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Boston Celtics SHOULD NOT trade to help this year's team | Mailbag Q&A
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Boston Celtics weigh trade moves as Jaylen Brown reveals the extent of his wrist injury—should immediate title hopes shape Brad Stevens’ decision-making or is it time to play the long game? John Karalis opens the mailbag to address whether the Celtics should prioritize short-term upgrades or maintain roster continuity, and spotlights the emergence of surprise contributors like Neemias Queta and Jordan Walsh. Analysis centers on Anfernee Simons’ market value, the pros and cons of midseason trades, and why fourth-quarter execution is all about getting buckets. Plus, inside insight on Jaylen Brown’s candid injury admission, Joe Mazzulla’s tight-lipped approach, and what recent developments mean for Boston’s playoff positioning. Get must-hear perspective on Boston’s developing chemistry, potential trade targets, and the factors shaping the Celtics’ path in a season full of twists.
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John Corrales
We open up the mailbag to talk about making a trade for this season versus next season. Jaylen Brown giving up the details about his wrist injury and why I say fourth quarters are all about making buckets right now on the Lockdown Celtics Podcast.
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John Corrales
Home of the winner, baby. Hey, welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. Where does your team every day your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about the Boston Celtics every Monday through Friday. Plus bonus podcasts when they play on the weekends. Like they play this Friday. Nope, they play this Saturday at Atlanta. I will be in Atlanta for that game. So bonus podcast from the road. My first one from the road this season, so make sure you're subscribed. Wherever you get your podcast. Watch the show on YouTube if you're new to the show. I am John Corrales, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal. I have been doing a version of this job for about 20 years doing this podcast for 10 and I've written a couple of books about the team. Today is a mailbag. Normally, you know, in the off seasons it's Mailbag Monday, but try to sprinkle these in wherever I can throughout the season. So John corrales.com mailbag is the place to go to Submit your questions. John corrales.com SL mailbag so submit your questions. There And I answer them when I can. Also Just know that throughout the, throughout the, the, the weeks, people ask questions that I haven't been able to get to. I answer them kind of organically throughout the course of the podcast. So of course I want you to listen all the time, but just know that sometimes you ask questions that I do answer, sometimes somewhere else, just in the natural course of the podcast. Okay. Later on, we'll get into the fourth quarter scoring, making a trade with Anthony Simons, who's outperforming their expectations. Jalen Brown's wrist injury. We'll do that in the second segment. But first I want to get into Ted, who said the no ceiling quote from Brad is proving to be prophetic. Side note, he said he's not going to put any ceilings on this team. And so back to Joe, Ted's question. Joe is tinkered with this roster masterfully. It feels like playing it through with this group is the best option trade market for scoring guards is weak and if Simons is dumped for a bench warmer, it kind of will kill the mojo and who's going to score off the bench? So I, I, I have been saying all along there's no need to make a trade for this year. The Celtics should not be making a deal specifically to say this year's team is one player away, two players away. Whatever. We're going to make this year's, we're going to improve this year's team. The rumors that are out there, the only one that I think kind of bridges both this season and next season is the move for Evita Zubac, if it's available, that would address this year, that would address next year, and, and they could move forward. I think this year's team, this is, you know, we keep calling it a gap year, but I think what this, this is more like, is one of those, like, I forget what they call them. It's an episode of tv, like the, what do they call it? A capsule episode. So any show that you've watched, right, has what they call cannon. And each, each thing that happens in one show carries over to the next, right? If someone gets, you know, injured, that injury exists in the next episode. If there's a plot thing that happens, you, that happens in the next episode. