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Jayson Tatum DOMINATES, Make HISTORY as Boston Celtics CRUSH Charlotte
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Boston Celtics secure their 50th win with Jayson Tatum returning to top form—could this be the spark for a championship run? Tatum dazzles with a dominant 32-5-5 line, showing off his signature swagger and confidence, while Payton Pritchard and Neemias Queta step up as key contributors against the Charlotte Hornets. The Celtics’ playoff positioning solidifies, and massive milestones are reached, including Tatum surpassing 14,000 career points. John Karalis of Celtics On SI breaks down how Joe Mazzulla’s adjustments—like starting Jordan Walsh for his defensive prowess—and the emergence of Boston’s role players set the stage for postseason success. Key storylines include resting stars for the playoff push, Queta's intriguing development as a potential stretch big, and what clinching a top-four seed means for the Eastern Conference race. Don’t miss this energetic look at the Boston Celtics’ winning formula as the playoffs loom.
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John Corrales
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Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Now on the Locked on Celtics podcast, Jason Tatum looks like Jason Tatum again. And the Celtics get their 50th win of the season. Welcome back to the show. I'm John Corrales. Boston Celtics get a nice, very nice win over the Charlotte Hornets. 114.99. And they just looked great all throughout. Later on in the show, we'll get to their 50 wins and the playoffs that they clinched. We'll get to Jordan Walsh's defense later on in the second segment, we'll get to Peyton Pritchard and Mish K, some of the other guys who made big contributions. We got to start, though, with Jason Tatum, who was amazing. Very first possession that he got. He drives, goes up for the dunk, gets the big swing hang dry like it was the most explosive play we've seen from him this season. And right away I was like, oh, that was, that was more explosive than we've seen him. This, this bodes well. And then from there, it was just everything working for, for him. This was the most Jason Tatum that we've seen. Jason Tatum. And not just him scoring, attacking, rebounding, passing, all of that stuff. It was the Jason Tatum confidence. It was the Jason Tatum swagger. A lot of times in these games, in these first 10 games that we've seen him play, he's looked, you know, he, he's had like the little celebrations. He's done the little three point thing and then just kind of, you know, those little things. But he's also looked gassed, winded. He's looked frustrated at times. He's looked not quite, when we say, not quite himself. He hasn't looked like his usual kind of, you know, Jason Tatum. I'm the best player in the World Jason Tatum kind of feel in this game. He was, he was. He had that, that look in his eye. He felt better, he looked better. It was. It was really incredible to watch. He had 32 points, five rebounds, five assists in the game and he just right away was, was on it. Nine points in the first quarter. He had 11 in the second quarter, he had seven in the third and in the fourth quarter he comes in after the early run. So I'll get to Jordan Walsh's defense. But the, the Celtics and Jordan Walsh were able to hold off Lamelo ball and, and really bother him. And look, Charlotte was on the back to back, so a little bit of that going on too. But the, the defense on on Lamelo was, was really good until the fourth quarter where LaMelo got going right. He scores 12 points in the fourth quarter, but Tatum comes in and just slams the door and, and finish things finishes things off. You also get contributions from Pritchard who I'll get to. But to see Tatum attack and hit shots and make make plays, just read the floor. He's reading the floor really, really well. When they blitzed, he draws the double team. He invites the double team and gets rid of it when they're in drop. He attacks it when they're, when they're at the level. He just reads the floor and knows what. What to do. He understands what plays to make. So this, this was just a, a great Tatum performance and ultimately he. The beauty of it is he did it in less than 31 minutes because he didn't have to come back in in the fourth quarter. And he was questionable with the, the, the Achilles management, however they listed it right, Achilles repair management or whatever. I don't expect him to play in the back to back against Atlanta I think would be kind of pushing it a little bit. Like there's no reason to go and push it that far. The, the Celtics not