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HEATCHECK: Boston Celtics Ignite as Derrick White DOMINATES and Jaylen Brown BAFFLES in Win
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Boston Celtics ignite late to topple the Miami Heat behind Derrick White’s sizzling 33-point outburst. Can White’s resurgence spark a new winning streak for the league leaders? Jaylen Brown adds a perplexing 30-point, near triple-double performance, leaving fans wondering how he fills the stat sheet even on off nights. John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down the Celtics' come-from-behind win, spotlighting Sam Hauser’s return to form and the high-intensity impact of Hugo Gonzalez off the bench. Key topics include Boston’s rebounding woes, defensive lapses, and Joe Mazzulla’s lineup rotations. Plus, reaction to Miami’s shorthanded roster and how bench depth could shape the Celtics’ upcoming road test against the Toronto Raptors. Is Boston’s hot shooting enough to overcome its weaknesses, or are bigger challenges ahead? Don’t miss this prime analysis of the Celtics’ evolution.
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Inspires the College Football Playoff is everything. Toughness, roles, sacrifices. Life's a focus. This is where I think everything you got all damn day. The attention to detail is like none other. Be physical, be playing. We are the winners. Chile takes on Ole Miss, followed by James Madison in Oregon. It's time to bring it first round coverage of the College Football Playoffs presented by all state Saturday at 3:30 Eastern on TNT and HBO. Max, are you ready? Let's go. The Celtics got hot at the right time and got the win. Derrick White was hot the whole game and Jaylen Brown is just confusing the hell out of me right now. It's all right now on the Locked on Celtics podcast, huh? Yup. Be town. Be ever ready. It's the seas. Who else could it be? What they gonna say now screaming like J.T. corralis recap the madness Every game, every practice, prime time. Depp and D. White on the sideline. Ren and J's how we started raising banners. How we finish Locked on self this pod home of the winners. The Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. Where is your team every day? Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them every day Monday through Friday plus bonus podcast. This is a Friday night game so you get a Friday night podcast. Tomorrow's a Saturday night game. You get a Saturday night podcast. Seven podcasts in a row this week, plus six more next week. Thirteen in a row so make sure you subscribe. Show's available Everywhere. It's on YouTube. Get into the comment section there. Share your thoughts with everybody. It's the number one Boston Celtics podcast. I'm the number one sports podcasting network. So thank you. Every day there's people who are with me all of these shows for making it that I am. John Corrales, if you're new to the show on Beat writer covering the Celtics for Boston Sports Journal. I've been doing a version of this job for about 20 years. I've been doing this podcast for 10. Those are big numbers and I've written a couple of books about the team. Today we are talking about the Boston Celtics getting a 129, 116 win over the Miami Heat. Always feels good to beat Miami. It always feels like when the Miami Heat come in here, some rando goes off for, you know, a big monster shooting night. And of course they did for the you get Casparis Yakushionis, 5 of 8 from 3. Simone Fontechio, who's known as a three point shooter, 4 of 9, Khaleel Ware, 6 of 7 from 3. Like, come on, the the guy who's supposed to hit him, norm Powell is 1 for 11. But everyone else goes, you know, berserk. We'll get into later on. I get into Jalen Brown, whose numbers were amazing, whose game made me think like, what's wrong with Jalen? It's a very confusing night. I'll get into that later on. I'll get into Derrick White. But the story of this game is the Celtics getting right at the hot at the right time. About four minutes to go in the third quarter, the Heat were winning every margin. They were winning the shooting battle. The Celtics got crushed on the boards. They gave a ton more shots. And then things started to change. All of a sudden, Miami cooled off and the Celtics got going. They forced a couple of turnovers. The defense stepped up a little bit. They started to rebound a little bit. And next thing you know, in the fourth quarter, it was off to the races. The Celtics shot 10 of 15 from three in the fourth quarter. The Heat were 11 for 23 overall. In the fourth quarter, they were 5 of 14. So the Celtics outscored the Heat by 10 in the fourth quarter because they hit five more threes. So it was all of a sudden just a monster shooting performance after what started out as a poor shooting performance. The Celtics, I say through like the first, I cut it off at the four minute mark in the third quarter. So at that point Miami was shooting 38%. The Celtics were 7 of 19. Miami was 9 of 23 from that point on. Four minutes in the third quarter, Miami was 4 of 12. The Celtics were 8 of 14. So after that. Well, actually, no, that's, that's. That's 8 of 14. This is above, above the break. They were 1 of 2 in the court. So anyway, I'm reading the wrong numbers. I apologize. But they were Basically, basically the heat. 9 of 23 above the break, 3 of 4 from the corner. So what's that? 12 of 27, 14 of 33 overall from 3. The Celtics were 7 of 19, 8 of 21, 10 of 26 through the beginning of the about four minutes to go in the third quarter. This is exciting. Podcasting. 