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Celtics DOMINATE Memphis as Derrick White and Payton Pritchard BREAK Out of Slump
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Boston Celtics crush the Memphis Grizzlies with Derrick White and Payton Pritchard fueling a 36-point blowout. Can momentum from this explosive performance spark a season turnaround? The team finally finds rhythm as White delivers a signature stat line and Pritchard snaps a slump—was his new haircut a lucky charm or did Memphis’s struggles open the door? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal spotlights standout showings from Jaylen Brown, Neemias Queta, and Jordan Walsh, dissecting how key execution and lineup adjustments transformed the game. Major topics include the Celtics’ improved rebounding and second chance points, Joe Mazzulla’s deep bench rotation, and the scheduling grind’s impact. The conversation previews pivotal matchups against the LA Clippers and Brooklyn Nets, raises critical questions about Boston’s path to playoff relevance, and breaks down individual player development. Will the Celtics stack more wins and climb into the Eastern Conference’s top tier?
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Celtics needed this win. Derek White was awesome. Peyton Pritchard got his hair cut and that worked for him too. Explain it all right now on a Lockdown Celtics Podcast. Be ever ready. It's the seas. Who else could it be? What they going to say now screaming like J.T. corralis recap the madness every game, every practice, prime time, Jeop and D. White on the sideline, Ren and J. How it started raising Ben. That's how we finish. Locked on Celtics pod. Home of the winners. Welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics PO Podcast right here in the Lockdown Podcast Network where it's your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them every Monday through Friday plus bonus podcasts when they play in the weekend, which won't be until next week when they play on a Friday night. Every show is free. Every show is available everywhere. It's everywhere because this is the number one sports podcast network in the world. So thank you every dayers for making that possible every day or you're with me every Monday through Friday. So thank you so much. So much. I'm John Corralis, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal. I have been covering the team for about 20 years now. I've been doing this podcast for 10. I've written a couple of books about the team. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. New customers. You bet five bucks you get $300 in bonus bets. When your first $5 bet win, sign up@fanduel.com Celtics get a big win. I'm here at TD Garden. If you're watching on YouTube, which you should be doing, you can get to the comment section and share your thoughts with me. You can see behind me, the floor is still down. The Celtics wiped that floor with the Memphis Grizzlies, or what's left of the Memphis Grizzlies. They're in competition with like, New Orleans is the biggest dumpster fire in the, in the league, but Celtics get this win by 36. Later on, we'll get to some of the individual performances that are not Derrick White and Peyton Pritchard, because they're going to be right up near the top. But Namish Kaeda, Luca Garza, Jaylen Brown, others were there. We'll talk about how Jordan Walsh started and didn't even hear his name called at the beginning. That stuff is in the second segment. Let's just start with this. The Celtics needed this win. The Celtics needed to get this win. They needed it to go like this. They needed everything to kind of go the way it went. And when I, when I put in here that results matter, that you need to see these results, because everything that you're working for is building towards wins. Joe Missoula will sit there and be like, winning is the only thing that matters. And there's a process to winning. This is the, the process that the Celtics are building towards. Winning and winning, you know, weeks and winning a month. At some point, maybe December, maybe January, maybe February, they want to win these months. They want to stack these wins together to try to prove people wrong. Like, everybody in that locker room, everybody in the coaching staff, we can sit here and talk about whether the Celtics should be focusing on wins or not wins or whatever. People want to have that debate. That's fine. But these guys out here want to win, and they need to see the results to, to kind of get that taste of like, yes, okay, this is, this is what we're working towards. This is a little bit of motivation. And, and you hear guys talk about how frustrated they are. Payton Pritchard said, I've been in a funk. I was not myself. I was overthinking. Derek White, the same thing. When you're in a prolonged slump, you start to play tricks. Your mind starts to play tricks on you. So getting a result like this, where everything came together is super, super important. The way I'm writing on Boston Sports Journal, where you can read all of my work, I can go sit at a blackjack table all night long and make Every right decision, make every right bet. And you blackjack players know there's certain. There's like a set of rules that go along with hitting or doubling down or splitting and all that stuff. And you can make. You can make every right call and the cards just don't go your way, and you're gonna lose money, you're gonna go broke. And the. The house is not going to sit there and be like, well, you've made every right play. You made every right decision. We're going to cut you some slack. No, you lose. You lose. And