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ELECTRIFYING:Boston Celtics STUN Detroit Pistons with Derrick White HEROICS in WILD Finish
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Boston Celtics edge the Detroit Pistons 117-114 with Derrick White’s explosive second-half performance. Can Joe Mazzulla’s squad turn gritty wins into sustained momentum? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal recaps key moments, spotlighting Derrick White's clutch threes and Jaylen Brown’s double-double. Baylor Scheierman energizes the crowd with hustle, while Amari Williams impresses as a potential new rotation piece. Strategy talk centers on Mazzulla’s unconventional small-ball lineups and how Boston offsets rebounding issues with timely support from Payton Pritchard and others. The show covers the impact of three-point shooting, challenges posed by offensive rebounding, and ahead looks to a crucial matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Could aggressive lineup tweaks propel Boston up the Eastern Conference, or will their glass struggles hold them back?
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John Corrales
Inspires what a win for the Boston Celtics. An amazing game. The atmosphere was electric. Derrick White incredible. The Celtics holding on, executing down the stretch. A gritty win right now on the Locked On Celtics podcast. Huh? Yep. Be down, be ever ready. It's the seas. Who else could it be? What they going to say now screaming like J.T. coralis recap the madness every game, every practice, prime time. Jean D White on the sideline Renin J's how we started raising banners, how we finished Locked on Celtics pod Home of the winners to the Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network where it is your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them every Monday through Friday. Plus bonus podcasts like this Saturday night when they play the Minnesota Timberwolves. And hopefully it's another win. I'll have a free podcast for you after that. They're all free. They're available Everywhere. They're on YouTube. Get into the comment section. Celebrate this one because it's worth celebrating with your fellow everydayers, the people who are with me every Monday through Friday. You got to become one of those. I'm John Corrales. John Corrales. That's how I pronounce my name. Pete writer for Boston Sports Journal. I've been doing this job for 20 years. I've been doing this podcast for 10, and I've written a couple of books about the team. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel Drop a five dollar bet. If it wins, you get 300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Head to FanDuel.com to get started. This was an incredible win. Later on in the third segment, I'll talk about how this went. I think not exactly according to plan for Joe Missoula, but I think we're starting to see a little bit of what he was talking about. When you have games where you're not rebounding well and the Celtics still did not rebound particularly well, we'll get into some individual stuff. Jaylen Brown, all of that in the second segment. Let's just start with the celebration. What an incredible win. 117, 114. The Celtics, it was a tough one. They fought hard throughout this whole game from start to finish. And by the time it was over in Celtics fans that that third free throw ball don't lie. Cade Cunningham's third free throw misses and he misses a chance to tie the game. The crowd erupted. This was an incredible crowd. Jaylen Brown after the game said this was our best crowd of the season. And yeah, absolutely this was the best game of the season. Not a lot to choose from. First of all, the Celtics are what, 10 and eight now, which is nice. So 18 games. The Celtics haven't had a lot to cheer about. Their execution late game in late games has been less than impressive. So to get this win to hold on and to hold off a team that the top of the east, it's funny that these teams have switched roles, right? The, the Pistons come in on a big winning streak. They're the top seed. They're supposed to win this game by, you know, a comfortable margin. I don't think anybody had even if you had faith and you say no, I think the sellers could win. I, I still think that most people in the back of their minds would say yeah, but if they lose, I understand. The Pistons looked like early on like it was going to follow a script. But the Celtics didn't give in. They, like I said, that fourth quarter they found plays mainly off the hands of Derrick White and they, it wasn't exactly perfect execution down the stretch, I'll be fair. But they held on and they win. The crowd was, like I said, electric. Go back to the first quarter here. And it felt like first of all the Celtics were missing everything. And it just felt like the Celtics were really, really working hard to get their offense just to generate some shots and they would get a decent look and it would miss. There was one play where Derek had a left corner. Three missed. He Runs along the baseline, gets to the right corner. They. The Celtics get an offensive rebound. Derek gets the ball back, right corner three miss. And then I want to say maybe it was Minot in the middle of the lane. They get another offensive rebound. He takes a little below the free throw line, jumper that misses. And then the Pistons get it fast, fast break down the court. I forget who it was. I got a dunk. Might have been Cade Cunningham or Jalen Duran, but it was just. That was the way I thought the game was just going to keep on going. That okay, work hard, miss it. Miss a makeable shot. Get your offensive rebound. Miss a makeable shot. Get another offensive rebound. Miss a makeable shot. It was just decent. Look decent, look