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Jaylen Brown DOMINATES, Boston Celtics DEMOLISH Wizards, Role Players STEP UP
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Boston Celtics cruise past the Washington Wizards as Jaylen Brown delivers a historic 35-5-5 stat line in under 26 minutes. Can Brown’s newfound foul-drawing skill on jump shots help redefine how defenses play him? The season’s early momentum is building—could an All-NBA selection be within reach for Brown? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down the clutch performances from Celtics role players, spotlighting Josh Minott’s career-high 21 points and Neemias Queta's double-double with elite rim protection. Jordan Walsh’s defensive spark off the bench and Joe Mazzulla’s relentless fourth-quarter coaching set a high standard for Boston’s supporting cast. Key discussion points include the Celtics’ energy turnaround, strategic player rotations, and what the Orlando Magic series could reveal about their playoff ambitions. Don’t miss this strategic analysis as the Celtics sharpen their identity and push to dominate the Eastern Conference.
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John Corrales
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Dude, my work here is done.
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Jalen Brown was amazing and he has a skill now that might help him extend his career. Plus role players, Josh Minot, Nish Kada, Jordan Walsh, all stepping up for a big win right now on the Lockdown Celtics podcast. Huh?
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John Corrales
Hey there. Welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown podcast network. Where does your team every day? Your team's the Boston Celtics and I talk about them every Monday through Friday. Plus bonus podcasts like when they play on Friday in Orlando. It's all free. It's available everywhere. The show is on YouTube. Get into that comment section and share your thoughts with everybody. Your fellow everydayers, the people who are with me every Monday through Friday. And me, I'm John Corrales, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal. I've been covering this team for about 20 years now, doing this podcast for 10, and I've written a couple of books about the team as well. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now. New customers, you bet five bucks. If it wins, you get 300 in bonus bets to use across the app. So head to FanDuel.com to get started. Boston Celtics get a big win 136 to 107. Later on, I'll talk about Joe Missoula coaching through the final buzzer and, and having like a direct line of sight between watching him with Josh Minot and Namish Kada. I'll talk about that later on. I'll spend the second segment talking about the role players, especially stepping up. Minot, Keda, Jordan, Walsh all had big games, very important roles. But let's start at the top. There's no place to start other than Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown, 35 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists in 26 minutes. Actually just under 26 minutes. Fifth player in NBA history to do that. First Boston Celtic to ever do that. And in, you know, 35.55 in less than 26 minutes. That's hard to do. That is hard to do. So number one, you have to be super efficient. Which Jalen was, he was 13 of 21, which is 62% shooting. He was 2 or 4 from 3 and 7 of 9 from the line. That's Jalen in the most like efficient shooting night you're gonna get out of him. Also you got to get to the line. The nine free throws is important. Jaylen was just in total control of this game. The ability and the ability I was talking about in the open, the ability to get fouls on jump shots. You, you don't see a ton of fouls on jump shots all the time. Jalen, I think it was maybe like four different times on jumpers, just going straight up for a mid range jumper, got fouled. And that is a skill that is something that he has been working on. He said and if you can develop that, that, that is an incredible skill. Not only is it an incredible skill for now to, you know, win games and pump up your scoring and get yourself to another 35 point, you know, performance, another 30 plus point performance. It's also important because you don't have to be dunking on people and getting to the rim to draw your files. And it's, it's a, the way Jalen drives, he gets really low and you get a lot of players do this. This is the, the skill of getting low, getting your shoulder into a player and feeling as you're getting down there, you're feeling that player's arm, the player braces himself and you get that shoulder down there and as soon as you feel that arm on your body, so between your chin and your own arms, as soon as you feel that arm on your body, you rise up, boom, you go through his arm and you take the jumper and that should get you the foul call all the time. It's hard to do because you have to be super aware. This is something that, I mean, I could never even think to do that really, when I was like you. A lot of players on lower levels, you don't have that awareness. You're just more thinking of like, let me get to my spot, get it, get a shot off and all. When you're Jalen Brown, when you guys like, you know, Shay, Gil, just Alexander, the, you know, the real great players who know how to draw contact, understanding the angles, understandingly, I have the rights to this space, whether it's, this is my line to the basket and