
Boston Celtics collapse in the fourth quarter as shooting woes and questionable execution haunt their 113-97 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. Can Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown regain their poise? John Karalis of Celtics On SI rips into Boston's stagnant offense, highlighted by Tatum and Brown combining for just two points in the final frame, and questions why the team let an injured Joel Embiid dictate tempo. Key topics include Derrick White's ongoing shooting struggles, Payton Pritchard’s lone bright spots, and the dire consequences of mistake-prone play from Neemias Queta. Karalis unpacks Joe Mazzulla’s postgame comments, dissecting what the Celtics must adjust before a pivotal Game 6 in Philadelphia. Will Boston seize the opportunity to close out the series, or are they inviting disaster with every misstep? Don't miss this passionate breakdown of the Celtics’ most head-scratching playoff loss.
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Just an embarrassing performance from the Boston Celtics and I don't know why they let Embiid do what he did. Lock on Celtics pod home of the winners. Hey there. Welcome back to the show. The Boston Celtics lose to the Philadelphia 76ers. They lose to the Sixers 113.97 in Game 5, which means they have to go back to Philadelphia, which is on Thursday night at 8pm and I am just, I am beside myself here. Later on we'll get into Derrick White who just another horrible shooting performance. The overall shooting once again, whenever they lose to the Sixers, the story is kind of the same. As far as the shooting goes. I will get to Joel Embiid's pace and why. I don't understand why the Celtics allowed him to do what he did. But we got to start with this disaster of a fourth quarter. An absolute monstrosity where they didn't score a basket over the final seven minutes. They scored 11 points. One of them was from Amari Williams late in the game. So the starters the Main Celtics scored 10. Jason Tatum in the fourth quarter did not make a basket. Jalen Brown in the fourth quarter did not make a basket. They were combined over 8. Tatum over 2. Jalen Brown over 6. Jalen hit a couple of free throws. So Jason combined for two fourth quarter points against the Philadelphia 76ers against the team that has paper mache perimeter defense against the team that's just begging, begging to be put out of its misery. And in this fourth quarter, the Celtics go 3 for 22. 2 of 8 from 3, turn the ball over three times, minus 17. You lose the fourth quarter by 17 points. You lose the second half by 23 points. I'm just, It's a compliment to the team, to put this in Joe Missoula terms, that I am just so confused and have the expectations that they would be better than this. This isn't just missed shots. You didn't just miss shots. I mean, you did miss shots. You missed a ton of shots. But this goes beyond that. How does Jayson Tatum in 7 1/2 minutes get 2 shot attempts? How does Jaylen Brown not make a single basket at all? They get away from the things that they're, they're, they know, that they know works. The offense looked awful stagnant. They didn't move the ball. They just decided, hey, I'm going to do this myself. You know what, I'm just going to take this matchup and I'm going to attack it. And every time, every time you do that, every time you do fails, why do you keep doing it? This is what bothers me so much. When you get isolations, when the ball moves and, and you make quick decisions, it works. A lot of the time when you sit there and just go, hey, I'm going to ISO. This whole possession is just going to be me. It doesn't work. It never works. It works so infrequently that you would think that by now smart people like Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum would get the picture. But no, you insist, you insist on saying, hey, look at how great I am. I'm going to take all of the possession. I'm going to take the whole thing. I'm going to dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, and I'm going to fire up a shot. Yeah, and occasionally you make a couple of jumpers, but that's all you get because you don't make the defense move. You don't take this Philadelphia 76ers defense anchored by Joel Embiid, who is three, not even three weeks removed from getting his appendix removed. He still has a scar. He has to wear a thing around his waist to protect the scar from recent surgery. Surgery that kept him off his feet, that kept him from running. So he is not in any kind of basketball shape. He. Not that he ever was in any kind of basketball shape this season. And yet. And yet, for some reason, I could not believe what I was watching. The Celtics over and over and over again, drove into the paint and then saw Joel Embiid and were like, oh, no, no, no, we can't attack him. We got to dribble this out and start the offense over again. Oh, I'm going to see Joel Embiid. I'm going to. Oh, I'm going to up fake. Up fake, up fake. No, just go up on him. He's not blocking your shot. And if he blocks one, fine. Joel Embiid is not Victor Wembanyama out there. He is a shell of himself. And yet every time he drove, like there might. Might have been, aside from Peyton Pritchard. Peyton Pritchard understood the assignment early on. He drove. He went full speed into the lane, did his little shoulder into Embiid, and be just willingly jumped back, and Peyton laid it up. Got three layups in the first half over it. Jason, I think might have gotten a couple of layups in the game on Embiid, but I just saw time and time and time again, Celtics driving into the lane. You see Embiid, and they do the. They do the scared thing where