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Jaylen Brown DOMINATES, Celtics SURVIVE Collapse | Al Horford's Mysterious Boston Departure
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Boston Celtics nearly squander massive lead but hold off Golden State Warriors—can Jaylen Brown’s evolution fuel a Finals run? John Karalis breaks down the Celtics’ wild 11-point win, highlighted by Jaylen Brown’s spectacular triple-double and Payton Pritchard’s clutch fourth-quarter bombs. Key insights include Boston’s most dynamic passing and cutting offense of the season, plus how improved rebounding and deep shooting saved them when Golden State’s relentless pressure threatened chaos. Hugo Gonzalez’s breakout play and budding star potential get special attention—could he be the team’s next cornerstone? Analysis covers Kristaps Porziņģis and Al Horford’s reunions, with intriguing speculation on Horford’s departure and its deeper meaning. Tune in for perspective on Joe Mazzulla’s rotation decisions, sixth man legend talk around Pritchard, and why the Celtics’ blend of talent and teamwork could decide the Eastern Conference pecking order. Don’t miss this sharp look at Boston’s s...
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now on the Lockdown Celtics Podcast. The Boston Celtics came this close to blowing a 34 point lead, but Jaylen Brown triple double was awesome. Peyton Pritchard saved them in the fourth quarter and I love Hugo Gonzalez. 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. I talk about them Monday through Friday. I've got bonus podcasts when they play on weekends and throughout the day throughout the week so make sure you're subscribed. Wherever you get your podcast, just drop the bonus podcast. The Keith Smith episode was an hour long so I just dropped two podcasts. So so much Keith Smith talking about the the the off season moves, the filling the roster spots, the all just so much transactional stuff. So check that out. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast, watch the show on YouTube. I'm John Corrales. If you're new to the show, I'm covering the team 4 Sports Illustrated Celtics on SI. I've been covering the team for 20 years. Been doing this podcast for 10 and I have a couple books out about the team as well. Today's show is brought to you by five Hour Energy. You can have your cake and drink it too. Birthday cake flavor is back. No fork needed. Vanilla E. Cakey flavor. Caffeinated cake, no sugar. It's party time. Order now at five hour energy.com or on Amazon. Boston Celtics get the win. Whoop. That's a button that should if you're on YouTube, I should have a graphic here. There we go. It's late. The Celtics played out West. It's a 10pm it was a 10pm start. So we're late, late, late into the morning, early into the morning. Either way, the Celtics won by 11. They were up by 34. Later on, talk about the reunion with Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis and my just infatuation with Ugo Gonzalez. That kid is just good. I think he's going to be great. We'll talk about him, we'll talk about Jalen and Peyton. But let's just start at the beginning where the Celtics the game flow first quarter they it was back and forth. They put up 36 points, but they allowed 32. The warriors came out super high. In fact, the way the warriors played in this game, it was just up and down. It felt like seven seconds or less. The old Phoenix Suns with Steve Nash and Mike d', Antoni, they were just coming down firing. They just put up a ton of shots. The Celtics got a million second chances. They get 13 offensive rebounds. They, they, but they, they couldn't win the field goal attempts battle. They put up 95. The warriors put up 96. They just played at this incredible pace. It was dizzying for a while. And in the first quarter the warriors were 8 of 17. 8 of 17 in one quarter of play is an outrageous number of three pointers and three point attempts and shot attempts and all of that. And they had it within four. But then the Celtics, Celtics blew it open in the second quarter, piled on a little bit in the third quarter. Jalen got his triple double in a matter of 26 minutes. And it really felt like the fourth quarter was just going to be total garbage time. I was starting to write my post game story about how they, they went up 34 and they coasted the rest of the way and it was going to be I was looking forward to some Delano Banton and John Tanji and Amari Williams and all of these guys. And all of a sudden the warriors went into first of all hit a ton of shots. Secondly, they started pressing and Payton Pritchard said, I have not seen a diamond press like that since maybe high school, aau, maybe college. It's, it's not something you typically see. But the warriors, it's funny that you get into desperation mode and, and in the Fourth quarter, you can throw this stuff out there. And with time running out, like, the Celtics are just trying to run out the clock. Basically, you're up 34. And the warriors throw this crazy little press, and the Celtics are a little bit passive. Take your foot off the gas. They have Luca Garza out there. They have Peyton Pritchard as the main guy to just try to close this out a little bit. And it was just a weird mix of players. And here come the Warriors. They just went nuts, and Jalen Brown had to come back into the game. And that's the worst feeling, especially when you're somebody like Jaylen Brown. When you're