only I'm recording this, There's a minute 35 to go in the OKC New York game and it's an 11 point game. So that game is essentially over. And the Celtics will have a two and a half game lead on New York and they still have one game to play. It's. There's a lot of pad there. It's going to be very difficult. I think there'll be seven games left for the Knicks and to make up two and a half games in those seven is. Is very tough. So the Celtics will have a very strong hold on that second seed. And if they beat the Knicks on April 9th by then it might even be, it might even be figured out and the Celtics might have a. Might. Might have that in hand. But there's no real need to play Tatum. In fact, you. No Jaylen Brown in this game with the left Achilles tendon ice. I've talked about that. I don't think that's a big deal. I think they're just giving him a little bit of rest. Joe Mazool keeps saying it's day to day. He's on the trip. If he, if, if it was serious, I don't know if he would have been on the trip, would have stayed back and gotten the treatment. And no, no need to go up and down in a plane and pressurized cabins which can, you know, mess with the inflammation. Right. They, they can encourage a little bit of inflammation. Inflammation. So I think he would, he would have just sat at home if it was a big deal. We may see Jalen play against Atlanta and Tatum sit. Tatum loves playing in Charlotte. He went to Duke. You know, it's not that far from Charlotte. So I think let, let Tatum play in the place he loves. Let Jalen play in the place he loves because he's home in Atlanta and you just move on. Then you, then everybody goes to Miami and has some fun. So. But we may, we may not see Tatum in Atlanta, but to see him in this game, it was incredible. 14,000 points now 14,000 career points for Tatum. So congratulations to him for that. He is now the ninth player to reach 14,000 points in Boston Celtics history. Jalen Brown will soon become the 10th. He just crossed 13,000. So next year Jalen should easily reach 14,000. So I'm reading this from Dick Light from NBC Sports. Boston Tatum, youngest player in franchise history to reach the 14,000point milestone. He did it in, it's, let's say a few months younger than Paul Pierce. He's did it in the second fewest games at 596. Larry Bird did it in 582. And he. That's just incredible. Just incredible bit of history there for Tatum. So congratulations to Tatum on that. I'm just incredibly, just shocked. What do you want me to say about what Jason Tatum has been. He, he came back. Was it three weeks ago? Three weeks ago. Three weeks in a day or two. Come on. There's no way, no way. If you had told me, okay, this is the day Tatum's coming back and by the end of the month, he's going to be playing 35, 36 minutes and he'll have a 355 game in him, I'd be like, you're crazy. And I'm the guy that said that he would come back exactly when he came back. I've been saying early March for months since, like the summer I was saying Tatum could come back in early March. I had, I knew he was going to come back in early March. And even that, even I, who was the eternal Tatum optimist in his return from this injury, I never, ever would have thought 35 and 5, three weeks after coming back, playing 35, 36 minutes, three weeks after coming back. This is the most amazing return from injury that I've ever seen in basketball. There may be some in other sports I don't. I can't. I'm. I honestly have not. There are plenty of sports I just don't even pay attention to anymore. So for Tatum to come back this soon and also this, well, changes so much because my whole thing was, he'll come back, he'll take some time to ramp up, he'll have some real rough games. I was expecting a lot of these games to be rough, you know, like 9 points, 4 rebounds, 2 of 14 shooting, 15 minutes, types of games. Just as he got back to his wind and all of that stuff, the recovery, the stuff that he did that none of us saw, all of that getting to this point, I'm amazed, shocked, blown away. This is shocking. Now here we are a couple of weeks away from the playoffs, a few weeks away from the playoffs, April 18th or 19th. So we're basically three weeks away from the playoffs. And I don't even know what to expect from Tatum. I keep saying, yeah, you know, he's not going to be himself. He's going to be, you know, a little less than what he is. Or is he? Or is he? I mean, I can't imagine that he's going to play 34, I mean, like 40 something minutes a game. But who am I to say he won't anymore? I don't know what's happening anymore. Whatever my thoughts are for the Celtics, I've just gotta take like, take it to five steps past whatever the most optimistic thing that I can come up with. It's ridiculous. Like the stuff that I would sit there over at the beginning of the season be like, well, you're just an incredible optimist. People. People said, I think they could win 50 games. Like, that's just impossible with this team. It was. Everything would have to go right. Everything's gone right. Everything's gone right. Jason Tatum is at the head of that list. Right now, everything has gone right. For a guy coming off an Achilles, everything has gone right. And Here he is, 32, 5 and 5. Get out of here. Man. That's incredible. Peyton Pritchard, incredible in this game. 