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UNSTOPPABLE: Jaylen Brown Drops 50, Boston Celtics DESTROY Clippers
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Boston Celtics electrify fans as Jaylen Brown erupts for 50 points in a dominant, high-efficiency display, sparking debate over his place among NBA elite. Are doubters fueling his best performances yet? Derrick White adds 29 points and 7 assists, while Jordan Walsh steps up defensively—helping to hold Kawhi Leonard to just 22 points—and the Celtics seize a critical win to tie for second in the Eastern Conference. John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down Brown's on-brand revenge performance, Joe Mazzulla's tactical lineup adjustments, and the rising contributions from Anfernee Simons and Luka Garza. Key topics include Boston's near-perfect ball security, role player impact, defensive schemes against the Clippers' stars, and upcoming Eastern Conference power shifts with the New York Knicks looming. Will Boston ride this momentum to a top seed, or face adversity in the next tough stretch?
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John Corralis
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John Corralis
@Vrbo.Com Jaylen Brown drops 50 in a very on brand performance. I'll talk about his incredible night right now on the Lockdown Celtics podcast. Uh huh. Yup yup yup. Beep already 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 how we started raising ban that's how we finish. Locked on Celtics pot Home of the winner. Hey there. Welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics Podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network where it's your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them Monday through Friday. Plus bonus podcasts like this one when they play on weekends. They've got Saturday games, Friday games all throughout January. So tons of extra podcasts for you on this channel here. If you're new to the show, I'm John Corralis, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal. I've been covering the Celtics for about 20 years now and I've written a couple books about the team. This is a bonus podcast. It'll be an abbreviated one. This I'm going to keep. It's about 10, 12 minutes or so. Normally it's a half hour, but this because it's late. It's. It's three in the morning and I'm going to talk about it much, much more on the Monday podcast. But for your Sunday listening pleasure or viewing pleasure, if you want to watch the show on YouTube, I got to talk about Jaylen Brown and the 50 point night we've got to talk about later on. The fact that they are now tied in the lost column for the second seed. Individual performances like Derek White, Jordan Walsh, Anthony Simons. A lot actually happened in this game. So you'll basically get two podcasts about this game. But this one just to, just to get something to discuss. This Jaylen Brown night where 50 points on 26 shots, incredible efficiency. He had it going right from the beginning. He scored 13 points in the first quarter and just never, never turned it off. He was hitting some crazy stuff shots that you look at and you say, well, no one should be taking shots like that. But he was taking and making like just the types of shot like Jordan Walsh after the game said, you know, I was standing in their corner just going, huh, wow. And like, yeah, that's, that's the type of night that Jalen had. The, the type of game where guys on the floor were probably just like watching and going, is he really doing this? And it didn't matter that you might have been, you know, not playing your most engaged basketball because you're standing there watching Jaylen Brown and he's just making everything. It was incredible. And you want to know, so Jalen, 50 points, 18 of 26 shooting, 6 of 10 from three, 8 of 10 from the line, three rebounds, five assists. But the most incredible stat in all of this, two turnovers in a game where he was just doing everything, just two turnovers. And I think those came early on. They were in the first quarter. So two turnovers in the first quarter, zero turnovers in quarters two, three and four for Jalen as he was mount. That is just on top of what was. I was, I will say probably the best game I've seen him play this probably the best game. Just the shooting, but the passing was incredible. He, he had five assists. But I'm going to say that when the full box score tracking data comes out that he probably has at least two or three secondary assists. He had to. So he was moving the ball well, on top of everything, the only shot that he forced was trying to get to the 50 at the end. So he was playing great and he was defending. He had some great defense against Kawhi, against James Harden, but he, he took on the challenge of guarding Kawhi. This is why I think it's the best game that he's played because the passing was so fluid. The defense was there against Kawhi who, you know, after dropping 55 and 45 and all of that, held to 22 points on 6 of 17 shooting. That's, that's a