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? They have these self contained, kind of like capsule episodes where it's just, it has nothing to do with the overall story. It's just a side story. It's like an individual thing. It's like one character just goes off to a different place and has an adventure. And then the next week they go back to their canon, carrying the story forward. That's what this season is mostly for the Celtics. This is just one kind of offshoot. Jaylen Brown is one of the characters of the championship Celtics and he is having his own episode, his own season of television in this Boston Celtics kind of canon. And he gets to be like the main guy and he gets to develop. And now some of this stuff does carry over. It's not that none of this is canon, but it. It's just this self contained. Bother making a trade specifically for the season. Don't bother making anything specific for this. You let these guys, you just do your thing. You're playing a different style. You're playing a whole different thing. Almost like a fantasy episode. Like, like the episode of Friends, I think, like a couple of episodes of Friends where things were so different and Monaco was still big and all of that stuff, but, you know, they all still end up with each other at the end. It was just like a fantasy episode. And that's kind of what this is. So, no, you don't have to tinker. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to make a move. Yes, let these guys play it out. Let these guys do their thing again. If an Evita Zubotz trade opens up, if a trade opens up for anybody else that makes next year's team better, but also helps this year's team, so, so be it. And if a team. If a trade opens up that makes next year's team better, but this year's team worse, you got to live with that, too. So. But mostly I just, I don't want. I don't want to kill the mojo. Like, I want these guys to feel like they are. They're being treated as like just a normal. Like you guys, you guys can, you know, do your thing and it's go, go wherever you go. You go first round, exit NBA Finals, whatever it is, you guys do it. You got it. So I'm not. I'm not going to. I don't want to disrupt it. But also keep in mind that you can't jeopardize the long term for doing something specific for this year that's going to kind of throw the rest of it off. Unless I keep. I keep like finishing a thought and then go, well, maybe. Unless there is absolutely like this window for a championship this year, which I don't see how it happens. But I don't know, Shay Gilders, Alexander gets hurt or something, Something happens. You know, a weird thing happens with another and things kind of go wide open and you have an opportunity like, oh, my God, now is the time, or, or I don't know. But there, there's always an exception to everything, but I, I'll, I'll leave it at that. Clayton asks thoughts on a Jay Huff. Jay Huff as a trade target. Seems like he'd be a great cheap center tap behind Kada and Garza, especially after watching him torch the Celtics. Yeah, I love this. This is a great phenomenon. Clayton, you're not alone, people. Whenever another guy at a position that the team needs goes off on the Celtics, people go, oh, I want that. And J. Huff has his strengths and weaknesses and can hit threes, he can block shots, and he's on a minimum deal. And the, the Pacers don't gain much from trading him. He's, he's good, but not so good that the Celtics are going to be like, hey, we'll give you a first round pick for him. No. Do you want to, you want to trade another minimum guy for him and give them a pick? Like a second round pick or, you know, a couple of second round picks? Like, like not great second round pick. Like, yeah, maybe. But I, I don't know what they would do, what they would need in order to make that deal worth it for them because again, minimum deal, why trade them? Why trade for, like, unless you're getting something like you're selling super high on him. So I, I, I think they would rather keep. He's on a minimum deal this year, minimum deal next year, and then a team option the year after that. So he's the exact type of like, cheap role player that a team like them would need for when Tyrese Halliburton comes back, they're gonna, look, they've, they're in a similar situation as the Celtics. They've got a superstar that's coming back from an Achilles injury. They're not gonna just dump somebody. They're already bad this year and they're already gonna have their pick. So keep the, the, you know, role players that are doing well and build around your stars with the cheap role players. So they're, he, he's not going anywhere. I'd be shocked if he goes anywhere. Okay, when we come back, why would Jaylen Brown give up any information about an injury the way he did? It's a good question. We're going to try to answer it when we come back. Now, I carry a lot of responsibility in my household. If something happened to me, there would be serious consequences. We have a mortgage, we get tuition, we got everyday bills. Those aren't going anywhere if something happens to me. And I know that's an overwhelming feeling, but I'm taking steps to protect my family by getting life insurance through Ethos. Ethos makes getting life insurance fast, easy and 100% online. You can get a quote in seconds, apply in minutes, and get same day coverage. 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Making Lockdown Celtics your first listen. Every day Locked on Celtics is number one Celtics podcast. Locked on podcast networks is the number one podcast network. So sports podcast network. So thank you so much. Every dayers who are with me every Monday through Friday who are with me on the bonus podcast, really do appreciate you. This podcast, the whole network being number one is incredible and thank you. It's all because of you. So thank you very much. Let's get back to the mailbag again. Mailbag questions come in@john corrales.com mailbag and I will be expanding the mailbag.
