
Boston Celtics notch a huge win over the New York Knicks as Jaylen Brown drops 42 points and showcases the most mature basketball of his career. Can the Celtics’ evolving chemistry spark a dominant run in the East? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal spotlights Jordan Walsh’s breakout fourth-quarter heroics, Hugo Gonzalez’s game-changing defense, and key contributions from Josh Minott and Derrick White. This hard-fought victory underlines Boston’s newfound grit closing out elite opponents. Major themes include the Celtics’ strategic small-ball adjustments against Karl-Anthony Towns, trusting young players in crunch time, and Joe Mazzulla’s rotation decisions that maximize both hustle and execution. With upcoming matchups against the Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers, Boston continues to build momentum. Don’t miss the analysis on Jaylen Brown’s leadership leap and how the Celtics’ supporting cast is stepping up at the perfect time.
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They beat the New York Knicks. 123, 117. It's never easy against the Knicks, but the Celtics closed it out. They are growing right before our eyes. Later on, Jaylen Brown will get to the individual performances. Jordan Walsh, Ugo Gonzalez, Josh Minot. Just the best I've seen Jordan Walsh play. It's just incredible. Let's just start right off the top. Impressive. Most impressive. This Celtics team is playing well. Well enough to beat these good teams. They have now beaten the Knicks. They've beaten the Cavs. They've beaten the Pistons. They've beaten the Magic. They were very close. They had a chance to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves as well. All of a sudden, The Celtics are 12 and 9. This was a stretch. I think I had good reason to be worried about this stretch. They had just lost to the Brooklyn Nets. They had a couple of tough late games against the, you know, Sixers or, you know, Orlando. They, the. The. The Clippers. They, they, they. You know, things have gotten dicey, and I was like, you know, look, Orlando, Detroit, Minnesota, Cleveland, New York Lakers with a Wizards game mixed in. I was like, okay, I'll give them the Wizards game, maybe the Orlando game. Can they. Can they sneak one of these other games? Can they get one? Maybe two. So what's that? Two, three, three wins? Maybe four? Well, they've already gotten four. They've. They've beaten Orlando, Detroit, Cleveland, and now the Knicks. So they've gotten their four wins. Can they be. Obviously, I think they should beat the Wizards, but as I said yesterday, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the game that they lose and then you play the Lakers. If you can beat the Lakers. Well, I mean, this is just an incredible stretch regardless. But if you could do that, that would be. I mean, talk about message being sent. So the Celtics are putting things together. This is a. A very high quality win, A true team win, where they get performances from. From everybody. So here's how the game went. If you didn't see it beginning, the game was gross. Jalen Brown was terrible. The Celtics fell behind by as many as 14. It didn't look good. The. The. I think it was a 17 to 4 run to start the game for the Knicks. And I was like, okay, you know, I'm sitting there like, if. If it's gonna happen like this, then just be the blowout. If. If you're gonna lose, just Be blown out. Let's all just get the hell out of here. Let's not think about it too much. Let's just go. And it looked like the way Jalen was playing, like, okay, something's up here. Maybe, maybe he just wants it too much against the Knicks. Remember the first game of the season, he, he talked about facing the Knicks and he wasn't great. It was, it was probably his worst performance. I think he scored well in that game, but he, he just wasn't, it wasn't his best. So I thought, okay, maybe the story of this game would be Jalen Brown wants the Knicks, wants, wants to beat the Knicks too badly. And that was going to be, I think, I thought at least in the first quarter that might have been where this game was heading and, and where the kind of, the narrative was heading. He had three turnovers, he had two fouls. He was missing. It was just, was bad. It was gross. But the Celtics kept hanging around, right? They, they didn't let it get out of hand. They were just answering. They're doing just enough. Second quarter, Ugo Gonzalez gets in the game. Celtics start to turn things around. They go small against Carl Anthony Towns. And Ugo Gonzalez is the catalyst there, but he's not the only one. Derek got a chance. Baylor Shireman got a chance. You know, the, the Celtics went with a different look there. They even threw in some hack of Mitchell Robinson. So that was, that was a fun little moment there at the end of the first quarter. But they, in the second quarter, they, they went small. They were effective. Jalen Brown starts to all of a sudden catch fire. 18 points in the second quarter. He had 33 points in the middle two quarters without a single turnover. So just an incredible bounce back there. Then at the end of the third quarter, just unleashing Hellfire 120 run to end the quarter. Bunch