Jaden Springer, and Lamar Stevens. Remember that guy.

31:44 And the winner is... It is one...

31:47 Jordan Walsh! Jordan Walsh is the winner! We Didn't See You Much, But It Was Fun When We Did.

31:56 He really ran away with this award. 68.4% of the votes, Walshy. We knew we were going to love this

32:02 guy the moment he was drafted. Clearly, everyone who voted on these awards, all nearly 200 of them,

32:07 felt exactly the same way. Didn't see a lot of Jordan Walsh this season, Spoonie, but boy,

32:12 it was fun when we did. Well, I mean, look, so I came up with this award. I almost named it the

32:17 Jordan Walsh Award for We Didn't See You Much. Yeah, but look, we've talked about it a lot.

32:23 There's just something really fun about this athletic freak, second-round pick that you just

32:30 have no idea what he could be. And he just shows these weird flashes that are super fun. We've

32:36 done it on underrated plays, the greatest cuts we've ever seen in NBA history, one of the sweetest

32:43 free throw makes I've ever seen. I mean, it barely touched the bottom of the net. It was so smooth.

32:48 He missed the first one, but that's okay. We got room for improvement.

32:51 So Walsh, Walsh is really fun. He's like, he's got that like frantic energy on the defensive end

32:58 that I think can really translate like almost like a young Marcus smart, like that first year

33:05 of smart. It took him until the end of the season to really direct that energy in the right way.

33:09 And he was like going crazy against the calves in that first round playoff series that we got swept.

33:14 Walsh can be that guy, but he's six foot seven with a seven foot wingspan. He just like an

33:19 interesting prospect that we don't, we have no other prospects, right. So there's like extra

33:26 attention on them and it's just fun. We just want them to be successful. It's good. And the

33:30 gardens in on it too, which I think is the best part. Oh yeah. If I was going to, how many minutes

33:36 do you think Jordan Walsh played this year? If you had to guess. Not nearly enough. I'm pretty

33:40 funny at this. 75. Spirity has been on fire. So Ben take that with a grain of salt. There you go.

33:48 I'll say, I'll say 55. 83 gone over. Spirity has been on fire. He was one minute off the O'Shea

33:58 preset minute guess, which is 599 when he guessed 600. He has been cooking on minute guesses lately,

34:03 but yeah, I think he absolutely encapsulates the award. Didn't see you much 83 minutes for an

34:08 entire season, but when we did, it was absolutely electric. If, if Smeev Fehmahilick didn't have a

34:15 vendetta against Jordan Walsh, maybe we would have gotten a few more buckets from Jordan Walsh, but

34:21 yeah, this was, this was a no brainer. Yeah. Well runner up was Smeev Fehmahilick. I'm

34:26 surprisingly, maybe the most athletic 14th guy on the bench in the entire league. Just getting up

34:32 over head over the rim on multiple occasions for ridiculously. Sure. The preseason that he like

34:40 double pumped a reverse alley-oop attempt. And I fell in love from that moment onwards. It's been

34:45 amazing ever since. All right, let's get to the next one. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Sorry.

34:49 Who voted for Jaden Springer? Come on. People love Jaden Springer. All right. Fair enough.

35:00 He's sturdy. He's sturdy, man. All right. We're ready for the next award. The most

35:06 vibe-iest player award, the Blake Griffin award for most vibe-iest player. The nominees are Namius

35:12 Cater, Latvian Moses. This is one we allowed people to add their own nominations of Latvian

35:19 Moses, AKA Chris Zapsporzingis. Got a couple of nominations. Joe Jitsu, Chris Zapsporzingis,

35:25 O'Shea Brissett and Luke Cornett. And without any further ado, the winner of the Blake Griffin

35:31 most vibe-iest player award goes to Luke Cornett. Here we go. Big dog. The Eclipse.

35:39 The big Cornett. I don't know. I'm missing out on his nicknames. Big Bird. The Cornish Game Hen.

35:46 Cornish Game Hen. Thank you. Really being Cornett positive since the All-Star break.

