
Boston Celtics stun Cleveland Cavaliers 125-105 behind Jaylen Brown's 30-point masterpiece and unexpected rebounding dominance. Can they maintain momentum? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down three game-defining stretches that secured the victory, including Sam Hauser's four consecutive three-pointers and Brown's explosive 18-point second quarter. The analysis covers Josh Minott and Neemias Queta's career-high rebounding performances that neutralized Cleveland's frontcourt, Payton Pritchard's 10-assist playmaking despite shooting struggles, and Evan Mobley's puzzling disappearance against Boston's undermanned defense. Key topics include the Celtics winning the second-chance points battle 23-19, Derrick White's shooting slump and path to correction, Cleveland's baffling lack of rebounding aggression, and how this win transforms Boston's early season outlook with winnable games ahead. Discover how the Celtics' rebounding formula could predict their success all season...
Loading summary
A
It's the Locked On Podcast Network your team every day. They say if you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together. At Amica Insurance, we're built for our customers and prioritize your needs. Call 877-41-America for a free coverage review.
B
And now a next level moment from AT&T 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&T 5G lets you deal with any issues with ease so the pillows will get delivered and everyone can sleep soundly, especially you. AT&T 5G requires a compatible plan and device. Coverage not available everywhere. Learn more@att.com 5G Network.
A
Boston Celtics Get a Huge Win over the Cavs Jaylen Brown was awesome and I'll tell you why. The Celtics two most important stretches came in the first half right now on the Lockdown Celtics podcast. Huh? Yep, yep. 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 Renin J's was started raising ban. That's how we finish. Locked On Celtics pod. Home of the winners baby. Hey there. Welcome back 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 Monday through Friday. Bonus podcast on the weekend. So I'm going straight through Saturday Sunday podcast. All of them are free. I'm podcasting for two straight weeks for you. You don't have to pay for anything, just subscribe. Get into that YouTube page if you want to watch. Get into the comments section. Share your thoughts with your fellow every dayers. The people are joining me every day of the week. I'm John Corrales, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal. I've been covering the team for about 20 years now and I've written a couple of books about the team and today the team I'm talking about is a team that beat the Cleveland Cavaliers. Boston Celtics win 125 to 105. Later on, I'll thank the Cavs for all of the things that they did to help along help this win along because the Cavs were certainly complicit in their own demise. Again, the individual Players in the second. In the second segment, Jalen, Josh Minot, Peyton Pritchard, among others. But let's just start with this win and those clutch moments that I was just talking about. First of all, first and foremost, huge win. It's a win that most people probably chalked up as a loss. Unless you're, you know, just going on faith and saying, hey, bleed green. Okay, fine. Totally fine. You want to do that? That's. That's your prerogative. Analyzing this, you look at and say, okay, this is probably going to be a loss. But as I said in yesterday's show with Tom, it. I said, what? A 25 to 30 chance of winning this game, which means you win three out of 10. And this was one of the 10 because they shot the ball extraordinarily well. For most of the game, they finished at 37%, which is above average, just a little bit above league average. But at one point, it was. They were 20 of 50. Late in the game, they finished 21 of 57. So there's a little 1 of 7 stretch that included some garbage time, a couple of late misses, but for all intents and purposes, that 40 was about what they shot for most of this game. So I thought this is. This is like the best case scenario for the Celtics in a. You know, in a win that is still in that figuring out phase. So the first few games of the season that they lost, they weren't shooting well at all. Just obviously Peyton and Derek still struggling from three. They were combined four of 20. Not good. That's not a good number. Was that 20%? So the rest of the guys, like Sam Houser, seven of 13, you had Anthony Simons, four of six, Josh Minot, two of six. Okay. Jalen Brown, four of nine. The rest of the guys hit plenty. So the shooting was there to kind of carry them through as they figured out some of the things that they were still trying to figure out. Defense and rebounding and all that stuff. The rebounding was really good for the first half, and I'll get more into that later on when I talk about the Cavs being complicit. But in general, the. The. The rebounding was good. The shooting was good. It allowed them to get through some tough moments. Second quarter. A great second quarter. A great second quarter in a season so far where second quarters have been a problem. So here are the two most important stretches that I was talking about. I'll start with Sam Houser, who came in and hit 4 for 4 and then hit another one shortly after that and then doesn't, doesn't really get another couple of shots until the fourth quarter. And it's just a funny little stretch. But Hauser comes in and hits the, his first four three pointers. And this is, this is an important stretch right away because the, The Cavs shot 10 of 12 in the first quarter from three. So