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Boston Celtics throttling the Cavaliers

2:59

120 to 95

3:01

in game one of the Eastern

3:03

Conference Centies. If you're new

3:05

to the show I'm John Corrales used to play a

3:07

long time ago now I'm covering the Celtics for Boston

3:09

Sports Journal and doing it here

3:11

at the TD Garden I'm tucked into one of the

3:13

side rooms here as they flip

3:15

the arena over there's a concert I

3:18

want to say it's Luke Bryan I think that's a person

3:20

I don't listen to his music but

3:23

that sounds right either way I'm

3:26

in the back and that's what this monitor

3:28

is over me here I am at

3:30

the TD Garden after the

3:32

Boston Celtics easily

3:35

win it's a nice methodical

3:37

right methodical and ruthless those are my two

3:39

words for the playoffs the Celtics

3:41

need to be methodical and ruthless this

3:44

was methodical that's for sure where

3:46

they won the first quarter by six

3:48

they won the second quarter by four

3:50

they won the third quarter by five

3:52

and then the fourth quarter by ten

3:54

that all adds up to 25 points is

3:56

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just start with this. Never in doubt, right? The

4:17

Celtics never were really

4:19

in danger

4:22

of losing this game. They

4:24

came out strong. It was a 10-2 run

4:29

and look, the Cavs did a

4:31

good job. They answered and in the

4:34

first half, they just kept hanging around. If there

4:36

was any fear that I had in

4:38

this game, it's that the

4:41

Celtics were a little too comfortable. Let me

4:43

set the scene here at the

4:45

Garden. 6.30, about a

4:47

half an hour before the game

4:50

started, the building was empty. Now

4:52

it's 6.30. It's a Tuesday night.

4:55

It was it was not

4:57

typically when fans get to

4:59

the arena. It's a half

5:01

hour earlier. People are getting

5:06

out of work. It's different. It's

5:09

difficult. There's not a big

5:11

amount of pregame buzz. At 6.30, I

5:13

go and grab some dinner. I'm

5:16

in the back and we're all talking

5:18

about, man, nobody's here. This is going to be

5:21

interesting. By the time we come back out a

5:23

few minutes before tip-off, the place has filled up.

5:25

There's no buzz. There's no surrounding

5:28

buzz. At the 7.30 game, that

5:31

crowd would have still shown up a few minutes

5:33

before 7. There would have been a

5:35

little bit of a build up there. It

5:38

felt very regular season-ish.

5:40

Even the officiating felt very regular

5:43

season-ish. I

5:45

was joking that in

5:48

the playoffs so far, it's almost like a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

5:50

Out of nowhere, you're pulling an

5:52

anvil out of your back and you smash somebody over the

5:54

head. Marginal contact

5:56

and they let everything go. In this

5:58

game, it was just called like a normal game.

6:01

If you had told me, hey it's

6:04

December 12th, this is a December 12th game, there

6:06

would have been a second where

6:08

I was like, wait did

6:10

I dream all this other stuff? Do

6:12

I have to do my Christmas shopping?

6:14

It felt very December-ish in the building,

6:17

partly because it's always cold in here, but it

6:21

didn't have that thing. So the Celtics,

6:23

there was no fear early

6:26

on that, oh they're gonna

6:29

lose this, oh my god this could be so

6:31

costly. I never had that and

6:34

maybe it's because it's the Cavs and

6:36

they're hurt and they didn't look

6:38

good and everybody's talking about how easy this

6:40

series is gonna be and it just never

6:42

felt like it was gonna be in doubt.