a starter, you're up 34, whatever it was, after three quarters, and you're just chilling. You're on the bench just like, oh, man, you untie your shoes. You got, like, some, you know, maybe not ice on your knees, but you. You're just kind of, like, relaxing. You're. You're no longer locked in. You're just. You're. You're joking around with your teammates, and then you just see the other team hit a couple of shots and couple of really bad turnovers. You just start like, okay, guys, what are you doing here? And you could tell it got down to 15 real fast, and it just was like, oh, no, they're gonna have to get Jalen back in. And you saw Joe call for Jalen, and it took a minute. He had to get himself back together to get back into the game. So that. That's a tough thing. And credit to the warriors, they. They just never gave up and all that. But Celtics, I'm not gonna overreact to it. They thought they had it. The warriors, you know, put some kind of crazy run together. Ultimately, you win. You win by 11. That's. It's fine. It's fine. It happens. There are times when I might say you. You took your foot off the gas and you blew it, but up 34. I. I'm not too worried about that. But the. The way they got up 34 was a lot of fun. This was the best passing and cutting game I've seen from them maybe all season, especially those middle quarters. So I looked it up on Synergy Sports. The Celtics are the fifth worst team in the league in terms of the percentage of cuts during a game. Somewhere like 5.3% of their offense is cuts. And so that's really amounts to a few plays here and there. And. And some of those cuts end up. They're not even really cuts to score. They're Sacrificial cuts. It's not really part of their offense. So 5% of their offense, generally speaking, is cuts in this game. 12% of their made baskets, not even just attempts. 12% of their made baskets were off of cuts. So honestly, almost three times as much or a little, or a little bit more than twice as much, however you want to. I like saying almost three times as much because it seems like more, it feels like more. But either way, they were cutting. They were, you know, baseline cuts. They were the 45 degree cuts. They were straight down the middle in transition. The pass from Sam Houser to a cutting Nikola Vucevic was beautiful. Just the way Hauser just kind of was like, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna like, you know, had it in his right hand and I'm looking that way and nope, bloop. Little like a quarterback dumping it to his running back over the middle. It was beautiful. The. The pass from Keita cutting to a cutting Derrick White was beautiful. Backdoor cuts from Hugo Gonzalez. That Derrick White found him beautiful. Plays. People who listen to my show on a regular basis, you everydayers who are with me all the time Monday through Friday, I got people tweeting at me saying, you know, when somebody cuts, people know, whenever I'm on Twitter, I. When you cut, you score. That's just if. If you're somewhere on the floor and you're not a main guy, if you're not Jalen Brown, a high usage guy, cut and you will score more often than not. This was just my kind of offense. I love it. And then that turns into the drive and kick offense because when the defense is worried about the cutters, they're not really worried about the guy who's got the ball anymore because they're just. Now your head's on a swivel. So those drives happen. The help is a little bit late, and then instead of cutting, that person just relocates and that person now catches and shoots a three. The whole thing flows into a beautiful offense. It wasn't like that the whole game, but it was like that for a lot of the game. And that's why it was a super efficient night. The Celtics shot 51.5%. They were 42.5% from three. They only went to the line seven times, but there, neither team went to the line. They. They got a ton of second chances. They got in there for offensive rebounds. Aside from a couple of lulls here and there, maybe a little stat hunting here and there. When the game gets out of control, the Fourth quarter where the Celtics kind of got discombobulated mostly. The Celtics offense was beautiful. And bottle that up. I want to see that all the time. Jaylen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, Peyton Pritchard, both shots, 10 of 18 in this game. They were great. Peyton bailed them out in the fourth quarter a little bit. 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Go check out Lockdown NBA Lockdown NBA Game Night they're both in the same feed. You get two podcasts on one feed. Game Night. They're probably putting that show out right now as I record this. They're covering every game in the league. So you get a summary of every night, every game. That's seven days a week. Lockdown MBA gives you five days a week, the big stories in the afternoons. So get both podcasts where you found this podcast Jalen Brown had 23 points, 15 rebounds, 13 assists. The rebounds are the big thing for Jalen. Celtics defensive rebounding has improved. Jalen getting in there, getting the boards has been a big part of this. So really nice to see that. Dick Leip, stats guru guru at NBC Sports Boston, says Brown is the first Celtics since Larry Bird to have at least 15 points and 13 rebounds in a 20 point triple double. So that's just him and, and Larry, it just Jalen, you know, this season has been really great and good for him for getting himself into some of these conversations with Larry Bird. We know Jason Tatum's done that a lot and you know Jason has, has piled up a lot of these accolades. Jalen making the most of this opportunity and getting, getting in on some of that as well. Jalen was super efficient. 