8 of 14 plus 2 of 2 from the left corner, 1 of 1 from the right corner. So 3 of 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 of 17. That's what they were after the four minute mark. Basically, all that is to say they got super, super hot. Miami went cold and the Celtics ran away with it. Sam Houser just got. Got hot. I was, you know, felt like I was Kevin Bacon at the end of Animal House where all is well and he just gets trampled. Like all the people running off of the Sam Houser bandwagon, trampling me in the process. Running back. Now maybe you picked me up and helped me up because he shot 5 of 6 from 3 in this game. Kind of back to his normal self. That was, that was nice to see. You got really just big shooting performances on beyond. Derrick White in, in the fourth quarter from like Ugo hits one, Jalen hits a couple. Derek obviously hits a couple. Simons gets in on the actual. The Celtics had 41 bench points. That's not something you normally see. So. But the bigger picture here is that that shooting saved the Celtics from ultimately what was a very frustrating game to me up until that stretch, the final 16 minutes. And then it's like, you know, you had Ugo playing that whole time, Sam playing the whole time, Anthony playing that whole time. The Celtics lost all of the margins and they looked bad. I was really, I spent much of the first half like actually angry at the Celtics. They had Norm Powell four minutes into the game, Norm Powell had a second foul. Now this is the Miami Heat playing on a back to back. They were without Jovic Pell Larson. Who else they. Tyler Hero, Davion Mitchell, Andrew Wiggins. They were shorthanded. And here's Norm Powell four minutes into the game with his second, second foul. And they didn't attack him at all after that. They didn't even, they didn't put him in any of the actions. It's not like they tried to put him in the actions. Miami pre switched and everything was, you know, we tried but we couldn't do it. They didn't do it at all. They didn't try. Jaylen Brown was hell bent on attacking the yakutionis matchup. He's a young kid. I don't know. I really don't know much about him. But Jalen was going at him over and over and over again and with very little success and was hell bent on that instead of going into the Norm Powell matchup. So I spent the beginning of this game like, what is going on here? And the Celtics were falling behind and I, if, if Miami was any good at this point because they're so decimated, they don't have hero. Like I said, they're, you know, if they, if they were whole, I mean, maybe the Celtics attitude would have been different. But if this was a different matchup, playing the way they played, gotten crushed in the first few quarters. They lost the field goal attempt mark. They gave up 102 field goal attempts. They gave up 17 offensive rebounds. They, Miami took six more three pointers than they did. They took the same amount of free throw attempts. The celtics turned it over three more times. They, they allowed eight more points off turnover. So the Celtics turned over 16 times, 25 points where Miami turned over 13 for. For 17. All of these margins, this is all the stuff that Joe Missoula emphasizes. And the Celtics were unable to win the 24 to 11 deficit in second chance points. Brutal. That's not a game that you normally win. But Derrick white was the guy. He was the guy. And I'll get into his shooting performance and the rest, Hugo Gonzalez, Jalen Brown. When I come back. Today's show is brought to you by doordash. The season's heating up. Door dash has a way to keep fans in their bag the whole way through. Whether you're watching highlights, tunnel fits or just your favorite player, Doordash makes it easy the entire season to have more fun. Every player has their bag and with doordash, fans have one too. Doordash keeps your snacks stored, stocked, your gear fresh and your watch party vibes absolutely on point. There are nights where your team stresses you out. The Celtics did here. Doordash lets you become your post game therapy. Lets it. Doordash becomes your post game therapy. 