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What he just said will have Celtics fans believe again. He being Steven Ngo And he went on and had a great article about the post Jalen Brown trade and talked about Jason Tatum on media day And he thinks that Brad Stephens might have done it again and give Celtics fans a little bit of hope What's going on everyone? My name is Will Nicholson. This is Celtics Digest and today We're going to be talking about an article put out by Nessun Originally written by Steven Ngo about what the Celtics will look like in this upcoming season And he had some bold predictions with some crazy optimism about Celtics maybe being the number one seed and maybe winning 50 plus games. It's crazy Who knows but as a Celtics fan, I read that headline and said whoa, we got to talk about this today We got to figure out what is going on Personally I believe the Celtics might be pretty good. 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The Raptors just got Kawhi You know, there's a lot of good teams out He's Halliburton's gonna be coming back to the Pacers after an injury Jason Tatum's coming off that bad Achilles tear You know, it felt like a throwaway season for the Celtics But you know the Scott Rafferty kindly the writer of this Nefton article sent me in the way What Steven Ngo had to think so let's go to his initial quote here This was from Scott Rafferty in that initial Nefton article about what he thinks Reporting on the Steven Ngo who thinks not only does Ngo think the Celtics will be the number one seed But he has them winning 54 games only two fewer than last season and that was with Jalen Brown playing at an MVP level in Jason Tatum coming back at the end The Celtics being a pretty darn good team last year thinks that potentially they could be just as good So when I read this, I had to go see the full article and go wow What what is Steven Ngo talking about this NBA insider, you know, what is all this about and well It brought me to here the Steven Ngo article Apologies for that There we go Get this full screen for you here The Celtics may have lost Jalen Brown from their 56 win team last season But they should still be near the top of the East standing that's from Steven Ngo Saying Jason Tatum is more capable of replacing Brown's production It's reasonable to expect a return to all-NBA form for Jason Tatum Based on the small sample size of what he played last season now You can argue that this is a crazy bull prediction But I also don't think that this is coming out of nowhere as you know This came right about after the media day happened and Jason Tatum and Joe Missoula and Brad Stevens and everyone else a part of the Celtics Organization got asked roughly the same question. What is Jason Tatum's role going to be? Is this his team? Is he gonna be the primary ball handler and it was pretty much a resounding Yes All around that this is going to be Jason Tatum's team and he is going to be taking part in the primary Ball handling that we saw from Jalen Brown really last year the ball when it was in his hands Made a lot of crazy things happens You take a look at the stats from Jalen Brown last year phenomenal job MVP season The problem with this is efficiency and people didn't like it. Too many mid-range shots yada yada yada Whatever. The question will be can Jason Tatum replace that production? And I think absolutely he can we had a small sample size last year, but I like Jason Tatum's playmaker I think it's something that he has gotten way way way better at throughout the course of his career You can see his numbers from last year what it looks like a crazy scorer as always We know this about Jason Tatum But the next leap for him is going to be that playmaking when he has the ball in his hands up the floor Every single time can he make it happen? Can he make it work? Is he gonna be able to get guys like Mitchell Robinson involved in those pick and rolls and throwing lobs and you have Hauser running off The screens you got to be able to hit him on the wing Remember in the playoffs a couple of years ago I had some great times to Al Horford when he was still on the team and had crazy tennis this game So I think this could be huge for the Celtics. I mean when you come out and you think yes Tatum is the guy He's gonna have the ball in his hand majority of the time. That's what leads to this prediction You know now have a Jason Tatum Solidified number one option going in the next season. You can see the numbers here obviously the drop-off He only played 16 games last year, but before that Incredibly durable 70 plus games 80 in his rookie season and from there even in a high-picking way That is a very very good production. Now Jason Tatum is good. We all know this. I'm not saying anything new or crazy We all know Jason Tatum is very good. Shocker There's gonna be a lot of guys who have to step up obviously there was a report came out of that Peyton Pritchard They expect him to have maybe a Jalen Brunson type leap Not Jalen Brunson now, but when he went from the Mavericks to the Knicks is what they're expecting. So I Don't know Not sure. Is that possible? It might be but there's a lot of other guys who need to step up alongside Pritchard You're relying on like Ron Harper jr. Potentially make a big jump Devin Carter who came over you're gonna need him to make a big jump Mitchell Robinson He just signed you hope that he will look good in the Celtics rotation and how much they can get out of him Hugo Gonzalez Jordan Walsh like the list goes on and on of guys that Brad Stevens is really putting a lot of faith into and quite literally Putting the ball in their court going. Hey, you know you wanted more minutes, you know, you're playing time the G Lee you're waiting for your opportunity. Here it is. Do you want to get paid? It's actually so it's it's crazy. Do I think the Celtics are gonna win like 54 games? I don't know It's it's it's a bold one. It's out there. The number one seed is it's a little crazy So let's go back into this Steven. No article here. This was his very top of the list from his article Win predictions for every team in the East number one the Celtics 54 and 20 a goner in here the Celtics may have lost Jalen Brown from their 56 win team last season But they still should be near the top of the East standings, which is crazy to say without Jalen Brown But I think he makes a good point with the Paul George being able to help considerably Well, he can't be rejected for a huge minute. He was a good starter for the Sixers last year And you know as Celtics fans we remember what he did to us in the playoffs Do I think Paul George is some crazy out-of-this-world addition to the Celtics? No, I think he'll be serviceable I think he's probably a little bit worse than Jalen Brown But now you open up Tatum to be this number one guy the dog The the number one option with the ball in his court all the time taking it up the floor I think it's gonna be huge. I want to see some Jason Tatum point guard Personally, he was talking about Mitchell Robinson Screenshot of the article Tim goes for Mitchell Robinson Who's lots of defense and elite offensive rebounders estimated to add between three and four wins for Boston total Love to meet skater. I think he did a great job, but Mitchell Robinson Crazy athlete crazy offensive rebounder That's how they just decimated teams and went on these crazy runs and comebacks in the finals in the playoffs Mitchell Robinson, you know while he wasn't always scoring the ball getting those offensive rebounds was a huge part of that I'm really excited for the Celtics team. I am and this this may be optimistic Is it out of this world like oh, you're just being a homer or whatever blah blah blah a home team guys It's possible, but you know, I like to be optimistic I don't know about you guys back at home, but as a Celtics fan reading this I was like, hey, maybe it's not just me Let's go into the Scott Rafferty And of the article we put a nice little bow on everything here. The biggest concern for the Celtics is health I agree Jason Tatum Jalen Brown now in Philadelphia, you know, you need Tatum to bounce back to that all-nba form You need him to be the guy you need to go and be Jason Tatum the Jason Tatum that we all know and love as Celtics a healthy Paul George obviously would help You know the value that he will bring to the team if he can You know play a lot and really just be in the lineup every single night only 41 games in 2024 and 37 the year before that and you really need him to stay healthy kind of like He was last year on the Sixers, especially in the playoffs He did a lot to keep them going. If Tatum and George can stay on the court for 50-plus wins 50-plus wins feels realistic at the very bottom of that article there Is it crazy to say that I agree I mean, I think it's definitely possible To that all-nba level who knows right who knows and really I want to know what you guys think What do you know, you know, do you have some inside information? What do you think? It was it's gonna return to his all-nba form or will it be all or nothing and the Celtics will look like A bit of a crazy organization for trading away Jalen Brown leave your comment down in the comment section below We want to know what you think personally 54 wins Maybe a little bit Optimistic we'll call it but I love the idea and I love that the faith is still in Celtics Uh that is going to wrap it up for this video. Thanks for watching Giant Jeff Celtics. I'm Will Nicholson. 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