you're like, oh, no, I'm just going to dribble it out. And I understand. Look, the Celtics offense is designed. When you see a big. When you see the big, you're going to drive and kick. But it's. This wasn't it. That wasn't what I saw. I saw a group going in and. And making more scared passes than the right pass. They drove and were like, oh, oh, no, no, no, no, I can't. I can't do this. They. They stopped. They weren't trying to just drive and kick. Like, there's a way a drive and kick looks where you drive. You see the guy and you. You quickly spray the ball. There's a way scared passing looks where you drive and you're like, okay, I'm going in with the intent to score. Oh, my God. No. There's this person I'm afraid of, and you hesitate and then you pass. The timing is different. And I saw. Why are people afraid of Embiid? Yes, he's big. He's not blocking anything. The paint is open against these guys. And it's not this. It's not a three point. This is not a three point rant. I'm just saying the paint is open because The Celtics shot 50 two pointers and 39 three pointers. So I'm no. 1. Means, by no means am I saying they're shooting too many three pointers or anything like that because they should have shot more three pointers. They only shot 39. How did the Sixers shoot 42 three pointers? You got out shot by the Sixers. And that's Quentin Grimes. I'll get to more of that stuff later. It. It's the way they played most of this game in almost entirely the second half just blows my mind. I gotta give. You gotta give some credit to the Sixers for going out there. And you look, Embiid dictated the pace, but the, the, the quote from Peyton Pritchard. When I talk about messing around with the game, the quote from Peyton Pritchard. I thought we had a decent first half. I just think we were a little lackadaisical at times when we could have put them away. We just messed around with the game. And when you have a team on the brink of elimination, you really got to put your foot on the gas and finish it. I thought we'd let them have life at times and they. That they didn't need to. That's. That's it right there. There's a play in the third quarter. Jaylen Brown goes one on four and doesn't kick it out, decides he just wants to challenge everybody. So the one time you, you say, okay, yeah, I am going to go up with this. You go up on everybody. You don't even make the right play. You can drive and kick, but if you're going to go like if, if Embiid is there, not when there's three people helping. When you, when you clearly have drawn four guys and you're going up in that kind of crowd, then you, then you drive and kick. Make the right play, but the right play. Going up on Embiid and challenging him, especially when he's got it going a little bit, see if you can't get him into some foul trouble, man, I just get him moving. Get him moving. Just get him moving. Make him defend the mentality. I don't know why. I just don't know why these guys continue to, to play this way when they think they've got it all figured out. They went up 13 in the third quarter and from there it was just an absolute disaster. 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John Corrales
Thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Thanks for being with me every Monday through Friday. Dropping bonus podcasts throughout the week and on the weekend. I just dropped one yesterday. Peyton Pritchard one on one. A little bit about Brad Stevens as the executive of the year. Congratulations to him on that. Thank you for joining me. I'm John Corrales. I cover the Celtics for SIS Celtics on SI and I've been covering the Celtics for about 20 years now doing this podcast for 10. So I do generally enjoy talking about the Celtics. Not today though because just I don't like when the the obvious things that are there and you just don't do them. Joel Embiid is not the Joel Embiid that that we all know at this point but he's and okay, 33 points, eight assists, four rebounds. He shot 12 of 23, was 05 from three they let him and this this starts with Nimius Keda, who, hey, by the way, played the first eight minutes of the game and didn't have a foul and got through. And I said, all I want to see is the eight. The eight minutes of Joel Embiid. I mean, Namish Kada. And he gave it to me. And then when he checked back in, it's like, I'm gonna say this because I. I know it's not true. I know the Celtics do not listen to the show and react based on what I say, but it. It almost feels like Namish Kada said, okay, here's. Here's your eight minutes, Corrales. Now I'm going to go back to stupid fouls because he checked back in. He had two files right away, had one of the worst files you can commit on Andre Drummond 90ft from the basket. He slapped at the ball, got his arm while they were in the penalty. That is just unacceptable. Unacceptable. What are you doing? This is the playoffs. That is. It blows my mind that a player who has gotten as good as Keda has, who understands things, who gets all of it. Where's your head? What are you doing? That almost feels like an intentionally bad foul. No person in their right mind, knowing that you're in foul trouble, knowing that they are in the bonus, would take a chance at that stupid play. But he did it and gave him. Gave them two points, two easy points. Even though it's Drummond who is shooting the free throws. That stuff can't happen. Lack of discipline, lack of focus, lack of mentality. This is a closeout game, man. The Knicks and the Hawks, I mean, the Knicks blew the doors off the Hawks. You have an opportunity to get some rest. You had an opportunity to chill out at home. Now you got to get on this plane