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John Corrales
I'll announce that more next week, but John corralis.com mailbag to get your questions in, Nick asks, hey, John, why would Jalen divulge information about his wrist injury that he's been dealing with over the years? Knowledge is power, and isn't that giving his opponents an advantage? Knowing that, Is this a question from Nick or is this a question from Joe Missoula? Yeah, you know what, we were all surprised. I was talking to Jay King because J. King from the Athletic, who did this podcast years ago with me, asked the question about his, you know, asked a question about his left hand and just improving his left hand, didn't even ask about the injury. And all of a sudden Jalen just went into this whole big thing of, you know, yeah, you know, this and that, and I tore every ligament. And he mentioned this on his stream, but he went into great detail here and, you know, yeah, it is. I mean, as a person who likes to get information from players, I was very happy to hear. All that stuff is incredible at the same time. Yeah, you know, like Joe, Joe Missoula would say, Joe is so close to the vest with everything. He, if he perceives that he can gain any edge at all, the slightest tiniest, little, teensy teensy edge, he will try to take it. And so I'm sure having heard Jalen go through all that stuff, he was like, why? Don't know. Don't say that stuff. And I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be surprised at all. I have no inside knowledge of this at all. But I wouldn't be surprised if he went to jail and like, hey, man, don't give people information about your injuries. Don't let them know that if they hit your wrist, you won't be able to move it, because what's going to happen Game one of a Playoff series, and he goes up. You don't think somebody's going to say, hey, man, if Jalen's going up, take the foul and just slap at that left wrist, really target it. And I just, you know what? Watch for it. We should clip this, you know, on January 15th and say, okay, April, whatever. First game, is someone going to target Jalen's left wrist? And let's see how that goes, because he said if you hit it the right way, it won't be able to move for a couple of weeks. So this is like the push and pull, because I want to hear all of this stuff. I want all this information. Joe definitely doesn't want it out there. And part of the reason why guys don't give information is they don't want bulletin board material. They don't want to give out advantages and all that stuff. So from that perspective, I don't know. A big shrug for me, I have no idea. But I appreciate Jalen kind of being more open. Chris asks, since this has been a surprisingly, surprisingly successful start to the season, which Celtics have outperformed expectations the most this year? Well, since we're talking about Jalen, I think Jalen is one. Maybe not at the top of the list, but outperforming expectations in that I thought he would be good in a number one role, but this good, like third on the NBA's MVP ladder. That's incredible. So he definitely deserves credit for outperforming his expectations. I think maybe the biggest answer, though, is Namish Keita. Again, I know that there are some Neemi fans who you're sitting there listening and being like, no, I knew it. Okay. I appreciate you saying that. You knew it. I think that there is a lot of faith going on there. And I. I still will say that the general expectation was not this. He's been incredibly effective. His progression has been phenomenal. He has. I mentioned this the other day after the. After the Pacers game, his ability to get in and out of screens, to recognize the timing, when to hold it, when to get out of it, angles, stuff like that, it's not always perfect, but his progression there has been really, really good. His finishing has been pretty good. His defense has been pretty good. Like, he's. He's shown himself to be a viable contributor, a part of the rotation in the NBA, where last year he wasn't playable at times, and that was shown by Joe Missoula sitting him out. So a ton of improvement there. And then you have guys like Jordan Walsh, who I was saying, you know, at Some point, like last year, I talked about, I was out on Jordan. I was out on Jordan after summer league, and he kind of, like, brought me back in, and I was like, okay. You know, like, he's. His progression was definitely, I think, a big step forward. And then, you know, I. I think. I think Josh Minot, Luca Garza, like, to some degree. But as far as the guys, like, from last year, the expectations, I think number one outperformer was Neemi. I would even put Jalen number two, and I put Jordan number three. Andrew, speaking of Jordan says Jordan Walsh looks more dialed in this season. Has he become a smarter basketball player or just a more experienced one? Yes, and experience makes you smarter. That's. That's part of time and