6:46

So when the Cavs came back, it's like okay,

6:48

Isaac Okoro hits a couple of shots and you're

6:50

like that's never gonna happen again. He started

6:53

off three of five, he finished three of eight, he

6:56

missed a couple in the second half and just stopped

6:58

shooting. He might not

7:02

hit three for the rest of the series, but

7:04

he hit three in the first half and you're

7:06

like okay, there's a

7:08

little bit of this weirdness. Okoro is

7:10

getting a couple of shots, Donovan Mitchell

7:12

is doing Donovan Mitchell things. If

7:16

Caris Laverde or Darius Garland

7:19

or Evan Mobley or Max

7:21

Trusz, if any one of those guys can pitch in

7:23

at any point, maybe there's a

7:25

point in the third quarter, the fourth quarter where

7:27

the Celtics might feel a little too comfortable and

7:30

the Cavs

7:32

can come and sneak in and steal

7:35

something here. But

7:38

aside from that like little bit of

7:41

a, you know, I'm not entirely comfortable

7:43

with this lead has

7:45

been 12, 14, 16,

7:48

right at that number where it's like

7:50

the hockey 3-1 lead, the most dangerous

7:52

lead in the sport. 13, 14, 15

7:54

point lead in the third quarter, it feels

8:00

comfortable and I wasn't worried

8:02

but you're like man they hit a

8:04

couple of threes Mitchell starts Mitchelling and

8:06

you never know what can happen all of

8:09

a sudden this becomes a six-point game and

8:11

it you wonder if

8:14

Boston having been so comfortable

8:16

the whole game I was wondering when

8:19

Donovan Mitchell hits a three-pointer right at the

8:21

end of the third quarter I'm like 12

8:23

point game this this

8:26

is like right at that

8:28

if Boston messes around here

8:30

this could get a

8:33

little dicey but then

8:35

Peyton Pritchard hits a three-pointer buzzer

8:37

beater which was amazing the

8:40

building wakes up and so this

8:42

is going to tend to run the Cavs sit

8:44

down with Mitchell to start the fourth quarter to give

8:46

him some rest and Boston pounces

8:48

boom tend to run 13 to

8:51

run when you count the Peyton Pritchard thing all

8:53

of a sudden 12 point game becomes a 23

8:57

point game and it's a

8:59

wrap right the Celtics never never chat we're

9:01

never challenged after that they win the fourth

9:03

quarter by 10 points and

9:05

and that's it so never

9:08

in doubt never really

9:11

fully uncomfortable and

9:15

you know not not a perfect

9:17

game from the Celtics they didn't shoot well in the

9:19

first half but

9:22

they come through in the second hitting 12 of

9:24

24 but overall 18 to 46 which is 39% which is

9:26

not bad but in the early goings

9:30

they weren't shooting well Tatum

9:33

was never really comfortable on the

9:35

offensive side and

9:38

they still put up 120 points

9:41

they had some

9:43

lapses defensively they gave up

9:45

a few offensive rebounds still

9:47

they held the Cavs to 95 points so

9:52

the very first feeling is they they

9:55

checked off all the boxes right it it

9:59

they scored one 20 they held

10:01

them to 95 so that's great. The numbers,

10:04

the basic

10:06

numbers are

10:08

all in Boston's favor. They shot 49% to 41% for Cleveland.

10:10

They shot 39% to Cleveland's 26%

10:14

from 3. They shot 85%, almost 86% from the line to 77%

10:16

from the line. They

10:24

got more offensive rebounds. The turnovers, okay a

10:26

few more turnovers but they

10:28

just did all of the things you're supposed

10:30

to do to win and yet I

10:33

sit here and I think man they could

10:35

be better. They could be better.

10:38

Which I'll get to a little bit later

10:40

on when I talk about whether Cleveland's in

10:42

trouble. Let's talk about Derek White and

10:45

Jalen Brown and how this is how this

10:47

team is built. This is what the Celtics

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that out. Jalen

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Brown and Derek White

14:42

combined for 57 points. Let's

14:45

get my box score over here. 57

14:48

points. Jalen

14:50

shot 12 of 18, Derek shot nine of 16. The

14:55

Celtic shot 18 of 46 from three. 11

15:01

of 18, Jalen

15:04

and Derek White. Seven of

15:06

12 for Derek, four of six for Jalen. So 11

15:09

of the 18 three pointers belong

15:12

to those two guys. The Cavs

15:14

hit 11 altogether. These

15:18

two guys alone matched what the Cavs

15:20

did. So there you go. That's

15:22

a huge part of why the Celtics were

15:25

able to win this and put up 120 points. I

15:28

said coming into the series that the Celtics

15:30

are gonna put up points, the Cavs are

15:32

gonna have to match that. And

15:34

if Jalen and Derek,

15:37

if you're gonna get these kinds of performances

15:39

on nights where Jason doesn't quite

15:41

have it, seven of 19 shooting,

15:43

O of five from three. He did other

15:46

things, 11 rebounds, a

15:48

couple of offensive rebounds, five assists.