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Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day and making it the number one Celtics podcast on the number one sports Podcasting network. Thank you for joining me. Every Monday through Friday, plus bonus podcasts throughout the week and on the weekends when they play on Friday nights. Saturday nights. I'll drop an extra podcast there. I am John Corralis. I cover the Celtics for Celtics on SI. I've been covering the Celtics for 20 years now. I've been doing this podcast for 10. I've also written a couple of books about this team. I might be writing another one about this Boston Celtics team the way they're going. Peyton Pritchard was awesome in this game. 28 points, six rebounds, six assists, a steal. He was six of six from the line. Another offensive rebound. He gets the 28 points, but only two three pointers made. That's just. That's not the typical Peyton Pritchard that we. We've known coming into this year. But that's this year's Payne Pritchard. He was seven of nine in the paint, non restricted area, plus a layup in the restricted area. So 8 of 10 overall in the paint, but he just loves. And by the way, that layup, a cut, a 45 degree cut. Jason Tatum was on one elbow. It's like wherever the angle is, you just kind of match that angle from the opposite side. That's where you cut from. So if a guy's cutting from straight from the top, you cut from the baseline. If a guy's cutting baseline. If guy's dribbling baseline, you cut from the top. If a guy's one at one angle, you cut from the other angle, a 45 degree angle. And anyway, that's where Tatum found Peyton Pritchard. Pritchard gets in there for the layup. But more than that, Pritchard just keeps finding his way into the paint and hitting that stop, turnaround, fade. It's a classic shot for him now. He's. He really is. If you ever watch the I love, like, nature videos, that's why part of why I like Joe Mazzulli, he keeps making these nature references. I'm like, oh, I'm fully on board with this. You ever watch a nature video of a honey badger just wandering into a pride of lions and messing with the lions? That's Peyton Pritchard. He is the honey badger. It's just alliance would be there swatting them around, and he's like, no, I'm gonna bite you on the nose. I'm gonna bite you on the paw. You can't mess with me. I'm paying Prichard. I don't care that you're seven feet in the paint. I don't care that you're six, eight in the paint. Doesn't matter how big I am compared to you. I own this spot. That's Peyton Pritchard. He went in there time and time and time again. He is the most. One of the most efficient players in the NBA in that spot. It's ridiculous that he, a small guard is in there doing it, but he. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. I know people want to give honey badger nickname to somebody else. Whatever But I, I, I'm just might, might settle on that. He, he just whatever you want to call him, the fact that he's in there doing that, just incredible. Namish Keita also 17 points, 8 of 13 shooting, 8 rebounds, another 3 offensive rebounds for him, an assist, the steal, a block. Keda has exceeded everything I started this season, obviously started the season. People ask me, you think this might be the worst front court in the NBA, like maybe even Brad Stevens, Excuse me, even Brad Stevens. I've referenced this a million times on this podcast before the season started. Couldn't even muster up the hey, no, I think positive this and positive that about these guys. He just said, yeah, people are going to look at their numbers and say this isn't the best and they're just going to have to prove everybody wrong. He couldn't even say I believe that they'll do X, Y and Z. No, he said, ah, doesn't look like that all that great on paper. It's up to them to prove people wrong. Comes in, proves everybody wrong. Hand up. I'll be the first, I'll be the first person to tell you when I'm, when I miss on a player and I would rather under rate somebody than overrate somebody. So I don't and I'm, I listen, I say that as the guy that is way out on a limb on Hugo Gonzalez who once again didn't look particularly great. 