and do a stupid little flight to Philly. You got to go do that whole thing again. And you don't know what's going to happen. Every 48 minutes you play of NBA basketball, there's always a risk of something stupid happening. An ankle poke in the eye, a something. And it was unnecessary. You take that risk because you play these games. You have to play the games. And so, hey, in any time, it happens. But this was a chance to close it out. You got to close it out when you have the opportunity. This was not. If the Celtics had gone out there and played 48 minutes of good basketball and the Sixers played 48 minutes of better basketball, I would sit here and be like, hey, man, this stuff happens. Sometimes you play well, they play well. Congratulations to them on to game six and you deal with it, right? But that's not what this was. Joel Embiid is slow. He's talented, but he's slow. He doesn't have the wind. He's banged up Jaylen Brown, knee to kneel on. Embiid sent them back to the locker room. He went back to the locker room and everything changed. Subjects were great. They're moving, flying and all that stuff. Embiid came back and everything just crashed to a halt. Why do that same running and flying thing with Embiid? Why? What are you doing? You sit there and you play at his pace. You play slow. You don't put him in the actions. You don't make him chase anybody. You don't make him make any decisions. You don't make it. You just let him stand in the middle of the. The lane and then you run at him and get scared like he's wembing Yama and he's going to block your shots. No. Why? Why aren't you moving? Why aren't you running? Why aren't you? I mean, yes, he made shots. They made shots. And you were missing, but you were up 13. You got to run. You got to. You got to make. And he played 39 minutes. There's no way Joel Embiid should be playing 39 minutes. He should be too tired. You got to find a way to put him in the action. You got to find a way to make. If they're playing a zone, you got to punish it and make it so he has to defend you. You can't just sit there and. And it only match up Hunt. You can't exclusively match up Hunt. I know Jalen is super talented. I know Jason is super talented, and I know they have the utmost confidence. And they're going to sit there. If anybody makes them listen to this thing, they're going to be like, john, you're a. But no, you have to understand that you got to move the ball. You got to make the Sixers make defensive decisions. Because I promise you, I promise you that when the Sixers have to make defensive decisions, they will screw up and you will have easy lanes to the basket. They are not a good perimeter defensive team. And if Embiid is there and if he's just dropping, then you step into your jump shots, but you make the move and you make him be do something. And if he does nothing, you punish him for it. And if he steps up, you punish him for that. To slow it down and let him just bully, bully, bully. Poor Vuchovic. Poor Garza. And I know this is not how they would act, but, man, there's going to be a part of me, if I'm Vuch that's like, hey, Neemi, you want to do something here and actually kind of hold your own? I know teammates, good teammates like they are, are going to sit there and, hey, man, I got to do what you got to do. Neemi's in foul trouble. I'm going to pick him up. But on the outside, I'm sitting there going like, hey, Nemi, you want to, you know, be available? Big strong guy against Embiid, you want to be available to guard him a little bit. Just a little bit. Drives me nuts. It drives me nuts because then you have the other things, the other elements, the shooting, Derrick White not playing well, those things are the unavoidable things. There are. There are elements of this that just happen and you're like, hey, gotta overcome them. But. But 20 minutes of me ranting and raving is because the controllable stuff, they just did not control any of that stuff. And after the game, I could. I know, I know when I. How I'm right. This is how I know I'm right. Because Joe Missoula didn't touch on any of this stuff. After the game. He was all like, no, we just missed shots. Yeah, we got good looks. We did all that stuff. He is trying to control the net. He is not going to go out there and tell any of us what, what actually happened. He didn't. He didn't mention any of this stuff, which means that's all the stuff that he's thinking about. Anything. He doesn't tell you about anything. He doesn't talk about post game. That's what he's worried about. The. The postgame stuff. He's like, oh, yeah, no, we'll look at it. We'll look at it. We missed some shots. I thought we got good looks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Positive, positive. Keep it upbeat. And yeah, you know what? They're. They're probably going to go finish this thing off. 6 and it doesn't matter, except it does. It does because it's an extra game. It's miles that are traveled. It's. It's miles on the legs. These guys run three, four miles a game, so it's literal miles on the legs. Yeah. You could have just been at home, take a day off, get off your feet. Wednesday could have been an off day. Now it's a travel day. So that stuff is bothersome, man. That, that stuff wears you down. You gotta face probably the Knicks in the next series and who knows who in the series after that. If you get by the Knicks, these extra games, they wear you down. If you get to the finals, the, the cumulative effect, it wears you down. It's a problem. All right, let's run through some of these individuals, these other individuals and the shooting problem and the Derrick White stuff that's coming.