35:52 I deserve an award for easily the most vibe-iest player on this roster in lieu of Blake Griffin,

35:59 who unfortunately and sadly retired from the game of basketball recently. Maybe we can get to some

36:04 Blake Griffin clips before we wrap this one up, guys. But Cornett, he's got the sellies. He's got

36:11 the amazing post-game interviews. He's got the lemon squares in the locker room, the corn hub.

36:15 Thanks, Troy, in the chat and Jamie D in the chat. He's just a consummate vibes man. I don't know.

36:19 What else can you say, Spoonie? Dude, he stole my heart as a massive nerd

36:26 who I tweeted about a fantasy series I'm about to finish and it feels like I'm going to dinner

36:31 with one of my best, like the last dinner. Like my best friend is moving away to Seattle

36:36 and it's like our last dinner before he leaves. And like, this is the last book of the fantasy

36:41 series. That's how I, when Luke Cornett was photographed with the Lord of the Rings on the

36:46 steps somewhere like Philadelphia or something. And it's like, this is just so goofy. It looks

36:52 ridiculous. He looks like a sophomore in college. He's trying to like look interesting to women or

36:58 something like that. You know, it's like I read, you want to go for coffee sometime,

37:02 but Cornett's got the deep quotes. He's got the, yeah, he's got the super deep quotes.

37:07 He, and like every interview, he's just got like that dry sense of humor, very Blake Griffin.

37:13 So love Cornett and he hooped the shit out of the ball this year. Like he absolutely hooped

37:21 starting like three, four months. Like he was terrible to start the season. Then he figured

37:26 it out. And that makes it that much more fun. My favorite moment from Cornett this year was

37:31 definitely the Pacers game in Indiana. The Celtics couldn't make a free throw to save their lives.

37:38 And Luke Cornett got fouled, went to the line, knocked one down and started doing the ice in

37:42 my vein celebration in the middle of doing three throws and actually turned, he turned the game.

37:47 He turned the free throw luck and that was incredible. But I mean, I voted for Chris

37:52 Haspelzingas and I think Luke, I thought he met expectations. I thought we kind of knew he was

37:59 a vibes man coming in and with Blake being gone, you know, that kind of Cornett's role at the end

38:04 of the bench there. But Chris Haspelzingas coming in and providing the level of vibes that he did

38:09 for everyone, both on court and off court, I think is actually low key, very important and

38:15 actually had impact on the overall success of the team. Like him coming in and becoming best

38:20 friends with Jalen, him, you know, going into the crowd and high-fiving dudes, like after he,

38:25 you know, has a block, like he legitimately, no one's ever had more fun in the span of six months

38:32 than Chris Haspelzingas has had since coming to Boston. Like the amount of winks per minute this

38:36 guy was averaging this season. Yeah. Yes. The Derek White kiss. Oh my God. Still jealous.

38:44 Yeah. I think, I think, I think KP for me, DJ Daniel in the chat here,

38:48 uh, has got my back on this one. So yeah, KP. It's the league in WPM.

38:52 Off the charts. Yeah. A hundred percent out in WPM. Uh, look, just while we're on the subject

38:58 of the most vibe-iest players, let's just get to this very quickly in memoriam of one Blake Griffin.

39:02 He gets one from White, now he gives it to White. Oh, yes! Yes!

39:08 That clip has been sitting dormant in our stream now for well over a year now. So very glad to be

39:20 able to click that button again. All right, let's get to the Marcus Smart No, No, Yes Award. The

39:25 nominees for which are Jalen Brown, Sfima Heilig, Xavier Tillman, and Drew Holiday. The winner is...

39:33 It's Drew Holiday! Winner of the No, No, Yes Award! Named after one Marcus Smart,

39:44 who used to chuck up his fair share of No, No, Yes shots. Drew Holiday. This is maybe a nod to

39:50 the Drew earlier in the season, who was still etching out his role in the team on both ends,

39:56 but obviously we're speaking offensively here. He would dribble down the court with so many

40:00 passing opportunities and options available to him and just chuck up ill-advised shot after

40:05 ill-advised shot. Obviously held a pretty decent percentage, which again, climbed as the season

40:10 went on as he found his role. But earlier on, he had his fair share of No, No, Yes shots. So he is

40:15 the winner of this award. There are some other runner-ups which we'll get to. Some pretty close

40:20 ones here. Some pretty notable names there in the list. But what do you guys think of the outcome

40:25 of this award? This is definitely one of the more split awards. And I think Drew Holiday's season

40:34 was almost like a No, No, Yes. It was like we had to go through the No, No, Yes early in the year.

