
Boston Celtics cruise past the Los Angeles Lakers with a decisive wire-to-wire win, fueled by Jaylen Brown’s quiet 30-point eruption and red-hot shooting from Derrick White and Jordan Walsh. It's their fourth straight victory and they lead the NBA in wins against .500 or better teams! John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down Boston’s relentless first-quarter defense on Austin Reaves, standout performances from depth players, and the dynamic coaching approach of Joe Mazzulla. Key topics include the strategic impact of zone defense, Walsh’s rise as a lockdown defender, and Josh Minot’s evolving role under Mazzulla’s watchful eye. With the team sitting just four games out of first in the Eastern Conference, Celtics fans have every reason to be excited. Can Boston maintain its momentum heading into the matchup against the Raptors?
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Welcome back to the Lock on Celtics Podcast right here in the Lockdown Podcast Network where it's your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics. I talk about them Monday through Friday, plus bonus podcasts on the weekends like this one, the Friday night game against the Lakers. So subscribe. The show is free. It's available Everywhere. It's on YouTube, so get onto that YouTube page. Share your thoughts in the comment section with me. If you're new to the show, I'm John Corralis, beat Writer for Boston Sports Journal. I've been doing a version of this job for about 20 years now. I'm been doing this podcast for 10 and I've also written a couple of books about the team. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. You can get in on the action at FanDuel. If you want to be right in the middle of the action, visit FanDuel.com Place your live NFL bets all Season long. If you're on the YouTube page, you can see me in a new location. I'm here at TD Garden up in the sports museum section here up on level nine. If you're ever in the Raptor seats, you walk by here. I got Larry Bird behind me, I got Bobby or back there, I got. I got everything. I got Harry againis I got. Call your stremsky back there. I'm joined by all my buddies here at the TD Garden where the Celtics got the very easy win, 126 to 105. Pounce on the Lakers early and never let up. So this is now four wins in a row. The Celtics are now four games out of first. This is a fun one here. Four out of four in a row, nine out of eleven. They lead the NBA with five. Now wire to wire wins where they've never trailed. This goes down as a win over a good team because The Lakers are 16 and 5 even though they didn't have anybody, which I'll get to in a second. And so they are now tied with the Pistons as the the most wins in the NBA against a team that's 500 or better. So technically that's true. The Boston Celtics, the gap year Celtics are sitting here continuing to win their games. Now, of course, this game did not have LeBron James. It did not have Luka Doncic. It did not have Marcus Smart, which by the way, side note, it was cool to run into Marcus Smart in the back. Always fun. Like, I just like talking to Marcus Smart. So he was here and he did sign autographs and take pictures. But we missed out on all of that. As I said in yesterday's podcast, the Lakers and the Raptors went down to the wire and, and Austin reeves played like 41 minutes in that game. So he was not effective early. And I think first of all, I'll get to the. The Jalen Brown 30 points and Jordan Walsh and all that stuff later on. I'll also talk about the. The hot shooting in. In the next segment, but let me just say that this was Lakers Celtics and it's always satisfying to get a win when you see the. The quote unquote forum blue and gold. For those of you who are my age, you remember that the. It was called forum blue instead of purple for Google it because it's a fun little story. But when you see the traditional jerseys out there, which side note, I was very happy to see the Celtics in home white even though home jerseys don't exist anymore. But we'll call it the home White. Good to see the Celtics in a home white jersey, the Lakers in their gold jerseys. It felt like a traditional matchup. It was like, okay, this is Celtics Lakers, and there is always a little something extra in a Celtics Lakers game. Except this one didn't have the same kind of juice a Lakers Celtics matchup would have because the Celtics just jumped on them early. They had an 11 3. It was an 113 run. They were up 24 to 12 at one point. It was 30, 37 or 39 to 17, I think, in the after one. And the Celtics just never kind of let the Lakers have any life or much life in this one. And because There was no LeBron, there was no Luca, there were no loud boos, there was no one to hate on the floor. This just kind of lacked a little something. There was no juice to this game, which in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, but the NBA did everybody a disservice. Like, let me just get this out of the way, because I've said this, I think in past podcasts, but I want to be clear about this. The NBA kind of screwed everybody by scheduling the Lakers in Toronto and the Celtics in Washington. I get a feeling that the NBA thought like, we have no choice. We have to schedule these games because of this stupid NBA cup thing. We have to schedule all these games. We'll give these two teams the cupcakes before the nationally televised game. The Celtics can rest everybody against Washington. The Lakers can rest everybody against Toronto, and they will face each other at full strength on Amazon prime on Friday night. Except.