13 minutes was a minus 12, had moments, but was also like, you know, but he's still a rookie. But yeah, I'm way out there on Ugo. But generally speaking I tend to underrate players before I overrate them and Keita had so many questions and he's just, he just continues to answer them and he's answered them throughout the season. He still has issues for sure. He still needs to, sometimes he doesn't catch the ball that cleanly. He definitely needs to improve his base. He's definitely a little, still too gangly. He's still a little too off balance. He needs to get like just squats like crazy and improve that base and just do like those foot fires and you know, just improve his balance. Get either get into it like a karate dojo or something like that and, and just learn balance, improve that base and then if somebody, if we want to pitch in, I'll pitch him five bucks. We can try to get him in with the key Milajuan. So for a couple of weeks over the summer if I, and I, I like, I like the idea of him with, with Dream because Dream has those like long arms and he just understand, he was like thin and understands how to use his body. I think, I think Keda can have some like translatable physical kind of ways to use dreams moves. So if somebody could get him in with a Kim Olajuwon, just learn one move and one counter to that move and all bets are off with Kata next year. Kate is in his prime. These are the 2, 3, 4 years where he, this is where he's going to maximize himself. He's got one more year under contract. Then he can go off and find a Luke Cornett deal somewhere either with Boston or somewhere else. But this is his time. He was, he was great in this game. The floater, the finishing around the rim, his timing on the pick and roll. He, he, he's in the right spots. He reads the guards better than ever. A couple of spots where he's like rolling to the rim and he sees the guards actually going a different route and he stops and kind of relocates, comes up and catches the ball in the middle of the paint. He's got that little floater. He just, just does a great job. That, that dunk was a little kind of nuts. And he took a three. Let me just say this about Kato with the three pointer. I see him take three pointers before games. Like they have him warming up and he go gets out there and he shoots a few. I see him at the practice facility shooting them. It doesn't look that bad. It doesn't look bad at all. He actually has like decent form. So I'm not going to rule out Keda hitting a three before this season is over. I'm not going to rule out the three being a part of his game at some point. I'm not going to say that it is going to be a part of his game. But it's. I've seen guys who shoot threes more regularly look way worse than what Keda is putting up there. His shot looks decent. So I don't know, maybe there's a three. Maybe there's a stretch big somewhere in Keita at some point. Listen man, I can't. I told you I'm riding high on this team right now. I can't find any fault right now. So yeah, I, it may sound silly to suggest that Kata could be a stretch big. Why not? I just said I got to take the most optimistic view of a guy on this team with Joe Missoula and the player development and all the great vibes and just take it, take it too far. Because taking it too far. Pans out with these guys. So yeah, stretch, big Namish K. We'll come back, we'll talk about everybody else, Jordan's D and we'll get into the 50 wins and the players that they clinch and the Knicks just lost. So we'll get into all of that when I come back to wrap up the show. 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Free first month you get ad free episodes is the most important part of this. So you can skip everything I just said five bucks a month and you'll get entry into our private listener group chat. So go check it out. Locked on celtics.supercast.com Locked on celtics.Supercast.com all right, let's Jordan Walsh started this game. So again, no Jalen Brown, no Derrick White. So Jordan Walsh got the start and he got the start because his length did was very useful against LaMelo Ball. LaMelo had a stretch in the fourth quarter where he was effective, but other than that, just not a typical LaMelo ball game. He was kind of off and that was, that was a nice kind of adjustment by Joe Missoula. So good job by Jordan Walsh, who was 1 for 7 and 0 for 4 from 3. And that's something that he just needs to be better at. He needs to hit shots. It's not. Sorry to be unfair. Did a great job defensively, but you still need to hit some shots, right? So that's going to be