40:40 And then we eventually figured out that it's a Yes, because on pull-up three-point shots this year,

40:47 39.3%. So of all players that took at least two three-point pull-ups per game this season,

40:55 Drew was sixth in the NBA in three-point percentage. Like that's just a straight up Yes.

41:01 And we just had to... We've got a lot of kind of emotional baggage when it comes to the pull-up

41:06 three in general. You add that to the Marcus Smart element. Like I think it makes sense that we were

41:10 struggling with it. But now when he takes them, I'm just like, yep. They're out of the... Look,

41:14 they still come out of rhythm sometimes, but pull-up threes that come out of rhythm that go in

41:20 are backbreaking for the opponent because there's nothing you can do to defend them. So if you feel

41:25 kind of helpless when they go in. So if you're going to knock them down at a high rate, then

41:29 take them, baby. Let's go. Okay. So Drew shot 43% for three... Yeah. Okay. I think you're right,

41:38 Ben. Early season Drew Holiday, we were like, what the hell's going on? And I think we had

41:43 compared Marcus Smart to him for so long that we just kind of convinced ourselves he was Marcus

41:49 Smart, but he's just such a much better shooter than Marcus Smart. I voted for Jalen because Jalen

41:54 took some insane threes. Like some of these pull-ups he was taking were nuts. And he would,

42:00 like when he was hot, he would bury them like those like weird, like, oh, he's crossed half

42:05 court and he takes like a jab step and then pulls up and then he would sink it from like 27 feet.

42:11 He still shot, Jalen still shot 35% on pull-ups this year, which is like totally fine. So

42:17 there's not a lot of guys on this roster that are no-no guys because everybody can make shots.

42:24 So I think this is a tough award, but I get it with Drew in some ways. But yeah, to your point,

42:30 Jake, like Drew just made kind of made too many shots to win this award. So that's why I voted

42:36 for Jalen Brown, because he did not make quite enough shots to be a known or rather just a

42:42 straight up. Now, I guess he's a no-no. Yes, guy in that way. Sorry, I'm losing it. Go ahead, please.

42:48 Everyone, it all turned out to be pretty well. Yes, yes, yes. By the end of the season,

42:53 everyone delivered on that front, particularly PP. 41.3% of the vote Drew Holiday got. But yeah,

43:01 first runner up Jalen Brown got 34.2% of the vote of being second place for the no-no. Yes,

43:08 award attributed to one Marcus Smart. Let's get to the next award, the Celtics Killer Award,

43:14 the Ish Smith, the Celtics Killer Awards. This is one where we allowed people to nominate or add

43:20 extra nominees. There are many, I'll read off a few. TJ McConnell, Demar DeRozan, Pascal Siakam,

43:26 Jamal Murray, Nicola Jokic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Pat Bev, Dean Wade, Jokic again, DeJonte Murray,

43:33 Peyton Watson, Austin Reeves, Aaron Neesmith, the City of Atlanta. There are so many,

43:39 but there can only be one winner. And the winner is one, Dean Wade of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

43:47 I think an obvious winner for this one, they just killed the shit out of them that one game where

43:53 we were up what, 20 something points fourth quarter. Then it's the Dean Wade show. I've got

43:59 a slight echo in my ear and it's completely messing up my ability to talk clearly, but that's a story

44:04 for another day. Dean Wade, guys, this year's Ish Smith Celtics Killer Award winner. Jake,

44:09 this one kind of wrote itself, right? It was a pretty easy choice. Yeah, this is an easy one.

