Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum & Jaylen Brown DOMINATE in Best Dual Game Yet

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Now in the Lockdown Celtics podcast, we just saw the best game yet from Jalen Brown

and Jason Tatum.

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Boston Celtics get the win over the Golden State Warriors or what's left of the Golden

State Warriors for now.

Get around.

We'll get to Robert Parrish, who was on the show earlier this week.

He was in the house at TD Garden.

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We'll talk about the Celtics' defensive strategy, but let's just dive into this game.

The big overarching story is the Celtics got the best game yet from the Jays.

Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, has started with Jason Tatum playing really, really well.

Early on, he scored the first, I think five points.

He just looked great.

And then Jalen Brown took over from there.

In the first quarter, it was Tatum hit three of five from three scored nine points, but

Brown had 19.

So Brown did everything right in the first quarter, actually did everything right in this

game.

I thought he's been playing extraordinarily well lately.

And after the game, he explained, they were staying home on the shooters.

They were paying the shooters a lot of respect.

They didn't want the warriors, because they're so short-handed, especially, are playing

the numbers game.

The way they're going to win is limit you from three and bomb away from three on their

side and try to beat you with math.

And so they stayed home on shooters and just encouraged Jalen to just attack and take

over.

This is the second time the Warriors and Celtics has been some version of, all right, Jalen,

what do you got for us?

And the first time it was we're going to let him shoot.

That was what last season two seasons ago, one last season.

And then early last season, right?

And then this time it's just like, we're just going to stay home on the shooters and you

do it.

You do what you got to do.

And he drops 19 in the first quarter.

So the overall combined night from Jalen and Jason is 56 combined points.

They had 16 combined rebounds, seven assists, they had three steals combined.

So it was for Jalen and Jason, I mean, obviously limited sample, but the best, absolute best

they've we've seen them play at the same time.

And it's a little scary, it should be a little scary for the league, right?

That this is happening already.

This is already we're talking about Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown combining for 56.

That's not supposed to be happening yet.

And I know I've been saying this already, maybe for those of you who are with me every

day, Monday through Friday, you every dayers, you might be sick of me saying this, but maybe

not because it's Jason Tatum and he's back and how is he back?

How is he doing this?

Jalen has been phenomenal, he's expanding his game.

I like that he scored 32 in this game and had a well-rounded game, efficient 11 for 20 overall,

one of four from three, but nine of nine from the line.

He got on the offensive boards and grabbed a couple of those.

He just did some of everything.

I like that after 19 points in the first quarter, he didn't force it.

He didn't go and say, oh, maybe I'm on, you know, on my way to a 50 piece or a 60 piece

and try to force something or 80, but he just played with himself, gave the game when

it needed as something Joe Mozilla loves to say nowadays and is really just playing his

best basketball right now.

And Jason, obviously he's playing his best basketball because he's only played, what's

the six games now?

I've lost count, but he keeps looking better and better.

I'm not supposed to be talking about these guys combining for 56 yet.

That was something that maybe, maybe it happened at the end of April, maybe, maybe it happened

in the playoffs, possibly, to be talking about it now, this early in the process, I don't

know if you're going to get sick of it, I'm not going to get sick of it by saying I just

continue to be just amazed at the progress.

But to watch these two kind of work off of one another, to see the shot falling for Jason

Tatum, but also the defense, also the passing, the play, the ball movement, it was great

to see early on.

Part of the reason why Jalen got going was Jason was attacking and drawing two and drawing

three.

And he got him a couple of open looks and that's just something they're going to get

each other going.

It's not fair.

It's not fair for the rest of the league to have, okay, well, Jalen now has Jason Tatum

to get him going.

What?

And Jason is going to have Jalen has Jalen to get him going.

So this is something that I didn't think I'd see until, honestly, the beginning of next

season.

So it was great to see that the, the jays were able to play this well, this soon Tatum,

seven of 15 shooting, five of 11 from three, five of six from the free throw line.

That free throw, the free throws are going to be the thing that tell us that he's truly

back.

It's taking six, seven, eight, nine, then you're, you're looking at, oh, okay, Tatum, Tatum

is, is, is getting closer to Jason Tatum again, because if he's drawing the contact, getting

and ones, that, that's going to be the, the Jason Tatum that's, that's like, oh, oh,

oh, he's, that guy's back now, I can't, that might happen on Friday night, it might happen

on Sunday for all I know.