Luka Doncic. His fiance is having a baby, or had a baby. Congratulations to him. He's back in Slovenia. Okay, which good family comes first? But no one expected that. But all of these, like, injuries are always a part of the game. These. These circumstances are part of the game. And so the Lakers decided, well, we're going to go all in on this Raptors game. Feels like the Lakers said, between the Raptors and the Celtics. You know, Celtics get Jalen Brown, they got Derrick White. Regardless of what the perceptions are and regardless of what the records are, we'd rather face. We'd rather send LeBron out there against the Raptors so we can get the win. And like, hey, we'll just deal with it. Maybe. Maybe you catch the. The Celtics on a bad shooting night, which they did not. More on that in a bit. In a minute.
So I think the NBA was hoping LeBron sits, Lucas sits or whatever in Toronto. They both play in this game. The Celtics get Jalen and everybody in this game, which the Celtics were perfectly fine. The Celtics followed the plan and instead you get Luca gone and LeBron out for this game so.
That no star power. No star power. And so that was unfortunate. So the Celtics just focused on Austin Reeves. They, they won this game in the first quarter by picking up Austin Reeves full court. I'll come back, I'll talk about the, the defense in Austin Reeves, the hot shooting and much more when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by DoorDash. The season is heating up. DoorDash has a way to keep fans in their bag the whole way through. Whether you're watching highlights, the tunnel fits, or just Your favorite player, DoorDash makes the entire season more fun because every player has their bag. With DoorDash you have one too. DoorDash keeps your snack stock, your gear fresh and the watch party vibes absolutely on point. If you are getting those late night stress tight games, not this one, but you know, those tight games like the one the Lakers played last night, you can let Door Dash become your post game therapy because sometimes you just need dessert. Now if the group chat says pull up, Door Dash makes sure you show up prepared snacks, cups, even a phone charger for that friend who's always at 2% from tip off to overtime. Stay in your bag and order Door Dash. Get snacks, drink, gear, whatever you want throughout the season delivered right to your door. DoorDash in your bag all season long.
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Hey, thanks for making Locked on Celtics the number one Celtics podcast in the world. And it's on the number one sports podcast network in the world. Both of those are possible because of you. The Everydayer with us Monday through Friday. Podcasts are free. They're Everywhere. It's on YouTube, so get onto that YouTube page. Thank you so, so much for being an every day. If you're not, please do so because this podcast is daily this week, six days a week. So thank you all so much. So the defense on Reeves was, was great. Now the, the numbers, you know, if you, if you didn't see the game, you go back to the box score and you say, hey, Austin Reeves did what he, he was supposed to do. He shot 9 of 18. He was 3 of 8 from 3. He got to the line 17 times. Larry, can you believe he got to the line 17 times?
