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Jaylen Brown, Payton Pritchard DOMINATE, Celtics beat Cooper Flagg, Dallas Mavericks
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Boston Celtics overpower Dallas Mavericks as Jaylen Brown erupts for 33 points and 11 rebounds, proving he’s still the boss against rookie sensation Cooper Flagg. Payton Pritchard ignites the bench with dazzling footwork and 26 points, while Luka Garza chips in hot shooting to give Boston’s second unit a 44-22 edge. SI's John Karalis spotlights Boston's evolving game plan, Derrick White’s shooting slump, and Sam Hauser’s strong defensive efforts. Key themes include the Celtics' improved rebounding, navigating the loss of Anfernee Simons, and potential starting lineup changes post-trade deadline. Plus, how does Cooper Flagg’s rapid rise shift the NBA’s balance of power, and what challenges loom on a tough Houston back-to-back? Catch the analysis that keeps Celtics fans ready for the next big move.
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AT&T business Wireless connecting changes everything. Now on the Locked on Celtics podcast, Jaylen Brown shows the rookie who's boss and Peyton Pritchard gets back to doing what he does best. Locked on Celtics pot, home of the winners. Hey, welcome back to the Lockdown Lockdown Celtics podcast right here in the Lockdown Podcast network where it is your team every day or in this case, twice a day. So thank you for being here on a regular basis Monday through Friday bonus podcast when they play on weekends like they will this Friday, so make sure you subscribe. Welcome to the show, new listeners, new viewers watching on YouTube. Thank you for choosing Lockdown Celtics. If you're new, I'm John Corralis. I'm a beat writer covering the Celtics for Sports Illustrated's Celtics on SI. I've been covering the team for 20 years doing this podcast for 10 and I've written a couple of books about the team. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. It's last call for football on FanDuel. If you're a new customer, bet just five bucks, you get $200 in bonus bets. If you win, make it a good one. Over at FanDuel, this podcast is pretty much all about the Boston Celtics win over the Dallas Mavericks. If you want Anthony Simons trade reaction why I made the joke about two twice a day I did a 15 minute reaction podcast to the Anthony Simons trade to Chicago that's already published. If you haven't seen that yet, if you want that, you can go back and listen to it. Watch that. And I'm sure there's much more. We're gonna let this sit for a day. Tom Westerholm and I will be back at some point here. The Celtics do plan a back to back against the Houston Rockets, so there's a lot more to digest. We're still a couple of days away from the trade deadline, by the way. It's like all of the front offices thought the trade deadline was Tuesday. And somebody's like, no, you guys know it's Thursday. They go, well, I thought it was Tuesday. No, it's Thursday. Oh, wow. Well, all right. Well, we got these trades done. So a bunch of trades around the league. James Harden is going to go to Cleveland. That's a whole other thing. But we'll save all of that stuff for an off day. Thursday's podcast. Thursday going into Friday is going to be like, that's going to be the big one because as I flip around my hoodie, that's gonna be the big one because Thursday afternoon is the trade deadline. So for now, let's keep it hoop. Let's talk about basketball. Later on, we'll talk about Cooper flag and Celtics fouled a little too much. We'll get into some of the other individual performances, including Luca Garza getting hot from the top of the key. Let's start at the top with Jaylen Brown, who was Incredible, absolutely incredible. 33 points, 11 rebounds, another double double, his ninth double double of the season. Six of the double doubles have come since January. So Jaylen Brown is out there chomping glass. He's out there rebounding like crazy, and that's exactly what we've needed him to do here for the Celtics. He. It's been a little bit of an adjustment period, I guess in finally he's just said, you know what, I am going to get in there and grab some of these boards. And the Celtics have made a progression. They're now up. January, they were up over 70% defensive rebounding percentage. They started out the year back in October at like 64%. And that extra few has been huge. I've talked about that. Joe Missoula talked about that at the beginning of the season. Celtics just need to not suck at rebounding, and not sucking at defensive rebounding has been a big formula for their success. Jalen has been a big, big part of that. So shout out to him for another 11 rebounds. Not normally part of his game. Amazing that he's turning it into part of his game. This is great. But the 33 points. Who, baby, that was. That was Jalen just at his absolute best. In the middle of it all, there was a little bit of a stretch, and it wasn't just him. It was all of the Celtics. It felt like. It felt like the Mavs were blocking. They must have had like seven or eight blocks in one. Now, I know the box score says they didn't, but I don't know, my eyes are playing tricks on me because every time they drove, it felt like they got blocked there for one stretch in the middle of this game. But aside from a little stretch where Jalen was just putting his head down and kind of like driving into traffic and just kind of straight line