I wouldn't expect it.

I wouldn't have normally expected it, but here we are.

The Celtics put up 120 points, and part of that is bench production, Peyton Pritchard,

19 points, great to see him, excuse me, I'm getting all choked up over Peyton Pritchard's

shot being back, eight of 16, three of seven from three.

He went through some struggles recently, and you start hearing people like, oh, Jason

comes back and Peyton starts struggling, and, excuse me, that might be some, somewhat

the case, but the, even if it was because Jason came back, that was never anything to worry

about.

I never even brought it up as a real talking point because you had to give it time to

work.

Jason, Jason getting up to full speed certainly is a priority for the Celtics, and there

may have to be a little bit of shifting from the normal game plan to, let's just, let's

just make sure that Tatum is getting up to speed here.

Maybe it's play calls, maybe it's distribution of the minutes when he plays, when he sits,

but I honestly, I think that might be an antiquated notion at this point.

There's going to be some of it here and there, but the acclimation period, reacclimation

period, the reentry into the Celtics rotation, the growing pains have, I think, started to,

you're starting to get past those.

So Pritchard is back, hitting his shots.

The chemistry with the Miish Keta looks good.

Tatum and Keta have figured out a little bit of a flow, so that's good.

Shout out to Keta, who was in foul trouble, this wasn't exactly his most dominant game

or anything like that, but, you know, 8.7 rebounds, three offensive rebounds.

You did get a steal.

The chemistry between him and Tatum is a good kind of sign of progression between these

guys.

And it shows how quickly, how smart these guys are because of how quickly they're able

to get everything in place, everything together.

Pritchard finding his shot and getting back up to speed is great.

He was a plus 25.

He led the team plus 25, so inside, outside, everything he had everything working in this

game.

Luca Garza was great, six of 10 overall, one of two from three.

Why does it feel like he hit more than one three pointer in this game?

He was really good.

And it was great to hear him talk about the way everybody kind of rallied around him

after the Vouchavitch trade and said, hey, stay ready.

We're going to need you.

You've been great for us.

We're going to need you again.

And that's just the testament to what this team really is.

I'll probably talk about that more in future podcasts, but it's just a testament.

Why are they so ahead of the curve?

Why are they exceeding expectations?

Why did Steve Kerr before the game say, I'm blown away by these Celtics?

It's because of this locker room and how good they are and how they just trust each

other and respect one another.

And that's what fuels guys like Luca Garza.

Who is a self starter, a self motivator, but it's been great for him.

He said it.

It's been great for him to hear these guys how they rallied around him.

And here he is, 15 points, seven rebounds, four offensive rebounds, a great night, three

steals.

And poking the ball away from Dream on Green, posting up.

That's incredible to see.

So great night for the Jays, the best night for the Jays, great contributions off the bench.

Baylor Shireman was good.

Just overall good stuff.

The defensive game plan was let Dream on shoot.

Let's get into more of the individual stuff and the game plan will do that when we come

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Other individual players here that I thought had nice productions, I talk about Baylor

has been able to do a little bit of everything and he gets that 24 and a half minutes, even

though he scores three points, the three pointer that he hit was big.

That was the one after a steal.

It was kind of a crazy play and he finished that, the three, you get the thumbs up from

Derek White.

I love that he went in there and dove for a loose ball, even with that fractured thumb.

He's in there.

He's grabbing at it, but he was in there doing his thing.

So that was good.

Who else?

Sam Houser.

Okay, nothing special.

Derek White.

Oh, Derek White.

That's the other guy that I need to talk about.

Derek White, coming off of, by the way, a nice little appearance on the tonight show, Jimmy

Fallon.

That was good to see.

Nice to see Dwight getting some love there.

11.6 assists, three steals and a block, so four stocks for him.

So not a ton of shots, but didn't need them.

Obviously, they won by 21 and they put up 120 points.

But giving the game what it needs, Joe Mizzula, trademark Joe Mizzula, the beginning of

the fourth quarter, the steals, where the defense was really what kind of held off the

warriors and he had a shame that the foul kind of negated the play because he had that

great move, that spin and finish.

