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CL Pod 83: It ain't easy being green Nov 22, 2018

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First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from the CelticsLife crew.
There's not a whole lot to be thankful for lately as a Celtics fan, but Topher Lane and Justin Quinn try their best to take the long view yet again, looking at Boston's rough start and the options out there that might be a solution. We had some technical issues, so apologies about the subpar audio, and we recorded this before the New York Knicks debacle. so take what we have to say with a grain of salt. We're inching back towards the precipice ourselves, so let us know why we shouldn't take the next ticket onto the Panic Bus in the comments below, or maybe help us calm down a bit, because the Cs sure as hell aren't.
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CLPod 82: The Jimmy Butler trade, a break in the schedule & NBA conspiracies Nov 14, 2018

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This week, things are changing in the Atlantic Division, with Jimmy Butler heading to the Philadelphia 76ers. How will it affect the Boston Celtics? Will it work out? Who's the "winner" of this deal, if anyone? The slate of games for the Cs finally relaxes a bit after a murder's row to start the season, and there's other movement of note around the league to take into consideration. Join Topher Lane and Justin Quinn as they break down all of the news of the week, and even dabble in a little NBA conspiracy talk as some unusual coincidences spark some reflection on the league's tin foil hat topics.
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CL Pod 81: Reports of Terry Rozier's departure are premature, & more Nov 09, 2018

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This week, Topher Lane and Mark Allison try to make sense of the rumors swirling around a one Terry Rozier, as well as the lingering rust the Boston Celtics are slowly shaking off early in the season. They break down the team's recent games, including whether Jayson tatum might need to re-evaluate his shot selection, and even take a look at how some former Celts we'll see playing against their former team this week.
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CL Pod 80: The Cs are back in the saddle, the Sox won the series & more Oct 31, 2018

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The Boston Celtics are back on their game, and while they have some kinks left to work out, the team we expected to be watching this season is showing up, and it's noticeable.
And it's not just the Celtics who are looking good, with the Boston Red Sox having just won a World Series, and the Celts will face the league's last remaining undefeated team, the Milwaukee Bucks, on Thursday for what will likely be the team's biggest test of the season to date. This week, Mark Allison and Justin Quinn get into all these issues and more, ranging from cannabis' future as medicine in the league to Tyronn Lue's firing from the Cleveland Cavaliers, Robert Williams' surprising early development, and even a cameo by the Evil Emperor himself.
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CL Pod 79: Making sense of Boston's first week of games Oct 22, 2018

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With week one of the 2018-19 NBA regular season behind us, we have a very small sample of games to give us an early idea about what the coming weeks, months, and season may look like. While it might be far too small a sample size for any definitive takes, we are already beginning to see some of the issues concerning depth and roles having an impact on games, and player recovery is still clearly an issue. In the long run, some of these issues may even turn out to be complimentary, as the Celtics considerable depth may help them recover and stay as healthy as possible for an expectation heavy playoff run. Join Mark Allison and Justin Quinn this week as they break down the early on-court results for the Cs, and catch up on the goings-on of Rajon Rondo and the rest of the league in a spicy start to the season.
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CL Pod 78: Regular season preview, no extension for Terry & more Oct 15, 2018

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Less than 24 hours from when you listen to this podcast, it will be the first day of the NBA's regular season, and the Boston Celtics will be suiting up to take on the Philadelphia 76ers. Join Topher Lane and Justin Quinn as they look at Tuesday night's home opener against the Philadelphia 76ers, Friday's tilt with the new-look Toronto Raptors, Saturday's game with the New York Knicks, all the way to what they think the playoff seeding will look like by season's end...and beyond!
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CL Pod 77: Wrapping up preseason & looking towards the regular season Oct 08, 2018

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This week, we talk expectations as the Boston Celtics preseason winds down, and preparations for the 2018-19 NBA Regular Season begins. We discuss whether the Celt's 1-3 preseason record is cause for concern, as well as some of the bright spots from an otherwise-lackluster showing in what we HOPE is a tuneup for the games that count. We also talk expectations for the team and individual players, using a best- and worst- case model to temper expectations as much as to set the bar high. Join Mark Allison and Justin Quinn for all this and more, as the CL Pod moves back to its weekly schedule now that the regular season is upon us.
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CL Pod 76: Bird & the NBA's new DV policy, future HoF classes & more Sep 15, 2018

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With training camp looming just over the horizon, most of us would like to be turning our attention to the goings-on of the Boston Celtics with renewed fervor given the lofty expectations for this year's squad.
Leave it to life to make that a fraught proposition, however, with news of Jabari Bird's arrest on domestic violence charges, putting the Boston Celtics (and the NBA) into unchartered territory, as the latter has introduced a new, redesigned domestic violence protocol with little precedent to work with, but good science behind it.
Three former members of the Boston Celtics are now new members of the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, the candidacy of at least one stirring up those debates of who belongs in what halls of fame and why, and there's been a predictable uptick in Celtics-related news as camp draws closer. This week, join Topher Lane and Justin Quinn as they try their best to tackle all the highs and lows since our last podcast.
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CL Pod 75: T-Ro a no-go to PHO, pre-camp news & best music cities in the NBA Sep 04, 2018

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With three weeks to go before players even arrive at camp, there's not a lot of basketball news to cover.
By now, most of us have read up on Jackie McMullen's excellent series on mental health in the NBA (and if you haven't, you should), and we're pretty sure Terry Rozier won't be in a Phoenix Suns uniform any time soon. There's Hall of Fame inductions involving former Boston Celtics on both sides of the ceremonies, and a little smidgen of other news around the league we break down in this summer edition of the CL Pod, which is running every-other week in the offseason, at least until things start to heat up, anyway.
But, since the news is not enough for a full-length podcast, we decided to pit the cities of the projected top four teams (the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets Toronto Raptors and of course the Celts) plus some classic (Los Angeles Lakers) and arguably forced (Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards and Denver Nuggets) rivalries in an 8-team one-and-done tourney on which city has the best...music!
While you might not know yours truly (Justin Quinn) worked for a decade of his life as a music buyer for several independent music stores, you ought to know about CelticsLife UK correspondent Josh Coyne has a double life as a music podcaster as well, running the Handstamp Podcast in addition to his NBA coverage (seriously, check it out and subscribe if you haven't already). So, we hope our combined musical knowledge will convincingly settle the score - we gave it our best, least-biased take, so buckle up and listen to the results in the podcast above, and however you feel about non-basketball-related podcasting, we're under a month to some actual basketball business.
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CLPod 74: The Cs teams that never were, late summer moves & more Aug 16, 2018

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Two months out from the start of the regular season, and nearly half as long from camp, more than a few of us are starting to get antsy without basketball to watch.
With that in mind, we decided it was time to dust off the microphones and record an episode of the CLPod to talk about the (very few) moves of note going down since the last time we recorded two weeks ago.
And with the team in a liminal space between seasons, neither last season's Celtics nor the next, Mark Allison and Justin Quinn got to thinking about all the different ways this timeline of Boston's journey from one contending squad to the next could have gone differently.
So, we put our heads together, and tried to imagine how the Cs might look if Danny Ainge had kept the last title team together longer, or if Brad Stevens had said no, or if Boston hadn't signed Al Horford, or...well, you'll have to listen to hear them all.
So, if you're as ready as we are for some real, live NBA games that count, you're going to have to wait a while. But if you want some news and analysis on not just this timeline, but several others we don't happen to be on, buckle up and listen to this week's CLPod - we have at least another month of doldrums ahead of us, and a lot to be thankful for, if our thought experiments are as realistic as we think they are.
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