the Celtics end up down at the end of the first quarter, 42, 40, which is also another first of all, another 42 point quarter. The Celtics have this thing about giving up 42 point quarters, but at least this time they scored 40 to counteract that. Before they were giving up 40 point, 42 point quarters and scoring what, 18, 20 like they were getting crushed in those quarters. And the, that stretch of Hauser, three pointers, he comes in at 6:05, he checked in at 6:20, 15 seconds later, three pointer. Then what's this 40 seconds later three pointer. And then 30 notes like 28 seconds later three pointer. And then a minute 15 later three pointer mixed in there. Assignments three pointer. On the other side, the Cavs were going just ballistic themselves. Hunter Mobley hits a couple. The, the only thing early on that Mobley had done, Wade hits a three pointer, Mitchell starts going crazy. Porter hits a three point. They start the, the. The Cavs are just pouring it on. So to me that stretch where Sam Houser checked in is a critical, an early low key critical point for the Celtics. And we didn't know it at the time, kind of felt it because it was a shootout. But the Cavs put out that 42 point first quarter. Hauser is, is right there putting up three pointers himself. And then Simons and other guys start kind of chipping in a little bit. But their ability, the Celtics ability to shoot in that first quarter and, and hit those three pointers was massive because that allows them to go into the second quarter only down two. You weather the storm down two is nothing that allows them to go in and have a second quarter where they start playing really well. They don't have a lull like they did in the, in other quarters. In fact, they win this quarter 35 to 18. They go back and forth and at the time I said, geez, the Celtics can't shake these Cavs. And because the Celtics are, you know, started out so tough and it's, you know, still a learning phase of this, I'm thinking, ah, here we go. The Celtics are shooting great, but they, they can't just shake free of the Cavs because the Cavs are matching them. Donovan Mitchell was doing his thing at that point. 15 points through a quarter, and a couple of minutes into the second quarter, I'm thinking like, okay, this might not go so great because the Celtics are hanging now, but can they sustain it? I expect the Cavs to sustain. And it actually went the other way. As I'm saying, geez, these Celtics can't shake the Cavs. All of a sudden, you get a 20 to 4, 20 to 3 run in which Jalen Brown scores 13 points. And that stretch is. Is obviously a monster stretch. This is where they. They turn things around. A third critical stretch happens late in the third quarter where the Celtics had it up to 19, and I'm like, God, here's another one. They can't get. They can't get over that 20 point. Like, if you can get it to 20, maybe this can. This can go away. The Cavs can just go away. Cavs cut it to 12, and then you get Derrick White layup. Simon's hits a crazy moonshot bank three to beat the shot clock. K it gets fouled, goes to the line, hits a shot, hits one of two free throws, but that gets the lead back up to 18. So went from 19 to 12, back to 18. They. They hit a couple of baskets, and it got it down to 13. But you have these three critical points. Number one, first quarter, Hauser and Simons matching a blistering hot Cavs. So the Cavs can't run away and hide early. Second quarter, hanging and playing well and then going on that massive run. Jaylen Brown was incredible in that. That's a critical point because now all of a sudden, the Celtics are up 15 heading into the third quarter. They generally play well in third quarters. And you feeling good about this? And they did come out. They played well, like I said. Built that lead up to 19. Cavs coming back at the end of third quarters. Celtics have kind of waned a little bit, and it looked like they were starting to. But that stretch to get it to keep it in the teens heading into the fourth quarter, that was. That was so important because then the Celtics could. Josh Minot put this thing away with his defensive intensity. And let's take that and go into the second segment of individual performances. Jalen, Josh, Peyton, Neemi, all of those guys. We'll talk about them individually as we come back and talk about this Celtics win. Today's show is brought to you by peloton. Peloton is shaping the future of fitness with the brand new peloton cross training tread. Plus, it's powered by peloton Peloton IQ and it's their most advanced equipment yet. It's designed to give you real time guidance and endless ways to move. Whether you're running, lifting or cross training with your favorite instructors. This is training reimagined. Peloton is built for breakthroughs. These tools help you plan and stay motivated and reach peak performance. The Peloton IQ System is a real time strength coach. This is so important that it tracks your reps, suggests the right weights, corrects your form. Now I've spent a lot of time in the gym. I know that the common mistakes the two most common mistakes are people always try to use too much weight and their form is terrible because they use too much weight. So this Peloton IQ System is going to help you make sure you're using the right weights and correcting your form helps you make sure that you're getting those gains that you're looking for. Use that swivel screen so you can go from running on the Tread plus to training without missing a beat. So let yourself run, lift, flex and push forward. Explore the new Peloton Cross Tread Plus Cross Training Tread plus today@1peloton.com and now.