But anyway, he was really good.

Fourth quarter, Derek White, just whatever happens in the first three quarters.

Fourth quarter, Derek White is just a beast.

And you now have the luxury of 11 points from Derek White.

That's okay.

That's, I think the net effect of Jason and Jalen being so good now that Derek having

a, okay, eight shots.

All right.

The problem eight shots is fine because somebody else is stepping up at Peyton.

You got, you know, Luca, those guys are doing, you know, when they're doing that thing,

then Derek is just like, you know what, I'm just going to dish it out, you know, that

that's fine.

Or I'm going to play defense.

I'm going to start the offense and just kind of space and occupy a defender and if somebody

wants to hug up on me, then by all means, you guys go ahead and drive.

So you know, a nice little game from Derek White, defensively, the Celtics, it seemed

like they were just going to let Dremond shoot as often as he wanted.

And when Dremond is, well, Christophe took 13 shots, then Dremond took 12 and Dremond

is your second leading shot taker.

It's not good.

That's not his job.

He was three of seven from three, which is, is good, but the, the misses, the allowance,

the go ahead, go ahead, take, take whatever shots you want Dremond, go for it.

That just throws the, the offense for the Warriors off and they, they were missing so many

guys.

Obviously no curry, no, who else is there?

I know Jimmy Butler, obviously.

The other curry, both curries are out.

No al-Horfer, no Moses Moody.

So there weren't a lot of options for the Warriors.

The last thing you want to do is have Dremond turn into an assist machine.

He did have five, but you don't want to have a seven, eight, nine assist night for, for

Dremond.

You end up getting killed.

It was already bad enough to hear all the gushing over Pat Spencer and those guys and, you

know, some of the contributions they were getting.

You don't want Dremond to turn into a facilitator and making everybody better and, and taking

away the opportunity to, to pull away.

The Celtics got up by 26 and then they fell behind, they, they, they gave up most of it

or some, a lot of it, they got down to, I think the game got down to eight or six

at one point, but they were never really, really in any trouble.

And I just feel like they didn't have to overextend themselves.

It was interesting at the beginning of the game that they started Jason Tatum on

Chris Stops, Pursingus.

It's a, you know, a great, a great play, a great decision because it allowed Namiish

cater to Rome and, you know, Nami got a couple of, well, one block off of that.

But a couple of challenges of shots off of that.

So I thought that was a good defensive strategy.

Going back to Jason Tatum, now that I mentioned KP, I thought the, the drive that he had

on Pursingus, which was, I want to say in the third quarter, maybe, they, you know,

the drive, I think he started driving right, crossover, finish on the left hand side.

And, you know, he taps KP on the butt and he goes out back to the bench.

He gives it like a, whoo, you know what I mean?

Like that kind of, I can't believe I just pulled that move off.

That's a great sign.

That might have been the best move of the night just because it was Tatum and he got

by KP.

Think about it.

Jason has now driven past Wemba Niyama and past Christoph Pursingus.

He's taking the tallest dudes in the league off the dribble and finishing.

So that was, that was a great play.

So good, good defensive strategy.

Very, you know, very few options for the Warriors and Joe just kind of said, we're not

going to let those few options go too crazy on us.

So they, they just did a good job defensively here.

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Let's talk about Robert Parrish because it's an interesting, an interesting night with

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Kristoff's forzingus was back.

They did a nice video tributes.

He said he wasn't going to cry.

He didn't cry, but you could tell he was feeling good.

He was feeling happy.

He's an emotional guy.

Maybe he was fighting back the tears.

It was good.

You can even see Dremont Green looking at the video and like notting, like, person his

lips going.

Okay.

Yeah.

That was good.

That was good.

Nice video for him.

Nice tribute for KP.

He was only here for a couple of seasons, but it was in a very impactful couple of seasons

and sell this guy what they needed.

And he said before the game, you know, it's been a tough year, but he says he's healthy

now.

So whatever it was, I don't know, Steve Kerr said it wasn't.

Whatever they said it was and who knows, it's so mysterious.

But whatever it was, it's gone now, apparently, KP feels fine.

He's back.

He's playing.

He said he's kind of like a renewed love for the game, which is great.

That's what you need.

And so it was good to see him out there for a while.