15:50

That was great. His

15:52

defense was spectacular. I'll talk a little bit about the

15:54

defense in a minute. But on

15:57

a night where Tatum wasn't his normal self. right?

16:00

Jalen uses

16:03

the fact that there's no Jared Allen.

16:05

So now you

16:08

have Evan

16:10

Mobley worried about either Al

16:13

Horford, sorry, in the

16:16

corner or cross matched somehow against somebody

16:18

else out in the perimeter, Jason

16:20

Tatum. Mobley

16:22

is worried about guys in the perimeter. He's

16:25

not worried. He can't help off

16:27

of those guys because every single one of those guys

16:30

can score. So Jalen

16:32

who wants to get downhill is

16:37

free to attack the rim. And

16:40

even when he's matched up against Isaac

16:42

O'Couro, who is maybe

16:45

the best defender,

16:48

the second best defender on the Cavs, even

16:51

when he's matched up against the Coro, he's

16:53

bigger, right? O'Couro's biggest weakness is

16:55

the size. And Jalen just

16:57

used his strength and

16:59

his size to go and shoot over the

17:02

top of them, getting him down into the

17:04

post. And he didn't worry about where Evan

17:06

Mobley was because Mobley was never really around

17:10

to challenge the shot. He's worried about guys

17:12

in the perimeter. So without Jared Allen, Jalen's

17:15

like, I know I can attack, I can

17:17

go for it. And he attacked, he was,

17:20

he hit his first five shots, he got to the

17:22

line a couple of times, was four four from the

17:24

line all in the four in the first quarter. Started

17:28

out with 15 points in the

17:30

first quarter really sets the tone.

17:32

And that's because the Cavs are

17:34

just not, not equipped

17:37

to handle the

17:40

Celtics. As I've said, many

17:43

different times, many different ways. The

17:45

Celtics have all the matchups. The Celtics have

17:47

all the matchups all over the floor, right?

17:51

Even with Donovan Mitchell, you

17:54

can say, okay, even if you want to

17:56

give Donovan Mitchell the matchup, which against

17:59

in And holiday started against Mitchell, which

18:01

is fine. I said Jalen, but whatever, it

18:04

doesn't matter. That's

18:07

a wash. So if

18:09

you wanna say that's not a matchup win because

18:14

what they can do defensively or whatever,

18:17

you wanna say that Mitchell wins that matchup?

18:19

Fine, whatever. All the other match-ups belong to

18:22

Boston. And that's what happened

18:24

with Jalen going and attacking and just

18:28

burying, burying the Cavs early.

18:31

And then Derek White, especially in the third

18:33

quarter, that guy's

18:35

processing power, the way he reads the game is just

18:37

out of this world, right? Pick

18:42

and rolls, you go under, he immediately is like,

18:44

oh, there you go, boom, I'm shooting this shot.

18:47

And when he's

18:49

hitting his three pointers, forget it. He's

18:52

an all-star level player,

18:55

dropping 25 points on

18:57

nine of 16 shooting. Also

18:59

tied with Tatum for the team high, five

19:01

assists and

19:04

no turnovers. The Celtics

19:06

only turned it over six times. There

19:08

were 19 turnovers, so there was offensive fouls

19:11

and stuff like that, but six

19:13

turnovers within the flow of the game

19:16

and three of them belong to Peyton Pritchard. So

19:20

a very clean game overall by the

19:22

Celtics. White and

19:25

Brown, this is what the Celtics offense is

19:29

supposed to be. And I know

19:32

regular season, we wanted that 30, 40

19:35

assists type

19:38

of beautiful basketball, that

19:40

Spurs level basketball. But

19:45

in the playoffs, it's not gonna be pretty, right?