driving without. Maybe he felt like he had a matchup that he liked and he wasn't. He wasn't doing what he did at the other parts of this game. Aside from that little stretch, this was a basically perfect game to me from Jaylen Brown. The beginning of it, he was just aggressive, I think, and I wasn't there to ask him this, but I think superstars love to get up for games against highly touted rookies because those guys come in with all of the attention, all of the spotlight. Everybody loves these guys. And a guy like Jaylen Brown who's been in the league 10 years, it's like, hey, this is great. I'm sure. I'm sure you're really good also. This is my league. You got to earn it. And so I'm going to. I'm going to show you a little thing or two. So I think Jalen and a lot of big time players get up for these games against Cooper Flag. Now, Cooper Flag is awesome. And I talk about that a little bit more later, but he was up for the task. But I think Jalen was. Was up for this game, especially because, you know, this dude's from Maine. Everybody back home is watching this game not just for, hey, let's go Celtics, but also, let's go Cooper. And he just wants to let everybody know you're watching for Cooper, but this is still the Jaylen Brown show. And I love it. I love it. I think it's great. I think it's. That's. I, I want to see these. These types of battles. I want to see these types of duels. I like to see Jalen in there right away picking Cooper up right away, poking the ball free, getting a, you know, a steal in a, you know, pick six dunk. That's. That's what I want to see if I'm a rookie. That's what I would want to get. I want to get your absolute best. You want, you want to. To prove something to me? Come prove it. And I think from a Cooper flag perspective, it's, yeah, show me, show me what you got, and I'm going to give it back to you in, in the same way. But also, I always, I always would want to know how much room is there between me and the person who's better than me. How much room do I have to make up? Am I right there with you? Am I five steps behind you? Ten steps behind you? If I'm that far behind you? All right, well, I better get. Get into the, you know, into the gym at night. Better get into that weight room, but get into that film room. And, and I know. And if I'm right there with you now, I know what I got to do to get past you. That type of stuff. I love that little game within the game. And so I think Jalen was really, really up for this game. And he came out and he showed it and the way he played was just beautiful. The passes he made to Namish K the third quarter, he had a couple of passes. It was just incredible footwork and then recognition to get Neemi a couple of buckets. You know, I, I joked earlier in the season and, and Jalen kind of almost confirmed he. Because he was joking about the salsa, the salsa dancing. I, I was joking that Jalen had been taking dance classes because of his footwork. His footwork has been incredible this year. So I, I think Jalen's. Jalen's performance in this game was just phenomenal. So I don't know what else to say about that other than Jalen's been great. His 27th 30 point game of the season. I don't know if I've mentioned this in the podcast before. 27:30 point Game of the season. He is on a pace to get into the mid-40s. And Jayson Tatum's record is 42 most 30 point games in a season. 32. I mean, 42 by Jayson Tatum. So Jalen has a chance to go and break that now. Jalen is also, because of this season, gotten up over 130 point games for his career. There's five players now that have done that in Celtics history. It's Jaylen, it's Jason, it's Paul Pierce, Larry Bird and John Havlic. That's incredible. This is incredible. And, and I think he, he's. He's there with the Legends. I hope he finishes his career or, or I shouldn't say that because I know nobody finishes their career where they started. I hope he has a few more years in Boston where he can climb up the ladder. I mean, I do hope he finishes his career here. I'd like to see him and Jalen, him and Jason finish, finish their careers in Boston, but that just never happens anymore. I want to see him do enough where he, he, he establishes himself as just a no doubt all time great. And I don't hear him in that conversation yet, but he should be in that conversation. Jason's going to be in that conversations, too. He is in that conversation, I think, or entering that conversation, depending on how people think. Right. Maybe you don't want to start that conversation right now at their age. But they've won a championship, man, if they could go win another one, that would be incredible. Okay, so Jalen was great. Peyton Pritchard also great, but in a different role. Peyton Pritchard came off the bench. Let's talk about that when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by FanDuel. It's Super Bowl Sunday, so it's one last weekend of football over there on FanDuel. 