the, the over four shoot. You just can't do that. So but defensively, really good job, really great hustle, great, great energy. Jordan Walsh, I've said it before, he's an NBA player. He's, he's very good defender. I mean, he can be an elite defender. He still has a room to grow. I can see him growing into an elite defender in the league. He has the potential to be a three and D type of guy, maybe more, but he has the potential to be a real strong guy that, you know, maybe, I don't know. I, I feel like he has, he has a future. So I'll just leave it at that. Great job by Jordan Walsh And a great job by Joe Missoula to get him into that position with with the guys that were out. Baylor Scheireman, 14 points, 3 of 7 from 3, 4 of 11 overall. Did a great job, hit a couple of big shots. The the one shot that he hit, huge one in the fourth quarter. Jalen, Jason Tatum got doubled, just whipped like a lefty bounce pass to Baylor and Bay just nice fake and then steps into a wide open three and drills it. That's exactly the thing because Jalen and Jason are both going to be blitzed. The teams are not going to let those guys as much as they can, not going to let those guys beat them in the playoffs. The guys on the floor are going to have to step up. Baylor Scheireman's gonna have to be one of those guys and he did that job in this one against Charlotte. Ron Harper Jr. Got a shout out. Ron Harper Jr. He sprained his ankle. He did come back and wasn't really as effective. But before that was three of three came in like non Tatum minutes came in for Tatum, did a good, good job grabbing rebounds, going length of the floor, just taking all away, shooting with confidence. There's one play where he got the ball. I wouldn't say it was after a steal. It was kicked up. He was on the left side and he has Tatum coming down the right slot. He has, I forget who it was in the right corner. And it's very easy for somebody in Ron Harper Jr's position on the team. Currently still a two way player, although I do expect him to get upgraded on the last day of the season. But a guy in his spot could say, well here comes Jason. I'm just going to give it to Jason. But Harper has incredible confidence. He took that shot, he drilled that shot, loved it. So again it was a shame that he sprained his ankle, that he had one defensive play on Kobe White where he just, just a nice little, just jab kind of Deacon and then come back. Get your arms up and get into the passing lane. Kobe White took the bait, tried to make that pass. Ron Harper, boom, got the steal, led to a wide open Baylor 3 that he missed, but still was a high quality shot in transition. The exact kind of shot that you want to get. Those transition threes are great. He just missed it. But great defensive play by Ron Harper Jr. He was really, really good. That's it. Nothing notable from Sam Houser, nothing notable from Ugo or Luca. They each had like some moments but that's, that's that Celtics get their 50th win. So let's just finish this off by saying the Celtics now have 50 wins. They have their two wins up on the. The. The Knicks three. Three games in the loss column. So with 74, there's eight games to play. For the Celtics, there are seven games to play right this. The Knicks are 60, 75. So there's seven games left for them to make up three games in the loss column. So they need to. They need the Celtics to lose at least three games. One of them to them, probably. They need. They need the Celtics to lose three games. So they would have to go five and three the rest of the way for the. And the Knicks would have to go seven and oh. So every loss that the Knicks have after that, the Celtics would need to go like 4 and 4. So this is very difficult. It's very, very difficult. The Knicks, this is basically. This game hasn't clinched anything yet. But it ha. It's essentially, it's this close for the Celtics to be. They're going to be the 2 seed. I feel extraordinarily confident they're going to be the 2 seed. Detroit's going to be the 1, Boston's going to be the 2. The Knicks are probably going to be the 3, although they're only one game up on Cleveland in the floor in the 4. But those are going to be your 3. 