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If you are an everydayer, I know you are. You're here with me every Monday through Friday. Plus of these bonus podcasts on the weekends. Level Up Join the Everydayer club. You can get this show ad free audio wise ad free audio of Locked on Celtics. You can get exclusive access to our Discord server. You can get merch. You can get all that stuff by signing up at lockedonceltics.supercast.com lockdown celtics.supercast.com join the everydayer club. Level up your fandom over here at Lockdown Celtics Derrick White was just amazing. My favorite moment of the game was probably Derrick White's insane heat check. Forget who was guarding him, but it was like a fade away kind of launch it a little bit higher. Try to he Every pregame he, he fires these kind of like banner scraping high shots. Just. I don't know why, but it feels like he's, he's preparing for some kind of possibility of needing to fire one up like that. He does it every pregame and it was almost that kind of shot. He banks it in, he's running back and he looks at the bench like, right, did you see that? What's going on here? He was 9 of 14 from 3 in this game. Like slump busted in a big way. He, his three point percentage actually rose two full points from this one shooting night. It's still not great. It's like 35% but it's, you know, this is the type of thing where again, we're hoping for consistency with Derek so he can start stacking these up. Obviously not 9 of 14, but hopefully the 9 of 14. You're going into this next game kind of happy that this is a back to back against Toronto. Let's keep that thing going. Get out there and, you know, keep, keep shooting. Just, let's start. Can we get the Raptors in here and just keep the floor down? I know they switched over to hockey, but let's put that floor back down. Keep Derek White shooting. He was just feeling it, everything. If it wasn't for Derrick White, and it's easy to say this about a guy who dropped 33. If it wasn't for Derrick White, they weren't nowhere close to winning this game because he was the guy that was keeping them in striking distance the whole night. The Celtics, I cannot stress this enough. They were just kind of like nothing was working. The, the, the Heat were kind of like walling them off a little bit. It's not that they kept them out of the paint, but they made it difficult to get into the paint. The Celtics were still finding shots and they were just missing a lot of them and. But Derrick White wasn't. And he was, he was just so huge in this. But beyond that, he.33 points, but six assists, five rebounds, four block shots. He did everything. This was a very like souped up, classic Derrick White performance where he did a little bit of everything. It was funny, after the game, somebody was reading off one of the. His stat lines and you're the first Celtic to score 30 points and have at least four rebounds, four assists, four block shots and have nine threes. It was like by the time you got to the end of the stats, he was just like, okay. And he said, it feels like the more stats you add, the less it, the less it means. But it's cool to be the first person to do anything in Celtics history. So if that's how you got to do it, that's how you got to do it. But an incredible night for Derek, who did everything. The Celtics didn't get much. Well, okay, let me, let me just. Didn't get anything from Baylor Sherman, but the bench was. Was huge. Hugo Gonzalez was. Was big. He. He comes in and he changes the. The entire energy. He plays some center. The Celtics went super, super small and that did contribute to some of the rebounding problems. Although the very first possession of the game, the Miami had three offensive rebounds. So we're not blaming it all on a small ball lineup. Kata was on the floor for this. I don't think Kata was particularly great in this game and he fell hard a couple of times, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the injury report for the Toronto game. He fell right in the small of his back. He didn't seem like he was moving well, so. But he was on the floor. Kata was on the floor for a lot of it. In fact, he grabbed a rebound late in the game and Joe Mazzulla was like, ah, see, that's what you do. Grabbing the rebound was like very excited that, that Kata went out and grabbed an actual rebound. So Keita was not great. So they went small and Ugo comes in place almost 30 minutes and was second only to Derrick White. D. White had was a plus 27. Ugo was a plus 22, four of seven shooting. He hits a three. He had eight rebounds, a couple of steals, a block. High energy, man. Ugo is, you know, young kid, but comes in with that energy. And this is the beauty of this, this Celtics team and also the curse of the Celtics team. You don't have any one guy that is standing out. So that's the curse. That's the part where it's like you'd like to have a set rotation of. Okay, this is when Jordan comes in, this is when Ugo comes in, this is when Josh comes in. And like somebody would separate themselves. Nobody has separated themselves necessarily. Minot comes in. He had a good stretch, but it wasn't a great game. But he did have a good stretch. His energy was really important early. So he had a five minute portion of the game where he came in and impacted it. And that. That's kind of what you want from these guys, right? If you're. If it's only five minutes and great. That's five minutes that you played great. Baylor Scheiman came in for five minutes. It was terrible. So you know what? This wasn't his game against Toronto. He might have 15 great minutes and tomorrow's podcast is like, oh, wow, Baylor Scheiman really, his energy really changed things. That's what these Celtics are. This was a new Go Gonzalez game. He comes in, changes the energy, physical high energy, makes, you know, makes good plays. Not perfect, but he makes good plays. So credit to him for, for that performance he had. He had a nice