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So you, you lose a ball handler. So you really need to stagger. Derek White and Peyton Pritchard. Pritchard came off the bench, came off just as hot as Jalen Brown. I wonder if Peyton Pritchard was motivated by the Caitlyn Clark stuff, which I think might have been overblown. If you didn't see it, hear it. Caitlin Clark was on the NBC broadcast, Peacock broadcast, and Reggie Miller compared her to Peyton Pritchard. And I think in a very complimentary way. But also, listen, I'm not, I'm not. I, I understand if you're Caitlin Clark and you are, you know, a superstar, a WNBA superstar, you want to be compared to the superstars. And when somebody compares you to Peyton Pritchard, you're like, wait a minute, I thought I was bigger than that. But the, in every way that was mentioned, it was incredibly complimentary. And the way Peyton Pritchard played in this game, I would be like, yes, please. I want to be like that guy all day long. So I think, I don't know that he was motivated by that stuff, but I would be. And so he came out and was in crazy. I, I made the joke on Sports Illustrated that I, if I knew how, I would take the video, isolate Peyton Pritchard of him driving and all his footwork and step throughs and all that stuff. And I would just put it in an old Gene Kelly movie where he's tap dancing through some scenario. And you could probably match them up in a pretty cool way because Prichard was out there dancing and stepping and left and right and up and down and stepping through. And it was really just between him and Jalen. First of all, 59 combined points between him and Jalen. This, this was a dicing of the Dallas Mavericks defense. They had you going one way and then once you were going this way, stop, spin or stop up, fake, step through. Some of it was for an assist, but that kind of Peyton Pritchard, that guy is just unstoppable. 26.7 assists, 4 rebounds. This I think is going to be, I don't know if long term, but as I mentioned in the Simon's reaction podcast, if Jason Tatum is back, then I wonder how like the impact throughout the, the, the team, right? Like if the, the thought process is Tatum is coming back. So now you get him a stretch big and now maybe Pritchard goes to the bench because you have. I don't know how they're going to craft their starting lineup. We'll see what happens when the trade deadline is over. But Derek, Jalen, Jason is your 1, 2, 3. You need a 4 in there. Who can be. It could be Jordan Walsh, it could be Baylor Shireman, it could be Sam Houser, and then your five would be Vucevich. And if it's Hauser at your four then, then you've got spacing everywhere. I mean, five out spacing, but obviously Vuch can still play in that dunker spot and all of that. And with that spacing and with that lineup, you need a ball handler to come in off the bench. And if you don't pick one up, then you, you need to use what you have. And so Pritchard going to the bench makes sense here. And so it might be a long term. Just return to what he has. And Pritchard was talking about it after the game. When you start, you, you have to make sure like Jalen gets a touch and Jason will have to get a touch, but it would be Derrick White or whomever. You do have to pick your spots a little bit more. When you come in off the bench, you're coming in for Derek and Jalen's coming off the floor. You have a lot more leeway. Just, hey, I'm going to be me. I'm going to do all the step through stuff, get into that 10ft, within 10ft of the basket and see if I can get all the way to the rim, maybe hit A turnaround, fade away, all of that stuff. You can be more of Peyton Pritchard who is a tremendous ISO scorer. That's his strength. So I think Pritchard going to the bench is going to be maybe a bit of a longer term thing. You make up for what you lost in Anthony Simons with Pritchard being the scoring punch off the bench. So it starts to snap a little bit more into place. As much as I loved the idea of Simons sticking around and being the sixth man, you can see the vision here of well, if Peyton Pritchard is going to be the sixth man, maybe Derek. Now Derek White goes back to being catch and shoot Derek White. It starts to the, the, the fit starts to make a little bit more sense this way. So I get it. And Pritchard was, you know, fantastic here and so was Luca Garza. By the way. The, the bench scoring was 44 to 22. Boston Garza was the other part of the 44. Pritchard had, you know, 26 and Garza had 16, 16 off of four or four from three and a couple of other putbacks finishes around the rim. Garza pick and pop. I think you ultimately with now Vucevic K, who I'll talk about in a second and Garza. You have different kind of skill sets and, and Garza is going to be a guy now that probably will see his minutes kind of slip a bit and he played 20 minutes in this game, probably won't, won't get as much time moving forward. But his ability to go in there and play hard and to hit those shots, especially top of the key three pointers, that's, it's a nice little weapon to have off the bench. And he's, he's always going to be ready. He plays hard, he plays great. He's just, he's not going to be discouraged by losing some time. He's going to go out there and give you everything he's got. So in this game, those three guys, it really was Jalen Pritchard and Garza that did all of the damage, the big time damage. But they weren't the only ones. You had a lot of other guys. I'll get into more individual performances, some of the downside stuff as well, including fouls like crazy and giving up 33 fourth quarter points, that was not great. So I'll talk about all of that stuff when I come back. 