B
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&T 5G lets you deal with any issues with ease so the pillows will get delivered and everyone can sleep soundly, especially you. AT&T 5G requires a compatible plan and device. Coverage not available everywhere. Learn more@att.com 5G Network.
A
Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Go check out Lockdown NBA and Lockdown NBA Game Night. They are both in the same feed. Game Night seven days a week covering every game in the association with little cameos from all of us like me on this show on Thursday. Then Lockdown NBA covers all the big story lines. So that's Monday through Friday both in the same feed. You find that or you found this. Individual Performances I gotta start with Jaylen Brown because I think there's a temptation to say Josh Minot. Oh my God. And some of these other guys definitely like those. The the aberrations. And I would count the Josh Minot game as an aberration because he set a career high in rebounding. But Jalen, like I said before, that 13 point stretch was just unbelievable. He's shooting the lights out right now. He. He had 18 points in the. In the second quarter. He had 30 overall. 12 of 20, 4 of 9 from 3, a couple of free throws. He had been getting to the line a lot more. So, you know, whatever. Five rebounds for assists, a steal, a block, just two turnovers. It's not, it's not going to be everybody's top story on Thursday, but that is. That is a superstar line. That is an Incredible line for Jalen. 35, four steal a block and just two turnovers. Celtics protected the ball well. Eight turnovers. Just eight turnovers in this game. 60, 44 and 100 splits. Another 100 is just two for two from the line. But still Jalen doing everything and being that, that steady guy like he has. He has stepped up minus the Knicks game. He has stepped up and played really well. It makes me think like the Knicks game, he might have been. He might have put a little bit too much on that. Yeah, obviously that's where the Celtic season ended. He probably had a little extra juice. It was his birthday. He's in New York. He was probably like. He probably put a little too much on that. And I don't know, did he psych himself out? Did he. That whatever it was, it happens. The way he's. The way he played in this game was absolutely perfect. Great. Just a great, great performance from jalen. Josh Minot, 11 points, 14 rebounds, career high. 14 rebounds, career high, five offensive rebounds. The rebounding is a big story here, obviously because the Celtics won that battle. 18 to 11 offensive rebounding. Overall, it was 52 to 42. That's the Celtics. We know the game plan. The game plan is you crush them with crashing and dare them to box you out and, and perform well again. I'm going to get to the more of this in the next segment when the Cavs I go, I just look at it from a Cavs perspective. But the Celtics won the second chance points 23 to 19. I'm going to venture to say that unless they shoot 15% from three, the Celtics will win every game where they win the second chance points. If they win second chance points, their. Their winning percentage is going to be, if not perfect, almost perfect this season. I'd be interested to go back at the end of the season and kind of see what. What those number. How if those numbers bear out, but they're going to get out rebounded so much that when they hold teams off, they can do the stuff that they need to do. So great Job there. Fast break points still not where it needs to be. But they did force 14 turnovers and scored 19 points off of those turnovers. So the Celtics won the points off turnover battle. So Josh Minot was part of the rebounding thing. Well, the final box actually has him as 15 now. I'm just noticing that I'm looking at the official scorers report as opposed to the box score on NBA.com huh. Interesting. NBA.com has them as 14 rebounds. The official scorers report has him as 15 rebounds and 10 defensive rebounds. So that there's a little discrepancy there. But regardless, he was, he was so good coming in. I highlighted him before the game as a starter, a potential starter, and they ended up doing that. I did that on Boston Sports Journal to guard Evan Mobley, and he did a really good job. He's the exact right like Specs to go guard Evan Mobley to stay in front of him. Mobley's not going to overpower a lot of people. So Minot as, as the four, as opposed to going double big. Chris Boucher was a DNP coach's decision. They didn't have to go double big on this. And you, you go with Minot, who's just a little bit more mobile, faster, can handle the ball in transition. He, he did everything they wanted him to do on Mobley. I thought Mobley was completely invisible for most of this game. And my not starting