the Celtics, when they lose games, when they like the one against Philly, where they got a lot of good shots, they got a lot of good looks, and they just couldn't quite execute, they couldn't quite get those shots to fall. I don't care that this was Memphis. I don't care that this was the dumpster fire. I don't care that John Morant didn't play. I don't care if this was the media team that was out there. The Celtics needed to see shots fall. They needed to see the results, and they got them. Derrick White was incredible. This was a classic Derrick White game where he was everywhere. You saw him getting into passing lanes and getting steals. You saw him doing the chase down block thing. You saw him just running the energy, the, you know, running the offense. And he finished with 20 points, five rebounds, four assists, two steals a block, three offensive rebounds. He was 505 from the line, 3 of 6 from 3, 6 of 11 overall. This is just a purely Derrick White stat line. This is exactly what I was thinking when. When I say what I was expecting from Derrick White this season. This is the game. I was expecting this to happen a lot more often. And, okay, Derek is going through, first of all, a shooting slump. Second of all, new role. He's talked about it on his podcast where you. He always knew where the shots were coming from. He always knew what he was like. You run down the floor, and it was almost mechanically, you run the floor, you get to the spot, you're going to get this shot this year. You run down the floor and. Well, first of all, you're not just running down the floor. You're dribbling down the floor because he has the ball in his hands a whole lot more and you're looking for other guys and so you're not going to a spot. You're looking for guys in spots, and you're running more pick and rolls and you're creating for yourself a little bit more it's just different. And the teammates are different. The defensive attention is different. The, the, the style of play is different. The chances that you're taking on defense, the pace of play, all of that stuff matters. Everything is tied together. This isn't just offense on one side, defense on another. Like a football team. Everybody's playing everything. And Derek is playing a lot of minutes. And Derek is. Is asked to do basically everything on the floor. Him and Jalen and Peyton, those are the three guys. But him and Jalen mostly are asked to do a ton. And so the first 11 games has been a little bit of a struggle. Okay, fine. It's a long season game like this. You don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. You know, well, Sunday is going to bring. But. And, and Derek said this after the game, said, just because I hit these shots this, this one night doesn't mean I'm going to hit them the next game. So you just got to keep building that forward. But at the same time, you have a game like this and you say, okay, I remember this. I remember this feeling. And yeah, maybe you got it against, you know, a borderline G league team, but that confidence, that feeling of like, oh, yes, yes, this is how it feels. I remember this feeling that can carry you forward. Same thing. Payton Pritchard, who was also awesome in this game, he had 24 points, eight rebounds, nine assists. I think his true shooting percentage was somewhere around like 76, 78% true shooting is your 2 points or 3 points and your free throws, it's all kind of weighted in there. So to have a true shooting up that high is just that kind of night. He was 8 of 16 from the 8 of 15 from the field, 5 of 10 from 3, 3 or 4 from the line. Just Peyton. Same thing he was asked about. Are you superstitious? What did you do? He goes, got a haircut this morning. And he talked about how his wife likes him with longer hair, but he's like, nope, I like to play with shorter hair. So we got his hair cut and that's it. Sorry, babe. That's, you know, the, the, the basketball results matter most here. He can grow his hair out over the summer. So that's, that's the message from Payton Pritchard. And, okay, you know, he feels, like, better because he cut his hair, and it's a little superstitious thing. The Memphis Grizzlies probably did more for his shooting in his results than the haircut did. But again, the Celtics get the open shots. They haven't been Knocking them down. So to see Peyton and to see Derek get, just get a game like this, combining for 44 points, combining to shoot. What was it, 14 of 26. That's just a beautiful shooting night for the two of them. Combining to go 8 of 16 from 3. You know, they each shot 50% from 3, man. So when I say much needed, much needed. So good to see. Now let's see what happens against the, the Clippers on Sunday. Sunday afternoon, Celtics finally get three days off. And I, I'm, I'm certainly not making this excuse for them, but I do think that the schedule does play a factor in this. To, to have. This was what, four games and six nights. They had a stretch of five and seven. It, I think it's a lot and the pace of play hasn't quite been where we wanted it to be, but I think with some time off, they get three days off before the Clippers game, they get a couple days off. Next week, they get another couple days off sprinkled in here or there. So maybe with some time off to get rested, to go through film sessions and actually practice, to teach, to learn, we can see the results start to stack up a little bit. We can see the execution a little bit. I thought a critical moment in this game was second quarter, end of the second quarter, right? Going into halftime, the Celtics were making a little bit of run. They got, they got up to a 14 point lead