10 of 18 shooting a couple of things. First of all, just offensively his ability to score is, is really just incredible. And he had this reverse pivot spin move like dude, I didn't know you had that. And he, he's just become a lot more fluid as a scorer. But he had one pass out to Jordan Walsh in the corner. It was just this, this three levels of defense, right? The first level is the guy who's guarding you and guys at Jalen Brown's level don't you don't even see that guy. The second level is in a pick and roll like with, with Vuch. It's, it's who's Vuch's defender and the third level is who's the help behind him. And it's hard, right? You don't, you don't see that. You, you got to be a high level player to be able to read. You know, you got your guy. What's your guy doing? Is he going under a screen? Over the screen? What's he doing? How's the, the, the big man? Is he up to touch? Is he rolling? What's he doing? And then you've got the low man at the baseline who is coming over as Vuch rolls. And Vuch's role is a very important element of this. But he comes over to tag Vuch. And so Jalen is just super patient. He's not rushing. He's not just looking for his shot. He's not just looking for the role, man, he's patient and reading the floor. This one play, and I love, I do focus on one play from time to time that highlights these things, because when they do it, you're like, oh, this is them at their best. This is what they're capable of. So when Jalen, if he gets away from this stuff, I'm like, hey, wait a second. I saw you do this. I saw you read that third level of defense and make the play where Vuch was rolling down the middle. And a lot of players would just make that pass. He's there, but they don't really register the help coming from that baseline. And it might have, it might have resulted in a block, it might have resulted in a foul or a file that doesn't get called a challenge at the rim that in a miss. And who knows how that play goes. But Jalen just being patient. Read, read, read. Corner three, cash. Beautiful stuff. And Payton Pritchard after the game highlighted that as well, that Jalen has become a guy who can read all of this defensively, can read all of this stuff and, and make the right plays. The criticism of Jalen is that he doesn't always, but he does it more often. And that is a. Still a progression. He's almost 30 and he's. Or did he turn 30? He. But either way, he's still learning and growing as a player, so love that. The triple double was great. The rebounding was incredible. Just to get in there and grab some of these. He's getting in there and grabbing, like, meaningful boards, too. Not just the free throw ones or whatever. He's getting in there. He's not just rebounding what's around him. He's rebounding outside of his zone, which is an important element to it. So can't say enough about how Jaylen. And then look, the warriors are not great, right? No, Steph, obviously Jimmy Butler's out, Draymond Green's a shell of himself, and is. Is really nothing without Steph at this point. So you take advantage of that. But he was great. And then got a shout out. Peyton Pritchard, who was also 10 of 18. He hit some bombs in this one. 6 of 11. The Celtics were 17 of 40 from 3. Jalen Brown was 0 for 3, Derrick White was 0 for 5. If I told you guess the Celtics shooting percentage and Jalen Brown give you that. Jaylen Brown was over 3 and Derrick White was over 5. Guess the Celtics shooting percentage. I don't know how many people would come up with 42 and a half percent. 17 of 40. But you get Peyton Pritchard shooting 6 of 11, Sam Houser 4 of 5. And so that, that just. Peyton carried the. Carried the. The. The shooting. But beyond that, two of his three pointers were from 27ft, one was from 30, and one was from 35. And the 30. I think the 30 and the 35 both came in the fourth quarter when the. The warriors were making their run. It got from 30 plus down to 15, 12, 11. And Pritchard hits those two shots, gets it back up to 18 and gives the Celtics just enough wiggle room for. For. For them to. To carry this through and, and finish it off. But Pritchard, and he kind of blew off the question after the game about coming off the bench and starting and all of that stuff, because the question you, you. It's a question you kind of like continue to have to ask sometimes. But also it's. He's kind of getting a little tired of it. He's playing more minutes as a reserve, and just the way he. The minutes that he gets, he's just making the most of them. And he. He's been great. 