decent. Look. Work hard, work hard, work hard. Oh, here come the Pistons. Boom. One rebound. Go down, score. You're like, oh, God. And that could be demoralizing. That could be. That could be something that, like if you're on the Celtics and you're like, God, man, we had three, four shots here and then they just. They finally get the ball and they score like right away. But the Pistons never could quite pull away in this game. They did have a 10 point lead at one point, but they never got that separation. And then the second quarter comes around and Baylor Scheireman changes this game. Baylor changed this game in the second quarter. He hit left corner three. He hit the. The. The Peyton Pritchard drive down the middle, spin, fade away from like 14ft. I think he has to pay Pritchard some, you know, residuals on that move, but that's okay. Pritchard stole the step through from Jalen Brown, so I guess turnaround is fair play. But the Joe Missoula highlighted two plays after the game. The. This one from Peyton Pritchard. I mean, I'm sorry, From Baylor Shireman. In the Midst of this 9, 0 run, the Celtics force a miss. It gets batted around. Baylor dives at like the top of the key ish area, bottom of the logo. Dives for the loose ball and as he's on the floor, spins around and flips it behind his back. Was an awesome pass in that situation. Very, very high court awareness, very high. Just, just a very smart play. Gets it up to. Who was it? It was Amari Williams. And now Amari gets blocked. And it was an incredible defensive play. But you had Anthony Simons there for an offensive rebound. He kicks it back to. I think it was Minot who gets fouled. And just the hustle. The fans once, once they realized it was a Foul call on the Pistons. They started to rise up and just give Baylor in the Celtics this. This kind of little bit of juice. This was the beginning of, oh, okay. These guys are really going after it. And Baylor was really going after it. And the crowd starts to get into it, like, okay, well, we're going to do the gritty thing. We're going to do the lunch pail thing. We're going to do the blue collar thing. Let's go. We're here for it. And then a couple minutes later, actually, it was about that play happened around 10 something. 450 to go in the second quarter. Derek gets a steal. So Sam Houser misses a right, like, hash mark above the break 3. Jaden Ivy gets it and goes. And he's ready to go one. It was basically one on three, but he was gonna go one on one and attack Jalen Brown. And then there goes Derek White. Boom. He puts his head down. It's like he gets, like, thin and he just puts his head down. He just aerodynamically runs down the floor. If he didn't shave his head, he probably wouldn't make these plays. But I'm gonna say that the bald head makes him a little more aerodynamic. And he's making these chase down steals. I'm not biased by this at all. He makes the chase down steal, turns around, gets, gets the ball, comes back up, fires an alley oop to Josh Minot, who fumbles it. But somehow it just. He guides it into the rim. It kind of a lucky play because as he was running back, he kind of shrugged and did that. That play gets the crowd really hyped. So you have Baylor's hustle play and Baylor keying a 90 run, and then Derek making that chase down play. And the Celtics at that point, they were down 5 at that point. But after that, that chase down play, the Celtics were plus. Plus eight, I think the rest of the way after that chase down. And the crowd was into it. And Joe Highlight, he's like, as much as whatever I'm going to talk about next, when we were asking Joe after the game, he's like, it wasn't even about the execution. It was about our grit. It was about our. Our wants to. And this. This is really impressive because the Celtics are coming off of a. A loss to the. The nets. And then after the loss to the nets, they have this big lead against Orlando. And then the fourth quarter, it all goes away. And we were talking about it. Tom Westerholm and I were talking about the loss ish win. So you you have two games now where the the vibes aren't great and they come into this one and they withstand a tough first quarter where they couldn't hit a thing and the Pistons made it look easy and they get this contribution from role players and I'll get to more of the role players of supporting cast next. Derek before he started hitting shots, in fact during the ESPN broadcast they were like Derrick White, not letting his offense affect his defense. Little did they know what was coming. That just resilience. That's resilience from this team to just lock in mentally after two games after a disappointing game and a disappointing finish, you even though it was a win, that is how you're supposed to do it in the NBA. Put that stuff out of your head, come back, focus, lock in and whoever's out there just be out there ready to play. Let's talk about the supporting cast. A lot of supporting cast did a lot of good things. That is coming up next. Today's show is brought to you by fanduel. 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John Corrales
Thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Thanks for making the Lockdown Podcast Network the number one sports podcast network. So the number one Celtics podcast in the world. The number one sports podcast network in the world. It's all right here for you Monday through Friday. Like I said, bonus podcasts like Saturday when they play against Minnesota. So subscribe becoming every As I hit the wrong button, join me. I'm. I own up to that stuff and I don't even edit it out because this is what happens. This is real life podcasting. Join me there. It's free shows, free every, everywhere, every day. So check it out. Okay. Derek White was incredible in the second half. Finally, finally we talked about like Derek having some carryover and, and like getting on a heater. We haven't seen this kind of heater. And Joe after the game said, I was excited. I'm always excited when Derek's going through one of these things because I know that when he comes out of it, it's going to be something like incredible. Second half Derek, 7 of 10, 6 of 8 from 3, 5 of 5 from the line, 25.6 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals in the second half. Just incredible. Every time the Celtics needed a bucket, every time the ball left Derek's hand, that thing went in, he did the, you know, the pocket full of threes. It was just classic Derrick White at his absolute peak best. This was hopefully a springboard to, to Derek playing better across the board and maybe stacking some of these up. Derek was incredible. They do not win this game without Derrick White. He was the one that was hitting these fourth quarter shots, these bombs from three. Look, the math is the winner of this game, the Celtics lost the, I mean they lost all of the margins. When we look at total shots, Celtics lost total shots. Celtics lost free throws. They always lose free throws. Rebounding, offensive rebound points. They, they won points off turnovers, which is good, but they lost second chance points. They lost points in the paint. They lost fast break. No, they won fast break points by one. They, they lost a lot of these margins. Like I said, the shots the shot margin that they look for but 20 of 43 from three. Finally the Celtics get a big performance from three. The Pistons shoot 11 of 36. That difference right there, nine three pointers, 27 point difference in a game that they, they won by three. They were minus eight at the free throw line. They were minus nine at the, in second chance points. So that's minus 17. And then they were 27 plus. Yeah, 27. So that right there makes up for a huge, huge gap the three point shooting. And that was, that was Derrick White. Overall he was 6 of 11. You had Peyton Pritchard 4 of 7. That this is like a decent game for Peyton Pritchard is kind of like forgotten. Baylor Scheiman had the 3 of 5. Minot was 2 of 3. Mine. I don't know. Minot's form is just looks but it's been going in so what can I say about that? The shots fell. The supporting cast in this was huge. Obviously I've talked about Shireman, Amari Williams. This is an interesting one because Amari Williams comes in, plays 15 minutes. You look at the box score and you say okay, 15 minutes for Amari. He missed a free throw. So he was 1 for 2 from the line. He had three rebounds, two blocks, which is good. Was a minus 10. You'd say, well he didn't do anything. I disagree. If you watch this, I, I think Amari was, was, was good, like solid. He had some nice plays at the rim. I think he got called for a couple of cheap fouls. I thought for a two way guy coming in to have this kind of night was really impressive. Jalen said it like it was really impressive. Like he hasn't been around. There were a couple of plays where the timing was off. You're like, okay, this is to be expected. But he was there making key plays. I think it should have been three blocks. I, they, I, they called one a goaltend. I don't know if that was really a goaltender not. But regardless he's there making these plays and like I, it's, it's one game so I'm not going to overreact, but it's one game that makes me want to see a second game from him. And let's, let's see what's, what's he got. I think he's, you know, from what I've seen so far, a, a decent player. He's a big guy. The Celtics need big guys. He's obviously shown his passing. We knew that coming in and he's, he's shown some of it over in with the. The main Celtics. So I don't know. Let's. Let's see. Let's see a second one. Why not? Let's see. Let's see what he can do. Against Minnesota, there was no Namishkada in this game, and so they went with Garza in the starting lineup. Williams matched up with Jalen Duran. For a while, I thought he did an okay job. The Celtics went small for a long time, which involved Minot and Walsh and Shireman. And so. So that's something that we talked about. But when it comes to Williams. Let me just wrap up my point about Williams. A guy that big and athletic, the Celtics kind of use him. And Garza was not effective. I didn't think he was going to be effective coming into this. So they went with him. It didn't work really that well. I'm not saying that Amari Williams is already better than Luca Garza, but I want to see if the next data point pushes us in that direction because it's something that I want to say, and I don't think, like, it would be irresponsible to just come out and say that now. But I'm putting a push pin in the cork board. I've wrapped my yarn around it, and now I want to see where's that next push pin going? Is it trending up or is it going to trend down? That's what I want to see. So he was good enough in this game. That makes me want to see more from him. And let's see, where does he end up in all of this? But the rest of the supporting cast was obviously, like, really good. Like Minot. They went small in the second half a lot with Minot at center. And, you know, Joe talked about this, gave. This gave us some cross matches. And defensively, I thought we battled. This is an interesting thing. It almost forced us to have a heightened awareness to the physicality that's necessary to be able to play. And I thought we did the best job we could on the offensive glass through those stretches. So what Joe was saying there is we went small, and everybody in the court was like, oh, God, we're small. We really gotta work hard to crash the glass and do all these physical things because we're