development. And, you know, the story I always like to tell is, you know, the. The story of the black belt in martial arts, where when martial arts began, they didn't used to wash their belts. They'd wash their. Their ghee, their robes, but they wouldn't wash the belts. And the most experienced people are the ones with the dirtiest belts. And that's how you get to the black belt, and that's how you get the progression. And that's kind of like what Jordan is experiencing. The, you know, going from a white belt to a yellow belt to a brown belt. You know, like that type of progression of. As a basketball player, the experience is what makes you smarter. The. The kind of confidence that you build, the humility that you build. All of that stuff makes you smarter. He is a better basketball player than he was a year ago. And the opportunity is what helps as well, getting that opportunity. Jordan might have been cut if Jason Tatum wasn't hurt. Like, that's. That's a. It's okay to say that because it's. Sometimes you need that kind of luck. Sometimes you need a thing to break your way. And there's nothing wrong with that. Just how it is. You know, an event happens. You don't root for an event to happen, but an event happens. Happens. Right. Whatever it is, you know, was it. Mo Lewis hits Drew Bledsoe and nearly kills him. And Drew has to go to the hospital, and Tom Brady steps in, and he becomes the greatest quarterback of all time. Now, you'd think at some point he would have won that job anyway, but in that moment, he didn't root for anything to happen, but he stepped in and he got the job and he became Tom Brady. Like, that thing sometimes happens to players. You don't know when a guy is going to. When a person is going to experience an event and benefit from that event, positive or negative. So I do think a few things have gone Jordan's way now. He has been a little up and down recently, but he has shown that I think he can play a role on this team moving forward. He has the opportunity to carve out rotation minutes with the Celtics and if for some reason not with the Celtics, he's proven that somewhere he can, he can stick in the NBA. Like, I don't think his standing in the NBA is in jeopardy anymore. So all of that stuff, all of it has played into Jordan, like the hard work, the opportunity, the experience, all of it, the coaching, you know, he, he deserves a ton of credit for, for sticking with it, the team, his teammates deserve credit for sticking with him and pumping him up, the coaches for developing him, the team, for keeping him, you know, circumstances, a little bit of luck. You need all of that stuff in this stew, in this gumbo to come together and make it taste good. And that's where Jordan Walsh is. All right, we're going to come back, we're going to talk about Anthony Simons and the market, his trade market. 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Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. I would love it if you became a member of the Everydayer club. The Everyday club has ad free audio access to our Discord server. Merchandise drops. All of that stuff is there at lockedonseltics.supercast.com lockdown celtics.supercast.com 5 bucks a month or if you want to pay in advance, 50 bucks for the year. That gets you a couple of months free. So go check that out wherever you go. Check it out. Locked on celtics.supercast.com all right, back to the mailbag again. Mailbag questions come in@john corrales.com mailbag john corrales.com mailbag and again next week I'll announce that, you know, I guess some announcements coming up, but expanding the mailbag is, is one thing that's going to happen for sure. So John corralis.com mailbag get your questions in. I will be answering them for you. Okay. Ted wants to know about trading Anthony Simons. Does Anthony strengthen the market for his services or become too expensive to keep in free agency next year? I'm not sure how to think about this now. I have mentioned this a bit. I think Simons is playing well enough where he may outpace what the Celtics can offer him. But also like there's, there are other factors here. Who has cap space? Not a lot of teams. Where are they looking to spend their money? Where have they spent their money already? And what could Simons demand? What could he get and what role is he going to get? I have been very vocal about this. I think Anthony Simons mid level deal. So that's what, 12, $13 million a year. It's not anywhere near what he's making now. But he, I don't think he's going to make $20 million a year. I think those days that economy has passed nowadays. I think what he, what he can provide is, I mean maybe some team can give him 15 million but the cap space to give him 15 million, it's, it's not Out. It's not out there from a lot of teams. Brooklyn has it, a couple other teams can have it. Depending on the moves that they make. It's easier to, I think for Simons, you can do a two