was. Was a huge reason why getting in there and clearing the rebounds is just so massively important for him. And Namish Keita, excuse me, we're going to lump him into that too, because they either had 27 or 28 combined rebounds, and the 13 rebounds for Keda was a career high. Five offensive rebounds for him. So that these two guys getting in there and keeping possessions alive and giving the Celtics 95 shots. So in those 95 shots, they shoot 44%, not the best percentage in the world, but they make 42 baskets as compared to 35 for the Cavs, who only got 87 shots. And the Celtics put up 52. Three pointers. Cavs put up 57. And I'm sorry, other way around. The. The cavs put up 52, the Celtics put up 57, and the Celtics end up just, just getting more. They. They shot 21 of 57. The Celtics get more opportunities. They go to the line an equal amount of times. The Celtics cash in a couple more. That energy, that rebounding, that's all part of all of this. So great, great game from Keda. This is Another great game from Keda which you hope is part of a, a trend that's building now. He has had stretches where it's like two, three, four good games in a row and, and then he tails off. What we hope for from Keita is consistency and two in a row is better than not two in a row. Now we've got to see three and four and five and Joe Missoula has been pushing him on this. You got to come out and just, you got to do the things that put you in position to be good. You've got to make sure that you know the rest, the warm ups, the routine, the, the mental, all of that stuff is all where it needs to be and then the rest of the stuff can, can take care of itself. So good job by Keda who also had three assists, you know, a 10 point, 13 rebound, three assists, three steals for him, three steals for Minot. This is incredible. It's incredible stuff from I guess your front court, right? Minot and Kada are the center and power forward so great, great performances out of them. Pritchard did not shoot well, 4 of 13 overall, 1 of 8 from 3. But I thought he had a great game otherwise. He was in control. He, you know the 10 assists, I think nine of them came in the first half. But he was penetrating, he was finding guys. He hit was Anthony Simons top left of the above the break with this hook pass. Pritchard drives right, is at the right block and fires a hook pass high opposite to Simons for three. That was beautiful pass. So Pritchard, even though the shots aren't falling, I think he and Derrick white again, white 5 of 20, 3 of 12 from 3 struggling a little bit with their shooting and finding their offense. Derek needs to calm down. Derek needs to let the game come to him. He's getting good looks like I think if you look at his, the shots that he's taking, you can argue those are good looks. But I also think that he's rushing. He's taking the absolute first decent look that he can get where I just think he could be a little bit more patient on some of them and look for the good to great. This is a place where you got to look for that good to great shot and, and the shots will start to fall. Don't worry about it. So but Pritchard distributing was good. And look, Derrick White wasn't a complete negative either. He was a plus 15. I know the Celtics won by 20, but he was a plus 15, four assists, five rebounds, a steal, two turnovers. He got to the line six of six. So he, he did other things. He definitely did other things. He's just pressing when it comes to the shot. Nice game from Simons. Like I said, nice game from Hauser. Like I said, 7 of 13. All of his shots were three pointers. A good job defensively from him. Garza. Luca Garza, you know, had a, a little old school post move in there. That was fun. Ugo Gonzalez played four minutes and sat. He, you know, was not effective against Donovan Mitchell. Not a surprise, not a big deal. Xavier Tillman, minimal minutes. Shireman Joe shouted out. Charman getting some, some minutes up against Donovan Mitchell and he did a decent job and, and that was, that was good. Baylor slowly kind of trying to weasel his way back into the lineup and this is how you do it. This is how you do it. I, I haven't given up on anybody and I'm certainly not giving up on Baylor Scheireman. He has an opportunity. He has an opportunity to be a contributor and this is how you do it. So good job by him. So those are the individual performances. We'll come back. Look, if I'm being real, the Cavs definitely deserve an assist on this as well. I'll talk about that when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by Rippling. If you're a business owner, here is the truth. SaaS promised to make work easier. Now the average company is buried by hundreds of apps that slow down. Your teams simply don't work together. That is not SaaS. That