19:47

It's gonna be an ugly kind

19:49

of defensive, physical slog.

19:52

And you don't know where the

19:54

offense is gonna come from. Sometimes

19:57

this team, when Brad Stevens built

19:59

it. it, built it

20:01

for the playoffs, so it

20:04

didn't have to be Tatum and Brown the whole

20:06

time. And no Porzingis in this

20:08

game, he's part of the

20:10

mix where in

20:13

Miami he was part of the mix against

20:16

Bam out of Bio and part of the mix of

20:18

destroying that zone or making it so that it was

20:20

impossible to play the zone. Derek

20:23

White playing at an

20:26

all-star level, Holiday, who, you

20:28

know, actually

20:30

6-14 isn't bad,

20:32

2-7 from 3 isn't

20:34

the worst, you hit one more

20:36

and that's a really good percentage. So

20:39

not a bad game from Drew Holiday at

20:41

all, but you

20:44

can get these performances from

20:46

any of these guys. Holiday White, Horford has

20:49

had big nights where he's hitting a bunch

20:51

of shots. If you want to

20:53

key on Jason Tatum and take him out of

20:55

it, Tatum will do other things. He'll set the

20:57

picks, he'll do other things. Now

21:00

Tatum didn't have the best offensive night and

21:03

I think if there was a

21:05

downside to this game it was

21:08

his offense, just a few too

21:10

many possessions of dribbling the air

21:12

out of the ball, just

21:16

looking for his own. Maybe he was trying to find a rhythm,

21:19

whatever, it didn't hurt the Celtics

21:21

obviously because they won by 25,

21:23

but regardless,

21:25

on a night where Tatum doesn't quite have

21:27

it, it's alright,

21:29

let's just move the ball and whoever else

21:31

has it, go to that

21:33

guy. So Jalen was

21:35

an obvious choice because they

21:38

don't have any real wing depth

21:40

to guard Jalen Brown

21:44

and without Jared Allen that just allows

21:46

Jalen kind of free reign at the

21:48

rim. If Alan is out for

21:50

more time and I didn't listen to the broadcast

21:53

because I was watching it live, if

21:55

he's out for a significant amount of time then

21:58

this is going to be how it is. they're gonna have

22:00

to figure out something. Maybe they start somebody

22:02

else other than a Coro and try to

22:04

protect the rim, which opens up a whole

22:07

different cannon worms for the

22:09

Celtics to attack. But however

22:11

the other team is defending,

22:14

then the Celtics say, okay, oh, you're defending that

22:17

way? Well, this guy's gonna get the shots. And

22:19

whoever that guy is, is really

22:21

damn good because it's gonna be Holiday White or

22:23

Horford, or one of Tatum or Brown, or

22:25

maybe it's both of those guys. So

22:28

this Celtics offense is built

22:31

to put up points and they put up the

22:33

points. The defense makes

22:35

me think Cleveland is in a whole lot

22:37

of trouble. I don't know

22:39

how, and I said

22:42

this in both of the preview podcasts,

22:45

and I'm struggling to figure it out now, how

22:48

the hell do they put up points to hang

22:50

with what Boston can do? I'll

22:53

take a look at that in just a second. First,

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you know I gotta talk about Monopoly Go

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and you're gonna say, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's