too small. Otherwise we're gonna get crushed. And almost in a kind of like reverse psychology way, Joe was like, yeah, the small ball lineup was. It snapped everybody's focus in the Blaze. Like, they didn't sit there and say, oh, we got this big dude, we just rely. Go big dude. Go do big dude things. Go grab ball, block ball, give me ball. Like that's, you know, very caveman thinking. But the Celtics said, oh no, we've got to, we got to be galaxy brained. We could. We're too small. We gotta, we gotta really focus and like, so, I don't know, go, go small more. We talked about this. Tom and I talked about this on yesterday's podcast or the day before. Like, go small. Yeah, without kata. Go small. You know, let's see what that gives you. You know what, just, maybe you just do that more often anyway. Because if you want to play fast, you promised us faster basketball. Maybe that's the way you just do it. Maybe you don't even bother with the size. You say, you know what, we're just going to play small and faster and let's just go with that and make that our identity. Let's just do it. Why not? But it worked. The supporting cast, you know, from top to bottom, aside from Luca Garza, who was not really good, but Jordan Walsh was in there early, was rebounding really well. Hauser, you know, did a good job. Like everybody did a good job in like little stretches, right. Ugo got six minutes, but he had, he had a couple of possessions there. He, you're like, okay, yeah, this was good defense or rebounding, making the right play. So they all did a great job. I haven't even talked about Jalen Brown. Jaylen Brown had 33 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, two steals, two blocks. He was pretty good. We'll talk about him and how I think this maybe not according to plan, but gave us the concepts of a plan that is coming up next. Today's show is brought to you by Door Dash. We got people dropping 50 point games all over the place, which is something that's good for, for you if you're watching the game and you got Dash pass. Door Dash is the official on demand delivery platform of the NBA and they're celebrating with something they call the bag drop. 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John Corrales
Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen Every day I encourage you to go check out Locked on NBA game night. I do host on Wednesdays so check out game night. It's every game covered in the association so that'll keep you up to date. Seven days a week on lockdown. Be a game night Lockdown. NBA has you covered during the week, Monday through Friday on all the big topics, so check that out on the same feed. Jalen Brown was really good as usual. He's not the most efficient night. Okay, it was not an efficient night. 33 points on 32 shots. Not the best night in the world as far as efficiency. But he was there second quarter he was. He was really important when the Celtics were trying to hold on, just trying to stay close. He was a very important part of that 12 points in the second quarter. And if you like I tweeted this out the the box out at the at the end of the game when Cade missed the last free throw, he had Isaiah Stewart and he boxed them out all the way to like the opposite elbow. That could have easily been a foul on Stewart too. And I think like that that was just a really good play by Jalen. Jalen did you know, made just key plays, hit big shots. This is an all NBA season for him. But that box out was really great because that helped Pritchard swoop in and get the rebound and that that ended the game. I'm just gonna say this since we're talking about the free throw, I'm gonna put it here. I, I can say this now because the Celtics won. I think Joe Missoula actually agreed with me because he said this was timed perfectly by Cade Cunningham. I know that people were upset that the call on that file for Cade was initially called on the floor. And then in comes Tony Brothers and he changes the call. I understand 100% why everybody is angry at that, but I will. I think the call was correct. The call was correct because this is why when people say you don't foul when someone is facing the basket, because they can do that every time there's a, a three point lead and an opportunity to foul. You'll hear the broadcaster say, you follow him with his back to the basket because there's no way he's going to turn around and fire up a shot. So that's not going to be a shooting foul. But if he's facing the basket, when you go to reach in, he will rise up to shoot. Cade Cunningham is like early MVP candidate. He is incredibly good. He's a smart player. When he knew the Celtics were trying to reach in and foul, he gathered and went up for the shot. And there were like three seconds left. And that is. Yeah, you taking a heave with three seconds left. That, that's, that's feasible. Right? It's not like someone felt the contact, then gathered and went up. He was gathering as the foul was happening. So smart play by Cade. And I know, like, we can, I think we can rationally discuss this now because the Celtics didn't lose. And even if he hit that free throw, it would have been for a tie. The Celtics still had time. Could have gone to overtime. So we don't know what would have happened. It wouldn't have been a loss at that point. I just wanted to put it out there that that was actually the correct call. So don't hate me. The Celtics won. I'm glad they won. I think that was kind of like a bad play by the Celtics and they might have gotten away with one before because everybody, like we were looking at each other like those two fouls were very close on the, the three point, the, the two, three, you know, up three fouling to, to force the two free throws. Got to be careful on those