is sad software as a disservice. That's why you need Rippling. Rippling is the unified platform for global hr, payroll, IT and finance all in one place. They've helped millions of businesses replace a mess of disconnected tools with one system designed to give leaders clarity, speed and control. Rippling removes bottlenecks that you know, busy work that slow teams down. Bottlenecks and busy word 2B words that you do not want in your business. They give you everything from onboarding to payroll to IT access. IT runs automatically and perfectly in sync. So whether you want to run your entire hr, IT and finance operation as one or just fill the gaps in your software stack, Rippling can do it all. And right now you can get six months free when you go to rippling.comlockdown mba that's rippling. R I p p l I n g.comlockdown mba rippling.comlockdown NBA for six months free. Today's show is also brought to you by Robin Hood. Your ambition just met its match with Robin Hood. You play for the win. Not just on game day. Every day, locking in on every opening, beating your pr, beating it again, channeling that drive into your money. Robinhood puts you in control of your money. Trade stocks and ETFs, options, futures and crypto all on one platform. You can now build and execute your own trades from a desktop with Robinhood's Legends advance tools, or take advantage of the new Robinhood strategies with a tailored portfolio managed by a team of experts. You expect more from yourself, expect more from your money. Get started today@robinhood.com yourmoney. That again is robinhood.com yourmoney your money, your move. Thank you for making lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Lockdown fantasy basketball should be your second or third listen, depending if you go to lockdown NBA, whatever. Either way, make it part of your rotation because Josh Lloyd's gonna help you win your fantasy league. If you got a fantasy league and you're not listening to Josh Lloyd, you're just not taking it seriously enough. You got money on the line or something. Josh is going to help you with your lineups, ads, drops, starts, bench, all of that stuff. Okay, I'm gonna wrap it up here with the Cavs, who I just, I couldn't understand what was going on with them other than to say, look, Donovan Mitchell played, I think, the hamstring. He showed up on the injury report with a hamstring thing. He scored 12 points in the first quarter. He had a three pointer early at the second 10, 10:36 mark in the second quarter, and that was it. Didn't score again, did not score again, missed a couple of free throws, all of that. But that was a very. If I'm from a, from a Cavs perspective, I'm like, what the hell happened to Donovan Mitchell? But the, it must have been, must have been the hamstring thing because he just didn't look like himself after, after he sat Evan Mobley completely non existent. I was, I was talking to people before the game who asked me, you know, we always thought, so how do you think it's gonna go tonight? I thought, man, Evan Mobley could have a big night. This is. He, he has the. If he's as good as he's supposed to be, he has advantages over everybody on the team. You know, who, who can guard him? Well, Josh Minot can guard him. But I was expecting Mobley to be like, this should have been a 30 point, 15 to 20 rebound. Like he, he could have had A monster night against the Celtics team. But neither he nor the rest of the Cavs were really interested in rebounding. I, I, I could tell every team, every team knows what the scouting report is. Just shoot your shoot jumpers, shoot whatever shot you want, and crash the boards. The, the misses are like assists. It's the Kobe assist. You grab the offensive rebound, and you go and score. So why didn't they crash the boards again? I'm not, I'm asking kind of, like, in a rhetorical way. I'm very happy for, you know, that kind of performance. I, I don't know what, what caused it. I, I'd be disappointed in Mobley, though. I, I really, I'm gonna, you know, listen to Locked on Cavs to get their. Take this. This was a, just a terrible game from a guy that should have dominated. It is a credit to Minot and a credit to the Celtics for keeping him in check and kind of forcing him that way. But I, I do feel like there's a, a little bit of the, Once you force him in that direction, he very willingly kind of goes into that direction. And it is a question about, like, look, the Cavs are a championship contender, but are they, do they have the right players? They have talented players. Is it the right players? I don't know. I don't want to overreact to something early, but the, the Cavs, like Mitchell kind of disappearing after his first stint was, you know, kind of very helpful. Mobley not being aggressive, the