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on YouTube. All right, the

25:39

defense was really good. Jason Tainan was really

25:42

good. Three

25:44

block shots, I thought he was great. The

25:47

ability to help off of some

25:49

of these shooters, quote

25:51

unquote shooters, it really

25:54

allows the Celtics to prevent a

25:58

lot of for

26:00

Donovan Mitchell. Now Mitchell had

26:02

a great game offensively he

26:05

just you

26:07

look at him out there

26:09

and you're like man this dude is

26:11

doing everything he can to win this game and

26:13

I don't know I don't want to go

26:16

down the too far down the where's he

26:18

gonna go next road but this is as

26:20

much this could be as much as an audition as

26:22

it is just you know

26:25

him trying to win like he's competitive and he

26:27

wants to win 33 points

26:30

five assists six rebounds I

26:33

think the message is being sent that he wants to win

26:36

and even if it's being sent to

26:38

other teams like look I don't care what my situation

26:40

is here I'm still going to try to win however

26:42

you want to spin it he was out

26:44

there cooking 12 of 25 shooting four of 11

26:47

from three that's incredible just an incredible

26:49

game from him but as I said in

26:53

both of the preview

26:56

podcasts they're

26:59

gonna need something from somebody else and

27:01

they got nothing Darius Garland who is

27:03

my target in this in this series

27:05

I'm just relentless I almost feel bad

27:07

at how much I'm saying target Darius

27:09

Garland you know whoever

27:12

you throw at him when

27:15

I say methodical and ruthless save

27:18

your ruthlessness for Darius Garland be as

27:20

ruthless as you need to be to

27:22

stop him just no matter how many

27:24

shots he misses keep pushing

27:26

even in the fourth quarter when they

27:28

took down to the Mitchell out with foreign

27:31

change to go I was like do not

27:33

let Darius Garland get comfortable this is this

27:36

is as important a stretch in

27:38

this game as anything even though the Celtics

27:40

were up by 2025 at that point to

27:44

me I was like please somebody make

27:46

sure you're still defending Garland do not

27:48

let him hit two or three shots

27:50

do not let him get comfortable do

27:52

not let him get any confidence that

27:54

can carry over into game two that's

27:56

what we saw at the end of

27:58

the Miami game the game one in

28:00

Miami where the Celtics led up a little bit in the end of

28:03

the fourth quarter and we said, oh, there

28:05

goes Caleb Martin, he hit a couple of shots, or

28:07

Tyler Herro hit a couple of shots. I

28:09

didn't wanna see that in here and we

28:11

didn't. Like that, thankfully we didn't. So

28:14

I don't think there's fourth quarter carryover. I don't

28:16

think there's anybody who got comfortable in the fourth

28:18

quarter that now

28:20

when game two rolls around you

28:22

say, oh, here's a guy that

28:25

saw a couple of fall and now he might

28:27

be ready to have

28:29

a five of six shooting night.

28:33

So the defense was really

28:35

good and now I really just,

28:37

I don't know where Cleveland goes. Because

28:39

if the defense stays the same, if you

28:42

play this game like this over

28:44

and over and over again, I don't even,

28:46

25 might be the closest margin. Garland

28:50

was not great. O'Caro, like I

28:52

said, hit three

28:54

three pointers in the first half and

28:56

then he just kind of disappeared

28:59

shooting wise in the second. He missed a

29:01

couple of bad ones. The second one he

29:03

missed was way off. And

29:05

I don't think he took another one after that. I

29:08

think once those two missed, he was done

29:10

shooting. Max

29:13

Strus, if I'm worried about

29:15

anybody, it's

29:17

Max Strus coming in to game two

29:19

and finding a rhythm because he's probably

29:22

seizing at the fact that he was one of five from

29:24

three. The Celtics have to make

29:27

sure in game two that they're just doing a better job

29:29

on the perimeter

29:31

and making sure they're

29:33

contesting, even guys that they want to let shoot contest

29:36

those. I

29:39

don't know where the Cavs go. I

29:42

really don't because I think the Celtics are fully

29:44

capable of putting up 120 points again. I

29:48

don't think the Celtics played their best offensive

29:50

game. I think they got a great attack

29:53

from Jalen. They got, I

29:55

mean, outlier shooting for sure from Derek White.

29:58

Seven of 12 is just not real. Not

30:01

sustainable, but I

30:03

think the Celtics are capable of putting up that 120. It's

30:07

not going to be difficult for them to do that. You

30:11

still have holiday. Tatum's going to put up

30:13

more than 18. So

30:16

how do the Cavs compete? And

30:19

I don't know how they compete. Hey, shout out

30:21

to Luca Cornett. Luca Cornett was awesome in this

30:23

game. I'm a little embarrassed that it took me

30:25

28 minutes to get to that point, but I'm

30:27

just going down the box score.