He got the whistle, man. He got an incredible whistle. And you'd say, well, Austin, Austin Reeves did his job. 36 points, eight assists, three rebounds. He did have four turnovers, but. But in a game that they lost by 21 at the end, he was only a minus nine. So he was, he was one of the more effective guys. And he was, after the first quarter, in the first quarter, he was 0 for 5. And by the time the first quarter was over, the game as we know it now was essentially over because the Celtics had pulled, you know, got, got a 20 point lead. They pushed that lead out to 29 at one point. Yes, the Lakers made a run in the third quarter, that third quarter. Not happy with it. But also, I can't get too mad about it because this is just typical, typical NBA guys. Just relax. You're up. It was easy. It was so easy for the Celtics. And again, of course it was because you had, you know, the, whatever their G league team, East Bay, Laker, whatever the hell their G League team is called. But they, they had like half of their guys there. They didn't have their best players. They were on the back to back. Of course, the Celtics were in their fifth game in seven nights, so everybody was tired on the floor, but the Celtics didn't look tired. But in that first quarter, the defense on Reeves, Jordan Walsh, spectacular. And before the game, J.J. redick even said he expected that to be the case. Reeves, through the first quarter, it just looked like everything he Was trying to. Was incredibly difficult. It was just incredibly difficult. He finally got his way to the line and started scoring, but by the time he got going, it didn't matter. So I think the defense on Reaves early on especially was spectacular. And it was exactly what the Celtics needed to do. Jordan Walsh was in there. Josh Minot got a turn. Jaylen Brown got some, some reps on him. It's just different. They threw different looks and at the Celtics. So that was a big part of the Celtics getting this win. So was their hot shooting. This really, for a while it felt like the Celtics were it. They, they weren't exactly like running their best offense. And the Lakers threw a bunch of zone because they didn't want to sell the Celtics to get to the rim. And considering the way the Celtics have shot the three pointer this season, I understand not wanting the Celtics to beat you at the rim. You want to challenge them from three. Makes perfect sense. So. But what ends up happening is The Celtics shot 53% from 3. Whoops. I just lost my box score. Where is it, John? Get back to your box score. They shot 53.3% from three. See, it's all up here. 24 made free throws. I mean, made three pointers out of 45. So it was just every time the Lakers made any sort of run, the Celtics just found a three pointer somewhere. Derrick White found one in his pocket. He was five of ten, which was great to see him continue to shoot really well. I've been waiting for Derek to stack these games up, and he did more on the individual performances in a minute. But you got hot shooting from Derek. You got hot shooting from Jordan Walsh, who is now 18 of his last 19 from the field. He got hot shooting from Josh Minot, who was 2 of 3. I don't know how that janky shot falls, but it falls. So we're going to stop questioning it. He's. He's up over 40% for the season. In fact, let me see, what's, what's Josh shooting for from three this season? He is 44 from three. You know, you got that. Why not Minot? It's, it's falling, man. So I can't question it. But the hot shooting was, was, I think the number one thing. I mean, obviously you have to execute, but I don't think the Celtics were out there being like super crisp. You know, they, they had long stretches and again, the zone bugged them a little bit, but they weren't, once you got up to 20, 25, they were like, I said 29. At one point, they were just kind of like, yeah, you know what? We're just gonna, we're just gonna keep on shooting and see if we can't outshoot you the rest of the way. After halftime, third quarter, when the lead did get down to 15, it definitely felt like the Celtics were saying, we're kind of done playing defense and we're just gonna, we don't think you can keep shooting and match us, so. And, and it's not how you really want it to go, but it worked out well for them. So, hey, what can I say? You don't want to see that happen on Sunday when they play the Raptors. You keep trying to do that, it's, it's not going to go well all the time. But the hot shooting carried them through. Jordan Walsh, Derrick White, Jalen Brown, Josh Minot, the individual performances were all really good. Let me come back. We'll finish up the podcast with those.
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Thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen. Every day, go check out Lockdown NBA game night. Covering the whole league every night, seven days a week on the Lockdown NBA feed. The Locked in NBA podcast midday gets you covered on all the big, big topics, big stories in the NBA. So you can check that out on the same feed on the number one sports podcast platform in the world. So like I said before, it was great to see Jordan Walsh. He continues to play great. He's.
Shooting. The shooting is, is secondary. And Jalen had a great quote afterwards. He's like, I don't want to boost his head up too much. I don't want him to start getting cute. He's still got to take care of the details. He's been doing a good job, but we're, we're going to need him to maintain that. So y' all don't boost his head up too much, which is exactly the right sentiment. And he's busting Jordan's chops a little bit, but that's exactly right. You need Jordan Walsh to stay hungry, stay focused. And as Joe and Brad Stevens have said many times, the success is as dangerous as the criticism. The, the praise is as dangerous as the criticism. And when you're a young player like, like Jordan, who's still 21 and still like on the come up, and he's, he's only just starting to kind of find his stride. The last thing you need to be is.
Reading all of the press clippings. You need to be like, I just wrote a story about, he's the Celtics new lockdown defender. Like, that's, that's great. And sure, you've earned that praise, but the last thing you need to be is like, listening to all of that and buying into it. You got to stay hungry. You got to stay focused. Now, I don't think that's a problem with, with Jordan, but it's still something that, hey, there's always a concern somewhere in, in, in these, you know, in, in pro sports, you, you fix one thing, the next thing happens. Like, there's always.