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John Corrales
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And you didn't even get the monster VJ Edgecomb game, although he did end up going 3 for 6. But you got Quentin Grimes going 4 for 7. And you gotta, you gotta account for that, right? Paul George went 4 for 9, Tyrese Maxey 3 for 10. You got to account for that. There's, there's always going to be the potential for somebody to come off that bench and shoot and shoot well. And sometimes you're just not going to shoot well, right? Jason Tatum was 4 of 12, Jalen Brown 1 of 4, Derrick White over 4, Peyton Pritchard 1 for 5. So Hauser, 2 for 5. So 40%. But the other stuff that I'm talking about, the controllable stuff that, that, that's supposed to make up for when you shoot poorly, you're supposed to find other ways to win. The, the pull ups that are just ill advised that those, those are the ones, those are the possessions where I'm talking about, where you're, you're just trying too hard to, to find your own offense. But again, the Celtics, there was that one play where Grimes tipped the ball away from Jaylen Brown. It was the third quarter, fourth quarter, tip the ball away from Jaylen Brown, it goes all the way down to the other end of the floor. Jalen gets it and then has to go up full court against Quentin Grimes, who's playing incredible defense, right? He's up on him, he's playing physical, he's playing tough. That's playoff defense. Got no problem with any of that. Where is everybody else? Where was everybody else on that play? You know, like Jalen got that ball tipped away. He's back at the other end of the floor. You got Derek on the opposite side, not even over half court. Hey, you know what? The shot clock is running down. Somebody go help him, give him an outlet. Where are you guys? Someone come up, another person come up from the other side so you, you can run a quick. Something quick. No, Jalen had to go back by himself to go get. Okay. Jalen went and got, and got it. You know, he had the ball tipped away from him. He had a bead on it. No one else crossed half court. You can just. Okay. Quinn Grimes, wow, man. Sitting there. Celtics sitting there looking at him like, wow, Quinn's Grimes. He's really like, he's giving it to Jalen, man. I don't know if he's going to get this shot off. Yeah. Oh, wow. Should I do anything? Nah, let's just let Jalen handle this by himself and force a shot. Exhausted by having to do everything himself on that play. And maybe we could sit there and be like, well, Jalen wasn't going to give it up. And that might be true, but somebody could have given him the option. Anybody. The only person I saw in that play, looking at it on the replay was Derrick White. And he didn't even get over half court like that. That kind of stuff when you're not shooting well, you gotta have the mentality. I gotta do other things. But Derek, Derek, this, you know, this was just a bad A bad game might have been the worst. One of the worst games I've seen Derek play. He had. He had a couple of stretches, but he did a couple of things. Like, he. It wasn't all bad. He did a couple of things, but the shooting. Fourth quarter, two shots, two corner threes. That would have just been massive. Just would have been massive shots to hit. Couldn't hit them. And he wasn't alone. And I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna crush him for not making shots. I'd love to see him make shots, though. I mean, it's been. It's been a long time since he's made shots consistently. I'd like to see him. But that. That kind of stuff happens. It's the effort stuff. It's the mistakes. It's the, you know, not. Not going to a spot. Like, there's one play where the Celts were really moving the ball around. Derek Baylor. Scheireman was in, and I don't know, it was like a miscommunication. Baylor kind of threw a bounce pass. It was early. Early in the fourth quarter, Baylor kind of threw a bounce pass to. To Derek, and Derek was like. Derek put his hands on his head, and I don't know if he was mad at himself for not going to that spot that Baylor thought he was going to, but that kind of stuff. I just. I don't know that Derek's head was completely in the game in this one, which is so. It's rare, but this combination of Kada being. He had 14 rebounds, he had five offensive rebounds. The. The minutes that he played could have been so good, but he was just in the. The stupid fouls kept them off. Off the floor. And. And Derek not being fully there. These are. These are two guys that can completely change a game. Cater. Not being on the floor. As I said on the last podcast, the last full podcast, him not being on the floor is. It fundamentally changes what the Celtics are trying to do, because now you have Vuchovic, who did okay, but you have Vuchovic in there trying to guard Joel Embiid, and that's not good, because Embiid, for a big, lumbering guy with no cardio left, the one thing he can do is just be a bull in a china shop and