44:15 I went back and looked at the game because I just wanted to like remember how insane it was

44:20 relative to the context of that game, but also for his season. So 23 points on eight for 11 from the

44:27 field, six for nine from three, 23 points was his highest point total of the season. He had 20 points

44:36 in the fourth quarter, seven for seven from the field, five for five from three. Tied for most

44:41 three point makes with one other game when he was six feet from three. That is insane, dude. Five

44:47 for five from three in the fourth quarter alone. Like that is just one of the all time games to

44:54 come from a nobody really. Not nobody, but like just like, I mean, it's Dean Wade. It's Dean Wade,

45:00 dude. He's a nobody, Jake. I don't know. Cleveland fans love Dean Wade. Now they do because he killed

45:08 us. Yeah, right. Oh, that's damn sure. Yeah. Yeah. Dean Wade, easy vote for me. And it's just

45:14 off one game like Yoke, it's guys like that. Like they can't be Celtics killers because they kill

45:19 everybody. You know what I mean? Bogie Bogdanovich is a pretty good one. And that was a right in

45:24 boat. So I think, you know, he's a decent one. But Dean Wade was just so random, so fucking stupid.

45:31 And it was such a dumb loss that that's that loss is going to stick in our brains for years. You

45:36 know what I mean? It's going to be the Dean Wade game. So he's just a great winner for this award.

45:41 Hopefully he doesn't keep it going. He's not Isch Smith and he's going to torture us for years.

45:47 Second round of the playoffs. Yeah. Oh, God, don't say it, please. But yeah, great. Yeah.

45:52 The Dean Wade award. Give it to us. Actually, the most important injury of the playoffs is

45:57 that Dean Wade status is questionable going into the playoffs. So huge, huge, massive factor.

46:03 We may now win the championship. All right, let's move on. The Philadelphia 76ers award for the most

46:10 hateable franchise in the league. Many, many nominees for this one. But again, there can only

46:16 be one winner. And this year the fans voted in and they chose the Milwaukee Bucks. This year's most

46:24 hateable franchise deservedly so. Largely thanks to their fans on Twitter and Reddit and just the

46:30 annoying way that anyone associated with the Milwaukee Bucks carries themselves, particularly

46:35 online. Spoonie, do you agree with the result of this award? Yeah, I voted for the Bucks. I think

46:40 they were just good enough to be annoying. And like they were so they're so obviously a paper

46:48 tiger in a lot of ways. But, you know, they'd win a big game against Oklahoma City and all of a

46:53 sudden they're back, baby. Oh, game time. Oh, point to the watch. And they beat us twice, which was

46:59 really, really unfortunate. So, yeah, it's got to be the Bucks. Their fans have turned insufferable

47:06 because of that one kind of Mickey Mouse-ish championship. So I mean, like, you know, the

47:13 Sixers, Embiid got hurt and that's why they're out of this. I feel like if Embiid was healthy and

47:18 they were the second best team in the East, it would easily be the Sixers fans. But for now,

47:23 it's the Bucks. Yeah, I think it for me was easily the Bucks because it was so frustrating all year

47:29 long. How many media members, how many big podcast people that were talking about the NBA, talking

47:35 about the Celtics, talking about the Bucks, were just ignoring all of their glaringly obvious

47:39 issues and completely hand waving them away. Whereas if it was the Celtics, they'd be like,

47:43 "See, they're completely flawed. There's no chance they can win a title." But week in, week out,

47:47 despite every month, them having like a teen's net rating, Dame looking washed, Middleton being

47:54 injured and looking washed, their whole roster looking old, like month in, month out, it'd be

47:58 like, "Yeah, but you know, playoffs, different thing." Like just completely hand waving all of

48:05 their issues all year long. That was what the most frustrating thing to me is like, if you wanted to

48:09 say like, "Hey, maybe they get lucky and they win. Sure." But just to be like, "Yeah, I think they

48:14 could just do it and we're going to ignore all of their issues," drove me nuts. Yeah. Nathan

48:19 Marzian on Twitter is like a notable Bucks Twitter guy saying, "Okay, now it's the playoffs. Wipe

48:25 the slate clean. Wipe away everything you learned during the regular season. The players are a

48:28 different time." Are we supposed to do that as well? We just won 64 games in dominant fashion.

48:33 Are we supposed to wipe away our regular season as well and just not take that into account for

48:37 the context of the post-season? I don't think that's how it works. So it's quite convenient

48:41 of a mindset there of the Bucks fans, hence why they won this award. We've got two awards to get

48:47 to before we wrap up here. The Nick Jelso Award for Best CLNS Personality. Again, many, many writing

48:56 nominees, literally hundreds of nominees. And thanks to everyone who voted in. But again,

49:02 there can only be one winner. Drumroll, please. The winner of the 2024 CLNS Best Personality goes to

49:13 Jack Simone and Sam LaFrance of the How About Them Celtics podcast. This one was tight.