really good defensive effort from Jalen and crew on Kawhi Leonard. So Jalen was sublime. Absolutely out of his mind. Incredible. And it's such an on brand performance for him because he even said it after the game, you know, keep doubting me like it fuels him. He wants to be doubted so he doesn't get a 50 point night if he wins player of the month. He said it post game. It would be nice to get that respect, but keep doubting me because it fuels me. He needs something to fight against. He needs to be the underdog. The worst thing that can happen to Jaylen Brown is for him to get all of the accolades. He wants all of the accolades, but getting them would be counterproductive. It is so much better for the Jaylen Brown brand to not get these awards, to not get that recognition because then he could turn around and have a game like this and be like, see? Told you, right? Like that's the type of guy, that's the type of player he is, that he wants to be counted out so he can have something to rail against. He needs to prove people wrong. That's where he's at his best. So voters, continue not to vote for him for things, Continue not to give him player of the month, continue not to give him the recognition. Keep him at like eighth on the MVP ladder on NBA dot com. Just keep him. Do not give him any accolades at all. Signed sincerely, Boston Celtics fans because the when he gets them, I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, in all honesty, he's going to still be Jaylen Brown. But let's just keep fueling his anger. Let's keep this revenge tour going. Joe said before the game that. Now listen, Joe knows that these awards don't mean a thing. They do not matter. He does not actually care about the awards, but he knows Jaylen Brown. And so before the game he said, yeah, Jalen should have won that. And I Hope he uses this as fuel to takes it out on our opponents for the next month. Like, that's Joe knows Player of the month. Who gives a damn about player of the month? Who cares? He got coach of the month. He does not care. Congratulations. But he has zero. Does not matter to him at all. And I'm sure he'd love to tell Jalen, like, who cares if you don't player of the month? What is that? You don't get nothing for that. But he knows if he goes out there and he has Jalen's back and he's like, yeah, he got screwed on this. Jalen be like, that's right. I did. You damn right, coach. I did get screwed on this. Go out there and just start pummeling the opponents. It's just Joe. Like that is just primo button pushing from Joe Mazzulla. It was awesome. So Jalen just, I mean, damn near perfect game. Just unbelievable.
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John Corralis
It overshadows a lot of good performances in this. In this game. Derek White 10 of 20, 5 of 12 shooting 4 or 5 from 3. 29 points, 7 assists, 2 blocks and a steal. Like early on, the story of the game in the first half was Derrick White being, you know, hitting some shot. Like maybe halfway through the second quarter. It was, it was like Derrick White is. Is on a heater. In fact, at halftime it was 23 points for Derrick White and 20 for Jaylen Brown. And Derek was 8 of 13 and 4 of 9 from 3. So at halftime, Derrick White was the story, and in the second half, it just became the Jalen Brown show. But Derek was on fire. He was hitting things right away. You could tell that he was. He was feeling it. So another, like, just Derek had an amazing game. Anthony Simons off the bench, 15 points, four assists. He was five of eight from three. Everybody that. That played for the Celtics shot better than 41% from three, except for Sam Houser. And he hit his first two three pointers. He started in place of Jordan Walsh, and he hit a couple of three pointers, and then he. Then he started missing. Was the only one that was missing. Everyone else was hitting. And Joe said after the game that you don't look at it like Jordan Walsh was pulled from the starting lineup. It's that we went with Sam because we knew what their matchups were going to be. We knew what their lineups were going to be, so we wanted to kind of mess up their matchups with, you know, shooting on the floor right away. So in Joe's mind, it's not that Jordan didn't start, it's that he subbed Jordan out before the jump ball and went with. Went with Sam, which. It's. It's an interesting way to look at it. I think he did it that way because he didn't want to be like, oh, Jordan got benched. But Jordan played great. 