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Boston Celtics Offense DOMINATES, Nikola Vucevic SHINES in best game in Boston
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Boston Celtics storm into the All-Star break with a rejuvenated offense and breakout performances from unexpected contributors. Can this momentum vault them to the top of the Eastern Conference? John Karalis of Celtics On SI spotlights Nikola Vucevic's near-flawless showing—19 points, 11 rebounds, and elite ball movement—while examining how his presence transforms the team’s cutting and passing game. Jordan Walsh impresses with relentless defense, timely cuts, and high-energy hustle, staking his claim as a key rotation piece. Key discussions center on Jaylen Brown’s aggressive start, Payton Pritchard’s sixth-man impact, and shifting lineup dynamics with Jayson Tatum’s impending return. Karalis also breaks down the Chicago Bulls’ struggles, Anfernee Simons’ quiet night back in Boston, and what Vucevic’s role signals for Luka Garza’s future minutes. With the Celtics riding high at 35-19, are they poised for a second-half surge? Don’t miss this sharp analysis of Boston’s evolving tit...
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Wherever you get your podcast, watch a show on YouTube and you'll see me here at TD Garden, not at the floor because that's being changed over since the Celtics are at their all star break. But I am up here at the sports museum on the 9th floor at TD Garden hanging out with my guys. Ted Williams, Larry Bird, Bobby Orr back there, Kalya Stremsky, Harry againis just my my friends up here. I'm John Corrales, the non wooden guy, although people might not know that. I am a beat writer covering the Celtics for Sports illustrated. Celtics on SI. Been covering the team for about 20 years doing this podcast for 10. I've written a couple books about the team as well. The Celtics get the easy win. It was a little sloppy at the beginning, but generally an easy win for the Celtics later on. Simons we'll talk about him a little bit. He I Guess revenge game opportunity. But that didn't go well. Individual performances like Jordan Walsh, Derrick White, Jalen Brown, Pritchard Vuch. We'll get to him in a few minutes here, Brad. Probably save that for middle of the first, second segment or so. But let's just start this with this. The, the offense back on track, I think is my biggest takeaway. The Celtics have had a couple of bad performances. They. Their offensive rating for the season is up above 120. But in the last game against New York, it was about 94.95. That's bad. You know, 90, that's per 100 possession. So if you don't know what an offensive rating is, most of you do, but if you don't, it's 100 possessions. So when it's 85, 95 points per 100 possessions is awful. Horrible. Historically that it was 106 in the game prior to that. This one was 127, 127.36. It was their highest in a month and their 13th highest of the season. So to me, for a team that's kind of struggling a little bit offensively since the trade deadline, this was a nice kind of get back game. Now, the Chicago Bulls, let's be fair, let's be reasonable here are an awful mess. They are. They're sure doesn't make any sense anymore. They're. They, you know, get a million guards, they got no bigs. They were, you know, out there. Who I don't think is, I'll put it this way. I feel like when he was in, in Philly in New York, he was enjoying some of the local cuisine a little bit, which is, you know, easy for me to say, but I'm not the one that's in the NBA, so he's not looking great regardless. The Bulls do not look great. The Bulls were missing a couple of guys. They're missing Josh Giddey, they were missing Isaac Okaro. They're missing other guys. So I'm not going to pretend like this was some big impressive win. Like, oh man, you know, Celtics look great. Yeah, you're supposed to look great. But they came out and they took care of business like they're supposed to. They did what they're supposed to do and that's beat them. Beat the pants off of a disjointed, shorthanded team that's going to be fighting for the play in again. The, the offense could have been in situations like this. Offense very easily. Could be, hey, you know what? Bulls suck. Let's ISO. Let's go, you know, whatever. No, lots of ball movement. That was great to see, crisp ball movement. With one possession where Vuch had it at the top, kicked it inside, it swung out to the corner, up to the wing, back around up top. The guy who passed it, who gave it up got it back. I love, love, love when those plays happen because it's something I remember a couple of years ago when I was imploring Jalen and