early. They kind of gave it back and it was back and forth, single digits. It wasn't a blowout from the beginning. Then Jalen Brown takes over. They go on a run, they start to stack things together, but then at the very end, with like 50 something seconds left, they execute a three for two. So three for two, you, you shoot that somewhere in the, the mid 50 second range. You get another possession there. You get it down to a two for one. They hit that shot, then they come back and they get the layup. So they close the first half on a big run. I want to say it was 23 to 7 to close the first half, all of a sudden that lead is up at, at 20. They win the second quarter 33 to 20. That was such a critical spot because if Memphis had cut it down and the shots weren't falling, the execution wasn't there. I'm not saying the Celtics would have lost this game, but it would have been annoyingly close and no one wanted to see that. So execution, all that stuff was huge. Jordan Walsh started, we'll talk about that and why he didn't get to hear his name called. That is coming up next. Today's show is brought to you by Wayfair. Holiday season is right around the corner. I'm already seeing Christmas trees in stores that I go to. It means it's time to get your home ready. Whether you need more seating for guests, cozy new linens, or fun servewear for holiday hosting, Wayfairs Black Friday sale is here already to help you make space your space shine. The best part? You don't have to wait. 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Inspires thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day Make Lockdown NBA game night Lockdown NBA. They're both on the same feed. You can get that game night seven days a week. NBA is five days a week. They've got the big Stories on lockdown. NBA game night covers every game, every night in the association. It's all part of the number one sports podcast network. Thanks again to you for making that possible. Jordan Walsh got the start. So it's very interesting. Now Jordan Walsh is on the upswing. We talked about that before. The funny part is they announce, they do the, the pre game intros and then announce from Memphis Josh Minot, where everybody's like, nope, it's not Josh Meinhot. So somehow the, the wrong lineup got to Eddie Palladino. Jordan Walsh got to start his first ever start. So if he gets to start against the Clippers, then he'll finally get to hear his name called. But he came out, made an instant impact right away. Had a block shot, came down. Crazy finish. You know, the left to right euro step with the finish on the right side of the rim. That was nice. You get matched up with Jaren Jackson Jr. The Grizzlies started him and Jock Landale to go big, double big. So Landale was K's guy and that left Walsh on Jaren Jackson Jr. And did a decent job. He played physical, he got a few fouls, but he played physical. And Jaren Jackson Jr. Did not have much of an impact at all. He had 18 points, just a couple of rebounds. They were a couple of offensive rebounds, but you know, he had, he had trouble. He had five fouls. So the, the second chance points, the things that typically bother the Celtics, they didn't get any of that stuff in this game. So Jordan Walsh did a good job in, in his start. The Celtics won these margins pretty easily. The one thing that they didn't win was the free throws. But let's just go through the margins. The Celtics put up more shots. They got 99 shots to 95. They shot 50.5% to Memphis's 33.7. Memphis just couldn't hit a damn thing. Celtics shot 21 of 51 from three. The Grizzlies were 10 of 43. The Celtics got more offensive rebounds, they got more second chance points. Whenever the Celtics win second chance points, they're going to win the game. And, and they won it 34 to 12. So they will keep the Grizzlies off the boards. The Celtics rebounding. Now I sit over here and behind me is the radio team and you can hear the radio announcers getting upset about all of the offensive rebounds that the Celtics were getting. That's one of the things the Celtics need to do. You see them trying to jump for steals. Celtics did a good job. I thought rotating behind that they did a, you know, and again, Memphis is not that good. So Memphis is, is not able to take advantage of it quite the same way. Like the Clippers game, obviously you don't expect the Celtics to beat the Clippers by 36 and you might not expect the Celtics to be the Clippers at all. You know, that's, that's just kind of. I think the Clippers are going to be favored in that game. But the, the, the Grizzlies were not able to take advantage of what when the Celtics did go into rotation. So the Celtics were able to. And, and, and they did a good job of kind of recovering for one another. That's one of the things that you're going to have to do. The Celtics defense is going to have to handle those rotations a little bit better. But the Celtics first shot defense is always pretty good. Their, their half court defense is pretty good. It's the rebounding that kills them. The second chance points. And obviously again, that didn't kill them. And in this game, Sean Grandy tweeted out, the Celtics are top 10 in offense. I think they're 10th in offense, seventh in defense, 10th overall in net rating. And they're not a top 10 team in the East. So a couple of bad breaks, some bad execution, you can argue that the Celtics like this stuff will level off over time. And hey, coming up, they've got a couple of games against the Brooklyn Nets. They've got some kind of cupcakes that are coming up that you'd say, okay, you know, you stack a few of these wins together. This was an important