game. So Simon's chipped in, you know, shot 6 of 10, 2 of 5. That was great. Like I said, Hauser, you know, steps up. Who else? Jordan Walsh. You know, nothing notable from Walsh, although stretches of really good defense. Again, Pritchard was kind of like a nothing in this game. All right, not a big deal because they won't. Like I've already talked about Keda, and that brings me to Jalen Brown, who. Listen, I know how this is going to sound. If I didn't look at the box score, I would in no way come anywhere close to the stats that he put up. If I had to guess, if I read these stats and you haven't seen the game, you're going to think I'm absolute. An absolute lunatic from what I'm about to say. Jalen Brown scored 30 points on 9 of 18 shooting, 2 of 4 from 3, 10 of 11 from the line. He had nine rebounds, seven assists and a steal. He did have five turnovers, which is not great, but 30 points, another 30 point game on 50 shooting from 2 and 3, 10 of 11 from the Line, nine rebounds, seven assists. When you ever get. Whenever you get within three stations of a triple double, you're flirting with the triple double. So he flirted with the triple double. You look at that, that box scorning like boom. JB stepping up. What a game. My eyes looked at Jalen Brown and said, what is wrong with Jalen tonight? His first half was not good. In fact, the first half numbers will. Will tell you, like, hold on one second here, here, let me get this first half numbers here for Jalen Brown. 2 of 7 shooting. Oh. Of 1 from 3, 2 of 2 from the line. He did have seven rebounds, three assists and three turnovers, six points a minus one. That's his halftime in almost 18 minutes. 6.7 rebounds, three assists, 2 of 7 shooting, minus one. He turned that into 30 points plus eight. It his second. His third quarter. Here's. Okay, I'll explain myself. So obviously the first half, everybody agrees, not great. Third quarter was living at the free throw line. He, he. It's not like he went off and had like, we've seen Jalen Brown's big quarters, and this was 7 of 8 from the line. He was 4 of 6 overall, 7 of 8 from the line. I just felt like those fouls, like he was just kind of. He was getting himself into the paint. He was getting himself into the teeth of the defense. I don't think he was. I don't think if he wasn't fouled, I don't think that shot had any chance of going in. I didn't like the process of getting to. To where he got. And ultimately he got fouled. And I think that's more testament to what Miami was doing and how they weren't great. It just didn't feel like a typical awesome Jalen Brown knight. But then he ends up with 15 points in the quarter, so I'm like, oh, well, I can't. I guess you can't argue with that. And then in the fourth quarter, he. He wasn't even on the floor for the all of the big explosion. Then he checks in immediately, hits a three pointer, hits two of three from. From three in the last five, six minutes of the game, and checks, you know, checks out with a 30 piece. It's just so weird. It's so like this game, in the last game, the last podcast, I did the same thing. And they're going to be Jalen Brown fans who are like, oh, here comes John Corrales, the hater. Here comes the hater. Can't just enjoy a 30 piece. But I'm telling you, I'm not alone. I know that there are people out there that were like, Jalen didn't look his best. I guess what I'm. Where I'm going with this is it's kind of amazing that you can be this good. How do you not look good and drop 30 and flirt with a triple double 39 and seven. That's incredible. It's again, a testament to how good Jalen is, because I've seen Jalen look like this and he has been like, like this. He's been like this against Miami. I've seen this kind of thing from him before, and it's been terrible stats. I guess he's progressed to a point where he looks like this, looks a little lost, looks a little slow, and he's still able to put. Put up 30 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. That's kind of incredible. It's very confusing to me, but he's doing it. It's Incredible. How many times did I just say incredible? Larry Ted. For those who are listening, I have statues of Larry Bird and Ted Williams and Bobby Orr back there behind me and Carl Yastremski over there. I'm upstairs on the 9th floor of TD Garden recording this podcast. This is a bonus podcast which is over right now. So thank you all for being here on this bonus podcast. Celtics get the win. They snap their two game losing streak at the end. You never apologize for having for winning an NBA game. Not great. A lot of things that didn't go well. Hopefully they can fix some of those things against the Toronto Raptors Saturday night. 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Inspires the College Football Playoff is everything. Toughness, rolls, sacrifices, plan to focus. Is this where I think everything you got I all damn day? The attention to detail is like none other. Be physical, be flat. We are the winner. Chilene takes on Ole Miss, followed by James Madison in Oregon. It's time to bring it first round coverage of the College Football playoffs presented by allstate Saturday at 3:30 Eastern on TNT and HBO. Max, are you ready? Let's go.