Cavs not being aggressive. They came into this game 17th in the NBA in offensive rebound percentage. I was surprised that it was that low because they've got between Jared Allen and Evan Mobley. They've got, they've got guys that can crash. The league as a whole is crashing as a philosophy. There's a lot more offensive rebounding going on, yet the Cavs don't seem interested in doing that. So that really helped the Celtics. Whenever you see a team kind of punt on offensive rebounding, then great. That's, that's perfect for the Celtics. I do wonder, and this is kind of like the New Orleans thing, if these two teams were to match up in the playoffs. And it's possible, if they were to match up in the playoffs, they probably would have had a plan to attack the basket and attack the offensive rebounds, because it would be coaching malpractice if they didn't. But I would say probably not going that deep into their bag against the Celtics to get an October win. They probably felt like we're more talented we should get this win. And they didn't do certain things. I bring all of this up to. Just to say that it's. It is great that the Celtics won. We do have to take into account the Cavs kind of didn't play their kind of full to their full capability. And I want to treat these games appropriately. You take the games that you. You. You know, however it goes, it goes and you take it and you take the win and you move on. And it's a big win. But there's a different level to this Cavs team, or should be. And it's. It's just. I'm just gonna put it there that the next time these two teams play, I'm just. I wonder if they're going to do a few things differently. But great, great job by the Celtics. This is. I'll wrap it up with this win like this. We talk about win totals at the end. We kind of talked about it in yesterday's show a little bit too. Well, I was saying, oh, and seven is possible. They got the win in New Orleans. Okay. One in six, two and five. Well, now. Now three and four, I think is on the table in this first seven game stretch because they can beat Philly and maybe Tyrese Maxey is due for a stinker and maybe it's the second time around against Edgecomb. The. The Celtics have more film and they kind of know how to guard him a little bit more. Go out and you get that I don't have a lot of faith in the Houston game. I'm sorry. Like that's second night on a back to back against a team full of trees that they will crash that. That's. That's a game that. Look just gird your loins. This is going to be. That one might be a tough one, which is totally fine. Not a big deal. If they go three and four. Well, now they come out of that stretch a lot better than I thought they would. And then they had that four green game stretch that I talked about afterwards where it's Utah, Washington, Orlando twice. Well, now you go three and one. Ah, now you're six and five. Okay, well, if you're six and five, that. That 44 win prediction that I had suddenly feels a lot better because you get through that early part of the schedule relatively well. If you can start piling up some wins against these. These bad teams looks okay. You look like you're in a good spot. So this is an important win for them in. In terms of playoffs and all that. This is an important win anytime you can steal a game, take a game against a good team, that's an important game. That's an important win. And it's important for confidence and important to kind of like reward guys like a guy like Minot getting the rewards, the hustle, the defense, the. All of that stuff and all the attention after the game. And that, that's just motivating to be like, yes, I'm gonna go play this way again. I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep doing this. The wins at this point in the season are so important just, just to be like, you know, you, you accomplished a goal, here's a treat, and that's okay, great. I want to accomplish another goal so I get another treat. So that, that's big. So Cavs, Cavs doing their part. Great. Congratulations. I guess. Who cares? It's. The win is important for Boston. Still got a lot to figure out, but you take this momentum into Philly, they could win three in a row, get back to 500. That's entirely possible. That's entirely possible. So I'll be here. I'll be here tomorrow with another podcast. Then post game Philly, post game Rockets. And it's all free. It's all available everywhere. It's on your favorite podcasting app. It's on YouTube. You can get to the comments section there. Share your thoughts with me about all of this stuff. And more importantly, share the podcast. Spread the word. Tell everybody that they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. It's your team every day.
B
This is the exclusive table with the view.