A little, like, battle, a mental battle. One guy's doing well, one guy's doing poorly. You worry about the guy who's doing poorly. You don't pay attention to the guy who's doing well. He doesn't keep his head on straight. Now you got to go fix that problem. So again, I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think that's an issue. But I like that Jalen kind of was like joking, but maybe not fully joking, but Jordan's been great. And the fact that he's hitting these three pointers, the fact that Josh Minot is hitting these three pointers is complete foul money. And now the question is, can these guys be this consistently? I'm not expecting Jordan to shoot 4 of 5 from 3. He's not an 80% 3 point shooter. Nobody is. But can he be a consistent, just 10, 12, 15 point a game guy? Remember, these are the guys that are trying to accentuate Jalen and Jason down the road. Can they be those guys that fill in gaps and every once in a while you can pop off for 20 and have your night. But it's more about doing this other stuff, which Jordan has been doing extraordinarily well. Josh has been doing extraordinarily well. And that funny thing about Josh, I. So it was another moment in this game where he and Joe Missoula were, you know, at one point, I forget what it was, but Josh came out, Joe pulls him aside and they get into another discussion. There's, there's always a discussion going on between those two. Joe is obviously coaching everybody, but he's coaching Josh hard. He's, he's giving him like, he's yelling. He's, you know, Josh screws up and he's giving him the. What are you doing, Josh? What is that? You know, Josh fouled somebody. They were in the bonus. It was the fourth quarter, it was an unnecessary foul and he got in. And Joe just like looks at him, gives him the shrug, like, what are you doing? That's a dumb foul. And so I, I asked Josh after the game and he was like, I love it because it means that he's paying attention to me and like, I'm his focus, I'm his priority at that time. And I kind of think that Josh is good for Joe. Joe is good for Josh. Like, Minot needs somebody to pay attention to him because he's spent his first few years in Minnesota where he probably feels like no one's given a damn about me. I'm. Listen, when you are a guy like Josh Minot, who's probably been the best player, you know, everywhere he's gone until he gets to the NBA, and now all Of a sudden, it's like, oh, I'm on the fringe of the NBA. I thought I was. I thought I was a great basketball player. And you have to be one of the best basketball players in the world to be on the fringes of the NBA. And he's sitting there saying, like, okay, how about helping me? How about making me a better player? And he's in Minnesota, and, you know, maybe he doesn't get the attention that he was hoping for. Now he's in Boston and fighting for his NBA life. And here's Joe Missoula getting on him, riding him, like, just constantly. No, this is where you're supposed to be. You got to do this. You got to do that. The Minnesota game where he was like, josh, roll. Like, when he was setting the pick and roll, and Josh didn't know what he was supposed to do. He's learning. Josh is learning a new position. He's. He's playing the five. He's playing the four. He's playing the three. He's doing a lot of things in the NBA that he hasn't done before. And Joe is trying, like, like hell to coach him up as the game is going on. A lot more in game teaching that's going on. And Josh is like, yeah, I love it. Thank you. Thank you for, like, teaching me. I want to be taught. And that, I think, is the best attitude, because.
It'S not like I was taught early. When a coach is yelling at you, it's because he thinks you can do something. If you screw up and the coach doesn't yell at you, you're like either. You know, a superstar. Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, because what's he going to do? And even then, they might yell at you. But if you're like, a fringe player and the coach doesn't yell at you, then you probably be like, oh, damn, I better start packing my stuff. Because he doesn't care, and he isn't trying to teach me. He probably doesn't think I can do any better. So Joe getting on Josh, that's a sign of Joe saying, you are capable of all this stuff. I'm telling you, I'm coaching you to tell you to do all this stuff. And he does it in a way that Josh is like, yeah, let's go. Bring it on. And he said, I will yell right back at him. We love each other. That's a great relationship. I think the Josh Joe dynamic might be like my. My favorite little side story of this season, because I think Joe relishes the opportunity to Just really dig into a player like that. And I think Josh is so needing that guidance. So he can be the best basketball player he can be and have a. Have a long career, have a meaningful career, and by the way, make a few more million dollars, right? This is a job. This is what he wants to do. Like, this is. This is an opportunity. You got a lottery ticket in your hand, and they're telling you the winning numbers. Joe is telling you, these are the winning lottery numbers. Play those numbers and you got to go out on the court. That's how you play those numbers, by doing it on the court. Set a pick, roll. That's one of the winning numbers, right? Get in there. Offensive rebound. That's also one of the winning numbers. Make the right play, make the right pass, protect the ball. Don't turn it over. That's one of the winning numbers. You get enough of those, boom. Winning lottery ticket. Here's $5 million, $10 million or whatever. He's telling him, this is how you do it. So I love that dynamic. Here we are, 24 minutes of me talking, and Jalen Brown scored 30 points again. So that was also fun. Just a very casual, like, yeah, Jalen scored 30. I never really thought, like, there were a couple stretches. You're like, damn, he's pretty good. But I never sat there and thought like, whoa, Not. Not like a couple games ago where he had the. Like the triple double or his 40 point. Like, this was just like, yeah, oh, Look, Jalen's got 30, 38 and eight. He. He's done that, let me see. I think three times in his career.