26 points, 7 assists, 6 rebounds for. For Pritchard. I. I talked about this on the podcast the other day. I wrote about it on. On si.com the. This back door to becoming a Celtics legend is right there for Pritchard on his own. His final numbers will never look like something you compare him to the Celtics greats, but as a sixth man, all of a sudden, the legend of Pritchard, the sixth man this this right here is the building of a legend of Pritchard as the sixth man because he's coming off the sixth man of the year award. He started and was okay, and then he gets to the bench and now he's having this stretch of 25, 26, 23 point games and you're like, wait a second. This dude is a monster off the bench. And now you start to talk about him in terms of HAVlicek and Kevin McHale and like all of these legendary sixth men that the Celtics have had. The sixth man is a Celtics thing. That's a Celtics specific kind of specialty. Even though everybody's got six men, the Celtics have this, this special because Havlicek did it and is known as like the first. That this is a potential for Pritchard to cement himself as part of this lineage. It's incredible, but he can do it. All right, we'll come back, we'll wrap it up. I gotta get to Hugo Gonzalez. I gotta get to some of these other individual performances, and then we'll talk AL and KP in just a moment. Today's show is brought to you by five Hour Energy. It's time for another five hour Energy flavor draft. We're looking at every aspect of the draft to let you know which tasty flavors are the best and which just might be sleepers. The board is set, the flavors are ready, and only one is going to take the top spot. 5 hour energy shots give you a boost with zero sugar. And now yesterday I did my first pick in this. Going through a few and I settled on grape as my first pick. It's simple, but it's purple and it's tasty. 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Done. Thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Now become an everyday or join us@lockdown celtics.supercast.com Sign up there. Five bucks a month or 50 bucks for the year. So you save a couple months there you get ad free audio which is compatible with all the major podcast platforms, Apple, Spotify, all the big ones. And you get access to our Discord server, Celtics chat, NBA Chat and a whole lot more locked on celtics.supercast.com I'll drop that link in the show notes as well. Individual performances Outside of Jalen and Peyton, I mentioned Sam Houser. The 16 points was a plus, 225 assists. Just a nice he's just having a really nice overall year, I thought Vuch the Vuch Keda thing, this is just a little bit of a tough matchup for Keda. A little bit of a Vuch was good. Keda started kind of not so great and then kind of picked it up a little bit. Had his moments but the the way the the warriors were playing was just a high speed. They're not huge and it's a little tough. Kata K hit the deck a couple of times I think. I don't know if he tripped over himself or turned his ankle, but it wasn't the best matchup for Keda. Like I said, Vuch was okay, spaced the floor, did a decent job, got a few offensive rebounds. This was an opportunity, I think for the Celtics to go small a little bit more. Maybe they could have used a little bit more Jordan Walsh, but he was okay in seven minutes. Not great hit that one shot. Shireman had a moment where he got a steal and went full court and I don't know, he just didn't have the legs. He got up and and didn't dunk it and Derek gave him the thumbs down which is a funny moment. But you know Baylor doing his thing, getting the rebounds, just filling in some gaps. So just kind of an okay game. Ron Harper was, you know, he played just about 12 minutes. I loved his confidence he's shooting with confidence. He belongs. He feels like he belongs. And that was great to see. Garza gets in for two minutes, and it was part of a just disaster lineup. Two minutes, he was a minus nine. So not a great, not a great stint there. Okay, so that's all the individual performances, except for Hugo Gonzalez, who I just. This kid, man, 12 minutes, seven points, four rebounds, but just finds his way to making great plays. He had one play. Fourth quarter, third quarter, where Pritchard drives, gets it out to Ugo, who's spaced. He's in the right spot for the outlet. Boom. Kick. Touch pass. Boom. Touch pass to the corner. As soon as he touch passes, he relocates just a few steps up the sideline so he loses his defender a little bit. Then the. The swing comes right back to him. It's a behind the back move. It's. First of all, it's a dribble one way, change directions behind the back, then the Pinoy step where the ball comes up and around, and then it's a lefty finish. And I'm just like, man, this kid is too smooth. He has these moments where he's just not thinking. He is reacting. And the natural basketball instincts kick in and he makes these plays. He's like, I see it. I can see the defense. Give me the ball. Boom. Touch pass. Boom. I got to move this way. Boom. Got it. This move. Bam, bam. Get into the lane, Pinoy. Boom. I just. You want this ball? There it is. Nope, you ain't got it. And then natural lefty finish. When he does that stuff, that just hooks me like a drug. I see it. I see the potential. I see that just it. Because it's natural instincts. That's not him trying to execute a play. That's not him thinking about. Okay, what's the scout on this? Blah, blah, blah. I'm not. I gotta set this pick. No, that's just him. I see the floor, right? I just see it. I can feel it. I can feel the defenders. I'm just making a play. When he does that. You see the full potential in this kid. I'm. I'm not backing off any of my stuff with Hugo Gonzalez. I think he has not unlimited potential, but I, I just. This is me holding back a little bit because I don't want to sound stupid right now with what I want to say, with what I think he can be, but I'll just put it this way. And I think I might have said this before. Whenever it comes time for Brown and Tatum to hand the reins off to somebody. I