as soon as somebody crosses into that line, I can get hit, I can put the shot up, maybe I get a three point play, but at least I get a two, you know, a shooting foul. So Jalen just putting his head down, feeling like. And it's a natural thing for a player to do, to put his arm up, embrace himself. As soon as he gets that and you kind of bait the guy into it, you rise up and you get that, that foul call, that's important. You don't have to be super athletic to get that. You just have to have a decent first step and the awareness. So that's a play that he can lean on with well into his 30s. So right now he's fine, but at some point the athleticism will go away. We even saw it with the, with the meniscus tear and now with the hamstring thing. He's not his normal athletic self. And this is a way to get to the line and get yourself potential for three point plays. You can carry that on forever. But also it is important in the short term because now a defender, if the, if that's how you are drawing a ton of files, if it gets out there, if people start doing the stories on like, wow, Jaylen Brown's drawing a ton of files on jump shots, then the book is going to be, you can't crowd Jalen Brown on these jumpers. Which means he's going to give himself a little bit more room to take these shots and that will set up pump fakes, that will set up passes, that will set up a lot of things that build off of that ability to draw files. So it's a super, super important skill for him to be developing. But Jalen, tons of, you know, patience as he's, you know, his, his ability to now patiently drive and to get to the spots that he wants to get to and set up his teammates. This is all, this is all like next level stuff. This is an all NBA type of season so far, albeit nine games. So we're not even into any place where this can actually be considered. Well, hey, he's an all NBA candidate because a lot of guys can have early success, but the way Jalen is playing in his history and all that stuff, you can just feel like as long as he stays healthy, he's going to be on an all NBA team the way he's playing. And it might just be a matter of is it first or second team? It's be tough, it'll be tough for him to get on the first team. But like, I don't know if I'm not ruling it out. The, just the season, the start that he's having is incredible. And I can go on about Jalen, but he, he was, he was awesome. First quarter where the Celtics were really bad. If he doesn't score 16 points in the first quarter, I don't even want to know how this would have gone because the Celtics gave up 37 points in the first quarter. Another big monster quarter to one of the worst offenses in the league. They were down 11 and Jalen had 16 points. That could have been. If Jalen's shot wasn't falling, if he wasn't hitting, that would have been a much bigger hole to try to climb out of. Obviously they were up by as many as I think 35 at one point, so maybe they would have climbed out of whatever hole it was. But if you're down, if it's 37 to 16, that changes the dynamic of everything. And the Celtics went off and had a 44 to 23 second quarter and at one point it was like a 22 to 4 run or something like that. Maybe that doesn't happen if Jalen doesn't have a 16 point first quarter and just take complete, a complete control of that game. Another huge element of this is that shots fell and they didn't force it. No one, no one really forced a lot of shots. Now Anthony Simons ended up taking 10. But he played a lot. And he played a lot in the second half. And with the lead, there was a little bit of stat padding there. Not that he was specifically stat padding himself, but the game was over and he. I kind of liked leaving him in to get. Let him get going. But mostly, look, Jalen took four, Josh Minot took six because he was hitting, he was feeling it. Pritchard took six, Derrick White took five. They, overall, they shot 39%, but 2 of 4 for Jalen, 3 of 6 for Josh. So that right there is 5 of 10. That's 50%. You throw 4 of 11 for Pritchard and White. So what I say 5 of 10. So that's 9 of 21. That's. That's. That's a really nice shooting night for the starters who needed shots to fall. What. My favorite, my absolute favorite shot of the night was Derrick White. Right. Right. Hash mark. In. Was it the. In the first quarter? Second quarter, Second quarter. He got a shooter's role. The ball kind of like bounced around and he had. He has not been getting that bounce at all all season. That might be the first one that you can look at and say that was a shooter's role that fell for Derrick White. So that was good. Glad to see D. White getting at least a couple of soft jumpers to fall. And he had, he had a nice overall game, by the way. 12 points, eight assists, three rebounds. Not like the biggest offensive night, but three steals, two blocks. That's pure Derrick White. So at least D. White's been doing some of this other stuff. But I gotta highlight the role players because if it wasn't for Josh Minot, Namishkeda, and Jordan Walsh, who knows how this game would have gone. We'll talk about those guys when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by Gusto. Let me be real here. No one starts a business for the joy of calculating tax withholdings or managing payroll spreadsheets. That's not what people want to get into business for. You want to make money. 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That's gusto.com locked on NBA. Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Go check out Lockdown NBA game night. It's got all the games covered. It was a big slate of games on Wednesday night. So locked on NBA game night will get you all caught up on everything that happened in the league. Plus, on the same feed, Lockdown NBA, all the big stories on their afternoon show, the big storylines from around the league. That's two great podcasts on the same feed, wherever you found this podcast. So plenty of podcasts lined up for you. So the first quarter absolutely sucked. I thought the Celtics were terrible. I was getting really upset because I'm like, you guys just got waxed by Houston. Okay, fine. Everybody expected that. Then you come out against Utah. Nice start. But then after that, everybody starts talking about, like, yeah, the energy wasn't there. The effort really wasn't where it needed to be. And I said, okay, that's not great. I didn't like that response. And, you know, it's nice for them to admit it, but, like, that's. You can't afford. You can't afford that. And then they come out in the first quarter of this game where I thought after the Houston game, after, like, looking in the mirror and saying, okay, we kind of blew it against the Jazz. We waited too long. Fourth quarter, finally turned it around. It was. It was too little, too late. Gotta come out right away against Washington and step up. And they came out against Washington right away and sucked. That first quarter, they were bad. They gave up a ton. I think it was 15. Was it 15 second chance points in the first quarter to a team that averages 12 per game. One of the worst second chance points teams. And ultimately the Celtics gave up 20, but they had. It was 14 because then it was 6 the rest of the way. But they gave up more than the. The Wizards average in the first quarter. Unforgivable. Giving up all those second chances. And I would say that aside from Jaylen Brown, like, a lot of these guys probably you could probably say that they sucked in the first quarter. And that applies to Danish K, that applies to Jordan Walsh, it applies a little bit to Josh Minot, but I think Jordan was kind of like the first guy to come in and turn things around. That energy in the second quarter, the defensive presence, good kind of defensive instincts on display, getting in there, getting rebounds, it was the best of Jordan Walsh. The, the type of performance that you look at and you say, okay, this, this, this is what earns him minutes. Joe was stuck, right it. Once again, there was. The energy wasn't where it needed to be. And Jordan comes in and changes that super important. And then Keda gets going and is the strong, strong pick and roll.
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He, they, they ran some stuff early for him, but then Alex Saar really kind of like took it to him for, for a little while and then Cato responded. Ultimately, the game looks really good for Keita. He responded well. That's important. He defended well. He helped. He, he played probably some of the best basketball after that first quarter, finishing with 15 points, 12 rebounds, five assists. Just an incredible game. Seven of seven shooting. That's the type of thing outside of that early first quarter where no one was outside of Jalen. No one kind of escapes criticism in that first quarter. This is, this is what you needed from Neemi in a big, big way. And I think it's impossible for Neemi to play well and the Celtics to kind of suck. So when he's playing well, the Celtics are playing well, and I think it's kind of like, you might call it a chicken and egg kind of thing. Is it because he's playing well that the Celtics play well, or is it because the Celtics play well? He plays well. You kind of need both to happen. He's. If he's setting the good screens and rolling hard and he's getting out of the screens at the right time, that. That leads to some of those alley oops that we see. And if he's defending well, then you see the rebounding there. You see the shot blocking and the rim protection and the, the. That effect of, okay, he's. He's there, he's active. We're aware of him on the offensive side. We're not going to challenge him. Like that is an important element. So when Keda is playing well, the Celtics are playing well themselves. And he's not necessarily the, the reason why, but he's a big reason why, because he does those things, those defensive things, blocking shots and rebounding and protecting the rim that allows the Celtics to get out into transition. And if he's screening well, that opens things up and allows the Celtics room to maneuver. That is all important stuff. So I know I'm. I'm especially tough on Keda because the Celtics need him. You see what he's capable of, and the Celtics need him to do that more often. And this is why in the next segment, I'm going to get on the. I wanted to focus on the Joe Missoula thing because he gets on Keda a lot and he gets on Josh Minot a lot for that stuff. Especially, oh, I got a spider coming right down on my face. If you saw me just jump on the YouTube page, it's because I had a spider like right on my nose. And I'm not afraid of spiders. But when you turn around and see when it's staring you in the face, that's. That's a little jarring. But, you know, little guy, a little girl, scurry off. Anyway, that's how. That's how ball handler reacts when Nami is. Kidda is playing well, you turn around, you go, oh. And you go, oh, that's that. We don't want to drive in there. We want to kick this back out. Mimi at his best