game. You get this win. Well, if you chalk up the, the Clippers as a loss, but then you give the Boss and the two Brooklyn wins. Well, now they're six and seven. Six and eight, they win. The two Brooklyn games are eight and eight. Okay, eight and eight after 16, not a problem. You got 76 games after that. If you can start putting these things together and maybe you go on a little bit of an upswing, you start getting 1, 2, 3, 4 games above.500, maybe start climbing into that top 10. I still think it's possible if the Celtics can find themselves in the top six, but we'll see. It's too early to be standings watching, but regardless, the, the, the, these margins that the Celtics won, the offensive rebounding, obviously the assists, you can make shots the way the Celtics did. They're going to win the assist battle. They, the turnovers were pretty even. That Celtics had one more turnover than the Grizzlies, but the Celtics did win the. The points off turnover, 16 to 13. So they took advantage of that. So just a nice night. I thought. Like I said, the execution, they did a good job finding the mishkeda on the roles. It's just an important thing. I think they have to start looking for him a little bit more just because the pressure there's. I think there's a big room for improvement there where the Celtics get to Kada and Kada in the short roll. You saw that a little bit again tonight. Now, the one thing I didn't like, he did it in the. In the Sixers game. He did it in this game, didn't get called for it. But against the Sixers, he got called for an offensive foul. K. Still, I've said this a million times on the podcast. He needs to control his body. He's. He just. Momentum is his worst enemy. When. When Keda gets going in a certain direction, he just can't stop himself. And whether that's core base, you know, getting. Getting lower, working on his legs, doing some squats, I don't know what it is. But he has to figure out how to be in control. So when he's in the short roll that he can stop, plant, and then he can make a move. But he stopped, he hit. I forget who it was. On the Grizzlies, he did make the pass out to Peyton Pritchard. They did end up getting a shot, a make out of that. So we got an assist. So that's good. He does, like, on those particular plays, there's like 80% of the things, right? And it's that other bit that gets him in trouble. And that's the part, like, there's room for improvement there. If he can. If he can stop and not bowl guys over, that'll be a big deal. Now, I got to give him credit. This time last year, I was probably getting on cater for bringing the ball way down every time he caught the ball because again, his base, he's still not strong enough at on his base, right? His knees still are, you know, point inward. He loses some of that. That strength. He doesn't. So. So what he had done in the past was he had to dip real low to try and go up and dunk everything. Now he's gotten out of that habit. He had one really nice play where he. He got the ball on the. On the left block right here behind me, on the left block with defenders closing in. He caught it high, kept it high, and he laid it in and that's just like, beautiful. So he, he is capable of learning and doing these things that I'm saying. So that was my focus last year. This year, he has to control his body and his momentum. If he can do that, then Kada in the short roll can be a really important kind of weapon to use and it'll draw people up. You can start cutting behind him. He's finding passes, he's recognizing things. He's, he's getting better at that. So I want to see him continue to do that. But Namish K was, was pretty good in, in this game as well. He, he was 6 of 6. So, you know, a plus 27, another big plus, minus night, eight rebounds, two assists, just two fouls. So a really good K tonight, minus a couple of plays. But that's going to happen to everybody. So let's come back, we'll talk about individual players like Luca Garza, Jaylen Brown haven't talked about Jalen Brown. How about this? The Celtics win by 36. I haven't talked about Jaylen Brown yet. We'll talk about all of that when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by Bilt. Nobody likes paying rent, but if you must, you must. And you might as well get something for it. That's where Bilt comes in. Built is changing the game by turning your rent payment into real rewards you can actually use. I don't rent anymore. 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He just in a moment where the Celtics kind of needed somebody to take over, he was there. Celtics got off to a pretty good start behind the starters. Bench came in. Joe Bazzula went deep into his bench. It was the back to back third game in four nights. So we started, you know, we saw minutes from just about everybody except for Xavier Tillman, but he went to Josh Minot for 22 minutes off the bench. Bail Sherman got early minutes, Chris Boucher got in there. Guys who had not been playing particularly much at all DNPs for Charman and Boucher recently. But Joe went deep into his bench to try to keep guys fresh. This was. If there is any big win here, it's that nobody played more than 30 minutes for, you know, the Celtics. Pritchard played 30 minutes and 22 seconds, so I guess technically he played more than 30 minutes, but he played 30 minutes and 22 seconds. That was it. Jalen played 25, White Plate played 26. That. That's just in the third game of four nights heading into three days off. Obviously there's going to be practice. Fridays are going to probably be a practice Saturday. Guy's going to get after a little bit, but just able to kind of control that