think that somebody's going to be Hugo Gonzalez. I think he's going to be the guy. I. People are going to wonder what happens after Brown and Tatum leave, and I'm saying, they got their guy. They got him. Trust me, they got him. He's going to need help. He's. But he's. He is going to be one of the centerpieces of this next generation of Celtics. Whenever this window closes, he's going to be part of the next window opening. And I. I don't know how. How far they need to fall. I don't know how bad they need. People talk about tanking right now. I don't know if the Celtics are going to need to tank. They've got their guy. I believe in Hugo that much. Is he going to be a number one? Is he going to be a number two? I don't know that part. I don't know. I don't know how good he's going to get. The instincts, the ability. He's got size, he's got the attitude. He's. He's having fun. He's hyper competitive. Just. He's. All the ingredients are there for the future. Okay, I gotta stop. I gotta stop. Stop, stop gushing. Okay? Just know that I love Ugo Gonzalez. I think he's going to be special. Al Horford, Christops Porzingis were there. It's interesting to see. Well, first of all, Porzingis played that. That's good. Played 17 minutes. He had had, you know, a couple of decent moments. But also, the Celtics targeted him and. And made a big run by putting him in actions and going at him. Peyton Pritchard drove at him, and, you know, they know exactly how to handle him. And he even said it before the game. These guys know the exact scouting report on me. It's gonna be very interesting. Al Horford did not shoot well at all. Had a couple of fun moments there. Ugo got him. He got a foul on. On Horford, and they had like, a little fun moment. The interesting comment from Al Horford talking about it was basically saying he was. It was beyond just the basketball of why he left. It wasn't. It wasn't just Tatum is. Is done for the season, and I want to go chance have a chance to win. And it wasn't just that. He said it was something deeper, which no one really knows what that is. He says he's going to tell somebody someday. I. I still think that it has something to do with his son. I. I think the deeper thing is him teaching his son what it means to be a professional in the NBA and going elsewhere to find your value. That I'm just taking complete stab here. I'm taking a complete guess. This may not be it at all, but I think he's trying to teach his son about the league. I think he's trying to teach his son about valuing yourself and making tough decisions and having to be willing to go to another city to maximize your value. And we love it in Boston. The Horfords love the. The city of Boston. His whole family does. But they weren't in the position to pay. The warriors were. And the deeper meaning, like Al might have just wanted to stay, but the deeper meaning is, in my estimation, my guess that his son is. He. He's. He's looked at as a potential future NBA player. And all the people that talk about him playing basketball think he can be a really special basketball player. And Al has been a very shrewd businessman throughout all of this. And now that Ian is old enough to see it for himself and to have liked Boston and liked everybody there and to be like, hey, I have this opportunity. This is a massive lesson. We're going to teach this kid the right thing to do business wise and not feel like he can. He. He's going to be stuck by the business of the NBA. That's my guess. My guess is this was an important lesson for his son to learn to teach him how to be a professional. Maybe I'm wrong. Entirely possible it's something completely unrelated. But if we're guessing, speculating, that's my speculation. So we'll see. But it was good to see them. They didn't have any real impact on the game other than I think Porzingis kind of being a target and Al to some degree being a target for the Celtics to attack and score. That'll do it. Celtics don't play again till Sunday. Oh, by the way, if you're still here on Sunday, I am gonna be. I did the Q A. People asked me, can you, can you do a game where you're. Where we can watch with you? I'm doing that Sunday on Castable, the Castable app, which is on my social media, my Twitter, my blue sky Castable. Download that app. I will be doing the game Sunday. Celtics, Lakers. So download the app. Join me in that room. I'll basically be sharing my thoughts and you can be in the chat trying to. It's very much like a Twitch stream or something else. You'll be in the chat, I'll be talking and we can interact that way. So that'll be Sunday. So check them. Check me out there. Of course, post game Sunday I'll have a podcast after Celtics Lakers which will be an interesting game. So please, please check it out and 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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Hey everyone, this is Ross Jackson, one of the hosts of the Locked On Podcast network. If your group chat's been a little quiet lately, I want to invite you to come and join ours. If you sign up for the Everydayer Club, you get access to the members only group chats for your favorite teams, plus national chats for every sport. Personally, I love watching folks talk a little smack in the NFC South Trash talk chat. You also get an ad free version of your favorite Locked on show and a whole lot more. You can check it out by tapping the Everyday Club link in the show notes.