plays. All right. My final thing, my. When I say according to plan, Missoula has said constantly that the way you deal with the Celtics offensive, I mean, the, the defensive Rebounding problems, and that is still a problem. The Pistons had 21 offensive rebounds, so they, they got a ton of offensive rebounds. It didn't kill the Celtics. It hurt them. It didn't kill them because the Celtics were able to do the other things. He always says you got to be better at the defensive rebounding, but we're never going to be great. So you're going to do the other things. Force turnovers, get points off turnovers, crash the boards on the other end, put up your own second chance points. And the Celtics for a while was a lot closer. But this, I think there were a couple of opportunities at the end that the, the Pistons kind of cashed in on. But the Celtics second chance points, even though they gave a 21 offensive rebounds, 27 second chance points for the Pistons, that could have been much worse. And The Celtics had 18, so they, they minimized that. They kept that to within nine. The, the points off of turnovers. The Celtics got 20 points off of 13 turnovers while giving up 15 points off of 13 turnovers. So they're plus five there. It wasn't perfect. Like the whole point of it is to get more shots than the other team, and they didn't do that. But this is the beginnings of when Joe Missoula says, we got to do these other things to mitigate the rebounding issues. This is kind of what he's talking about. And I think earlier in the game, it was a much starker, more accurate example. It kind of slipped a little bit over the course of the game. But when the Celtics are not rebounding well defensively, you gotta crash the boards and, and mitigate that with your own offensive rebounds. And so I think the Celtics were able to kind of do that and keep the game close enough for them to do the other things that they needed to do to win. Now one of the other things they needed to do to win was shoot well. And they, they hit 23 pointers to the Pistons 11. And that, you know, you could look at that and say, well, that's where they won the game. And yes, that's where a lot of these games are won and lost at the three point line. But the Celtics did enough of the other things where they, they weren't so crushed by the rebounding and weren't so crushed by second chance points that you'd look at a 20 point, three point shooting night and say, how did you lose that game? Oh, because you got, you know, you gave up 40 second chance points. Like, that's, that's not where you want to be so good job by the Celtics for doing some of these other things. Still nowhere near perfect, still nowhere near even good enough to rely on that consistently. But you start to see the semblance of, okay, this is what Joe was talking about. If you do this, then you're going to give yourself a chance, even when this one thing is not great, in fact, horribly bad. So it's early. It's an 18. It's 18 games. We're seeing it. We're seeing it. We're seeing some of the stuff that Joe's been talking about starting to come around and come to fruition, which is great. This is progress. Look, you lose to the Nets, you beat the Pistons, you lose to the Jazz. Earlier in the season, you beat the Cavs. So the Celtics are kind of where they're supposed to be after 18 games, 10 wins, two games above.500. They're. They're getting to where they need to be. The 44, 45 wins. They're kind of on pace for that now. That's going to probably change. But as, as Tom and I were saying in a previous podcast, the more of these games that you can steal, the less pressure you put on yourself later on in the season to, to win if you want to make a move for, you know, a playoff spot. So you got Minnesota and Cleveland on a back to back. Can you steal one of these games? Very curious to see how they do against Minnesota now because maybe the small ball can be something that bothers the Timberwolves. You put Rudy Gobert on skates, have him, you know, guard out in the perimeter. Maybe that's. Now this thing that they're doing. Maybe, maybe that's a way to combat what another team's strengths are. They're a big team in Minnesota. Try it again. Let's see how it goes. So I'll be back tomorrow. Tomorrow's Thanksgiving, but I will be back. I'll. I'll be working. I'll be re. Watching the game. I will shake off my, you know, whatever food coma I'm in to kind of take another look at this and talk more about this game. This, this one podcast isn't going to do enough to cover this game. There's plenty. There are plenty of little things, smaller things that I will have to talk about in the next podcast to properly give this game everything that it deserves. So I'll be back tomorrow. Make sure you are back tomorrow. Talk about this to celebrate this a little bit more as we get. Dig a little bit deeper, but great, great. Win. Obviously the best win of the season so far. So thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. This show is free. It's available everywhere. You can watch it on YouTube, get into the comments section there, Share your thoughts with me, with your fellow everydayers and then share the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics Podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. It's your team every day. Calling all sightseers and selfie takers. Welcome to Texas, where a day at our hiking trails will lead to a lifetime of memories and family road trips become family legends where thrill seekers make a splash into spring fed pools and picky eaters will clean their plates. This is your invitation to visit Texas and see it for yourself. Visit traveltexas.com and plan your family's trip today.
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