4, and then 5 through 5 through 10 is still just kind of anybody's game. Five hundred and sixty seven is kind of all up for grabs. Eight, nine, ten is going to be all up for grabs. So Toronto, Atlanta, Philly could be 5, 6, 7, any combination of them. Orlando, Miami, Charlotte, 8, 9, 10. That's going to be any combination of those guys. So that's kind of the playoff situation. The Celtics getting to 50 wins. Just amazing. I, like I said before, I don't know, not what I expected, not what a lot of people expected. I thought people. There are a lot of people who said. And people who will be in the YouTube comments who will say, I said 50 wins. Like, yeah, and I thought you were being an overly optimistic Celtics, like, super fan. And which is. You're right. You can sit there and be like, sure, sure. But I was trying to be reasonable and I thought 45. I think that was good. 45 winning season, all things considered. But everything's gone, right? So they're 50 win team. 50 plus win team. I've said this before. I had a conversation with Joe Mazzulla before the season started, and he told me he laid it all out for me. This is why I think we're going to win 50 games. And I said to him, we'll see. And this is why I am in my home office doing a podcast and Joe's out there, who just won his 265th game when he combined regular season and playoffs. So that's why he does his job and this is why I do this job. So congratulations to him. The Celtics are going to be a top four seed. They didn't just clinch a playoff berth, they clinched a top four seed. So they can't, they can't be any worse than fourth. If they lose all of the rest of their games, they will still get home court in the first round of the playoffs. Well, you get it. You get it. It's just another incredible accomplishment for these guys. This is a testament to the culture that they've built, is a testament to Joe Missoula. It's a testament to the players, the coaching staff, Brad Stevens, ownership, all of it. And you throw in the, you throw in the added, you know, get under the tax, you know, craziness that they're able to accomplish. It's kind of nuts that they're able to do all of this. It's. The season isn't over yet, but it's been the most charmed season that I can remember. I mean, even with the Isaiah Thomas seasons. That, that. It wasn't even that. Everything went right in those seasons. Just that Isaiah Thomas was unbelievable and he bailed the Celtics out. This isn't even bailing. The. No one's bailing the Celtics out. This is just. Everything has gone perfectly. Every. What, what has missed this season. The Chris Boucher signing. That's it. Everything else has worked. The Josh Minot thing worked. He started a bunch of games. He won them games. You know what I mean? Everybody else here, Jordan Walsh has been great and then gets a bunch of DMPs, comes in, plays great, right? Even just, even if it's just defensively, he plays great. Tatum, obviously, coming back. We talked about all that. Keda, I talked about all that. Insane. Sam Houser has been basically Sam Houser. Peyton Pritchard started slow, but was. Has turned into, you know, the six man role or post, post trade deadline has been amazing. Shireman, Ron Harper, Ugo Luca, I mean, everybody has hit. Brad Stevens has hit on everything. How has he not played the lottery at this point? Why is he not also a Powerball winner? Keep him out of the casinos. Or if you see Brad Stevens at a craps table, go to that craps table because he's gonna win. Just make the same bets he makes. All right, that's it for the show. Great win for the Celtics over the Hornets. Now back to back Celtics at Hawks. I will be back after that game. Again, I don't expect Tatum, but I do expect suspect Jalen will play. But we'll see. We'll see. But now with the with the Knicks losing plenty of pad, now you have an advantage. You can rest people. This is just such a huge thing. Subscribe to the show subscribe to the YouTube page. I drop drop bonus podcasts throughout the week now. So if you're not subscribed you might miss them so they'll show up. Make sure you're subscribed. I would love to see you join the everyday club@lockdownceltics.super cast.com ad free audio in game chats, all of that stuff. And now please share the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching Lockdown Celtics podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. It's your team every day.
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John Corrales
Another day, another buzz delayed.
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Metro by T-Mobile Ad
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Zepbound Ad
You don't mind running late.
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John Corrales
What's your deal?
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Metro by T-Mobile Ad
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John Corrales
Only $25 going to Metro when we hop off. Get that more for your money feeling only a Metro by T Mobile.
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Metro by T-Mobile Ad
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Fidelity Go Ad
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