Jason, give the ball up, you will get it back. Trust me. Trust the offense. I love when that stuff happens. That is beautiful basketball. And the basketball gods reward Vuch with an easy straight on three pointer that he nailed. He was four or five from three. He finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds. The the ball movement. And it wasn't just that play. There was a lot of good ball movement. There was a lot of looking for each other. There was a lot of cutting. I'm a big fan of the cutting. People who have been here with me throughout my 10 years of podcasting know that when I see a good backdoor cut or, you know, whatever variety of cuts that there are, when I see a guy cut to the basket, I love it. I love when it gets rewarded. Beautiful stuff there. So it's important to kind of take this kind of feeling into the All Star break. There's no such thing as momentum. There's no such thing as carrying it over to the wet. At that point, it's a week later, any momentum is gone. But you know, it's just a good feeling to be in the locker room. Everybody's kind of having fun, joking around, enjoying themselves. That's a nice vibe to take into the All Star break. So nice to see that offense kind of clicking the way that it was. And a quick look at the standings here. The Celtics remain a half game up on the New York Knicks, who beat. Sorry, I just saw the final score. I know they were up big. I didn't see the final score. Oh, my. 138, 289. The Knicks beat the Sixers. Wow, I thought this was an easy game. The Knicks. Okay, so the Celtics go into the all star break. 35 and 19. Really nice. A half game up, one game in the lost column there ahead of the Knicks, a game and a half ahead of the Cavs, who are slowly kind of creeping up. They've won five in a row after beating the Wizards. So they're nine and one in their last 10. The Celtics are seven and three in their last 10. This is a nice kind of bounce back from their kind of 500 January playing 500 Ball January. Vuch was. It took him a little bit to kind of get into the flow of the game. I'm certainly not going to call this a revenge game. I don't think you can call it revenge when he was very open to leaving Chicago. So he. I don't think he was broken up about it. If anything, this was a thank you game. You know, hey, guys, I'm gonna put you out of your misery early. This is me at my best. Thank you for trading me here. Look at how happy I am that that's probably the best way to classify what this game was for Vuch. He obviously was making shots. Everybody for the Celtics was making shots. So this was, you know, to combat with some of the really terrible shooting that they've had recently. They. They came in and everybody shot well. They shot almost 52%, 40% from 3. 18 of 45, weirdly, 8 of 13 from the line, but whatever doesn't matter in a game like this. They. They put up six more field goal attempts. They won the margin there. They. They just shot well, played well. 20 or how many assists. 29 assists on the 49 baskets. And Vuch was. Was smooth. He looked good. It wasn't a dominant performance. He just steady performance, got there on the boards, was passing really well. He had three. Double. Check that number. Three assists. Yeah. 19 points, 11 rebounds, three assists, three offensive rebounds. By the way, a steal and two blocks. He had two blocks, like, within a minute. My favorite quote from the night is actually from Jordan Walsh, who I'll get to in a second. But Jordan was, like, talking about the offense, and he saw. Yeah. Something about V. He's. Oh, man, I love this guy. Every time I see him out there, I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna be cutting all the time. And I know he's gonna be looking for me, which says a lot, by the way, because he's been on the floor with a lot of people, and this is the first time I've heard him say about anybody, oh, I'm just gonna cut all the time, because I know this guy's gonna be looking for me. This Celtics team does not cut well. And I think that this kind of Jordan quote sheds some light onto everything, because why cut if they're not going to find you? The Celtics do not run a lot of that stuff, because who's going to find them? They don't have a lot of that. And a lot of those cutters run through the big. So great job by Walsh saying, hey, if Vuch has it low post, high post, depending on where he's positioned, it depends. That kind of influences the angle of your cut. But knowing that if you do see an opening and you go for it, that Vuch will try to find you. He had one awesome. Just thread the needle from the top of the key was in the second half of the third quarter. Booch got it at the top and just