year deal, right? Two years at the mid level. The Celtics can keep him around at a tradable number. If they need him to be traded, you can get the six man production from him. He can step in and start for Jason or Jalen if they need him to. I think there are a lot of advantages for Simons coming back at the mid level. So I, I don't think he's going to make 27 million. You know, the second apron era has changed. Got what guys are going to make and I think Simon's actually one of those guys that, you know, he's got, he's got Jaylen Brown, vice president of the players association there. He might, he might get into Jalen Brown's ear and be like, hey, this thing is costing me a lot of money. Why did we do this? And they could have a lot of conversations. But I think Simon is one of those guys that is going to go from the mid-20s to the mid teens as far as what he can make. And you know, in the grand scheme of things, no one's crying like, oh God, poor Guy is making $15 million a year to play basketball. But hey, you know, if you, if you lost $10 million a year in anything, it's still a lot of money. But that's where I think he goes. I think, I think there's a very strong argument to be made for keeping him at that level. If it's possible at all. I would love to see it. Jim says my question relates to your quote, the fourth quarter is all about getting buckets and the tactics of slowing down the game at the end. Would you rather kill clock, play against a set defense or run a fast break with a chance to score against cross matches and maybe be at 5 instead of 3 and then trust your defense. My eye test across the league often tells me that most teams, coaches, players prefer the first option. While I'm screaming at the tv, why are you not running after a long rebound or leak out? Okay, it depends. As always, a lot of this stuff, the answer is it depends. What, who do you have on your team? What kind of defense are you facing? Are you going up against Rudy Gobert or Victor Women Yama or you're going up against a team without a big traditional, big. What are you trying to accomplish? I am a proponent of still Pushing the ball and probing. But I also understand that being a little bit more conservative at that point. Very much like a financial plan in your, you know, as you're growing older, in your younger days, when you're in your 401k and you want to, you can take the big wild risks because like in basketball, the turnover in the first quarter, that leads to a run out, okay, we got 40 minutes to make up for that. In your 20s and 30s, you got a lot of time to make up for the wild swings of the market. When you get to be my age and older, you start to take a more conservative approach. You're like, I really don't want to be losing any money right now. I want to invest in safe things because I've put money in all this time. I've built up a lead with my money, and now I'm just going to invest in things that I just want to make money. I just want to make baskets. I want to get buckets here. And then at the end of the game, I want to leave with a big lead and not be, you know, prone to the wild swings. Follow me. You don't want to do things that are going to cause a lot of turnovers. You don't want to take, like, yes, you want to run out after the long rebound, but you don't want to take some of the chances with some of the long lead passes. You don't want to put yourself in a position where the other team makes a hustle play a crazy play. You want to. The game naturally slows down because you want to limit the mistakes. If you have great individual scorers, you want to put them in position to make their plays and so draw to swing the ball and then attack, make a pass, that's fine. But a lot of times, this is where the pigeon hunting comes in. This is where Jalen wants the matchup. And I've got Duncan Robinson on me, and I'm going to go score against Duncan Robinson because I'm Jalen Brown and I'm an MVP candidate and Duncan Robinson sucks at defense. That's. That's where you want your fourth quarters to go. And if you can find a team with a weakness that has those guys out there, that's more preferable. You pay your stars to make these plays. And so there, there is absolute merit. I want to see some offense run. I want to see picks and plays and I want to see them execute. But also, you can't get too crazy with it because you absolutely want to limit the mistakes and you want to give the guys who can make the baskets the chance to make their baskets. However they do it, they do it. If there is opportunity to run, sure, absolutely do it. Go out, get your layup, come back and defend. But got to be sure. You've got to be sure. And at that point in the game, fourth quarter, mid, you know, five minutes left, four minutes left, three minutes left, I'd rather, you know, air on the side of caution and hey, you know, right we, we might have made that pass, but let's just walk the ball up, set our offense