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And remember if you are using the web app, it's gametime co gametime co not.com gametime co thank you for making lockdown celtics your first listen. Every day check out Lockdown NBA game nights. Danny Cunningham's filling in for me. I think the Cavs made a trade so I don't even know what he's doing. It's crazy, but I know Jake Madison is going to be there covering all the games. I make an appearance there via video, so go check it out. Game locked on NBA game night. All the games covered all night long every, every night, seven days a week. So go check that out wherever you get your podcasts, wherever you found this show. Plus you get the bonus Locked on NBA podcast which drops in the afternoons covering all the big stories. Tons of trade deadline talk there, individual performances just from top to bottom. Sam Houser another, I think good game look. Cooper Flag. I'm going to get to Cooper flag in a second. 36 points, 12 of 24 shooting, 2 of 4 from 3, 10 of 11 from the line, nine rebounds, six assists, two blocks. He had an incredible game. It's hard to look at those numbers and say Sam Houser did a decent job on him, but Sam Houser did a decent job on him until the fourth quarter. Fourth quarter, the fouls were just out of control. And this is a problem for the Celtics and it was so big of so much of a problem that after the game Joe Missoula was asked about it and he couldn't even come up with a typical Joe Missoula sidestep kind of Euro. Step away from the question. He just, just like we just filed them. We just fouled them all. The Celtics committed 8, 8 personal fouls in the fourth quarter alone that gave them 10 free throws. They were 9 of 10 from the line in the fourth quarter. That's why they gave up 33 points in the fourth on top of 40% shooting from the field from three. So the Celtics just a little out of control there. Little handsy, a little too much in the fourth quarter. But prior to that I thought Sam Houser did a pretty good job Defensively, I think Sam has turned into just a solid overall basketball player this year. He's just done a little bit more, showcased a little bit more and I just like, I like how he's playing. Nimish K did a good job. 8 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, a steal, a block. Just a typical Keda game. It's going to be interesting to see the dynamic now with him. I'm expecting him to come off the bench when Vucevich gets here. Maybe not right away, but eventually maybe he doesn't, I don't know. But I, I can't imagine you trade for Vucevich and not have him start. But it's going to be interesting to see the Keita dynamic. I think this makes the Celtics front court pretty good, but we'll, we'll see right now. Keda has played well. He was really good positioning, defending, all of that stuff. Baylor Shireman got the start and was A team high plus 16 despite not shooting well. Thought he and Hugo Gonzalez were both, both good, both big positives. Despite not shooting well, they combined to be 2 of 11 from the field. They were 1 of 6. That was, that was the one shot that Baylor hit. They did not shoot well, but they each got six rebounds. They each had a couple of assists. They each had a steal. Baylor had a block. They, they, I think they both did their jobs very well moving the ball. Hugo Gonzalez, he's, he's going to be, I think, a really good player. Ugo and Baylor has, has shown, you know, a good amount here. He does need to hit shots. I mean, they're going to need to hit shots for sure. But when you're doing other positive things without hitting shots and are a plus when you're not hitting shots. That was, I think that that's really good. Derrick White needs to hit shots now. He's a plus 14. He had 11 points. He got going a little bit at the end. He had 11 points, eight assists, couple rebounds, no steals, no blocks. But he did play some pretty good defense.413 overall.1 of 8 from 3. At some point, at some point Derek is going to need to start hitting these shots that there's just no doubt about it. He. And the plus minus is great, but when you get 13 shots, you got to make, you got to make a couple more. Just a couple more, right? 6 of 13 is so much better than 4 of 13. 3 of 8 from 3 is so much better than 1 of 8 from 3. And it's just two shots. It's just two. But it feels so much better. And if it's two more three pointers and it's now it's a 16 point game and maybe the biggest lead gets close to 30 and it just changes a little bit. I, I, I have a very high opinion of Derrick White. I think he's in an amazing basketball player and even when he's not hitting shots he does so much that is positive on the basketball court, the defense, they even had him do a jump ball like Jalen with his hamstring and knee. He didn't want to do the jump ball. Garza was on the floor. Garza can't do a jump ball. I might beat Garza on a jump ball which absolutely I, I, that, that's a complete farce. I would never beat Garza on a jump ball. I am almost 53. I am, I'm twice as big as I was when I was playing. I can't jump over a piece of paper anymore. But anyway, my joke stands. So Derek White went in there and got the jump ball and almost got it. He almost got it. I have extraordinary high opinion of Derek White. Like he can do almost no wrong in my eyes but you got to hit some shots. Sometimes it just boils down to I know you're in a slump buddy, but you gotta, you gotta hit some shots. And I think it's affecting. He had, he had just three turnovers but I want to can't remember the one. There was one, it was a lobby. I think it was trying to throw. No, it was an entry pass kind of lob to Namish Keda. That it. Cato was going one way and the pass is going the other and I don't even know whose it was but