is doing that stuff. And then obviously the Minot minutes were huge. 21 points, career high. First. First ever 20 plus point game he comes in, it's flying all over the place. You know, three dunks, three threes. When it's. It's kind of like the same thing. If, If Minot is hitting his threes, then I have a hard time believing the Celtics are not playing well. It's because that's. That's an added bonus. And to get three out of him is. Is huge. He's not a reliable three point shooter, but when he's feeling it and it's going like that, that's big. But, you know, the cutting, the. The availability for like lobs to get out into transition. The defense, you know, a steal, the classic kind of steal. Kick it out to the wing, fly down the floor, you get it back on a lob type of play. That's the type of stuff that we saw out of Josh Minot. The Celtics need these role players to step up. Jaylen can't do it by himself. Derek and Pton are trying to find their footing, and even when they do, you still need one of these other guys. At least one of these other guys to step up. Minot is, is having a great run as a starting wing. Obviously not perfect, but still, he's Starting, it's working. That's great. I didn't expect Minot to, to come in and be that, you know, be a starter and, and earn that, that role. I kind of thought Boucher would be the one who'd step into this. And Boucher was a dnp, so that's not quite working. But Minot is stepping in and filling that role very, very well. You know, I said what I said about Keda. It's the same thing. And Jordan Walsh is kind of like there's a wild card. There's that group of Ugo, Jordan, Baylor, Shireman. You can throw Boucher in there, you can throw Tillman in there. Tillman also dnp. But that group, especially Ugo, Jordan, Baylor, that's going to be the group. Like the energy guys, big defense, you got to defend, maybe hit a couple of shots. One of those guys is going to have to do something. Ugo, you know, played 16 and a half minutes and did well. But this was Jordan's night. And Jordan, you know, did seven points, seven rebounds, an assist, two steals, hit a three. Perfect. Perfect. That, that stat line has to go to one of those three guys for the Celtics to win. Has to. Joe Missoula stepping up his coaching. I loved what Minot said after the game about Joe's coaching and the yelling at him and keda in a 30 point win in the 30 point game in the fourth quarter. That's all coming up next. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. The NBA is here and there's no better place to get in on the action than FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you miss the start of the game, you want to ride the hot hand. FanDuel has live bets on everything from who will score next to fourth quarter comebacks. Plus you can even combine your live bets into a same game parlay. You'll get a shot at a bigger payout. It keeps every game exciting, especially when your team is making a late push or pulling away like the Celtics did. 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Again getting into the paint and making he's making a living on the drive, bury the shoulder, turn around, fade away, jumper. He's living on that shot until his three pointer gets going. Then that shot's going to carry him through. And I liked what he said after the game where he's like, you know, I've had a good half and then the second half I start trying to settle for threes. I think he wants to get his three point shot going where he could just be like, you know what, I'm just going to drive. I'm going to drive. I'm going to make these shots, make them at a high rate. You can win on more twos than threes. You have to take and make threes in this league. You have to. But 16 of 41 for the Celtics, that's a good number to be at. You don't have to be up at 50, 16 to 41, 39, that is fine. You don't have to force it if you're getting to the rim. If you're getting into the middle of the paint, do it. So that's, that's what I wanted to see. And so good job for Pritchard there. I mentioned Simons did a lot of his damage lately. Luca Garza did not. I just, I'm kind of. I think Luca Garza is, as advertised, just a defensive liability. And he'll. If he's hitting some shots, great. If he's setting some good screens, great. But that's going to be about it. Okay, so the best part of the night, I think was game was basically over. It's 30 plus, hovering around 30. We already know that Jalen's not coming back in. And so it's. It's kind of garbage time. But Kate is still out there and Minot is still out there. And Keda kind of blows a pick and roll coverage. Couple plays in a row. Kada kind of blows. And Joe calls a timeout. And as kid is coming to the bench. Joe is intense. Now this is happening where I sit. I sit on the Celtics bench side. When you, when you're watching the game and you see the bench and the tunnel on your tv, it's to the left edge of your screen. Off that left edge is where I sit. So I have a direct view of Joe as these players come off and he is lighting into Nimi Esqueda. Lighting into him. And then Kada sits and Joe's still going. And then he reaches out and gives him five and it's like encouraging all of a sudden. And you're like, okay, he's. He's really just. He's intense. And then Minot blows a coverage and Joe calls another timeout. And as. As Minot is coming to the the bench, Joe is lighting into him. And I'm seeing, and I can read lips a little bit and it's. It's like an MFer, man. He is. He is letting him