back Vuch down over and over and over again and. And get to the basket, which he did. And you need. You need somebody in the other. You need Derek to be the smart guy. And Derek. Derek's like the one guy who can't have off nights at Least not like he can have an off shooting night, but you can't have off nights where everything else goes away. Jalen. Jalen was not great in this game either. He had 22 points, but nine of 23. He had three turnovers. Jason had four turnovers. I mean, nobody here was. Was particularly great except for Peyton Pritchard. I thought he was pretty good, but he shot 1 of 5 from 3. But I thought, like, he brought some. He brought a lot of positive energy to this game. I thought he was good. I thought Baylor Scheireman was decent. Jordan Walsh came in and. And really tried to make some energy plays. Those guys were doing a little bit of. Of their job. Luca Garza only played like six minutes and had a tough time defending Embiid when he got a couple of cracks at him, but otherwise did some other like, okay things and got in there and, you know, crashed the boards and all that. Like, he, The. The energy guys off the bench were trying to do energy, energy guy things. But you need. Kate, you just need Kada on the floor. You need Derek. Derek. I. I don't know. I don't know. He just needs to get his head on straight. I'm dying for Derek to, To get. To find a 5 of 5 of 6 from 3, 5 of 7 from 3 shooting night. Get back. Get back to who he is. But look, in the end, the grand scheme of things, I still think they're going to win the series and they're gonna say, and it's not entirely wrong that you just. You can't have an expectation of how the series is going to go. It's going to go how it goes, and you just got to deal with it. And that, that's also true to a point. But you look at all of the controllable things in this game, they just didn't do them. They. The effort wasn't in the right place. I think a lot of the game they tried, but also for too much of this game, they were. The effort was misguided. They didn't have poise. They. They let Philly off the hook. You can argue that they have some confidence now, and they're going to go home, and who knows what happens. There is a world where you say, hey, you. It's the old. Kind of like the Red Sox in 2004, hey, listen, you got a home game. You can win that. If you just win that home game, you force a game seven, and anything can happen in game seven. And it's true. And I certainly don't want to think about that scenario. I still don't think the Sixers are very good and it takes extreme Celtics failure for the Sixers to win. And they still won this by 16, which is a lot. But the the Celtics had chances in the fourth quarter that would have if they just hit a normal amount in the fourth quarter, you can make that argument for sure. But it just comes down to get your heads on straight. Understand what you what Embiid really is out there. Don't give him the chance to lean into the one thing that he can do really well, which is bully people in the post and hit those shots in the paint. Just don't let him do that. Don't let him be comfortable. I'm repeating myself. Bad habit of mine that I lean into sometimes when I get mad. So I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna be with the Celtics. I'm gonna do what the what the Celtics should have been is self aware and stop. So thank you for listening. Thank you for watching Celtics lose. We move forward. We move forward. I just hate when obvious things aren't done. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Show is on YouTube. 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In this impassioned episode, host John Corrales dissects the Boston Celtics' disappointing loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 (113-97). Corrales is visibly frustrated by the team’s collapse in the fourth quarter, the underwhelming play of stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and the Celtics’ inexplicable deference to a physically compromised Joel Embiid. He explores recurring issues with Boston's offense, defensive lapses, lack of mental discipline, and the worrying implications for the Celtics’ playoff future. The episode is a must-listen for fans looking for raw, expert insight into what went wrong.
Corrales delivers in his trademark no-nonsense, passionate tone—unfiltered, direct, and exasperated by the team’s lack of awareness and execution. He balances X’s and O’s with emotional insight, making the analysis accessible and engaging for every level of Celtics follower.
This episode of Locked On Celtics is a cathartic deep dive into the team’s failures in Game 5, spotlighting breakdowns in star performances, match-up strategy, and overall mentality. Corrales’ rants are packed with basketball acumen and the kind of raw honesty only a deeply invested beat writer can provide. He pulls no punches, making the episode a compelling summary for any fan needing clarity (or therapy) after a crushing playoff loss.