13 points, 13 rebounds, 6 offensive rebounds. He had incredible defense. He was in there on. He was part of the. The defense on Kawhi. It was part of the defense on. On Harden. He. He did a really, really good job in this game. So D. White was awesome. Simons was awesome. Jordan Walsh, awesome. Look, he. He came off the bench. He started the other night and played five minutes. He came off the bench in this game, played 30 minutes. So he was really, really good. And it was Ugo that played only 10. So. And then you get like, a nice night from Luca Garza, who had 11 points and another three offensive rebounds and was keeping. You know, keeping the ball alive and giving the Celtics extra possessions. The Celtics only turned the ball over six times in this game. That they took 96 shots and only six turnovers. That's beyond incredible to me. They. They turned the Clippers over 10 times and scored 20 points. They cashed in on almost all of those turnovers. So it was. It didn't start out as a good defensive night, but they. They cashed in on the mistakes that they were able to force the Clippers to make. The Clippers didn't make a ton, but the few that they did were costly. You know, to have only four more turnovers than the other team, but to lose the points off Turnovers battle by 16, that's, that's incredible. The Celtics did a great, great job there. So look, the Celtics are now tied with the Knicks for in the loss column. They're a half game out of second. The next game's going to be tough. The first game back from a long road trip is always very difficult. So I do not expect much from the Celtics Monday against Chicago. But they are playing Chicago and Chicago is like an up and down. Sometimes they play well, sometimes they don't. If the Celtics look messy and sloppy on Monday, do not be surprised. But in the Knicks play the Pistons on Monday. So it's not out of the question that the Celtics could be the second seed. When you wake up on Tuesday, which I never thought would happen, look, before the season started, I said a 44 win season would be very like, I would be happy with a 44 win season. You remember that the Celtics were trying a whole new playstyle. We had no idea that Josh Minot was going to be impactful. We had no idea that Jordan Walsh was going to be impactful. In fact, remember Jordan was not great in the preseason. I thought he was going to get cut or he was in line to get cut or traded to save money. And he started out the season getting DNPs. So it's not like, it's not like it's something that we should have seen coming. It just happened and he got the opportunity. So The Celtics started 0 and 3 and Jaylen Brown, remember Jaylen Brown started the season nursing a hamstring strain. I thought Jalen was going to miss time. They start 03 and I'm like, oh God, 03 and Jalen is hurt. This is going to be bad. This is going to be tough. And then, I don't know, the hamstring got better and Jalen's fine. They are 22 and 12. Even if things cool off, which, look, I expect them to cool, you cannot just expect it to go this well all season long. But hey, it's gone this well this long. So who knows through 34, 34 games, they have 48 games left. Even if they played just 500 basketball, there'll be a 46 win team. And that's good enough. That will be good enough to get them into the top six. So the play in, any fear of playing in the play in. Provided that you know there aren't any real catastrophic injuries or long, you know, long absences. I think I feel comfortable saying the Celtics will very likely avoid the play in tournament, which is great. Now it's just a matter of like, can they, can they get to 50 wins? They're on a 53 win pace. So just incredible, incredible stuff all the way around. Joe Missoula's coaching, Jalen Brown being the, everything is going perfectly pretty much for the Celtics. Jalen is a top notch all NBA level player right now and just playing out of his mind. You've got guys off the bench, role players playing at a high level. You get Joe Missoula coaching. Like if you, if you're not convinced by Joe Missoula at this point, you're never going to be like, that's. If you still think Joe Missoula sucks, then you are truly, truly a hater. Okay. You can't come around to anything like that. You'll, you never will. The sellers are getting like Nimish Kaeda. I didn't even really mention him yet, but he had, he had a straight. Demi Escade has been great. He's been great, you know, compared to his expectations especially. So this has been, this has been a really fun start to the season. We're now at the beginning of January, so this is, I don't know what else to say, so I'm going to wrap it up there. Tomorrow's podcast will be much more on this game. We'll just continue the conversation about Jaylen Brown. There's no doubt about that. I wanted to get a podcast high. We're at 15 minutes, so a nice meaty reaction to Jalen Brown's incredible night. Probably the best regular season game of his career. So great night from him, great night from the, from the guys. We'll see what happens when they come home. Tough, tough stretch coming up, so we'll see how they go. But thank you for listening, thank you for watching. Thank you for subscribing. If you're new to the show, welcome aboard. The show's normally 30 minutes long, but this bonus podcast, you get bonus podcasts whenever they play on the weekends. So tons and tons and tons of podcasting coming for you this January. So subscribe wherever you get your podcast, watch the show on YouTube and then share the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast Network's your team every day.