he, Derek had his hands on his head. It's like I think he's in his own head a little bit. So need Derek to calm down, go out there, just hit some shots. That's it for the, the Celtics Cooper flag. Just gotta mention this, for a kid who should still be in college, 19 years old, this is like, and I've seen him play before but this, this stretch that he's on, this three game stretch is, is the most scored by a teenager in three games. Is you know, weird combination of slide. But the three games that he's just put forward and this one especially, I can't wait to see what happens when he actually knows what he's doing out there in the NBA. This is him still figuring out the NBA. This is him still figuring out what it's like to be in the league. And the. The nuance and the. The way the game is called and the way people approach you and the way you're being defended and all that stuff. He's. He's doing this stuff while figuring it out, oh, my God, what's gonna happen when he figures it out? This is crazy. The. The league right now, like the epicenter of the league is in that Texas, Oklahoma, Midwest. It. It stretches into Denver a little bit. That's where the league really is. Wembanyama, Cooper flag, Shea Gilders, Alexander, defending champion Thunder. You want to go further north and go into Minneapolis, you can go in Anthony Edwards, who I think is a bit of a media darling, but is still really good that the middle. Middle of America is this epicenter and you still have the Celtics on, you know, on the one side. And the sad fact is that the window for the Celtics is. It's being held open, but it's in the. In the middle of closing. The Celtics have a few years before things start to change. Jalen Brown's going to be in his mid-30s. Like I said, he turned. Next year is going to be 30. He's already said that he doesn't want to play past 34, 35, and who knows how that goes? Who knows where the. The. The league goes, CBA wise, all that stuff at some point. The Celtics, they're already a little expensive. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. The time is now for Boston. The time is now for Boston whenever that window closes at the time where it's like Jalen's in his mid-30s and Jason's getting into his mid-30s, and the Celtics have to make some decisions about their future. Cooper flag is going to be 23, and Victor Wembanyama is going to be 23, 24, 20, whatever, 25, and the league is just going to be screwed. That's just going to be Dallas versus San Antonio in all of the western conference finals. It's going to be nuts. Plus whatever OKC is doing, it's. It's wild to see this kid be this good, this. This fast. I guess that's all I'm gonna say that that was. He's a fun guy to watch. If you don't watch enough Dallas Mavericks games, you should be watching Cooper flag. All right, Celtics get the win. Houston. Houston. On the back to back. That's tough. That's going to be a tough back to back, no doubt. We'll see. We'll see what the Celtics do trade wise. If there is another trade, and as I say it. I'm always thinking like, oh, let me. As I'm talking, let me just log in and see if Shams has said anything. And right now, nothing new trade wise. Okay, this is good. This is good. So I didn't miss anything while I was doing this podcast. So post game pod, if anything breaks, maybe a bonus pod, depending on when it happens, maybe it'll be part of the postgame pot. I don't know. But the, the goal is to do a bonus when we can. So whatever happens, I'll have you covered here. I'll have you covered on Sports Illustrated, on the Celtics on SI page. So make sure you're following me there. Following me here. Reminder. I did have a Q A. I did answer trade questions on on Celtics on si. I do have much more mailbag stuff to get to at some point, which I will probably next week, probably during the all star break. 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This is Jake from Lock Dawn. When the game's on the line, the best know when to pass because the right assist can change everything. And off the court, it's no different. That's where your State Farm agent comes in. Whether it's protecting your car, your home, or helping you prep for the unexpected, they'll help set you up with a game plan that works for you like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability and eligibility vary by state. Not to brag or anything, But Arby's new $7.99 meet in three box is kind of a big deal. The other guys give you just one side. We give you three sides. Not to brag. You get a meaty sandwich, curly fries, mott sticks, a sweet treat and a drink. All for just 7.99. It's more meal for your money. More meal for your money. More meal for your money. Where'd that come from?
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Arby's. We have the meats and participating Arby's for a limited time.
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Hey everyone, this is Ross Jackson, one of the hosts of the Locked On Podcast Network. Thank you for being here because your support means everything. And if you're looking for another way to support the show that you love while getting something awesome in return, check out the Everydayer Club. You get ad free episodes of your favorite Locked on show, access to a members only group chat for fans of your team, and you can even jump into the national chats and talk about whatever's happening across the league. Tap the Everydayer Club link in the show notes to learn more.