of three pointers and it was like, whoa, 18 point lead. Maybe, maybe I was right about the blow up or wrong about the team that's getting blown out. And of course the Celtics can't get away from the Knicks. They never can anymore. Last regular season they, it was easy, but now all of a sudden they can't and we're kind of like joking around like can you imagine if this was another 20 point lead or 18 point lead? The Celtics blow in the fourth quarter and they almost did. Got down to three. But this time it was Jordan Walsh. It got down to three. Joe Missoula calls a timeout. Six and a half minutes to go and then it's The Jordan Walsh show. He get, gets the ball. So the, the Knicks are blitzing Jalen Brown. Jalen gets the ball over to Jordan and Jordan starts making plays, starts swinging the ball. It ends up with Josh Minot. He hits a corner 3 Jordan crashes the boards, gets an offensive rebound, put back drives, gets a tough finish, gets a steal on the other end, forces a jump ball. He did everything at the end of that fourth quarter and it was just incredible. Incredible the way they frustrated Karl Anthony Towns. And it's. You look at the box score and it's like 12 of 19, 29 points for Towns, seven rebounds, a couple of assists. He had four turnovers. But you look at that and you say, wow, what an incredible game from Carl Anthony Towns. He did his job. Yeah, he's going to score. But them going small against him was he couldn't carry them. This was. It felt like some empty calories. Think he got some shots early, but they, the way they were defending him, it just, I didn't watching the game, if you didn't show me a box score, I know I wouldn't have thought that Carl Anthony Towns scored 20. I would have thought he scored like 14, 15, 16 points, maybe 12 of 19. This the numbers in the box score do not tell the story of what the Celtics did to Carl Towns because that was, I thought, incredible defense. They frustrated him. They got him to turn the ball over. There were times where he had Derrick White, he had. Who else was it? He had, I mean obviously Jordan Walsh. He a bunch of smaller guards and it's like the Celtics wanted him to post up and he kind of refused a lot of the times. And then they would throw double teams at him. They'd get the ball out of his hands. They again the 29 points from him. I don't think he hurt the Celtics at all in this game. I, I, maybe I'll think differently when I re watch it, but the Celtics, I did, I thought a great job. Going small was super, super effective with him. Jalen Brunson, a rough game again. Jordan Walsh doing the defensive work a lot of the time on Brunson. The, the length of bothers, smaller guards like that and that's what he's there for. That's. Jalen said it the, you know, a week or two ago. The guys, guys with his length, with Jordan's length, Josh's length, they're supposed they're going to bother the smaller guards. And Brunson had a stinker of a game. 6 of 21, 1 of 8 from 3. He did have 11 assists but 15 points. So defensively I thought the Celtics did a fantastic job. The real turning point in this game, two turning points. Gonzalez coming in and Jordan doing his thing in the fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter. Let's get to that. Let's get to the the role players. The unsung guys will do that when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by Game Time. 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Thank you for making The Lockdown Celtics podcast. The number one Boston Celtics podcast in the world. It is on the number one sports podcast network in the world. You have made both of these things possible by being every dayers joining me Monday through Friday and all the other great shows. Check out Locked on Nicks and their reaction. Check out Locked on NBA game night. I typically host on Wednesdays and I had to switch out because the Celtics played. So I did the Tuesday show. But check all of that out. Lockdown NBA. So many great shows on the network. So thank you for making this show number one and the podcast Lockdown podcast network number one. If you're not subscribed, what are you waiting for? The stars of this game, aside from Jalen, had 42 points, so we'll get to him, but I'm getting to him last and you can say we're saving the best for last. But this game changed in two parts. Number one, in the second quarter, I think everything flipped when Hugo Gonzalez came in and it's incredible that a 19 year old is doing this and he goes from DNPs to stepping in. He is absolutely like mature. I see him. The only thing that kind of tells on him in terms of being 19 is that he looks young. But even because of his maturity and the way he approaches things, you would think he's in his mid-20s. At the very least. He seems like a very mature and that's part of the development in Spain, Real Madrid, all of that stuff. He's just been in these situations for so long. He's not intimidated. He's not intimidated by playing the Knicks. He's not intimidated in an environment where it's loud and there's a lot of people. He's seen it, he's done it. Like those crowds in Europe are crazier, much crazier than the craziest NBA crowd you're going to find. So he comes in. The