snuck this little pass right down the lane. Jordan went in, finished the dunk. It was beautiful. So Buck was. Was just. I think everything you want him to be was on display. I think this was kind of like the perfect. Everything you want all of these guys to be. So Vuch talked about it after the game, how he was comfortable because you got to practice and just. You got to go through things and see how they're supposed to work rather than be shown how they're supposed to work, right? You get to. You get to do it and be like, no, your positioning is here. No, you're. We're. This is the timing. This is what we're looking for, all of that stuff. So to get that practice kind of just set. A lot of the lessons that he's been. He's learning, and now you get to go into the All Star break. He said it's good. Obviously, he's going to be looking to get off his feet a little bit in the All Star break, but now he gets to process a lot of that stuff. He gets to go through some film, he gets to talk to some, you know, text the coach, text the player, text whomever and say, okay, I just saw this. What am I supposed to do here? Whatever. So this is good. It was good to see Vuch handle this, have this game this way, and all good stuff from Vuch. I just mentioned Jordan Walsh. I think this was the perfect Jordan Walsh game. We'll get into that when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by TurboTax. Tax season does not have to take over your life. 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Now I would love for you to check out the every DARE club you get, every ad free audio for Lockdown Celtics compatible with Apple, Spotify and every other major podcast app you get the everyday Club Discord server group chat just for Lockdown Celtics listeners. So check that out as well. We got a whole lot more in there. So it's five bucks a month, 50 bucks for the year. Check it out at lockdownceltics.super locked on celtics.supercast.com I'll drop a link there in the show Notes Looking at the individual performances, Jordan Walsh stands out because he's he hasn't had many of these games recently, but 16 points, 7 of 12 shooting, 6 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 block shots. This is the absolute perfect Jordan Walsh game. And it's not even about the scoring. But the scoring came from a couple of things. Offensive rebounds, couple of put back dunks, cuts. That that's a great way. I don't know. I I'm going to go back on the cuts thing because I don't understand why more people don't have this Jordan Walsh mentality, especially with a guy like V out there. But just in general Cut. And if they don't find you, it's going to show up on the film. It's going to show up in the, in the coaching film and in film sessions. If they miss you, that's not your fault, that's their fault. But anyway, getting those cuts, taking the open shots, that stuff, not forcing the issue. I don't think he forced anything. Maybe one drive and that's, that's like super nitpicky. He cut, did all the good stuff. A steal, a poke, poke free, get out there in transition, dunk. That's exactly what you want Jordan Walsh to do. Again, three steals, two block shots, defending well, finishing plays, a couple of assists, so he's moving the ball. I. This, this Jordan Walsh is a guy that you can look at in the future and say, yeah, this is, this is somebody that you want on the floor. You kind of need him on the floor. In the. Whatever configuration the Celtics put together in the Jason Tatum, fully. Jason Tatum fully. Jalen Brown, next season, championship contender type of team, that should include Jordan Walsh, because he gets to go out there and guard the other guys. The other team's best guy. He, he can go out there and be disruptive. He can be a pick setter, a ball mover, a, A cutter, all of that stuff. He doesn't need the ball. He doesn't need to be. You're not going to run plays for him. He's just going to do all those little things. His crashing is elite. His defense can be elite. So that kind of stuff. Jordan Walsh, when we talk about, how do you put this team together next year with the right ancillary pieces, with the right guys who don't make a lot of money, comparatively speaking. I mean, he's making a couple million dollars. It's a lot of money. But comparatively speaking, in NBA terms, he's cheap. And that's what you need in this league right now. You need the cheap guys who can perform. And that's Jordan. That's Hugo Gonzalez, who didn't play well today, but you need that guy. You need a Baylor Shireman who was solid today. But Jordan, I have to, I have to commend him, and I had to start with him. Even though Jalen was awesome and Peyton was