38 and eight, his third career, and the 12th 30 point game of the season. You know how good you have to be to have, like, 38 and 8 and your 1230 point game of the season. Just be like, oh, yeah, Jalen did this. That's the kind of season that he's having. So, hey, look, Celtics get this. This great win.
I'm not too worried about the lull. Whatever. They got this win. They beat the Lakers. Beating the Lakers is great. And so that's. That's where we're going to end this show. Thank you so much for being a part of this. I do appreciate everybody who tunes in on a regular basis. Celtics are getting good. Like I said, four in a row. Nine of 12. They're sitting there. They're tied for fourth in the. In the Eastern Conference. So a lot more fans are starting to say, hey, let's start paying more attention to the Celtics. Thank you so much. Really do appreciate it. Stick around. This show is a Monday through Friday show. This is a bonus podcast. When they plan a Friday or Saturday, you'll get a bonus podcast. So thank you so so much for being here. Subscribe if you want to get into the YouTube comment section, please do that. Share your thoughts there and then. I would love it if you shared the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast. Here on the Lockdown Podcast Network is your team every day.
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Host: John Karalis
Release Date: December 6, 2025
Network: Locked On Podcast Network
This special episode, recorded at TD Garden after a Friday night blowout win, covers the Boston Celtics’ dominant 126-105 victory over the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers. John Karalis breaks down Boston’s four-game win streak, the context behind a “star-depleted” matchup, and standout performances from Jaylen Brown and Derrick White. The episode dives into defensive strategy, hot three-point shooting, young player development, and the dynamics between coach and rising role players.
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“This is now four wins in a row … This goes down as a win over a good team because the Lakers are 16 and 5 even though they didn’t have anybody, which I’ll get to in a second.” — John Karalis (02:33)
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“The NBA kind of screwed everybody by scheduling the Lakers in Toronto and the Celtics in Washington ... The Celtics can rest everybody ... the Lakers can rest everybody ... Then you get Luka gone and LeBron out for this game, so no star power. No star power.” — John Karalis (06:42–08:22)
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“The Celtics just focused on Austin Reaves. They won this game in the first quarter by picking up Austin Reaves full court.” — John Karalis (08:22)
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“Every time the Lakers made any sort of run, the Celtics just found a three-pointer somewhere. Derrick White found one in his pocket. He was five of ten, which was great to see him continue to shoot really well.” — John Karalis (14:40)
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“Jalen had a great quote afterwards. He’s like, ‘I don’t want to boost his head up too much. I don’t want him to start getting cute. He’s still got to take care of the details. He’s been doing a good job, but we’re going to need him to maintain that. So y'all don't boost his head up too much,’ which is exactly the right sentiment.” — John Karalis recounting Jalen Brown (19:15)
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“I will yell right back at him. We love each other. That’s a great relationship. I think the Josh–Joe dynamic might be my favorite little side story of this season…” — John Karalis quoting Minot and discussing the coaching dynamic (24:00)
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“Here we are, 24 minutes of me talking, and Jalen Brown scored 30 points again. So that was also fun. Just a very casual, like, yeah, Jalen scored 30. I never really thought, like, there were a couple stretches, you're like, damn, he's pretty good…” — John Karalis (24:38)
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