and, and find the matchup, the cross whatever the, the, the weak spot is and attack that. That's the theory. That's how it goes. But the, you know, you don't always just slow it down. If there are opportunities to do it, you do it. You know, you run, you set your picks, set your offense, run some off ball actions. There's nothing wrong with off ball actions. Like do something that could maybe spring somebody open. Like absolutely take that chance because you get two guys on the left side while the ball is on the right side and somebody gets confused and someone makes a cut, you can make that pass no problem and get an easy bucket. So you still have to do that stuff. You're just going to be more careful. That's the fourth quarter. But make the buckets for. I don't care how you get buckets in the fourth quarter, just get the buckets with a lead, if you've got a lead. You just got to get the buckets. The team, the other team can't come back if you're scoring. Finally, Zoltaro, who's not the, that's not the real name, but that's the name you put in. I like that Zoltaro specified. This is not my real name because I guess I would say, wow, what a cool name. Zoltaro, very complimentary here said, which this is my question, which is kind of random. How much, if at all, do the various lockdown hosts ever get together? Are there certain other hosts that you know? Well, I know obviously everyone is probably pretty spread out across the country. But just curious, I like ending on these fun questions. You can ask these questions, by the way. You can ask fun, silly, you know, a little more personal, a little bit more me centered or fun centered, whatever, which I save for like the last question on these mailbags. Excuse me, but we don't like, we are all in our individual cities for the most part. Like some people do cover a certain team from a different city because a lot of people. I'm, I am one of a growing number of hosts, but not all of the hosts are able to do this full time. This is my full time job. And so some people do this as a side thing, which is what I used to do. And luckily thanks to you, the show has grown where I can do it full time. But I do know some of the, the hosts better than I know some of the others. Very good friends. Why Jake Madison, who I, I do Locked on NBA Game Night with on Wednesdays, which, hey, if you missed last night's games, you know, I'm, I'm there at this point when you're listening to it two, two podcasts ago. But regardless, I just went to his wedding a few weeks ago, so know each other very well. Jeff Garcia, Locked on spurs, one of my best friends. I know, I know some of these other guys, you know, Tony East, Locked On Pacers. I've hung out like, I, I tend to like Wes with Locked On Locked On Heat. Wes Goldberg, Locked On Heat guys that I will chat with. You know, I know to some degree, but there are people that I, I don't know very well. But you know, as I go to new cities, like we'll, we'll hang out. We haven't done like a big like get together, you know, conference, but maybe, maybe we should, maybe that's going to be the next thing that we do. But there are a lot of lockdown hosts across, like all of it. We got hundreds at this point, so. But it's really cool. It's really cool and I appreciate how, how much we've grown and the NBA channel is, it is a pretty tight knit channel for the most part. The NBA host, we have our, our group chats and all of that stuff and even people I haven't met in person, I've talked to on video chats forever. So it is really cool. They're all, they're all really top notch people. Like we, we're really lucky. The, the Locked on podcast network, the Locked on NVA side is, is full of great, great hosts. Matt George, who no longer does Locked On Kings because he got a radio gig out there and does a podcast for the radio station, was awesome. Those are the types of people that, that are on this network. So that's why we're number one. It really is why we're number one. Because this is like a group of people that are passionate and really good, good at their jobs, but good people. So thank you for that question, Zoltaro. Thank you everybody. Again, Mailbag questions come in@johncarales.com mailbag the mailbag will be expanding. I'll get more to that next week, so make sure you submit the questions there. Many more questions will be answered moving forward. So thank you for the questions that have come in, and thank you for the questions that are going to come in. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. If you want to be part of the Everyday or club lockdown celtics.supercast.com 5 bucks a month or 50 bucks for the year gets you ad. Free audio gets you access to our Discord server. Merchandise drops and all that stuff. Now I would love it if you share the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast here in the Lockdown Podcast networks your team.
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