49:19 Congratulations to these two as they make their way to the stage to accept their award. Michelle

49:23 Obama, obviously very, very happy with the results of this one. Congrats to those two. Look, I was

49:30 happy to see these guys win the award. Obviously, huge fan of the How About Them Celtics podcast.

49:35 I think a huge catalyst for us starting this show was Jack Charminger here in the chat,

49:42 was to bring something to the forefront of Celtics podcasting where not only were we analytical about

49:49 the team, but the emotional aspect of fandom was well conveyed and sort of professionally

49:54 conveyed via a high quality product. And I think we do a good job of that. Jack and Sam do a similarly

50:00 amazing job at that, but they're there in Boston with the team in the press room, making regular

50:06 contact with personnel from the Celtics, which just takes this whole thing to a whole nother level.

50:10 So I was really glad to see those guys come out with this award. Thoughts? And would you throw in

50:15 any additional CLNS nominees as runner ups in this one, guys? Real quick. OK, so we had write-ins,

50:23 right? Yeah. Jake got votes. Ben got votes. Well-deserved. I did not. That's fine. Except

50:30 the problem is that my mom listens to this show. Oh, no. Look, mom, you couldn't even vote for me?

50:37 Come on. Give me one. I called her. I was like, mom, what the hell? She's like, I voted for Jake.

50:42 And I'm like, all right. Oh, that's awesome. Jack and Sam rule. They're great. Their show's awesome.

50:51 Their pregame show is amazing. Well-deserved. Well-deserved. Shout out. Zanis was up in the

50:56 voting. I'm surprised. I feel like if you like our show, maybe you're not a Zanis guy, but

51:01 that's good to go. He's a popular guy. That's right. I loved it. Bobby Manning got votes. I

51:07 mean, me personally, I would never. I wish we could have split Sam and Jack apart because

51:11 me and Jack have been feuding over the Xavier Tillman three-point situation now.

51:16 I would never vote for someone with such outrageous takes about Xavier Tillman's three-point

51:27 willingness. But I will say someone else that got a lot of single votes that would have added up to

51:34 it, a real percentage was Noah, who's new on the beat this year, who has been incredible. So she

51:40 would have gotten a bigger sliver than the graph is showing because a few people just typed it in

51:44 differently. So she's been awesome. And then obviously the funniest submission was Jared Zero.

51:50 So shout out Jared Zero. I hope he finds a new podcast from soon.

51:58 Bobby Manning walking away with a nice chunk of awards there as well. A shout out to everyone who

52:04 was nominated. Pretty much everyone who works for CLNS or under the CLNS umbrella, except for

52:09 Wayne Spooney, got a nomination for that one. So get your minds right, people, and vote for Spooney

52:16 this time next year. Okay. We've got one award remaining.

52:20 At least my mom better.

52:21 That's right. This whole Spooney family really better get on that for next year.

52:25 The final award, the best award you might say, the Aaron Baines Corner 3 Award for Most

52:31 Surprising Skill Set. Again, pages upon pages of write-in nominations for this one. The winner,

52:39 however, is O'Shea Brissette's Offensive Rebounding. I think an unsurprising runaway

52:47 winner on this one got 36.8% of the overall vote. And I'm scrolling through pages and pages of

52:53 nominations here. So for it to get 37% of all of those votes is quite outstanding and a very

52:59 surprising skill set. I think you can safely say that Brissette came in first couple of possessions

53:04 of his first minutes on the court and just started vacuuming up like a spaceship, getting access to

53:11 a newly opened spaceship. Wow. I just completely butchered that analogy. Vacuuming all the air out

53:16 of the vessel is O'Shea Brissette. Crashing the boards there, guys. Wow. I wish we weren't live

53:21 so I could cut that out. Just an incredible and surprising skill set there. And not one that I

53:27 expected with all of the great write-ups about Brissette going into the beginning of the season.