have it. And Josh, after the game, I asked him about it. He's like, it shows, you know, with some intensity. Was. Was kind of like, yeah, he said just wanted to push me. I was messing up defensively. That's really it. He was very energetically telling me what I did wrong. That's it. So then I rephrase, like, I kind of followed up saying, like, hey, you know, it's Europe 30. There's a little bit of a let up. And he stopped me and he said, quote, we never let up, bro. I'm gonna stop you there. Hell no. I'm reading that phonetically. He Says it ain't no 30 point letup. Hell no. This was coaching me for the future. He understands that maybe the game is necessarily, I would consider it one by then, but man, we're working for the future. There's never a letup. We're, we're using that time as a lesson for the future. That's what he was expressing to me, which I absolutely love. Right. Joe is not sitting on his hands in the, you know, in the fourth quarter. He's not letting up as his coaching, as, you know, it's a 30 point lead and whoever's out there, guys are held to a standard. You can't let up when you're up 30 because if you let up when you're up 30, when, what do you say when you're up 25, what do you say when you'RE up 20? At what point do you say, okay, now I'm not going to let up like Joe. And this goes back to even like the media game where the coaches beat me and my fellow media members 56 to 4 or whatever it was. No let up, no mercy. That's if you're playing, you're playing, you're playing all out from the beginning until the end. And I, I love that attitude because you have to finish these games off. You have to finish these games off. You can't get into a habit of relaxing because that's when you blow leads and you go up 30 and there's eight minutes to go and some stupid thing happens where, okay, they hit a few three pointers in a row because you're kind of screwing around and okay, it's 21 and yeah, now you have a couple of turnovers and now you've, you've let them get out into some, into transition now. Now it's 15 and it's a few, it's, you know, four or five minutes left, but now you feel like, well, maybe Jalen Brown needs to come back in. And Jalen sat the whole fourth quarter. That's what you want to avoid. That type of scenario is what you want to avoid. And so I think Joe's coaching of these guys in these moments is important. And I love that he has that intensity in that these guys are just accepting it. Yeah, you know what, I get it. I accept it. Josh Minot was great after the game where he talks about you, you don't, you don't take anything for granted because he was asked about staying power with the starters and he says, I don't consider I have any staying power. I'm trying to go out there like this thing can end tomorrow because it can. It very much can. I'm appreciative that they trusted me with that. At the end of the day, every time I go out, I assume it can always be taken away from me because it very well can be. What an attitude for him to have. And it's the right attitude. And with that comes accepting the coaching that Joe is giving you. Even that intense, curse filled coaching, which I know can be hard. Trust me, I know that that coaching style can be hard. But Joe is, Joe's able to do it because these guys kind of allow it and they accept it and they respond well to it. And afterwards, Joe is encouraging. There's the, I think maybe the most important part of it was a few minutes later, Joe pulled Josh aside and was still being emphatic, but much more kind of like in a direct but not yelling kind of way. They, they know each other, they know the boundaries, they know, they know how hard he can push. So it's a good dynamic and an example of the good coaching that I think maybe some people don't really pay attention to. They only pay attention to like timeouts and, you know, all this other stuff. So this is, this is a good example of Joe's coaching. So the Celtics get this win. Now they head to Orlando. Two games in Orlando, Friday and Sunday. So obviously there's going to be one more podcast the Friday, but this is the Thursday podcast. The Friday podcast. I'll have Tom Westerholm back and then post game. After the first Orlando game, there will be a bonus podcast. Then I get a day off for the first time in two weeks. That's okay. I don't care if I go three, four weeks. I will be here after every game. So make sure you're subscribed. Every podcast is free. It's available everywhere. However, you found this podcast, if you're listening, if you're watching, I love that you did that. Be coming every day or join me every Monday through Friday. Plus on these bonus podcasts. I talk a lot, I say a lot. So you're gonna have to listen a lot. But I hope it's enjoyable, informative and fun for you. I appreciate it. Get into the comments section, share your thoughts with me on YouTube 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.
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And now a next level moment from ATT Business. Say you've sent out a gigantic shipment of pillows, and they need to be there in time for International Sleep Day. You've got at and T5G so you're fully confident, but the vendor isn't responding and International Sleep Day is tomorrow. Luckily, AT&T5G lets you deal with any issues with ease, so the pillows will get delivered and everyone can sleep soundly, especially you. ATT 5G requires a compatible plan and device coverage not available everywhere. Learn more@att.com 5G Network.