A
This is your name on the list. This is three times points on dining with Chase Sapphire reserve and a $300 dining credit chase Sapphire Reserve. Now even more. Learn more@chase.com Sapphire Reserve cards issued by.
B
JPMorgan Chase bank and a member FDIC.
A
Subject to credit approval. They say if you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together. At Amica Insurance, we're built for our customers and prioritize your needs. Amica empathy is our best policy. Visit amica.com and get a quote today.
B
With next day delivery available, straight to your job site.
A
It's easy to keep jobs running smoothly with the Home Depot.
B
Plus, with pricing benefits for pros and top quality brands, you only have to make one stop for the whole job.
A
The Home Depot. How pros get more done.
Episode: Jaylen Brown MASTERCLASS fuels STUNNING win over Cavs | Can Celtics build momentum?
Host: John Karalis
Date: October 30, 2025
In this episode, John Karalis breaks down the Boston Celtics' impressive 125-105 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers—a result that few expected. The focus is on Jaylen Brown’s superstar performance, the team’s key stretches to secure the game, standout individual efforts (especially from Josh Minot and Neemias Queta), and whether this win can serve as a momentum builder for Boston during a crucial early-season stretch. Karalis also provides critical insight into the Celtics’ evolving strengths and weaknesses, and how much the Cavaliers’ own shortcomings contributed to the outcome.
(00:57 – 11:54)
First Quarter: Surviving the Cavs' Shooting Barrage
“That stretch where Sam Hauser checked in is a critical—an early, low-key critical point for the Celtics.” – John Karalis (06:19)
Second Quarter: Game-changing Run
“All of a sudden, you get a 20 to 4, 20 to 3 run in which Jaylen Brown scores 13 points. And that stretch is... obviously a monster stretch.” – John Karalis (08:44)
Third Quarter: Withstanding the Cavs’ Push
Jaylen Brown’s “Masterclass”
(13:15 – 16:55)
“He had 18 points in the second quarter... 35, four, steal, a block, and just two turnovers. Celtics protected the ball well… That is a superstar line.” – John Karalis (14:18)
Josh Minot: Breakout Game
“Minot as the four, as opposed to going double big... just a little bit more mobile, faster, can handle the ball in transition. He did everything they wanted him to do on Mobley.” – John Karalis (15:39)
Neemias Queta: Energy & Presence
“Keita was so good coming in… keeping possessions alive and giving the Celtics 95 shots.” – John Karalis (16:45)
Other Notables
(26:40 – 33:15)
Momentum and Early-Season Perspective
“Anytime you can steal a game, take a game against a good team, that's an important game. That's an important win. And it's important for confidence... and rewards guys like Minot.” – John Karalis (34:24)
“This is an important win for them... You take the win and you move on.” – John Karalis (34:50)
Jaylen Brown’s Night:
“He had 18 points in the second quarter. He had 30 overall. 12 of 20, 4 of 9 from 3… That's a superstar line.” (14:18)
On Josh Minot:
“Minot... did a really good job. He's the exact right specs to go guard Evan Mobley… And clearing the rebounds is just so massively important.” (15:39)
On the Team’s Improved Shooting:
“The shooting was there to kind of carry them through as they figured out some of the things… Defense and rebounding and all that stuff. The rebounding was really good for the first half.” (03:00)
Celtics’ Rebounding Philosophy:
“The game plan is you crush them with crashing and dare them to box you out and perform well.” (15:10)
Perspective on Cleveland:
“Cavs, like Mitchell kind of disappearing after his first stint, was, you know, kind of very helpful. Mobley not being aggressive, the Cavs not being aggressive… That really helped the Celtics.” (29:31)
John Karalis delivers a positive but clear-eyed analysis of a pivotal Celtics win, highlighting Jaylen Brown’s “masterclass,” the secondary impact of players like Minot and Queta, and how the Celtics’ renewed energy and rebounding set them apart. He doesn’t shy away from pointing out Cleveland's shortcomings, but instead frames them as part of the story—the sort of break a growing team needs. Karalis closes by emphasizing the value of banking surprise wins and how this stretch could define the Celtics’ season trajectory.