53:32 I just want to quickly point out how insane Aaron Baines' thing was so we know why he's named,

53:38 like this award's named after him. So in that season, 17-18 season, he was 3 for 21 for the

53:45 entire season. And then in the playoffs, he was 11 for 23. So like honestly, one of the most

53:51 astounding things that's ever happened. And then he goes on to be a legit three-point shooter,

53:56 stretched big for the remainder of his career going back to Australia as well. So

54:02 shout out Aaron Baines. I didn't understand. I didn't look. O'Shea won, happy for him.

54:06 Well, not for me. I thought of my vote, Peyton Pritchard's offensive rebounding.

54:13 Far more surprising and far more impactful and important for this team, in my opinion. And then

54:20 also Jalen Brown's defense, I thought, I think deserved a nod here as well. But I mean, Peyton

54:26 Pritchard, I think third in offensive rebounding percentage of players 6-4 and under behind only

54:33 Gary Payton and Alex Caruso, a stat that I will be citing until I die, I think. It's like,

54:37 just ingrained into my brain. So yeah, Peyton Pritchard's offensive rebounding for me,

54:42 robbed, snubbed, ridiculous. Dude, Jalen's left hand being second, I think, is a really great one

54:49 because he had some sick left-handed finishes this year. But I just didn't know what to expect

54:55 with Brissett because I feel like I didn't watch a lot of indie when they sucked last year.

55:00 And my memories of O'Shea Brissett are like the dude who sometimes can make threes and not get

55:08 cooked on defense. But he's a fucking maniac. He's nuts, dude. He's jumping over back, very

55:14 Neesmith vibes from O'Shea Brissett. So it did surprise me just how incredibly hard he played.

55:22 So our offensive rebounding was like six percentage points better when O'Shea was on the court. It was

55:29 like eight when Pritchard was on the court. So it kind of gives it, that's kind of an argument for

55:34 Pritchard being the most surprising, but I think it's a deserving winner. Shout out to O'Shea.

55:40 He had to win something. He should have been in the Vibesman Award too. Nice 600-minute season

55:48 from O'Shea Brissett. Yeah. I don't know if you guys have any bonus awards that you want to like

55:52 kick off the dome here, but best vlog, O'Shea Brissett. The number one blog on the team. Yeah,

55:58 easy. A runaway award winner for that one. But yeah, just sticking with this surprising skill

56:03 set it was. So yeah, the runners up, you guys mentioned the second runner up, Jalen Brown,

56:07 or first runner up, I should say, Jalen Brown's left hand. Second runner up is Sam

56:10 Houser's mid-range pull-up jumper, which got 17.4% of the votes. The next runner up with 9%

56:17 of the votes is Xavier Tillman's corner three-point shot. The fourth most surprising skill set

56:23 on the team. Disgusting. The people have spoken. I can only imagine how many people,

56:30 I'm guessing Jack Simone just created 40 accounts and voted for Tillman as many times as possible.

56:38 I know RJ in the discord definitely voted for Tillman's three-point shot to fuck with me as well.

56:44 Yeah. Just disgusting. Ridiculous. I won an award that I thought coming off the dome,

56:52 the Isaiah Thomas exceeded expectations award. Because I think that IT in that 16, 17 season,

56:58 I mean, no one expected him to be a top five MVP finisher. I mean, Joe Mazzuola, maybe.

57:04 Chris Asplosingas, maybe. I think the exceeded expectations bucket, Derek White, I think falls

57:10 into that basket as well. So maybe an award for next year that we just came up with.

57:15 Absolutely. All right. Well, look, we're going to wrap it up there. Thanks everyone for voting

57:21 on these awards. Thank you, Ben. That was amazing. This was a lot of fun. Like I said,

57:26 thanks to everyone who voted on these awards. We'll make sure that we publish the results

57:29 so that you can check out the runners up and all the work and effort that went into

57:33 creating the show. Thanks for watching live or listening later on the podcast feed.

57:36 We'll be back live Saturday night at 8 PM for a round one preview with Dan Greenberg,

57:42 aka Stool Greeny and Barstool Sports. Spoonie, Jake, love your work guys. Until next time,

57:48 go Celtics. I love the Celtics!

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