environment. Get off your feet for a day. Go relax, enjoy yourself. That's nice. This is a nice way. Perfect. Like I said, they needed this. But JB not, you know, not the. The loudest box score, 19.6, rebound, six assists. But when he, when he started going off, that was huge to put this thing kind of away at halftime. Celtics were up 20, 21 at halftime. Then it just. To put him away, third quarter. That was never in doubt. There was never really a risk. Although I did think it was funny. Celtics were up 31. The. And he had a weird lineup out there. I don't even remember who it was. It was like Derek Luca Garza, Baylor Shireman. It was just a weird mix of. Of players and. And they kind of made a couple mistakes, but it was only a 26 point game. But he called timeout and came in and he just ripped into those guys. And I just thought it was funny. I thought maybe, I was thinking maybe he threw out this weird lineup just so he had somebody to yell at, because there's no way you could expect that lineup to defend very well. But I thought that was funny. But. So Jalen had a night, a nice night. He shot 2, 50 from 2. I'm sorry, 50 overall. 40 from 3. So nice night for him. Like I said, Cata was good. Jordan Walsh was. Was okay in his start. I. I don't know how this is gonna go. I really don't. Like Jordan gets a start now. Is he gonna be the regular guy that gets in there and starts now? Who knows? Like Josh Mina. We're all celebrating Josh and now we're all celebrating Jordan. And I don't know who. Who it's gonna be. It's Joe. I don't know if Joe even knows. Maybe he's just keeping guys on their Toes. I have no idea. The only two guys, if I'm gonna criticize anything, and it's, it's not really criticism. It's just these guys are still having a tough time. Sam Houser, you know, struggling. Although the one he was one for, seven for three, the one that he hit might as well have counted for two because he hit it from the logo and it gives his signature like, oh, finally though that's fine. I, I don't expect much from Sam. I know that. I know Sam's history. He has these stretches like this and then he's going to have five games where he shoots like 70% from three or he's going to have at least one game where he's 10 of 12 and people are going to be like, whoa, what's going on here? He's going to end up being a 40% three point shooter. There's this. Sam Houser is who he is. A cold stretch is not going to define him. He's an okay defender. He has moments where he looks really good. He has moments where he looks bad. This, I, I think this is just who Sam Houser is. I do not expect much more out of Sam Houser. He will, he will continue to do this. He'll have his cold streaks. He'll have his hot streaks. He tends to be a little bit of a streaky shooter, but the three point shot, when you're a specialist like that tends to be a streaky shot anyway. It's a very difficult shot to make. It's a very difficult shot to hit consistently. That's why guys like Steph Curry are just so freaking amazing. It's not an easy shot, but I know that he'll, he'll be fine. So tough night for him. Anthony Simons didn't quite get it going. Two of ten, two of six overall. He did have seven assists. Luca Garza, six of eight. He, he had a nice stretch where he was kind of like Jaren Jackson would hit a shot and he would answer. He had, he was 2 of 3 from 3. He hit those, I think during the second, second quarter stretch where the Celtics started to pull away. So Joe after the game was like, he has this uncanny kind of knack to just play harder than everyone else. So that's a nice kind of compliment. And he acknowledged it after the game. Garza did. He's like, yeah, I kind of realized early on that I wasn't the most athletic guy out there. So this is what I had to do to play. And so it's working right now. And he's on a pretty nice three game stretch. I don't know, I don't know how this is going to go because the first few games of the season it looked like Garz was like, oh God, this is a problem. And now he's, he's playing pretty well. So some of the things that we saw early on might just be figuring things out. Right. And we have to give them the time to figure this out. There's. This is only game, was it 13? Their Celtics are 6 and 7 now, so 13. Plenty of time for a lot of things to change and happen, whatever. So good for him. Josh, why not? Played well off the bench for four of eight, one of four, you know, up and down, but it was okay. Good to see Baylor Shiren hit some shots. So Ugo didn't play much. Boucher played some but rebounded well. Seven rebounds for him. So that's it. That's look not much to say. Not much else to say in a 36 point win. Celtics got the blowout win. Hooray. They're 6 and 7. If they can get this win on Sunday against the Clippers, you never know. Like it's, it's not out of the question. Clippers will certainly be favored. But home game with three days off, that could be a real nice quality win. If the Celtics can get that, they can get back to.500. With two games coming up against the Brooklyn Nets, that, that changes the dynamic a little bit of what this season is going to be. And like I've said, it's not about how many wins can they get. It's about figuring out how to win these games, figuring out how to beat the Clippers, who are a team that's, you know, I don't know, they're not in the contender class, but they're in the pretty good class and they are, you know, that would be a quality win. So it's about stacking these wins and figuring out how to do it, how to, how to string some things together, get that execution where it needs to be. 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