awesome. The guy who stands out like that on the, the outlier quote, unquote, you have to start with him because I just. This type of performance is what you hope for forever. Now, obviously, Jalen, Jalen was incredible early on. I think that. And Jalen didn't talk afterwards, which is you know, good for him. Take a break. Go to the All Star. Go to All Star Weekend. You don't have to answer all the media questions. That, that's fine. Love it. Goodbye. Have fun out there in la. But I think what Jalen did was super aggressive early. When the Celtics started out a little sloppy, it was a little turnover prone. The Bulls did have a five point lead at one point and then the Celtics whipped off like this monster. It ended up being like a 32 to 8 run to blow the game open. But it was a 14, 4 run in the first quarter to end the first quarter. So ending the first quarter, well, super important. But Jalen was there. He was the one that was in there kind of doing a lot of the damage. Peyton Pritchard as well in the first quarter. They combined for 22 in the first quarter. But Jalen just, you know, hitting, getting to his spots, aggressive, getting to the rim, all of that. Perfect. Not exactly perfect perfect, but really just high level. Jalen Brown game. And then I think he just kind of backed off, you know, 24 points. He probably could have had 30 plus, but I think he backed off. He saw the opportunity for Vuch to get his, his chances and I think Jalen just kind of said, yeah, you know what? Peyton came off a bad game. Jordan was doing his thing. Vuch was getting comfortable. Jalen just said, hey, I, this is my take on the game. I think Jalen just said, hey, you know what I'm gonna take, I'm gonna dial back the intensity from 10 to 8 just to let these other guys go and do their thing. And, and Jalen didn't feel the need to just go out there and dominate. And you know, you get to. At the same time, maybe you're feeling a little sore. He's got ice all over his body. He had his right elbow kind of iced up, taped up, all of that stuff like big Ace bandage after the game. So I, I feel like Jalen was just. I did enough. I got us through that tough early first quarter. Pritchard came in and was great and Jalen had like a little stretch later on too. But once Vuch and once the rest of the offense was going, Jalen just, hey, good, you guys, you guys got it. We're good. Pritchard, same thing was coming off he in, in the six man role is I, I said this on one of the recent podcasts. He's born to. For, for that role. He did a really good job, but he had a rough one against New York and in this One comes in 11 of 18, three of eight from three, 26 points, eight assists. He did have five turnovers, you know, a couple of, couple of live ball ones. Not great. But 5 rebounds, 26 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and good shooting. So Pritchard just good off the bench again. The Celtic, everybody shot well for the Celtics. I mean, Ron harper was over two, you know, whatever. That, that's fine. Ugo 0 for 1. Garza came in late, 0 for 1. Garza didn't play. And this is something that I've been talking about here and I think this is, we saw it come to fruition. Luca Garza is just, I think the odd man out here. Vuch does a lot of the stuff that Garza does and he has just, just a higher level offensive player. And I think this is a little bit more indicative of how this is going to go. I'll talk about that. I'll talk about the Vuch lineup stuff and then get to Anthony Simons when we come back. 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Check out Locked on NBA Locked on NBA game night. Game Night covers every game, every night, seven days a week. I'm there on Wednesdays with Jake Madison from Lockdown Pelicans. Locked on NBA has all the big stories from the association. Whoa, wrong button again. I'm on a bad streak with these wrong buttons. Anyway, go check those out. So Luca Garza didn't play until like the last six minutes. And I just feel like this is how it's gonna go with him. And I, I, I'm eventually, I eventually think, and I said this on the podcast, was it yesterday? Day before that? I think Vuch will end up starting. I want to pair him with Derrick White, but I also want to pair him with Jason Tatum, who eventually will start, but maybe not when he's, you know, back right away. So I, I do wonder if keeping Vuch on the bench right now is part of the. Hey, Jason is coming back, which as I've said, Jason is coming back. Like you don't. He has, he hasn't said it. The Celtics haven't announced anything, but I've put out the signs. I know that the media thing is a big deal. He don't. He doesn't talk to the media because he wants