defense was unbelievable. Just the, the instincts to defend from him are, you know, if he's doing this at 19, wait till he learns things. So Hugo plays 22 and a half minutes, doesn't, doesn't do much offensively, but gets the five rebounds and just one steal. But the way he defended, the way he held his own and gets underneath Carl Anthony Towns and just holds his position. Kind of knows where to be, isn't bothered by who he's guarding. Go, go guard. You know, Jalen Brunson. Go guard. Carl Anthony Towns. Go guard. Mikhail Bridges, he's fine with doing all of that. So he comes in the second quarter with the Celtics down 14. And next thing you know, starts chipping away, chipping away, chipping away. Brunson is sitting. And the. The Knicks aren't able to score very much at all. They. In the second quarter, the Celtics won that 37 to 20. So they lose the first quarter 32, 21. They won the second one 37 to 20. Like, turnaround is fair play, and this turnabout is fair play, isn't it? Anyway, so Ugo comes in, completely changes the dynamic of, of the game, flips it. So the Celtics go up seven at halftime, and then they go off and take that big lead. Now the fourth quarter, it flips again after that timeout that I mentioned before. Now Jordan Walsh comes in and this is. I'll get to it more with Jalen, but kudos to Jalen for making the right read, making the right play. This stretch six minutes of Jordan Walsh is the best, absolute best basketball I've ever seen him play. And it's, it's not even close. Like, he almost unrecognizable the way he was playing. He played 6 minutes and 15 seconds in that, in that stretch. Six points on perfect, 3 of 3 shooting, four rebounds, three of them offensive. An assist, a steal, and then so many other hustle plays that don't even show up on the box score. I'm going to continue my analogy from earlier this season and over the summer summer league. I. He was scoring in summer league, but I just didn't like the way he looked. I didn't like the way he played. And then the preseason, same thing. And if, if you haven't heard me make the analogy, what I'd said was like, okay, I'm not out on Jordan Walsh, but if I'm at the party, I'm starting to look for my keys, right? It was, it's like 11 o'. Clock. And I'm just, Just looking to see how, you know, how my, my wife is doing. Like, you good. How are you feeling? You know, a little tired. Okay, let's. I don't know, let's just kind of see how it goes. But I might be ready to leave soon. That's. That was my feeling on Jordan. And I said, look, if, if the DJ plays a good song or things start to heat up, I'll stick around. But I was this close to leaving the Jordan Walsh party. This show, this performance, this fourth quarter isn't just the DJ playing a banger. This is the DJ playing all your favorite songs in a perfect mix, all in a row. 11:00am Tired, looking for your keys? No. Now it's 1:00am you're going shot, shot, shot, shot, shot. You're just. I am in it. I am back, baby. I am the. I am in on the Jordan Walsh party. He has completely won me over. This is the absolute peak Jordan Walsh that he's played. Now he's a young guy, obviously. Even after the game, he's like. He talked about, I was a mess. I was a mess my rookie year. I had to learn how to slow down. I had to learn how to play under control. And that's all the stuff that I'd been saying about him for so long. He's playing too fast. He's just playing out of control now. Now he seems to finally get it, and that's great. That's great. And because he's so young. So I didn't leave the Jordan Walsh party, but when you don't get something after a long time, I was like, I don't know if he's ever going to. Right. Like, or maybe not in Boston. And now here he is. I don't know if it was Josh Minot coming in, being kind of like, Tom said it, you know, a month ago, Josh Minot is everything the Celtics hoped Jordan Walsh would be. And it's like, as soon as he said it, I don't know if so many Jordan Walsh's camps heard that and said it's like, oh, yeah, no, this is everything you're supposed to be. Because instantly he's like, oh, oh, okay, I get it. And it flipped. Like, I honestly thought there was a chance he could get cut after training camp. Not, like, likely, but it wasn't out of the question. If they had cut him, he'd be like, oh, man, that sucks. But no one would have been like, oh, what are you doing? Maybe, you know, there are certain people that are fans of his, but now I'm like, absolutely, absolutely in on Jordan Walsh. Keep him around. He can be a part of this team. He can be a part of the future of this team. Now you've got yourself with him and with Josh. Josh made some great plays in this one as well. And in that stretch hit, you know, a couple of three pointers. He's. Walsh is the type of do the dirty work kind of player that you need on this, on a team like this. So offensive, rebound, defense, all of that stuff. It. I can't. I can't say enough. I cannot say enough about what Jordan Walsh has become in such a short amount of time. Maybe it was Jalen having us back and saying, you know, I believe in you. Maybe it's just something every once in a while with some, some players, something kind of clicks right away and they go, oh, I get it now. And you, you figure it out and you, you make a leap like that, whatever it is, good for him. Good for him for having it happen. And like I said, this six minutes to, to close out the Knicks was the most impressive thing that I've seen out of him in a long time. Now, Jalen Brown kind of made that possible, not just by saying, hey, I believe in you, but by giving him the ball. We'll talk about Jalen Brown's maturity, the most mature basketball we've seen from Jalen Brown, when I come back. Today's show is brought to you by Robin Hood what if sports were traded like markets? 