30:29

Luca Cornett was awesome in

30:32

this game. He was a plus

30:34

12, and I think he should have been probably

30:37

more. A couple of blocked shots

30:39

for him. He

30:41

comes in. Remember

30:44

when the Mahesh Kata... Boy, I just... Did

30:50

you hear my brain just crash?

30:53

You should have heard a screeching and

30:56

glass breaking right there. I

30:59

should edit that sound effect in. When

31:03

Luca Cornett hurt earlier this season,

31:05

the Mahesh Kata had that great

31:07

stretch. A lot of people were like, oh,

31:09

wow. He can replace Cornett

31:12

because Cornett hasn't been anything great. And

31:14

now this Luca Cornett is

31:17

a much better version of what that Luca Cornett was.

31:20

He played great. Great. I

31:23

don't want to say game changing. I don't want to go that

31:25

far, but he

31:27

was fantastic defending.

31:31

Six offensive rebounds, one of

31:33

which was followed by barking on the

31:35

floor. Like that's... Shout

31:38

out to OKC with their barking. Players just

31:40

barking on the floor now after they do

31:42

good things. Cornett, that was really funny. A

31:46

couple of assists. Great pass.

31:49

Jalen maybe on the short roll. He

31:52

just comes in and plays 21 minutes.

31:55

How huge is it to get Cornett playing 21 minutes

31:58

and playing it as well as he did? I

32:00

don't know when Chris

32:03

Ops-Porzingis is going to be back, but whenever he's back,

32:05

like, that he can take the

32:07

time, take all the time you need. If this

32:09

is how Luke Cornette is going to play in

32:12

this series, if this is

32:14

how you get 20 plus minutes of this,

32:16

then the Celtics are totally

32:19

fine. Totally fine. Peyton

32:21

Pritchard, tough shooting start to the game. He

32:23

ended up 4 of 10, so that's

32:26

fine. 40% shooting. We started out 1

32:28

of 6, so what's that? 3 of 4? 3

32:30

of his next 4, so that's good. It's

32:34

funny how a 1 of 6 shooting game all

32:36

of a sudden turns into 40% shooting night. You

32:40

shoot enough shots, you can get a couple to fall in a row. But

32:45

this is my whole point. The

32:47

Celtics in the first quarter, you get 1 of

32:49

6 shooting from Peyton Pritchard. You get 3 of

32:51

5 from, or 3 of

32:53

6 from, Akoro. Give

32:56

me those shots all over again.

32:58

I will take those exact same shots because Akoro's

33:00

not going to hit 3 of them, and Pritchard's

33:02

not going to miss 5 of them. That 10-point

33:04

lead could have been 20 at the half, and

33:06

this could have been a much different game. Who

33:09

knows? Maybe the Celtics relax in the

33:11

fourth quarter if they were up by that much, and

33:13

it would have been like game 1 Miami all over

33:15

again. You never know how things are going to go,

33:17

but Cornette was

33:20

great, Pritchard ended up being great. We got a few

33:22

minutes of Tillman. I got to rewatch the film on

33:24

that. That was kind of up and down. This

33:27

is an opportunity for him to play, but

33:29

I think he needs to just be better. It's

33:32

a tough stretch for Tillman, but there will be

33:34

minutes for him. But overall, just

33:36

a great game 1. Great game 1 for the

33:38

Celtics. Can they carry it over into game 2?

33:40

That's going to be the thing. Don't

33:42

pull the same thing that you did against Miami.

33:44

Win this game 2. Go to Cleveland with a

33:47

chance to sweep. Maybe it's a gentleman sweep.

33:49

You come back and you close it out at home, whatever it

33:51

is. Finish this thing off early.

33:53

The Cavs do not look good. They

33:55

looked just as bad as they were

33:57

in the first quarter. round.

34:00

The Celtics look really good and

34:05

game ones are notorious for false positives

34:07

but I feel pretty good about this

34:09

one. I think the Celtics are in a pretty good

34:11

spot. We're back tomorrow.

34:13

Celtics do practice on Wednesday so we'll

34:15

get a little practice update. We'll get

34:17

maybe another Porzingis update and we'll

34:20

get a rewatch of this game and a look

34:22

ahead to game two. That's all gonna be on

34:24

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