to. He talks to the media because he has to. And the fact that he had to talk, he's back to practice, that means he had to talk to the media when he did that. That's part of the return to play policy. They are preparing for Tatum to come back. So even though we don't, we haven't heard definitively from him, even though we haven't heard a date or anything like that, they are preparing for Tatum to come back, which means Vuch maybe on the bench until Tatum comes back. Because Tatum is going to need somebody to work with on the bench and Vuch might be the guy. They want to pair them together for as long as they can. So when Tatum is coming back and working through whatever minutes restriction, there will be a minutes restriction. I think Vuch is going to be there with him in those minutes. So I think, even though I said Vuch should start, and I do believe he should start, I don't think he's going to start until Jayson Tatum starts. So I think there's a little something there with him and Tatum and working with him and getting Tatum some openings and some easier drives to the basket and all of that stuff. Because I think Tatum's going to have to come off the bench when he starts, when he returns. And because it's going to be like a 20 minute, it'll be an. It'll definitely be a minute's restriction. He's going to have to ramp himself up after ramping himself up. So that's just something to watch for with Vuch. And I think that just means Luca Garza is kind of the odd man out right now. But you never know. Maybe, maybe Vuch needs a day off or maybe somebody is foul trouble or maybe there's just a matchup that, that is advantageous. As Joe Missoula has shown us, you just never know when somebody is gonna play. So whatever I say, I believe is true. But Joe can also be like, yeah, curveball. I expected this to be a big Anthony Simons game. It was good to see him. He. He didn't talk before the game. He didn't talk after the game. He talked at shoot around in the morning and basically said that Brad Stevens is, you know was up front, was honest. He loves Brad. If an opportunity came up to come back to Boston, he'd be all for it. And so something to keep in mind where the Celtics, when he's a free agent, they can resign him. They can sign him as a free agent. They do have the full mid level at their disposal. Maybe there, maybe that's an option. Maybe you bring him back at that mid level and then you trade for somebody using that 27.7. It's so it'd be so incredible because it doesn't change the fact that they have that exception. You can if you sign him back and use the exception that he, that he created by being traded away to bring in a guy. It's like you traded Simons for Simons in a weird way. But he didn't play well on this one. I thought he was going to go off for 40. He didn't. He had nine or seven. What was the final on seven points on three of nine shooting one of six. I actually, it felt like he was aggressive coming out and his shot didn't fall and I think he just kind of like retreated a little bit. So not, not what I expected from Simons. And we didn't get to hear from him afterwards to see if anything, you know, being in Boston kind of changed how he approached the game or anything like that. But it was good to see him and it was nice, you know, he got introduced. No, no tribute video or anything. He wasn't here long enough. But they introduced him last with the Bulls and they put up a nice thank you graphic on the, on the thing. So a nice gesture but for a guy that was here for half a season, that's about what you get. So now the Celtics head into the all Star break. I'll do a mailbag tomorrow. Now it's important. First of all. Johncarales.com mailbag I did post a mailbag on SI, so go to the Celtics on SI page. Maybe I'll drop the link in the show notes here. But I did post a a mailbag so a few of you asked questions. Go check it out on Celtics on si so there are a few answers there. I'll drop the link in the show notes. I'll mention it again tomorrow. Johncarales.com mailbag to get the questions in. I have a bunch of questions. The reason why I'm doing both and I'm sorry, maybe some people aren't. I haven't heard anything but I know, I know I asked for mailbag questions for the podcast and Now I'm putting them somewhere else and but it's, it's the only way I can do it to try to get to more. I'm, I'm just trying to get to as many of these questions as possible. And so that's kind of my solution. So thank you for submitting them. A few of them are on SI right now. More of them will be answered on tomorrow's podcast, so tune in for that. Thank you for being here for this. 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