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Thanks for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen. Every day, check out Lockdown Fantasy Basketball. It's the number one fantasy basketball podcast on the number one sports podcasting network. Josh Lloyd is going to help you win your league. It's that simple. Who do you keep? Who do you trade? Who do you start? Who do you bench? He has it all. Multiple shows, dropping all the time. That dude is a machine. You got to check him out. If you're playing fantasy basketball. Let's get to Jaylen Brown, who had 42 points in this game after four in the first quarter. Just. I cannot stress. I said it before. I'll say it again, how bad he was in the first quarter. And he said it after the game. He's like, I was playing too fast. I had to tell myself to calm down. And I do think that the. The. The Knicks playing the Knicks and having that taste of, you know, that. That closeout game in New York where Jalen just didn't play great at all. He played terribly, but that was, you know, he. The. The meniscus tear was bothering him. Some other things were holding him back. So I'm sure he's had that bad taste in his mouth for a long time. And every time he's going to face the Knicks, he's probably sitting there like, you know, okay, you know, it's time for me to do my thing. So he. He had a bad first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, 33 combined points in the second and third quarter and zero turnovers after three in the first quarter. He had zero after that, and he had one in the fourth quarter, which was a rough one. But at least he threw it out of bounds. You know, if you're gonna have. If you're gonna have a turnover, even if it's an ugly one, at least throw it out of bounds so you're not giving them a layup. You have to force them to take it out and go against the set. Defense that's at least tolerable. Not acceptable, but tolerable. But what he did in the middle quarters was great. What he did in the fourth quarter, he didn't even score until free throws at the end. But all of a sudden, the Knicks start blitzing them. He's like, I wasn't even sure if that was what they were doing. And they just kind of accepted it and drew it out. I was like, oh, okay. And I asked him about it after the game. And it put it bluntly. You have earned the right to kind of make the call there. You try to beat the double team and do the. Do the job yourself, or you pass the ball. You've chosen to pass the ball. You did it against Cleveland with Peyton Pritchard closing out the game. And I thought that was a really great move. That that was. I loved that he did that. And now this time, being doubled again and give it up to Jordan Walsh and Jordan making plays because Jalen said, I trust my teammates and you guys can make the plays. And so if you want to, if you want to put two on me, that's fine. My teammates will play four on three and we're going to close out this game. How many times have I said the fourth quarter is about making buckets? You, you just got to find a way to make buckets. And that's what the Celtics did because Jalen drew two. And even if the shot didn't fall because the Knicks were out of position in rotation, it just opens up these lanes for Jordan to crash. Crashing from the corner, grabbing the rebound, tipping the rebound, creating another possession. Even if it's an empty possession, that extra 14, 15, 16 seconds off the clock is meaningful when you're holding on to a double digit lead. That, that was just, I think, mature basketball, very mature basketball from Jaylen Brown. And he said after the game, I'm learning. I'm learning every game I'm learning. And this is what's the most impressive thing from him. He's learning how to be the number one guy without any, like, real consistent help, without, like I said before, Jason Tatum has always had Jaylen Brown by his side. Jaylen Brown doesn't have an equivalent of Jalen Brown by his side. Derek White, Peyton Pritchard, really good players. I think highly of both of them, but they're not Jalen Brown. So Jalen's learning how to do a lot of this himself. And trust is huge. Trust. Not only does it, is it the right play, what it does for a guy like Jordan is, is incredible because he's 21 year old, 22, and to have Jalen have your back, go to the coach, go to bat for you. And in the fourth quarter, halfway through the fourth quarter, a lead has dwindled. It's a three point game. Celtics just called a timeout. We're coming out of the timeout. It's a three point game. They have all the momentum and Jalen says, here you go, Jordan. Make