It looked like, oh no, he might actually be having a revenge game here.

But it was just a nice, it was nice to see him back that moment with Tatum, him, KP with

Baylor Shireman kind of like squeezing his arm to be like, oh, you put some muscle on

here.

That was a nice fun moment for him.

And yeah, it was just good to see him back.

It was also good to see Robert Parrish in the house.

Obviously, if you missed the Robert Parrish interview, I got him on Sunday.

So we talked to him on Sunday.

It was a great conversation about his book, The Chief, a lot of non-basketball talk.

Because the whole point of the book is letting you in on the person that Robert Parrish is.

But he was there, he talked to the media before the game.

He was at the game.

Big standing ovation.

He soaked it up.

Really nice to see.

He got to talk to Jason Tatum.

Jaylen Brown said he didn't talk to him.

I think Robert Parrish might stick around this week.

He's got book signings all week long.

So there's one Thursday.

I think Thursday one is in Nashua and the Friday one is in Wellesley.

So Google that if you want to meet the chief and you're in Nashua and you're in Wellesley,

you have an opportunity to do that.

And I think it's going to be at the game this weekend.

So Jaylen is going to have a chance to meet him.

Jason was touched.

These are guys that could be back at some point.

Although Jaylen was funny.

Because after the game, he said, you know, he was asked about being in Robert Parrish's

position.

Robert Parrish is 70, I think he's 71 now.

So Jaylen very clearly is not thinking that far along.

He turns 30 before next season.

So he's not really thinking about 40 plus years away.

But side note, I can just speak as a person who's lived more than 40.

More than 50 years, it goes by fast, Jaylen.

It goes by really fast, faster than you want it to.

But the funniest thing is he said, you know, I want to say, you never know what's going

to happen.

But I want to say that once I'm gone, you'll never see me again.

And which is an interesting, he's such an interesting dude that, you know, you'll never

see me again, bit.

And you know, Gary Washburn asked him, like, is it going to be, so it's, you think it's

going to be fade to black after you retire?

And he's like, yeah, you never know.

But that's, yeah, he just wants to disappear and never be back and never be back around

Boston and all of that.

He just wants to go.

And it makes perfect sense for, for Jaylen.

That's kind of, seems like the type of person that he is.

He's going to experience the world.

He's going to be thankful for his time in Boston.

He's going to, he'll probably come back and visit the neighborhood unexpectedly from

time to time.

But I don't think he's going to be coming back to the arena.

Then again, I say that now, he's going to, they're going to retire his number.

So he'll be back to retire his number.

Like, that's definitely happening.

Jaylen Brown's, like, no one else is wearing the number seven, right?

That Jason Taylor, no one else is wearing zero.

So those, they're going to have to be back for those moments.

I think, right?

Jaylen is going to have to come back for that.

But I don't know if he's going to want to come back, he's going to miss it, right?

We all miss it.

Everybody, everybody who's played basketball misses it.

You want to go back and soak up the love.

You want to remember what it's like.

You can't tell me that Jaylen is just going to be, you know, off around the world and

just, okay, that there's never going to be another crowd of 19, 20,000 people standing

up and cheering for you, you think, you're just going to be okay with that?

I don't know, man, that's, that's a, that's a hell of a drug, man, the, the, the adulation

of a crowd.

That's, you can say it now because you're in it, and I feel like I'm talking directly

to Jaylen, but not that he listens to this at all, but you can say it now because it's

aggrined and you're going through everything and ups and downs of everything, but you're

retired in your 30s, you're 50, you're 60, you come around, you're going to be like,

no, man, I miss, I miss the crowd, I miss the love, and you'll find a reason, you'll

find a reason to come back, they'll find a way.

There's always going to be some honoring of the championship team.

So, you know, in 2034, 2044, they're going to, they're going to want to honor these teams.

I don't think Jaylen's just going to, you know, dip and be like, no, you guys celebrate

without me.

Come on, you're going to celebrate with your teammates, you're going to soak up the love

every once in a while, he'll be back.

He may not be back, but it's good to see chief and it's good that, you know, these guys

do appreciate the legend, you know, and seeing these legends come back and, you know,

appreciating what the guys did before them because they set the tone.

You don't get paid when you get paid if it wasn't for these guys, people like Robert

Parrish.

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