a play that's hell yeah. Hell yeah. As a, you know, a basketball player, somebody gives me the ball in that spot, you better be ready for it. But that was, that was a great call and great confidence. I think Jalen has grown so much and is, is understanding the game in a different way. It's incredible. Like I said, I, I, I think that obviously Jalen has been playing his best basketball, but it, it's even beyond anything that I would have expected because the level of maturity and just the continued learning and growing, it's good, it's incredible. It's good. That's amazing. I Can't just sit here and gush the whole time. But look, Celtics, Celtics get this win. It's Great win. They're 12 and 9 now. They have the potential, like, to like, you should beat the. The Washington Wizards. The. The Wizards just beat the. The Bucks. So I think the Celtics should also, like, like, Jalen shouldn't play against the Wizards. Take. Take a break. Take a day off. Go. Just stay home. Let the. Let Anthony Simons cook. Who, by the way, Simons did a good job. Like I said, Minot did a good job. Just. Just to go the other guys. Cato was decent in this game. Pritchard didn't shoot well. Derek White, by the way, some. Some big moments, 22 points, five assists. He. He was. He was good. Sam Houser hit a couple of big threes and one at the end there. So, you know, he. He made a contribution all around team win. So I'd like to see most of that team play against the Wizards, but not. Not Jalen. Just give him a day of. He's been doing so much. Let him. Let him be ready for the Lakers. That. That's on. It's on prime on Friday. So. Yeah, man, this is. This is great. It's a lot of fun. All right, I'm gonna wrap it up there. Thank you, everybody, for listening, for watching the show. I'll be back tomorrow. We'll kind of revisit this. I'll go through it again. I'll go through the game tape and just pick up some other things. We'll. We'll just dive more into it. So make sure you're subscribed wherever you get your podcast. Watch the show on YouTube, get into the comment section. I would love it if you 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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Episode: "Jordan Walsh DELIVERS BEST Game Ever, Jaylen Brown DROPS 42, Celtics BEAT Knicks"
Host: John Karalis
In this episode, John Karalis breaks down a thrilling Boston Celtics win over the New York Knicks (123-117), highlighting Jordan Walsh's best game as a pro and Jaylen Brown's career-defining maturity in a 42-point night. Karalis weaves analysis, anecdotes, and inside-the-locker-room context, focusing heavily on the development of young contributors and the growth of the Celtics as a team during a tough schedule stretch.
Summary of Recent Games:
Karalis’s Perspective:
"This is a very high quality win, a true team win, where they get performances from everybody." (03:03)
First Quarter:
Resilience Shown:
Ugo Gonzalez’s Impact (Second Quarter):
"He goes from DNPs to stepping in… doesn’t do much offensively, but… the way he defended… holds his position. Kind of knows where to be, isn’t bothered by who he's guarding." (13:28)
Defensive Approach on Towns:
"The numbers in the box score do not tell the story of what the Celtics did to Karl Towns." (09:32)
Fourth Quarter Heroics:
"This stretch six minutes of Jordan Walsh is the best, absolute best basketball I've ever seen him play. And it's, it's not even close." (15:42)
Walsh’s Growth:
"This isn't just the DJ playing a banger at the party—this is the DJ playing all your favorite songs in a perfect mix in a row… I am back, baby. I am in on the Jordan Walsh party!" (16:23)
Rough Start, Elite Finish:
"He had 42 points in this game after four in the first quarter. I cannot stress how bad he was in the first quarter." (23:44)
Decision-Making in Crunch Time:
"If you want to put two on me, that's fine. My teammates will play four on three and we're going to close out this game." (24:50)
On Trust and Leadership:
"Trust is huge… Not only is it the right play, what it does for a guy like Jordan is incredible… halfway through the fourth quarter, a lead has dwindled, it's a three point game… Jalen says, here you go, Jordan. Make a play. That's hell yeah." (25:52)
"The Celtics are putting things together. This is… just an incredible stretch regardless… performances from everybody." (04:12)
"He's not intimidated by playing the Knicks. He's not intimidated in an environment where it's loud… the defense was unbelievable." (13:38)
"He can be a part of this team. He can be a part of the future of this team." (19:48)
"[Brown] said after the game, 'I'm learning. I'm learning every game.'… that's the most impressive thing from him." (26:41)
John Karalis delivers an enthusiastic, deeply knowledgeable recap of an important Celtics victory, focusing on pivotal contributions from both rising young players (Walsh and Gonzalez) and Jaylen Brown’s evolving leadership. The episode is rich in clear analysis, memorable metaphors (the “Jordan Walsh party”), and insight into the development process of both individuals and the team as a whole. The Celtics are 12-9, building identity and resilience, and supporters are urged to savor this chapter in the season.